Language Means
I had a very vivid experience of going backward in time to my land ‘Egypt’ before the pyramids. That was the mere beginning. I kept going backward to what I can call the Big Bang, then I kept going beyond this to the point before it all existed. I saw the Void, an empty place where nothing existed yet that void held the full potentiality of all that exists. I entered this void and watched how creation restarted all over again - everywhere within this void, we are all one earth consciousness remembering itself through us.
Noha - innerdance facilitator from Cairo
Such is the world before language. Sharings such as the above are common occurences in the innerdance. Slowly, minds that reenter the world emerge into language. As we wade in the meaningless and the infinite and seem to lose our sense of Time and History, so do we regain a more expansive consciousness that unfolds in words and meanings. The innerdance contains stories of of Why and How from the originary sense of the What.
what is language?
Historically, language was once seen as separate from thought, mind and body. Since innerdance is a body language, we are able to think and speak from what the body has to say. Very slowly, a non-verbal communication extends itself. From the sounds of silence, a mind speaks truths from unfamiliar ground, slow and soft.
Society necessitates a language just as Language also necessitates a Society, if Language wasn't just a tool, a means to an end. In the innerdance, language awakens, an intelligent space that comes alive, speaking us much more than we speak it.
Today, we experience language as it is now, in and of itself. Language has a history (and a historicity), one as old as time itself. A history of shifting perception, of growth and progress, which today undergoes a powerful transformation that became possible based on all that has evolved prior to now and here.
Usually, Language organizes, coordinates and systematizes. To most, Innerdance is an unfamiliar language, because it seems to disorganize more than it puts things in neat chronological order. New Language formations are often uncoordinated and unconventional - it does not conform with current paradigms and systems of thinking. In its newness, Language offers 1.) new forms (the containers of thought) and 2.) new content (the meanings represented by thoughts). The innerdance is a dance between new form and new content, where these once-distinct features of language become an indistinct oneness.
Society necessitates a language just as Language also necessitates a Society, if Language wasn't just a tool, a means to an end. In the innerdance, language awakens, an intelligent space that comes alive, speaking us much more than we speak it.
Today, we experience language as it is now, in and of itself. Language has a history (and a historicity), one as old as time itself. A history of shifting perception, of growth and progress, which today undergoes a powerful transformation that became possible based on all that has evolved prior to now and here.
Usually, Language organizes, coordinates and systematizes. To most, Innerdance is an unfamiliar language, because it seems to disorganize more than it puts things in neat chronological order. New Language formations are often uncoordinated and unconventional - it does not conform with current paradigms and systems of thinking. In its newness, Language offers 1.) new forms (the containers of thought) and 2.) new content (the meanings represented by thoughts). The innerdance is a dance between new form and new content, where these once-distinct features of language become an indistinct oneness.
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Traditionally, thought is transmitted by its sender, obtained by the receiver. Thoughts are sent as messages carried over by mediums or channels for thought.
In innerdance, form and content, medium and´ messages, sender and receiver become one and seamless with each other. We are somehow not just part of one universal dialogue, We Are Dialogue called the Uni-verse. |
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