The following is sort of a compilation on some musings and thoughts I put together while thinking about the mind, language and stuff. If I state something as fact in here, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true or even that I believe it to be true. Maybe some ideas branch from other ideas in here so it's all just theory.
"For the purpose of the article, I'm going to use the word 'idea' a lot. This small article will center around my idea of 'idea'.
Think of something in your mind right now. Actually, let's be honest, most people's head are unfortunately filled with thoughts all the time. Kudos if your inner-speakings are so little that to actively think you have to try on purpose. In any case, my question isn't what you're thinking of, but rather how you're thinking it.
When a person thinks, they usually think in words or images. Usually words, often images, sometimes both. There is, however, a third way to think. This way of thinking, in it's purest form, is both wordless and even devoid of images (at least as you usually think it.) I call it 'idea', or wordless/pure thought.
When thinking with images or words especially, your ability to think is limited in a scope dictated by whichever medium you use. Therefore, pure thought is the optimal way to think about things in your mind. Although it should be noted that when thinking about certain subjects or situations, it's appropriate and even necessary to mingle idea (again, pure thought) with images and words because of how they relate to something.
Drugs influence the way we think and change the ratios of thought types we tend to. Drugs such as marijuana, LSD and salvia can stir up the ratio heavily, usually ending up with a lot more image-thoughts and wordless thoughts, although worded thoughts may still be prevalent in some people. Reducing worded thoughts and thereby making more room for idea is one of the ways in which some drugs can open our minds, although their use may do more harm than good in the long-run. And certainly the key to use idea thought is a choice, not something to be achieved just by constant use of hallucinogens.
Anyone experienced with the previously mentioned drugs may understand the dilemma with pure idea, however. Think of the ideas and thoughts you get while on such a drug, and then think of the problem: you can't express it, and the thought is often fleeting. The problem humans find in relation to pure idea is that translating it must be done through a medium that likely can't capture the true content of the original thought.
The problem is only compounded when on such drugs because the pure ideas, again, are so fleeting. You may get a ton of ideas you want to share with people, but three problems come up: 1. The thoughts come and then go before you can even fully understand them. 2. The thoughts come and go before you translate them into worded/image thoughts and thus into words that you can say or images and words that you can write down. 3. Even if you can capture a thought and translate it into words quick enough, not only do you have to put it through the rough, comparatively limited medium of drawn images or, more likely, speech, you also have to do so while your speech is impared by the drug's effect.
The reason I talk about use of drugs in relation to pure thought is that for a lot of people, using certain drugs is one of the few or only times they'll open their mind and experience a lot of pure idea thought. Unfortunately, they never choose to use pure idea thought, so the only time they get it is when a drug makes it so for them, and often they barely realize it. And even for those that do use drugs for achieving pure idea (or an open mind), how many realize that you can open your mind and use pure idea without drugs, but rather by practice and will?
The problem of communicating pure idea while impaired by drugs like I mentioned earlier only brings up a larger, general problem: how do we share idea? Humans don't, at least these days, have powerful telepathy. Thus, our problem is how we transfer ideas? Indeed, the problem is that idea must travel through the medium of speech/writing and/or imagery to get to the mind of another. But how can such a complex form of thought pass through them and remain unscathed?
When one's thoughts are limited to mostly words and imagery, it's easier to translate those thoughts to others, because your thoughts were always limited to the scope that the medium of spoken words or written words and imagery will relatively easily convey. However, limiting yourself to that sort of thinking for any reason is ridiculous.
So indeed, if you intend to use a lot of pure idea in your own thinking, you'll be forced, for the sake of communicating with others, to push certain ideas into the meatgrinder that is human language and images. Unfortunately, humans these days can't communicate telepathically, which I believe would be an ideal medium for communicating pure thoughts to each other.
But therein is the solution: telepathy. Indeed pure telepathy is the ideal medium for communicating that idea, but because most people aren't even close to skilled enough in it to use it alone. I think it's our very long lost heritage is to be able to do so, but for now it's a goal we have to work for. Where do we start? Practically, I think the best option is supplementary telepathy.
What do I mean by supplementary telepathy? If putting your idea through the medium of language/imagery turns it into a skeleton, then attaching your pure idea onto it in a sort of solid form is like adding flesh to the skeleton. (Depending on your strength and the receptivity of the person(s) you're trying to give that combination of worded/image'd thought and telepathic pure thought to, you might even say you're supplementing your telepathy with a skeleton of words and/or images!)
My conclusion is that, on the path to becoming (or returning to) a race that uses telepathy as their primary language, (thus making the perfect environment for transferring any and every form of thought or combination thereof, even pure idea,) our first step should be to use telepathy! Of course it's good to practice pure telepathy without any words, not only to practice for using it purely, but also because practicing pure telepathy will beef up your telepathy for whatever you use it for.
But even when we're using primarily words or images to convey something, it's in our best interest to attach telepathic thought to that thing! That sentence you say to someone, that article you write, that poem you create, that picture you draw- attach the idea you want to convey to the medium you use! It never hurts to throw in some idea (pure thought) to that thing- it flexs the muscles of your mind and that of your reader/listener/etc, and it greatly increases the chance that they'll get what you're really trying to say, especially if it's a complex thought that originated as idea rather than words/images, that you're having conveying by words and/or images alone.
So for those people who like to think in idea rather than words and images, maybe you're stuck communicating to others with language and images, but that doesn't mean you can't attach idea telepathically. Use the magic of your mind; telepathically attach what you want to convey to what you're using to communicate it to other people. You'll flex your magic, flex theirs, get better results in people understanding you, and on the grand scale, you're working towards a more telepathic humanity."
This brings to mind, gnosis and knowing from peoples thoughts and thin air. Excepting some may actually think in scents, too.
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