Words are only the labels we put on thoughts to make them manageable for ourselves; to communicate them to other people. I guess that’s why the Babies had so much trouble teaching us the mind-speech. We had to overcome a lifetime of verbalising. I’m sure that most of the communication they used between themselves was on a plane beyond words. How do you describe a taste? Apart from very general descriptions like “sweet” or “sour”, we don’t have the words to describe, say, the flavour of an orange, or a packet of salt-and-vinegar chips or garlic. So we rely on comparisons: “It tastes like …”, “It’s similar to …” and a hundred other phrases which count on the other person having had experiences that match ours. Myriam and the others never had that problem. If one of the Babies wanted to describe a taste to the others, they simply shared the experience. Without reducing it to words. The hardest part for them was slowing down; breaking up a complex thought into individual words, so that we could comprehend it.
