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The Sumari language is a bridge, and valid in those terms. It will lead you into the use of the inner senses, away from the confining nature of pet phrases and familiar language that is already loaded with its own connotations.

The Sumari language is a language then in those terms, a method of communication. It is the beginning of a logically unstructured vehicle that will carry you hopefully further into the inner heart of perception. I hope that eventually it will allow you to experience more fully the inner cognizance that is beneath physical perception and physical translation.

A bridge serves those both coming and going, and carries goods in both directions. The Sumari language in those terms will be used as a method of carrying you further into the nature of inner cognizance, and then allowing you to return again, retranslating what you have learned, not automatically into the stereotyped verbal pattern.

(Here Seth refers to Jane discussing Sumari in writing class this afternoon.)

(As Seth, Jane referred now to the Sumari language session we held on Wednesday, December 1, in place of the regular session. As I sat on the couch in our living room, my oil painting of Ianodiala, the 14th century Turkish clairvoyant, hung on the wall behind me. This is the painting Jane had used as a teaching instrument on Dec. 1, and referred to again now.

(The December 1 session had been recorded, and is extremely interesting. I ended up speaking some Sumari myself. Jane advanced to the point where she was able to translate some of this as we went along and the end product, in part, was some excellent poetry.

Think in terms of impressionism and its values, then switch to the idea of a Sumari language and see the connection, and the purposes that can be served. The language is fluid. All of the words need not be defined, though key ones will be. It will be used as a method of expanding your concepts, not of teaching you to translate experience into just another but different stereotyped form that happens to be more exclusive.