Spiritual concepts
Humming and buzzing
Humming buzzing, whirring – single notes of various pitches sometimes amounting to almost a scream are a frequently heard sound in visions and hallucinations and especially out of body experiences. One of the explanations is provided in the observations, which puts the ‘noise’ down to an increase in the energy being received through the chakras
Extracted from ‘Holy Cow, Aliens, Soul Marriage, and Divinity’ - Ayahuasca (B. caapi & M. hostilis root bark) by Mitra Source EROWID vaults
They - aya [sic] is still not done with me. The buzzing carrier wave that has been with me all night comes to the forefront of my consciousness and seems to hook into something. When it does so, my thoughts speed up, to catch up with the wave
It is clear from reading the evidence of the observers I found, that this is not tinnitus. In the first place the sound is more of a hum, and secondly it is only heard in certain places and certain states. The closest sound frequently mentioned is the sound of a swarm of bees or a hive of bees, which is a gentle humming buzzing sound – not an angry or loud sound. This is why bees have such an important role symbolically in poems and myth and why they feature so many times in paintings and pictures. They have been included in the Tarot too.
The humming noise is usually quite gentle, but if you are schizophrenic or overdose on drugs the noise can be overwhelming, meaning you are on severe overload . I will provide an example here rather than make it an observation ………
The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience – Dr Robert Masters and Dr Jean Houston Case Study S Male student age 22 took LSD 'borrowed from his brother a physician, took a strong dose over 400 micrograms
I remembered a patient described by my brother. He was schizophrenic, oblivious to circumstances and to his orientation in the world, he concerned himself only with considering what was going on in his head – a buzzing in his head as if it contained a nest of hornets. Now, with all of the stimuli from the environment swarming in upon me, I also felt my internal state to be one of a vast and buzzing colony of bees. Tingling vibratory feelings overwhelmed my nervous system and I felt myself lifted upward toward some unknown bliss or terror.
Observations
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- A Psycho-Spiritual Experience Ibogaine by KBF
- Andy Clarke and the blue globe
- Aztecs and hummingbirds
- Bill sees a space craft
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Brendan
- Buhlman, William - Adventures beyond the body - October 2, 1982
- Buhlman, William - Affirmations take him up on the ceiling
- Buhlman, William - Chakras, and humming and buzzing
- Buhlman, William - Handling the vibrations
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - A Letter April 4th 1802
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - Enhanced perception in mania
- Daumal, Rene - A Fundamental experiment - Part 1
- David Lewis-Williams - Bull roarers
- David Lewis-Williams - Ju hoansi San
- Dickinson, Emily - Because the bee may blameless hum For Thee a bee do I become
- Dickinson, Emily - To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
- Epileptic seizure causes near death
- Ether butterflies
- Ether for 9 year old
- Existential horror of hell - 5-MeO-DMT
- First signs of an OBE whilst in hypnagogic state
- George Harrison - Mystical One
- Haven't Cried like that for Years Toad Venom by UmbrellaTools EROWID
- Hawaian Baby Woodrose - Slip into Schizophrenia and a Sea Change
- Holy Cow, Aliens, Soul Marriage, and Divinity - Ayahuasca by Mitra 01
- Holy Cow, Aliens, Soul Marriage, and Divinity - Ayahuasca by Mitra 03
- Into The Flood Ibogaine, iboga Total Aklaloid Extract by Xorkoth
- Joscelyn Godwin - Shabda yoga and the inner sound
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience No 5 - hearing bees
- Marcia Moore and ketamine
- Mr. Hart - 1634, Wiltshire, England - Dancing elves, a paralyzed witness
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Getting back into the body
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Out of body interrupted by too much light
- Near death from ether
- Night terrors
- No Boundaries Ibogaine by TPTB
- No Gripes, No Complaints, No Regrets – by fisher fly EROWID
- Out of body and atonia
- Out of body and humming
- Out of body experience
- Out of body to meet your Higher spirit
- Patricia Garfield - Lucid dreaming as a precursor to OBEs
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - Ten years of therapy in one night – 04
- Plato - Crito - Humming and buzzing
- Practising atheist physics student nearly has out of body
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Humming and buzzing
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The Yaje ceremony
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – The Tukano Indians - The Bull Roarer
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Rocking
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body - Scott’s own OBEs - 02 A follow on experience with a little more control
- Rogo, D Scott - Leaving the Body – Sinking, floating and humming or buzzing from OBEs
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The attack of the Saints
- Socrates - Plato Crito - Hears music and voices
- Spinning twirling and buzzing
- Strassman, Rick - DMT and the insect beings
- Strassman, Rick - DMT and the large crystalline prisms
- The Swastika stone
- the Void, the Hospital, and the Cops Amanitas - A. muscaria by liftyourskinnyfists
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 03 - 3 The Gnat
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen
- Twelve year old sees her spirit helper
- Tyaga the Road of Fire - 10
- Universe begins to buzz
- Waggoner Robert - Suspended in space
- White Wells Ilkley
- Wolfe, Thomas - Out of body