Spiritual concepts
Inner speech

Inner speech appears to be the language of genius, the language of Inspiration, wisdom and invention. It is thus a key part of all invisible input. It may also occur in dreams.
It is actually not speech - no words are ever discerned but since it involves none of the 5 senses, we have no other term for it. As such Inner speech or inner sense is the term often used by those who have experienced it.
L S Vygotsky – Thoughts and Language
Inner speech is speech without words … it is not the interior aspect of external speech, it is a function in itself … while in external speech thought is embodied in words, in inner speech words die as they bring forth thought. Inner speech is to a large extent thinking in pure meanings.
It may include symbols where they might help, and may be accompanied by Images.
Inner speech comes from the composer directly, but one then has to ask the question, where does the composer get the information? We need to look at the Model of the Mind to see what the options are. I have repeated it here for convenience.

The Model is divided into three – the Subconscious, the Conscious and the Higher spirit with the composer function. The composer provides us with spiritual input - images, voices, sounds, smells, tastes, touch sensations and - inner speech.

If we look at the Higher spirit box, and look for the arrows going into the box [data input], we can see that the composer can use our Perceptions, it can communicate with other composers [spirit entities] or it can access the systems of the universe directly - both the functions of the universe and the data of the universe - all of which are spirit.
By the law of conservation of data, whatever we manage to invent or come up with in images or words, has to have come from somewhere - been converted by either our imagination or our reasoning system to the flash of genius or invention, the formula, or the sudden understanding. A genius, by definition, comes up with something no one has ever thought of before, but the thought has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is the spirit world beyond the mind.
Thus in blue sky thinking or invention, we have proof of spirit.
For this reason I have limited the number of observations attached to this page to those where blue sky thinking was involved. I have also generally limited it to one observation per person, as this suffices to demonstrate that they used this approach as a whole throughout their work

Arthur Koestler – Janus [Talking about pure blue sky inventions]
All the biological evidence indicates that such a radical re-shuffling operation requires the intervention of mental processes beneath the surface of conscious reasoning, in the twilight zones of awareness. In the decisive phase of the creative process the rational controls are relaxed and the creative person’s mind seems to regress from disciplined thinking to less specialised more fluid ways of mentation.
A frequent form of this, is the retreat from articulate verbal thinking to vague, visual imagery. There is a naïve popular belief that scientists arrive at their discoveries by reasoning in strictly rational, precise, verbal terms. The evidence … indicates that they do nothing of the sort … Jacques Hadamard’s famous enquiry among American mathematicians [showed that] nearly all .. relied on visual imagery of a vague, hazy nature
In his book Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, Hadamard described his own mathematical thinking as largely wordless, often accompanied by mental images that represent the entire solution to a problem. He surveyed 100 of the leading physicists of the day (approximately 1900), asking them how they did their work.

Hadamard described the experiences of the mathematicians/theoretical physicists Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hermann von Helmholtz, Henri Poincaré and others as viewing entire solutions with "sudden spontaneousness" [sic]. I have used his book to provide the observations. Hadamard described the process as having four steps
- Preparation
- Incubation
- Illumination
- and Verification
So ultimately it is Illumination that proves the existence of spirit.
An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field – Jacques Hadamard
The same character of suddenness and spontaneity … has been recognised by psychologists as being present in every kind of invention ….. physicists like Langevin, chemists like Ostwald tell us of having experienced it. Poetical inspiration is reported to have been as spontaneous with Lamartine, who happened to compose verses instantly, without one moment of reflection.
The same process of Illumination occurs with film makers, artists, writers, song writers and many other creative people.
The film director George Lucas, for example, may well be 'seeing' levels and layers that actually exist in the spirit world [or in the physical world]. This does not deny any of these gifted people their skills. In fact it adds to their genius, as it indicates that they are 'seers' in the true sense of the word as well as being capable of translating what they have 'seen' into something we can also benefit from and enjoy.
Observations
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- Aitken, Professor Alexander - Theories writing themselves
- Arriola, Pepito - Music is, after all, only another kind of poetry
- Babbage, Charles - Expositions
- Beethoven - 5th Symphony
- Beethoven - Für Elise
- Beethoven - The 6th Symphony - Pastoral
- Bell, J S - Bell's theorem
- Benjamin, Walter - Illuminations - A language of Truth
- Benjamin, Walter - Illuminations - Listening for inner speech
- Bidder, George Parker - And his powers of mental calculation
- Blake, William - His sources of inspiration
- Blake, William - To see a World in a grain of sand
- Blyton, Enid - I did see and grasp everything
- Bohm, David - Wholeness and The Implicate Order - Energy and spirit
- Bohr, Niels - The Strange Dream
- Bolyai, Janos - Geometrical Examinations and Theorem 35
- Cardano, Geralamo - Wisdom, trance and going out of body
- Cardano, Gerolamo - Universal joints and 'imaginaries'
- Cartan, Elie - A remarkable class of analytic and geometric transformations
- Churchill, Winston - I see the absolute truth and explanation of things
- Composer - Going with the flow
- Confucius - from The Way of Chuang Tzu
- Crosse, Andrew – Experiments and their reception by fellow scientists
- Da Vinci, Leonardo - Inventions - Flying machine
- Damasio, Professor Antonio - Systems of communication and Inner speech
- Davy, Sir Humphry - Sublime emotions, vivid ideas and feeling like the sound of a harp
- Descartes, Rene - Causes of ideas
- Dr Ferrol - The Calculator
- Dr Kary Mullis - The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique and astrology
- Edison, Thomas - Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine per cent perspiration
- Edison, Thomas - Getting pictures of his inventions
- Einstein, Albert - On receiving wisdom and inspiration
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - For poetry was all written before time was
- Faraday, Michael - Defining the nature of electromagnetic forces while in a state of intuitive vision
- Fechner, Gustav Theodor - A revelation
- Francis Crick - Discovering the structure of DNA via LSD
- Galois, Evariste - A total transformation of higher algebra
- Gauss - Solved by a flash of illumination
- Genesis - Foxtrot - And a comment by Peter Gabriel
- George Cantor - The theory of transfinite numbers
- Gnostic Gospels - Thunder [extract]
- Goethe - Autobiography - On Faith
- Grasse, Pierre-Paul - L'Evolution du Vivant - Argument against random evolution
- Hadamard, Jacques - Archimedes, Daunou and emotion as driver
- Hadamard, Jacques - Discovery of the value of a determinant
- Hadamard, Jacques - Fishing in the waters of ideas
- Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time - The order in the universe
- Hazlitt, William - Cleverness vs wisdom
- Henry Sidgwick - Economic theory
- Hermite, Charles - Intuitive thinking
- Hermite, Charles - The realm of mathematical truths is spiritual
- Hermite, Charles - The transcendence of Pi
- Herschel, Sir John - Explains plate tectonics in 1836
- Hobson, Dr Allan - Dreaming and its use in creative pursuits
- Houseman, A E - The nature of inspiration
- Howe, Elias - Invents the practical sewing machine using a dream
- Huxley, Thomas - Intellectually we stand on an islet
- Iyengar, Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Jacques Hadamard - The source of inspiration for musical composers
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The blind worms
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The need for humility in physics
- Joyce, James - Ulysses - Nirvana
- Kakuzo, Okakura - The Book of Tea - On Zen
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Points 1920
- Kandinsky, Wassily - Yellow, Red, Blue
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason - Inner speech
- Kant, Immanuel - Dreams of a Spirit Seer - 11 Chapter Two
- Kay Redfield Jamison - Touched with Fire – Inspiration
- Kekulé, Friedrich August – The Origins of the Structural Theory
- Kekulé, Friedrich August – The Origins of the Structure of Benzene
- Kepler, Johannes - An epiphany of the laws of the solar system
- Kepler, Johannes - The planets’ songs are polyphonic
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - Miscellaneous quote - Intuition
- Kipling, Rudyard - The Explorer
- Koestler, Arthur - Janus - The nature of genius
- Leverrier, Mrs. Somerville, and Adams - The discovery of Neptune
- Linnaeus, Carl - Letter to Johann Gmelon
- Maxwell, James Clerk - My soul is an entangled knot
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 10 The Four Pendentives 4
- Montessori, Dr Maria - The Montessori Method - Modern science
- Mozart - Hadamard - Mozart describes how he achieves illumination
- Nash, John Forbes - Dream-like delusional hypotheses
- Neumann, John von - The design for a computer
- Newton, Sir Isaac - The Pipes of Pan - Laws of motion
- Nicholle, Charles - The nature of blue sky thinking
- Nobel prize winner has flashes
- Oliver Sacks - Smells that come from 'beyond the mind'
- Oliver Sacks - The twins, numbers and celestial music
- Orpheus - Iamblichus's Life - Numbers
- Ouspensky, P D - Talks with a Devil - On the effects of nitrous oxide
- Pascal, Blaise - Pensees
- Pearse, Richard - The wonderful world of Richard Pearse
- Platt and Baker - The relation of the scientific 'hunch' to research
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Israfel
- Poe, Edgar Allen - Men have called me mad
- Poincare, Henri - Discovering arithmetic transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms
- Poincare, Henri - Discovering functions without realising it
- Poincare, Henri - Discovering the final fuchsian functions
- Poincare, Henri - Discovering the fuchsian functions
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Tetractys
- Riemann, Bernhard - On Inspiration and inner speech
- Riemann, Bernhard - On Riemann geometry
- Roman Osipovich Jakobson - On symbolic thinking
- Russell, George William - Our being is musical
- Russell, George William - The source of inspiration
- Sacks, Oliver - It came to me absolutely fluidly by a sort of inner voice
- Sacks, Oliver - The indigo—whatever I saw—was beyond any spectral experience
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Imagination versus true experience
- Saint Teresa of Avila - Inner speech
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Where is Mind
- Scientist Joe acts like a bumblebee
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - The sea is being and speech its shore
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Trelawny describes how inspiration came to Shelley
- Sidis, William James - The Animate And The Inanimate - 01 Chapter One The Reverse Universe
- Sidis, William James - The Animate And The Inanimate - 02 Chapter Two Reversible Laws
- Sidis, William James - The Animate And The Inanimate - 03 Chapter Three on Entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- Sidis, William James - The Animate And The Inanimate - 12 Chapter Twelve
- Sir Francis Galton - Hereditary genius
- Socrates - Paul Brunton - Meditation and trance states
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan – A Theory of Inspiration and the need for Purification in order to obtain genuine Inspiration
- Strindberg, August - The Inferno
- Tesla, Nikola - Eidetic imagery and inventions
- Tesla, Nikola - On the source of inspiration
- Tesla, Nikola - Tesla was able to perceive almost the totality of the electromagnetic functioning of the Solar System
- Thompson, J J - Spirit is as essential to us as the air we breathe
- Townes, Charles - Interview on Inspiration and religion
- Tyrrell, G N M - The Personality of Man – Socrates and the nature of inspiration
- Valery, Paul - On deriving inspiration
- Wagner - On the spiritual
- Wallace, Alfred Russell - Conceives the idea of natural selection
- Watt, James - Discovering steam engine designs
- Wim Wenders talks about making movies that matter