Going Beyond Worded Wisdom

In this article, I will discuss the concept of worded wisdom and its limitations. I will be following the teachings of Lord Lanto in his book[1].

The Limitations of Worded Expression

For most of us who are used to expressing ourselves in words, it seems impossible to 'find wisdom' without them. In our daily lives, we rely on words to make ourselves understood by others and  even to ‘give ‘teachings’ to others as happens with those who are ‘teachers’;

In our daily lives, we are accustomed to communicating with words, so it seems impossible to live our lives and fulfil our roles in society and at work without communicating verbally.

This is true, but it is also true that, when we do these things, we are performing our 'roles' from the perspective of our dualistic minds.

 In all these roles, our consciousness is dominated by binary logic and the concept that what we say can only be 'true' or 'false', with no other possibility of interpretation.

This kind of 'communication' is completely shaped by dualistic consciousness and its concept of 'truth', and is most of the time used to prioritise a certain concept over all others from the subject/object perspective.

We see that when we communicate through words, we are also affirming our distance from others who may disagree with us.

However, as spiritual beings, we cannot achieve anything through this kind of expression, which is so often used to assert power over others.

And if you doubt me, please remember that politicians always claim to be better than any other candidate when campaigning for election.

In these cases, they use words as weapons to affirm their superiority over others.

It is also true that not all worded expressions are dualistic, as we can experience for ourselves by giving invocations, for instance, but still, any worded expression is always limited.

True Wisdom is More than Words

As Master Lanto tells us, any verbal expression is a description. However, wisdom is always an experience, so words can never ‘translate’ the experience itself; they merely ‘suggest’ it, providing some clues about the real experience.

As Master Gautama once exemplified, can we ever fully describe what it feels like to taste an apple? The answer is obvious: you need to taste an apple to ‘know’ what it feels like.

However, one could argue that this is a special case relating to the senses, and that in many cases it would be different because it is a matter of interpretation rather than 'feeling with our senses'.

Remember, though, that our ability to interpret anything is always limited by our 'perception filters': our system of beliefs that defines what is true or false for each of us, as well as our general knowledge and ideologies about reality.

All of this is added to our experiences. We can only perceive what we have learned to recognise through our culture and upbringing.

But is any of this 'wisdom'? Lord Lanto tells us that it is not; it is merely worldly wisdom expressed through words, and has nothing to do with true wisdom.

I return to the Masters' assertion that 'true wisdom is an experience' which takes place not at the level of our dualistic minds, but at the level of our Christ consciousness.

As Lord Lanto states, wisdom is a holistic experience that involves not only our mental bodies, but all of our being: the four material bodies and our ‘conscious you’.

True wisdom manifests as a clarity of vision that encompasses our entire being, providing an overall feeling and understanding that cannot be replicated by anything else and cannot be put into words.

It fills our entire energy field in a way that nothing else can, and it emerges not as a result of reasoning, but after our beings are filled with light - the same light of Christ expressed as wisdom within us.

[1] Lord Lanto, Initiations of Wisdom, dictated through the messenger Kim Michaels, 2014, E-book version