THE POWER OF SOUND

THE POWER OF SOUND
Miracles, Music & the Light Within
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Scott Cairns
Featured in 'Innerviews'
Hosted by Allié McGuire

​When we talk about healing and transformation, it’s easy to imagine something complicated — a mountain to climb or a long, winding journey. But sometimes the most profound shifts come in small, consistent steps, rooted in practices that touch not just the mind, but the heart and the spirit. In this conversation with Dr. Scott Cairns, we explore miracles, transformation, and the light within us all.

ALLIÉ: Scott, for those who are just meeting you for the first time, can you take us inside your story a bit? Who are you, and how did you find this path, this Dr. Scott Method? Just bring us up to speed.

SCOTT: There have always been spiritual and psychic things in the family. My mom, her mother, my great-grandmother, and it was always accepted and encouraged, which I was lucky about, because in some families it isn’t. We used to call my mom’s mother the Swami because she would predict world events. She was pretty scary.

​When I was a little kid, my mom and I could have telepathic conversations sitting in the living room. To this day, when I go shopping for my parents, who are in their eighties now, let’s say something is missing on the shopping list, my mom will send the message. I’ll walk in the door and she’ll say, “Did you get the…” and I’ll say, “Milk.” Yes, I got the message on the psychic highway. My dad is like, “You guys are scary.”

My spiritual path has been mostly solo my whole life. People would mention this workshop and that workshop, but I hadn’t taken any of those things.

I was in London doing my PhD in international history, and in the Dr. Scott Method, I work with clients in those five challenge areas of life: health, love, wealth, personal power, and spiritual power. These are the things people go to psychics for. Health, love, money, and power.

For myself, I was having both a healing crisis and a spiritual crisis. Spiritually, I was having the St. John of the Cross dark night of the soul. I didn’t know what to do next with my spiritual practice. I was having relationship problems. I thought I had met the person I was going to marry. That didn’t work out.

My professor was saying, “Mr. Cairns, I don’t think you are going to finish your thesis,” and I thought, my God, I’m five years into this. You’ve got to be kidding me. Finances were tough at the end of the PhD. I didn’t want to hit up the bank of mom and dad because they were saving for retirement. Personal power was down. Spiritual power was way down. Finances were tough, relationships were tough.

And then the fifth domino fell, which was health. I found myself in the hospital in London with a diagnosis of pneumonia. At first they thought I had a heart attack, which at 39 would have been pretty scary. When I got the better diagnosis, I went down to the chapel in the basement of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. I got down on my knees and said, “God, send me a teacher.”

A couple months later, I was at a mind, body, spirit shop in Central London. I picked up one of those free newspapers you see all over the world, opened it up, and there was a picture of an Indian guru who was coming to London. I had the lightning bolt experience. That’s my guru.

I met him about two months later. I put together a couple events for him, and I got an invite to his hotel. His assistant called a few hours later. My guru said, “Sit down.” There were two chairs in the suite. He closed his eyes, touched his finger to his third eye, and said, “Close your eyes.”

I had a full third-eye opening experience. We went to different plane levels of existence. We went backwards and forwards in time. We met gods and goddesses. He showed me how to do the spiritual work, without saying a word. It was a true life-changing experience. I could probably write a 500-page book about that less-than-10-minute experience.

That propelled me to start doing this work. I was teaching college for many years, and then nine years ago, universities across America had low enrollment, and there was no more teaching. That really propelled me to start doing this full-time. That was nine years ago, and I developed the Dr. Scott Method to help people with health, love, wealth, personal power, and spiritual power.

ALLIÉ: It’s quite a journey, Scott.

SCOTT: Yes, it was the rocket sled.

ALLIÉ: Let’s talk about a word you use often. You use the word miracle in your work, but not in the casual way it’s often thrown around. When you say miracle, what does that really mean to you?

SCOTT: To me, it’s when we pull the spiritual realm into everyday life, and something happens that cannot be explained by science. Something powerful, unusual, and life-changing. It’s like the lightning bolt experience.

​This is what I like to do with my clients. The lineage I come from is about miracles and helping people manifest what they want. I work on creating miracles for people. What people love about what I do, and what I love about the lineage, is that as a spiritual master, we’re taught how to do about 90 percent of the work for people. I just ask for a nine-minute-a-day commitment, and I think that’s something most people can do.

At one point, my guru had me meditating three hours a day for nearly 19 months, until he told me to stop. That wasn’t three hours in one sitting. I would do an hour and a half or two hours in the morning, and an hour at night. Eventually, it became easy to do four or five hours.

About 19 months into that assignment, gurus give tests to make sure you’re ready for the energies and powers they’re going to give you. He said, “Okay, you can stop now. Just an hour a day, or half an hour a day, is good.” But he warned me. He said, “I don’t want you to do 12 hours a day because you’ll just disappear, and you have work to do. You’re on this earth plane.”

ALLIÉ: Part of what makes your method unique is the way you weave sound, vibration, and music into it. Storytelling is my language, but sound is its own kind of story. Why do music and chanting matter so much in this work?

SCOTT: The basic idea is that sound is the building block of the universe. Without sound, nothing would exist.

It’s been fascinating in recent decades to see what’s coming out of astronomy. When I was growing up, the idea was that the universe was cold, dead space, with planets, stars, and galaxies floating in darkness. We’re still trying to figure out dark matter.

But all these things produce sound. Quasars, black holes, the moon, Mars. All heavenly bodies produce sound.

The mind itself is a collection of sounds, images, and movies. When we combine different vowels and consonants, it creates vibration and resonance. It can make us like a lighthouse or a broadcast tower, sending out what we want and receiving what we want.

We are all broadcasting all the time. We are all manifesting all the time. Most of the time, it’s negative, because the earth plane is mostly negative. Tibetan Buddhists talk about this. The ancients talked about this. They said we are one plane above the hell plane. But this is where you come to take on a body, change your karma, and change your energy.

The sound of the universe is OM. I’d like to chant OM so people can experience it.

     [ Scott chants. ]

We want to be in touch with the universe, not just our intellect and rational mind. That’s where problems begin.

​here’s another Sanskrit sound for attraction. If we want something, we must ask. Swami Yogananda said we must ask, ask, ask. That sound is KLEEM. K-L-E-E-M. This sound makes us a magnet. Let the sound fill your mind, body, and soul. Let it fill the picture of what you want to manifest.

     [ Scott chants. ]

And finally, the sound for peace, SHANTI.

     [ Scott chants. ]

Peace to the mind. Peace to the body. Peace to the soul. Stay in the energy. All spiritual practices must be experiential. Otherwise, they are a waste of time. Open your eyes. Come back to your body. Relax.

ALLIÉ: That was lovely. I appreciated the invitation to step outside of logic and surrender to something beyond it.

SCOTT: The more we get out of our rational mind, the better it is for the soul, especially in turbulent times. We need tools, whether mine or someone else’s, practical spiritual tools to make life easier.

The easiest way to access that non-rational state, what Buddhists call no mind, is through the arts. For me, it’s sound, because I’m also a musician.

ALLIÉ: One last question before we close. I want to talk about choice. Transformation and miracles are always available, but they require us to say yes. For someone standing on that edge right now, what is the first yes they can give themselves today?

SCOTT: It starts with belief. It requires faith that there is another way, another path. It could be what I do or what someone else does. Something that complements your life and opens you to miracles.

It also requires action. Karma is the law of action. If you want new karma, you need new thoughts, new feelings, and new actions.

That’s how you step back from the edge. You make the choice to follow your dharma, the path you are meant to walk in this lifetime. ∎

Learn more about Dr. Scott Cairns:
​drscottmethod.com