THE MEANING OF THE SPEED OF THE TONGUE
BY: PIEDAD VILLEGAS
400 BC Greece floor mosaics that frame draw borders with geometric designs, multicolored animals is playing move with the shadows of the columns that surround the courtyard from one of the corridors is he, looking at them, bemused. In his hand is a wonderful clay vase just drawn that fill with water. Enjoys eating fresh. Also bring a fruit tray placed on a table covered with silk cloth. Close your eyes and feel the smell of grapes and olives, while his fingers perceived softness of silk, that move with the breeze touch your skin. In the peaceful courtyard to hear the sound reaches of the river water out and steps away. Has just begun the morning, open your eyes again. Aristotle thought, just to see, taste, smell, touch and hear, in a moment. He gets up to go to the Lycee, all his words and human actions revolve around the 5 senses.
Germany seventeenth century cloister Platforms draw paths by which students come and go, from the upstairs window, sometimes they are run as small streams and specific times, seem to torrents of water flowing rapidly. Watching them through the glass, he is, absorbed, while playing to make bombs with smoke pipe just suck. In the study filled with books and papers, he suddenly felt overwhelmed by the smell of snuff and ink, and opened the window. The autumn wind, whipping the curtains tightly cover your face, feel the hardness of the material heavy enough to hear the murmur of voices and rough steps, that outside the cloister walk. Just started in the morning, messy hair is accommodated through the curtain, and shakes the ash that fell on his vest. Immanuel think, just to see, taste, smell, touch and hear, in a moment. It has to go for the chair on the 5 senses Aristotle.
nineteenth century Switzerland Trails draw forest framed by stone paths and wildflowers, which rows are lost behind the trees. In the trunk that serves as a bench, and looking far fade the colors in the distance, is the, lost, focusing on their thoughts on the senses. His hands play to break into small pieces a dry leaf, birds sing in sync every so often, and while trying to assemble the melody that make up the various trills, the strong smell of earth penetrates to the temples. Start a blade of grass long and takes a mouth, his teeth biting the stem and the sap tastes bitter to exhaustion. The sun goes down and the cold spring begins to feel, Rudolf pulling the blade rises and settles the scarf around your neck, think to see, smell, taste, hear and touch was just an outline of the sensory capabilities of humans. Think also, heat, life, movement, speech, thought, self and the balance are other ways to be developed. Today this thought sleep, tomorrow will write his lecture on the 12 senses.
Year 2009 America-Africa-Europe-Asia or Oceania, motorways City drawn with the lights of the car and notices the speed it carries. Inside the car, he goes at 100 miles per hour. Everything passes light while driving sit still, his hands numb because they cling to the helm, is absorbed, keeping their attention in the car going forward, no thought appears while driving, the smell of gasoline and or sit, and chewing gum carried in the mouth does not know anything, the hum of the engines of motorcycles and cars around you, hang anywhere in your brain where you are, from time to listen, tune to any station, and no then he wants to come, the car takes him, he let go and all that perceives is speed.
Speed, that it takes years of history have passed since Aristotle, I felt the vibe in 5 sensory experiences through which we carry out the human longing. Speed, that also takes the opportunity to learn, when in times of Immanuel Kant's psychology and philosophy ceased to be accommodated their bases, on the same theory of the five senses, forget the ability of many centuries have passed, for let sleeping these ideas, later as Sleeping Beauty have to wake up and give money to renew critical to the thoughts of the past.
The psychology lost sequence from the images that occurred on the patio tile drawn to the highway with a single broken white line drawing. Hung in the polarity of the fixed idea that they are the 5 senses, which is played over and over again to the same speed, "is the world's old age" as a sentence Virilio.
today without receiving the call intelligent intuition sixth sense and without the reflection of the natural wisdom that is common sense, modern psychology is still hosting the research and contributions to the study of the 12 senses, Rudolf Steiner developed into a historical moment in which their spirituality East and West its materialist thought, were, be seduced, and simultaneously resisted, but always amazed, even an obsession or rejection in all possible areas.
An individual search and sensational, seeks to find speed in the substance of his own humanity, and all being served with a desire to uncover the mysteries quickly myself. As if it were a collective outreach in the labs scientists publish newsletters with studies on the senses, and give a dimension of what one day will find that we are by the skills demonstrated. Only the sense of touch is the most amazing treatise written by Ashley Montagu, and a philosopher as John Berger publishes a book of only essays on "The sense of sight."
Across the poets express the uncertainty and certainty of feeling: is the human being at the edge and center, struggling desperately between polarities, between salt and sweet, the illumination and blindness, among the scent of sandalwood and the smell of shit, when at the same time receives the blow and caress, and suffers from the inevitable noise of the modern world, while listening to symphonies, timeless.
Meanwhile, doctors believe heal the disorders of the organs of the senses with eye drops, creams, pills and inhalers for the nose, ears, eyes, skin and taste buds, psychologists and teachers insist on evaluating the way we perceive the world from the theory of the 5 senses, "... that is for bodies and soul for the body ..." According to Aristotle, and magazines and newspapers in small reviews, lists the senses with windows against the palace gates, windows and entrances that is human.
Human beings, not daring to perceive and nothing but the lurking death, closes the access roads and only dare to discover the no sense of speed, "form of ecstasy the technical revolution has given to man" by Kundera, man, no longer dares to explore the 5 senses of Aristotle, or the 12 of Steiner, which he classified into three groups, nor dare to invent new, as a way to memory or a sense for eternity, because death is meaningless, as life is yours.
And yet "is in the senses where knowledge begins, where the soul thinks and thinks," as Kant would say maybe. We share certain physical and psychic senses with rocks, plants and animals, but with the same sense, or some, or others have the possibility traveling the roads that we humans reach the first group, the 4 physical senses according to Steiner, are external senses, related to the outside world with our physical body and vital
The sense of touch, you can live no other way unless the border without letting us know where we end and the start of the world around us, can grow up to embrace the infinite, or make us feel desolate, a physical sense as basic as if you can not depress its full extent the plant, animal and man to convert in inert forms.
The direction of movement, this gesture is to move sideways, up and down, forward and backward, to discover that we are free and we can transfer limits, it is also so physical that unless we reach its full potential to reduce disability.
sense of balance, is the sense of tranquility, physically we have a center of gravity that makes us present to ourselves as well to be alive, do not fluctuate lost in uncontrollable, is not to be dis-brought is to be in me and not between contents.
The meaning of life is the feeling of harmony which is nothing else but I agree, a basic trust in my own existence, without washers, is physical and real, I can share with the plant, with the stone and the animal, it is a fact that we are, regardless of the questions, only to the extent that they appear to go up and when the meaning of life becomes happiness, but it may not ever develop beings and become distrustful and dissatisfied, unhappy, but we will never be equal to the stone, plant or animal because sooner or later questions will appear for us.
The second group is the 4-way mood, which also physical and relate to the feelings and emotions, are associated with soul
Aristotle said, "The soul is the body as sight to the national vision," the sense of sight is a sense of body and soul, because you see, is to move the eyes, which is not the same as looking at it is to watch over, observe, describe, that is to go beyond, searching, until reveal, which is not the same as revealing, which is not missed, nor the same dream, which is seen asleep.
the body and the soul also is the taste, you know, if you do not know, I'm starving, do not feed me, so birth when shows the first drop of milk and enjoyed the round world where knowledge is collected, hence learn all about love and indifference, on the taste and beauty, this source of wisdom to learn to live and die.
The sense of smell, which is more than just smell, it is also physical and mental, is the sense to recognize, is to follow a trail, pick up a signal to select or rule, is breathing, take the momentum that brings the world to exchange inhalation, to welcome or not.
The sense of warmth is also physical and mental, is more than feel alive or feel the skin, is an experience of light and joy of the heat or the darkness and loneliness that transmits the cold, is euphoria or impersonality, is exaggeration or parsimony is to radiate warmth or coolness.
The last group of the 4 spiritual senses, which are also physical, and relate to an inner need that human beings have re-linked with a sensed world, unspeakable, which is not visible, however it is perceived and beyond the limits of the soul. Maybe there will be a time of history in ways that are called divine, cosmic or supersensible, maybe ... when humans raise our status up to other powers or name God is easier and not a sensitive issue:
's hearing, which is to listen, or going to feel, because it evokes and thrill to hear and suffer and move, or go beyond the physical, transfer the ear and reach places unexplained, or go where it opens an interior space, which even seems to us understand something, not no words yet invented to name is to be ono go numb or dull.
The sense of the word is the truth or lying, to appoint or to be silent or distort the world, to confuse or clarify the express meaning, to know that while the act verbs, adjectives and nouns feel think, together palpitate in the gesture, tone and voice of each letter.
The sense of thought that is the sense of the interconnectedness of all what exists and what happens, sums up the human activity in the inspiration or the lack of brightness in the ideas, the reflection is coherent or disconnected from life in pictures or words.
And the sense of self of others, the ability to perceive the other, reading their characteristics within me, to recognize, validate, to guess, something so intimate, it is intuition and experience that which is called essence that translates to knowing or not who is the other when I meet him.
Year 2015 - Any place on planet earth - The park is crowded, from the windows of the spa, is hard to see the place in which interlocking wooden and iron bridges, with terraces children run and play wet, with playful streams that spring from the floor. On pallets near them, all can be acrobats, musicians, theater people and spectators. The areas planted with flowers where the old walking across the field, combined with open spaces, with accumulation of sand and stone, which are available for everyone to move and explore with their senses. Can see both on the courts to teens in cliques singing hugging, kissing, while the food stalls, sitting at tables and benches, young people and adults share songs, words and wine.
Immersed in the natural stone pool, is he, absorbed, watching them through glass. The scents of lavender, cinnamon and mandarin, come in small waves, marked by fresh and vibrant sounds of the moving metal and glass located in different sites of the spa. The water is warm and the jets on the walls, they massage your legs. Think it is now possible to explore the senses, "... the ultimate realization of their capacity," as Aristotle would say, the same sensory capacity in the past, was suppressed for being the origin of sin. Move your eyes to people like him, from the pool are perceiving the world, outside and inside. Sale of water will be served a fruit tea and drink it sits in a padded armchair with cushions, facing the large window.
The window draws a big picture of the city that moves to the rhythm of the sense of speed, this movement is going forward, this movement that can block the experience sense: the source of creativity, the same movement that is capable of surpassing even the speed excessive or even excruciating slowness.