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Copyright © 1997, Jay Ligda.  All rights reserved.  Published by Humans in the Universe and Jay Ligda.

Language and the Mind-Body Split

      Here I hope to give an understanding of how learning and language can create the mind-body split.  There is evidence that learning occurs by imitating elders and/or peers.  An individual, with their insecurity accrued through self-awareness, will turn to an elder or peers for guidance.  If this elder uses language in such a way that objectifys the other and commands their behavior ( third-person perception and communication), it could draw the individual away from their internal experiences.  The stressors associated with insecurity and desire to learn from elders will distract from reacting to the stressors of fulfilling the body's need to return to equilibrium.  Disease may set in. At some point in the history of humanity, the word boundaries of words like you and should evolved into one sentence structure and created a third-person perspective.  A further interesting study could be investigating when certain diseases where first recorded and the language of the culture at the time.

by Jay Ligda

(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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References

  • Pinkler, S. (1994).  The Language Instinct:  How the Mind Creates Language.  New York, NY:  Milliam Morrow & Company.
  • Pearson, D. & Shaw, S. (1982).  Life Extension:  A Practical Scientific Approach.  New York, NY:  Warner.

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