“Elephants, growing in utero for nearly two years, are listening and learning too. With the soles of their feet pressed against the throbbing pulse of the womb’s lining, they are becoming familiar with the rumblings of their mother and their matriarchal relatives. Pitched at infrasonic levels inaccessible to our ears, these deep vibrations will be the same sounds that greet the newborn elephants upon their release from a watery interior world. Prodded upright by the gentle nudging of mother’s trunk, audibly instructed not only to stand but also to start walking (Let’s go, Follow me, Stay close, I’m here), they begin their new life on land.”
Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening by Elizabeth Rosner
Extracted from: Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening by Elizabeth Rosner
A world of exquisite beauty and expansive awareness awaits if only we open up our ears and listen with our ‘Third Ear’ for greater connection, understanding and love of all beings. Elizabeth Rosner is a wonderfully vivid and artful weaver of liminal worlds of quietude and sound.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Genre: Spirituality, self-love, self-awareness, psychology, history
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Review in one word: Pianissimo
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Am thinking we humans are losing the essential sense of listening; instead, acquiring our info about the world in endless shock-horror-head-line visuals designed to keep us anxious and in a state of victimhood. I had a sudden glorious sense of that elephant child being born, arriving in the world with such stirring instructions: stay close; let’s go! Yes!
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It’s so nice to hear from you Tish thank you for reading 📚 ❤️ you are so deeply right about this, it is a ten second or less culture isn’t it, social media preying upon people’s lowest parts of themselves to get a reaction of fear or anger out of people. On the other hand there’s some parts of the internet filled with joy and love at the best parts of ourselves. From reading that passage I had the same feeling as you, the whole book is filled with these kinds of joyful sublime moments 😍 big hugs Tish
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Happy Day, Athena.
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