Destiny: Jonathan Goldman: Ascension Harmonics

Summary

Sound healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman joins host Cliff Dunning to discuss his book Ascension Harmonics and his claim to have rediscovered a powerful vocal intonation of the forbidden Hebrew divine name, Yahweh. Goldman explains his formula that frequency plus intent equals healing, and describes how the vowel sounds of the Tetragrammaton can resonate the chakras and act as a 'hotline to the divine.' The conversation also covers archaeoacoustics at Maya sites, including Goldman's claim that a darkened chamber at Palenque became faintly illuminated when he toned harmonics inside it.

Key takeaways

• 1Goldman says a voice woke him in the early 1990s and told him to intone chakra vowel sounds from crown to root and back, which produced an elongated sound resembling 'Yahweh.'
• 2He claims that when he first taught the divine name intonation in Portland, he and two nurses who were also priestesses in Egyptian traditions passed out for about an hour.
• 3Goldman's books include 'The Divine Name' (the predecessor to 'Ascension Harmonics'), 'The Humming Effect' and 'The Seven Secrets of Sound Healing,' all co-written with his wife Andi; Gregg Braden wrote the introduction to the divine name book.
• 4He cites a February 8, 1988 New York Times article saying sound could rearrange molecular structure or levitate objects, and suggests the ancients may have moved megaliths with sound and consciousness.
• 5At Palenque during the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, a local brujo led him into an underground chamber where his toning seemed to make the dark room glow; Goldman links this to sonoluminescence, piezoelectricity and biophotons.
• 6Goldman suggests ancient texts describe 'gods' who genetically enhanced humans about 200,000 years ago, and cites Robert Schoch's argument for a much older Sphinx; Dunning says Chichen Itza, Edzna and Palenque are the main Maya sites under archaeoacoustic study.

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Well, hey, how you doing? This is Cliff, your host of Destiny, and welcome to the program. I think that this is one of these synchronistic weeks where everything seems to flow off pretty well. And I say that because I just finished quite a fun chapter on archaeoacoustics. And I mentioned this last week a little bit and how this unusual architectural feature at Chichen Itza in the Great Pyramid, when you clap, comes up with a bird chirp, known as the Quetzalcoatl, or the Quetzal bird chirp. And it's reflected on the Kukulkan pyramid, also known as El Castillo. And what's interesting is that it's not just that effect, it's a bunch of other effects. And right now, as of this recording, there's three major Mayan cities. It's Tuchinitza, Palenque, and Edzna, Edzna is in Campeche, and Palenque is in Tabasco, Chiapas, or excuse me, it's in Chiapas. And what's funny is that when I was reading the details of our guest today, he had done, and today's feature is all about acoustics, healing acoustics. And when he was visiting, The tour guide took him to a portion of the ruin, Palenque ruin, and entered one of the rooms and they did some interesting sound healing techniques. And we're going to hear about that today. I'm not going to talk about it right now because it's pretty fantastic. But I was thinking, well, how perfect that we have somebody who's done acoustic experimentation at Palenque. Now, Palenque is a huge ruin, and like many of the ruins that we visit today, only a small percentage has been excavated, and typically it's the buildings, pyramids, temples, and ball courts that are exposed to us. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Aug 26, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.