Listening is an art of correlation. It brings together the three attributes of attention namely selection, motivation, and sustenance together. The act of 'paying attention', which otherwise seems random(in terms of what, where and when) gets organized and streamlined by effectively listening. This is not necessarily for a sound(as in hearing), but for any kind of reception (vision, thought, feeling, or faith).
There is an initiative started by Roger Nelson of Princeton university called Global-Mind or GCP(Global Consciousness Project). For those unaware, the project has a set of time-synchronized Random Number Generators(eggs), placed at different locations all around the globe. These RNGs generate a random number every second and report their data to a central location. The central location groups and statistically analyses the data, to generate few parameters like the z-score for each egg. The z-value is then arranged in a tapestry of colored-dots, as below. Each dot represents score from an individual egg(horizontally) against time(vertically).
There is no scientifically known reason for why these deviations happen. but they do. Some-One is listening to everything and everyone around us after-all.