A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

INTENTIONAL LISTENING

W. A. Mathieu, Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2010) ("This book primarily is about open, intentional listening, how to practice it, and what to expect from it. Because music is both embodied and free-flowing energy, it has the capacity to connect thing to thing, body to body, mind to mind, heart to heart, and spirit to spirit. Neither heaven nor earth, it is the middle way, a wave bridge between nameable and nameless, between relative and absolute, thinking and feeling, the grammar of language and the cadences of the sea. it weaves the world together in an energetic web, You can be anywhere in the weave you want--all you have to do is get there is to listen to it." Id. at xvi.).