“But how can I explain, how can I explain to you?
You will understand less after I have explained it.”
— T.S. Eliot
Communication between people is at best a tricky business at the best of times. When our emotions flare up it becomes near impossible. We hear things that the other person didn’t intend and what we intended to say gets garbled and comes out sideways. More sincere love may have been expressed with the words, “I hate you.” then were ever expressed with its corollary (I don’t say opposite because hate is a form of love not its opposite and that is the topic of a much longer blog entry). Yet still, how do we explain ourselves to others when we are working our feelings out for ourselves? Chances are what we’ll communicate is our own confusion and many of us are all too good at that.
Blessings, G
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
―-Lewis Carroll
How can we understand an experience that we have never had? Oh its easy enough to get it intellectually. This happens and then that happens and this is what it feels like. To truly know what it is to do something, we have to do it, either physically or on some other level where the experience is at least as real. Until then, unless one has truly developed their empathy to almost telepathic levels, explanations are somewhat akin to explaining an intricate piece of music to someone who has been deaf from birth. This is especially true when it comes to peak spiritual experiences. There is no way to hitch a ride on someone else’s, we have to experience it for ourselves.
Blessings, G
Click on images to see full-sized:
Mermaid Remembers Her Past by G A Rosenberg
The Centre Contracts, The Circle Expands by G A Rosenberg
Extradimensional Mallard by G A Rosenberg 
Andrealphus by G A Rosenberg 
