USING WORDS ENERGETICALLY TO ALCHEMIZE AND TRANSFORM

I know from long experience that each person who reads my words will understand them differently, so I simply write from the depth of my own experience and integrity. I also write with a great deal of care, intention, attention to grammar, and attention to the energetic effect of my words.

I discovered that I was enchanted with words as art forms, not words as Truth.

I learned the distinction between judgment and discernment. Judgment was making someone else wrong. Discernment was noticing the effect another person’s words and actions had on my own Soul, Spirit, and Energy Field.

I learned that when words are used, not as Truth, but as energetic vehicles to open up minds and transform lives and cultures, they became fascinating toys to play with, take apart, and put together again in new ways that open doors of understanding, clarity, and evolution. Words, well used, have the power to offer those who hear or read them exciting new options for dealing with life’s challenges.

I do feel driven to get what I understand about words and transformational experiences out into the world. And yes, it feels as if this is my life purpose. How I do it is not set in stone. It’s more like alchemy. What I say or write depends on context, environment, and the human players. The words keep shifting as context, environment, and human players shift.

The particular words are irrelevant except in specific experiential contexts. The energy and understanding that lie beneath the words are vital.

• If you begin with and explore Alfred Korzybski’s famous statement, “The map is not the territory,” you ultimately realize that words are nothing more than maps of experiential territory. You also realize that words almost always separate and divide: high/low; good/bad; right/wrong, etc. Experience doesn’t separate and divide. It just is. Our minds may choose to call it joyous or painful, but the experience itself just is what it is.

We humans fight over whose map is right and whose map is wrong; whose words are right and whose words are wrong. We don’t need to do that. Instead, we can use our words consciously to set intentions about the kind of world in which we want to live, and together, co-create that world so that all humans feel respected and all needs are met as well as humanly possible.

The challenge is that there are infinite contexts and infinite experiential meanings. Within a single physical life, I can only explore a few in any depth.

I do see myself as a microcosm of the macrocosm, so there is a sense in which my story is every woman’s story.

Sri Maharshi taught through silence.

A major reason we have war is because some people set their own words up as Truth and then fight with others who have set up different words as Truth. The fact is that neither has evolved to a consciousness where they understand that words are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. This is the huge danger of religion. Religious doctrines are created to codify the spiritual experience and guide the seeker to it, yet in the process of codifying it, they frequently destroy it. Used correctly, religious doctrines guide one’s own actions. They should never be used to control the actions of others.

The spiritual experience is pure awareness, beyond dualistic words, beyond my words, beyond the word “awareness.” And yet it can also include dualistic words. Sometimes, it needs to because they can be wonderful catalysts when used in context to shift energy. They just pop up and they’re there.

Despite the inadequacy and imperfection of words, we have to put them out there in the best way we know how. It is through putting our words out there and engaging in dialog that we clarify, both for ourselves and others.