The beingsphere, in contrast to, say, the atmo-sphere or
even in contrast to the northern or the southern hemi-sphere,
isn't the so-called
innerworld
as pointed to in the
yogic
compulsion "Look
within!"
nor as in the therapeutic "How does it make you feel
inside?".
Neither is it useful to think of the beingsphere as
the world
we move around in, as
the world
in which we reside ie the so-called outer world,
the world
we see geographically when we
open
our
eyes.
Werner
Erhard
originally
distinguished and articulated "beingsphere". Every so often an idea
comes along which changes everything - or, spoken with
rigor,
every so often an idea comes along which changes our way of
looking at everything. For me the idea ie the notion of
"beingsphere" is such an idea. It changes everything. It's a
masterstroke,
a stroke of genius.
So what exactly is the beingsphere? A more
powerful
question to ask may be: Where exactly is the beingsphere?
Where does the beingsphere
show up?
The beingsphere is the most immediate
world
we human beings inhabit. It's also the most obvious. However oftentimes
even the most obvious
worlds
ie even the most obvious milieus like water to a fish,
like air to a
bird
etc are so obvious that at first even their own denizens
can't distinguish them. Now let's distinguish beingsphere.
Where human beings
show up
up as human beings is in the domain of
language:
water to a fish, air to a
bird,
language
to a human being, yes? The beingsphere, the most immediate
world
we human beings inhabit, in part
shows up
in the realm of
conversation
ie in our
speaking
- which is to say it
shows up
in the fact that we're constructed with the faculty of
speech
in the first place. To a lesser degree, the most immediate
world
we human beings inhabit,
shows up
up in the realm of what we
speakabout ie in what concerns us, in what our issues are.
Who we human beings are
is
constituted in
language.
What we collectively
speak,
what we collectively
language
into existence including both narrativelanguage
like
story
telling,
gossiping,
reporting,
opining
etc and generativelanguage
like asserting, promising, inventing, and inviting etc all occur within
the domain of the beingsphere. In other words, the beingsphere is the
domain in which human beings show up being human.