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I’m Thomas, founder of Sounds of Light, a contemporary Mystery School devoted

to exploring and awakening the healing, devotional and multidimensional

potential of the human Voice.

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At the centre of my work is a question that has followed me for more than a decade:

 

What becomes possible when we stop using the Voice only to express

ourselves, and learn to become available for something greater to move

through us?

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Prayer. Energy. Consciousness. Light. Healing. Remembrance.

I call this body of work Sounding Light.

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For me, Sounding Light is the practice of opening the human Voice as a channel—for prayer,

consciousness, healing intention and what I experience as light—and learning to listen deeply

enough that sound can arise from somewhere beyond the conscious mind.

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It is not a path I consciously set out to create.

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From changing the world to listening within

Before Sounds of Light, I spent around a decade working internationally in political education,

social change and the empowerment of grassroots movements. I trained facilitators and

campaigners around the world and devoted much of my early adult life to the question of how we

create a more just and peaceful world.

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Eventually, I burned out.

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And underneath that burnout was a truth I could no longer avoid:

I could not spend my life trying to create peace in the world while

remaining at war within myself.

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Walking away from the career I had trained for was frightening. But it became the beginning of a

very different education.

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I began travelling, listening differently, and following experiences that didn’t fit easily within the

worldview I had lived by until then.

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An encounter with ceremonial Cacao in Guatemala opened a profound period of inner exploration

and brought me back into creativity, intuition, music and a much more embodied relationship with

life.

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And then sound arrived.

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Not as something I had decided I was going to become good at.

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More as if something in me already knew.

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Remembering the Sound Channel

I began picking up instruments I had never learned to play and somehow finding my way into them.

My Voice started opening in ways I didn’t understand.

Frequencies, melodies and unfamiliar vocal languages began moving through me. At times I would

find myself singing directly into another person’s body, listening and responding to something I

could feel but could not necessarily explain.

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Those experiences changed the direction of my life.

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Over the years I studied with and was deeply influenced by teachers including Tom Kenyon, Sylvia

Nakkach, Githa Ben-David, Amit Carmeli, Jonathan Goldman and John Beaulieu, alongside my study

of Dhrupad singing within the Dagar lineage.

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These teachers helped me develop language, technique and understanding around things that had

first opened spontaneously.

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But the deepest education has continued to come through direct experience.

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I have spent years singing directly into people’s bodies and energetic fields, working ceremonially

with sound and observing what happens when the Voice is allowed to become more than

performance.

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I have witnessed bodies release, emotional patterns move, Voices open, creativity return and

people reconnect with parts of themselves that had seemed inaccessible.

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Rather than giving me a feeling that I had figured sound out, these experiences drew me further

into the mystery.

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What is the human Voice actually capable of?

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What happens when prayer and intention are carried through sound? What is the relationship

between sound, consciousness, the nervous system and the light body? What happens when we

stop deciding what to sing and learn to listen for what wants to move through us? And how do we

develop enough surrender, discernment and integrity to place that capacity in service rather than

performance?

These questions became the foundation of Sounds of Light.

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Dendera, the Hathors and the path of remembrance

Over time, my work with sound led me increasingly into relationship with the sacred landscapes

and temples of Egypt—and especially with the Temple of Hathor at Dendera.

Within my own spiritual experience, I have been in relationship with the Hathoric field for more

than a decade.

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Through Tom Kenyon’s work, through my own multidimensional experiences with the Hathors and the Arcturians, through sound,

dreams, ceremony and repeated return to Egypt, I began to understand that something I had

experienced as strange and spontaneous was asking to become a consciously developed path.

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Today I am willing to say much more clearly:

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I experience myself as a multidimensional sound channel.

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I experience the Voice as capable of carrying more than melody or self-expression. I experience it as

a channel through which prayer, consciousness, energy and light can move.

 

And Dendera has become one of my deepest teachers in learning how to listen to and work with

that capacity.

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I have returned to the Temple repeatedly, including through private ceremonial access, not simply

to sing there but to cultivate relationship with the place itself.

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For me, this is one of the deepest meanings of pilgrimage:

A sacred place can become a teacher.

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Not something to consume. Not another sacred site to check off a list. A relationship we return to,

prepare for, listen to and allow ourselves to be changed by.

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Pilgrimage is not about collecting sacred places.

It is about learning how to enter.

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This understanding now shapes the pilgrimages I lead through Egypt and through the landscapes

connected with Mary Magdalene and the Essene devotional stream.

 

Sounds of Light as a living Mystery School

Today, Sounds of Light brings together more than a decade of work with Sounding Light, sacred

Voice, Aramaic prayer, collective Sound Temple practices, ceremony, sacred plants, pilgrimage and

multidimensional states of consciousness.

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I am also deeply interested in the emerging science around sound, resonance, nervous-system

regulation, biophotonics and human biology.

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I don’t believe we need to choose between mystery and inquiry.

And I don’t want to use science to prove experiences that science has not yet demonstrated.

I would rather let the work live honestly at that threshold:

between what is ancient and what is still emerging,

between disciplined practice and surrender,

between what we can measure and what we can only experience,

between the human Voice as an acoustic phenomenon and the Voice as

prayer.

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I have been facilitating groups and training facilitators since 1999. I hold a Master’s degree in

Learning Design from Roskilde University and previously worked internationally as an education

consultant and trainer for ActionAid. Much of my life has been devoted to understanding how

transformation actually happens—not simply through information, but through experience,

embodiment, relationship, practice and initiation.

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And despite everything I have learned, I still experience myself as a student of this mystery.

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I am still listening.

Still experimenting.

Still following the trail.

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What has changed is that I am much less willing to hide the deepest parts of the work simply

because they are difficult to explain.

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After more than a decade of following this path, I feel ready to stand more fully inside what I have

learned—and to open those doors for others.

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To remember the Voice.

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To awaken the Sound Channel.

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To learn how to listen deeply enough that we can become available to what wants to move through

us.

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And to place that capacity in service of healing, prayer, remembrance and a more beautiful world.

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— Thomas

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