The language we were never taught.

What started out to be a closet obsession turned into something that made me see the world around me in a completely different way. And my life has never been the same since.

Working with sound gave me the opportunity to shape the unseen. To work with something tangible yet unobservable unless through digital means. My background is weird. It’s random. It never made a lot of sense until recently.

But that is life. Those random pulls that don’t make sense until 15 years later. The friendship you made with someone in a foreign country that changed the trajectory of your life forever. The painful moments that shaped you.

This is what I am learning. What we are all starting to learn. That what we perceive determines our reality. But what we’ve been taught to perceive is like learning about red and none of the other colours. It’s like being taught three random letters in the alphabet and trying to learn how to read without being able to see the rest of them.

Sound is energy. It’s energy expressed through a medium and therefore able to be perceived by our ears. We use a spectrum to measure it and that allows us to determine the audible range in which the sound exists. Frequencies are measured by the oscillations of their waveform. The lower the tone, the slower the oscillation. The higher the tone, the faster the oscillation.

Many of us know this. But what many of us don’t stop to think about is the rest of the spectrum.

Why weren’t we ever taught about the parts we can’t hear? It’s not because they cease to exist. They are very real. And just because we can’t hear them doesn’t mean they are completely outside of our perception.

Sound has been my obsession for a long time. But not simply the sound we can hear. I am more fascinated by that which we can’t. And when you start to get into this, you’ll see why. It’s impossible to ignore when you realize that so much of our reality is simply not perceived. It exists, but we aren’t aware of it.

We built our perception of the world on a foundation that completely ignores some of the most fundamental pieces of our reality.

Energy.

And I know that is such an overused and overstated term. Often vague and abstract.

But we’re going to make it considerably less abstract right now.

Here is a number I want you to sit with.

The electromagnetic spectrum — everything that exists as light, frequency, wave — spans billions of orders of magnitude. Gamma rays. Radio waves. X-rays. Infrared. Ultraviolet. Microwaves. And visible light. The band that human eyes can actually detect accounts for:

0.0035%

of the entire spectrum.

We built an entire civilization. An entire epistemology. An entire sense of what is real — on 0.0035% of what exists.

The rest isn’t dark or empty. It isn’t theoretical. It’s right here, moving through and around every living thing, at every moment. We simply were never given the tools to see it.

This is what stopped a Stanford professor in his tracks. Dr. William Tiller spent 34 years as a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University. Peer-reviewed research and extensive credentials creates the kind of background that makes everything he says much harder to dismiss.

He became enamoured by one question: what happens when we bring human intention into a controlled laboratory experiment?

What he found changed everything he thought he knew. And it’s something we all ought to pay attention to as it infers that we are considerably more powerful than we have been led to believe.

Using devices he designed which he called Intention Imprinted Electrical Devices, Tiller and his team imprinted a specific intention onto an electronic circuit. Then they shipped it to a laboratory across the country and watched what happened when it was placed near a sample of water.

The pH of the water shifted by a full unit.

One full unit on the pH scale represents a tenfold change in hydrogen ion concentration. He replicated this in four laboratories across three countries. He watched the effect persist in a room long after the device was removed — what he called a “conditioned space,” as if the room itself had learned to hold the charge.

Tiller’s conclusion: Intention, he proposed, operates through a layer of reality that our current physical models simply don’t account for.

This is the part of the spectrum we haven’t learned to see yet.

Energy waveforms exist in all things. Our hearts produce energetic waveforms, expressed through our thoughts, words, and our emotional state.

The only reason we can hear sound is because it is expressed through a medium. You, my friend, are also a medium through which energy is expressed.

Light operates in the same fashion as sound. The difference between sound and light is that light operates much higher on the spectrum.

We do not hear light. We see it.

We do not hear emotions. We feel them.

Yet we can still feel light and sound in one form or another. The vibrations of deep bass can be felt throughout your entire body. Light generates heat through the frequency of its waves — the higher the frequency, the more energy delivered. Stand in direct sunlight and your skin knows it immediately — light transmits energy, and your body receives it.

Our emotions are constantly pulsing and changing. Until recently it was very difficult to understand them. Now we have brain wave scans and heart rate monitors and many emerging technologies that allow us to see emotions the same way we’ve learned to see sound.

This is the language we were never taught.

The part that biology just skipped over entirely. The part we were taught to ignore or suppress.

Science likes to make it seem like that which cannot be observed does not exist. Quantum physics paints a very different reality. And it’s about time we bridge the two — and recognize that the reason so many of us struggle unnecessarily is because we were never taught what is truly fundamental to us.

Did you know that humans have considerably more than 5 senses? Not just a couple more. In total, we actually have 15.

Five of them you already know. Sight. Hearing. Touch. Taste. Smell.

But what about the others?

Proprioception is your body’s ability to know where it is in space without looking. Right now, without glancing down, you know where your hands are. You know if your shoulders are tense and the angle of your jaw. That’s proprioception. It’s a silent map your nervous system is constantly drawing of itself.

Then there’s interoception — and this one changes everything. Interoception is your ability to sense the internal state of your body. Your heartbeat. The subtle tension in your gut before something happens. The feeling of expansion in your chest when you’re genuinely safe and the constriction when you’re not.

Most of us were never taught to listen to these signals. In fact, many of us were actively taught to override them. Push through. Carry on.

What’s fascinating is that research in trauma and nervous system science is showing us that disrupted interoception, the inability to accurately read your own internal signals, is one of the most common and least-discussed consequences of chronic stress. We don’t struggle because we feel too much. We struggle because we’ve lost the ability to accurately translate what we feel.

There’s even emerging research around magnetoreception — the possibility that humans, like many animals, may be able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field. We have deposits of magnetite in our brains. The same material that helps birds navigate continents. It’s been dismissed for decades but it’s becoming more difficult to argue.

Fifteen senses.

Most of which we were never taught to use or to understand.

Feeling is so much more than we were ever taught. Understanding and working with our bodies and our environments isn’t just helpful.

It’s fundamental.

About that 0.0035%…

We could spend our whole lives defending the slit through which we perceive reality. Arguing that the light we can see is all the light there is. Building our self-understanding, our healing modalities, our entire sense of what’s possible — inside those limits.

Or we could step back and look at the full spectrum.

Your heart generates an electromagnetic field that extends eight feet beyond your body. Your cells emit light — literal biophotons — as a byproduct of the chemical processes that keep you alive. The Earth itself pulses at 7.83 Hz, a frequency your nervous system has been in dialogue with for its entire existence.

None of this is metaphorical. It’s all measurable…

We don’t need to believe in something we can’t see. But we do need to update our own understanding of perception, intuition and intention.

Living in a world of constant distraction and comparison keeps us in a loop of perpetuating emotions that are never truly seen or recognized. We act as if they are a burden. The sadness and emptiness we feel must be filled — quickly. Our lack of joy must mean something is missing.

What if the problem isn’t you?

What if the problem is that you were handed a map that was missing most of the territory?

So many people I speak with are struggling not with the world around them, but with themselves. They berate themselves about their perceived weaknesses. They exhaust themselves trying to become a better version of a self they were never fully taught how to understand.

If you start thinking about yourself as an instrument through which a song is played, you would probably look at yourself quite differently. The capability for creation is always there.

You would look at your body like a tool. One that needs to be tuned and cared for. Not something that can be forced into a shape it isn’t.

You were created to play your own unique song in this life. But have you ever been taught how to play it? Or how to hear it?

Probably not.

Because none of us were.

You are an electromagnetic vessel bursting with energetic potential at all times. And the tools to work with that energy already exist. Not just in an abstract, woo-woo way. In measurable, repeatable and very real ways. Some of what gets labelled woo-woo is nonsense. But some of it has been documented across thousands of years of human experience, across every culture on earth, long before we had the instruments to explain it.

That's not delusion. That's data we didn't know how to read yet

We’re just finally starting to learn how to read the rest of the alphabet.