It is full of meaning, defining our impressions, enlivening our days and nights. Indeed, in Western culture especially, we might well ask ourselves what this preponderance of eye consciousness means. The nature of the Gaze, says Levin, is practical and aggressively active. A sense of wholeness and fullness, and the awareness of the world as resonance are lacking. Auditory images evoke an archetypally feminine mode.
Hearing is vibratory, surrounding, surrounded by.
Participatory, flowing, receptive, audition is replete with images of cupping, dark and fleshy passages, moist and hairy sensitivity, and watery labyrinths. Acoustic energy is received into openings. It pulses and curves inward along dark canals. It coils in moisture and fluid. And finally, it sparks along neural passages that create new response, new life.