004 FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT CHAPTER 3: SOME INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

004 FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT

CHAPTER 3:  SOME INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

 

i.                   Did you know that you were once a linguist? Yes, you were once an international orator and everyone listened and reacted to your famous speeches! You must have lost that talent or suppressed it. But you can reclaim it if you really want to be an international sage!! Read on, if you do!

ii.                 Visit the home of a couple that has a newborn and quietly observe everyone in the house for an hour when the baby is wide-awake. Relax. Just watch mummy, daddy, children and others in the house! This is a very important practical. Don’t miss it.  Do this before reading any further, please!

iii.                   What did you see in the home you visited? Who was dishing out orders to everyone else? Who was the parade commander? Who was obeyed and must be obeyed? And finally what did you learn about children and their ability to order everyone around them. Do they get immediate obedience or compliance? ----Yes, they always do!

iv.                   You were once an autocratic baby like the one you observed! You gave commands and everyone came running to obey you. At times you even caused a quarrel between daddy and mummy when there was a delay in compliance to your demands!

v.                     Am I making any useful remarks? Of course, I am! The world of the infant is full of “give me, carry me, feed me, change my wet pants, cant you see I am hot? - do something about it, cant you feel the cold?- common, cover me with a blanket,.. etc”

vi.                   Some of that language still remains in everyone’s subconscious mind and we occasionally demand immediate gratification. If you do so, it shows that you are still a baby when you are among adults. So stop it now! Selfishness or egocentricity is childish behaviour! Drop any vestiges of it remaining with you today!

vii.                But that is not all. Did you also assimilate the love showered on the infant by all around, including yourself? Atimes, while you were there, you felt like scolding the mum for delaying the prompt breastfeeding of the baby. Did you?

viii.              That is called “empathy”. You felt for the helpless infant and wanted to assist in the little way you could. You were right then, but do you do so nowadays helping or assisting others in this selfish country and world that we live in? Sympathy is an international language! 

ix.                  Did you notice that even daddy was ready to fight for the baby? He was ready to abandon the love he has for the wife just to please the infant. Why? I need an answer from you, the proud Homo sapiens!

x.                     It is called international justice! The weak are always to be defended or protected before the strong. It is a natural code written in our minds but we sooner than later stifle it, replacing it with cultural stereotypes and ethnic prejudices. Re-learn it today!!

xi.                  My dear, I am not giving you any new codes of conduct. No! These have always been there! I am only unearthing them for mankind to become conscious of the international language that everyone once spoke and understood.

xii.                Crying is an international language that translates thus: I am in difficulty… I need your assistance to get out of this sad situation, please help me… will someone listen to me? Did you get my message? How many people have you rescued in the past week?

xiii.             However note that sometimes teardrops could indicate extreme pleasure, unexpected joy or negative emotional upset! But you always tell the difference by assessing the cues in the immediate environment of the one concerned!

xiv.             Smiling is an international language, and converts to laughter when doubled or multiplied in geometric proportions! Both translate into;“ I am pleased at the moment,.. thank you for the pleasant stimulus,.. it is hilarious here, why don’t you join us and laugh! Am I making any sense to you? Do not say yes when you really mean no.

xv.                Frowning is an international language, which when serious becomes a scowl, threat or hatred and a prelude to mischief. In all your life avoid it. It does you no good. Ask Cain, the brother of Abel in the Christian Bible! He is a professor in that subject. He graduated in it and became the first murderer in the history of mankind, as we are told!

xvi.             Music is an international language! And when dramatised turns into various types of dancing! Good ones cut across ethnic, religious and national boundaries. All domesticated and wild animals, especially snakes listen to and enjoy good music. Ask any zookeeper! Even criminals enjoy their own kind of music.

xvii.           Romance is an international language! Falling in love cuts across all human demarcations. It has even resulted in peace accords, unions and festivals as well as murders, wars and enmity!

xviii.        There are many other international languages! Learn to cultivate the good ones and minimise the use of any bad language like scolding, shouting, gossiping, backbiting, slandering and finally maligning others!

xix.             Two other international languages are; urinating and defecating! As an infant we all did it wherever and whenever pressed, but we were also trained to postpone or delay them till we get to the appropriate places for doing so. Have you been doing these rightly?

xx.               Finally, this is definitely the one that runs haywire for immature people! Libido or sexual energy, its profitable use or misuse!! Promiscuity is bad in concept and unhealthy / futile in execution; anywhere, any day, anytime. Control your passions! The ability to do so separates mature rational human beings from all infantile, hedonistic and regressed ones! Which are you? Adieu!