Category Archives: Language
From Language 2.0 to Language ∞
We’re immersed in language like fish in water. I often use that analogy to describe how blind we are to the linguistic world in which we swim, how its structure enables our being in the way that the ocean enables … Continue reading
Posted in Invisible Architecture, Language, Oneness, Paradox, Separateness, Structure, Uncategorized
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Language as an Invisible Architecture
First, let’s look at visible architecture and the effect it has on us. Imagine walking into each of the buildings in the pictures above. What felt sense do you have? What kind of “world” is created inside of each building? … Continue reading
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Shifting the Very Nature of Relationship
The post that started with the Arjuna Ardagh quote could have gone off in another direction. What Ardagh and Watts both propose is essentially a radical shift in the nature of relationship. They are proposing that there is no “other.” … Continue reading
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Goodbye to “It”
All somethings are someones. –David Spangler That quote hit me in a way that the usual psychospiritual talk doesn’t. It forced me to face up to the assumptions I have about the nature of life itself (and what is alive … Continue reading
Posted in Assumptions/presuppositions, Language, Science
Tagged consciousness, David Spangler, Language
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Introducing Mobius (strips) and Klein (bottles)
Two visual structures that I use a lot are the Möbius strip and the Klein bottle because they embody a paradox. Specifically, they have only one side although it seems to be two sides. That concept is very important for … Continue reading
My Questions for Paul Frommer, Creator of the Na’vi Language in Avatar
Na’vi, the language of the Pandorans in the movie Avatar, perhaps can help us look at our own languages and find ways to express the kinds of interconnectedness we saw on Pandora. Continue reading
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Tagged Avatar, Language, Na'vi, Oneness, Paul Frommer
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How Do We Speak from Wholeness?
Did you choose to believe that you’re a separate being from everybody else? No, that was so firmly established both by your experience of yourself as a young child and by how others treated you, then reinforced by language that separates I from You, that you just take it for granted that we’re all separate. If we’re not separate, how do cast aside the language crutch that keeps us thinking and talking as if we are separate? How do we speak from wholeness–both individual wholeness and wholeness of the Universe? Continue reading
