Disclaimer: Peak madman rambling ahead, proceed with caution!
If you don't get the reference:
https://bloodborne.fandom.com/wiki/Eye
Eyes symbolize the truth Master Willem sought in his research. Disillusioned by the limits of human intellect, Master Willem looked to beings from higher planes for guidance, and sought to line his brain with eyes in order to elevate his thoughts.
I think I'm gonna go for it. White Hats who frequent this site might know this concept better than Anons, so I'm just giving them a heads up in case things go foul and I need to be put down.
I've been reading a bit of the old manuscripts and decided it's about time I take the plunge.
I figure I'm an otter, after all. Diving for pearls is my shtick, but what use are pearls when everyone sees them as shiny rocks? Pretty things, but of no real worth unless you string them together.
Right now, I'm short on string.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm talking in metaphor.
Metaphor, Analogy, Parable.
The Acroamatic Cipher.
The Symbol Language.
Speaking in Tongues.
They all reference the same thing, and I just about have it pegged now.
So I wondered today, what would it mean to "line your brain with eyes"?
And I think I got it. You have to replace your inner monologue, the "voice in your head" that prescreens your thoughts, with metaphor.
I've always thought in metaphor and analogy. It's always flown off my tongue like a poet in heat. See? There I go again!
It's been converging lately, so I figure I'm set for it anyway. Everything I do is frustrated, and hard to parse. Thoughts are flowing faster than my ability to write them down or even convert them into speech in my head. Words are failing me, and I can't piece together arguments anymore because of the lag.
It's gotten exhausting... and I'm already a tired dude.
So, I'm gonna take a crack at it. I'm gonna start thinking in metaphor completely. No more words in my noggin. Just imagery; just connections, systems, dynamics, stereotypes, themes, morals, and stories.
That's what it means to "line one's brain with eyes."
A Language that transcends all languages. A dance of the mind where all of Nature is choreographed with the precision of a watchmaker. It's like tossing aside the compiler and writing code in 1s and 0s.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%202:5-7&version=GNV
Now when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that every man heard them speak his own language.
I don't know what's over the next hill, so wish me luck! If I don't write with much sense for a few days, account it as the chrysalis going through the quickening.
This is how I think when I am trying to solve a problem (in science especially, physics specifically). When the narrative, the voice that defines, goes away, all that is left is appreciation. It's all concepts, connections, grokking, listening; no more words, sentences, formulas, or definitions which limit That Which Is to a box.
I used to think everyone thought this way, then I realized not many do. Now even I don't think this way much anymore. The definitions, the desire to narrate the world to myself is hard to let go of. I only really let go of them during meditation, rather than in active thinking mode like I used to.
I think I need to retrain myself to go back there. It takes more energy though, and I don't get enough sleep.
Sleepy:
Word of encouragement.
In this 'end of times', its a given that to go to this 'place' will become harder than ever.
i share this desire to return to a once-known serenity of non-thinking Awareness.
But now, more than ever, we are not simply exchanging one word for another with the same essence.
We are changing the meanings..........and so it takes correction.....using words...to 'corral' it back to it's higher source.
You look up......discover......look down....and deliver to the plain below.
Only others at this same altitude can share the view.
Put 'into the Big Dipper' and 'poured back upon the world' as Divine Inspiration/17/Q/The Star.
So to speak.
A literary construct. Two seemingly disparate worlds and both a necessary part of the greater puzzle.
Is the literary construct necessary though? As sleepydude is saying, thinking in a different language, the right language, removes the necessity of the literary construct.
If the language itself is intrinsically connected, fundamentally conceptual (like a symbolic language, which is the language of the occult mysteries), perhaps we don't need to define, but can just appreciate without our "narration." Though I'm not sure such thinking can still be called "narration" if, as I presume, it takes away the "define the world as we believe it to be" part of our thinking.
I for one need the communication. Contemplation is after all the goal of monks, but if they are good with that alone and have no need to communicate, none will ever know if they've solved the mysteries of the universe or prevented lesser mortals avoid stepping in it. We undisciplined minds can absorb and understand the necessary if explanations communicate without a degree in physics or computer science.
This isn't talking about taking away communication, but rather using a different type of communication, one that does less "defining" and more "appreciating". It is the nature of the language we use that requires us to put everything in a box in our communication. Other languages (notably symbolic languages) are not so "defining."
What is "necessary?" If you only want to decide what to make for breakfast, or what the odds are that a vaccine is harmful, you don't need that much information, though that doesn't make your decision right, it only makes it "enough for now, maybe I'll pay for it later." If one is investigating the Truth however, every part of a thing is necessary. The English language (or math for that matter) are insufficient to express that "whole of a thing" because they are so specific in their definitions, without even the capacity to encompass the whole of a thing, even in theory.
Are you using the aid of ANYTHING natural or synthetic in your search ?
I use stimulants to keep me awake.
I've been off them for about a month straight.
Just took one today because I didn't get good sleep last night. It was a mistake, I'm picking up too much noise.
Example of the "noise":
See, too much noise...
This. Is why I've developed the saying: "Language re-members what we have forgotten."
I don't believe you, Sleepy, when you say you're going to cut out thoughts using words..........because it's a natural inclination to you and you're good at making the connections.
If words are puzzle pieces, then The Word is the picture on the lid of the box.
Involution/evolution is dis-membering, analysing, and re-membering the pieces as one god/truth.
I as one, appreciate your efforts (confirm them) and think you should continue both, - understanding them as two complimentary things in the end.
Thoughts?
You write beautifully and I can feel what you are saying very deeply. Say it all in your own poetry language. I appreciate it. I think I speak for everyone here when I say we love and appreciate you.
I think I know where you're going and I don't think it's bad at all. I am not a disciplined reader, but am a voracious one and am not good at instant recall of dates and names, but I remember ideas and I think these literary devices are the reason.
Just be prepared for a lot of folks not understanding and to watch that you don't throw those pearls before swine. Oh, and storing them while you find more string isn't a waste.
Nice!
Not sure if this relates but when I was reading short stories by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, I realized that certain minds have a more 'poetic' outlook, seeing everything as related and using metaphor to describe things. I started trying to think like that, and it was fun.
Good luck! See you on the other side. (Metaphorically, anyway.)
Actually this happens to me quite a bit.....It becomes very hard to transfer my thoughts into words for others to understand....
Pretty frustrating at times because in my mind the concept or discovery makes perfect sense but its just too hard and takes too long to put into words so Im not able to share.
Hm, I'll have to ruminate, cogitate and sleep on this - deep stuff.
I'm wondering if trying to constantly explain things to other people that seem instantly and completely obvious to me is holding me back from my true potential.
Interesting post, good luck.
PS. If you feel you're getting lost, reach out to JC for help, he's got your back :)
I get it , is it related to what history thinks Francis said about preach the gospel at all times and if necessary use words? or maybe im up to late
How did cave men think before they developed language?
Did they think in images?
Or did they think in terms of symbols?
We SEE a vine.
They see everything a vine can make. Like a Minecraft crafting log.
Once language is introduced, they see the word, not the item and everything it stands for.
Certain associations go missing.
You can see the moon in your mind, sure.
But one who has reverted back to symbolism will see not only the moon, but the womb. The menstrual cycle, the passing of months, and the ever fickle subconscious mind.
The goal, therefore, is to cast off the barriers that language forms, and begin to think anew in the mindset of a Living Man; one who ponders upon things for what they spiritually are, not what they are defined as.
A rock is a rock to the modern man. To a man who sees it as the sum of its functions, a rock is actually a hammer, a foundation, aggregate, a whetstone, a brick, a projectile, or even a pope.
Language requires me to list all these things for another to understand. If we instead saw all things as a sum of their functions, I would need only show a rock and all those things it inherently IS will come to mind, and not a laundry list of terms people might not have ever seen before.
You get tied up in language, instead of the true meaning of the object at hand.
That's what I'm talking about. Thinking no longer in terms, but in a spiritual picture of all things, from the lowly rock to the sky above.
“Shaka, when the walls fell.”
“Mirab, with sails unfurled.”
Maybe this is what you're looking for?
https://www.nonsymbolic.org/seekers/
The language that transcends all others is not a language.
It's awareness.
Be-ingness.
Reveling is What Is without giving it a name.
Careful though. Be sure you're stable first.