Sacrifice,

 

With Disembodied Language (DL), we sacrifice ourselves and each other, on the altar of what we consider to be important. It doesn’t matter how painful, inhuman or disgusting it is, what we do, we justify it, because we believe in it. In the name of some group – the extension or the replacement of our family – we forsake our own individuality. We have never liberated ourselves from our tribal conditioning history, therefore, we couldn’t even conceive of the possibility of Embodied Language (EL). Consequently, we are still strangers to ourselves, as we don’t have the language to be ourselves. If we would have EL, we would realize our Language Enlightenment (LE), which can only be revealed by ongoing EL.

 

When we have EL and leave behind everyone who has DL, we don’t sacrifice ourselves, but we do ourselves a big favor. Of course, nobody with DL loves us for our EL, but we are happy to abandon the so-called love, which goes on in the name of DL. To anyone with EL, the love of people with DL is something imprisoning. To be an individual and to continue with EL, they have to remove themselves from everyone with DL.

 

While sacrifice is the essence of DL – our usual way of talking – when we engage in EL, we want to keep, to hold, to retain, to continue, to stay, to remain, to give birth, to acquire, to save, to increase, to rise or to endure. This difference is of great importance, as our happiness depends on the latter, but not on the former. It is a big old lie, that people will be fulfilled by sacrificing themselves for others. It never happened and it is never going to happen. People have believed in this for lifetimes, as sacrifice determined our survival, which was dependent on the group to which we belonged. In our Western democratic societies, however, individualism has become the basis of modern life. Unless, our language reflects this, with EL, we keep contradicting our lives with DL, which is now basically outdated.

 

The word sacrifice comes from Latin sacrificium or sacrificus, which means, performing priestly functions, making sacred; from sacra, sacred rites; combined with facere, to make or to do. Sacrificantem, one who offers a sacrifice. In DL, we act out an ancient, superstitious script, but in EL, we don’t do any habitual ritual, because it is always new. Thus, our habit, which repeats, is what makes us sacrifice our lives, but in EL, we act consciously, spontaneously and naturally. It should also be noted, that our DL is decided for us by others, but in EL, we decide for ourselves.

 

We are still stuck with DL, as our EL would make us realize, we are enlightened. DL is maintained to enslave us, our LE would make us completely independent from any kind of authority. Simply stated, we are not supposed to find out, we are enlightened, that is why DL is demanded. We will only stop our sacrifice, once we step away from any kind of group-behavior and detect the immense difference between our DL and EL. Of course, in EL, we also do what we need to do, to be able to have EL, but this is not a sacrifice.  

 

As long as there is still the notion, that we have to sacrifice something, we are not yet engaging in EL. I remember, because I wanted so badly to be able to have EL with others, I constantly gave myself away. I felt, I had to sacrifice, in order to have EL, but I no longer feel that way at all. It is interesting, because, back then, I experienced my EL as sacred, but that has changed as well. This ridiculous notion of something sacred is part of our DL. With our ongoing EL nothing is sacred, as our LE is an ordinary phenomenon. In other words, with EL, we no longer make any sacrifice, but we also abandon all spiritual crap.

 

The willingness to sacrifice is suicidal. We are told that it is good or honorable to sacrifice, but those who do, they always harm themselves. It is covered up by our DL, but with EL, we cannot deny the wounds we inflict on ourselves and on each other with our sacrifice. Since DL is going on everywhere, twenty-four-seven, we have not yet conceived of – let alone created – a healthy society, in which there is no longer any sacrifice. Anyone who has sacrificed, always has a chip on their shoulder and, later, they demand payback.  

 

Regardless of what people say, sacrifice is never voluntary. People feel obligated to their group, to do what they need to do, to belong, even if it means, to die. This signifies the great human tragedy, which repeats itself, ad infinitum, with our DL. I never met anyone, in my sixty-five years, who was happy, that he or she sacrificed him or herself. To the contrary, I have always felt a sense of regret, in those who literally put themselves in harm's way. Surely, we cover it all up with heroism, but the reality is different. It is only when we have EL, that we begin to assess, how much we have given up, lost or sacrificed.

 

With DL, people really believe, they love each other, for the sacrifice they are willing to make. However, there is the reality, where the rubber hits the road. The high divorce-rates show how true their promise is. The vow, to stay together, for better or worse, is considered as an act of free will, but if we take a closer look at the issue of responsibility, it is very clear, as long as we are not happy, we are not taking good care of ourselves. With DL, others are presumably more important than we ourselves, therefore, unknowingly, in the name of social behavior, we know our place and, yes, we sacrifice ourselves.