Do you Hear what I Hear?
Pathway 26, Awakened Hearing. What is sound? Sound is defined as “vibration that travels through the air or another medium and can be heard when it reaches the ear.’ That being said everything has a vibration, it’s own pulse if you will; trees, plants, rocks, the Earth, but we don’t necessarily hear them with our ears. We may feel them or sense them which is a different kind of “hearing”, “Awakened Hearing”, As- Sami, which means “the all-hearing.” Pathway 26, “Awakened Hearing” asks us to contemplate where sound begins within ourselves. Hearing as a spiritual practice asks us to listen more intently. “We are here to hold within us the consciousness of all the beings that have traveled before us in the caravan of life, and to include the view of the whole cosmos in our vision.” Neil Douglas- Klotz . These next three pathways from his book “The Sufi Book of Life- 99 Pathways to the Heart” all deal...