Below, you will find a template for developing `sense-able'
questions. These examples demonstrate how you can combine a question-forming
word with a verb phrase and a noun phrase to create a silent level experiment.
Vary these to extend your organismic awareness. In this way you can enhance your
consciousness and control of your abstracting process.
| Question-forming word | Verb phrase | Noun phrase (silent level experience) |
| What | do I sense of can I experience of |
how the floor supports my feet in
standing?
the structure of these sounds, of what I'm looking at, etc? |
| Where | am I aware of | the tensions in my jaw? |
| How | can I be awake to | where my back makes contact with the
chair?
what I am sitting upon? |
| When | can I get in touch with
can I sense the connection with can I make contact with can I become aquainted with |
the movements related to my
breathing?
what is going on here-now? |
Korzybski wrote that "Our actual lives are lived entirely on the objective levels, including the un-speakable 'feelings', 'emotions' . , [etc.] the verbal levels being only auxiliary, and effective only if they are translated back into first order un-speakable effects, such as an object, an action, a 'feeling' . , all on the silent and un-speakable objective levels" (Science and Sanity, 35).
How can you continue to apply what you have learned
here?
What other g-s formulations can you connect to your silent
level experiences?
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