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WORDS CARRY POWER

Rip Parker
3 min readJul 11, 2022

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USE THEM CAREFULLY

Words are a symbolic presentation of our thinking. Thinking tends to be either enhanced or restricted by our vocabulary, the library of symbols we have to express ourselves. Example: when I use the pronouns “he” or “his” my intent is to communicate “he/her”, “her’s and his”.

From time to time we all have feelings and thoughts we cannot express in words. Our mental grasp on and elaboration of those inexpressible feelings and thoughts is thus limited, but they may be the most important feelings and thoughts we may have.

Our ability to communicate benefits not only the communicator, but those to whom he communicates. Whether the listener agrees or not, that person is fed information for consideration.

Words are our most important symbols. Our growth in consciousness of both the speaker/writer and his audience is affected by his communications. These symbols are so important because we must routinely rely on them.

There are, of course, many other extremely important symbols that communicate critical information. A category of these is what I call “the spiritual language” we most commonly experience in dreams. What we may see as “spiritual communication”, usually eminating from our unconscious minds, is normally symbolic, rarely literal, and commonly quite succinct.

I have doubts about “channeled information”, whether claimed to be archangel or other, that rambles on and on, generally in a repetitive manner. My experience, on the rare…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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