Printed Words as Carrier of Emotions

[BenOne]

i'd like to know how others feel about this. in reading a book or this forum i can here the authors voice and feel their emotions in their printed words (sometimes see them).

do you experience this?

how do you think this works?

[euroe4]

words can be so powerful and i think to see them in print can be more powerful than hearing them. its there, its permanent, timeless.

i majored in journalism in college. in narrative journalism-unlike straighforward news stories- the goal of the writer is to tell the story in his "voice". to do this a writer needs to be true to himself, and in essence write for himself, not try to cater to what he believes some faceless audience would like. a great writer can make his readers feel like they are in the story. writing using all five senses is a technique that accomplishes this.

writing is a laborious process (at least for me it is). but it is a labor of love. i invest a ton of emotion in my writing and hope it shows up in my work. perhaps this is the emotion that you feel. saying that you can "hear the author's voice" is the highest of compliments.

sometimes i will just read and re-read a sentence, a phrase or a word and be so moved. writers can do in a paragraph what a director needs a million dollar budget to accomplish.

[mmariebored]

sometimes we hear what we expect to hear no matter who wrote what text.

when we clear all negative or distracive thoughts from our minds, we can hear much more clearly the intended message and feel the flowing energies of the writer of the texts.

some people mistake artistic writing for divinely inspired. some people overlook simplistic writing as uninspired and faulty.

sometimes when you go back and reread a book you haven't read in a very long time, it paints an entirely different picture for you.


which tells me that much of what we feel is based on the collected information in our heads, our emotions and developmental growth at the time of reading.

i understand what you mean, though, about 'hearing' either a voice or an agenda or intention of a text. i remember reading one of paul (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2014:26-39;&version=31;)'s books and almost hearing the chaotic mess in his mind at the time of writing. all of his stresses and torments and struggles for order as well as his unbalanced opinion toward women. perhaps my mind created this picture, it was a vivid picture, who can truly say?

[mod note: this link (paul) contains an ancient and discredited view of women as being somewhat lesser in import and viability than men in the 'pulpit', or community house; something the mods would be at pains to point to as being an issue of quickly passing illusion, and passe... as marie points out... sorry, paul, we all have our distortions]

[mmariebored]

markm,
'discredited' by who? i've been on a lot of christian forums that still teach and firmly believe that 'every word in the bible came from god'. that includes paul's views on women. that simple fact has caused more abuse within the families of church members i can't even begin to describe the damage it's done. i've read thousands of testimonies of emotionally oppressed women, this doesn't include the ones physically battered because abusers will be abusers no matter what they believe. this is not some small group of radicals that believe paul's views of women remaining under submission("ask your husbands when you get home if you have a question") is the correct view, it's part of the curriculum that strongly upholds the "bible is the word of god" statement. if they did not have this statement, their 'belief' system would fall apart. if they took it down, it would all fall apart. the paul and peter views should have never been added to the bible if they were going to make a claim such as that to build their "church". but i believe it was 'divinely' left in for a reason, to bring people to their own conclusions and understanding that all writers have their flaws and 'distortions' and all leaders should be continually questioned for accuracy.
i'm sorry if this is off topic, feel free to delete this if you must.

[leo scone]

hey benone, cool question.

i do not experience what you are speaking of, but it makes perfect sense to me. this universe (3d if you will) is instantaneous and non-local. thought is super-luminal. this means thought goes far faster than the speed of light, in fact it is instant. to think of a thing is to immediately be connected to it. past, present, future...those things become irrelevant.

so i can easily understand that you actually extend your perception to include the actual moment the words were written, and thus you experience the actual emotion of that moment.

okay, i do have an example to share. at one time i was viewing a series of videos put out by a rather amazing woman about remote viewing. it was a how-to set of videos recorded during one of her actual classes. they went through their protocols and then she had them do an actual remote viewing session, which was recorded. well, it was my understanding already that this universe and our consciousness within it are unlimited - instantaneous and non-local. so i joined the class while i watched the video.

and in the two exercises offered, the product was such that i had no doubt i had honed in on the target and identified it appropriately (within the limitations of remote viewing).

so i joined an exercise recorded years before, who knows where, and produced results coherent with the results produced by the class in the video, and the actual objective once it was revealed.

that is the best i can describe it, and if you access this moment and feel my words now then you know that i mean it when i say...

[litllady]

hey benone and all

great topic!

i believe very strongly in the power of the moment, and this can be more refined with writing or speaking.

there is power in a thought
there is power in writing that thought
there is power in speaking that thought (especially by yourself)

ive gone through some really strange times and the most intense of those times when i felt i had just discovered something that really made sense to me but also blew my mind....i would notice myself talking outloud (to myself), almost like i was making sure i grasped the thought in a more definite way. it seems im struggling to describe what i mean, but i know there is power in this.

one time i was searching some things on the internet (i cant for the life of me remember what subject i was searching) but i remember being so ah struck at what i just read, i found myself reading it back to myself out loud. call me crazy, but i felt in that moment that everything around me, even the coke can sitting on my desk....began to vibrate, just for a moment.

another time, when i was seeking deeply self healing through some peaceful gospels i had found, i was practicing things like purifying my body/spirit/mind with fasting and meditating with nature....i felt i had the gift to speak right to the heavens. it was the craziest thing....if i had the right mind set, i felt like i could ascend straight to the host of heavens and speak my mind to them. well i couldn't pass up the opportunity to announce forgiveness for all creatures and announce that i was going to allow the heavens to use my body for the will of the infinite creator. like the other experience, this was temporary, im not sure if its that i cant stay in that mind set daily or if there was just a slip in the veil or something.

to write something or say something, you are fine tuning a thought, before time and the creator and the universe herself. i feel that this is what is going on, the universe is aware and when we fine tune a thought, the universe hears (feels) us loud and clear. its like we are creating a own hall of records.

just thoughts,
lynette

[Vermillion]

i get this too, the first time i read family of light its like an angelic female voice was reading it too me as a bed time story. the same goes for many books even davids reincarnation of edgar cayce book read like that.

words have so much power because its all thought form with intent so the energy is then imprinted with the words.

very powerful in deed.

[ds37ds]

this brings the idea of receiving 'shaktipat' from a guru or spiritual teacher to mind.

an energy transfer perhaps?

"this shaktipat is conducted in the physical presence or from a distance. it can be transmitted by touch, by a handkerchief, a mala, a flower, a fruit or anything edible, depending on the system the guru has mastered. it can even be transmitted by letter, a telegram or telephone."

in our day and age, can this also be done over the net? how do long distance reiki attunements or healings work?

the strength of any energy transfers or exchanges may have something to do with how clear a conduit one is to 'send' and/or 'receive'.

love to all

ds

[mmariebored]

in our day and age, can this also be done over the net? how do long distance reiki attunements or healings work?

i've been testing this theory, and it's one you have to be careful with, it seems. still very much in experiment stage, for me. the most recent 'compulsion' i noticed(keyword: noticed) was when i was posting on a different forum, i was thinking this one certain word the whole time i typed out the message and the responder posted back to me the word i was thinking of.
i suppose there could be several explanations for this but that's why it's in experimental stage, for me, anyway, some people may very well be more advanced. i don't doubt people can read the 'correct' intention/emotion etc. of a person's writing, but i'm leaning towards the probability that there are many things that can and do interfere with transmission, so it may never actually be a 'true science'.

[StarGirl]

i would definately say this has been my experence. i think of it as telepathically "reading between the lines". or as getting the pictures that go with the thoughts so you can understand it better.

another that seems to have come up lately has been this concept of energy encoded in sentence structure/ words/ sound combination.

i must admit this is probably the only reason i am able to make my way (slow tho' it is) through the loo material at all. it reads like a foreign language to me... literally. i read a paragraph, and go "huh....?" while at the same time i seem to realize i understand everything that paragraph just said...conceptually. (which is so weird) i then organize the concept with words in my head and then i reread and check it against the loo words to be sure/see if actually does match. then i get frustrated and say, "well why didn't you just say blah, blah, blah in nice simple terms in the first place?" aag!

loo seems very mental to me (it's like written in "high elf" or something), but it is an example of how if it weren't for the energy/ information behind the words... i don't think i'd be able to get the translation.

peace and love

darlyne

[metaman]

written words carry much more of the vibrational state of the author than do printed ones. this is why so many spiritual teachers and paradigms say that writing down your prayers and goals is so important. typing them would not nessesarily have the same effect.

the sandscrit alphabet is actually designed to carry so much of the vibration of each letter in its dictionary that each letter acts as a sacred symbol. if one could have messages translated and printed in this language it would have quite a kick.