Idea.

[novapsyche]

The commandment against graven images?

Around the time that was written, the act of writing itself was an engraving, upon clay (cuneiform).

This gives new meaning to the ineffable, that which transcends what can be said.

Comments

[liquidgrey.livejournal.com]

hmm..
that's an interesting thought.
All language is symbolic construction, all thought is abstraction...
it does put a new spin on the biblical perspective.

[simplewhore.livejournal.com]

If you want to take it a step further into the hypothetical, if all language is symbolic construction, then when there is thought, those thoughts are etched or engraved into the mind.

I know it is out there, but, hypothetically, it follows the same line of thought.

[liquidgrey.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that there are consciousness levels that are quite apart from the influence of the rational mind, and these consciousness states would be unaffected by the abstractions of analytic thought.
The rational mind has it's place, but it is not the whole of the self.
It's the highest brain function available to the ego, but the true self is divine, and has all the potentials that the obscurantist religions tend to attribute to "God".
That's what my experience has shown me, though everyone will have a unique experience. Each person has their own reality tunnel, the finite experience-matrix in the infinitude of the eternal.