Syncretism And Sound Healing | Chance Garton on Feel The Link Podcast
Luke Renda invited me to speak on Feel The Link podcast. This was a great conversation about all my favorite things.
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In this episode
Core themes
Boundaries, Community, and Psychic Vampirism
Luke Renda praised Chance's audience as supportive rather than combative, and Chance agreed, describing a habit of blocking disruptive visitors quickly, which he likened to pruning a garden. Chance said creators and guests in his field tended to cooperate more than compete. Luke later asked about psychic vampirism, and Chance recommended the book Psychic Vampires by Joe H. Slate, describing the author's use of Kirlian photography and interviews. Chance also cited Eileen Day McKusick's advice to be an electron donor and not an electron stealer, and he presented his view that trading energy in arguments and score keeping drained everyone involved.
Syncretism, Archetypes, and Shared Roots
Luke asked whether too much syncretism risked making everything the same and erasing meaning, and he described archetypes as symbol forming structures seen through their cultural images. Chance answered that he found more sameness than difference across traditions, and he offered examples linking Odin, Hermes, Thoth, and Buddha through names and solar imagery. Chance described the seed, the black sun, and the Christos as recurring motifs, and he used vowel shifts and the letters L and R to argue for shared language roots. He said these links added layers of meaning and did not remove cultural specificity. Chance later traced etymologies for Adonis, Kronos, and Bacchus.
Fetishism, Fiction, and Doubts About History
Chance described fetishism as taking the symbols, words, and rites of ancestors while missing their meaning, and he offered the Old and New Kingdoms of Egypt, early Christianity, and the New Age movement as examples. He argued that modern life repeated the pattern through devotion to fiction and through what he called legal fictions such as corporate names. Luke raised the similarity between Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln as a possible case of euhemerism. Chance said he doubted written history because he believed texts could be forged, though he had not researched Lincoln closely, and he pointed to old artwork, architecture, and language as steadier sources.
How Chance Uses Tuning Forks on the Biofield
Chance said he taught himself biofield tuning from Eileen Day McKusick's book Tuning the Human Biofield and that he worked with clients remotely. He described sweeping a fork through the energy field, feeling his ears pop at points he took to be stuck energy, and moving that energy back toward the center. He explained biofield anatomy as a chart relating feelings and memories to areas around the body. Chance said he believed the forks showed the body what coherence sounds like and did not heal on their own. Luke asked whether tuning could help physical wounds, and Chance gave a cautious answer.
Pain, Healing Levels, and Favorite Forks
Chance described pain as a request from the body for attention, and he said soreness after releasing tension could be a sign of healing. He said that in his experience, serious healing reached mind, body, and spirit together, and he framed work on oneself as a way of influencing the wider world, citing a saying he thought was Krishnamurti's. Luke asked for two favorite forks. Chance recommended a 174 for hearing pitch changes and said he liked the 417 and 528 together. Near the end he also described his Oracle card readings, which use the I Ching and Tarot, and how they pair with a tuning session.
Quotes
“Chance has the best audience. There is no infighting or bickering. It's all a lot of support. And someone has a different opinion, they'll voice their opinion, but it's not in like a weird argumentative way that you'll see on a lot of other shows.”
“Even going back two or three years, Chance's episodes are like top quality, even before his video days. His audio is really good. He's a great interviewer. He has a lot of great guests.”
“One thing I want to talk to you about is over syncretizing things. You have the syncretism that you always talk about with Dylan, right? And sometimes it can be like too much syncretism where everything becomes the same, right?”
“You meet the people who are the popular talking heads, you realize they're no different than the people listening, except that they made the decision to output and not just completely have input. So I don't believe everything you hear, even from me.”
“I think it's more useful to see the similarities than the differences, because there's always more sameness than difference.”
“The best definition of fetishism would be when you take the symbols and words and concepts and tools and rites from ancestors and basically miss the point of them and begin to worship the image as the thing rather than the spirit of the thing.”
“The forks and the sound aren't healing you themselves. They are showing your body what coherence sounds like, and your body is self-tuning and adjusting itself.”
“The more work you do on yourself, the better the world around you is going to get, the healthier the world around you is gonna get, your own direct environment is gonna get.”
