The Origins of Communication

Ayur Vedic teaching speaks of primordial sound, which is an instinctive language that we all know subconsciously and can become able to tap into. The Bible speaks of the time before Babel, when there was but one language for all mankind. We have often speculated that spoken language was created in order to share ideas and to communicate, but it is not outrageous to theorize the opposite. What if spoken language was actually created to silence the sharing of thoughts?

The animals do not use sound alone to communicate, but instead use all of their senses, including a somewhat recently discovered sense that is enabled by the VSO organ and is the receptor for pheromones. But humans have shut down much of their ancestral communication and replaced it with spoken voculabulary. We no longer trust our sense of smell, and cover up our own scents with soaps and perfumes. We hide the visual biproducts of our emotions, and forget what instinctual gestures, postures, and expressions mean. We disbelieve our auras, though proven by Kirlian photography, so that only children and sensitives might see them. We ignore our subtle communicative feelings and emotions, and close ourselves off to intuition and insight. We have become dependent upon the spoken word, and haven't really been using our own VSO organs for thousands of years. They may not even work anymore.

The primordial spoken language, being a supplemental part of communication but not the whole of it, was quite probably instinctual and therefore may indeed have been shared at one time across the globe. Many theorizers and prehistoric fiction writers have speculated that the brain structures of archaic homo sapiens were indeed more inclined toward instinctual and universal thought than ours are today. Aule's neanderthals were psychic. Archaics and erectus had smaller frontal lobes, and the occipital bun housed an extended, instinctual, "reptilian" brain. The quelling of the ego and the enlargement of the primitive brain would be an ideal condition for the reception of a universal mind.

It has been suggested that the story of the Tower of Babel is a retelling of the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. While I don't buy this because of the obvious timeline problems and other reasons that make that theory unable to jive, the two stories do have interesting similarities. Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and they knew they were naked and hid their bodies. Man sought to achieve the status of God and built a great tower, but God cast it down and tangled their tongues. Perhaps in the humbling from the fall of the tower man realized that his thoughts were exposed, and hid them from his neighbor, and that is how God tangled his tongue. Therefore the old language was lost, and a plethora of new ones were created, so that men from different tribes could no longer understand each other.

Similarities in root words have been discovered by linguists in languages as seperated from each other by time and geography as Basque and Ainu. Could they all point to an ancient, primordial, instinctual language, before the fall of man?

The Origins of Communication