<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV>On May 14, 2007, at 6:10 AM, Porritt, David wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">A question from the other side....Can anyone here say that they can go</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">to a perfectly quiet place (say, a high end recording studio) and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">actually hear nothing??<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Not me....</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I have personally never met anyone who didn't</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">seem to have a little tinnitus that they could hear when it was</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">perfectly quiet.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>Me neither.<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Are there any people with silence in their head??</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE>Nossaman seems to have met a few.<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Fascinatin' topic....some people----mostly spiritual adepts---would tell you that the "ringing" is just the first layer or level of sound that has been called "the music of the spheres..." the actual sound of the energy that keeps everything buzzing and alive. And that to connect to the <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">feeling</SPAN> of that sound and energy is a catalyst for joy.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">David A. <BR><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>