Representation,

 

The biggest lie, perpetuated by our common way of talking – which sets the stage for how we are dealing with our language – is representation or, to put it more succinctly, that one person, supposedly, can be the voice for someone else. This is exactly, where individualism is departed and how group adherence is created, maintained and exploited.

 

Language itself poses the risk, that we mistake the description for the described. Obviously, the word apple, is not the apple. However, our failure of using language correctly, isn’t as simple as calling a spade a spade. We get carried away by what we say, as we don’t pay attention to how we say it. In other words,  we speak, but we don’t listen to ourselves, while we speak, because, presumably, what matters only is if others are listening to us. To overcome the problem of getting others to listen to us, we try to persuade, influence, convert, convince or manipulate others.

 

Disembodied Language (DL) –  or, our usual way of talking, in which the speakers never really listen to themselves, as it is their objective, to get others to listen to them – emphasizes representation and we are, therefore, endlessly fighting with one another, about whose belief or theory better represents the reality. Struggle for attention, not surprisingly, is the main characteristic of DL. We try to dominate and control each other with our verbal representation or narrative. Yet, by doing so, we abandon ourselves, as we sacrifice ourselves and each other on the altar of what in Bible was described as the Golden Calf.

 

Our return, to who we are, requires our Embodied Language (EL), in which we listen to ourselves while we speak and, therefore, only speak for ourselves. Such a way of talking, sets the stage for an entirely different way of using our language. In EL, we aren’t carried away by what we say, as we enjoy listening to ourselves and are aware about how we say, what we say and why we say it. Moreover, our experience is enhanced and clarified by our language. In EL, our words are not – as they certainly are in DL – some dissociated, disconnected, distorted representation our experience, but they validate our experience.  

 

Due to our DL, which was never properly addressed by our EL, people around the world, are still stuck in the tenacious belief, that our so-called explanation or representation of our reality, is more important than reality itself. If you suddenly hear a chattering sound and look up in the blue sky and see geese fly over in V-formation, you know very well, that these geese don’t care about anything you say. People in democratic countries like to believe, that the right to representation is spreading around the world, but what keeps being propagated everywhere is DL.

 

While there has been some movement – only in Western civilizations – towards individualism, all of the so-called freedom of speech, never led to the establishment of EL, which permanently dissolves the devastating mass-psychoses, which are caused by the delusion of representation. More than ever, do we need EL, the language of individualism. I can say this with absolute authority, as I am – and have always been – 100% correct in my assessment of what is DL and what is EL. In other words, if we are going to have EL instead of DL, you will have to talk with and listen to me. I don’t represent or teach EL, but I have EL every day. Only by having EL with me, can and will it become clear, that representation is the ultimate enemy of the individual, which is you.

 

While it is one thing, to acknowledge the difference between your DL and your EL, it is quite another, to continue with your own EL and to begin to live like an individual and leave DL in the dust-bin of history. Even if you only succeed in having one moment of EL, it is immediately clear, that continuing with your own EL is something extra-ordinary, because everyone unconsciously engages in DL. Indeed, one instance of EL is enough to change your life forever and make you decide, no matter how great the challenge, you want to go on with EL. The reason this is possible, is because your ongoing EL isn’t a representation of your Language Enlightenment (LE), but it is your LE.