Wake Up From The Language Trance That Is Your Mind

Por Hans van Veen

O que você irá aprender

"You're born into a language, you don't invent a language; you're born into a culture, you don't invent a culture. And you just assume that that's the way things are. But it's not true! It's not true." ~ Jeffrey Kripal. This course will take you deep into the rabbit hole of language, psychology, and phenomenology, and offers an answer to the question of what free speech and a free mind truly mean. This is the perspective of the course: as fish do not see the water, so we too--tend not to see our language (symbols and narration) as the flowing, moving, and motivating medium of our awareness. And just like the fish, we get carried away by the currents, if we're unaware of them and don't use our fins. There is a reason that 'to cast a spell' and 'to spell a word' use the same 'spell'. In Hebrew, the word for 'word' and the word for 'thing' are the same; to 'think' is to be under the spell of words. For 99% of humans, this trance goes unnoticed. This dream state has led us into wars, and the distractions of media, and it simply keeps us from living a free life with true freedom of speech and choice. So to move to where we want to, for reasons that live in us rather than those imposed on us, meaning connected to life rather than to stories, we need to be both aware of the currents that carry us--narrative trance and symbolic estrangement--as well as be the masters of our 'fins'--in our case: our mental faculties, including speech. So join me in this course, where we'll lift these psycho-linguistic veils as we travel across the insights of the scientific method, etymology, the theory of evolution, Taoism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Nondual Tantra, Nonviolent Communication, The Vedas, and the offerings of David Abram, Jeffrey Kripal, Max Tegmark, Galileo Galilei, Edmund Husserl, Plato, Eckhart Tolle, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, The Matrix, and many more, to see how language can be a blindfold... and also, ultimately, how language is the quintessential expression of our human existence and truth: magical, mystical and sacred. Further reading: David Abram - The Spell Of The Sensuous Thomas Hübl - Healing Collective Trauma Edmund Husserl - The Crisis Of The European Sciences Jeffrey Kripal - The Flip Glossary: Epistemology: the study of knowledge & the knowable, 'how knowledge is possible' Phenomenology: the philosophical discipline that studies reality from within experience as the 'always-already-present' nature of existence Ontology: the study of what is, 'what reality fundamentally consists of' Image: Arteum

Hans van Veen

Utrecht, Netherlands

Hans van Veen is a parent, Aletheia Method Transformational Coach, and communication trainer, as well as a certification candidate with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. His work is rooted in Nonviolent Communication and enriched by Nondual Tantra, Zen, Vipassana, and other contemplative practices. He supports parents, groups, couples, and...

Lição 1

Chimpanzee Politics - Something Strange Is Up With Language

This first session is going to lay the land of the course. We're going deep, so we need to first get our bearings. And mostly, what we'll contact here is the fact that there's something weird going on with language. We're somehow trapped in 'Plato's cave', or if you want to have a modern metaphor, in the 'Matrix'. Language is not quite reality, but we live in it. This fact is why Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching, "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao". So join me in this first session as we dive deep into an overview of what's to come.

Lição 2

The Language Of The Universe, Strange Phenomena, And A Crisis Of Science

This session is about the role science plays in humanity's estrangement--from each other and the planet. Moreover, there's a very interesting 'flip' that can happen, where even the most brilliant scientists get caught up in a deep misunderstanding. They don't see that they are unconsciously adhering to a kind of mythology. In this session, I'm going to explain to you how that works and why it's dangerous. Corrigendum: at the beginning I misspoke, Husserl's text is called 'The Crisis Of The European Sciences'.

Lição 3

The Matrix Is All Around Us - Advertising, Games, AI & Social Media

After having looked at how even science is susceptible to the seductive pull of stories, we're now going to point our gaze at the presence of narration in our private lives. Persuasive stories are more and more in our faces--in the palm of our hands even--with advertising, video games, on-demand movies & TV shows, and an unlimited amount of captivating social media stories. The world we live in today looks more and more like the 'Matrix', meaning the world we live in is more and more mediated through code, powered by artificial intelligence, and aimed at getting more and more of our attention--until, it seems, we are completely submerged in it. And here too, the way we get hooked is by hijacking our our neurology with enticing stories. I hope you enjoy this episode, where I'll even do my best 'Agent Smith' impersonation.

Lição 4

Intermezzo - Presence Beyond Words

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda The center of this course--which is itself a weaving of words--is an ode to Silence. I'll share an anecdote about my time in a sesshin, followed by an invitation for practice. I hope you enjoy.

Lição 5

Battle Trance - The Apes That Cry For Violence

What is speech? What is the primordial modality of humans uttering sounds to each other, other than a kind of music? We have sung to each other for eons, and we still do. And in its darkest application, our songs can be used to sway us into violence. This episode is about how narrative trance evaporates our clarity into the fog of war.

Lição 6

The Language Of Life - Nonviolent Communication & The Spell Of The Sensuous

In this session, the course pivots towards positivity. We're going to look at two specific modalities of language and linguistic relating that serve as examples of embodied speech and expression. The first one is Nonviolent Communication, as brought into the world by Marshall B. Rosenberg, and the second one comes from a beautiful book by David Abram called 'The Spell of the Sensuous', in which the main message is a kind of animistic relating to the living world around us. In short, this session is about the language of life.

Lição 7

Abara Cadabara - A Message From The Mystics

In this last session, we're going to look at some of the mystical traditions on the planet, namely Kabbalah, Vajrayana Buddhism, and South American Shamanism. These traditions have a very high reverence for the sacred power of voice as connected to mind, imagination, and the manifestation of the divine. In short, these perspectives give us a taste of what's possible when we resonate our voice and mind with reality itself.

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Anne

August 10, 2024

Very interesting course. Very informative and loved the matrix stories.

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