"THE SPIRITUALIST" Brings you Psychic Gossip from Hollywierd

  LISTEN = SILENT But Are We Ever Silent Enough to Listen? There are six letters in the word LISTEN . There are exactly the same six letters in the word SILENT . Coincidence? Possibly. But I have always been suspicious of coincidences. Especially the ones that appear to be standing in front of us waving both arms while humanity is far too busy looking at its telephone. LISTEN. SILENT. Perhaps whoever designed this peculiar little cosmic classroom we call Earth left us a clue. Perhaps the instruction manual was there all along. And naturally, being human, we lost it. Or talked over it. Because there is one rather obvious problem with listening: You have to shut up first. Shutting up is something at which the modern human appears to be becoming spectacularly incompetent. We talk. We broadcast. We stream. We scroll. We beep. We ping. We notify. We advertise. We comment. We argue. We announce. We podcast. We have televisions tal...