Why I Change my vocabulary

If you have been reading my work for a while, you may have noticed something.

Every so often, my language changes.

A familiar phrase disappears. A new one appears. Sometimes I introduce an entirely different way of describing an idea that I have been teaching for years.

This isn’t new. If you have been studying my work for any length of time, you have probably noticed these shifts in vocabulary. I regularly test different lexicons, and because of that I often begin my classes by defining exactly what I mean when I use a particular word. Sometimes I will use the same word in a completely different context.

What I am doing with the use of different language is not altering reality itself, nor the observations I have made about it. Those have remained consistent over a lifetime of research into the human role in the co-construction of reality.

What I am doing is test a new lexicon to see if I can breach the gap between reality and intellect..

Words are not reality, although they can shape it. They are tools we use to comprehend reality’s complexity.

Some words work better than others.

Over the years I have discovered that changing a single word can dramatically change how people understand, discuss, and apply an idea, method, tool or theory. A different lexicon can illuminate aspects of the same concepts that were always there but were difficult to describe with the previous vocabulary.

Take the word manifestation.

It is a perfectly useful word, but at a societal level and over time it has gathered many meanings. Depending on who you ask, it can mean attracting what you want, visualizing an outcome, positive thinking, creating reality, intention, magic, or any number of other things.

Recently, I began testing a different word.

Compatibility.

The mechanics themselves have not changed.

The model has not changed.

What changes is the question people ask when they want a different experience of life.

Instead of, “How do I manifest what I want?” the question becomes, “What reality am I presently compatible with? And how can I change it?”

That single shift points much more directly toward the process I have been describing for years.

The same thing is happening with other parts of my work.

Rather than speaking about how events and people influence one another, I am testing language that describes reality as an ongoing discourse composed of threads of connectivity: what I call the Communication Network of Reality.

Again, the observation is not new.

Only the vocabulary is.

Whether these particular words remain for years or eventually give way to better ones is almost beside the point.

Their purpose is not permanence.

Their purpose is effectiveness.

Every time I try a new lexicon, I ask:

Does this point more accurately toward what I have perceived reality to be?

Does it help people understand the model more clearly?

Does it make the ideas easier to discuss, test, and apply?

If the answer is yes to any of those, the words stay.

If the answer is no, I keep looking and testing new ones.

So if you notice my vocabulary changing from time to time, it doesn’t mean I have abandoned the previous model or adopted a new one.

More often than not, I am simply testing whether a different set of words makes the same landscape easier to navigate.

Language is one of the most powerful tools we have for exploring reality. As well as creating it.

So I’d like your help.

Over the coming weeks I’ll be testing this new lexicon in my articles, classes, and on my podcast, Driving to the Rez. We’ll see together whether these new words simply sound different, or whether they make the underlying model easier to understand, discuss, and apply.

The next stop? Threads of connectivity. Can you guess what they are made of?

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