Mind Your Language!
You
are surfing the web of human life every time you speak, read and think
You
exist in a sea of information. Your life is a story set within the story of
your family (set within the ancestral DNA/bloodline story) and your relationships—intimate,
friendly, ideological and professional. The story of your life with people you
come into contact with is set within the story of society, which is a story
told by education, politics, business, culture, arts, fashion and the media,
all set within the story of history, a story itself told in different ways through
different perspectives.
All
those stories of our past sink into the mythic bedrock; the intangible story
that arises from the story of the human species, a feeling-based backdrop to
the film or the play you star in, which is the story of your life.
What
you say is like a search on the Internet. It is an affirmation or mantra—the more you say it, the more you
search; the more your search is answered and confirmed.
Life Just Heard You
Whatever
you say is heard by Life. Even if you are on your own, Life is listening. Think
of it like this—whether you speak to yourself only or to another, the
collective unconscious, the collective imagination, is registering those words.
The
Lord searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts.
I Corinthians 28:9
As
Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud realized, our unconscious is not separate from the
collective mind, with its stories and myths; our dreams are full of universal
symbols. Our minds are all connected. Through levels and layers in our
subconscious and unconscious, we filter and colour the species mind with our
culture, family tradition, education and other conditioning.
Words
come with a history; they hold the inherent meaning of the collective historic
use, whether we are conscious of that or not. ‘Black’ is bad, ‘White’ is good.1
This is inferred and unconsciously received, due to historic usage. We are
using energy that has a history, which we are constantly adding energy to and
evoking.
Words
have sprung from and help determine different levels or mythologies of life. Language
settles down and
congregates to form collective stories.
Words also
evolve and have more fluidity of meaning when put together with other words. Words with the same
meanings have subtly different connotations, nuances or resonances (for example, wealth,
affluence, prosperity, fortune, riches, abundance, opulence, loaded, etc)
Words
spoken out loud have the power of manifestation. The repeated words or the
linguistic grooves and scripts we all tend to settle into create the reality we
experience. Words are attractors; words are memes or cultural viruses. Words have fashions—the way sayings, terms and expressed
sentiments are put together are especially historic, belong to a specific time;
they also belong to different levels of mythology in the collective
unconscious.
Pay Attention Please!
We
are rapidly moving from the Age of Information to the Age of Attention. What
information do you want to buy into? Ultimately it is not information in the
linear sense that is important, rather it is ‘reality packages’, which create subliminal
stories, or four-dimensional holograms.
Every
time we express an opinion, we conjure up a cloud of imagery; we evoke a story,
a context for Life.
If
you start criticizing people, your unconscious just joins together the negative
words to make up a story about Life—all Life, including your Life. You are programming your reality with criticism.
If
you start talking politics, you will evoke that backdrop. For example, if I
start to talk about Blair and Bush, you get that heavy sense of argument, perhaps
of indignation, and … you get the picture I am sure.
But
if I say, “Let’s talk about joy, love, prosperity, entrepreneurial spirit,
travel, adventure, sunshine, forests, sparkling streams, vital energy, fresh
air, cool clean alpine slopes, passionate creativity …”, it feels altogether
different, doesn’t it?
You
can choose to bring more of the energy you would like to have in your life by
choosing your words.
We
live in a self-perpetuating Enchantment, fuelled by words. What we talk about
and read about is recycled through our personal external and internal reality
and is what we contribute to in the co-creation of this world’s reality.
You Are a Multilayered Transmitter and Response Unit
You
are a nodal point in the information matrix, who draws upon the different
levels of reality that I call Enchantments, each of which has its own scripts.
You use these scripts to sculpt and create your own theatrical variant of
reality, which is your expression.
By faith we understand that the world was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.
Hebrews 11:3
You
are a kaleidoscope of expression, who mixes mainly from four coloured filters of
perception (the four main adult Enchantments of Life, or stages of
consciousness).
When you look down the tube of
your kaleidoscopic perception, what do you say you see?
The Scriptures of the Enchantments
The examples given below are the clichés we all use or have
used in the past, mostly unconsciously. They are simply scripts, generated
automatically from the corresponding Enchantment.
Saturn Enchantment
Often comes with the ‘we’ prefix.
“An
honest day’s work.”
“Do
as you’re told.”
“An
honest and upright citizen.”
“Do
your duty, for king and country.”
“The
salt of the Earth.”
“Be
a good girl.”
“We
ought to …”, “I should …”, “We need to …”, “We must …”
“Everybody
knows that …”
“Facts,
stick to the facts!”
“Poppycock!”
“Lunatic
fringe.”
“In
my day …”
“Mustn’t
grumble (grumble, grumble).”
“It’s
not what it used to be.”
“Mark
my words!”
“Waste not,
want not.”
Uranus Enchantment
Often comes with an ‘I’ prefix.
“Time is
money.”
“Make
something of yourself.”
“Money
makes the world go around.”
“You
can’t survive without money.”
“…
says more about you than money ever can.”
“Buy
this and show the world you are an individual.”
“Can
do.”
“I
will …”
“Spending
time …”, “Wasting time …”, “Making time for …”
“Go
for it!”
“Yes…
he shoots, he scores!”
“What
a weirdo.”
“Loser,
uncool, nerd, waster!”
“He’s so
interesting, what a brain!”
“I am making
a big investment in this relationship.”
“What do I
get out of this?”
“The Big Bang
theory.”
“You only
live once.”
“Survival
of the fittest.”
“Winners
and losers.”
“I am
spent.”
“Quality
time.” (Orange Uranus moving to Green
Neptune)
Neptune Enchantment
Often comes with a ‘we’ prefix.
“Beat the
system.”
“Rage
against the machine.”
“The real
truth behind …”
“Heal your
past.”
“How do we
feel about that?”
“We can all
share.”
“She’s such
a powerful healer.”
“My
guardian angel guided me to …”
“It’s not
mine; I was given it by Spirit.”
“It’s
obviously yet another conspiracy by them.”
“The
corporate machine.”
“Let’s talk
about it.”
“Love and
light.”
“How do you
feel about that?”
“We all
share the same …”
Pluto Enchantment
Often comes with an ‘I’ prefix.
“Live and
let live.”
“Horses for
courses.”
“Do what
you want, but not at the expense of others.”
“Systems on
the edge of chaos.”
“The
butterfly effect.”
“Well, just
try it and see.”
“Maybe it
will work, maybe it won’t.”
“I intend
to ……. , but I am not too attached to the outcome.”
“No regrets.”
“Hey what
the heck, it’s all good.”
“I would
like to think this improves the world in some small way.”
“Test
the water.”
Which Reality Do You Want to Buy Into?
The Uranus Enchantment
interprets the computer age as the Age of Information, whereas Pluto
Enchantment interprets it as the Age of Attention.
“Pay attention boy!”,
says Saturn Enchantment. Uranus Enchantment wins your attention
with status/good looks/appropriate costume and the sales pitch. Neptune Enchantment
can’t always be bothered to pay attention to the outside world, as the inner
world in this Enchantment feels much richer; however, Neptune may subconsciously
be absorbing the reality/sound byte/commercial anyway, thus inadvertently
paying attention (in energy) to support a reality not in accord with their
ideology.
The world wants your
attention. Politicians, the media, advertisers—they all want you to pay
attention, pay with your attention,
stand to at-tenSHUN. Without attention, a leader has no power; a government
would not exist. So remember, your attention is first and foremost for yourself.
Words are power; own
your power. Use intentional statements. Write them and read them back to
yourself daily and they will prime your attention. You will start automatically
placing your attention consciously on your own inner and outer reality; your
spiritual and material world will start being how you would love it to be.
Place attention on that
which you love by choosing your words consciously and with intention.
“I love life, life is good.”
[1] This, of course, is responsible for a lot of inadvertent racial discrimination, even amongst those who are not racist at all. See Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, pp 81–86; Little, Brown and Company, 2005.
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Laurence James Lucas and Carey Vail