#wordless truth

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I've lately been contemplating the phrase the wordless truth. It's a phrase that shows up in the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but its goes much deeper than amazing Science Fiction (though Dune is a deep series). The wordless truth is the experiential embodiment of the work you do. It speaks through you, but not in words, rather through the experiences you have. 

You can read something and think you understand it. But until you do the work and have experiences you don't know it. For instance I can read a book with practices and have a conceptual understanding of those practices. It's only when I do the actual practices that I open myself to the wordless truth conveyed by the experiential embodiment of those practices. 

Experiential embodiment is the engagement of your senses, inner and outer, in the work. When you engage your senses in the spiritual work, you incorporate your body into the work and make it part of the experience that speaks the work through you. We often take our bodies for granted, yet I would argue that your body is the most potent resource you have available to you. It allows you to have experiences and enables you to embody them into the deepest level of your being. 

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The Wordless Truth and Experiential Embodiment

I've lately been contemplating the phrase the wordless truth. It's a phrase that shows up in the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but its goes much deeper than amazing Science Fiction (though Dune is a deep series). The wordless truth is the experiential embodiment of the work you do. It speaks through you, but not in words, rather through the experiences you have.

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You can read something and think you understand it. But until you do the work and have experiences you don't know it. The wordless truth is the experience speaking through you, embodied in your awareness and physicality. What is read again takes on a different understanding because the wordless truth you've experienced takes what was conceptual and turns it into a reality you understand through your experiences.    The words take on new meanings and realizations because of the work you've done. But even so it is the work, the experience of the wordless truth that gives such meaning to the words.

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Wordless Truth

In an attempt to make the world a more truthful place, the ‘World Improvement Union’ decided to create a tiny microchip that would stop people from saying untruthful things by muting their voices the moment they were starting to tell lies.

At first they made only a few people get it implanted to test it for possible side-effects, but when everything appeared to work normally, the chip was soon sold all over the world and became obligatory. After only a few months, they found the chip did hold a problem, however, because everywhere in the world people found themselves unable to tell their significant others that they loved them. Whenever they tried, there would be only silence.

Investigation of the chip brought forth no bad results in the mechanic of the device, however, and scientists were now faced with a gigantic riddle as to why the people were unable to express their feelings in words. Everyone was desperate, there were protest actions against the chip and people demanded to have it taken out of them.

But somewhere in the world, there was a house where two people had remained inside, sitting on the couch together, huddled close, with their arms around each other, enjoying each other’s presence. The deaf boy and the mute girl needed no words to know what was truth and what wasn’t.