Language, Peace & Social Harmony
The experience of inner peace, the sense of peace that a human being experiences internally, is closely related to the thoughts that he or she entertains, up to the point that thoughts and feelings shape the experience of reality for a human being.
The articulation of ideas in the form of language is a powerful kind of manifestation of such thoughts, and since the nature of the expression of thought through language may be part of a feedback system of relationships, when used and applied consciously, it may lead to a self-reinforcing refinement of thought processes that foster inner peace and leaves little room for conflict, anger and fear. This minimises these emotional states, leaving them irrelevant at least for periods of time, to prioritise the state and action of peace.
This means that some pure seed-thought-forms carry the capacity to transcend thought processes themselves eventually, when required or willed. An example would be to transcend the survival need for shelter in order to explore more intimately and deeply natural environments like jungles, forests and mountains. Just consider how life would change if suddenly many people would look at nature for the beauty and the nurturing elements it provides to the human body and psyche (with its associated risks and threats) instead of seeing nature as natural resources, whereby he or she would exchange the phrase "this sunset looks like a picture in a museum" for the phrase "this picture looks as beautiful as a natural sunset itself", to eventually be liberated from having to take a picture and be content to say something like, "I am loving this sunset".
Language, used wisely by a conscious person, may also support another human being to transform habitual, inherited and learned instrumentalised behaviour in order to become a conscious being who has transcended such behaviours. Ideally, this will allow for the expression of his or her Essentia identity, his or her wild or untainted spiritual being, his or her I AM existential identity. A human being that is an embodiment of Essentia values, also called spiritual or universal values can still employ language to facilitate such a transformation of consciousness with long-term effects on other human beings.
However, the experience of the I AM Identity that is accompanied by the realisation and self-actualisation in relationship with enformal space or Essentia can be derived, accessed and experienced without the mediation of another human being or the elements of any particular environment. Instead it may arrive by the inner contemplation of, or meditations about, enformal space, Essentia and spiritual values, both impersonally and in relationship to the source of those values, The Creator. These kinds of contemplations are geared to reveal the relationship between Essentia and our spatio-temporal universe and therefore between our Essentia identity and its manifested expression in our biological human existence.
Whether in direct relationship with The Creator or by the mediation of another human being, the communication process requires that both, transmitter and receiver, have the proper conditions together with a clean channel to produce an optimal communication. This means that a message is better received and acknowledged when noise in the communication is minimal.
We conjecture for our case that a quiet and coherent mind from which thoughts originate, will infuse the communication process with the qualities of Essentia that otherwise would be more likely absent when the sender displays a noisy, agitated mind or state of being.
From where we stand, the verbal message will be properly comprehended by the human elements of this communication system when Essentia is transmitted together with it. In that sense, meaning and spiritual values are vitally complementary. When meaning is devoid of spiritual values or Essentia this may more likely create miscommunication, stress (accompanied by mental noise) and misperception of reality. It is important to note that the only transmitter-receiver element of this system, which always displays the perfect conditions for communication is The Creator and perhaps is the ultimate facilitator and perfector of the human communication sub-system and its content.
Some sources of ancient wisdom have dealt with these prepositions and for example in the Bible it is written, “...guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.” (Proverbs 4:23), “What comes out of your mouth is more important than what you put into your mouth” (Matatyahu, 15:11). This indicates the importance to be careful of what to think and what to speak, what to feel and how to empathise with other people. All this is crucial to the experience of a meaningful and harmonious human life and “reality”.
As we can intuitively and even rationally appreciate, language is a means to activate mental spaces connected to pure thought forms, emanating from a pure source.
It is possible that different cognitive maps may coexist in the brain to allow a human being to function in the physical as well as in the spiritual realm and that the use of certain words, sounds, images and movements may trigger the firing of certain populations of neurons (neuropils), enabling or disabling aspects of the different cognitive maps. If this is so, then the use of language and especially the choice of words and grammar can play a crucial role in shaping and activating neural maps and therefore influence the experience of peaceful states of being.
In that sense, the words of a prophet or wise person can facilitate a paradigm shift for another human being. If we accept that words can have such profound effects on the soul and mind of a human being, then how is it that language brings about these effects?
To begin this inquiry we can explore the effect of a noun perceived consciously or unconsciously as static and without life. By replacing this noun with an adjective instead, the experience now somehow is transformed and this transformation includes the shift from a disembodied entity to an embodied quality or Value, e.g. friendliness to friendly. The reader may take a moment and let these two words rest upon his or her consciousness and observe the different internal responses to the two words.
With this observation in mind the question arises, ‘Where do entities originate from?’ Could it be, that it is the quality or Value that brings an entity into existence? We postulate together with others that before the beginning of time, space, energy and matter, there was a zero-infinite-dimensional, pre-space-time-energy-matter pool of Values or enformal space that gave birth to 3D-space-time and everything within it. We conjecture, then, that the spiritual is the prime mover rather the physical.
These ideas are directly related to a very practical question about peace: Given that enformal space is the ancestor of humanity and is still driving manifested realities, then how could, by the conscious attunement and embodiment, a human be transformed from angry, upset or violent states related to survival biological inheritance, into one which can exist and act peacefully and altruistically? This question is also closely related to Sovereignty, as true sovereignty goes hand in hand with the acknowledgement of the other, a fellow human being whose peace should never be breached. This also includes the acceptance of the choice of others to determine how they want to be, violent or peaceful, and humanity’s self-organising principle that modulates collective peace and harmony.
One of the powerful tools that are available to humans in order to restore harmony, are the words of wisdom and compassion that together with actions of kindness are manifested by people who are willing to find a remedy to the causes of disharmony. In that sense, an Ambassador or Ambassadress of Peace, a person embodying his or her Essentia identity, is a sovereign being equipped to facilitate the restoration of peace wherever it has been breached.
This restoring power we propose is manifested by the agency of these words in intimate association to the field of spiritual values (Essentia). Restoring words and actions are expressed while spiritual values are embodied in the flow of Essentia. For example, an angry or upset person may be able to return to peace in the presence of a wise person or a prophet who embodies Love and Triunity and is able to transmit these Values through words, actions and presence.
While values like Love and Truth are essentially attributes of God’s Being (absolutes), when they are revealed and present in human life, spiritual values come to modulate human relationships relative to cultural expression.
Adjectives and gerunds are the grammatical presentation which describe the embodiment of spiritual values, allowing the expression of an ongoing active presence of Essentia in relationships.
While the idea that qualities are properties of entities is widely spread in today’s world view, in reality it might be exactly the opposite, meaning that it is spiritual values that bring forth the entity into existence. At the very least we can conjecture that entities as conscious living beings and spiritual values are inseparable. We propose that material life and entities are the offspring and effect of the generative value field, Essentia or enformal space, associated with the Prime Mover, The First Cause or The Cause of All Causes.
This understanding has also been transmitted through ancient wisdom. For example, in the Zohar the Hebrew Letters and their qualities (or Values) are explained in the form of a story and it is said that it was with those qualities or letters that The Creator created our universe. There are deep spiritual implications to be gained from this understanding. Rather than looking for external things (nouns) in order to make manifest human dreams and aspirations, it is the internal exploration of, and the attunement with Universal Values and their embodiment (adjectives and gerunds) that bring forth the manifestation of events in a human life.
In the Zohar Rav Hammuna Saba speaks about the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, explains that each letter has specific qualities and relates the story of how The Creator chose the letters with which the worlds would be created. This was written more than 2000 years ago and the author proposed also, that Values rather than objects are at the root of creation. Looking at the Hebrew alphabet in that way will provide countless insights into the fabric of reality. However, for now, we would like to point to the letter א (Alef) which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and which also represents the numerical value of 1. Alef’s (א) graphical design consists of two other letters: the letter ו (Vav) in the middle and the letter י (Yud) to the top right and bottom left. The numerical value for the letter ו is 6 and for the letter י is 10. Therefore, the letter א can represent the numeric value of 1 as well as 26 when we add up the numeric values of each component of the letter א. If we look at the Hebrew word יהוה (Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei), the name given to God in the Torah, it also has a numeric value that adds up to 26 (Hei=5, Vav=6, Hei=5 and Yud=10). In the most sacred Hebrew prayer, still recited by millions of people all over the world every day, it reads אחד (Echad) יהוה (Yud-Hei-Vav-Hei) – God is One. So Alef (א), being the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is connected to God and One. This may give the reader a little insight into the complexity and depth of the Hebrew alphabet and its relationship to creation and also highlights the relevance of values and language in the process of creation, as each letter has a spiritual value associated to it, more than just a shape and phonetic function, more than just a physical symbol and sign. It is the value or essence associated with the letter rather than the letter itself (its physical symbol) that holds the creative power. The object, the letter, is simply a physical representation, a human symbol and a “pointer” to the spiritual value.
In the Zohar and other literature it is also mentioned in detail the power of visualising and meditating upon each letter of the Aramaic or Hebrew alphabet, where the consonants represent the body of the language and the vowels, which are associated with breathing, represent the soul. It is explained how these letters are associated to “Living Beings”, “Energies”, and “Qualities”. Spiritual Values are presented as nurturing food for the soul and their reception by the human may be aided by the planting of each seed letter in the garden of human consciousness during sleep time.
Past, present and future are stories that try to convey memories of moments in a timeline, e.g. I felt in love (past), I am in love (present) or I will fall in love (future), however, the phrase “I am loving my life” is an experiential, ongoing and dynamic process, associated with first person perspective in the 'now-moment', never to be confused with the present as a point in the timeline separating future and past memories via human cognitive systems. It is plausible and probable that the grammatical choice of gerunds supports a person’s cognitive process in avoiding getting mentally stuck in either the future or the past. A gerund is a grammatical expression that characterises an ongoing process, a motion. When we look at another spiritual text, Paradise Landing, where 'Paradise' is accompanied by the gerund 'Landing' to signify the ongoing pouring down of the qualities and spiritual values associated to 'Paradise' (the dwelling place of The Creator in one self), we get the impression of the potential power in the use of gerunds when aspiring for the embodiment of a particular value: The phrase 'Paradise Landing' provides the reader with an expression of an ongoing process whereby the revelation of God’s Values potentially manifest in human life moment by moment. It is this aspect of continuity that signifies an important notion and can exemplify the difference between a spiritual experience or an awesome moment, which is connected to a specific point on a timeline and coordinate in space, in contrast with the ongoing experience of living in God’s Will as an embodiment of Essentia.
All of the above could allow us to better discern the difference between belief and faith, where eventually by an ongoing faith, a human being transcends all of his or her beliefs and achieves an ongoing inner certainty about spiritual identity, intentions and purpose.
With all this in mind, a clear picture about how important it is to choose language wisely and carefully starts to emerge, or shall we say, is emerging. When an adjective or gerund is used in describing an ongoing motion and it is connected linguistically to an inner state of peace, it may increase the continual probabilities associated with an ongoing embodiment of that state. Vice versa, an adjective or gerund may also have destructive effects when used lightly in association with destructive thought.