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Bruce I. Kodish

Creating Sense-able Questions
for Silent Level Experiments

By Bruce I. Kodish

IGS Summer Seminar-Workshop
© 1995


Below you will find a template for developing ‘sense-able’ questions. Combine each question with a verb phrase and a noun phrase to create a silent level experiment. Vary these to extend your organismic awareness. In this way you can enhance your consciousness and control of your abstracting process. What do you choose to be present for in this moment?

Question Verb Phrase Noun Phrase (silent level experience)
What do I sense of how the floor supports my feet in standing?
Where am I aware of the tension in my jaw?
How can I be awake to where my back makes contact with the chair?
When can I get in touch with
sense the connection with
make contact with
become acquainted with
the movements related to my breathing?


Et Cetera...

Korzybski wrote:

“Our actual lives are lived entirely on the objective levels, including the un-speakable ‘feelings’, ‘emotions’. , the verbal levels being only auxiliary, and effective only if they are translated back into first order un-speakable effects, such as an object, an action, a ‘feeling’. , all on the silent and un-speakable objective levels.” (Science and Sanity, p.35)

How can you continue to apply what you have learned here?

What other gs formulations can you connect to your silent level experiences?


 

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