our modes of cognitive understanding include a wide range of dimensions – such as lexical, visual and emotional – each medium resonating with a different level of experience. Each mode of comprehension is most compatible with a particular type of information. For instance, while words may be the most skillful medium for everyday social interactions, emotions may be a more suitable lens through which to understand what our own bodies are trying to communicate with ourselves.
attempting to coerce a certain mode of understanding onto an incompatible dimension of experience is bound to lead to confusion and distortion of information – as most commonly occurs on the subtler levels of reality. On those levels, insistence on using languages too clunky for the experiential environment impede ones ability to actually understand… like insisting on seeing a photon through ones store-bought prescription eye glasses.
While conventional language can adequately describe certain of the more subtler levels of reality, the very paradigm within which it is meaningful dissolves on the subtlest levels of reality.*
Notions of space and time are no longer linear and discrete – and the conceptual self vanishes without these usual signposts of experiential orientation.
So what level of understanding is more conducive to these subtle realms – where Information is understood instantaneously rather than through the syntax of narrative langauge?
i would like to offer a possible alternative mode of comprehension that sits at the precipice of my conscious understanding & so i write the following words with an extra level of awareness of their inadequacy/incomprehensiveness:
This mode of comprehension is grasped instantaneously as an embodied understanding that is accompanied by a pre-visual image… it is an image through the medium of something close to emotion. It conveys energetic dynamics in such an abstract way that it can clarify & apply to many dimensions of meaning.
This is the language of archetypes before they’ve been dressed in cultural or natural symbolism.
For me this is the language of intuition & i humbly theorize that it is the pre-verbal foundation of all modes of cognition.
*playing around with conventional syntax (especially verbify-ing nouns) in unconventional ways is a way of loosening the rigidity of english in a way that can be more accurate for these levels – (like “the electron particled” or “it was Laila-ing peacefully”). (However this is still inadequate for the subtlest of levels).