Attitude,

 

When you finally tell yourself, with your Embodied Language (EL), that it is really true, that your language never takes place inside you, but always outside you, then you suddenly have a different attitude towards yourself. This new attitude is still strange to you, because with your Disembodied Language (DL) you have always believed that you can think and have a conversation with yourself internally, without any sound.

 

Although, because of our usual DL, we are not used to talking out loud about our language with ourselves, it is, of course, out of the question, that there exists such a thing as covert, inner language or private speech. The way we deal with language - which came about through our DL - makes us, to put it squarely, fantasize there are words, images, sentences, texts inside our heads and we also say, we have so much going on in our mind, that our head explodes.

 

This writing is not intended to convince any reader that what I say is true. I am writing this solely for myself, to let myself know, with the words I possess, what I have only just come to know. It is of enormous importance to know that language always only takes place outside us, as this is the correct attitude towards language, which has become clear through EL. The narrow-minded attitude of DL has made everyone believe that language is within us.

 

Anyone who has ever taken a biology or neurology class knows, our brains contain about 86 billion neurons and about as many other cells. Our brain activity is made possible by the interconnections of those neurons and release of neurotransmitters in response to nerve impulses. It is said that these neurons communicate with each other, but this is a matter of electrical and chemical processes. So, there are absolutely no words involved at all.

 

Due to the way of speaking, which I call DL, we still talk – if we talk at all – to our own detriment, mainly about the functioning of our brains, in metaphorical terms. We speak about storing something in our  memory, as if there were a cupboard with drawers in which what you know would be kept. We also constantly say, we have images or pictures in our heads or that we have a belief, a memory, an idea or an ideal. That there should be language in our heads is a madness which is caused and maintained by our usual, considered to be normal way of speaking.

 

An electrician knows that a voice can be amplified with the help of a microphone and come out of speakers. The sound waves are converted in the microphone into an electrical signal, which travels through the cable and is converted back into sound via an amplifier on the other end, which then comes out of the speakers. So there is no voice, language or words in that electricity cable, because there is only an electrical or a digital signal, which will only have any meaning, if it is converted back into language.

 

Of course, comparing language and our brain, with electricity, microphones and speakers, is also only a metaphorical construction, but our ears do have something in common with the microphone and our brains have something in common with the amplifier and our vocal cords, mouth and tongue, have something in common with the speaker. Just as the microphone converts the sound of the voice into electricity, our ears convert the sound we hear into a wordless, neuro-electro-chemical process,  which we can only take note of, if we can talk about it and, therefore, can hear it and understand it.

 

Because we have unconsciously continued to engage in DL, it has never been properly discussed, that we do not think, but that we only talk in a way, which has created the illusion, that language would take place in us and, therefore, we believe we think. This is – with EL - an understandable attitude, but with our DL, we act frantically about our thinking, as if it were true that we could think. Since time immemorial, we have continued to hold on to the false belief, that we are thinking beings.

 

Renee Descartes (1648) was a famous French philosopher and mathematician, who made the statement, cogito, ergo sum, I think, therefore, I am. His approach to the problem of scientific knowledge and the so-called nature of the human mind - which still exists, due to our unconscious involvement in DL – played an exceptionally important role in philosophy, because he managed to achieve the necessary separation between religion and science.

 

Although Descartes was undoubtedly one of the most important founders of the Western scientific revolution, it is partly because of him, that we are still stuck with the madness, that we think. Like him, I am firmly convinced, we should only concern ourselves with matters about which certain and undoubted knowledge is possible. My attention to the major difference between DL and EL is based on the undeniable fact that language has absolutely nothing to do with thinking, because it is an audible, readable and objectively observable phenomenon.

 

Of course, Descartes too could, only because of his use of language, systematically doubt everything and continue to do so, until he could come to certain conclusions. It is remarkable that his philosophy of rationalism, because of DL, is dualistic, and based on the separation between body and mind. Continued EL, however, always results in the unmistakable, joyful unification-experience, which I call Language Enlightenment (LE), which will also have many scientific implications. Yet, to this very day, all of science is still automatically based on DL and I am alone in advocating the great importance of spoken, rather than written, scientific language. It is because of this quasi-scientific attitude, that the printed and written word is, supposedly, more important than the spoken word, that all of humanity is still saddled with, on the one hand, thinking, which doesn’t exist, but on the other hand, with the unintelligent, unnatural, forceful handling of language (DL), which causes us nothing but gigantic problems.

 

Our usual attitude towards language is completely ridiculous. We talk, day in, day out, in a spurious, nonsensical way, because DL – in which we pretend to think and therefore experience language as a belief within us – is diametrically opposed to our sensory perception. With EL, we finally come to know, for good, that our language has nothing to do with an inner, inaudible process, but is a matter of speaking and listening, to the astonishing fact, that language actually only exists, if it can be said, heard, written and read. It is straightforward and simple, because, if nothing is said, then nothing can be heard and if nothing is written, nothing can be read.

 

I have been writing for hours and I am perplexed by what I have written. I feel enormous power in my words, because I am aware, that what I write has far-reaching consequences. My attitude towards language has changed forever, now that I know with certainty, that there never was or is language inside of me. Furthermore, I can give my full attention to my language because my illusion of inner language – thinking – has dissolved. This also means, that any form of belief in something that came about through my old conditioning with DL – and which, therefore, does not actually exist – has disappeared as well.

 

I insist, we never bring our language from within to the outside, when we express ourselves and we are, with our language, always outside of ourselves. I mean this quite literally, for it cannot be repeated often enough, that there is no language in us. This conditioning has had many negative consequences because what we have heard and learned was not true. The fact that millions of people believe they think - that they can manipulate concepts in their minds, they have ideas, they decide, conclude, are confused or confident in their faith, morals or identity, that they supposedly consult with an inner self, which is supposed to regulate and even cause their behavior – does not mean that it is true.

 

It is as idiotic to claim that you think, as it is to say the earth is flat, as it isn’t true. When, with our new attitude to language, with our EL, we experience a different perspective or perception, it becomes clear, that there is always a difference between our language and our experience. However, this is not a dualism, but a fact, which is as true as the difference between a table and a chair. However, with EL, our experience is described correctly, and we benefit from this, but with DL, our experience is always described incorrectly and, consequently, we have all kinds of problems. Moreover, with EL, our language no longer stands in the way of our experience, as it always did with DL. As a result, we are attentive to what happens in the moment and not entangled in an involuntary jumble of words, which doesn't make any sense.

 

I like to emphasize once more that embodying our language does not in any way imply language takes place within us. On the contrary, the embodiment of our language is possible, because the experience that accompanies our language, which is outside of us, is fully realized and is not, as in DL, distorted, denied, forgotten or repressed. In EL our language flows without any fear or restraint and we can therefore say or write anything that our language allows us to. Of course, if we deem it necessary, we can introduce new terms, to clarify what we are talking about, but it is not necessary to adopt the verbal constructions of others. In EL we can stay with ourselves, because we have found our own way with our own language, to speak and write about our own experience. Here it is important to mention, that our understanding of ourselves is not an insight, but something which takes place outside of us. When we listen to ourselves while we speak, we hear our voice from the outside, while we feel what the experience of resonance is like. Surely, insofar we have written something, we can read what we have said.

 

Our writing and reading make visible or visual what we say and hear and that is awareness. Something also happens to our sense of time when we finally begin to experience our language, as outside of us, rather than within us. We have suddenly ended up in eternity, where our lives happen, like a flickering light in the darkness. There is not a moment for us to lose, because everything is now expressed, heard, and everything is written, read and understood, by us, with our own language. So, we are completely ourselves with our EL, which is the right attitude.

  

With DL we always walked crooked, but with our EL, we walk upright. These metaphors refer our body, which produces, sees, hears, reads and understands language. Embodied understanding this is a very active process, because with EL we are - not thinking but - talking with ourselves, which literally means, we speak out loud with ourselves and we can, therefore, hear ourselves or that we write to ourselves, so we can read our own writing. Our attitude keeps us focused on ourselves and we remain focused on ourselves, as our EL is audible and visible and our language is always alive and new, because we experience the pleasure of saying and writing our own words. Of course, we will have EL with others, who, like us, have started to make the distinction between their own DL and their own EL. EL is the language of the future of mankind.

 

When we are done speaking and writing, we are at peace. We know without words, without thinking, without understanding, this bliss and clarity is the essence of EL. With EL, we never return to our old conditioning with DL, which has kept us so restless, conflicted and unhappy. Our new attitude towards language is a transformation of who we are. With EL, we immediately witness our LE, and it is crystal clear to us, what we, supposedly, thought we were, was not true, as we didn’t yet talk about talking and we had not yet written about our new attitude.