Immersive Active Listening: A Synodal Path to Unity and Love in the Church

In an age still shadowed by oculocentrism, the dominance of vision that separates observer from observed, fostering distance and detachment immersive active listening emerges as a radically different mode of being. Visual-centric ways of knowing prioritize sight’s simultaneity, its ability to survey and objectify from afar, often reducing encounters to surfaces and appearances. By contrast, deep, immersive listening is...