When one listens in a certain way, that is when listening becomes an activity one is fully involved with, any sound can lead to a state of trance. Listening implies presence. And through presence one often discovers and experiences that which transcends time. The manifest and the unmanifest, sound and silence (on which sound is predicated) are experienced simultaneously. Many times, while in states that some term “altered consciousness,” it felt as if I was hearing the silence between sounds and the silence within the sounds.