LANGUAGE AND MIND
Language exists in time and space for communication in 3D on the material
plane where telepathy is difficult; occurring, as it does naturally, higher up, on the
mental plane. Language is used to communicate emotions - and information,
which is communication about external conditions occurring as a result of mental
activity on higher planes - cf weather - over distance - be it temporal or spatial.
The words chosen are important. First, we should think about WHETHER to
speak, then about HOW to do so. We ought to choose words carefully, and try
not to use stock phrases and cliches (like those, for instance!).
Do not take a ready-made concept and pass it on like a bad cold.
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Language exists in time and space for communication in 3D on the material
plane where telepathy is difficult; occurring, as it does naturally, higher up, on the
mental plane. Language is used to communicate emotions - and information,
which is communication about external conditions occurring as a result of mental
activity on higher planes - cf weather - over distance - be it temporal or spatial.
The words chosen are important. First, we should think about WHETHER to
speak, then about HOW to do so. We ought to choose words carefully, and try
not to use stock phrases and cliches (like those, for instance!).
Do not take a ready-made concept and pass it on like a bad cold.
= = =
Language and Spirit
Communication with Spirit is of necessity 'telepathic' - it's hard to talk when you haven't got
a mouth any more. Unfortunately, if one wants or needs to pass on a message from Spirit to
others on the earth plane, it is necessary to use the medium of language, and often the
words just don't do it; it is hard to squeeze into wordy sentences the vast ideas encountered
while the mind is tuned in to the higher frequencies. The Language Acquisition Device
grafted onto humanity was not put there to assist in communication with higher planes; it
was rather to prevent such.
It is fashionable in Linguistics to study language exclusively synchronically, i.e., to take a
'slice' through the tree trunk and look at it as it is then, and how all the bits relate to each
other on a sort of photographic plate - which isn't there...
It would be considered less than scientific to attempt to describe a person fully by looking at
a photograph of them, even though the photograph would at least show you what they
looked like at the time it was taken.
Language never looks like anything. It doesn't exist outside. It is an ever-changing code
used to communicate emotions, thoughts and ideas, through the medium of 'air' i.e. the
'gaseous' matter in which we conduct our physical existence. Air is the stuff our physical
bodies breathe in and out - 'inspire' and 'expire' - hmm; the physical representation of the
inspiration and expiration of the universal 'energy' we need to take in and give out to 'live' -
i.e., to conduct one of the active earthly cycles, which alternate with inactive ones, round
and round until it is time to ascend to the next level.
Until it is again possible to communicate directly through Mind, we make do with words;
through which, it must be admitted, it is easier to conceal than communicate truth, of
whatever order. The words are also essentially second-hand - pre-owned - and
consequently not really fit for purpose. This is the case particularly with written language,
where the spelling of words is fossilized while the spoken version changes so fast.
In order to communicate in writing we now have to follow conventions set down as rules (cf
medicine), and though the spoken version does change, it does so in spite of efforts made
to the contrary, by those in power, who attempt standardization, with the threat not only of
inferiority but even imprisonment, should we choose to disregard their attempts to control
our thoughts by controlling the words we are allowed to utter in public, and sometimes in
private.
Language is a power tool, and it is an easier one to use than a hand drill to alter the way
minds work. We know that the real way to change Self is from within, but, physically as well
as mentally, external conditions do have an effect, for 'good' or 'bad'. If we assume it just
goes from one word to the next - 'forward' through time, with no underlying structure, as was
once suggested, in the days when Skinner was popular - the idea of controlling language to
control people is frightening enough; but in the case of generative grammar and
hierarchical structures, it is far more sinister.
Communication with Spirit is of necessity 'telepathic' - it's hard to talk when you haven't got
a mouth any more. Unfortunately, if one wants or needs to pass on a message from Spirit to
others on the earth plane, it is necessary to use the medium of language, and often the
words just don't do it; it is hard to squeeze into wordy sentences the vast ideas encountered
while the mind is tuned in to the higher frequencies. The Language Acquisition Device
grafted onto humanity was not put there to assist in communication with higher planes; it
was rather to prevent such.
It is fashionable in Linguistics to study language exclusively synchronically, i.e., to take a
'slice' through the tree trunk and look at it as it is then, and how all the bits relate to each
other on a sort of photographic plate - which isn't there...
It would be considered less than scientific to attempt to describe a person fully by looking at
a photograph of them, even though the photograph would at least show you what they
looked like at the time it was taken.
Language never looks like anything. It doesn't exist outside. It is an ever-changing code
used to communicate emotions, thoughts and ideas, through the medium of 'air' i.e. the
'gaseous' matter in which we conduct our physical existence. Air is the stuff our physical
bodies breathe in and out - 'inspire' and 'expire' - hmm; the physical representation of the
inspiration and expiration of the universal 'energy' we need to take in and give out to 'live' -
i.e., to conduct one of the active earthly cycles, which alternate with inactive ones, round
and round until it is time to ascend to the next level.
Until it is again possible to communicate directly through Mind, we make do with words;
through which, it must be admitted, it is easier to conceal than communicate truth, of
whatever order. The words are also essentially second-hand - pre-owned - and
consequently not really fit for purpose. This is the case particularly with written language,
where the spelling of words is fossilized while the spoken version changes so fast.
In order to communicate in writing we now have to follow conventions set down as rules (cf
medicine), and though the spoken version does change, it does so in spite of efforts made
to the contrary, by those in power, who attempt standardization, with the threat not only of
inferiority but even imprisonment, should we choose to disregard their attempts to control
our thoughts by controlling the words we are allowed to utter in public, and sometimes in
private.
Language is a power tool, and it is an easier one to use than a hand drill to alter the way
minds work. We know that the real way to change Self is from within, but, physically as well
as mentally, external conditions do have an effect, for 'good' or 'bad'. If we assume it just
goes from one word to the next - 'forward' through time, with no underlying structure, as was
once suggested, in the days when Skinner was popular - the idea of controlling language to
control people is frightening enough; but in the case of generative grammar and
hierarchical structures, it is far more sinister.
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LANGUAGE AND SPIRIT
The problem with language in a spiritual context is that it simply does not suffice,
as a means of transferring information. Dealing with 'Spirit' is dealing with
dimensions and on levels other than those on which language applies and has
relevance. It is, after all, a tool for communication, used on the material plane, to
transmit feelings, thoughts and ideas which exist in rarer, faster planes of vibration..
Some ideas which emerge are so far removed from the ordinary that words just
get in the way, which is why so much old knowledge is recorded symbolically. Of
course, the meaning of the symbols is not always immediately apparent, but when
it comes through, usually after a longer or shorter period of time spent trying to
describe the concept in words, it's like a lovely soft explosion of orange light that
warms you and tastes sweet.
I have spoken of concepts and the lack of means of describing them, which is
frustrating and odd. Even more frustrating and odd are the false concepts people
readily and regularly accept as true. Someone draws an entirely arbitrary line
around an amount of stuff and gives it a name, after which the stuff changes its
nature in the minds of the people who adopt the word, so that it fits into the space
they have made in their heads for it, rather like yeast and bread
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The problem with language in a spiritual context is that it simply does not suffice,
as a means of transferring information. Dealing with 'Spirit' is dealing with
dimensions and on levels other than those on which language applies and has
relevance. It is, after all, a tool for communication, used on the material plane, to
transmit feelings, thoughts and ideas which exist in rarer, faster planes of vibration..
Some ideas which emerge are so far removed from the ordinary that words just
get in the way, which is why so much old knowledge is recorded symbolically. Of
course, the meaning of the symbols is not always immediately apparent, but when
it comes through, usually after a longer or shorter period of time spent trying to
describe the concept in words, it's like a lovely soft explosion of orange light that
warms you and tastes sweet.
I have spoken of concepts and the lack of means of describing them, which is
frustrating and odd. Even more frustrating and odd are the false concepts people
readily and regularly accept as true. Someone draws an entirely arbitrary line
around an amount of stuff and gives it a name, after which the stuff changes its
nature in the minds of the people who adopt the word, so that it fits into the space
they have made in their heads for it, rather like yeast and bread
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SYNCHRONY vs DIACHRONY
OK - in Linguistics, we can analyze a given system at any 'point', taking a 'slice through',
but this is not to say that only the surface representations count - because they are
surface representations
of underlying structures, and the structures are time-related if the language has changed
or been changed - and what language hasn't?
The case is the same for the societies and systems based on the languages under
examination. We can analyze them - through 'politics', 'religion' etc - synchronically, but
the underlying structures are there too, and they are history-related - and much of the
history is actively kept hidden, while the rest is not sufficiently carefully examined.
OK - in Linguistics, we can analyze a given system at any 'point', taking a 'slice through',
but this is not to say that only the surface representations count - because they are
surface representations
of underlying structures, and the structures are time-related if the language has changed
or been changed - and what language hasn't?
The case is the same for the societies and systems based on the languages under
examination. We can analyze them - through 'politics', 'religion' etc - synchronically, but
the underlying structures are there too, and they are history-related - and much of the
history is actively kept hidden, while the rest is not sufficiently carefully examined.
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