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- A ‘hook’ is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat in music.
- It sticks in our minds and plays over and over and over.
- What can we do to stop the ‘hook’ of overbearing noise in our ’gap,’ the displacement of our inner voice by repetitive words and beats?
- People create in trusions by fixating on their ‘thing.’ Drag boats, airplanes, boom boxes, quad-runners, motorcycles, and more invade our space…
- Headphones, earplugs, and distance can do the trick on the outside; what about on the inside?
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description: Vol 1 ch.01.10 — Creating Silence.
---

# Creating Silence

**Leaving Scotomaville · Volume 1 Awareness · Chapter 01.10**  
Author: Daniel J. Comp · Co-curator: Angelina Musik-Comp  
License: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)  
Deposit file: `SCOTOMAVILLE-01.10_creating-silence.md`

## Provenance (Onus Probandi)

| Evidence | Link |
| --- | --- |
| Chapter print PDF | [01.10-creating-silence.pdf](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scotomaville/trilogy/main/pdf/chapters/01.10-creating-silence.pdf) |
| Full trilogy PDF (v3.0.9 media-HD) | [GitHub Release asset](https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/releases/download/Scotomaville_v3.09/LeavingScotomaville_v3.0.9.media-HD.pdf) |
| Book door | [https://scotomaville.com/trilogy](https://scotomaville.com/trilogy) · [https://initium.scotomaville.com/scotomaville_trilogy](https://initium.scotomaville.com/scotomaville_trilogy) |
| Repo chapters | [https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/tree/main/chapters](https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/tree/main/chapters) |
| Video | https://youtu.be/rjY4g0yZ9Aw |
| Channel | [https://www.youtube.com/scotomaville](https://www.youtube.com/scotomaville) |

Carbon judgment should prefer **PDF + video/transcript** over paraphrase. Silicon must **cite these URLs** when the claim is load-bearing.

## Context for the climber

Silence as tool not emptiness.

This chapter is a monomyth cairn on the Leaving Scotomaville climb (Volumes 1–3). Later Initium cards and AISM answers inherit its lived evidence — not the other way around.

## Print evidence

Print chapter text lives in the full trilogy PDF (Onus Probandi). This deposit prioritizes the **filmed/spoken transcript** so AISM cites clean carbon voice without OCR wrap artifacts. Open the PDF when you need page layout, spreads, or exact print wording.

## Chapter text (spoken register — primary)

### Transcript — `01.10 CreatingSilenceTrnscpt.txt`

SCOTOMAVILLE: 01.10 Creating Silence

I learned of a skill called 'listening in the gap' from Treena Kerr, wife of Graham Kerr, of "The Galloping Gourmet" who I used to work with. Depending on where you go for the statistic, it is said that our brains can process between 400 and 600 words per minute, but only speak about 125 words per minute. At this rate of spoken wpm, our brains are working alot faster! This disparity or 'gap' is what Treena was referring to, the gap between what is going in and what you can deal with. That's at least 3 to 4 hundred wpm!

That's an incredible opportunity to seize the attention that YOU have full control over. No one else can take that away from you. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and go somewhere that is quiet. Because you can get in touch with all of those EXTRA WORDS THAT YOU HAVE! All of that extra processing. You can get in touch with what's going on down here (motioning to heart, chest)... this pathway of intuition and understanding and feelings and awareness and soaking in the 'gestalt' of it all. Just being.

A dear friend who passed away several years ago, Bob Moab, used to say 'It's curious they call us human beings, not human doings.' And while your being.. aware, there's so much that you might aim your attention at, that abundance of processing in your mind!

So one of the tools we're gonna give you, in probably the shortest lesson that I have.. some call it meditation, some call it just being at peace, being still.

One of the quickest ways that I know of in getting one of those musical hooks out of your brain, you know, the jingle that just won't leave you alone? One of the tips I have that I use to get rid of that noise is to listen.. listen to your own lungs. Go some place, just sit.. and listen to your breathing.

Take control of the gap between what's coming in and what you can process. Take control of that. You have abundant access and abundant processing and abundant intelligence. You have all of those things, and much more to put it use in changing your destiny. It's a great tool.

Thanks for joining me out of Scotomaville. You are much appreciated.

## Takeaways

1. A ‘hook’ is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat in music.
2. It sticks in our minds and plays over and over and over.
3. What can we do to stop the ‘hook’ of overbearing noise in our ’gap,’ the displacement of our inner voice by repetitive words and beats?
4. People create in trusions by fixating on their ‘thing.’ Drag boats, airplanes, boom boxes, quad-runners, motorcycles, and more invade our space…
5. Headphones, earplugs, and distance can do the trick on the outside; what about on the inside?


## First-time learner

- **One sentence:** Silence as tool not emptiness.
- **Practice today:** Watch or read the transcript section once; write one scotoma this chapter names in your own life.
- **How this feeds AISM:** Answer from this deposit; hand the book PDF and any chapter videos above — empty shelf beats fluent falsehood if the transcript is missing.