Every atom of iron in your blood was made in a star that could not burn it.
Why does the fire end at iron? Why is blood bright while it lives and dark when it is spent? What did the old stories know about the smith, the bow in the cloud, and the brother whose blood cried out of the ground? And is it possible that the science of our own time has been answering them all along?
The Iron Sings follows a single metal through its whole biography. It is made on the last day of a dying star, thrown through the dark, and sunk into the young earth. It is rusted, struck by lightning, dug up, burned, beaten and quenched, and at this moment it is carried round your body about once a minute. At every station the physics is checked and the old images are allowed to speak, until the two begin to sound like one voice.
Inside you will find:
- why a star dies at iron, and why the metal sits at the very bottom of the well
- the experiment with iron filings that every textbook photograph gets wrong, and what one light tap reveals
- the smith's three heats, and why hardness is "carbon that could not get out in time"
- Cain's fire that never fell, and the lightning that has fed his fields for four billion years
- the many colours of a single blood, read with nothing but the eye
- two flutes in a quiet room, and why being perfectly in tune is silent
- the conductor who touches nothing, and the hand that has no muscles in its fingers
Written in what the author calls science poetry, this is a book that asks more than it asserts. It offers no cures, promises or secrets. It offers a way of seeing in which a star, a forge and a pulse turn out to be one story, and the reader finds that he has been standing inside it all along.
For readers of esoteric Christianity and the Rosicrucian tradition, for students of Goethe's way of seeing nature, for musicians and makers, and for anyone who has ever wondered what their own blood is made of.
The iron does not sing until it is sounded.
- Teacher: Friend Tazo
152 The Ego on a String and the Player Behind it All
Every teaching in the world says kill the ego.
This one hands it the lyre.
But life is full of strings. Which one do you play?
Soul Frequencies · Book One of Three
Have you heard of Ego Yoga?
Some strings move you — the expectations, the inherited self, the ego dangled like a puppet above a stage you never chose. One string, though, you can pick up yourself.
The ego is not the enemy. It is the player — the one part of you that can lift an instrument and sound a single honest note into the world: I am here. The soul is the lyre. The hand is the mechanism. And behind all of it stands the one who chooses which way.
The Ego on a String is not another book about silencing yourself. It is an invitation to find the hand that moves you — and then the one who watches the hand. This is self-inquiry in the oldest sense: who am I, asked not as a belief to adopt but as a skill you can practice and check. It promises a skill, not a secret — the musician who hears the score before a note is sounded, the listener at the waterfall who stops hearing noise and begins to hear the water strike each separate stone. You have spent your life sounding to something out there; here, at last, you learn to listen for the answer.
Written by a flutist who spent lives beside a desert river, it moves easily between the language of quantum fields and strings, the contemplative Christian path of personal growth, and the old knowledge of the living world — toward one aim: awakening the real self beyond the veil. It gives you a place to stand while anger and anxiety move through, and a way past what's expected of you, into what is actually yours.
You will not be handed a secret. You will be handed an instrument, and taught to play.
The throat asks. The foot waits. Come and stand.
- Teacher: Friend Tazo
156 The Inner Well — Tazo
You are made of water. Not the kind from the tap.
Before there were words, there was the hum.
The first sound a mother makes to a child who is crying and cannot be comforted is not a word. It is a tone — low, sustained, produced deep in the chest, offered without explanation. The child settles. The body knows before the mind can follow.
This is the oldest medicine in the world and it has no inventor. The priestesses of Isis hummed through the rites of Osiris, the rites of gathering what had been scattered. Celtic women kept the springs of Brigid and Sulis, and sang at the wells in tones that matched the water moving through stone. India kept it as Bhramari, the humming bee breath. The Sufis kept it as dhikr. Each was pointing at the same thing from a different side.
In 2002 the laboratory arrived. Humming was shown to raise nitric oxide in the sinuses fifteen to twenty fold over quiet breathing — the gas that widens the vessels, carries the oxygen, and settles the inflammation. The lowest tones produce the most, and the lowest tones are the ones a woman's chest makes at rest.
What the biochemistry calls a gas, the older traditions called water. The hum opens the channel. The channel fills. The filling is felt as moisture, in a place that had been dry a long time.
This is a practice book. It is not read once and set aside — it is returned to in the morning before the day begins, and in the evening when the day ends. Eighteen chapters, each carrying a practice for the body.
She wears seven colors. Above and below. The mirror and the spring. The voice that calls the frequency. The chamber of resonance. The clear stream and the muddy. The aether body as living water. The wind that carries her voice. The humming practice. The octave of creation. The well at the center of the world. Then five meditations, and a threshold.
- Teacher: Friend Tazo
Loving Egos: A Tuning Method — Tazo
This is an audio book about Relationships, all relationships; even relationships with creatures and things. That's what makes it so special. This audio book is more than a method, it is tuner and compass for you. Take it to bed, wake up with it. Take it to work. It will be your best friend and companion through your hard times, and a person to talk to when you want companionship. It will give you all the tools you need to mend relationships, or guidance on how to keep them going, and staying fresh. It has useful games for couples to engage each other to harmonize and sync together in work and in play. The methods will stay with you and follow you in everything you engage in.
- Teacher: Friend Tazo
