Sacred Listening: Further Teachings for Deepening Practice
by Mark Brady
2016 · CreateSpace · 150 pages
Being deeply listened to makes us real. Much like Margery Williams’ Skin Horse in the children’s classic, The Velveteen Rabbit, having someone deeply and truly understand and accept us naked and exposed underneath all the masks and public personas allows us to have the truth of our experience accurately reflected back to us. We increasingly become more and more of who we really are.
But being listened to requires someone to do the listening, someone to bear witness to our deepest being. There is no “being listened to” without a listener, and inevitably both listener and speaker are beneficially changed in the process.
Mark Brady, Ph.D. is a transpersonal neurobiologist and a neuroscience and creativity educator. He co-founded the Children’s Grief Program at Kara, a public service agency in Palo Alto, California. He spent 10 years at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences CASBS at Stanford – undercover as the maintenance man, “stalking behavioral scientists in their natural habitat.” He is a the prize-winning author of a number of books, magazine articles and academic papers. [Text Source: Author's Website]
