Global listening expands consciousness while focal listening yields clarity

Evidence

The depth of listening is related to the expansion of consciousness brought about by inclusive listening. Inclusive listening is impartial, open and receiving and employs global attention. Deep Listening has limitless dimensions. … Attention narrows for exclusive listening. Exclusive listening gathers detail and employs focal attention. Focal attention is necessarily limited and specific. The depth of exclusive listening is clarity. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 211

Categorization

• XREF: Very close to the reader’s stated goal — how profound sonic attention affects consciousness. Also parallels meditative open-awareness versus focused-attention practice. — connects to: Focal and global attention constitute two distinct modes of listening — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 189; Trailing a focused sound to its end returns one to global awareness — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 187; Inclusive listening expands consciousness without limits — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 211 (+11 more)
• DEFINE: Offers the chapter’s core operational distinction between inclusive/global (expansive) and exclusive/focal (clarity) listening.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 211

Broader Connections

• Deep Listening expands to the whole soundscape while focusing on single sounds #expands (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 77
• Being open to listening changes how sounds are perceived, expanding perception #corroborates (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 422