What is Language other than an expression of Culture?
In studying language, it’s very easy to get stuck at the surface level, picking apart words that are all governed by the same consciousness that formed the language in the first place.
For me, it was only when I could sense and feel how others viewed reality, and were relating to life differently, that a new avenue of relating became accessible in my own thinking. Syntropy was, and is, that missing link.
Nature’s language is key to seeing through many of the distortions and confining belief systems that go unchecked simply because everyone uses the same words and assumes they mean the same things.
I’ve written before about “naming the namers,” tracing who actually shaped the language we use, since that helps dissolve our own unconscious sense of ownership over it.
In our human ability to name things, there’s a real power. No one can own a thing simply by naming it, but names do have real power over how we think about what’s been named.
Language governs our consciousness, our way of perceiving reality.
If you don’t have words for something, it’s hard to really see it, and harder still to relate to it. English, as I’ve come to think of it, is a system of human thought turned into word-sounds conveying meaning, and through shared use, a whole community comes to understand certain words a certain way, which shapes how that community relates to life.
Cultural Conditioning and Language
None of us actually agreed to the meaning of our words, or the structures of our language, or the values built into different word-sounds. We were conditioned into it. Looking at life through the lens of Syntropy, I see a broad pattern of cultural erosion, meaning and function drifting away from the natural order as we absorbed human-made, limiting beliefs in its place.
If most of us were shaped by patriarchal ways of naming things, it’s worth asking what other people’s consciousness and experience of reality might look like. I think we can retrieve some of that missing language and perspective by turning to the stories of those who kept a different, more natural order of relating alive.