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Hi Everyone!
I came across the Johns Hopkins playlist that accompanied their psilocybin research, and it raised a practical question for anyone who works with singing bowls, gongs, meditation, or sound baths.
What can we learn from a playlist that was designed with that much care, to facilitate a journey through a wide range of states of consciousness?
In the Johns Hopkins psilocybin research program, participants were supported in a prepared clinical setting. They were guided by trained facilitators, often wore eyeshades, and listened to a long playlist through much of the session. The music was selected and sequenced to follow the arc of the experience: arrival, onset, ascent, peak, resolution, and return.
The playlist was integrated into the structure of the overall experience.
It helped shape attention, regulate emotional intensity, give form to difficult material, and bring the participant back into ordinary awareness.
Sound familiar?
You can apply that same principle with singing bowls and gongs.
I wrote a full article to see what we can learn from this Johns Hopkins playlist can teach us about architecting an experience of therapeutic sound.
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