Sacrifice,

 

Your usual way of talking, in which you, as a speaker, do not listen to yourself, is the language of sacrifice. Disembodied Language (DL) doesn’t allow you to say what you want to say and makes you postpone your wellbeing. Basically, you sacrifice yourself on the altar of the group you identify with, since your individuality isn’t expressed by your language.

 

Sacrifice comes from Latin sacrificium, which means to make sacred. It is also related to sacrificus, performing sacrifices and priestly functions or sacra, sacred rites and the word facere, to make or to do. Astonishingly, nobody is willing to admit, let alone explore, why we religiously devote ourselves to DL, which disconnects us from ourselves. In effect, we sacrifice both ourselves as well as each other.

 

When we engage in Embodied Language (EL), we come to terms with the fact, that we no longer want to sacrifice ourselves. We were told, it is honorable to sacrifice ourselves, to help or to save others, to achieve our challenging goals or to do the so-called right thing, but with EL, we realize, we have always short-changed ourselves. With EL, we find, it simply isn’t worth it, to sacrifice ourselves, which always goes hand in hand with putting in a lot of effort.

 

Throughout human history, there have been many  brave individuals, who sacrificed themselves, to advance the existence of the group, they felt, they belonged to, but as societies began to grant rights to each person, the tension grew between the goals of the individual and the goals of the group. It is this conflict, which is at the core of why we still engage mainly, unconsciously, in self-defeating, stupid DL, every day and don’t have the slightest notion, that our EL, is actually possible and very badly needed.

 

People have sacrificed everything for a variety of goals, which never paid off, but their insensitive DL prevents them from ever acknowledging, they have given up everything for nothing. It is definitely not a pretty picture, we have forsaken again and again our individual objectives, because, presumably, there were much more important matters, our family, our career, our belief in who we are as a people and our  spiritual understanding of who we supposedly are.

 

EL puts an end to all our superstitious sacrifice, as our individual path is more important, than what we were taught. Talking with ourselves – and having and enjoying our own ongoing EL – is considered to be more important, than talking with others and, inevitably, being trapped by DL. Stated differently, individual freedom trumps our allegiance to any group.  

 

The bottom line of those, who sacrifice themselves is, they always want or expect something in return, but they are never getting it. Yes, DL is the language of expectation and unfulfilled needs. The need to be needed, of course, underlies every sacrifice. If we  ever come to having ongoing EL, we will find, to our amazement, there is no need to sacrifice anything for anyone, as each of us takes care of themselves.  This is the crucial issue of individual responsibility, which should be the very basis of every society.

 

Everyone who unconsciously sacrifices themselves is always, inadvertently, guilt-tripping everyone else who didn’t. So, everyone with DL, constantly blames me or anyone with my EL, that I should, like them, be morally obligated to engage with them in DL, but my EL totally rejects this ludicrous proposition. I am not into being a martyr, as my EL is the antithesis to this outdated bullshit. DL is on its deathbed. I am not going to revive it back to life. To the contrary, I let it die and find it should have died, long time ago.

 

If there is such a thing as individualism, everyone would take care of themselves and there is really  no need at all for any sacrifice. Those who sacrifice themselves, don’t take care of themselves, that is the very core of our DL. They want others to care about them and always feel disappointed, because they never get what they hoped they would get.

 

We have all seen those pictures, of those who gave their lives, to supposedly save others. In their last horrific moments, they were depicted as if they had found eternal bliss, but this is not what happened. They felt betrayed and cheated, as they gave their life for nothing. Millions of lives have been wasted and still, we are further away from recognizing our EL, as the only way forward, more than ever before.  

 

It is very interesting to see and hear, that any kind of patriotism is nowadays, by many left-wing people, considered as having no self-respect. Yet, we may very well see the total collapse of everything we have supported as our common values, that is, the values of our individual freedom. Ultimately, any kind of sacrifice is just another stupid superstition, to supposedly defeat or cast out the bad influence that is threatening us. The reality is, our sacrifice has always backfired, and we are traumatized by it.