Abstract:
I develop a technique for contemplative listening, prompted by mutual
themes and failings found in contemporary tracts on the subject. I use Meister
Eckhart as a foundation towards an areligious technique, spurred by the
similarities between grief and apophasis, his metaphor for receptivity of the
Other, and his tracts regarding the correct mode of attention while listening. I
develop the technique further using contemporary bereavement research, and
make suggestions for how a technique could be implemented
