"Sigmund Freud called his distinctive form of therapy 'the talking cure, ' but this is the first time anyone has had the ingenuity to figure out how it can be done with silences. Well, maybe the second time--leave it to the Mayans! That silence can kill is a well-known fact; that it is golden is widely assumed; but that it can be orchestrated in a socially meaningful way, that takes perfect pitch. T. S. Harvey's landmark study of acoustical healing may take some time for its voice to be unheard, but I am convinced that it will come to be a classic in its field."--Roy Wagner, author of Coyote...