--- In [email protected], "Irmeli Mattsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Thoughts by words following each other in time actually > were not there, but another form of more effective thinking that > happens not by words and sentences. We all have this kind of > thinking, but we observe only the grosser level thinking by words.
I suspect what one is aware of may vary among individuals. I know people who insist that all thinking is in words, presumably because that's what they're aware of in their own thinking, and others who insist that much of their thinking is not in words. Or perhaps some people *do* think almost exclusively in words. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with intelligence or insightfulness; I've known some exceptionally smart, profound thinkers who believe they think entirely in words. I don't think in words unless there is some intention to communicate what I'm thinking, whether in reality or fantasy. But I've known this since I was a child--it was never a function of the witnessing experience. It's a bit odd, because I'm so verbally oriented and don't have any artistic-type talents. (Also, my nonverbal thinking isn't at all visual--I have tremendous difficulty visualizing. All the various spiritual and healing exercises that involve visualizing light or whatever are utterly useless to me. They seem to take for granted that anybody can visualize.) I sometimes wonder whether people who experience effort during TM are those who think primarily in words, and who are so used to "hearing" words in their minds that they don't recognize they're thinking the mantra unless they can "hear" it like a word. > I think this way also animals think or make sense of the world, > although with the human brain capacity this kind of thinking can be > much more cognitively advanced. > I think all my deeper insights and ideas have come this way. Also in > my work in engineering. > > But if you want to share these ideas with others I must find words > todescribe them. This is usually the much more difficult part. > Insights usually appear spontaneously in a blink of an eye. The > laborious part is to find expressions in words, if I want to share > my insights. Yup. On the other hand, I find that sometimes an initially nonverbal idea becomes clearer and more useful if I put it in words, if I use verbal communication mode to express the idea to myself, as it were. Other times, though, it loses something in the translation! All this probably has something to do with name and form: nonverbal thinking is perhaps closer to the "form" end, verbal thinking to the "name" end of the continuum. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
