“99% of who you are, what you experience, and how you relate with experience… is non-verbal. This means that there is no model, description or explanation that has anything to do with your actual experience. There is nothing verbal about the experience of a color, a feeling, a flavor or an interaction.

Representational cognition is a thin veneer on experience. Yet, in our «thinking» we often get this backwards, believing our descriptions, models or thinking to the degree that we become unaware of our actual situation or relationships. This is most common in the ‘modern’ frameworks we interact with… and bears a strong resemblance to aspects of schizophrenia.

As powerful as our representational cognition may appear to us… it developed primarily for very specific social, religious and commercial contexts. Outside of those contexts — i.e. in our actual moment-to-moment experience, our feelings and our relationships… it can wildly mislead us… or even invert. When it inverts… it can lead us »directly into what we were using it in an attempt to avoid!”

— infraheard