…with words. We have to realize that the world we live in is not words, it is a non verbal world or as Korzybski called it an unspeakable world which is a phrase. I always like you know there's something slightly naughty about it, and when philosophers…

…of not existing. As soon as you realize that you're alive, you know you could be dead. And so this comes with what Korzybski called time binding. By realizing time, by being able to predict the future. You see other people die and you know you will…

…rough places plain. But you see they don't see they don't notice the difference between the flag and the country or as Korzybski pointed out, the difference between the map and the territory. Now however I think we should begin by talking a little bit…

…and therefore it fulfills all the requirements of spirit. So what I'm saying, then is that the non abstract world which Korzybski called unspeakable which was really a rather good word is the spiritual world. And the spiritual world isn't something kind of…

…so you don't mean the policy of the geographical territory. And nominalism you see is a very big thing for the followers of Korzybski and for all logical analysts and so on, because they take the point of view. The whole thing in Korzybski is that you…

…for the followers of Korzybski and for all logical analysts and so on, because they take the point of view. The whole thing in Korzybski is that you mustn't just go around calling things dogs, that you must recognize there is fido sub 1, fido sub 2 and…

…again in an offshoot of these developments in the field of linguistics and I'm thinking particularly of the semantic philosophy of Korzybski and the Meta Linguistic thought of Benjamin Lee Whorf there are even more striking parallels to some of the later…

…and that you mustn't confuse the order of words with the order of reality. You must quite keep clear the distinction, as Korzybski used to say between the map and the territory. Well that's one development in the west, strikingly parallel to ideas that…

…had made a passing reference in yesterday's seminar to the fact that the knowledge of time, the knowledge of the future or what Korzybski calls man's time binding ability, is an advantage for which we pay a very serious price. To know the future in a…

…are very largely poetry. Of course everything in the world knives and forks, tables and chairs, trees and stones are indescribable. Korzybski referred to the physical world as the unspeakable world which was really rather a funny name because it has two…

…as I showed you units of thought, thinks as inches, for example, are units of measurement and through the confusion of the as Korzybski would have said the map with the territory or as Wittgenstein would have said, the network with the world which we try…

…mind, from the physical world. But let me repeat, by saying the physical world I'm using a word for want of anything better. Korzybski called it the unspeakable world it's really rather funny that is to say the non verbal world, which is of course in a…

…are very largely poetry. Of course everything in the world knives and forks, tables and chairs, trees and stones are indescribable. Korzybski referred to the physical world as the unspeakable world, which was really rather a funny name because it has two…

…one of the things that is principally involved by a social system of communication is that it is a form of what Korzybski has called time binding. The whole possibility of thought and language involves a codification of experience. It involves a form of…

…again in an offshoot of these. Developments in the field of linguistics and I'm thinking particularly of the semantic philosophy of Korzybski and the Meta Linguistic thought of Benjamin Lee Whorf. There are even more striking parallels to some of the later…

…and that you mustn't confuse the order of words with the order of reality. You must quite keep clear the distinction, as Korzybski used to say between the map and the territory. Well that's one development in the west strikingly parallel to ideas that…

…and therefore it fulfills all the requirements of spirit. So what I'm saying then is that the non abstract world which Korzybski called unspeakable which was really a rather good word is the spiritual world. And the spiritual world isn't something kind of…

…stop thinking to find out what life is about. And the moment you stop thinking, you become into immediate contact with what Korzybski called so delightfully the unspeakable world, that is to say the non verbal world. Some people would call it the physical…

…or whether you take an ordinary rusty nail at the other, nothing is really describable. In the words of the famous count Korzybski, Whatever you say something is, it isn't. We used to have a professor at northwestern who would produce a match booklet in…

…symbolizing to yourself what is going on. You simply are aware of what is and nobody can say what it is because, as Korzybski well said, the real world is unspeakable. It's a lovely double take in that. But that's jnana, that's zazen, where one practices…