A theme in The Unknown Mother is something called Nada Yoga. Nada Yoga is the yoga of sound. Sound being vibration, and all of life being vibration, one could say that Nada Yoga is the yoga of Life. It is a natural path for the musically inclined, deep listeners, and those who are comfortable with mystery.
Whereas the traditional scientist considers the world to made up for atoms and molecules, the Nada yogi considers sound to contain the building blocks of all that is. For that reason, sound is held as sacred and as a path to healing and enlightenment.
There are various levels of sound to which one can become attuned. There is the outermost or gross level of sound…the sounds we hear daily in our environment. There is also a mid-level of sound that is contained within us, our “inner music”. And finally, there is the subtlest level of sound, the sounds beyond sound, so to speak. This is the Great Sound that penetrates through everyone and everything, unifying the whole, the music of all creation. One can get a sense of listening in a new way by practicing this meditation for opening the ear chakras.
The thing about Nada yoga is that is has to be experienced individually. Talking about it, intellectualized reading about it, and especially thinking about…they will never give you a taste of it. Through fiction and the vibration of letters and words, The Unknown Mother allows the reader to first, share in the experience of a relate-able main character, and second, inspires the reader to engage in the simple practices herself. The book will be published in 2012.
