(You can read this Dutch text also in English below)

 

Verandering,

 

Wie Belichaamde Taal (BT) heeft, zal bemerken dat alles wat hij of zij zegt of schrijft nieuw is. Dit is geen overdrijving, het is echt zo, ook al zijn de woorden  hetzelfde als voorheen. Die constante verandering in de taal, komt echter niet voort uit de taal zelf. De woorden zijn zogezegd niet het belangrijkste, want onze BT doet verslag van onze Taal Verlichting (TV).

 

Er valt niets te begrijpen aan TV, omdat de taal die weten creert een kwestie is van direct ervaren. De waarde van dat zogenaamde weten, waar iedereen het altijd over heeft, in Ontlichaamde Taal (OT), wordt overschat. In OT weegt het weten kennelijk zwaarder dan het ervaren en daarom blijft onze TV volledig buiten beeld. Eigenlijk is het beter om te zeggen, dat het buiten ons gehoor blijft. We horen niets van onze TV, zolang we OT blijven hebben. Het is voor iemand zoals ik zo, dat OT volslagen onzin is.

 

Vandaag zei ik tijdens het autorijden ineens hardop tegen mezelf: ik heb eigenlijk helemaal niets met OT te maken. Het was een prachtig moment, waarop ik direct vanuit mijn TV sprak. Ik had niet veel energie voordat ik het zei, maar erna voelde ik me gevuld met extatische tintelingen. Ik had gisteren daarover geschreven, dat ik er vandaag met mezelf over zou spreken. Mijn TV laat mij nu dingen zeggen en schrijven, die zeer krachtig zijn. Die simpele zin, dat ik helemaal niets te maken heb met OT, is als een soort van mantra. Iedereen zou, van meet af aan, moeten weten, dat er in OT niets te beleven valt.

 

Men praat in OT over gevoelens, maar men ervaart niet wat men zegt. Het zo spreken, dat gevoelens op de juiste wijze worden uitgedrukt, is onze TV. In OT,   waarin we niet naar onszelf luisteren – en we bezig blijven met of anderen naar ons luisteren of bezig blijven met het luisteren naar anderen –  kunnen we nooit zodanig over onze gevoelens spreken, dat die gevoelens op de juiste wijze worden verwoord. De enige manier om helder over onze gevoelens te spreken, is wanneer wij bij die gevoelens kunnen blijven en wanneer onze taal ons dus niet van onze gevoelens doet afsluiten. Bovendien is dit van het grootste belang, om onze eigen unieke intelligentie te kunnen verwoorden. Alleen als onze emoties op de juiste wijze kunnen worden gecommuniceerd, zijn we in staat om betekenisvol te redeneren over wat voor ons werkelijk van belang is. Je zou kunnen zeggen, dat onze TV, de ratio in ons hart plaatst.

 

Wat wij, in OT, ons denken noemen – maar wat we in BT uitsluitend en alleen beschouwen als spreken, luisteren, schrijven en lezen – vloeit direct voort uit onze ervaring. Ik herinner me iemand, die zei, dat luisterend spreken (BT) eigenlijk gewoon hardop nadenken is. Onze TV toont echter aan, dat die redenatie achterstevoren is, want wat men hardop denken noemt, is natuurlijk luisterend spreken en er  bestaat niet zoiets als onhoorbaar denken. Als wij  schrijven aan onszelf vergelijken met spreken met onszelf, dan is dat zogenaamde innerlijke gesprek, wat we pretenderen te hebben, een lege bladzijde zonder woorden. TV onmaskert onze zogenaamde mind, want alles wat er over die gefantaseerde, gehallucineerde entiteit is geschreven, is natuurlijk te lezen op papier, in boeken en geschriften en alles wat er ooit over ons achterhaalde denken is gezegd, was altijd wel door iemand – met oren – gehoord.

 

TV laat ons daadwerkelijk zeggen, wat wij kunnen en willen zeggen en alles schrijven wat wij kunnen en willen schrijven. Uiteraard kunnen wij onze TV horen en lezen en als wij het horen of lezen, dan herkennen wij onze eigen TV in de TV van anderen. Iedereen lost op in TV, omdat alle woorden worden gebruikt. De volledigheid van TV duidt aan, dat alles werd gezegd wat gezegd kon worden. Met euforie erkennen wij, dat anderen het nog beter kunnen zeggen of schrijven dan wij zelf. In TV gaat het niet om mij of jou, maar over waarin wij samenkomen en versmelten tot een gevoel van liefde en eenheid.

 

Alles wat wij ervaren en verbalizeren heeft en krijgt zijn eigen plaats. Het gaat er niet om of wij het wel of niet kunnen zeggen, schrijven, horen of lezen. Wij weten al, dat wij het kunnen zeggen, schrijven, lezen of horen en ons weten hangt niet af van onze BT, maar van onze TV. Het verschil is, dat TV nooit meer verdwijnt, terwijl BT vaak niet mogelijk is. Het toegeven, dat dit zo is, maakt dat wij, elke keer als BT met anderen niet mogelijk is, BT met onszelf gaan hebben, om onszelf ervan te overtuigen, dat het echt waar is, dat onze TV altijd op ons wacht. Dit maakt, dat wij het eindelijk eens rustig aan gaan doen, want wij hebben ons doel bereikt, we zijn gekomen op het pad van onze eigen formulering.

 

Change,

 

Those who have Embodied Language (EL) will find that everything they say or write is new. This is not an exaggeration, it really is, even if the words are the same as before. However, this constant change in language does not stem from the language itself. The words are not the most important, because our EL reports on our Language Enlightenment (LE).

 

There is nothing to understand about LE, because the language that creates knowing is a matter of direct experience. The so-called knowing, which everyone is always talking about, in Disembodied Language (DL), is overrated. In DL, knowing apparently outweighs experiencing, which is why our LE remains completely out of the picture. Actually, it is better to say that it remains beyond our hearing. We don't hear anything from our LE as long as we keep having DL. For someone like me, DL  is utter nonsense.

 

Today, while driving, I suddenly said out loud to myself: I actually have nothing to do with DL at all. It was a beautiful moment, when I spoke directly from my LE. I didn't have much energy before I said it, but afterwards, I felt filled with ecstatic tingling. I had written about it yesterday, that I would talk to myself about it today. My LE now lets me say and write things that are very powerful. That simple sentence, that I have nothing to do with DL at all, is like a kind of mantra. Everyone should know, from the outset, that there is nothing to experience in DL.

 

In DL one talks about feelings, but one does not experience what one says. Speaking so that feelings are properly expressed is our LE. In DL, where we don't listen to ourselves—and get preoccupied with whether others are listening to us or preoccupied with listening to others—we can never speak about  our feelings in a way that properly expresses those feelings. The only way to speak clearly about our feelings is when we can stay with those feelings and when our language does not shut us off from our feelings. Moreover, this is of the utmost importance, in order to articulate our own unique intelligence. Only when our emotions can be properly communicated are we able to reason meaningfully about what really matters to us. You could perhaps say that our LE puts our reason in our hearts.

 

What we, in DL, call our thinking - but what in EL we know is speaking, listening, writing, and reading - flows from our direct experience. I remember someone saying that listening while you speak, EL, is really just thinking aloud. However, our LE shows us, this reasoning is backwards, for what is called thinking aloud is, of course, listening to ourselves while we speak, as there never was such a thing, as inaudible, covert speech or thinking to ourselves. If we compare writing to ourselves, to speaking to ourselves, then that so-called inner conversation we pretend to have, is a blank page without any words. LE exposes our so-called mind, because everything that is written about that fantasized, hallucinated entity can of course be read on paper, in books and writings and everything that has ever been said about our outdated, overrated thinking has always been heard, by someone - with ears.

 

LE actually lets us say what we can and want to say and lets us write everything we can and want to write. Of course we can hear and read our LE and when we hear or read it, we recognize our own LE  in the LE of others. Everyone dissolves in LE, since  all our words are used. The completeness of LE indicates that everything that could be said was said. We euphorically recognize that others can say or write it even better than we ourselves. In LE it's not about me or you, but about where we come together and merge into a feeling of love and unity.

 

Everything we experience and verbalize has and gets its own place. It is not a matter whether we can say, write, hear or read it again. We already know we can say, write, read or hear it. Our knowledge does not depend on our EL, but on our LE. The difference is, LE will never disappear, while EL is often not possible. Admitting that this is so, every time EL with others is not possible, we will have EL by ourselves, to convince ourselves that it really is true our LE is always waiting for us. This makes us finally take it easy, as we have reached our goal, we have come on the path of our own formulation.

 

(This Dutch text is also available in English below)

 

Onvermijdbaar,

 

Nu ik doorlopend Belichaamde Taal (BT) heb, kan ik eindelijk praten over mijn Taal Verlichting (TV). Het was onvermijdelijk dat gedurende vele jaren al mijn aandacht naar BT moest gaan, omdat ik probeerde te verduidelijken hoe het werkt, maar toen ik meer BT begon te krijgen in plaats van Ontlichaamde Taal (OT), was er steeds minder van behoefte om er nog over te praten. BT is nu heel gewoon voor me, maar toen ik het voor het eerst ontdekte, was het iets heel bijzonders. Mijn aandacht is niet meer zo bezig met of ik BT of OT heb en daarom kan ik me nu rustig toeleggen op de uitdrukking van mijn TV. Het is zo heerlijk om rechtstreeks vanuit mijn TV te spreken. Ik kom er nu aan toe en doe dit heel graag. Ik voel mijn TV al, zonder iets te zeggen of te schrijven.

 

Hoewel mijn BT me bewust heeft gemaakt van mijn TV, heb ik sterk de indruk, dat ik, vanaf nu, vooral over mijn TV wil gaan spreken of schrijven. Ik heb gemerkt, dat ik nog steeds de neiging heb om over mijn BT te praten, in plaats van over mijn TV, maar ik kan deze afleiding beheersen door rechtstreeks vanuit mijn TV te schrijven of te spreken. Het voelt  alsof er net een hele nieuwe fase is aangebroken. Schrijven over mijn TV maakt me stil. Hoewel ik er niet veel over kan zeggen, is het grootste deel van wat ik wil uitdrukken deze stilte. Het is fantastisch, want deze stilte spreekt zonder woorden. Ik voel het, ik beleef het en er is geen enkele drang om er woorden aan te geven, want alle woorden lijken te zijn verdwenen. Hier zijn letterlijk geen woorden voor en de paar woorden, die ik kan produceren, zijn als kleine zeep-belletjes, die knappen op het moment dat ik ze gebruik.

 

Het lijkt alsof er eeuwen zijn verstreken, voordat ik zoiets onbelangrijks als dit kon zeggen of schrijven. Het is ook hilarisch, dat er eigenlijk helemaal niets te zeggen valt. Natuurlijk zeg ik niets, aangezien ik alleen maar schrijf. Ik zou het kunnen zeggen wat ik schrijf, maar ik voel die drang niet. Ik voel me erg tevreden met dit schrijven. Mijn TV is ook als een droomloze slaap, waaruit ik wakker word met een verjongd gevoel. Ik weet niet wat ik over mijn TV ga  schrijven. Mijn TV lijkt niet te willen, dat ik erover schrijf, maar dat ik erover spreek. Op dit moment ga ik door met schrijven en morgen spreek ik er weer over. Ik schrijf, omdat ik wil weten wat ik over TV kan schrijven. Het is okay, om nu niet over mijn TV te praten, ook al heb ik er niets over te schrijven.

 

Ik hou van het niets en heb deze lege realiteit altijd enorm gewaardeerd. Ik voel, dat ik echt ben zonder woorden. Ik kijk om me heen en zie niets. Ik luister en er is niets te horen. Alles is ondergedompeld in een staat van diepe rust. Ik kan allerlie kanten op, maar waar ik ook ga, overal vind ik niets en deze leegte is tijdloos. Deze majestueuze ervaring zou wel eens een leven lang kunnen duren, het heeft al mijn hele leven omhuld. Woorden zijn niet alleen verdwenen, ze zijn geëindigd. Wanneer iemand stierf, kunnen zijn of haar laatste woorden worden herinnerd door iemand die ze toevallig hoorde. Ik ben gestorven aan mijn oude, aftandse taal, daarom doen deze woorden er niet meer toe voor mij.

 

Ik schrijf deze woorden postuum, aangezien ik ben gestorven aan mijn OT en de hemel van mijn TV ben binnengegaan. Ik ontmoet alleen engelen, die BT met mij spreken. Wat mij betreft kunnen alle duivels met hun OT allemaal gezellig naar de hel gaan. Hahaha, ik vind deze manier van kijken grappig. Als je mijn humor niet begrijpt, dan zul je waarschijnlijk nooit met me praten. Je zou sowieso niet met me praten, maar nu weet je het zeker, dat je niet wilt, dat je religieuze overtuiging door mij belachelijk wordt gemaakt. Hoe verwacht je je bijgelovige OT te kunnen stoppen, als je blijft doen alsof het belangrijk, zinvol of noodzakelijk is?

 

Je kunt jezelf voor de gek blijven houden, maar mij of iemand anders, die BT kan hebben, kun je niet voor de gek houden. Mijn TV is niet voor iemand, die er niet klaar voor is. Als jij zegt er niet klaar voor te zijn, dan komt dat niet door mij, maar door jezelf. Jij kunt ook trouw zijn aan jezelf en ophouden met aan jezelf te twijfelen. Niemand kan het natuurlijk helpen, dat we geconditioneerd zijn om OT te hebben, maar we kunnen in het reine komen met onze geschiedenis van conditionering, door eindelijk toe te geven, in hoeverre wat ons is verteld niet voor ons werkt. Dit is wanneer we individuen worden en uit ons zogenaamde groepsdenken of uit onze mind stappen, wat natuurlijk slechts de mechanische, dwingende, onintelligente manier is waarop we over ons gedrag praten. Ben je klaar om je TV te omarmen met je BT? Ik zeg, dat je klaar bent, want het kan me niet schelen dat je me niet gelooft. Zelfs als je het niet gelooft, wil je TV dat je BT hebt.

 

Inevitable,

 

Now that I am having ongoing Embodied Language (EL), I am finally able to talk about my Language Enlightenment (LE). It was inevitable, that for many years, all my attention had to go to EL, as I was trying to clarify how it works, but as I began to have more EL instead of Disembodied Language (DL), there was less and less of a need to talk about it. EL now is the most ordinary thing, but when I first discovered it, it was something very unusual. My attention isn’t preoccupied anymore with whether I have EL or DL and, therefore, I can now calmly focus on the expression of my LE. It is so nice, to directly address my LE. I really love to do this and I can already feel it, without saying or writing anything.

 

Although my EL has made me aware of my LE, I have the impression, that from now on, I will be speaking or writing primarily about my LE. I have noticed, that I still have the tendency to talk about my ongoing EL, instead of my LE, but I can stop this distraction and write or speak directly from my EL. It also feels, as if a whole new phase has just begun. Writing about my LE makes me still. Although I can’t say much about it, most of what I want to express, is this silence. It is fantastic, as this silence speaks without words. I feel it, I experience it and there is no urge to put words to it, as all the words seem to have vanished. There literally are no words for this and these few words, I am able to produce, are like little bubbles, which pop, the moment I use them.

 

It seems, as if eons of time have passed, before I can say or write something as unimportant as this. It is also hilarious, that there is nothing to say. Of course, I am not saying anything, since I am only writing. However, I could say what I write, but I feel  no such urge. I feel very satisfied to write this. My LE is also like a dreamless sleep, from which I awake feeling completely rejuvenated. I don’t know what to write about my LE. My LE doesn’t seem to want me to write about it, but it wants me to speak. At this moment, however, I continue to write, but I will speak about my LE tomorrow. I write, because I like to find out, what I can write about LE. It is okay not to speak about it now and to have nothing to write.

 

I love nothingness and have always appreciated this empty reality. I feel, I am without any words. I look around, but don’t see anything. I listen and there is nothing to hear. Everything is submerged in a state of deep rest. I can go in different directions, but no matter where I go, everywhere I find nothing and the emptiness is timeless. This majestic experience could last a lifetime, it has enveloped my entire life.   Words have not only disappeared, they have ended. When someone died, his or her last words may be remembered by someone, who happened to hear them. I have already died to my old language, that is why these words don’t matter to me anymore.

 

I write these words posthumously, as I have died to my DL and have entered the heaven of my LE. I only meet with angels, who speak EL with me. For all I care, all the devils with DL can go to hell. Hahaha, I find this way of viewing things funny. If you don’t get my humor, I guess, you will never talk with me. You weren’t going to talk with me anyway, but now you know for sure, you don’t want your religious belief to be ridiculed. How do you expect to be able to stop your superstitious DL, if you keep making is seem, as if it is important, meaningful or necessary?  

 

You can go on fooling yourself, but you cannot fool me or anyone, who knows how to continue with EL. My LE is not for anyone who isn’t ready and if you aren’t ready, it is not because of me, but because of yourself. You prevent yourself from being true to yourself. Nobody can help, they were conditioned to have DL, but we can come to terms with our history of conditioning, by admitting the extent to which what we were told doesn’t work for us. This is when we become individuals and step out of our so-called group-think or mind, which is, of course, merely the mechanical, coercive, unintelligent way in which we talk about our behavior. Are you ready to embrace your LE with your EL? I say, you are ready, as I don’t care if you don’t believe me. Even if you don’t believe it, your LE wants you to have EL.           

 

  

 

Anyone,

 

What do I think about the situation? I don’t think anything. Anyone who can have ongoing Embodied Language (EL), is no longer stuck on the pervasive illusion, that he or she is thinking something, as he or she is verbalizing everything he or she has words for. This foolish notion, that we think, signifies that, presumably, we can’t talk and say what we want to say, but, we can always talk alone with ourselves.

 

We don’t want to talk out loud with ourselves, as we consider it a failure, others don’t want to hear what we want to say. Our usual way of talking is a battle for the attention, because we all want others to listen to us, but nobody is listening to him or herself. We imagine, we are imprisoned by our so-called mind, but when we talk out loud with ourselves, just for a minute or two, we will find, there is no mind, there is only what we wanted to say, but couldn’t say, when we were with others.

 

When we are alone with our language and say what we want to say – to ourselves – we will inevitably and effortlessly engage in EL, as we instantly snap out of our self-imposed illusions. Changing the minds and hearts of people is pure nonsense. I don’t claim to change your mind, but if you do what I do, if you attentively listen to yourself while you speak, your overrated, fabricated mind turns out to be a scam.    

 

All books, which have been written, supposedly, because people want their thoughts to matter, promote the deception, which you call your mind. Although Disembodied Language (DL) goes on everywhere, twenty-four-seven, what people say in DL doesn’t really matter, that is why we pretend, as if the written word is more important than the spoken word. We may talk until we are blue, but due to our never properly addressed inability to say what we want to say in DL, we invent – among many other lies – a mind, which, presumably, is what we say to ourselves, internally and silently.

 

Let me be very clear here: there is no such thing as private speech or covert self-talk. Again, this is the almost inevitable result of our stupid way of talking, DL, which we have accepted as normal, in which we, as speakers, struggle to get the attention from the listener. No matter how much we can cover up this catastrophic fact, in DL, which is our common way of talking, speakers always dominate the listener. Obviously, listeners allow this, as they were conditioned to do this and know their place in the social hierarchy.  

 

DL has always ruled, everywhere, but, whether we know it or not, DL is on its way out. It can no longer be denied what is really happening. We have been endlessly distracted from the fact, that we either dominate each other or we are dominated by each other in our usual way of talking. Besides the moral implications, DL is, of course, hopelessly ineffective, in that, we only pretend to be talking and listening. To have dialogue, speakers should speak in such a manner, that they don’t demand the attention. We can hear this in the sound of our voice. DL sounds different from EL. We can hear we have no mind.      

 

Revealed,

 

I am so happy that I am finally able to write about my Language Enlightenment (LE). Until recently, I still didn’t dare to do it, as I was occasionally having Disembodied Language (DL), but this tendency has now become so small, it no longer determines my life. Of course, my conditioning history determined everything I do, but many of the repertoires, I was raised with – due to my family, culture, language, religion and education – were often not fitting with me, as an individual. Therefore, I either somehow would manage to stop them or I would feel forever conflicted, as I was involved in many self-defeating behaviors, which I essentially didn’t want to have.

 

Surely, stopping my own behavior and no longer behaving in that way, could only occur, after I had recognized the value of the difference between my DL and my Embodied Language (EL). In both cases, I  have had to talk out loud with myself, to give myself permission, to tell myself: it is true, I either engage in DL or in EL. Each time I acknowledged accurately I had DL, it effortless changed into EL and so, I could prolong my EL. Also, allowing myself to explore my ongoing EL, mostly by myself, as there are so very few people to have EL with, made me have more of it. At this point, I have so much EL, that my EL it is no longer anything special, but it certainly was, when I  discovered this new way of talking in my twenties. For a long time, having ongoing EL, was the only thing I really cared about, but now that I have it, I realize, many of my old behaviors have vanished  together with my old tendency to have DL.

 

I never felt, I had to stop my DL and still do not feel, I have to stop my DL or any of my other behaviors, but somehow, they have stopped, in spite of my  tendency to continue with them. Due to ongoing EL, I became aware of who I really am. This awareness, apparently, was enough to gradually transcend my history of conditioning. Moreover, getting to know myself, accepting myself and enjoying myself, meant, I could speak and write about my LE with my EL. If you do what I did, and listen to yourself while you speak and take the time to explore what it is like, to have EL, you will come to know your own LE.

 

By reading about my LE, you will, rationally, accept the fact, that what I say and write is true. Your life is such a mess, because you engage, unknowingly, day in day out, in DL. You never paid close attention to how you actually speak. You don’t even know about the difference between DL and EL and so, you are oblivious of who you are. Your self-nature can only be revealed with your ongoing EL and you will only be able to produce that, after you have stopped your own DL. Understanding this, is of utmost importance, as it will signify the beginning of the selection process, in which create the opportunity to have more and more EL, because you adjust all your other behaviors to this process of elimination.

 

DL is on its deathbed and all the behaviors, which were maintained by your DL, will eventually wither away. For you, this process will be less arduous, as I had to figure it out on my own how EL works. You are supported or reinforced by these words, which flow directly from my LE. The accumulative effect of the behaviors I have left, is my so-called being. Only the behaviors remained, which are the expression of my LE and all of this could never happen with DL.

 

Your EL is self-reinforcing only to the extent, that it is socially reinforced, due to EL with others. In other words, only if you are able to share your EL with others, will it be socially consequated. However, EL can only be reinforced by someone like me, who knows what it is, so, if you want EL, you’ll have to come and talk with me. I have a dear friend in the Netherlands, who can also reinforce your EL and you can also talk with her. We have discovered our LE together, because we have explored our EL on our own and talk with each other every week about our LE. You can join us or contact us individually. As I have said, you first need to understand what your current situation is, only then can you proceed effectively to having ongoing EL instead of DL and becoming aware about your LE. Let us hear from you. We are looking forward to talking with you.                            

 

Yes,

 

Yes, someone who is able to express his Language Enlightenment (LE), with his Embodied Language (EL), would write or say something like this. If you would hear me, say this, your body would change, because of the sound of my voice and you would realize, you are enlightened too. However, you would still have to deal with your own Disembodied Language (DL), which can only be stopped by you. Listening to me, or reading these words, can give you an incentive, to stop your DL and contact me, to have EL with me.  

 

I love to challenge you in this writing. Why haven’t you contacted me? What is taking you so long? Why are all these other things so much more important? You know as well as I do, you are postponing, you are beating around the bush. You should talk with me and get an experience of EL. I remember, there was once this famous behaviorist, who had read my work and wanted to write and publish a paper with me. We talked with each other three times on skype and it was great. However, when we got into clarifying the outline for a scientific paper, he got impatient and irritated with me, as he was trying to listen to himself, but felt very frustrated, as he had admit, he only heard DL, but no EL. He was angry with me making him feel this way. I refused to take responsibility for how he was feeling. After all, he was just talking with himself and having all these negative experiences. How could I be responsible?

 

I just got back from a wonderful walk in Upper Bidwell Park. It is so nice, there is so much water in the creek. I felt so happy to see a rock full of ferns. I love to see everything come alive again because of the rain, as we have had such a long drought. The place where I go and swim, in the summer, was now  a roaring creek and the big rocks, which I used to sit on, were submerged in the strong current. I also met some wonderful people, who also appreciate nature and go out there on these muddy tracks for a walk, although the rain may come back anytime.

 

Nature is always waiting for us, to finally catch up with ourselves. To express our natural way of being, we have to pay attention to how we deal with our language. Do we, as we speak, listen to ourselves? If we do, we engage in EL, but if we don’t, we engage in DL. It is really not a big problem, that we engage in DL, because once we realize that we are doing this, DL changes into EL. The problem is, that we are unaware about the fact, we are engaging in DL all the time and miss out on what life could be like, if we would engage in EL. This awareness immediately effects everything we do and changes how we talk.

 

The question, how to change DL in EL is irrelevant, as acknowledging that we have DL instead of EL, is the only thing that matters. There is no need to feel guilty about having DL, as this will only prolong our participation in it. Just recognizing it, is sufficient to stop our DL. This rational approach to our DL is very effective, but our emotional reactions prevent us from stopping it. We become capable of stopping our DL, of stepping out of our conditioning history, by being down to earth about it, instead of being endlessly carried away by our emotional turmoil.

 

Please, read these words out loud, so you can hear your own sound, while you speak and can feel what it is, I am conveying to you with these words. I know you can have EL instead of DL and simply want you to try out what I suggest. Your speaking voice is not what you would like it to be in DL. When you notice that, your voice changes, effortlessly, all by itself, to how you would like to sound. And, once you engage in EL, you know you sound  different than when you engage in DL. Therefore, your ability to distinguish between your DL and EL, is of utmost importance.

 

I write this to you from my LE and my EL brings this  message to you. Surely, these two ways of dealing with language are real and being involved in one or the other makes a world of difference. During DL, your world appears, as if it is not created by you, but, presumably, by others, but in EL, you create your own world, how you want it to be. Indeed, in EL, you create and live in your own world. Certainly, your own world is totally natural and self-evident.  

 

Your EL shows, words come by themselves. They simply appear, as you listen to yourself, while you speak. Also, you really feel what you are writing, because you are aware about your language. If one word doesn’t fit, you change it, you adjust it or you change the sound of it. This modification happens by itself. You are not trying to sound friendly, calm or interested, but you sound conscious of what you are saying, as you only say what you want to say.

 

Alive,

 

There comes a time, you will read these words and regret, you have never taken the time to talk with me. Taking the time is not a matter of the clock, but of being deliberately verbal with yourself. Even if you never talk with me and only talk out loud with yourself, your Embodied Language (EL) would be  like mine. I don’t write this to make you feel guilty, but to let you know, that I am here now and that you should make use of me, while I am still alive. Unlike everyone, who engages in Disembodied Language (DL), we agree when we have EL, since we share with each other, what it is like to talk with ourselves.

 

EL is like art, because we create it, while we speak or write. When we hear or read it, we receive it like music or poetry. People get all ecstatic, hearing their favorite singer or band producing a song, which they know and like, because, presumably, these singers or performers, express something, which is also true for us. When it comes to talking and listening, however, we never get as passionate about our interaction, that we begin to cheer each other on, because we feel so very happy to understand ourselves and each other. We only do this, if we engage in EL, but not in DL.

What happens when you let your language go wherever it wants to go? First, of course, you spend quite some time giving attention to what needs attention and what could not get attention before. Eventually, everything that demanded attention has received so much attention, that, at some point, you will let it go, almost unnoticed. Suddenly you notice, you no longer respond as before. There is nothing that demands your attention and your language is created in a completely different way than before. You really feel that everything you say and write is now all yours. You can't get enough of it, because it's a beautiful journey, through a new dimension.

 

Recently, I overheard an interesting conversation about the various dimensions. To determine a place somewhere on earth, two dimensions are needed: the latitude and longitude. However, when we talk about the tenth floor of a building, three dimensions are needed: the aforementioned length and width, but also the height. Then, if we add to that, what's happening at a certain moment, on the tenth floor of that building, time is added or the fourth dimension. In mathematics, the dimensions of a space are the parameters that describe the elements of that space. So, in geometry, you have a point, a line, a plane or a shape. By the dimension of space, we mean, so to speak, the number of those parameters. In physics, which can also be considered as another dimension or branch of science, the dimension of a quantity is understood to mean the category to which that quantity belongs. Different dimensions are used in  physics than in mathematics, such as time, mass, temperature or speed. A dimension is a measurable quantity that cannot be broken down into a combination of other quantities. What often eludes everyone in this scientific story about dimensions is that we always deal with the dimension of our own language anyway. When this comes into focus, we can no longer ignore the fact that DL and EL are two very important, mutually exclusive, dimensions.

Albert Einstein stated in his theory of relativity, that it is not actually possible to speak of time and space as two separate entities, but that there would only exist one entity, namely spacetime, which encompasses all events in the past, present and future, contained in our universe. As a child, Einstein was quite late when he started talking, and what was remarkable was that he said everything twice. Until the age of seven, no matter what he said, he repeated every sentence he spoke, so he could hear himself. In other words, his manner of speaking, like behaviorist B.F. Skinner and myself, from the beginning, was different from other kids.

 

Einstein famously said that we cannot solve today's problems with the mindset that created them. In other words, we are not making any progress. as long as we keep having DL. It is true, that the way we talk to each other – and therefore to ourselves – results in us living in our usual violent, superficial, confused, meaningless, superstitious, unintelligent lives. The reality or dimension that we can create with EL never meets with the illusion we continue to create and maintain with our DL. When we have EL, we have awakened from the psychological, spiritual and scientific sleep of DL. EL is the only solution to the problems we created with our DL. Life without struggle is possible because of our Language Enlightenment (LE), which became audible, experienced and recognized due to our EL.

 

Wat gebeurt er wanneer je je taal laat gaan waar het heen wil gaan? Eerst ben je natuurlijk een behoorlijk tijdje bezig met het geven van aandacht aan wat de aandacht vraagt en wat nog niet eerder de aandacht kon krijgen. Alles wat aandacht vroeg, heeft op een gegeven moment zoveel aandacht gekregen, dat je het bijna ongemerkt los gaat laten. Ineens valt het je op dat je niet meer reageert zoals voorheen. Er is nu niets meer wat jou aandacht vraagt en je taal ontstaat nu op een hele andere manier dan voorheen. Je voelt echt, dat alles wat je zegt en schrijft helemaal van jou is. Je kunt je er geen genoeg van krijgen, want het is zo’n prachtige reis, door een nieuwe dimensie.

 

Laatst hoorde ik een heel interessant gesprek over de diverse dimensies. Om ergens op aarde een plaats te bepalen, zijn twee dimensies nodig: de geografische lengte en breedte. Wanneer we het echter hebben over de tiende verdieping van een gebouw, dan zijn er drie dimensies nodig: de eerder genoemde lengte en breedte, maar ook de hoogte. Als we dan daaraan toevoegen, wat er op een bepaald moment gebeurd, op de tiende verdieping van dat gebouw, dan wordt er tijd aan toegevoegd, dat is dan de vierde dimensie. In de wiskunde zijn de dimensies van een ruimte de parameters, waarmee een element van die ruimte wordt beschreven. Zo heb je in meetkunde, een punt, een lijn, een vlak en een vorm. Onder de dimensie van die ruimte zelf verstaan we dus, zogezegd, het aantal van die parameters. In de natuurkunde, wat als de wiskunde, ook kan worden beschouwd als een andere dimensie of tak van de wetenschap, wordt met de dimensie van een grootheid de categorie verstaan waartoe die grootheid behoort. Zo onderscheidt men in natuurkunde andere dimensies dan in wiskunde, zoals tijd, massa, temperatuur of snelheid. Een dimensie is een meetbare grootheid die niet kan worden ontbonden in een combinatie van andere grootheden. Wat vaak iedereen ontgaat in dit wetenschappelijke verhaal over dimensies, is dat wij,  hoe dan ook altijd te maken hebben met de dimensie van onze taal. Wanneer dit in focus komt, kunnen wij er niet langer meer omheen, dat Ontlichaamde Taal (OT) en Belichaamde Taal (BT) twee zeer belangrijke, mutually exclusieve, dimensies zijn.

 

Albert Einstein stelde in zijn relativiteits theorie, dat het eigenlijk niet mogelijk is om over tijd en ruimte als twee afzonderlijke entiteiten te spreken, maar dat er dus slechts een entiteit zou bestaan, namelijk de ruimtetijd, die alle gebeurtenissen in het verleden, heden en toekomst in ons heelal bevat. Als kind was Einstein tamelijk laat toen hij begon te praten en wat heel opmerkelijk was, was dat hij alles twee keer zei. Tot zijn zevende jaar, herhaalde hij, ongeacht wat hij zei, iedere zin die hij sprak, zodat hij zichzelf kon horen. Met andere woorden, zijn wijze van spreken, was net als de behaviorist B.F. Skinner en ikzelf, van meet af aan al, anders dan alle andere kinderen.

 

Een bekende uitspraak van Einstein is: we kunnen de problemen van vandaag de dag, niet oplossen met de mentaliteit die die problemen heeft veroorzaakt. Met andere woorden, we komen geen enkele stap verder.  zolang als we OT blijven hebben. Het is zonder meer waar, dat de wijze waarop wij met elkaar – en dus met onszelf – praten tot gevolg heeft, dat we leven op onze gebruikelijke geweldadige, oppervlakkige, verwarde, zinloze, bijgelovige, onintelligente manier. De realiteit of de dimensie, die we kunnen creeren met BT, ontmoet nooit de illusie, die we met OT blijven creeren en instand houden. Wanneer wij uiteindelijk BT gaan hebben, dan zijn wij ontwaakt uit de psychologische, spirituele, wetenschappelijke  slaap van onze OT. BT is de enige oplossing voor de problemen, die we met onze OT hebben gecreerd. Leven zonder strijd is mogelijk vanwege onze Taal Verlichting (TV), die hoorbaar werd met onze BT.    

 

Gurus,

 

In the past, I have been with and ferociously read about, a couple of so-called gurus or presumably self-realized individuals, because, like so many of you, I was seeking and searching. With all of them, I have found, that my assumed affiliation was always more about them, then about me. Indeed, often, I completely lost myself in their so-called work – which I was doing – as I was so enthralled with their verbalizations and strongly believed – as I was made to believe –  this was necessary, to supposedly drop my ego, get out of my mind, forget about my own language and go beyond words, to find my true self.

 

Still today, it is important to let myself know – by saying it out loud, so I can hear it in my own voice –  that I am, actually, a very sensitive, relaxed, calm and bright person. As I was, this morning, in my car on my way to my work, speaking out loud about this with myself, it also occurred to me, I need to allow myself, to feel this way and tell myself, it is needed for me, to say this out loud to myself, as often as I want to. In my history with Disembodied Language (DL), I have been, for a long time, easily, panicked, frustrated, stressed out, confused, fearful, upset, disappointed, distracted or disturbed, but now that I can have ongoing Embodied Language (EL), I find myself still getting used to, who I really am, who I have always been, but who, with DL, I couldn’t be.

 

The traumatizing, but also the positive effects of how I grew up, made me want to find the meaning of my life. I listened to many lectures, sat in many so-called satsangs, participated in therapy groups, seminars, rituals and meditations, in the hope to be able to transcend my struggle and pain, about not fitting in, being an outsider, someone who couldn’t believe what everyone believes, who defiantly and reactively refused to talk as others told him to.  

 

In retrospect, I understand, these days of longing and mourning, were times, in which I explored the many negative consequences of my own DL as well as the DL of others. I was always busier with the DL of others, than with my own DL, as I hadn’t yet made the distinction between my own DL and EL.

 

Like most people, I wanted to feel positive, but I  kept feeling negative. To acknowledge my own true feelings, seemed difficult and awkward, as I simply didn’t have the language for it. Moreover, in these so-called spiritual circles, language, and, therefore, reasoning itself, was always looked down on. I now know, I that had to stop being busy with the DL of others, so that I could finally attend to my own DL, to fully admit, accept and understand, that I was feeling hurt, rejected, lonely and betrayed. Surely, I was only able to become aware about my own DL, once I was able to talk about my own DL with my EL, that is, once I had found a different way of talking. Whether you know it or not, you too try to talk about your DL, but as long as you don’t know what your EL is and as long as you cannot continue with it, you inevitably will talk with your DL about your DL. This is what everybody does.

 

Once you have experienced and prolonged your own EL, you will know, with irrefutable certainty, like I do, that DL can never be talked about with DL and can only be talked about with your ongoing EL. The fact that we all, unknowingly, try to talk about our DL with DL, has catastrophic consequences. In other words, it is not only a matter for me, but also for you, to be able to say out loud to yourself: it is not only okay, what I feel, but also true, no matter how incredibly negative it is. Expressing your DL with your EL, allows you to accept and feel your anger, frustration, pain, despair and hopelessness.

 

Going back to when I didn’t know about my EL, as I had not yet discovered it, I can now understand why my previous self-help activities only provided temporary, never permanent, relief. It also never occurred to me back then, all my troubling feelings were maintained by how I talked, that is, by my own DL. Although I had discovered the DL-EL distinction, I couldn’t find anyone, who was as interested in it as I was. Nobody has ever spoken or written about ongoing EL. This is why nobody knows about the immense importance of this DL-EL distinction. I can’t emphasize this point enough. I have studied  many years and achieved an M.S and M.A. in clinical psychology, I worked for many years in different mental health positions and have taught psychology for many years at Butte College, but no teacher, therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist has ever truly acknowledged the scientific validity of the DL-EL distinction, because they all engage, every day, just like everyone else, in superstitious, irrational DL.

 

Only after having ongoing EL for quite a while, did it dawn on me, that stopping my own DL, by dealing with my history of conditioning, was only one step, but bringing more energy into my EL, was quite another. For all these years, I still didn’t know, I had to stop my own DL, I was still only trying to allow and express my negative experiences – but, without any attention for my own language. Such attention could, of course, only come from my EL. Although, I was also having some positive experiences, these preferable experiences were never connected with my interest in and passion for language, that is, with speaking, writing, writing and reading. My history with DL, like your history with DL, kept me basically nonverbal or illiterate about my negative as well as my positive experiences. Thus, it is not surprising, that this morning, in my car, on my way to work, I suddenly heard myself say it to myself, it is okay to feel and express my negative feelings, but now that I have done that, it is clear to me, these negative experiences were never really left behind, as long as I had not fully expressed my positive experiences.

 

When we talk about so-called repressed feelings or what Freud referred to as the unconscious, we are referring to stuff, we can, of course, in principle talk about, but, unless we give ourselves that chance, we don’t ever get a chance to talk about. Moreover, the supposedly bottled-up experiences, which have remained unexpressed verbally, are mainly negative experiences. However, once we have truly stopped our own DL, we can’t help, but realize, that we have always been holding back on our positive feelings.  

 

Once we are able to go on with the expression of our natural positive feelings, that is, once we allow ourselves, that we can – if we give ourselves the permission – have such nourishing experiences, we will notice, our negative feelings disappear and no longer re-emerge. Furthermore, if we have ongoing EL, we say to ourselves and hear ourselves say, we are not, we never were, what we believed ourselves to be with DL. Yes, I believed myself to be a failure, a nuisance, a problem, a burden and a stranger. However, with EL, I tell myself and really feel, I am a success, I am intelligent, as I am a blessing without a disguise and a friend to myself. By allowing – in the sound of my voice – who I am, all my words unite in my Language Enlightenment (LE) and I speak and write about my new verbal way of being. Rationally, I express my own LE, as there is no fear or pressure.