Speaking Without Words
‘The following morning began with the sound of a bird song entering from the small barred window that didn’t afford a view. The air was cool and crisp as Rinpoche raised his head and strained to take a deep breath of it.
The cool air offered a moment’s respite from the cell containing the odour of thirty sleeping, burgundy-clad monks, the silence occasionally being disturbed by the odd cough or whisper.
Rinpoche suddenly became aware that he was not alone; without words, without actually seeing the presence of his distraction propped against a wall in a darkened corner, he began to feel the Abbot was contacting him telepathically.
{Time for prayers}, came his non-verbal communication. Quietly, they stirred the other monks to wakening for a session of chants followed by silent meditation’.
For the first time in the book, I introduce the idea of non verbal communication. It is a subtle introduction and one that I hoped would appear completely natural without any element of the mystical.
It was a useful tool to be able to use in the book because it allows for communication between beings to take place from different times, universes and dimensions.
On another level it communicates the idea that there are no material barriers to the transfer of energy at these levels; that a level of understanding can be created that removes the inhibitions of closed awareness; it allows for a moment, ‘the horse to remove its blinkers to see the rest of the world around it, rather than just the tunnelled vision imposed upon it’.
I thought deeply about how to introduce the reader to thought transference, or E.S.P. I needed to show it occurring in a natural way, with a simple indicator to when it was happening. I hope introducing the brackets when someone is communicating is sufficient and obvious enough without being intrusive. In this first instance I literally say it is happening to assist the reader if the inclusion of the brackets alone has been missed, but from this point on, I leave it to the reader to be able to understand. I hope you do!
The cool air offered a moment’s respite from the cell containing the odour of thirty sleeping, burgundy-clad monks, the silence occasionally being disturbed by the odd cough or whisper.
Rinpoche suddenly became aware that he was not alone; without words, without actually seeing the presence of his distraction propped against a wall in a darkened corner, he began to feel the Abbot was contacting him telepathically.
{Time for prayers}, came his non-verbal communication. Quietly, they stirred the other monks to wakening for a session of chants followed by silent meditation’.
For the first time in the book, I introduce the idea of non verbal communication. It is a subtle introduction and one that I hoped would appear completely natural without any element of the mystical.
It was a useful tool to be able to use in the book because it allows for communication between beings to take place from different times, universes and dimensions.
On another level it communicates the idea that there are no material barriers to the transfer of energy at these levels; that a level of understanding can be created that removes the inhibitions of closed awareness; it allows for a moment, ‘the horse to remove its blinkers to see the rest of the world around it, rather than just the tunnelled vision imposed upon it’.
I thought deeply about how to introduce the reader to thought transference, or E.S.P. I needed to show it occurring in a natural way, with a simple indicator to when it was happening. I hope introducing the brackets when someone is communicating is sufficient and obvious enough without being intrusive. In this first instance I literally say it is happening to assist the reader if the inclusion of the brackets alone has been missed, but from this point on, I leave it to the reader to be able to understand. I hope you do!
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