Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Sixth Sense Organ

The American Heritage Dictionary defines 'Language' as "Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. [1]
According to The Bible the first men were able to communicate even with animals.
 Eve was able to communicate with the serpent. [Genesis 3:1-5]
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Yes, has God said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die. 4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die: 5 For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
For a modern linguist, this may sound a bit weired - how can men speak with a serpent in a manner that can be  lexically interpreted? Is there any sense organ we missed to communicate with animals? Or did the serpent lose its humane intellect and physical structure, degradation to a mere animal snake?
But the same Bible gave no trace of the second option. So what was the 'sixth' sense organ amputated from Adam and Eve, after their eviction from The Garden of Eden? Why don't we communicate with animals now? ......Question ONE!

As we ponder on to the same Bible, [Genesis 11:1]
"1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.....[].....Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth.
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The children of men faced another limitation, even they themselves faced misunderstandings among each other. At this time it became clear that we might not have lost a sixth physical sense organ - rather the same incident might have happened with "the serpent-men" dialect. What might have caused this miscommunication?........Question TWO!
Today there are more than 6,809 languages spoken around the world [2], that means more than 6800 differences and misunderstandings.

Is MODERN language advanced enough to make communication possible without any bottlenecks?
Let us do a simple experiment. How many of us could speak the following video to a friend who didn't see it?
I wonder if we could pass 10% the information encoded in this video even without the audio tracks!!! We are terribly less communicating among ourselves.
We depend on words to do our daily business - to interact with our environment. That means we are living dictionaries. The more active in selecting convincing 'words' a person is the more successful his/her life, no matter what is in his/mind!!! Among the contemporary politicians, the US president Barack Obama used this skill to win his career.
Why are we dependent on discrete number of words to communicate with our fellows?.....Question THREE!

Language in Spiritual Domain


The Lord taught the apostles many things, but they were not able to comprehend His messages. At the end of His ministry, most of them were still confused about the new doctrine, Christianity world view. In the end He told them "12 I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come." [John 16:12]
After the descent of The Holy Spirit on the apostles, they begin to speak other languages. [Acts 2:1]
This broke the language barrier and facilitated their Global Ministry. But is the language we are speaking dependent on another unseen dimension - beyond the vibration of our vocal cords?......Question FOUR!

The word human is ሰዉ in Amharic /ሰብእ in Geez/. ሰብእ literally means SEVEN. It came directly from the natures of HUMAN. According to Tewahido teachings, we are created from seven substances/elements. Air, Fire, Water, Earth are the FOUR natures of our physical body. Life, Intellect and Utterance are the THREE natures of our Spirit.(*). So accordingly our language skill is hidden in our spiritual dimension - the nature of Utterance. Similarly our physical dimension is just a hardware to interface us[our soul] with our environment. This doesn't mean that our soul is less interactive. Our Spirit is even over conscious, omnipotent and omnipresent(independent of time-space dimension). But for the time being its docked[locked in] within our physical body.
Another fascinating fact is that our Life is in the spiritual dimension too. Once our spirit[our Intellect, our Life and our Utterance natures] leave our physical [our Air, our Fire, our Water and our Earth natures], we are declared as dead. The Near Death Experiences[NDEs] , confirming this Tewahido teaching, can help to understand this concept. Then DEATH means the release of our spirit from our physical natures!!!

Inter-Being [angel-soul,soul-soul] communication
The same Tewahido teaching explains that the communication between spirits is not through discrete words. Rather its a kind of paranormal/telepathic/ communication. Whats in ones mind is fully passed into another's mind just at the moment of thinking the message, without any miscommunication. This is similar to assuming as if both are sharing the speaker's mind regarding to the message. 
Now all the above questions are mystified here! The children of men lost this ability for their disobedience. 
At first they were able to communicate with animals telepathically. The more they sinned the more they became less conscious of the spiritual way of living.

The Significance of LISTENING to the guidance of The Holy Spirit.
The Word of God[The Bible] is, as often said by Tewahido scholars, "a Golden bead". Unless we ascend into a better spiritual level, to listen to God speaking to us, it is dangerous to chew it randomly. Then we have two options to correctly understand the Biblical messages - either praying for our purity or asking those who understood it. Reading the Bible is highly encouraged, but interpreting it needs hearing to the Holy Spirit.

Prayer[+ meditation with the Lord] is a better strategy to receive guidance from the Holy Spirit. By listening to God, we can discern, we can outperform the language barriers we discussed so far. The Holy Spirit speaks in silence and from inside our hearts. He removes the dense fog from our hearts. Don't expect Him in noisy displays. Neither within artistic lures. Just ponder and listen Him from within silence. Unless you calm down yourself, you may not listen to His sounds......just whispering within your calmness.
After receiving the Holy Spirit, the Apostles' world view was changed dramatically into perfection. The involvement of The Spirit of God in understanding God Himself made Christianity ineffable and inexpressible in words only. Christians receive the Holy Spirit at the time of Chrismation. From that time on, the Spirit of God dwells within us for guidance to righteousness, unless we deliberately sinned against Him. The Spirit of God pours into our mind the perfect knowledge without any limitation. Be careful not to mistake The Spirit of God with the spirit of Evil. The Spirit of God remembers us righteousness and calmness, while the Evil spirit requests us to take less care of that path and go on according to emotional desires.
The Spirit of God curves our world views, when we learn Biblical messages. A Christian being guided by the Spirit of God will end up being founded on unshakable rock.

May the Lord, God of Abraham give us a blessed Feast of Theophany [ Ethiopian Timkat]. Amen.

* - I translated them myself, Life[ሕይወት - የሕያዊት ነፍስ ባሕርይ], Intellect[ልብ- የለባዊት ነፍስ ባሕርይ] and Utterance[ልሳን- የነባቢት ነፍስ ባሕርይ]. Anyone with better translation is highly welcome.
  - Life = the nature of being a living Being
  - Intellect =the ability to reasoning

2 comments:

  1. Very true. The more pure we are the more boundless we will be in our communication. Thank you for the post, God bless you exceedingly.

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  2. @ Netsi,
    Message well understood! Keep on giving your feedbacks, even contributing concepts and articles.

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