The Unspeakable Level

"Chris Mayer is one of our foremost and most innovative thinkers and writers working to advance and expand Alfred Korzybski's century-old project into the 21st Century. The author of now three books on general semantics, this new work, The Unspeakable Level, represents his attempt to speak/write about how our universe is so much more than we can ever know and understand, how we endeavor to understand and make meaning of it - including our own human impositions into it - what happens as we try to share what we think we understand, and how the GS approach might lighten our load and help us to live better, saner lives in the short time we are here. I could not put this book down until I was done."

--Thom Gencarelli, Professor of Communication, Sound & Media Arts, Manhattan University, and Editor, ETC: A Review of General Semantics

"In his playful and insightful book, THE UNSPEAKABLE LEVEL, Chris Mayer challenges us to recognize how what we "say" and what we "think" are just abstractions of what we mean to express. Words cannot express what we mean. They are only "verbal bubbles" as Korzybski notes, and "when they are pricked they burst and there is nothing left but to laugh." Mayer finds many voices who chime in on this idea. He is adept at telling stories from various profound philosophers, from George Gurdjieff to Alan Watts and many more in between. Stories are a way in to our skeptical American mindsets. Besides proving his argument on language with humor and (perhaps) common sense, we see what an amazingly prolific reader he is-indeed, the numerous authors and books he quotes are reason enough to read his book!"  

--Robin Levenson, PhD