Hum.

Hum, he tells us. Close your eyes. And we do, a room full of 230 or so singers, humming with heads down and eyes closed. Hum.
There is a note believed to resonate with the universe. Something about leftover vibrations, or black holes. The universe is supposed to hum, though much lower that we can hear. Its a sound that's supposed to connect us, a harmony that brings together all of life and reality.
A university in California, he says, played this across campus for a week, day and night. They wanted to make a difference, see if it made anyone nicer, reduced crimes, made anything better. The choir keeps humming as he talks. The hum of the universe. Hum.


But crime rates were not lower. People were not nicer. Maybe a sense of unity was the only thing changed. If we could all stop trying to be so different, so contrary and pugnacious, and just connect, maybe just once, in our basic humanity, to realize that we're not so different, maybe then things could change. We are all human. Resonating with the universe.

This time, he says, when you run out of breath, let it go.