1 result for (book:ecs4 AND heading:"esp class session decemb 7 1971" AND stemmed:record)
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Sumari
language
Janice
Bette
seed
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(To Natalie.) There is one element you have not thought of, you have another record keeper over here.
([Natalie:] “ A squeaky one, too.” [Referring to noise of the tape recorder.])
A squeaky one indeed, but a record keeper.
Now all of you to some extent in your dream work keep records, and as such you are dealing with language as you know it, and you are interpreting your experience in terms of a mundane language that is as much a deception as it is a reflection of your feelings and experiences, for you cannot find words within your language to express your own feelings and experiences. Now, are you witnesses of the beginning of a language, the birth of a language that never existed? Are you witnesses of the reemergence of a language that was never spoken? Did it ever occur to you that there are languages that have never been verbalized, that beneath the words that you know and speak there are other sounds and other meanings that you do not approximate with the language that you know? Did it ever occur to you that there are other methods of communication and ways of learning what they are and steps to learning them?
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