“from 25 or 30 sounds an infinite variety of expressions, which although not having any resemblance in themselves to that which passes through our minds, nevertheless do not fail to reveal all of the secrets of the mind, and to make intelligible to others who cannot penetrate into the mind all that we conceive and all of the diverse movements of our souls.”
Noam Chomsky
The infinite variety of expressions is the endless variety of narratives that we spin in our subjective mind then merge that spin with life on earth in all of its dimensions…Language Acquisition is the divide between a chimp and a human…we still have access to that languageless region. It is the well-spring of creativity. But it is best accessed from a position of still point.
Quieting the mind, quieting the ego aspect of the mind is essential to gaining the glimpse that we need to be connected to the primitive aspects of our survival. The connection with our DNA is consciousness. It has both a linguistic shade to it and a languageless shade to it.
The languageless region is often frightening because we expect to find darkness. And then complicate what we find with a story. The moth has two possibilities, flying too close to the flame or wandering too far from the warmth.
As human animals, accessing our ancient instincts needs deliberate intent because the language part of us has so advanced that the instinct part of us recedes further and further back. This makes it difficult to find our way through the jungle of neurotransmitters to where earlier survival skills were dominant. We still need these ancient survival skills. Much of modern medicine is not trained in the use of the subjective to access illness in the body.
Principles of therapeutic yoga are in line with psychoanalytic thinking. Both systems of healing are aware of the importance of the unconscious. In psychoanalysis, the unconscious is an element of consciousness “beneath the surface”. In Yoga, the unconscious is the body. The sensations that are felt are languageless messages from the body to the mind. We can stray from our desires if we have not understood the body’s message to our consciousness.
Modern humans tend to feel these ‘sensation-messages‘ then proceed immediately to creating a narrative, a story which we tell ourselves. In analysis we spend a lot of attention on the narrative. In yoga, the time is spent on understanding the sensation not as words, but as a languageless communication.
The most attractive part of this lesson on biology and evolution is the tremendous boost that we can get from our own instinct of creativity. Here is a picture that emerged from my languageless region:
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