I Speak in Myth and Symbol. And So Do You. All Words Are Inherently Symbolic

The sooner science and logical reason can come to terms with this loss or power to them, we will be reaching for the stars at super luminal speeds. 

Everything we say, write and think is done symbolically. 

Words were created originally as symbols for things which happen literally.

Why? Because what other way could it be done? There was no cipher prior to the creation of symbolic language.

So one had to be created. Civilisation created this new cipher - we used a symbolic language to describe in words, literal things. And have done so ever since.

Yes, it has become normalised - it seems to always have been this way, we just got used to using symbols and now think they are literal truth.

And if we try hard to remember, we start noticing this is just an illusion. An illusion with great utility no doubt. 

The etymology of all words and phrases is rooted in a mythical or symbolic manifestation of the actual things. Because before then there was no other way to speak about them.  

Imagine the first word that was ever created? Let's pretend it was the word 'love'. That word to people, or at least its progenitor actually sounding like what love feels like. So it was obviously used to talk about it in a way that all people understood. It was a signal for the real thing. Everyone knows it by intuition.

It does not have to be only emotional terms. It could be the symbol we use called 'tree' which we all use to talk about a tree. But the word is not the tree. It is the word.

What about the word 'word'? Well that would have been the noise which sounded intuitively like the thing itself - saying it it felt like the thing which until now we had been unable to speak about together and now suddenly could.

Sure, this implies that thought does not happen exclusively inside our head. Or that mind is not entirely inside our brain. That both thought and mind might be universal with access at all times to all of us. We are all receivers and transmitters. 

And that thought 'moves' around too. It is not just telling each of us how things are in a static way. Thought, ironically maybe unconscious of itself and its actions - its 'movement'. 

Maybe.

So how could we speak in any other way, except through myth and symbol. 

The sooner science and logical reason can come to terms with this loss or power to them, we will be reaching for the stars at super luminal speeds.