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 (Forward and backward navigation buttons only work on 4.0 browsers) Copyright © 1997, Jay Ligda. All rights reserved. Published by Humans in the Universe and Jay Ligda. Implications of Deeper Communication
The following is a passage from Levine (1992) which I include because it gives a wonderful example of being"in tune" with the different channels of input: The wind shifts. The grazing impala are poised to a hair trigger of acute alertness. They smell, listen, and look. Danger is in the air. It is in the form of a few molecules of a new, but familiar scent, diluted in millions of parts of air. The impala will flee, or, if they find no further cues, return to their grazing. In the same split second, the cheetah, hidden and waiting, also knows that the moment must be seized. It leaps up from behind the bush. The herd of impala spring together as one organism. They flee for the cover of the thickets at the perimeter of the wadi. (p. 85) The impala are able to sense and flee from the potential danger. Levine mentions the "impala spring together as one organism. " The cheetah's actions that ultimately provoke the response become a part of the performance. The cheetah and impala operate together as one unit in what might be referred to as an intimate play based on subtle clues from sensory input. Had one of the impala stopped to ponder whether fleeing would be socially acceptable, it might fall short and become cheetah lunch (which is ultimately good for the cheetah). By increasing awareness of the deeper channels of communication one can gain a greater awareness of self in their surroundings. Self and other no longer act solely as separate individuals but as one organism. Empathy and intimacy can increase. Increasing internal awareness will lead to an increase in empathy and intimacy and a greater unity of humanity as self and other are engaged through their internal experiences rather than through rules of behavior, received through the mind channels, that often separate one from another on a deeper dimension. The implications of learning to communicate based on the internal experiences of the proprioceptive as well as non-verbal channels of perception allow for a greater unity of humankind. Rather than operating as selfish individuals that objectify self and other, we could begin to operate as a single unit. Then perhaps, "nothing [we] propose to do will be impossible for [us]" (Genesis, 11:6).
(This work is a all or part of an original work first published/written for John F. Kennedy University: Final Integrative Project., Mar1996.)
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