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Logical Language - Analogical Language
“Logical” language is the expression of Western
scientific thought; it aims to find the postulate “truth” that
can proven through the relationship of cause-effect. By means
of this logical language Western therapists describe and utilize
their results.
With the same purpose, CTM uses an “analogical language” which
seeks to find the description of the energetic dynamics among
categories without any connection to cause-effect.
Using analogical concepts it describes “the passage” to
the “middle road”, the Tao, that leads to the Centre,
where can be found the point of equilibrium between the linear
and the chaotic dynamics, according to the laws of nature.
CTM also uses an analogical metalanguage to provide an accessible
method of work to those therapists who lack the necessary cultural
basis in order understand the complexities present in this holistic
medicine, which operates in accordance with the universal laws
of nature.
The integration of the two operative methods and the use of
their respective languages offers a potent means of communication,
with which it is possible to face and clearly describe any kind
of situation.
CTM has recognized in the complexity of the living being’s
system the need of a language which adequately expresses the
conceptual framework adopted. When the complex system moves within
linear, causal dynamics the use of alogical language is most
satisfactory. To shed light upon the complexity of the system’s
dynamics when chaotic events occur, CTM deemed it necessary to
express the concepts gathered through the examination of the
EC at the pulses in comprehensive manner: therefore these concepts
were translated into an “analogical language”. Casual
events present non-rational, a-causal, chaotic coherency. CTM
gives expression to these chaotic alterations, which are at the
root of the system’s changes, through the use of a symbolic,
analogical language. In this way CTM describes the new situations
which develop, even when the extremely complex correlations present
themselves.
The linear dynamic is described through the language of the
causal logical which gives an exact description of the equilibrium
of the rhythms in the flow of time.The alteration brought about
by the chaotic dynamics is reflected in the symbolic, analogical
language, which can be communicated inside the evolving situations.
The symbolic language belongs to the imaginary world of the
collective as well the individual's subconscious, as it expresses
its ideas through prelogical figures, which are “energetic
forces ”; they are not “significant”, yet they
create streams of thought, networks of interactive relationships
which precede and determine cognitive experiences. Logical concepts
separate and differentiate the meanings of an experience, whereas
symbolic language connects these meanings, in a vision that is
not tied to words or to their possible interpretations. This
is why analogical, symbolic language, the language of the imaginary,
opens the way to a wide horizon, which carries potent messages
towards the universal: the parameters of space and time become
amplified and contribute to the specificity of the individual's “history”.
The expression of language, literal or symbolic, adopted to
represent the dialectics of CTM, shed light onto the characteristics
of the complexity: the dynamics and the indeterminacy inside
the vital process. The description of the intra or extra psychic
activities, of the physical or mental phenomenological dynamics,
evidence an unlimited number of structures with various levels
of “significance”, which participate in the psychophysical,
complex, dynamic, indeterminate activities.
The infinite potentialities and the richness of this approach
towards reality, with the introduction of the concept of chaos,
that is causality and its laws, are evident when examining the
complexity of the mental processes which describe brain activity.
Behavioural adaptability and plasticity are the two essential
factors of non-linear dynamic systems, which can carry out transitions
in conditions far from the energetic equilibrium. The use of “correspondences” ensures
a sufficiently articulate vision of these evolutions.
Individuals can reach “knowledge” in an orderly,
analytical manner, through the informationreceived from the sensory
organs; or else they can gain “consciousness” in
a receptive and integrated manner through the direct perception
of the meaning of their emotions.
It appears evident that for these two different methods of “achieving
knowledge” it is useful to adopt a double language: logical,
mentally elaborated through memory of the past; or intuitive,
analogical, focused on the present
A particular xxxxxxx, an analogical language and semantics make
it possible to communicate with a large series of categories
which, being dynamic ensembles, at various levels, open unexpected
horizons on individual existential values
Cognitive action takes place inside language: through knowledge
the individual avoids excesses and chooses the normal regularity
of the world: to begin their journey on the “middle road”,
the Tao, the path which leads to the equilibrium of the system's
dynamics. The occurrence of language and of social relationships
within the environment produces experiences of the "mind" and
of self-consciousness, with which the behavioural coordination
within the individual’s “existential conscience” will
be created .
The examination of the EC at the pulses offers the therapist a
complex mass ofnotions, which must be considered the expression
of the double language (causal-logical and casual-analogical, symbolic)
with which it is possible to face“normal” situations
as well as “new” situations, represented by changes
of rhythm within the flow of time and by alterations inside the
energetic equilibrium.