Sunday, June 26, 2011

Words

Anyone who has a genuine experience of the mysteries of existence will have to make up his or her own language with which to express it. Traditional language is wrapped tightly inside the mind and is not easy to untangle. More than likely, if such experiences dawn on a person with little or no exploration surrounding these things, no new language will be necessary. The experiences will be self-validating and will need no verification from the outside. Silence will prevail.

I have chosen terms like "godbeing" because the more familiar terms, such as, spirit, soul, Self, Higher Self, and God have become stale and useless. Even "godbeing" sags under the weight of direct experience; nevertheless, the mind needs words and concepts. Once the mind crashes under the weight of reality, one can impose new language on the mind once it gets up off the floor, assuming one wishes to address that experience at all. In itself, that is a choice.

Readers have only one decision to make about this material. Is it true/real? And yet, something else is at play. Words not only have meaning and refer to other words in order to retain that capacity; they also can point outside their mental lexicons. Readers might experience something unreferencable in language. That is something one can just let be.