Sound And Frequency Healing | Chance Garton on Lighting the Void with Joe Rupe
Joe Rupe invited me to riff on Lighting the Void once again, and we had an epic conversation about frequency therapy, techniques to tune yourself, correcting your energy via the voice as a guide, touching the original source vibration of creation, and a lot more.
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In this episode
Core themes
Sound as Coherence, Not a Cure
Chance explained that he considered sound healing an imperfect label for his work and preferred the phrase aura balancing. He said the sound does not heal anyone, and that the body adjusts itself by comparing its own vibratory pattern to something coherent. He separated his tuning fork practice from singing bowls and gongs while granting those their value. Later a caller named Kat described crystal bowls, and Chance compared bowls to a bath that cleans broadly and forks to a more surgical way of finding a specific point.
Weighted Forks and Self Tuning at Home
Chance described preparing his voice before the broadcast with a weighted tuning fork held against his face and neck, and said he felt his ears pop and congestion drain. He struck a large fork he said was tuned to the throat chakra at 384 cycles per second, and he told his hosts that coherent sound mattered more than any particular frequency. He then walked through a tool-free exercise of gliding the voice from low to high, noticing where it wobbled, and working that tone.
Biofield Tuning as a Language of Intention
Chance said he learned about Biofield Tuning in 2019, studied books by Eileen Day McKusick including Tuning the Human Biofield, and built his own version of her method by experimenting on friends. He described the practice as a language for communicating with the intelligence of the body, and he said it worked remotely. He compared human energy fields to a shared palette of seven colors, and he said the work showed him how similar people were.
Getting People to the Door
Joe described a mission of bringing people to the door of awareness rather than telling them what to believe, and Chance agreed, advising against pressing conspiracy topics on family and instead living well so that others asked questions. Chance described tools as symbols of intention, said nobody had fully explained the placebo effect, and said ritual props such as candles and crystals helped hold intention and reassured skeptical clients. He also linked self-worth to the sacral chakra.
Logos, Language, and One Vibration
Chance recommended Dylan Saccoccio's book series, which he described as a phonetic Kabbalah about finding the Logos in language and myth. He offered several wordplay and symbolism readings, including his own take on the word love and the black sun, and presented them as his interpretations. Later he and Joe discussed vowel sounds, babies, and Gnostic vowel chanting as pointers to a single underlying vibration, and Joe said his new favorite quote was Chance calling it a jam session.
Quotes
“I don't heal anybody. The sound doesn't heal anybody. The body autocorrects itself by being able to compare its own vibratory pattern to that which is coherent. So the sound is coherent and the body picks up on that and adjusts itself.”
“I think that whole process is actually a language for communicating with the intelligence of your body, or even someone else's body, through your body, through this overlap of electrical fields. But even that is just a metaphor, because the whole process works remotely, too.”
“If you are doing this exercise and you hit a point where you can feel your voice gets weaker at a certain pitch range, then that's the one to hone in on and keep doing that tone and try to improve it.”
“You can paint anything ever with seven colors. You could continually paint with those seven colors forever and never run out of possible paintings. And that's the same with our life stories and with how our energy fields are. We're working from the same palette, emotionally, situationally.”
“I'm on this evangelical mission to not wake people up to spirituality or metaphysics or hermetics, but just to get them to the door, right? If you just get somebody to the door and they have an experience, lots of things will change for a person's life.”
“The tools are, honestly, they're just a symbol of our intention to do an act or to make a change, to believe differently. No one's ever explained placebo. I don't think anyone can explain placebo other than that what we fully believe it is, it is so.”
“Think about when we did the event Contact at the Cabin. I had people doing resonant tuning with their voices, right? And people were having out-of-body experiences.”
“It's September the 9th on into the 10th as we head into this full moon and Mercury is in retrograde again. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to be a victim to it or what? Not I.”
