Aesthetic silence

A region of awareness that lacks definiteness and location, that is different from particularity of any kind. This appears to occur with experienced events and to be one dimension of a person's happening. From this perspective total reliance on particular events or things, on familiarity, certainty, location, and identity is a kind of madness that is a tacit refusal of a dimension of the person's happening. The awareness is of a depth that underlies and accompanies surface events, a depth that is frequently silent in relation to usual sounds. It is a depth that changes the appearance of things as it is entered. The silence is itself immediate perception, as in a pause in music. The silence communicates the relevant. It is the significance of not-saying or the sense of absence in the presence of other events. It is a frequent characteristic of communication in therapy.