By the time our species became dependent upon formalized methods and tokens for communication we had already largely forgotten the depth and power of informally structured communication, whose capacities and methods were, after billions of life-years of constant development, impossibly advanced. Our urge for exact replication, consistency, and repetition overcame our awareness, and largely replaced it with something we do not yet clearly comprehend the nature and character of: representation.

Although we may sense that language is incomplete and a barrier to our inherent relational intelligence, few have any idea in what direction its lost completions lie; yet, as every poet knows, they lie beyond the capacities of the structural forms to endure or transmit.

They exist in the domains of silence, stillness, witnessing, gesture, dance, seeing, spirit-bond, and feeling-sense. None of these are formally structured; and neither are they arbitrary. All of them vastly surpass formal language and its crude subcultural mutations (many of which appear as misplaced reactions to the abysmal authority of formal languages).

In case this isn’t already abundantly clear, we each uniquely recapitulated these evolutionary processes… in our infancy and childhood. We simply cannot ‘remember’ much before the acquisition (by contagion) of language, so we cannot remember the ‘other intelligence’ which, indeed, was central in the acquisition of the tyrannical replacements.

This ‘other intelligence’, when experienced directly, could not be compared to linguistic awareness. Its proper comparator is living light in the mind, which is to say: enlightenment.