Like The Grays …(Part One of a Two-Part Series)

When words aren’t working — yet communication is essential, look for an answer beyond the stars …

Part One — Technical Aspects as to Why We Need this Right Now.

Even ET had to phone home. But his species’ technology far surpassed our own, and his friends had communication skills that we can only dream about in our movies and literature. But those skills are something we all can learn how to master. We receive a gift when we can understand the concept of minimal or silent communication.

If we take our communication as human beings to the next level, perhaps like we envision when we depict the grays of alien species in our modern science fiction, then I would like to explain how we may begin getting there. And even though this is from our imagination, or maybe not, it serves the real purpose of attempting to show why the next jump in evolution is mandatory and will be the only path for human beings going forward.

No joke — I actually tried this at work several months ago. Once I had committed to the idea, I knew it would take time and effort on my part, but I was determined.

I knew that once mastered, these skills would take us to new levels of humanity — one that is already, in fact, upon us. I say it is time to embrace these impending changes and to zoom forward in evolutionary prowess. The time has come to communicate like the grays!

So, I went into work that morning and silently stared at everyone working at their desks around me. I took it all in and saw each person in a new light. I was now a gray, damnit. I would not be limited by my human conceptions!

From thinking about higher intelligence, I knew that there is a great need to understand one another from the perspective of a worthier level of understanding. Verbal communication gets in the way of this goal. Add to that, technology has brought us to the science of a technological slant on all productivity, whereupon all that will come in the future will come at a rapidly increasing rate, and you can see from where I developed this new perspective.

Truth Number 1:

Verbal communication alone does not provide us with the ability to communicate at the intricate level and with the sophistication necessary to efficiently transfer our thoughts, feelings, ideas, hopes, and our overall inner state.

I answered all questions from my teammates that first day mostly with a nod and a deep glance into their eyes. I affirmed that I could tell them all they needed to know through my mystical understanding of our being aligned by the sixth sense of intuition and extrasensory perception. I got strange looks and a few laughs, but I willed myself to endure.

All individuals within any given species want to find someone stronger to care for them to feel safe and reduce their anxiety. Verbal communication does not address that deep human need readily, unless within the context of an intimate relationship; whereas in order to communicate on a telepathic level, one must first embrace the soul of another in a spirit of sharing love and total connection to the other.

I found that I was able to simply show my teammates my great understanding of their needs.

Truth Number 2:

Going forward, a higher level of communication is essential so that our needs, progress, and human ingenuity can all come together at a level of communication that can both handle and enhance knowledge much more rapidly than words alone can do.

And so, a form of communication is necessary that can bring all of these things together at the same time while providing for the security and the deeply-felt need for inclusion to a larger community that each individual has.

My supervisor called me in later in the day and sat me down in her office. “Dave, are you feeling okay today?” she asked.

I beamed at her with my utmost concentration and simply stared at her countenance. I could read her aura of disbelief and sudden surprise. I smiled and nodded.

We sat silently for a few extra minutes, and I believe she was finally seeing my aura herself and that my having become like the grays was rubbing off on her. She shook her head and grinned a bit and then dismissed me.

Truth Number 3:

Words (verbal communication) currently are used for 1 of 5 classifications in communication:

· In order to train/educate

· In order to socialize and communicate points-of-view

· In order to nurture, as in supporting our children when they have done something well

· In order to express our emotions

· And finally, so that we may partake in expressions of grandeur at the universe’s majesty, which is the basis for all technology and engineering

On the second day of becoming like a gray, I felt more confident. Everybody knew now that I was on a mission. I smiled often and nodded, I peered deeply into the souls of my teammates, and I used my index finger on charts and graphs when necessary to show answers to concerns. I felt liberated from verbal communication, and my productivity rate soared well above what it used to be only days prior.

I heard murmuring around me: some good, some critical. My closest teammate, in the cubicle just to my right, told some others, “He has lost it. I hear he has had a tough time with his finances lately.” But then my supervisor came to my cube late in the afternoon, saying, “Dave, I want you to know we all appreciate your focus and your output rate today,” I knew I was onto something.

For many of these uses of verbal communication, there are more effective ways. If we stop using our words long enough to register the emotional content of the person or people in our immediate environment, then we will find we suddenly have the ability, if we choose, to determine what is truly necessary to communicate in any given scenario.

Usually not much more than the idea that I am here with you at this moment in time, in this particular space on the planet, your safety and security are important to me, and let us see what progress in our lives we can make by bringing our thoughts and ideas together. To some, this may sound boring.

But I knew the grays use it for a reason, and so should we.

We must first realize that so much of what we find entertaining about our speech conveys very little in the end. Once we come to understand and embrace this truth, we can start with the premise that others are reading our emotions simultaneously that we are reading their emotions, so what really needs to be said? Words mean little — our emotions say so much more….

We often hide our love and show approval to the others in our lives through meaningless words. As a highly intelligent spiritual species, wouldn’t it be better to understand that we are with them at that moment and to express love, togetherness, compassion, and support through various degrees of eye contact, and if appropriate, a gentle gesture of supportive touch?

On the third day, my teammates knew I was no-nonsense. I was there and available to them, but I was all about communicating on this silent level. For the most part, they left me alone, except for when they truly needed my input. I finally broke down and printed out this article, minus the updates on how I had begun instituting this at work. My teammates were astonished, and some even said they understood and were impressed. Some even tried it themselves.

So I suggested that they start a trend — become like the grays. I facilitated through my mind and eye contact that it was easy to do and that we all had the power to do so. I highlighted the part of my article suggesting that they just nod and smile at someone the next time they were sharing something, but that they could fully express their feelings with their eye contact. I implored them not to be afraid — that it was good for them and good for others too!

Part II of this article: Practical Aspects about How to Start the Trend, will include updates to their progress, along with my own.

So far, I am finding that we can all become like the little grays that we find so interesting. Using our mind to communicate will literally free up a great deal of space in our thinking (we won’t have to search for proper words to say), and so we may learn to focus more effectively on important matters instead.

Also, I have found that I am closer now to teammates who recognize this mission.

Communication is a gift that we have tarnished. Let’s make an effort to bring it to a much more sophisticated level, and we will find gifts of humanity we have only wished for until this point in time.

With that starting premise to our opening dialogue with another, or others, we will be brought to a much higher platform where so much more can be expressed, and we will begin achieving an advanced level of both self and other fulfilment right from the start.

When we can begin to understand that every nuance of facial gesture, eye expression, and hand and shoulder movement is a much greater mechanism and so much more effective at communicating what really needs to be said, we can propel ourselves forward. We will then understand how we waste so much of our lives by communicating with words that others usually only take for granted, and we will have earned the right to advance as a species.

It is a given that this might seem a bit euphoric, but to acknowledge that silent communication is beneficial opens the door to providing us with a new means of understanding how our verbal communication often puts us at a disadvantage. This is especially true today when we find we are using our words more and more as a defence to let others know where we stand, rather than coming together with the other at their level.

When the gaps between people grow, and our vocabulary becomes ever more complex, it is time to become Like the Grays ….

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