As music lovers, we understand it to be a phenomenon whereby plucking a guitar's string sets in motion another's that's tuned alike yet not physically touched. My house has two large crystalline singing bowls which Ivette loved. One of them begins to sound when I speak loud enough. The pitch of my voice activates its self resonance from metres away. Popular parlance calls related observations being on the same wavelength. Many spiritual traditions call the same phenomenon of sympathetic resonance good company. The underlying idea is that carriers of higher consciousness emit a corresponding energy sphere—Osho calls it an actual Buddhafield which can extend for miles around an enlightened one—which can play on thus activate our own latent potential for higher consciousness. Hence classic advice for spiritual aspirants has always been to seek out good company, be it in the form of a teaching, its still living teacher or his/her community of fellow seekers. That which lays dormant within can awaken in the mere presence of someone in whom the same potential is already active. The classic visual for it is a candle lit; and one that's not. Once close enough, the flame can simply jump and light the dark candle without any doing on its part.
The word satsang translates as the company of truth. It traditionally meant listening to a spiritual discourse, singing devotional songs, reading scriptures or discussing a teaching all in the company of a master. Darshan means seeing the Divine by beholding a living saint, no words spoken—though it can also apply to an empowered sculpture or photograph; even the sight of a sacred mountain like Kailash at the end of a pilgrimage. That the dwellings of saints can preserve some of their high energies long after their physical passing is why pilgrims still visit Ramana Maharshi's ashram at the foot of Arunachala hill in Tamil Nadu. That regular prayers over centuries create energetic echoes in places of worship like cathedrals, mosques or temples is why sitting in them quietly regardless of creed or faith can be more examples of sympathetic resonance. We just must be sensitive enough and on the right wavelength for a given transmission to work.
Back in our little hifi corner, we've heard of frequency generators emitting an inaudible 7.83Hz believed to be the resonance of our planet called the Schumann frequency. An outfit like energy muse sells them and others tuned to different frequencies for various effects. Whilst living in America, I came across a healing modality called toning in which the practitioner aims powerful long-held sounds at specific pitches at their client. Wherever he feels an immediate response, all is good. Wherever an organ or internal system is weak, out of alignment thus deaf to the call, he persists with the unanswered pitch until there is a reaction even if only a first stirring to mandate more sessions. In short, the subject of sympathetic resonance has numerous examples we can harness for our wellbeing. We might even say that listening to the right music at the right time can be its own form of good company. By the same token, bad company are all the influences which rather than elevate our aspirations and state of being, undermine them to bring us down. If we value our existence and overall health, we minimize our exposure to bad company to instead cultivate good company in its many manifestations, be those the people we surround ourselves with or allow into our personal space, the books we read, films we watch, news we consume, music we listen to.
It all has cumulative effects to warrant discernment and deliberate choices. The living master Sadhguru has created consecrated spaces to hold blessing powers for those who enter them. For those who cannot visit, his web shop offers consecrated items that have likewise been empowered vibrationally. The Linga Bhairavi form of the Divine Feminine links to that page. For a final example of good company, here is the samadhi of Indian saint Sai Baba of Shirdi who promised his devotees that long after his death, he will continue to use this commissioned statue of him as a consecrated transmission portal. For others a church, mosque or temple in their vicinity might provide such inspired contact from the higher realms; or a walk through nature. Whatever our path, we shouldn't be shy to ask for help and avail ourselves of it in whichever form presents itself.
