and it will overwhelm the frail creature that is human. In R.I.P., it is but a dim possibility that any one human being can be a unique individual complete with working feeling.
The creature, human beast, whom, by the act of our agreed volition in group truth, we keep firmly shackled, is poised to take flight. His supreme anger is his strength to break chains.
III. IT: THE VOICE
III
IT: THE VOICE
Sound: The Mental Scaffolding of the Subconscious
What began in fear and opposition,
became the Agreement Process; the single
most lethal action ever enacted upon an entire generation
in the name of civilized good.
—J. P. Beyor, Through the Labyrinth to the Invisible Self (Vol. II)
THE HUMAN MIND IS A MULTIFACETED and ambidextrous orb capable of assimilating impulses for balance, posture, walking, visual acuity and the delicate senses of taste, smell and touch. The human mind is capable of examining and identifying everything, within an introspection, so fast that there can be no computer invented that can do all that the mind and body can do with its vast cerebral network of impulses. The dynamics of the human being are always either entering new sensual/intellectual highs or succumbing to such exasperating despair that the existing knowledge, replete with taught mental impasse, is not able to rise above it.
In a traverse of the elements of speech, we strive to conduct our mumbling into mutually received and conjointly logical communication of tacitly marked sensual cues. Language is spoken, not just with words, but with movement and action as well. Words are the lowest and poorest denominators applied to the task of expression. Words are like empty shells that lie fallow and dormant without the full and combined use of our sensory perception—the satisfaction of minute and voluminous collections of information detected by the masterful skills of the five senses.
Speech is a culmination of sound that falls on the otic nerve. Sound interplays with continually incoming information that is absorbed and assimilated through all the senses for thorough cross-reference of tangible matter. Beyond that which is palpable through the senses is the luminosity of culminated perceptions: an ever-balancing wall of color and sound and fragrance and succulence.
What, specifically, are the properties of sound that cause it to fit or not to fit within the grand connections of sensual awareness? What credence do we give to sound that we do not accord to the other senses? What reason is there for separating the senses? How can one or two be placed above the others?
Before any sounds are registered as more than background noise, the brain must inscribe them into its vast body of intrinsic codes and extraneous, emblematic prototypes. It imprints them as vibratory intonations only, with pitch and meter undefined and diffusely connected to the harmonic whole of life. In such an undefined state, sound does not embody cause, but distills and dilates effect. Undefined, sound does not incarnate reason, but expands sensual stimulus. Purely received into sensory awareness, there is no ideation of want to disconnect it.
Sound, separated from its unnamed and unmarked whole, is isolated for the purpose of locating distinction and applying labels. Once distinction is made and labels are designated, there is the continual search for a particular corresponding sound. Once a particular distinction is made, separation is easily marked out and presented for memory enhancement, and what was once only sound becomes speech. Sound, then, becomes active memory processing of referred sounds. Sound is the original scaffolding of the subconscious. It is worth noting that the perception of vision is not similarly enhanced for memory. What is perceived visually is made manifest through speech and nomenclature. The eyes are treated as mere windows into the vacuum of what was once the complete sensual or fully-dimensioned self. There does not exist a purely visual language, for we name what we see with distinct particulars of utilitarian sounds. Symbols, then, only to vision and sound, represent instrumental mental replay. This is dualistic inductive increment for secondary exchange.
Sound becomes a jarring mechanism that is ignobly erected and contrived as word symbology, then, as knowledge, validated. Through the use of such base instruments of sound, chains of speech are formed from and for memory enhancement and manipulation of ideas. Through the use of matching reciprocal glossaries, tags and labels become agreeable terms. That which is retained in memory becomes subconscious affect. This is manifest tokenism. We are trapped inside label manifest for outcome.
The agreement process is enacted through sound and speech that are residuals of paradox think. The mind is, then, set in holding: impasse. Impasse is correct action framing.
We use the written word to express what is locked in impasse. Selection and distinction of sound blocks afferent cognition and maintains speech as the common denominator of knowledge in definitive and wanted circumstance. Knowledge supersedes combined sixth sense. The illusion of time and action becomes symbolic momentum, as circumstance becomes symbolic momentum. We automatically respond to and converge upon sound and sight that suggest movement: We are in love with action and speed. Momentum is the turning of symbols as though on a conveyor. Time is moved by verb until all practical language is transitory and vacuous, so quickly does implied and specified meaning shift. Jargon is jargon, no matter that it comes from the street, from law, from journalistic news or from electronic communication. Designer words are as fashionably fickle as designer clothes.
Memory is enhanced by the vibratory patterns of sound that imbue it with a self-assured existence in assumptive promise: One result for one effect. Momentum is favored for progress. Passive memory, still tied to the other senses, continues to throw information into the cerebral pot. The tracking of the external becomes muddled as the sixth sense matrix of touch, taste, smell and vision is overpowered by active memory pursuit of sound paralleled synthetically to word manifest. The ears, when used alone, are like blinders and mufflers: they impede the sensual being through selection of a priori half life information and assigned cohesive charge: the assured belief that words culminate and securely fashion chains of words and translate and transport artificially converging knowledge into resource, empowerment or resultant end. Tomorrow is future bright by disregard of all effective action upon accepted promise.
Words are but tiny props for support of the grand momentum of entity. Our labels are the names by which we deceive ourselves and with which we surround ourselves in a superfluous right and feigned good that is begot by manipulation accepted and in want to join and use.
Our pride in knowledge and our steadfast ability to agree becomes a mask for the searching, convulsing self, the thing that we seek to destroy through reason. In our dreams, we ache for the self that seems to elude us when it does not elude us at all; rather, it is we who will not come face to face. The R.I.P. is always present.
In repose, the sensual dimension claims the sleeping body with its assimilation and rumination of thought. We long for our dignity and of dignity we are unworthy. To know oneself first requires sincerity: The sapient specie is cunning and dividing even unto itself. In R.I.P., the creature, behind solid layers, is defective but is convinced, through agreement, that it is acting by right. Blame is manifold intent without concern for its actions.
Dignity is that which cannot be sanctioned—cannot be bought and sold nor propped up nor pretended. Our pride in the building of half life in word is willingly applied, by us, to the imprisonment of full life. The hasty taking of position, badges, medals, hats, crowns, certification and license appeals to our need for ersatz momentum.
Impasse
