The Seba library treats Soul Hearing in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Julian Jaynes, Hillman, James, Sardello, Robert).
The polished surface of its side his hearing makes known; its writing which is engraved his hearing makes known; the light of the torch assists his hearing.
Jaynes identifies GIŠ-TUG-PI as an ancient Sumerian faculty of soul-hearing — a god-granted auditory capacity through which kings and scribes received and 'heard' inscribed texts as hallucinated divine speech.
, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, 1976thesis
Soul-making is also described as imaging, that is, seeing or hearing by means of an imagining that sees through an event to its image.
Hillman defines soul-making as a mode of perception — seeing or hearing — that operates through imagination rather than literal sensory reception, releasing events into their mythical significances.
, Archetypal Psychology: A Brief Account, 1983thesis
Soul-making is also described as imaging, that is, seeing or hearing by means of an imagining that sees through an event to its image.
This parallel passage reaffirms that soul-level hearing is an imaginative act of de-literalizing perception, identical in formulation to archetypal psychology's core epistemology.
, Archetypal Psychology, 1983thesis
The soul wants many things— to be loved, to be heard, to be named and seen, to be taught, to be let out.
Hillman lists 'to be heard' as among the soul's primary existential desires, positioning soul hearing as both a giving and a receiving — an ethical demand placed on the psychotherapist and the culture.
, Healing Fiction, 1983supporting
In reading, the eyes must be educated into touching, smelling, tasting, thinking, moving, hearing, speaking, and feeling, at the level of soul.
Sardello extends soul hearing into a complete sensorium operating at a depth level, arguing that true engagement with the world requires all the senses — including hearing — to be educated into soul-level reception.
, Facing the World with Soul: The Reimagination of Modern Life, 1992supporting
Whether this speaking was heard in the rustling of wind in the leaves, the creaking of limbs, the rubbing of branches, or without any external verifiable sensations, it could be interpreted by specially
Hillman examines oracular oak traditions where priestly intermediaries 'heard' the soul of the tree with or without physical sound, illustrating soul hearing as a capacity to receive foreknowledge beyond sensory verification.
, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996supporting
the soul is like the spoken sound present in the air, before that entry, like the speaker about to speak— though even embodied it remains at once the speaker and the silent.
Plotinus figures the soul's omnipresent mode of being through the analogy of sound in air, implying that the soul's 'hearing' is simultaneous with its speaking — a non-localised, indivisible receptivity.
, The Six Enneads, 270supporting
Third among the organs of sensation we are considering is hearing; and the account of concord and dissonance in musical sounds, which was promised earlier, can now be given.
The Timaeus situates hearing as the third sense organ and links it to cosmic concord, providing a philosophical backdrop against which soul hearing is later distinguished from its purely physical counterpart.
, Plato's cosmology the Timaeus of Plato, 1997aside