Ears of the Angels: Healing the Sounds, Heard and Unheard, of Humans and Animals

by Deena Zalkind Spear

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Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc. 2002. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House 2002. 158 pp PB $12.95
 
This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary person. Deena Spear completed her premedical studies in neurobiology but decided not to pursue a career as a physician. She unexpectedly found herself attracted to playing the violin (with very modest success), which led to a career as a luthier -- building and repairing violins, violas and cellos with her teacher, who then became her husband.

Being something of a perfectionist, Deena was constantly seeking ways to improve the sound of the instruments they built and repaired. Through channeled guidance from master violin makers, she learned to shave minute bits from precise points on the instruments, significantly enhancing their sound.

Deena was also drawn to spiritual healing and graduated from the four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing course.

Her two interests merged when she discovered that she could tune the instruments mentally.

Conversely, her studies of how to tune the instruments mentally enhanced her confidence and skills in offering distant healing.

If it vibrates, it can be tuned. Everything is energy -- violins, animals, people, potato chips, thoughts, feelings, and events. They all vibrate...

As the instruments were teaching me that I really was altering resonance with thought, I learned to recognize acoustical transformation with an inner sense -- a kind of 'felt' sound. Healing is creating more harmony of vibration in multiple dimensions of the body and the spirit. The most important listening I do is with the 'Ears of the Angels.' (p. ix)

After honing her healing skills with the same diligence she had applied to studying to enhance the sound of violins, Deena started teaching others both of these skills. She finds that the tuning of violins gives people confidence in their abilities to influence matter at a distance, which then helps them to believe they can send healing to people from a distance.

Deena's writing is punctuated with humorous observations and asides. Even the somewhat lengthy and detailed description of how she grew and matured in her skills of violin tuning are readable. I found these fascinating in the sharing of lessons channeled by several gifted intuitives -- both for the instrument repairs and then for the healing.

The telepaths are like people who see color in a world where 'normal' people see only black and white (and think that is all there is), or who hear in a world where 'normal' people are deaf (and believe only in silence). When those with extra senses try to explain to 'normal' people about the existence of color and sound they are sometimes considered two players short of a duet, or turned into material for science fiction entertainment. Still, it beats the old routine of burning at the stake." (p. 30)

Deena shares generously from her personal healing lessons.

It was hard enough to know he was dying, but visiting him for hours each day in the hospital during his last two months was painful beyond words. Sometimes doing everything medical science can do just to know everything that could be done has been done is not necessarily the wisest choice. The toll in human suffering can be too high. In my father's case, it was. (p. 50)

A time of deep despair can create personal growth that we have otherwise been unable to achieve. The struggles of daily life may not be enough to break through those emotional blocks that keep us from reaching our potential. For some people, the change comes in response to a debilitating or life-threatening condition caused by an accident or illness. It may result from the process of grieving the loss of a loved one and eventually healing from the trauma of separation. I often hear or read about life-renewing spiritual development that was brought about by physical or emotional struggle. These events were horrible to live through, but many are aware that they would not have made the changes without the wakeup call. (p. 47)

Deena also presents in this refreshing book her constant growth and progress in refining her tuning and healing skills.

Over several years, as I moved from energy tuning individual points on a violin's ribs, which replicated the physical scraping process, to working with an entire violin at once, a change of beliefs was required. In order to progress, I had to rethink what was in the realm of possibility for anyone to accomplish, and what I, as a former self-declared psychic brick, could manage... If you think you can do something that you cannot, the belief itself prevents you from accomplishing the task, either because you never try it in the first place or because you have block yourself by your belief. (p. 56-57)

Deena also has the humility to offer her healing with no expectations of change in her human and animal healees.

People or animals who have cancer, or an illness, have their own agendas. The outcomes of these healings are less a reflection of my work and more an indication about choices the client is making. Sometimes a healer or intuitive can help a client understand the thoughts behind a condition in order to help the client make a different choice. (p. 101)

Having no expectations enables us to love those who seem to unlovable, no matter what they have done. They need it. It enables us to love ourselves. We need it. We are much more than our achievements and our misachievements... In the end, healing is not some impersonal technique of running energy. What heals is love. Our essence is love, and it is who we really are. The rest is just insanity, but it's only temporary. (p. 158)

Rarely do I find a book like this that is both rich in innovative lessons, reaffirming of healing wisdom and highly readable. I warmly recommend this book as being all of these.

Deena Zalkind Spear. Ears of the Angels: Healing the Sounds, Heard and Unheard, of Humans and Animals, Ithaca, NY: Singing Woods Press 2002. 215 pp HB $29.95.

The hardback edition, available only through http://www.singingwoods.org/books.html, contains an additional chapter, "Working in the World of Matter: A violinmaker's acoustics manual with a subtle slide toward the 4th dimension."

See article by Deena Zalkin Spear in IJHC, January, 2004.

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