{"product_id":"the-forgotten-speech-language-self-centeredness-and-the-silence-of-the-world-9798197905543","title":"The Forgotten Speech: Language, Self-Centeredness, and the Silence of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brianna Kebede\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Spiritual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child points at a bird and asks, \"What's that?\"\u003cbr\u003eThe adult answers, \"A sparrow.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe child repeats the word and stops watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this small, everyday moment, the author locates the great tragedy of human language: we have learned to name, and in learning to name, we have forgotten to listen. The world speaks constantly-in the alarm calls of prairie dogs, the chemical warnings of trees, the slow grammar of rivers, the pulse of pulsars-but we have built a prison of human meaning, mistaking our own voice for the silence of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Sufi mysticism, Christian hesychasm, deep ecology, phenomenology, and the latest research in animal and plant communication, The Forgotten Speech argues that the prophets understood something we have lost: the languages of birds, winds, stones, and stars are not metaphors but realities. And they are available to anyone willing to practice the disciplines of attention, silence, and humility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart philosophy, part spiritual guide, part manual for listening, this book invites you to set aside the self-centered filter of ordinary speech and hear the world as it has always been speaking. Not for you. But around you. And if you listen closely-through you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of David Abram, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Mary Oliver, The Forgotten Speech is an unforgettable journey into the voices we have refused to hear-and the sense of the world that awaits on the other side of silence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891123044503,"sku":"9798197905543","price":1505.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197905543.webp?v=1781182460","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-forgotten-speech-language-self-centeredness-and-the-silence-of-the-world-9798197905543","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}