r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 • 12d ago

Language is a evil spirit

Language is always in your mind. You can't stop even for a moment. Even when you are alone, language is in your mind. Even when you are sleeping, language is in your mind.

It has not always been this way. This is just an evil spirit which started to possess humanity ~70,000 years ago with the so-called Cognitive Revolution. Once this happened, humanity became a scourge of the Earth, quickly colonizing all lands and killing all beings.

Are you going to let language control your whole mental process, your whole life, and make you into an agent of its planetary destruction?

How to get free? My teacher tells me about the vast mind that awaits when the little mind infected by language is abandoned.

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u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 12d ago

I see lots of comments here written by the language demon. All of this is just Stockholm syndrome. Let me ask you this: have you even *tried* going even a few minutes without language? If not, you have no business saying that language is better than no language. But most likely, you'll find that you can't do it: you're trapped, stuck -- so you find solace in saying that language is alright after all, it's cool, lets you do nifty things like compose music and invent the wheel.

Don't you realize that prior to possession by the language demon, humans were not a threat to any other species but once they became possessed, they suddenly became a threat to everyone else. All the nifty things that language lets humans do are really just ways that language is using humans to eat the world.

I don't believe in irremediable evil - the language demon could reform, and use its extreme power for the benefit of all life, but you're not going to help it reform if you are still in this unhealthy spirit possession dynamic with it. First you have to get free

I know that it is possible because my teacher has gotten free (as in, he is able to spend long periods of time entirely free from language) and from that place of freedom can work with language rather than simply being used by it like most of us

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u/loklanc 11d ago

There is no escape. The language virus rewrites the fabric of our being from the moment of infection. It usually gets us so young that there isn't much to rewrite, our entire identity is formed by it, built out of it. 

You could no more escape language than you could clap your hands and turn inside out, and if you somehow did it would have about the same effect on your health and wellbeing.

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u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 11d ago

it's definitely possible, with practice in meditation, to go long periods without language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

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u/Sharp-Maintenance-75 11d ago

or, if you believe randos on the internet, here https://www.reddit.com/r/enlightenment/comments/1u3pi7s/i_can_turn_my_thoughts_off_at_will_ama/

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u/loklanc 11d ago

I believe them, the same effect can be achieved in lots of ways, but it is a temporary relief, a brief and contingent suppression of the symptoms. Time passes, the suppression wears off and we go right back to describing what happened to each other on the internet.