Name: 2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: Q & A Parts I & II
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"You have said that speech brings order out of chaos"

"But why does it appear that speech brings chaos out of order?"

The question is:  Speech brings order out of chaos

but it appears that speech brings chaos out of order as well

There is only so many complications I can address in the talk simultaneously

If you look at the most archaic of archetypal heroes

Those heroes confront something  that represents chaos

It's usually a monster that bears a treasure of some sort

and that's a symbolic representation of the class of all unexplored things

because things that we have not yet explored are threatening and destructive

but more elaborated hero stories, lets say

also reverse that and say that- well there are times when the order has become so corrupt and rigid

that free speech fragments it into its parts

that's the hero that Christ is basically represented as

He's not so much the dragon confronting...the dragon slayer who gathers the treasure

Although that's implicit in the juxtaposition of Christ with the figure of like a serpentile satan

but Christ is the thing that stands  up against the corrupt state

free speech- the logos is the thing that mediates between chaos and order

this is represented in many cultures- this idea

You can see it most specifically in the Taoist conceptualisation

because in the Taoist world, being is made out of chaos and order, yin and yang, masculine and feminine

and order is the fact that wherever you go, there are things you understand

and chaos is- the fact that wherever you go, there are things that you don't understand

And so the idea is that being is made out of the things that you understand and the things that you don't understand

which is why Tao is the symbol of being per se

for the world that you understand, and the world you don't understand

the world you understand, roughly speaking, being handled by the left

the world you don't understand, roughly speaking, being handled by the right

Well it's that line down the middle that's Tao.  That's meaning.

And if you have one foot in chaos and one foot in order, you're maximising information flow

and rejuvenating yourself at the same time that you're maintaining your structure

and you will report on that internally as engagement in the world.

It's the most fundamental orienting sense that you have.

and it's deeply instantiated neurologically--

And so sometimes you are speaking on behalf of chaos,

and sometimes you are speaking on behalf of order.

It's more complicated than that too, though, because...

and we're mutually attempting  to climb towards the truth

instead of convincing each other that we're right...

then what we are doing is engaging in the simultaneous fragmentation of old and archaic belief systems,

and they're updated. And you can experience that--

because someone will say  something that sets you back

and then you'll get what they're saying,  and it will CLICK together.

And what you are experiencing is the death of an old conceptualisation structure

(its disintegration), and then its  re-configuration in a tighter order.

And people love that.  They live for that.

It's--  Really, it's what keeps you ALIVE.

And you can experience that in a deep conversation,

a truthful conversation, a meeting of the minds and soul.

And people love that.  It's curative. All psychotherapists know this.

Because, what you do in psychotherapy, in addition to helping people face the things that they're most afraid of

is to allow them to tell someone the truth.

And they take themselves apart, and  put themselves together,

while they're speaking the truth about what happened.

The two fundamental elements of psychotherapy are...

Let's find what you're afraid of and avoiding,

so that you can gather the information that's there...

And...  Let's allow you to lay your story out in all of its catastrophe and detail

so that you can straighten yourself out through speech.

It's exactly what happens in psychotherapy.

And it should happen in every real relationship.

It's the spiritual purpose of a marriage, fundamentally, right?

Because you face someone who's different than you, that you're tied to

--and cannot run from--and so... **laughter**

you can reveal yourself... Really, really...  It's a critical--

It's a critical part of marriage.  Because if you can run,

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