unraveling language
After intense researches on the fragments of words and their origins and meanings (coming up with dictionaries, studies of lexicon and grammar), as well as looking at the translations and interpretations of biblical/religious texts, scientists and philosophers landed on what turned out to be the debut of Linguistics as a Science of its own: Language now had a structure, a set of patterns to be methodologically studied.
In order to describe the structures of Language, Ferdinand de Saussure looks at the connections between objects, their representations and how sentences are formed:
In order to describe the structures of Language, Ferdinand de Saussure looks at the connections between objects, their representations and how sentences are formed:
As the child experiences the world and communicates with it, mirroring behaviors and language, the storage of the first words sets off a vocabularization process. From the state of oneness, existence is now translated into different words that describe and compress feelings, objects and the nature of everything. Almost as if an inner dictionary, there is a space where all the words we acquire throughout our lives in any language we learn are kept - a part of the grid of reality is entirely composed by a library of words that on themselves are categorized and archived under different functions. As the child grows, words begin to be selected from this space and combined into sentences that write and condense the narratives of spirit.
Structurally, Language can be seen from the emergence of the axis of Paradigm and Syntagma
The vertical and paradigmatic axis corresponds to all the words learned by a person and stored within its own inner library. It is this the space from which we draw all the possibilities of words. Some examples of categorizations are:
Names/Mammals: humans, whales, chimpanzee
Verbs/Actions: to swim, to run, to write
Adjectives/Atributes: beautiful, slow, rich
The second and horizontal one, the Syntagmatic Axis, corresponds to how the words are combined and organized into a systematic and chronological order.
Based on this, some observations shall be taken into consideration:
i) Language is intrinsically related to the notions of Space and Time, aspects that compose our narratives, structure and organize chaos/flow into form. The paradigmatic axis being the space from which we draw the infinite possibilities of words that will be coordinated, one after the other, into the texts and sentences uttered/written. Story happens in Time: events and memories are organized and compartmentalized into timelines. Our entire understanding of the planet is told progressively, from a beginning point that stretches itself horizontally across years. Such linearity is what condenses Space, funneling meanings, memories, emotions and energy into one aspect of reality. Every time one visits the womb space in the innerdance process, he/she is experiencing the decompression of Time and its history, as memories and experiences from different life times and different realities are all to be seen and felt through the body that is no longer bound by the rules of Time and Language: the deep space is the returning, the remembrance, the regression to a state of being prior to the conception of our own and personal stories into one particular and specific reality. As observed within the Regression Hypothesis, “ the process according to which a language is forgotten will be the reversal by which it was learned” - if as children we learn how to place meaning and to condense space into story through underlying structures of Language, transformation would happen by the undoing of such structures and patterns imprinted and hard wired in the brain by the openings and new neural pathways enabled by the shifts in the playlist.
When observing how Aphasia is experienced, Jakobson brought attention to the fact that besides happening in two different areas of the brain - related to comprehension and speech production - Aphasia can also be seen from the perspective of both axes, Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic. The production of speech, which is primarily activated in the Broca’s area (frontal lobe; left hemisphere) and motor cortex (responsible for the movements) gets impaired when its sense of linearity is disrupted and speakers find themselves unable to formulate sentences combining and organizing the words - such is the case that word order would be altered and the speech would sound jumbled. On the paradigmatic axis, the ability to select words - naming objects properly or even remembering simple classifications - is shut down.
The notion of a multidimensional reality, the role of the body-mind in the dance between descent and ascent of energy and magnetism and the workings of the structures of language upon our experiences are some of the opened areas within the merging point between science and spirituality that are yet to be fully described and experienced in the years to come. Still, what can be noticed right now is that we are uncovering pathways that lead to deep and integrative perceptions on the structures of consciousness.
ii) One can say that when playlisting, we are hacking the brain due to the different set of rules, patterns and combinations of sounds that the body-mind is exposed to. We learn from a very young age the sense of linearity: one event after the other, one day after another, the causes and the effects, successively. Just like when writing a story, a poem or the lyrics to songs: one word after the other and all, according to Noam Chomsky, following a universal structure that is innate to all humans. When speaking, for instance, we cannot say two words at the same time and intuitively we know how to organize the words, which selections should be combined. It is the birth of a story that, during innerdance is then taken back and seen from different angles, with different combinations that would, on a brain level, rewire the emission and inhibition of a set of neurotransmitters - as if all stories, all possible outcomes, effects and causes are happening at the same time, rebuilding the blocks of consciousness through the breaking down of the structures of Language. It is then that, after such decomposition process, one is experiencing the child brain and is given the opportunity to reprogram patterns, let go of old belief systems, have conversations with past and traumatic situations and, for a second time, acquire language all over again, except that this time he/she is more aware of the representations and condensations held by the words being spoken/thought.
iii) Many participants experience the state of unity and oneness during the innerdance process, stating that Language does not translate the journey, or even Spirit in its most authentic and integrative way. Such aspects can be also found within Linguistics and the arbitrariness of the signs: Saussure observed that the meanings of the words are merely conventions socially established. This is to say that, in most cases, meanings are preconceptions that do not hold intrinsic connections to the signs: the word cat is simply accepted to represent the feline animal because of what is socially agreed to be a cat, not that the word in itself would mirror and capture the nature of the animal, being entirely linked to it. This is one of the explanations for why such an animal is named with different words in different languages (cat in English, gato in Portuguese, for ex.).
In this case, meaning is generated more due to an assimilation and contrast relationality between the words; we know what a cat is by what it isn’t and by comparing it to other animals. This takes us to another rabbit role when looking, for example, at morals and beliefs: we can determine the good for knowing/determining the bad, war for peace, wealth by poverty. Language is, therefore, based on a dual and polar structure that, after the innerdance journey (according to many sharings) and coming from oneness, does not represent or resonate with the new being that is arising within participants. At this point, we witness the shifts in the brain, in the body, in the mind and, consequently, in Language itself: what is happening is the birth of a new structure, a new story, a new society, a new way of thinking and of being.
From a global sense, the shifts in discourse are intrinsic to any Language and its speakers. We have always been translating spirit, interpreting it and using whatever means to represent it, some choose music, others, painting but most of all, words play a big part in the process of transformation we have been experiencing since the origins of Time. In this case, a word can speak way more than an image, as it is, in itself, the representation of a subconscious structure of mind and a belief system. Taking for instance the current request for changes in the usage of the personal pronouns he/she to address woman/man that are, for some, considered as binary gender categories that do not represent the truest nature of human beings. Another example would be the differences brought up between the usage of the words “clients” “patients” “participants” “innerdancers” when it comes to naming the people who take part in innerdance journeys. Each choice will set different connections, as each word is related to other sets of words, linked to ways of seeing and experiencing it.
In this case, meaning is generated more due to an assimilation and contrast relationality between the words; we know what a cat is by what it isn’t and by comparing it to other animals. This takes us to another rabbit role when looking, for example, at morals and beliefs: we can determine the good for knowing/determining the bad, war for peace, wealth by poverty. Language is, therefore, based on a dual and polar structure that, after the innerdance journey (according to many sharings) and coming from oneness, does not represent or resonate with the new being that is arising within participants. At this point, we witness the shifts in the brain, in the body, in the mind and, consequently, in Language itself: what is happening is the birth of a new structure, a new story, a new society, a new way of thinking and of being.
From a global sense, the shifts in discourse are intrinsic to any Language and its speakers. We have always been translating spirit, interpreting it and using whatever means to represent it, some choose music, others, painting but most of all, words play a big part in the process of transformation we have been experiencing since the origins of Time. In this case, a word can speak way more than an image, as it is, in itself, the representation of a subconscious structure of mind and a belief system. Taking for instance the current request for changes in the usage of the personal pronouns he/she to address woman/man that are, for some, considered as binary gender categories that do not represent the truest nature of human beings. Another example would be the differences brought up between the usage of the words “clients” “patients” “participants” “innerdancers” when it comes to naming the people who take part in innerdance journeys. Each choice will set different connections, as each word is related to other sets of words, linked to ways of seeing and experiencing it.