Conversations For Transformation: Essays Inspired By The Ideas Of Werner Erhard

Conversations For Transformation

Essays By Laurence Platt

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The Organs Of Speech

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February 3, 2024

"Transformation shows up in my mouth."


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This essay, The Organs Of Speech, is the one thousand eight hundredth in this Conversations For Transformation internet series. That doesn't mean anything. It's just what's so.

At some point in the conversations for transformation we have during our hejiras of Self-discovery, the following insight becomes unavoidable: whenever we speak, we speak who we are (it's a graduate distinction). No, it's not a typo. There's no "about" missing. I don't mean "Whenever we speak, we speak about who we are.". Yes, we do speak about who we are from time to time. So just get clear that speaking about who we are, is a different order of things than speaking who we are. And you have to step back to see the bigger picture: even when we speak about who we are, we speak who we are. Knowingly or unknowingly, whenever we speak, we speak who we are. And knowingly or unknowingly, whenever we speak about who we are, we speak who we are.

When we speak about who we are, not knowing we're speaking who we are, that's us doing business as usual. When we speak about who we are, knowing we're speaking who we are, that's us being astute. When we speak who we are or about who we are, knowing knowingly or unknowingly we're speaking who we are, that's our recognition of transformation. And the machinal creatures we are, have organs of speech to access and bring forth transformation.

In our conversations for transformation, if we explore the question ie if we pursue the inquiry "Who are we?", one possible answer / take-away is "Who we are is what we, knowingly or unknowingly, speak.". Maybe. You may prefer another possible answer to / take-away from this question / inquiry. It's: "Who we are is that we, knowingly or unknowingly, speak.". Maybe ... if it's true that it's the organs of speech that give us access to and bring forth who we are.

What that all comes down to is this: when we speak, we speak who we are - period. And that's what the organs of speech provide us with. In the machinal construction design of the creatures we all are, the organs of digestion give us nutrition, the organs of the musculoskeletal system give us the freedom and the ability to move about, the organs of sight give us vision, the organs of perspiration give us cooling, the organs of filtration give us immunity etc etc.

And in all our conversations for transformation, if we explore the question ie if we pursue the inquiry "What are we?", one possible answer / take-away is "What we are is the space in which all this (including our experience of all this) shows up.". Maybe. So it could be that it's the organs of experience that give us what we are. And notice I did just say maybe. Those are just three possible transformative answers* to / take-aways from the questions / inquiries "Who are we?" / "What are we?". Now be careful: you'll ruin it if you turn these answers / take-aways into "The Truth" (which you could do because we're addicted to "The Truth"). If you catch yourself doing it, stop it / don't (I urge you to stop it / not to): "The Truth" as the answer shuts down further inquiry.

Upon hearing an assertion such as "It's the organs of speech that give us access to and bring forth transformation", we're thrown to try to figure it out ie to understand it - in almost the same way as we understand how the organs of nutrition, the organs of the musculoskeletal system, the organs of sight, the organs of perspiration, the organs of filtration, and the organs of experience etc etc do what they do. Let's sound the warning: you don't get transformation by figuring out ie by understanding how the organs of speech do what they do: you get transformation by using the organs of speech, by deploying them.

*		"Who are we?" / "What are we?": Consider these three possible transformative answers to / take-aways from the questions / inquiries "Who are we?" / "What are we?": 1) "Who we are is what we speak" (given by the organs of speech) - content based; 2) "Who we are is that we speak" (given by the organs of speech) - context based; 3) "What we are is the space in which all this (including our experience of all this) shows up" (given by the organs of experience).

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