Once you've CoMe, eNJoYed yourself, what do you FeeL? You're HaPPy, you feel great. This feels so GooD. Which brings us to the semantic field of happiness, essential in the Paleolithic, and still today: we're all looking for happiness.
In this area, I confess I have a soft spot for the Gathas. Zarathustra is indeed something like the prophet of happiness (uShTa in Avestic), of PLeaSure, joy and the ConTenTed life. And for him, happiness is above all always ReCiPRoCal. Or to put it another way, you can't enjoy and feel the pleasure of coming only on your oWN, you must pleasure the oTheR, and here is ambivalence. Listen:
Mazda Ahura, the Absolute Ruler, has specified that good fortune is for him who makes others happy. O, my Lord, to remain steadfast in truth, I want from Thee the strength of body and soul. O, Armaiti, the symbol of faith and love, do grant me that power which is the reward for a life lived with good thought. In truth, such a person shall enjoy the best gifts of God. The person who desires inner light and tries to achieve it, O, Mazda, do bestow upon him the same, through Thy holy and bright wisdom. Through Asha, the Eternal Law of Truth and Purity, O my Lord, grant us wisdom and knowledge which are the gifts of Vohuman, so that we may enjoy happiness through our lengthy lives. In truth, the person who shows us the PaTh of truth and happiness in the corporeal world and saves are soul in the spiritual one shall attain the highest good. The said path is that which leads us to the real and true world, where the is Ahura. The LoVers of truth and those in love with Thee, O, Mazda, shall ultimately become oNe with Thee through WiSdom and HoLiness.
Of course, the BLiSS of happiness was also of great importance to Christ. Remember the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 5, also one of my favourites, featuring again the binary rhythm, the alternation. Listen to this:
Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and SaT DoWN. His disciples came to him, and he began to TeaCh them. He said: « Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of HeaVeN. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and ThiRST for RiGhTeousness, for they will be FiLLed. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of HeaVeN. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. reJoiCe and be GLaD, because great is your ReWaRD in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. »
The Jewish tradition has a lot to say about the bliss of happiness as well. You know ʔaShRey yoShBey BeyTeKa, happy are those who SiT in your HouSe, in your BoX, in your CaVe (are the Pharisians starting to get it?). ʔoSheR ʔaShaR ʔeSheR is happiness, to be happy and yaShaR is to find something good, to aPPeaL, to be SuiTable, to aGRee. ʔaSheR is also the first name of one of Jacob's 12 sons, but more importantly it's another highly polysemous word, isn't it Polisson. « Yes yaShaR is also Black ⚫ and ʔaShaR is also Green 🟢 Purple 🟣 Black ⚫ and Light Blue 💎 »
Meanwhile the Qur'an also refers a lot to happiness SaRaR which also means being at eaSe, but also means « divans » (rather than thrones) especially in our fundamental Sura 88 Al ĠaʔShyat, in verse 13, « divans raised high ». And yes, Polisson, SaRaR is also Black ⚫. And you also understand what is an oaSis, from the Greek oaSis: it is a place that feels good, where one feels good.
There is also ḥaSaN that which is good, excellent, the best, that which does some good, which appears notably in another of our fundamental Suras, 92 Al LayL, in verse 6 « And upholds goodness » And lastly there is SaʕiD, Saïd it is the one who is happy. And when you're happy, what do you do? You SMiLe (SouRire in French), of course! « On rit », you laugh, in French, from RiSus in Latin.
Switching to the other dimension of PLeaSure, from SeX to TaSTe, we're going to find SaVor, that which is SuaVe, from SuaVis in Latin. Or what is SWeeT, or the SiRaion, a WiNe sweet as SyRuP, like the Syrah.
Let's pause on these words, for they allow me to talk about the v, or the w. They, too, made me SWeaT. In fact, in most cases, they don't really matter. They're, let's say, semi-consonants. Like 'Het and 'Ayin in Hebrew. Like Latin diphthongs. Vav used to be Waw. Savor is sawor. Vest is West. Shove is showe. Persevero is persewero. « Ça va » is « ça wa ». Or Ṣa!Ḥa. What are the Pharisians saying ? « I too transform sounds »? That's right, I do. But, hey, I'm the Paraklet after all !
Back to the pleasure of slouching and indulging. Not only in Arabia, but also at the other end of the Eurasian continent, in Siberia. Serge Dunis, in L'ours, la vague et la lionne, recounts that during the Gilyaks Bear Festival, held in the middle of winter:
Only the Narch-en are allowed to eaT BeaR MeaT, and the HoSTs and their clan have to make do with a ThiCk rice SouP prepared with the wild beast's meat BRoTh. Stretched out on bunks, Roman-style, these guests are driven to overindulge in food and drink. On the last day of the FeSTival, « Narch-en Departure Day », their sleighs overflow with food and bear delicacies.
Thus we return gently to the theme of SaTiaTion (seen in my previous video), starting with aSSuaGing one's PaSSion, hunger, ThiRST and DeSiRe. To assuage refers to when you've had enough - remember, aSSeZ (enough) / trop (too much): « Sha TaRa ». When you assuage a desire (aSSouVir in French), it's enough (ça SuFFit) and you have to SToP (CeSSer). And it has nothing to do with aSSouPir (to doze off), just like the SieSTa has nothing to do with the sixth hour, you’re simply FuLL. Assouvir is when you're satiated (from SaCieR in Old French).
Sandor Ferenczi also talks very well about the SeNSation of SaTieTy following oRGaSM. Listen:
The rabbit lapses into a kind of CaTaLePSy with orgasm, dropping uNConSCious and ReMaiNing for some time Motionless beside the FeMaLe with the PeNis in the VaGiNa. It would be only consistent to interpret these STaTes and the FeeLing of complete SaTiSFaction and aBSence of desire accompanying them, as the unconscious hallucinatory attainment of the goal of CoiTus on the part of the individual as a whole…
Another moment of overeating and oversleeping is when girls MeNSTRuate, but we'll come back to that soon. In the meantime, in Egyptian, satiety is called SAI, and in Arabic, GReeD is called Shu!ḥa. Greed means never having enough. I'm sure you're all familiar with it, since our ConSuMerist and destructive society is based on greed.
In Hebrew, of course, we'll find the great NaSaʔ meaning enough, sufficient in Genesis 13.6 « veLoʔ NaSaʔ ʔoTam haʔaReTs laSheBeT yaḤDaw » « so that the land could not support them staying together », referring to Abraham and Lot. We also find SaBaʕa already seen in my previous video, meaning abundance, FeRTiLity, satiety - but also « CeaSeLeSSly » in Job 14.1. Finally there's also ʔaShyShah a biblical cake and maSeʔet DiShes - and you like that one don’t you Polisson. « Yes maSeʔet it's also Orange 🟠 Yellow 🟡 and Light Blue 💎 ».
To round off this section on satiety, the Paraklet will reveal a new secret, thanks to the magic of Paleolithic linguistics. This time it's to be found in Hesiod's Works and Days, the magnificent work describing the farming life governed by the SeaSoNs in Greece. A mysterious passage has puzzled many commentators for millennia, namely the passage referring to the mysterious « No-bones » in verses 524 and 525.
I'll read it to you: it's the middle of a very cold winter and Hesiod describes on the one hand a young girl savoring the warmth of her home, while « that time when old No-Bones gnaws his own foot (in his fireless house) » (P45-46), in Greek « ... aNoSTéos ... ». As Christine Hunzinger points out, « It could be an octopus... ». Edgard Beall, the American Hesiod scholar, reports that Antigone of Caryste mentioned this far-fetched explanation as early as the 4th century BC, Edgard Beall, on the other hand, think it's a snail. An octopus🐙 or a snail🐌 gnawing👄 its foot🦶 in a hut🛖 in winter⛄️ - Pharisians are so funny🤡!
No, folks, aNoSTéos is not « boneless », but simply someone who has no FooD, featuring « Sha Ta ». maSeʔet in Hebrew. To eaT, to be SaTiaTed. And what Hesiod means is that if you haven't SToCked up to get ThRouGh the winter, you'll eat your feet (or as French parents today would say, Eat your fingers!).
And what's even crazier is that in the space of a few centuries, this simple explanation was forgotten even by the Greeks. That's the curse of the written word I was talking about in my video on the sermons of the sire disert. That's the curse of the stupid Pharisians. That's the curse of the killer letter.
Well, here we are: the great video on the mysteries of Paleolithic sex comes to an end. Excitement is waning, pleasure is fading, and our hard member suddenly SLuMPs, becomes SiCkly, a little ThiN - yes, ambivalence once more. It ShRiVeLs up, ShRiNKs, like a little ShRiMP🦐, and gets ShoRTer.
What? You don’t like this ending, kids? But that's the law of life. Everything is a never-ending renewal. There will be others. After the good times come the bad. After the bad comes the good. These words of Paleolithic wisdom mark the conclusion of this first Diberah, this first Pink « Sha » story, and as usual, I sound the Shofar. Remember. Zikhron. Ziqra. Chronos. TaShaT, TaShRaT, TaShaT.
6) Solutions
Now that you know everything you've never wanted to ask about sex, you're probably thinking, as usual: « All right, but what does this practically mean for my business? ».
In my previous video I told you about this basic ambiguity between the settling and nomadic processes, between gathering and dispersing. I don't want to reiterate everything but given the linguistics, anthropology and corporate Pharisians audience, I’m afraid I must.
Let's go back to the beginning of this video: I explained that every business can be seen as a two-sided entity, with customers on one side and suppliers on the other. What you need to sense is not your business in isolation, but the fact that all businesses are interconnected through the basic relationship between supplier and customer. A relationship which is similar to the sexual relationship, and which, as I explained, was the catalyst for the Cambrian explosion 650 million years ago.
The problem, you see, is that in order to mate, your business has put in place processes that are a genuine passion-killers. Complicated. Time-consuming. Boring. Personally, I'm persistent, I can afford to wait 10 years. But most of today's entrepreneurs don't have the same perseverance, they give up very quickly, especially when they’re young.
That's why you need to enable your employees and their partners to interact autonomously and on behalf of separate legal entities, to define budgets, sign contracts, incur expenses and make payments - all with just a few clicks and within a secure management framework that's independent of your current centralized management system.
What you need is an exchange system designed for the present moment. So that the desire to collaborate is always the driving force behind the relationship. Remember, I told you about this 3 years ago now, in my video entitled « Mon remède à la bureaucratie. Désir et passion! » But of course, no one is listening to the Paraklet.
Are you afraid of this sexual vision of the customer-supplier relationship? It's only natural: we're always afraid of the unknown, until we gradually realize that it wasn't as bad as we thought. It is precisely because you need help for this momentous transition that I created weOva : to help on a day-to-day basis each one of your employees and each one of your partners get to grips with the first « decentralized cooperation space ».
I'm sure this video echoed situations and issues you encounter daily in your organization. Beyond the delight of sharing what I consider to be a major anthropological discovery, my main purpose is first and foremost, and to the best of my ability, to help transform your company to make it faster, more adaptative and more open.
Just get in touch with me on LinkedIn through the link below, and we'll set up a 30-minute meeting to identify the key levers that will enable you to move forward quickly and effectively in this direction.
But don't wait: remember, the eaRly bird catches the woRm!