My comments,

 

Here are some of my comments on “The Status of Rule-Governed Behavior as Pliance, Tracking and Augmenting within Relational Frame Theory: Middle-Level Rather than Technical Terms” by Harte, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2021). Strikingly, in the abstract of the paper, the authors admit that “A recent systematic review has highlighted that the terms pliance, tracking, and augmenting have rarely been used as the basis for conducting systematic experimental-analytic research since their conception in 1982, despite their theoretical centrality to the study of rule-governed behavior and their presumed impact on psychological suffering.” Please, pause and take a moment to acknowledge what is happening in the competitive world of academia. Sadly, but also hilariously, for almost forty years nothing has happened, despite the fact that multiple papers, like these, have been published and studied by students of behaviorism.

 

There was a time, I tried to get to talk with Steven Hayes, the founder of RFT, but he never gave me a chance to tell him about Embodied Language (EL), as he was only interested in promoting his theory. I acknowledge, I too have my own theory, but I was and still am open to discuss my theory with anyone, who is willing to consider and experiment with what it is like to actually listen to yourself while you speak and, thus, to engage in EL. Like so many others – thirteen in a dozen – Steven Hayes is a real coward, who wasn’t willing to admit, he is engaging in Disembodied Language (DL), in which we do not listen to ourselves, but make others listen to us.

 

I am not going comment on the entire paper, as that would be a total waste of my time, but I will only comment on the abstract, as that will give me the satisfaction of being able to say: I told you so. I write my comment, because this paper vindicates what I have been saying all along. Going back to the aforementioned dreadful quote, there has been no “systematic experimental-analytic research since their conception in 1982, despite their theoretical centrality to the study of rule-governed behavior and their presumed impact on psychological suffering.” Lazy, phony, arrogant academicians have been sitting on their hands, while collecting a big pay-check from the institution that employed them.  Obviously, they have done absolutely nothing to reduce “the impact on psychological suffering”, as they say so themselves. When we ask ourselves the inevitable question, why (???) “the terms pliance, tracking, and augmenting have rarely been used as the basis for conducting systematic experimental-analytic research since their conception in 1982, despite their theoretical centrality to the study of rule-governed behavior???”, we cannot escape the notion, that these terms, apparently, are not considered to be very important. In spite of the hype they created, they continue to be ignored.

 

Mendel, a modest monk, who pioneered the study of genetics, by breading and cross-breeding peas,  formulated the Laws of Inheritance, which were published the journal the Natural History Society of Brünn (1866). Unlike, Steven Hayes, he changed the course of history. Although my work isn’t published in any scientific paper, my conceptualization of DL and EL, is as valid as Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance. Everyone who explores this distinction experiences an alleviation of suffering. Moreover, with ongoing EL, they recognize their Language Enlightenment (LE), which completely transforms their psychology.  

 

Let’s now look into the rest of this stupid abstract, as we are not going to bother to read this tedious, meaningless, worthless paper. The authors seem to demand to be recognized, in spite of the irrefutable fact, that their hair-splitting, contrived concepts haven’t created interest at all. “Given that some time has passed since the review article [excuse me, forty years is quite a long time!], it may be useful to reflect again upon their place within the literature on the experimental analysis of human behavior, and relational frame theory in particular.” It is not right for them to force their ideas on the reality. They say they are grounded in “the experimental analysis of human behavior”, but in reality, they just only want to piggy-bag on the real experimental work that was done by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, as all they are actually interested in, is in promoting their own “relational frame theory in particular.”   

 

They ludicrously fabricate this pseudo-scientific article, which “constitutes a “position piece” rather than another formal systematic review.” Basically, we are just talking about the personal opinion of some well-published hot-headed professors. “In reviewing (informally) the literature since the systematic review, the recent emergence of psychometric research involving these concepts could be seen as reinforcing the original conclusions, in that researchers are recognizing that pliance, tracking and augmenting may be of limited value in the experimental analysis of human behavior.” In other words, they have now found, after years of torturing students with this bullshit,  that these over-hyped concepts are actually totally bogus. They go on to say “Instead, the concept of rule-governed behavior itself, as well as the sub-categories of pliance, tracking and augmenting, should be considered middle-level terms, which lack the relative precision of more technical terms within the literature on relational frame theory.” What the does that mean? It means: “the concept of rule-governed behavior itself, as well as the sub-categories of pliance, tracking and augmenting” are a figment of the so-called researcher’s imagination.

 

I once had a brief conversation with Steven Hayes, the pathetic guru-like leader of the RFT-movement. Although, at that time, I was still eager to connect with him and hopeful that he would be interested in my conceptualization of the DL-EL distinction, it was almost instantly clear, he was too full of himself to  have a genuine conversation with me. The authors of this useless paper (C. Harte & D. Barnes-Holmes)  are enthralled RFT apostles, who only care about their pay-check and don’t give a rat’s-ass about the truth. I am glad to have left academia and had fun  commenting on this dull abstract. My interest is in EL and LE. Anyone recovering from the RFT-cult, would be greatly benefitted from reading my work.

 Mysterie,

 

Elke nacht, zolang je slaapt, weet je niet wie je bent. Vooral als je geen dromen hebt, word je volledig verjongd wakker. Maar op het moment dat je je ogen weer opent, trek je de wereld – of wat je denkt dat je realiteit is – als een jas aan en gedraag je je weer zoals je je herinnert dat je was. Misschien wil je nog wat langer slapen en je identiteit loslaten? Aangezien het tijdens je slaap geen enkel probleem is om zonder een identiteit te zijn en aangezien het in feite nodig is voor een goede nachtrust, kun je ook zonder enige moeite overdag enorm gelukkig zijn, zonder je gebruikelijke identiteit te hebben.

 

Als je hardop met jezelf praat en luistert naar wat het geluid van je stem je vertelt, doe je mee aan Belichaamde Taal (BT) en betreed je de ruimte waarin je je Taal Verlichting (TV) kunt dromen. Hardop met jezelf praten over je TV, is als dromen terwijl je wakker bent. Door te zeggen wat je wilt zeggen en kunt zeggen, ervaar je het mysterie van het creëren van je eigen werkelijkheid met je BT.

 

We hebben allemaal gehoord, gelezen of zelfs gesproken over het vermeende belang van het transcenderen van ons ego, maar wat we ook doen, we gaan er altijd van uit dat we opgesloten of bezig blijven in ons denken. Anders gezegd, normaal gesproken (hahaha), gedurende de dag, wanneer we dus ons waakbewustzijn ervaren, gaan we - zoals we eveneens 's nachts doen, in onze vreemde dromen - door met onze verstrikking met taal. Toch houden al deze mentale, innerlijke, gefantaseerde activiteiten onmiddelijk op, zodra we onze TV tot uitdrukking brengen en dus, in plaats van onze gebruikelijke wijze van spreken, BT beginnen te hebben. We worden zogezegd wakker in BT.  

 

Tijdens onze gewone manier van praten, waarbij we niet naar onszelf luisteren en niet naar onszelf kunnen luisteren terwijl we spreken – aangezien luisteren naar anderen belangrijker is dan luisteren naar onszelf – gaan we onbewust, uit gewoonte en automatisch over op Ontlichaamde Taal (OT), de manier waarop van praten, die de illusie wekt dat we zijn, wie we lijken te zijn en denken te zijn.

 

Als we geen aandacht schenken aan hoe we klinken terwijl we praten, dan zijn we gebonden aan het produceren van een ontlichaamde vocale vibratie en worden we onbewust negatief beïnvloed door het moeizame, energieverslindende, veeleisende geluid van wat we ten onrechte voortbrengen met wat wij beschouwen als onze normale spreekstem. Wanneer we onze eerste stappen zetten om onszelf BT te laten hebben, dan zullen we het geluid van ons welzijn produceren, terwijl we spreken en onze stem klinkt en voelt anders dan hoe we klonken en voelden tijdens OT. In OT spreken altijd gewichtig alsof we als iemand zijn, die maar in BT spreken we vanuit de ruimte van het zijn. Bovendien, als je met mij gaat praten, heeft niemand meer te zeggen dan iemand en daarom krijgt mijn BT voorrang op jouw OT. Als je nog geen BT kunt hebben, kun je gewoon niet praten met mij of iemand anders die BT heeft.

 

TV is dus het mysterie van het creëren van je eigen realiteit met je BT. De moeiteloze productie van je eigen taal vindt plaats, terwijl je je stem laat leiden naar wat je wil en kan zeggen. Omdat er absoluut geen angst, conflict, stress of druk is tijdens je BT, kun je spreken zonder enig auteurschap en kom je aan de weet, dat er alleen weten en spreken is, maar er is geen spreker of een weter. Evenzo is er alleen maar luisteren en begrijpen, maar er is natuurlijk geen luisteraar of een begrijper in je. Bovendien is je spreek- en luistergedrag samengevoegd, omdat ze altijd in precies hetzelfde harmonieuze tempo en gelijktijdig plaatsvinden gedurende het luisterend spreken.

 

Voor iemand die gewend is elke dag OT te hebben, is het onbegrijpelijk en onacceptabel, dat het hele idee om een spreker of luisteraar te zijn, volledig kan verdwijnen, door een nieuwe wijze van praten, waarbij we naar onszelf luisteren, in plaats van naar anderen. Wanneer we dit echter beginnen te doen, zullen de vreugdevolle resultaten bij iedere stap duidelijker worden. Om ineens te zijn, zonder wie we dachten dat we waren, is een opluchting, omdat we eindelijk in onze eigen taal tot rust komen en onszelf daardoor – als niemand – gaan vertrouwen. Nadat we het hebben gezegd, nadat we het hebben gehoord, nadat we het hebben geschreven en nadat we het hebben gelezen (laten we niet vergeten, er is natuurlijk ook geen schrijver of lezer), zullen we  handelen, naar wat we weten, omdat het waar is.

 

We kunnen en zullen BT met anderen hebben, maar 

enkel nadat we eerst ons eigen BT alleen grondig hebben 

verkend en herkend. Die anderen zijn, net als wij, ook

 niemand. De iemanden gaan lekker door met hun OT, 

maar zonder ons, aangezien onze TV ons aanspoort om

met onze OT te stoppen. Aanvankelijk hebben we nog 

steeds enigszins het gevoel alsof we iets lijken te missen, 

wanneer we ons plotseling uit OT terugtrekken, omdat 

we ons door anderen, die alleen OT kunnen blijven hebben, 

in onze BT afgewezen voelen. Dit is niet nodig, omdat 

we ons ware zelf –  ons niet-iemand zijn, waarin wie we

zijn kan ontstaan – niet afwijzen en onze BT altijd alleen 

blijven voortzetten. Op zeker moment raken we eraan

 gewend om niemand te zijn, omdat wij dankbaar het

 grote geschenk van onze TV ontvangen, ervaren en 

genieten. In BT worden we dus allemaal samen verlicht en

realiseren wij ons dat het extatische mysterie van onze 

gecombineerde TV de hopevolle toekomst is voor gehele 

mensheid.

 

Mystery,

 

Every night, as long as you are sleep, you don’t know who you are. Especially, when you don’t have any dreams, you wake up completely rejuvenated. However, the moment you open your eyes again, you put on the world – or what you believe to be your reality – like a coat, you behave again how you remember yourself to be. Perhaps, you would like to sleep some more and be without your identity? Since there is no problem, during your sleep, to be without an identity and since it is, in fact, required for good sleep, you can also be immensely happy during the day, without having your usual identity.   

 

When you talk out loud with yourself and listen to what the sound of your voice tells you, you engage in Embodied Language (EL) and enter the space in which you can dream your Language Enlightenment (LE). Talking out loud with yourself about your LE, is like dreaming while being awake. By saying what you want to say and can say, you experience the mystery of creating your own reality with your EL.

 

We have all heard, read or even talked about, the presumed importance of transcending our ego, but no matter what we do, we always assume, that we remain confined in or by our so-called mind. Stated differently, during the day, when we experience our waking consciousness, we continue – like we do in our strange dreams at night – our entanglement with language. Yet, these so-called mental, inner, covert activities subside, once we express our LE.  

 

During our usual way of talking, in which we do not and cannot listen to ourselves while we speak – as listening to others is more important than listening to ourselves – we engage unconsciously, habitually, and automatically in Disembodied Language (DL), the way of talking, which gives rise to the illusion that we are, who we seem to be and believe to be.

 

If we don’t pay any attention to how we sound, we are bound to produce a vocal vibration, which is disembodied and, consequently, unknowingly, we are constantly negatively affected by the effortful, energy-consuming, demanding sound of what we wrongly consider to be our normal speaking-voice. Surely, when we take our first steps into allowing ourselves to have EL, we will produce the sound of our wellbeing, while we speak and our voice sounds and feels very different from how we sounded and felt during DL. To put it squarely, in DL, we speak as  a somebody, but in EL, we only speak as a nobody. Moreover, if you talk with me, nobody has more to say than somebody, therefore, my EL has right of way over your DL. If you can’t have EL, you simply cannot talk with me or someone else who has EL.  

 

LE is the mystery of creating our own reality with EL. The effortless production of our language occurs, as we allow our voice to guide us, into what we want to say and can say. Since there is absolutely no fear,  conflict, stress or pressure during EL, we are able to speak without having any author-ship, as we know, there is no speaker, only speaking. Likewise, there is only listening, but there is no listener. Furthermore, our speaking and listening behaviors are joined, as they happen at the same rate and simultaneously.

 

To someone, who is used to having DL every day, it is incomprehensible, that the whole notion of being a speaker or a listener is completely gone, due to a new way of talking, in which we listen to ourselves instead of to others. However, when we begin to do this, the joyful results will be evident, every step of the way. To be without who we believed ourselves to be is a tremendous relief, as we finally trust our own language. After we have said it, after we have heard it, after we have written it and after we have read it (let’s not forget, there is also no writer or reader), we will act on it, as we know, that it is true.

 

We can and will have EL with others, after we have explored our EL on our own. These others are, like us, also nobodies. All the somebodies continue with their DL, but without us, as our LE urges us to retire from DL. Initially, we still feel, as if we are missing out on something, by withdrawing from DL, but this is necessary, as it allows us to continue EL on our own. We get used to being nobody, as we receive, experience and enjoy the gift of our LE. Thus, in EL, we will all be enlightened together and the mystery of our combined LE is the future of all of mankind.                     

Dear Readers, this wonderful writing (translated from Dutch) is by my dear friend AnnaMieke, with whom I have weekly conversations. She also writes a blog https://ontvouwenineigentaal.blogspot.com/2023/01/mijn-imperium.html I would like you to read what she wrote, because it is so beautiful. With our Embodied Language (EL), AnnaMieke and I have together discovered our Language Enlightenment (LE). 

My empire.
January 19, 2023
The building goes on, but no more lugging, put aside my bricks a little less, because I can trust that the wisdom I feel has become my empire. As I can write now, as my language supports me, and I alone can keep what it gives me. I don't have to spit anything anymore, my foundation is now ready, from there I can experience how my empire was born. I see some boundaries coming and touch them for a moment, then I feel my drive coming again to to stand in the middle of my empire. I laugh and feel the flow unfold, which deliberately unfolds my language, which deliberately lets me speak while I listen and where my core now lies, in a relaxed float in the tranquility of writing, in knowing who I am, that from my empire I can speak and write at the same time, that nothing more can happen than what I write. I don't have to search anymore to see who I am, many stones have I moved, many roads traveled, many have must realize that what I can experience is true apparently destined only for me. It is the fruit that I want to bear and in fact do not have to do anything for it, except to tell in my writing how it is that from my language in which I am that empire has given me and wants to use it a little more sparingly, there, where the flood of knowledge, nothing can flood, if one does not know it, then only to read what I write. but straight to the point to hear that my sound in writing can lead the way, to tell that my power from my own empire is now unfolding. It sparkles in my eyes it confirms where I stand and no longer need to explain that from my empire something can and has arisen. That is the language of unfolding, that is my foundation, in which I apparently always put my trust. it is not the words that I read, but the experience that it gives me, to to feel stronger, in everything that lies and is said, and get changed rain from an empire where nothing is concealed but rather brought forward, because the space I feel has been obtained by writing to myself, has emerged in it, like a butterfly that just saw its wings to fly on, opened doors to experience that my language is always welcome, in which my sound can show what it would be like if I didn't listen to what I write.

My empire is as solid as a house, and when I walk into it I feel the power of experiencing, as if the temple of myself can now better understand, in my own words and worth, the effort I took for years, now transforms into this moment, in the time of sharing, on another level now, thus filling me with my own creation, in which my truth of experiencing, from my own realization I have landed here now. Another time has come, there is another experienced in my body, there is a different approach in my writing, while it always remains my own language. I zoom through space and feel the air very pure, I take both hands, rub them very warm, look to my eyes, which are softer and my head is no longer bent, whether it is possible, or what I write not out of a desire, but simply because this arises.

I tap against the walls and see my own silhouette standing there, and realize that the memories I had are now gone, because the many writing has created so much space and even acquired my own empire in it, now I can say that it is even is a temple, as I can experience it in my body. The beauty I feel and what I longed for is ready in my temple, and from the peace it gives when I see my own empire, then dare to experience, that nothing more is needed than just the experience of soft energy, which allows me to be completely myself and can show in my writing, that everything is possible, from a genesis, in which I have come to believe that my reality is so certain is to be able to share this.

 

Someone,

 

In our demanding, compulsive, unconscious participation in Disembodied Language (DL), we all struggle in vain to be someone, but our true nature simply cannot be betrayed and thus constantly throws a spanner in the works.

 

People sometimes say: who do you think you are, that you can say and write all this with such certainty, but with these noble words, what is called thinking is utterly meaningless. One's Language Enlightenment (LE) can only be expressed in one way: with one’s own Embodied Language (EL).

 

Whether you want to hear it or read it or not, I speak and write about my LE every day with my EL. Actually, it is not the case – as I myself believed for a long time – that people avoid me and ignore me completely, as I am really someone with whom no one can identify. So if you get involved with EL, you're bound to end up in your LE and who you thought you were is gone for good. Your so-called thinking turned out to be an illusion and you are then someone who, like me, can handle his language in the right way.

 

LE is an asset that never goes away and everything you once feared you would lose, dissolves. In other words, the progression of your EL arises from your natural way of who you are. In your LE you are completely at ease because you have come to know that you are nobody and never have been anybody. Moreover, with your EL you stop your DL and your so-called thinking therefore stops.

 

Your new handling of language discards all your objectionable conditionings, because you let yourself know what is right and true for you. You say it, you write it, you hear it and you read it and the results are phenomenal. You can go on more because you have nothing to pretend. You are now someone only you can recognize, but everyone who doesn't know themselves yet walks away from you, as you don't even believe they are anyone anymore. You don't concern yourself with others anymore, because everyone is, in fact, like you, even if they don't have the EL to realize their LE.

 

Iemand,

 

In onze veeleisende, dwangmatige, onbewuste deelname aan Ontlichaamde Taal (OT), doen we allemaal tevergeefse moeite om iemand te zijn, maar onze ware aard, laat zich nou eenmaal niet verraden en gooit dus voortdurend roet in het eten.

 

Mensen zeggen wel eens: wie denk je wel niet dat je bent, dat je dit alles met zoveel zekerheid kunt zeggen en schrijven, maar bij deze edele woorden, is wat men denken noemt zonder enige betekenis. Iemand’s Taal Verlichting (TV) kan maar op een manier worden geuit: met Belichaamde Taal (BT).

 

Of je het nou wil horen of lezen of niet, ik spreek en schrijf elke dag over mijn TV met mijn BT. Eigenlijk is het niet zo – zoals ik zelf lange tijd geloofde – dat men mij vermijd en helemaal links laat liggen, maar dat ik echt iemand ben, waar niemand zich mee kan identificeren. Als je je dus met BT gaat bezighouden, kom je onherroepelijk in je TV terecht en dan is wie je dacht te zijn voorgoed gedaan. Je zogenaamde denken bleek een illusie en je bent dan iemand, die, zoals ik, op de juiste wijze met z’n taal kan omgaan.

 

TV is een verworvenheid, die nooit meer weg gaat en alles waar je ooit bang voor was, dat je het zou verliezen, verdwijnt. Andersgezegd, de voortgang van je BT ontstaat uit je natuurlijke wijze van wie je echt bent. In TV ben je volledig op je gemak, omdat je aan de weet ben gekomen, dat je niemand bent en nooit iemand ben geweest. Met je eigen BT stop je je  OT en houdt je zogenaamde denken dus op.

 

Je nieuwe omgang met taal, legt al je bezwaarlijke conditioneringen af, omdat jij aan je zelf laat weten, wat juist en waar is voor jou. Je zegt het, je schrijft het, je hoort het en je leest het en de resultaten zijn phenomenaal. Je gaat ermeer door, omdat je niets te pretenderen hebt. Je bent nu iemand, die alleen jij herkent, maar waarvan iedereen die zichzelf nog niet kent wegloopt, omdat jij niet eens meer gelooft dat zij nog iemand zijn. Je houdt je niet meer met anderen bezig, want iedereen is eigenlijk, zoals jij, ook al hebben ze de BT nog niet om dat te beseffen.                   

 

 

 Today,

It's Thursday today and I'm in a jovial layer that shows no one has ever lived here. There is no point and there is no end to what never began.

This is not an answer, because there was no question, tomorrow is Friday and the sun is shining again today. It  has been raining for days and now there is fresh green grass everywhere. I am happy with the cows, who greet me with their moos.
 
Those who read this carefully know these words are important evidence. The highest truth and the very best brings clarity and laughing love at long last.

There is so much more to experience when we don't cling to our words and can finally surrender to our own speaking voice.

We all came into being in the exact same way and we realize all too well that sooner or later we will die anyway. There's nothing to grieve, there's nothing to fear and there's nothing to understand.

Hopefully you will live a little longer, but without striving for anything. Just be who you've always been and enjoy the celebration of your own life.

Your language doesn't have to be about anything other than what you can say and understand. Your simple words now speak volumes, because you have begun to play with your language. Yes, it's allowed, because you want it and it's possible, it's so nice to be able to live according to your own plan.

So today you stop interrupting yourself and you experience a blissful sense of peace. During those sad, long years of complaining and whining, this experience simply couldn't happen. Everything you said has charmed you, because you hear, today you let yourself speak.