On Communication

Day of 11 Blue Spectral Eagle

Tone 11 (Spectral): Creative power to Dissolve Liberation, action of Release 

Blue Spectral Eagle (MEN): Creates and emphasizes Vision

I'm of the opinion that communication is the primary key to human liberation. Obviously, communication would only mean so much without action. But, unlike our ancestors, I think modern peoples are influenced by waves of communication first, which they act upon after. 

In other words, there is a lot going on in the modern person's cranium. A lot of conversations, a lot of images, a lot of words, a lot of ideas and a lot of impressions. Comparatively, I suspect our ancestors had to be much more aware of the way things were outside of their heads. Their inner dialogues were likely, originally, quite basic. 

"Aware. Hungry. Cold. Horny. Scared." 

As language, dialects and communication advanced, those thought processes and inner dialogues got more complex. However, before widespread media - including advertisements - human beings who couldn't read were more or less left to their actual experiences to inform their thoughts. Conversations they overheard or talked about, experiences they watched happened or had happen to themselves directly, music they were close enough to experience, places they could know about only if they traveled to them or someone they encountered talked about it and, of course, dreams. 

Today, in our modern-est of modern societies, this is far from the case. Many of us live in actualized or growing concrete jungles. Many people go entire days without seeing anything more natural to this Earthly experience than the passing of the Moon and the Sun. They don't see oceans, lakes, trees, mountains, the actual ground/soil or animals in nature. They are completely apart from the land they are on. They are conditioned to have a small perspective of what it means to be on this planet in that their impressions of Existence are 95% human in product and experience. We're not the only things here and it is healthy to remember that fact. 

Beyond that, the modern person is bombarded by imagery, media, noise and words constructed in order to produce certain effects. Increasingly, our personal human experience is made to feel like it is less and less of our own doing, of our own choices, or of our own experience. 

Yet, like those ancestors who had to cross far expanses of land and water, we are still acutely aware of ourselves. We are just becoming more and more desensitized to the feeling of being within ourselves. And herein lies the disservice.

Life is as real now as it's ever been. Just not to the human experience. The solar system still turns, our Sun still "stands," things are still growing, erupting, rushing and being born outside of our human experience. We are just less aware of it all and that creates a disconnect. 

With modern technological and societal advances, our thoughts have been able to drift (or "transcend") from our needs to our preferences. This isn't inherently a bad thing. It's more about what we do with this cushiony awareness. 

In essence, with all the knowledge and experience we have acquired as a species, are we currently better communicators? Are we more honest? Are we as real with ourselves as Existence is with us?

My opinion is no. And what I find tragic about that is that so much of our experience(s) is defined by our personal and collective awareness. Our ability to comprehend what actually IS and relate to it. 

Human beings are hardly doing that. Despite all the modern technological and societal advances, we are, in fact, not liberated. 

More prominent than our advances in communication, we have invested in different aspects of our experience(s). 

We are repressed. We are depressed. We are stressed. We are intolerant. We are violent. We are averse to experiencing things outside of our comfortable perspectives.

We would rather not be as aware as we can be about the way things are in their own experience. We say "no" and "yes" instead of asking "what is it?"

Why is that? 

In "2015," why are we still SO comfortably ignorant that we are willing to neglect the true concerns of our populace? Why are we so willing to pretend like we don't exist in life the way we do in our own heads? Why are we so unwilling to share that side of ourselves with the things, places and people that we actually experience? Especially when what is going on inside of our heads, our lives, our relationships is what is ACTUALLY happening in the greater fabric of life. Of Existence. 

I am aware that even now we are all largely ignorant. That's perfectly natural and reasonable - to an extent. Our ancestors didn't consider their ignorance of the world to be an advantage. Where the hell do we get off doing that? Ignorance is only bliss for the ignorant. Everyone else is struggling to deal with what actually is. Thus, when we either personally or collectively decide to combine our natural ignorance with fear and disinterest rather than curiosity, we degrade ourselves. 

Degradation is its own kind of violence. Particularly, it's a violence people don't seem to like to talk about. 

This is me pondering on why that is.