THE LIMIT OF WORDS

The Modern Mystic knows that words are not perfect. If they were, you could describe what the color red looks like to a blind person. Go ahead, try it. It’s impossible. You can’t do it. Likewise, there are words in some languages which have no equivalent in other languages, and therefore the person who speaks the second language has no hope of understanding the missing word. Even if they do learn the language, they’re still going to only understand the missing word in terms of the closest thing they can relate it to in their original language. Furthermore, no word has an inherent meaning beyond the intended meaning applied to its sound. This may seem obvious, but it is a subtlety most people overlook, so I’m talking about it. There is nothing about a Rock that specifically requires it to be called a Rock. It’s called a million different things in a million different languages. If it was instead called a Kcor in english, and that is what you had always heard your entire life, you wouldn’t think twice about it. Just knowing this simple thing—knowing that the words you recognize are just ideas, and that these ideas are universal and can be expressed using any sound whatsoever opens new pathways in the brain, and releases it from long standing mental patterns—without having to learn a new language at all. This makes a HUGE difference. Richer meanings will be gleamed from almost everything you experience. There is suddenly a way you can conceive of a Dog’s bark as a specific word, not just an emotive noise. And if you listen to these words intently enough, you will begin to understand them very articulately. The whistle of a bird will be a literal statement, not just a pleasant sound to think of as a “Song.” The sound of a certain tiny waterfall in a Creek will be a story. Wind hitting a wall will be words. Thunder will be the statement of lightening. Taking it one step further, if all words are nothing but agreed upon meanings applied to a stimulus, why limit it to sound? A sunset could be a sentence.