span all space, be at once in all places, penetrate all barriers. Roszak adds: unlike the hypnotic murmur of Hindu and Buddhist mantra, “the word of the prophetical God instructs; it is intelligible speech.”7 The word “hear” implies understanding as well as apperception. In contemporary colloquial English, the expression, “I hear what you say” acknowledges that the listener has not only heard the speaker’s words but has become aware of the deeper intention underlying them. Thus, true hearing is cognitive