So, my path has brought me to a rather decent alignment and understanding of how we experience duality in our experience itself.
I call it "Intention and Interpertation"
What something does
and how the other percieves the doing.
Equally important, equally powerful - because the inention gives the action power, and the interpertation changes how we get affected by it.
Someone can send me nothing but love, but if I interpert it as something negative, I will experience negative effects.
Given this situation, I have begun to interpert *everything* as a form of expression, because the our senses (and intuition, for those who do not consider it a sense) represent our interpertation, and the form, tone, colour, texture, taste, smell, and action of things describe their intention.
The language we use to describe things greatly impacts our ability to experience.
Before we knew about molecules, and atoms, and sub-atomic quarks and all that jazz, we chaulked it up to ethereal forces.
Not that those forces don't still operate, but we have a better understanding of what form they operate in, and, therefor, what we can effect to generate efficient change.
I have recently obtained vocabulary for various states I have brought myself into for a long time now (thanks Magick!) - and having such vocabulary makes it easier to maintain/enter them.
Our psychology, at least, our thinking psychology, has a lot to do with words.
Did you know the word they used for "Left", in Latin?
Sinister.
But how do you right (correct) a thing like that? Right away (immedeately) you can begin to see a cultural bias... but you bright folk already thought about that, right (correct)?
I hope you haven't left (departed) after the long introduction, but the body of the post starts here:
I have found that using my intention to crack open words we commonly use, and redefine them on my own terms, has had great impact on my life.
For example:
To be - Playing as.
... wow, I had 4 or 5 of them, and in my exhaustion cannot remember.
But, uh, let that get the ball rolling? Will post the remainder as they return to me.
What have you got/can you come up with, all?
Cheers!
I call it "Intention and Interpertation"
What something does
and how the other percieves the doing.
Equally important, equally powerful - because the inention gives the action power, and the interpertation changes how we get affected by it.
Someone can send me nothing but love, but if I interpert it as something negative, I will experience negative effects.
Given this situation, I have begun to interpert *everything* as a form of expression, because the our senses (and intuition, for those who do not consider it a sense) represent our interpertation, and the form, tone, colour, texture, taste, smell, and action of things describe their intention.
The language we use to describe things greatly impacts our ability to experience.
Before we knew about molecules, and atoms, and sub-atomic quarks and all that jazz, we chaulked it up to ethereal forces.
Not that those forces don't still operate, but we have a better understanding of what form they operate in, and, therefor, what we can effect to generate efficient change.
I have recently obtained vocabulary for various states I have brought myself into for a long time now (thanks Magick!) - and having such vocabulary makes it easier to maintain/enter them.
Our psychology, at least, our thinking psychology, has a lot to do with words.
Did you know the word they used for "Left", in Latin?
Sinister.
But how do you right (correct) a thing like that? Right away (immedeately) you can begin to see a cultural bias... but you bright folk already thought about that, right (correct)?
I hope you haven't left (departed) after the long introduction, but the body of the post starts here:
I have found that using my intention to crack open words we commonly use, and redefine them on my own terms, has had great impact on my life.
For example:
To be - Playing as.
... wow, I had 4 or 5 of them, and in my exhaustion cannot remember.
But, uh, let that get the ball rolling? Will post the remainder as they return to me.
What have you got/can you come up with, all?
Cheers!
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Re: Define
Wed, January 31, 2007 - 7:29 PMthanks for this :)
I live life simply as participant observer and observing participant. the trick is to be fully engaged in experiences, yet be able to see it as a game, thus be an observant at the same time. Most of my life I was a wall flower and observer, which was quite sad, and then there are those who just participate, fully immersed in matrix with no introspection whatsoever. Brazilian culture really looked like that for me when visiting rio, people are so engaged in the business of living and their magnificent bodies and their incarnation, that they have very little idea and use for knowing facts. Hell I asked 20 different local people for the name of a certain mountain, I asked people who were working at this lake, they all gave me different names. When I would ask them for directions, the answer was always go 4 blocks and u are there kinda thing. In the most extreme case, a shop keeper didnt know the name of the street they were working on, and a person I got to know didnt know how many nieces and nephews they had, simply saying in Brazil we dont keep track of this stuff. On the observer side we have north american culture so obsessed with facts and being cerebral, and doing very little actual living and participation, hell most westerners live life vicariously thru their tv set. When I came back from thailland to USA, my first question was why are people in north america so allergic to life.
So we need both. participating and observing at the same time.
As for experience of what u feel as opposed to what actually happens to u, I always use the quote I got from a guy I knew. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
As for the words and their magic, I love what u did there. I made a thread a while back here, called it word magic and put in all the words I have been playing with.
Also I have got a new obsession/addiction called addictionary.org where u can add new made up words, and keep track of them.
One day I will talk about the importance, the huge importance of language. This is thanks in a very large to Robert Tennyson Stevens and his ground breaking work. -
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Re: Define
Wed, January 31, 2007 - 7:34 PMjust as an aside.
In north America when u see the word save.
What is the first word that comes to ur mind. Money of course. we are conditioned to think of money at the mention of saving.
I find that sad, that a word as powerful as save is associate with money, not soul, not lives, but money. Just shows u how insidious this whole thing is.
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