Center2?Sacred Spaces,1999/2000. Oils on Canvas, 182cm x 152cm.	Center3?Sacred Spaces,1999/2000. Oils on Canvas, 182cm x 167cm.

The Sacred Spaces series is of intangible Spaces. The subtle made apparent, as in the Aboriginal song below.

Tree……….
He watching you,
You look at tree,
He listen to you,
He got no finger,
He can’t speak,
But that leaf……,
He pumping, growing,
Growing in the night,
While you sleeping,
You dream something,
Tree and grass same thing,
They grow with your body,
with your feeling.

While the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful, points out the Chinese Master Lao Tzu, writing in the Tao Te Ching in the 6th. century B.C. Could these ‘Sacred Spaces’ be like the trees and grass, growing with ones feeling, searching for its center.

year 2009

If there is anything in my body that has let me down it is this thing called tinnitus. It is hard wired into the body and I cannot get rid of it. And I ask myself what is it doing in here? What really is its function?

‘tinnitus is the conscious expression of a sound that originates in an involuntary manner in the head of its owner, or may appear to him to do so’

“…hissing, sizzling and buzzing, these reflecting the clinical finding that tinnitus is usually high pitched.”

I gather that nobody is absent of this ringing sound in the ears or one’s head. Even those who cannot hear it has the “song” being silently played in your head.  You will hear it if you lock yourself in a soundproof room. So it exists for every single one of us.  But then I find out one day: I remember it was a bright sunny day and the ground was covered in show – the trees, the cars everything covered in snow. Yes. climate change. Then I realised that everything I did was reflected in this tinnitus sound in my head/ears. As I type these keys on my keyboard I could hear them being reflected in that T sound. As I silently speak as I type this it is being modulated in that T sound.  Any thing I do: I scratch my hand and I hear it in that T sound.  It is a complete reflection and a give away to anything I do.  You know what this means right, but the ending of time for those who want to listen in to what I am doing.

What is even worse is that most don’t know what that humming sound is about or where it comes from or why is it there or where it is made etc. But if you troll the net, tomorrows tool for world education, you might catch some good soul scientist who has done some research that will put it out there without charging a fee for the information. You know, spirituality, like “Price Tag” its not about the money, Jessie J.

In one sentence, what is this Tinnitus: seemingly it is the noise created by all the nerve impulses flowing down your nerves and brain and everywhere generating this noise.

“Nothing is heard until sound patterns, generated in the cochlea, reach the cortex of the brain, producing our first awareness of organised sound.”

This is for normal sound patterns including speech within the audible range. Nerve impulses make their way up to the auditory cortex before they are “heard”.

Same diagram but in more detail.  You have noticed that if your name is called out in a crowded place immediately you focus on the area where the sound came from filtering out all other peripheral sound to concentrate.  This takes place automatically by the use of neuronal filters in the hearing pathway.  This also applies to the sound of Tinnitus. If you focus on it in gets louder. Try it now. With tinnitus if you focus on it it gets louder and becomes an annoyance.

“Between ear and brain there are 2M nerve cells forming a neuronal network, capable of sophisticated pattern recognition, enhancement and suppression of auditory signals.”

But the hearing pathway is also connected to other functioning parts of the body, to generate emotions related to certain sounds etc.  Trigger words or sounds when heard will generate an emotion.

“Neuronal networks between ear and brain detect threatening sounds and activate a reflex response involving fear/annoyance, and increase of body functions, to prepare for danger – the conditioned aversive response.”

Now look at this statement:

“In 1953 Heller and Bergman performed an simple and classic experiment. They placed 80 tinnitus free individuals (university members) in a sound proofed room for 5 minutes each, asking them to report on any sounds that might be heard. The subjects thought they might be undergoing a hearing test, but actually experienced 5 minutes of total silence. 93% reported hearing buzzing, pulsing, whistling sounds in the head or ears identical to those reported by tinnitus sufferers.  This simple experiment shows almost anyone can detect background electrical activity present in every living nerve cell in the hearing pathways as a sound. Although some areas of the auditory system may be more active than others, every neurone will contribute to some extent to the final perception of tinnitus.”

So Tinnitus is described as, ” background electrical activity present in every living nerve cell in the hearing pathways as a sound.” and also as ‘the music of the brain’.  The music that modulates to every mechanical activity in the mindbodysoul.  The music that gives away the secrets of the body. The music that makes privacy redundant.

If tinnitus carries all the secrets of the happenings of the body and it is the result of all the neuronal activity generated in the mindbodysoul then listening in to this sound will be able to tell you a few things about a person.  It can tell about the movement of the individual. A whisper will be reflected in its sound and can be remotely obtained and decoded to reveal a secret. We think and we also silently speak: “Speak Thinking,” hence thinking will be embedded in the, “music of the brain,” and a subliminal ultrasound/microwave message can be inserted via the vibrations in the brain, to change its tune and hence the perception of the individual.