Word Magic: Secret Spells Of The English Language w/ Laurel Airica

in all our efforts to heal our psyche and raise Consciousness on the planet we have all but overlooked the very instrument of conscious thought and communication yet our forked tongue English language which is the leading software of the western mind is itself in great need of retuning and upgrading over the course of my life I cultivated a heightened sensitivity to how the total normality of insanity in society is echoed reflected and reinforced by the English language which inadvertently yet unavoidably propagates and Antiquated and manipulated vision of Reality promulgated by the ancient church as an instrument

of Mind Control at a time when people had to surrender their mind if they wanted to keep their heads about them quite literally so if we elect collectively to upgrade the English language to a higher frequency through our linguistic creativity and naturally occurring verbal eccentricities then ultimately even clatter from our Idol chatter prattle pattern blabber blather and palabber as we jabber gab in Babylon will turn our glowing terms from verbal Vapor either hanging in the air or trapped on paper into tiny bits of shiny matter as We Gather chat and matter on and with new

skill at trilling thrilling statements that instill fulfilling imagery of higher possibilities will finally still The Quiet Riot of the wild child's Manic Panic through the mind so we can flip the switch enlightening every Circuit of our consciousness with the electric surge of verbiage that encourages superb and selfless services to spread from soul to soul around the globe by what is said in all the light years up ahead and then from the islands of Silence between all that's spoken we will listen as doors to the Heartland spring open that is beautiful that is beautiful thank you

so what's interesting is you're obviously a native speaking English speaker and you reference the English language it seems that this is probably a phenomenon this phenomenon that you're getting to that is in every different language in many different ways yes but as I Was preparing for this podcast and a thought you know we ascribe a lot of cultural differences to a culture potentially different genetic dispositions climates a lot of things the one thing that I don't think we've looked at is how the language itself is shaping the individuals who grew up speaking that language yes

and I was you know is is curious for me to kind of explore that pathway for you as well and of course we'll be focusing on English because that's the language that we're speaking in here now and that's the language of the listeners otherwise they probably wouldn't be listening but fundamentally I'm just curious if you've kind of taken a circumspect view of the rest of the languages in the world talk to other linguistic you know kind of people of your similar mind and explored this a little bit in the 80s I read a book called

on puns um I'll have to I think I know the editor a collection of essays by linguists and mostly they were talking about other languages and puns in other languages and it's just so interesting what words come together to resonate at the same frequency yet be very heterogeneous in their meaning and I recognized earlier that my words may be more connected through sound than through meaning so yes it happens in every language it's just that English has so many languages in it yeah and so some I think did I think the language was salted with

contradiction um so conscious manipulation yeah because that goes on that's what you mentioned yeah yeah that happens right today and so interesting I recently came across a quote that uh I don't have the complete quote but it's by thucydides the Greek General and historian writing about the war between Athens and Sparta and he said the greatest horror of all was the corruption of the language and Confucius said the first thing he would do if given charge of the administration of a country would be to check correct the language I think it's one of the big

tasks of a philosopher a poet is to actually start to clean the language in a way that you can use it without infecting the person that you're delivering and accepting the idea of the word into from all of the baggage that it's been associated with like the word God is a dirty word in the language for so many people and that's a shame it's a good word that's a good word so cleaning that up the word love has become reduced I think Don Miguel Ruiz calls love the Fallen Angel because it doesn't really mean the

same thing people think love hurts you know like who you they have all of these associations well it's never actually the love that hurts the way that your mind has responded to the ego's desires and your attachments that actually hurts and so cleaning language has been one of my own Pathways of thought but the idea of actually sometimes we may be trying to clean something that's baked into the nature of the word itself and so maybe we need a new word oh I I completely agree I think in some cases it's about tuning up an

existing word and in other cases it's about bringing through new words yeah like I upgraded intelligent to intelligental because there's really nothing smart about a brain without a heart of although it seems to be the ultimate seduction because it grants us unchecked power but just to bring our darkest hour for it endows us with a genius for Destruction hmm so yes tuning up and reinvention and two things in regards to that one is kind of peripheral people have have looked at the secret spells of the language I also share sacred passwords which are words that

reflect our innate genius to us and remind us of what we already know and the simplest example is the fact that Earth and heart are the same word and it's just where you put the h so ask any semi-literate child what do you suppose is the implication of this connection and wonderful answers come out and ask yourself ask others it's like there's so much to contemplate in this convergence and I'll put that away for a moment but so yes I think it's time to become more aware to find more of these sacred path words one

of my favorite I've used and people are have it in poetry and such I was walking in a park overlooking the ocean this was years ago and I said to my invisible friends give me a new word and they gave me the true meaning of beautiful and all of these are just self-evident to be truly beautiful is to be you too full be your wholesome self there is nothing as exquisitely beautiful than a whole being who is true to who they are and it's so funny the word noble I mean it's self-defining it's like no

bull if it's Integrity it's like you were talking in your trip report with blue about the true king and the Imposter I mean it was wonderful and we all know that and um I have a poem on the letter i because just as we have two eyes on our face there are two eyes in the alphabet and they talk about are higher and lower self and um and the yo-yo effect so yes it's in every language all language is pun um one I have a quote somewhere that um the difference between languages is a singular

way of making puns and and I'm always interested in what is the electro poetic force that causes words to migrate across continents cultures and centuries to come into the same vibration so this is this is kind of getting into another question that I had which is you could look at these and say ah coincidence it's beautiful that you came up with that like be a you know yeah that's great but it's a coincidence noble noble coincidence but what you're kind of hinting at is that it's uh almost as if the words came into form in

us in a particular way in a subconscious manifestation where that word actually came into existence because it was in resonance with certain other sounds and different other ways that words were put together and those are the words that stuck in other words kind of fell away so it was almost like a uh evolutionary selection of our language that creates these interesting synchronicities who knows but let's look at the word coincidence it's a word that labels and then dismisses as insignificant and what it's saying is a coincidence but it's not looking at well what are these

two disparate elements doing sitting next to each other at a coffee shop and I I don't know if you heard from Christian but when I flew um I guess it was yesterday A packed airplane I sit between two fellows engage in conversation with one of them he was going to Kansas to meet with his cousin to go to a Dodger game and he asked what I was doing so I told him about our upcoming conversation and he said oh my cousin was aubry's marketing manager until they sold the company last year Wow Mike it sounded

like spadier or something yeah yeah Mike and so then I arrived shout out to Mike I arrive and I go on a little walk and I have my parasol and and this beautiful young woman stopped me at an ice cream shop and to comment on on my how dare I be reductionist and assume that she was complimenting only your parasol it's never only the parasite no it's the Gestalt the whole energetic being so we exchanged names and she asked what I was doing here and I told her and she said oh I was aubry's personal

assistant for four or five years a beautiful young woman named Jenna she said I can't speak highly enough of him and she took a picture of us and and sent it to you so you might find it all right so so those are co- inside dances and we don't know what is the force we're working in because we're so ignorant I mean we are a fish in water but I think in our case you know rather blind to the substance in which we'd well I think we're living in an echo chamber and a Hall of

Mirrors and that language is constantly echoing and reflecting either cultural Consciousness or innate human wisdom and because we have been deafened to our definitions we are are clueless and yet the language is constantly echoing and reflecting talking back to us in some cases um contradicting and undermining in other cases offering a little jeweled gift if we would but notice