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July 26, 2005 The vocal dispute between atheists and theists, liberals and conservatives, and other positions are minor compared to the tacit disputes between the articulate and the non-articulate. Many persons can't ever argue well their perceptions or their points of view. I feel a strong need to intervene and defend the less articulate from persons who are both very articulate and very aggressive. This is like environmentalists defending the rights of species who can't talk at all. Some of these creatures, like Eumenes and Odynerus, are small and often go un-noticed. It is like Meher Baba taking care of underclass people whom other leaders didn't provide for at all. It is like one articulate person with handicaps speaking up for even more handicapped persons who are being ignored by those who have more than enough verbal intelligence to speak up on their behalf. But for all their education, erudition, and sophistication, they still miss the fundamental concept. The highly educated, highly sophisticated, and highly vocal may not ever get the main point. Consider how one UK conservative recently wrote about his liberal brother and judged all liberals by that one example. But many liberals aren't like this brother at all! Another UK columnist judged all Moslems by the destructive actions of a few. That article would offend a great many Moslems! Christians, too, sometimes get lumped together, painted with a broad brush, and maligned. I see this very mistake being committed by atheists! In modern debates much heat is generated but little light. Columnists shoot off verbal barrages like battleships in the night. Many shots hit far from the target. All the while there is a great deal of noise, a great deal of machismo, and a great deal of wasted energy. Meanwhile, a certain perception termed "mystical" is well described by a few articulate observers. For example, the author and lecturer Alan Watts describes his mystical experience on page 125 of his book entitled "Nature, Man and Woman." This observation and numerous others form the starting point for scientists and other intelligent observers to begin their research on The Divine. The principal difficulty is that this yogic perception over-rides the conventional brain activity that conventional society tries to instill in a young child. The child who is affected the most by the yogic force may not socialize at all. When a child doesn't socialize, the child grows up without practicing the skill that is practiced for hours a day by most children. The yogic child is one with God but other children are one with their peer group. As adults the sociable people may care nothing about God and know nothing about God. The person who has known God all of his or her life has little or no respect and little or no voice. Naturally I have to rush in on behalf of the quiet or inarticulate persons who are so often ignored, rejected, or even denounced by the vocal articulators who have no handicap and no understanding of this matter. A vocal skeptic tells me I have to prove all my assertions. Consequently, if this skeptic were to visit me, or come to one of my demonstrations, I'd prove I am autistic by just sitting and staring directly at him without saying a word. I wouldn't say another word to him. He probably wouldn't understand what I'm doing. On the other hand, I've done this same thing with less verbal and less aggressive persons and they've felt heat in their bodies or seen a light in their eyes. They've felt an easing of tension and a cessation of pain. (I have letters which back up this claim.) This doesn't mean the skeptic will feel all these yogic sensations. The skeptic first has to learn to relax and feel the yogic force. The more the skeptics and I argue and talk, and the more I lecture on and on, the less time we have to be still and learn what John Allen Boone called “The Language of Silence” in his book by that title. In 1981 I had one particularly unpleasant encounter one afternoon in the small town of Takilma, Oregon. This lone stranger came striding up to me and said he was going to get his gun and shoot me. I was temporarily scared. An inner resource told me to just keep looking into this man’s eyes. The dangerous man found it impossible to unlock our yogic grip. Like the Northbound Zax and the Southbound Zax, we stood there for about two minutes as I observed pulsations of color ebb and flow all over his dumb guffaw. For at least a little while The Beast in this man was tamed. I left town, however, the next morning. I’d had enough of the Wild West. ------------ About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and problem-solving. John has created art, music and songs, prose and poetry, and helped people solve a difficult problem. For more information, read: John's letters of recommendation: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/recommendations about John's self-healing and integration: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/index.html about John's independent research: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/index.html about John's seeking an agent or a publisher: http://www.writers.net/writers/39295 Email: blueguntwo@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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