Every culture has a secular language and a spiritual language. Speaking and thinking in the secular language calls forth, produces a secular world. The consciousness called forth by a spiritual language produces a spiritual world.
Rejection of spiritual language and a total reliance on secular thought and consciousness has produced a disenchanted world. Some call living in the world of secular language "stark reality." It is stark alright but only one version of "reality."
The reality in which we live is determined by the language we speak. Spiritual language coincides with, affirms, and is produced by a spiritual consciousness or awareness. Spiritual language is the language of the life force calling all into being. Spiritual language is spoken by all wishing to bring light into the world. Spiritual language is the language of mythopoetry.
The language we speak and dwell upon in our consciousness creates the world in which we live. As within, so without. As we think, so we are. Our language is a tool for world transformation. The language of disenchantment has been spoken long enough.
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What about Buddha's silent sermon where he just held up a flower?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a spiritual language.
ReplyDeletewe DO pretty much automatically equate language with the spoken word...yet we're all aware of sign language and most people understand what is meant by "the language of love." And is it not our spirits that converse when our eyes meet and we feel connection, feel a sense of understanding?
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, Maria. Most of the meaning of language comes with its expression, and love is the most powerful expression of all.
ReplyDeleteAnother term for secular reality might be "stork reality". Another mythological approach to stark reality.
ReplyDeleteI agree that total reliance upon ANY single language impoverishes consciousness. It seems to me that each "language" attends to something neglected by the other. It is not necessary to negate the secular language in order to affirm the mythopoetic one. Both draw attention to the actuality of phenomena and noumena. May we all be as multilingual as possible, allowing synergy between all perspectives in the process,
ReplyDeleteand in doing so, get a better overall sense of the elephant.
~Stan
Another interpretation of the power of language...thanks, George! For some reason, your posting brought to mind the biblical passage about ‘in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God’...and something about the word becoming flesh and living through us. As Stan pointed out, 'the Word' is as multilingual as we are. Very thought-full posting. Cathy : )
ReplyDeleteGive the word a chance to say
ReplyDeleteThat the word is just the way
It's the word I'm thinking of
And the only word is love
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
Now that I know what I feel must be right
I'm here to show everybody the light
Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
~Lennon/McCartney (excerpt from "The Word")
What great posts from beginning to end! I feel blessed just to be affiliated with such a bright and loving group.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, I am not sure that secular language serves a purpose beyond teaching us to communicate at a truly novice level. It is like a diaper on a toddler. Sooner or later you need to grow beyond that article of clothing or be ridiculed when you mess yourself.
Secular language is the diaper of our species. It is time to grow beyond that. Just as we learned to not drop our feces in our own pants, we must learn move beyond speech that reinforces a world of separation. That separation binds us to time; it binds us to fear; it binds us to the false god of mammon.
So we must learn to speak the language that draws listeners to the present. The language that fills their hearts with light and love. We must do this relentlessly. We have no more time for supporting a world of separation by supporting its language. It is later than we think.
Next stop, communication beyond words at all. Although we like to cling to language, I know each of you has had the experience before when you tap into communication and need no words. Keep learning those a,b,c's of a higher level of communication. When everything is one, communication is instantaneous.
Carry on, my beloved brothers and sisters! Let's all be practioners of the language of Oneness.
The invention of language enriched and enlived the human experience. It led to the development of human culture and cultural memory in the form of records. If people confuse something with its label, that is not necessarily the fault of the language, so much as the sloppy thinking that produced the concept that produced the word its named after. The word and the concept "God" pale before the reality that they point to. Many intelligent people use another label or concept to describe that reality. All may be limited, but some have degraded more than others. Without language, human interactions and communication would be rather crude.
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