November 30, 2015

November 30, 2015

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Students,

People have different behavioral histories in which they have experienced different rates of SVB and NVB. When we consider SVB and NVB by ourselves, we must realize that our speaking and listening behaviors have different behavioral histories too. In NVB our speaking is happening at the expense of our listening or our listening is happening at the expense of our speaking. In both cases, speaking and listening behavior happen at different rates. The more NVB we have, the greater the difference will be between our speaking and our listening behavior. Obviously, such a difference always separates the speaker from the listener. This separation occurs as our belief in the inner causation of behavior gets us stuck with the explanatory fiction called the speaker and the listener. There is in reality neither a speaker nor a listener. These are reifications, verbs that turned into nouns. There is only speaking and listening, two different behaviors which were conditioned at different times in different environments in the early stages of our verbal development.

Once you have that right it is very easy to join your speaking and your listening behavior and to attain SVB by yourself. Once again, you don’t cause your own SVB, it happens as you realize that speaking and listening behavior was not joined. Whether you know it or not, speaking and listening behavior already happen simultaneously. Due to NVB you were led to believe they will always continue to happen at different rates. Once you listen to yourself while you speak, it is self-evident that speaking and listening happen at the same rate. Just because nobody has stimulated you to explore this doesn’t mean that it isn’t true. Consequently, you can, all by yourself, effortlessly achieve SVB. It is of great significance that you as a speaker produce a sound which you as a listener find soothing. As you speak with that sound, you find that you become more and more relaxed. Also, you notice that speaking with a voice that gives you energy makes you and keeps you conscious. Since this vibration was absent in NVB, you realize that NVB has kept you unconscious. During SVB you become more and more quiet. This contradicts your NVB experience in which talking upsets and agitates you or makes you feel tired or drained. Listening is to speaking as having your eyes open is to seeing.