I would put to you all the question: What word
doesn't get to
that unfamiliar place between meaning and sound if you repeat it
enough?
When you say a word in
normal conversation, there is a meaning attatched to that sound you just made. Repeat it over and over, and you
lose sight of the
meaning, concentrating more and more on the actual noises coming out of your mouth. Disbeliever?
Infidel?
Try it yourself.
If it's
your first time, give yourself plenty of time to
dissociate any feelings or emotions that are attatched to this
articulation. Let's use "mother" - forget the meaning of the word, the feeling that you get when you think of
your own mother, and anything else you think you know about this
combination of utterances. Thats all it is. Those six letters dont represent or
embody your mother, do they? Of course they don't. Don't even think about the letters themselves. Just hear the sound
when you say it.
mother. mother. mother. Sometimes it helps to vary the speed a little. Say it
quickly. Say it
uniformly.
Just keep saying it. It really will come in a moment of
enlightenment one of these times. That moment is great...and you will hear "mother" that way for a good hour or so. You can't force it back together with its meaning or
personal connotation, It'll just
fall back there, waiting for you to
split it up again.