I was just playing the piano, and doing a kind of "speak-play" thing, doing affirmations along with musical notes, and the concept of emotional vocabulary came to me. Having a rich emotional vocabulary is so important. Not just being able to articulate the right words, but to articulate feelings vocally but non verbally, and to express oneself through the body, dance, movement, art, music, song and so on.
To be able to dance out feelings, to express rage, pain, love, tenderness, lust, and every other feeling spontaneously and authentically, as well as feelings that perhaps are less definable.
I'm not knocking "regular" vocabulary, though. Having a good command of the English language is a real blessing. If I could continue to learn a word a day, I'd be happy.
Having said that, I wonder what words exist beyond our consciousness? What words would a higher power possess?
I mean, if we look at the vocabulary of animals, they have a lot less words than us. Dogs and cats probably have 50 words each, that are focussed around food and fear, anger, desire and so on. Birds have some more complex songs, that all mean something. I think there's a more plaintive lament in birds' langauage, so I wonder if they have some higher functions.
But it's still humans that have the largest vocabulary.
But what words could possibly exist, beyond our own several thousand? I'm sure there are words for different types of gravity, different types of dimension and such. I'm sure there are beings that exist in different dimensions, or "somewhere else" in the universe, who use words we can't even hear, let alone understand.
I had the idea of composing music for The Gods one time, just to see if I could get their attention. It was going to be music that was just ultra high frequency, but it was going to be melodic, or symphonic, in that it was composed of chords and melody, and not just random notes. Or it would be regular music that featured ultra high and infra low frequency music, that was in harmony with the rest of the piece. I never got round to it. After all, where do you find instruments that play music at freqencies outside human and animal range?
I remember thinking about Krell music, that featured in the film "Forbidden Planet". That's the kind of thing I can imagine. Music for the superintelligent.
It must exist, as a blueprint in the universe. It exists as a noumenon waiting to be discovered.
But emotional vocabulary is something I can work on right now.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Emotional vocabulary
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"Dogs and cats probably have 50 words each"
I wonder if two of them are "emerging self"?
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