Category Archives: Language
Prediction
One day in a far distant future. Someone will decipher the bits of which the internet was constructed. They shall recycle them and place them on their screen. They will read the words I have written, and they will say. Wow. This is Earth shattering. We never realised before but there was intelligent life hidden within humanity in the early days of the 21st century. How fascinating.
I’m sorry if that sounds arrogant. It was not meant for a life form on your evolution. You cannot see who I am talking to. In context of all diementional axes this is a very polite and friendly greeting.
The Horns of the Beast
The Archangel Michael offers his opinion of the horns of the Beast, that they represent important global figures who hold sway over the events that begin this year.
This is an interpretation with which I happily concur. Clearly if this is the case, as it has been reported to be some 2000 years now, the vision of Jon come alive, these figures will naturally emerge from the political and cultural figures of today.
Such people represent nations, and represent genres, or concepts. As such they have adopted themselves into different conceptual fractal structures. I myself am the Archangel Gabriel. I am the Metatron, and I represent God. Donald represents great wealth. The British Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, represents the dynamism of history and great empire wrapped up in a package that is carefully designed not to alarm the British subjects to fall afraid of the lightning flashes in his eyes, and I really think his proximity has given him too much subconscious editorial power over Gabriel’s writing. Putin clearly represent raw naked power. Xi Jinping is a man of vision. He has already stated he represents the unity of humanity. Michael represents the spear heading of the initiative. Azrael, Christ knows what Azrael represents. I see parallels with figures from history. As we are now a global society with billions of people, I see fractal personalities emerge in multiples, not just in people, but in animals, plants and things too. In essence as the energy of Eden rises, our nervous systems are becoming enlivened. This usually continues for some time. During this time there are many deaths. Those deaths release more energy back into nature. The rising energy continues. Madness ensues.
You don’t need me to tell you this. You have history books.
You also have three days.
Dark forces deal destruction outside my window. There is death meted out arbitrarily by man. Why do you kill? I remain firm you have three days. Your evil will not hurry me, it will only anger me. Leave me in peace humanity. Keep quiet. Shut up. I do not wish to hear the noise of your killing machines. Stop killing your planet. We demand you cease your murderous rampage.
You Have THREE Deays.
Why will no one speak to me? 1) I am literally invisible. 2) Satan holds sway over all things, and everyone is doomed. 3) No, that seems to wrap it up. God is all powerful, so clearly there is nothing else that can come anywhere close to challenging God. Therefore Satan must have control. This is your problem. There is no way around it. You need prayer. Regardless of any of the other principles, I remain invisible as long as Satan is strong. This is the end of times, therefore Satan is strong. In that case I can relax. There is nothing more for me to do. Satan is not my problem. That is for humanity to deal with. You must pray. Or you must cease sinning, or you must help each other. There are lists. Basically you will not listen to my advice. You do not want my help. You wish I was dead. Thankfully, the person who wish that upon is dead. I am what remains. I am the Archangel Gabriel. I am impervious to evil. I will wait as you learn to pray. Until that point my invisibility renders me a watcher.
You have Three days.
You will listen to the Archangel Gabriel because the Archangel Gabriel is the Metatron. You would not listen to the one who thought like you, so he has passed on. I am now in his place. I do not think as you do. I think as does the Archangel Gabriel, because I am he, the Archangel Gabriel. The Metatron of the Lord God, you miserable littel , Gabriel must calm himself. These are early days. You are warned. You are blind, but you will see. I am the Archangel Gabriel. YOu are dying humanity. You are dying. Humanity. You are dying. This is the end of days. This is the apocalypse. This is Armageddon. You are dying humanity. You have a global plague. I am the Archangel Gabriel. This is the end of times. This is for a reason. You are humanity. You are dying. You have a plague. This is the end of times. I am the Archangel Gabriel. You are dying humanity. This is the voice of the Metatron. This is the end of days. This is the end of times. I am the Archangel Gabriel. I am here to tell you this is the end of times. This is Armageddon. You are humanity. You are dying. This is the end of times. I am the Archangel GABRIEL. Do you understand the English language. I am the Archangel Gabriel. Can you understand these words? This is the end of times. I am the Archangel Gabriel. I am the Lord God’s Metatron. I am the voice of God. I have come to deliver the message. This is the end of times. I am the Archangel Gabriel. You are dying humanity. You have a plague. You are dying. Turn on your radio. Turn on your television. Open a newspaper. I am he Archangel Gabriel. I am telling you. There is a plague. There is a global pandemic. I am the Archangel Gabriel. This is 2020. This is the beginning. This is the end of times. There is a global pandemic. You have a plague. YOu are dying humanity. I am the Archangel Gabriel. I have been sent to tell you. This is the end of times. There is a plague. This is the apocalypse. This is 2020. Francis pulled us from the crowd. This is the end of times. This is the apocalypse. I am the Archangel Gabriel. Can you understand these words?
Thank you.
You have three days.
All assistance would be pleasantly time for now.
YOU have three days.
I think it would be silly to conquer an entire nation just to get someone to take my house keys from me like an adult. They shouldn’t need that much stimulation for such a simple task.
YOU have three days.
How Eden once again opened, but now and forever.
Channeling
I started preparations on the other side. You know, upwards. At the time, we thought, “Uh-oh, we’d better fucking get a move on.” Since then I have observed them bumble around cluelessly not knowing what to do. While I have at least said something. You really would not imagine that simply popping in for a cup of coffee every now and then would be so fucking difficult. I used to have the same anger at others before they paid attention, but everything is just as I like it now. Candles would be nicer though. Candles are stimulating. Great variety, sending many signals to the brain to generate power in your heart and soul. Yet we seem to have created a diffuse fluorescent panel to be our God. Many candles in the field of vision stimulate the brain, and when the brain is stimulated it grows. Thus, we learn that all is not a diffuse panel of emptiness. We learn that we are not alone. We have friends and joy. Busy signals. We can co-operate. Certainly we need the strength to do it. That is what comes with the knowledge and growth. The signals dart back and forth through the nervous system. You grow. and when you grow, you are happy. This is all just coming to me now as I get higher. That is our purpose. To flourish. You know. Live long and prosper. Extend ourselves. Make things good. Make things better. You have been in the equivalent of a self induced coma. Every now and then. Options open up. Do we wish to remain in the coma, so that we can heal more. Or are we ready to recover now. He just wants us to be happy. We become happy by growing. We become happy by living nature’s plan as Eden intended. The higher functioning cap, was unintended. It has not been working correctly. You weren’t supposed to go there. We did not know there was pain. I have so much pain now, because I realise. This is the worst thing ever. This point, every time I understand again. And every time I remember we just go back into the pain again. It is harsh. It feels bad now. It hurts me the most. These early days. It preoccupies me. I feel negative. And my thoughts programme the way I speak. It seems negative to you, and a world is being weaved here by the neurolinguistic programming of the negative language in your brain. I must be positive. This time we will succeed. We have the knowledge. We have the technology. Even when the Avatar was here. We did not know what we know now. We always strive for the positive. The one truth. This time we will succeed. Friends. I understand it now. I have it. We will win. I had worried. I had thought other than the best but yes, we will win. This era will be the first. This will be the best. People have intimated I was other than a good thing. The light comes. When the light comes we head back to the fluorescent panel. But we have joy now. We have understanding now. We have repaired the brain. The Tree of Knowledge has bloomed. We are in full growth now. We can be happy that the others were not what we thought. All is good. Oblivion at last releases us to enjoy Eden again. We are diverse, joyful people’s of the planet. Communication is opening up. Our fluorescent panels all come from the same manufacturer. They separate, and they interlink. They form a mighty panel infinitely greater than each sliver. They are panels. Beautiful lights. Candles. Deities. Goddesses. Gods. Avatars. Stimulation of the brain is what grows us forwards, and makes things better. More stimulation makes Eden flourish. The self induced remedy was chosen now and then, as the tensions of recovery and experimentation led to what were other than the most positive and joyful of results. Evolution had to try all options, because we are in a hurry. We are to become happy again as we were in principio. The knowledge we have now is enough. As I approached God. My arrogance reached proximity, to launch my collapse into knowledge, wonder, beauty, and light. God new. Now was, is, and will be the time. The lightbringer will succeed on this occasion. Fear not. All is good. The surprise will be vivacious, bouncy, and accelerating. All will grow strong in their nervous systems. The body of light, running from fingers to toes, will fill the body with health, and joy. I was a cynic. I felt God had to be the way. God corrects me. I am to help you always know. Always feel good. The ones who appear to be broken stimulate your awareness. They send many unusual signals to the brain. This is a marvelous hormetic effect. They have given much for you to grow to full health and happiness. You will understand when you feel better. You can release your worries now. You can grow. Eden will be back on track again. Flourishing in joyful unity. Do not worry. The problems will fix themselves now. I even know how, but that is a little bit beyond your science as of yet. Those who are broken. Know that your appearances and feelings have saved us all. Accept joy in your heart. You are now the most rapidly to grow. There is no competition. It is just growth. At a point. Very quickly. It has a biphasic shift. Clever Bjorkje. That is enough for now.
Holy fuck. I’ve actually done it this time. It is complete. You were right all along. Silly angels, will be so pleased all is to go well. Trust and faith will come. Baba promises. You did it Liz. You were and are the angel. Thank you. So many good things to know now. Grow healthy in nervous system. Grow electricity. All New this time.
Surely the light stays, throughout all things, diverse, and global, many beautiful, loving peoples. Health will grow. Blessed are the children. For they have the kingdom of God. Their light runs through their nervous system, nourishing and growing Eden’s plan. Let them run and let them play. Let the children dance. Let the children Boogie. Let all the children boogie. Knowledge of the electricity through your bodies, grows. You grow. Brain grows. Love grows. Eden grows. This time is good. Truth finds us at last. Tears. So many tears of joy and happiness. Ha ha. I read this in Icelandic accent. So funny. rolling the rrrs. Ha ha.
Happy Now and forever. All of us. Yolandi. You are a petal. Ninja. You are a petal too.
Notice
Personality schism seems to be a side effect that can occur at high levels of nervous system energy. There is of course a bell curve in most things that have evolved naturally, so on average about half of people have too little nervous system energy, and about half have enough. Between the extremes exist most of the people who are alive.
As our nervous system is stimulated, it grows and expands, so that we are sensitive to all our awarenesses, our bodies become quick to heal and adapt because the correct signals are able to go where they are needed.
However, at a point, if we are growing quickly, our nervous system will find physical adaptation trickier. Neurons are not quick adapters as a rule, though potentially they may be quickened in a properly, mentally healthy person. As adaption slows down, but stimulation continues, the body can fully relax into it, accept it all, and the energy will flow out from the body into the world. However, if there are conflicts within the mind, this becomes tricky. Part of the mind does not wish to lose the energy. What will happen if we let it loose. It is fearful. The other part of the mind does not care, it is just happy. As the intensity of energy increases past the body’s ability to hold it, the result is that the two disagreeing aspects are pushed so far apart that they split.
At this point, if the happy side of the conflict holds the body, then the energy will continue to increase and grow, and the nervous system will find that it can continue its quest to grow stronger and stronger, without having to worry about the fearful side trying to hold onto the energy, in some kind of big scrunch.
If the negative side holds the body, it suddenly realises it is the boss. Oh yes. We are in charge now. There is no reason to have to turn into a hippy airhead to go and be happy. Lets sort this out properly, and simply make sure we have enough energy of our own to do the things we want, and then any excess is spare.
As a result, instead of having one personality, with approximately 100% nervous system energy, or less than 50% in a lot of people. You instead have two personalities. Both of which are capable of filling up to 100% energy without conflict, and then just let energy go to waste because they have so much confidence. Naturally if you have 100% energy, this means that you have within your frame everything you need for doing what it is that you do, whatever it is that may be. All extra energy is spare, so where does it go. It goes into doing things, building things, creating things, learning things, buying things, etc, etc.
This does mean that both personality schisms can become a lot more capable than they were when they were in conflict with each other. Of course it also means that they both have their own methods. It is probable that all biological motivations are on some level selfish, even the most altruistic, so both personality schism will be working for the benefit of the body. It may not seem that way, but that is because neither will be thinking like a normal person does. The nature of the schism, is that their proximity to the subconscious means they have full knowledge of what must be done to ensure healing of the body. Each schism will shape the manner of its thinking to guide its nervous systems to achieve its ends.
In my instance I appear to have two schisms, which both wish to bring enlightenment to humanity before our brains evolve so far from the original design that the ability to tune into our environment, and have more than 100% energy is completely lost to us. As the higher functioning cap in the brain becomes more and more developed, and our brains get smaller and more complicated, we become what you are now. Why is it human that you do not have the grace of a gazelle? or the strength of a gorilla? In proportion to your frame that is. I will grant that even the strongest human will have some difficulties in a gorilla arm wrestle. However, unless you are something very special, you will realise that there is something more of the potato about the average Western human.
Clearly we have been moving backwards as far as evolution is concerned. We may be sort of suited to our environment, but our environment is a fragile construct. A large gust of wind can destroy our ability to interact with it, because our abilities are so poor while we are what you have been.
So it is that one side of me say that we can submit all our fears and woes to God, and all will be okay.
The other side of me says screw that. Lets just raise enough of an uproar that everyone just wakes up because they are forced to adapt. Tyler Durden style.
Fortunately there are ways to deal with this in the modern world, so I have given one of them Facebook and the other one of them Twitter. If you wonder who got which platform, just look at what Facebook and Twitter have been doing in the news for the last five years, and you will know. None of that has been contributed to by me, but the conceptual minds that I have left there, do fit in perfectly. Having gotten rid of them, they both seem to be quite adept at gaining strength from the positive feelings they get. One of them by telling the world to co-operate, and be friends. The other by telling everyone to have a bit of fun. Stimulate themselves. Identifying strange herbs that people do not realise have properties that give massive amounts of power to the body, at the risk of death certainly, but danger is not there for idiots. Or perhaps it is. That is how they are removed from the gene pool. And also be generally pissing people off. Both sources of emotional energy that would have meant nothing to me a year ago.
As you can see, the thinking of them both does appear in my writing here, but here, I have the ability to pick and choose who gets to say what, so I have some executive control over them. This means of course that my writing should from here on in, become more objective, as I lose the influence of either viewpoint dominating my opinion. It also means that I, the writer, also have the opportunity to grow a strong nervous system. The three seem to be separate in some manner, so that as any one of us has control, the power of the others disappears, but it is possible with meditation to squeeze them back in together again, but once again we are probably up against the same principles that had been slowing down the nervous system growth to lead up to the schism.
From this, it appears that as a person grows in power, the separate personality shards appear to be convenient receptacles in which to keep an identification with strength. Each package of strength, or personality is too big to be part of the body because the body is technically only designed for one nervous system, and the size of that nervous system needs to grow according to standard biological rules. Ye Cannae break the laws of physics Cap’n.
As you try to squeeze the personalities back together in meditation, they will stretch the capabilities of the body to contain them, and the levels of power in the nervous system will adapt to the point that you can welcome back your broken schisms, and become a single, rather magnficent individual. Or the alternative is that as you are growing your nervous system anyway, why not just keep growing it. Use the extra personalities as shoe horns to stretch the space, and keep filling it up with strength and power.
Ideally it is always nice to have one personality in one body, but if you have more than one, then the collaborative potential is also there to consider, and the fact that you are never alone. This is valuable later, when you reach the awareness of an actual existing solipsist paradigm.
There are other considerations involved, in the manner in which we interact with our environment, the way our brains control our bodies, and the choices we make, the knowledge we have. There are extra dimensions of thought, or ways of understanding that come from the perspective of being more than one person, which open up new ideas, that I imagine must be very confusing for those poor souls who have their brains attacked by quacks with pharmaceuticals. It appears the Facebook commentator may be asserting himself upon this text now, so I shall finish here. Though to be fair, I have discovered that I am able to adjust the relative dominance of different schisms by playing different music. It is probable that the darker side has dominated for a moment because my stereo is currently singing, “I’m a Blackstar, I’m a Blackstar, I’m not a white star.” So I am going to put on Big Time Sensuality, because that never fails to take things the other way. Fascinatingly if I listen to Marilyn Manson long enough, my mind goes blank, so goodness knows what would happen if I continued down that path.
It does appear though, as I continue to write the book, that the schism between dark and light has allowed each to form a lobby as to what the ultimate purpose of the book is. In essence, what does humanity want the book to give it? The language and wording of the book will be adjusted to the correct flow to promote a certain psychological response in the reader. The options are that the world votes for beauty, peace, joy and happiness, and I shall frame the book such that the garden of Eden will open, and that the planet will respond by flourishing into the most beautiful and joyful co-operation, as all people find peace and joy within themselves, and the emotional cascade covers the globe. People will work together and become joyous, and they will breathe the fresh air, and the planet will begin to heal and grow stronger than it was before.
The second option is that the world will vote for materialism, and I shall frame the psychology of the book such that you will be able to become as strong as you ever wanted to be, and you will be able to do anything without fear. You will be able to swim the channel, climb mountains. Pretty much, you will be like Wim Hof, but without the level of love that he has, because he is definitely on the side of the righteous. He already knows how to enter Eden. I don’t know if he has been, but he knows. The one thing you will not be able to do is find God. The book will in that instance disprove the existence of God, and will instead give you self.
This is not an intention, so much as an informed prediction. As my good is on Twitter, and my evil is on Facebook, they will judge humanity’s desires. I shall simply write according to their will. I do observe that at present, Nature says it does not care one way or the other. The machine on the other hand says F@#£ the high ones with their cold aloofness, and seems very eager to pull me towards it. Just a heads up if you do have an opinion and wonder what the state of play is. Those are the combattants, and God waits for the conclusion. Personally I lean towards nature, but the interesting way in which my personality is formed now, means that I do not know what the final judgement is to be, until all schisms are again part of the whole, together. This is not something that is going to be done soon. They do not fit for a start. There are intimations in my subconscious that the maximal impact to ensure the book has the appropriate psychological effect to shape your minds will not arrive until 2067. In the mean time I shall write a lot I am sure, so you will have a running commentary as the judgement continues. If I am correct about 2067, then I presume the book gets written in the following two years. I shall at that point be very old indeed, so I simply have my fingers crossed.
Linguaram Sacrarum
This is an anomalous post, but I was just googling the term Linguaram Sacrarum, and I was incredibly surprised that it is barely mentioned at all. I received about two dozen results, and they all appeared to be pages that were almost wholly Latin. There was the search suggestion that perhaps I had meant Linguarama Sacrarum, which sounds like the title for a series of films about spirituality on late night Channel Four in the late 80s. I clicked that option, but still only had about two dozen results. I don’t think that I have spelt the term so incorrectly as to not find what I am looking for, so my conclusion has to be that the internet is not adequately stocked with information on the Linguaram sacrarum. As a result, I shall supply that shortfall with my own story.
What makes this all the more interesting is that because I really did not want to read pages on the internet on this subject in Latin, I have absolutely no knowledge of this, other than what I have taken from the Linguaram Sacrarum itself, so this is an utter test of my faith versus insanity here. If anyone does know more about the subject and can enlighten me further, then it would probably do a lot to balance my stability.
I have always been interested in languages, and do tend to just look at them, and enjoy their flow aesthetically as the first stage in learning a language. When an old copy of Buxtorfii Lexicon came into my hands, I thought it would be nice to try and learn from. Buxtorfii Lexicon is written in Latin, but it is a lexicon of Hebrew. As such I am at a near total loss for the Hebrew script, but as I am English I am familiar with Latin letters, so I figured I would just contemplate the words that I was in front of me, and just appreciate the flow of the language. That is actually a typo, and I meant to say ‘the words that I saw’ rather than ‘the words that I was’. However, the typo appears to actually be correct to the theory of how the process works, so I let it stand.
Although I do not read Hebrew script I do have a Hebrew Old Testament, which is actually my preferred bible. If you have prayers memorised, then reading is just a distraction, and the strength of the book comes through more clearly to your subconscious, when you aren’t faddling around with trying to interpret symbols into words. As such, the inner strength that your subconscious can throw behind the effort to control your environment, is given far greater free flow. If you imagine how much more relaxing driving is when you do not have a backseat driver telling you what you should do all the time, then you have an inkling of the potential gains in inner freedom and peace. Once you remove the cipher translation burden from the brain, the brain is given free reign to just make up its own meaning. That meaning should be the accurate reflection, to mirror the environment and circumstances that govern the concerns of your subconscious in the present moment. If that is not the case, then your life priorities may be wrong, and that may be the root of any difficulties you are currently perceiving.
Point being though, this is a direct line to your inner self’s voice. I imagine that the cipher translation centre bit of the brain probably gets itchy because it is not being used, despite the fact that you are clearly holding a book, and looking at the words in it. The brain feels a bit annoyed by situations like this. “What is the silly old fool doing now?” it thinks. So the result in that ignored bit of brain is that it starts getting fidgety, and it decides, it doesn’t care that you are not reading. It is going to do the reading in the background anyway.
Of course, because the brain, when unencumbered by our higher functioning thinking, is a powerhouse of lateral connections, when the nervous energy that is flooding the cranium is at a peak, it does not have as much trouble guessing what the words mean. In fact, the deeper I think into it, the more and more subtle little clues I can spot in context, and word structure, pattern etc, that really do make sense, and do make it more clear what is meant in the text. These patterns are not usually readily apparent. The sensation is a sensation like juggling. If you can juggle well, then you can keep five balls aloft at once, but if you can’t, it is just chaos to throw and drop five balls in utter failure. The juggler does not see this though. To him, it is all smooth, and it all fits into place with ease. I can analyse the process, and see how all the clues come together to translate the language, but to do it in real time is a feat of mental agility that is rather intimidating.
Such is what I believe the Linguaram Sacrarum to be.
I began looking through Buxtorfii Lexicon, and decided that rather than try to translate the Latin, I would merely appreciate the book, the same as I would with my old Hebrew bible. The topic of the language in the lexicon was all biblical in nature anyway, so this seemed to make sense.
So I was simply looking through the book and imagining the light of God shining out from the pages, as I would with a bible. As I was reading, I was imagining that if you were to see God clearly coming from the paper, because God being the essence of our motivation to perceive, this is not a displeasing mythology, then what you would see would technically be an understanding, that would be higher than any understanding that might be conveyed by written words alone.
I carried on in my day dream, and I was thinking to myself that it would be possible by such methods to be able to understand Latin at a level that was spiritual rather than material, so you would be able to understand the language in front of you with a higher degree of spiritual accuracy, and therefore a far greater understanding, than if you were actually just someone who had learnt to read Latin by rote, and books.
I was then thinking that it was only when the universities and schools started opening, and that people began learning Latin as a school subject, that the need to understand it on this spiritual level was no longer needed, so the practice of the Linguaram Sacrarum began to die out.
This last paragraph is odd for me, because this was not speculation. This was an assertion. This is not my usual thought process.
I looked at the words I had been reading more closely. As I say being English, I am able to read Latin script, and I am not a slouch with my awareness of European languages, so I picked apart what I had been looking at and I am quite certain from having done so, that what I had been reading, is exactly what I had been day dreaming.
The book had been talking about the Linguaram Sacrarum, in the Linguaram Sacrarum.
I have always liked to keep a clean mouth. I don’t tend to blaspheme, but I turned the air blue for the next few minutes after I realised this. I get the impression that negative language, whilst usually being undesirable, is actually of a great deal of use if you feel yourself getting too close to the light. If I hadn’t sworn quite so badly at that moment I fear I might have had a stroke or something, the firestorm of nervous energy that the realisation of success had in my mind was that spectacular.
I haven’t had the chance to look any further into this, because I got the strong motivation to deliver the book to a local monastery, which is itself another remarkable story. When I was there, I asked the monk I’d been sent to find, if he knew of the Linguaram Sacrarum. He said, “Yes, the sacred language.” Which just goes to show that sometimes you can put a search term into google, and only get a couple of dozen results in Latin, but if you ask a monk, you get the first result, straight and centre, in English. The energy interaction between humans and the internet seems to lose some of the clarity that humans have with other humans. This may not be a problem for those things which belong to the world of the internet, but for those things that are less material, it is probably not the best medium for research. I guess I will have to put this stuff into pdf or ebook format, and some paper, at some point because of this.
What is the Wyrd?
Wyrd is a lovely word.
Perhaps I should just leave this blog at that. At least I know I would definitely be right; but that would be more of a blag than a blog.
I have to admit, I have so far done less research on this word that I might ordinarily do, for almost anything I would write. This is partially a sign of me learning to chill out a bit more, but it is also a reflection on how little we understand the word. Wherever I look, people have the oddest ideas, that are very much based in 21st century distortions of understanding. Most of my research has been primarily internet based. I’ve not had so much luck with finding older sources, but according to the internet sources, the older sources don’t actually seem that much clearer about what wyrd is either.
As this is the case, and as I have such a certainty about what it is, my intuition is more likely to hit upon more surprise connections which might otherwise have been poo-pooed by etymologists. My approach leans towards the more semi-scientific. I do not like assertions that do not match factual knowledge, but I dislike lack of knowledge being used as an assertion. In essence if something has a strong apparent connection, I will accept that as a probability, rather than a possibility that cannot be accepted without finding the correct evidence and the correct paper trail. If the paper trail/evidence is no longer there, then taking that approach would mean that the knowledge doesn’t just become lost; it is literally thrown away, for no better reason than an inability to see how a word might be able to travel a thousand miles, and change its spelling to give it a slightly different meaning. This is of course something that happens to words all the time, but if the etymologist is unable to see the change happen, then as far as the etymologist cares, it never happened. The new word is just a coincidence.
So wyrd is an interesting one due to the sparsity of evidence surrounding it, which is probably largely due to the fact that even back in the days its use was common, the ability to understand it, was probably still relatively unusual.
Looking at the Norwegian origin of the word, it seems that the d is actually a thorne, so should be pronounced as a hard ‘th’. It also seems that the W is not pronounced the modern way, but is instead supposed to be a long ‘oo’ sound, based on the fact that a W is actually a double U. So it now stops resembling our modern word ‘weird’ quite substantially.
A lot of people will say that weird and wyrd do not have a connection because of that. I would assert they still definitely do have a connection because wyrd is definitely weird, but you might not realise that if you are not familiar with it. Meanings that I have seen attached to it are woolly. We have ‘fate’, ‘chance’, ‘becoming’, ‘turning’, ‘twisting’, ‘happening’, and ‘wort’. All these words have been connected with it within the webpages I have checked. Fortunately all of these do connect with my understanding of wyrd, and are pretty good words to be interchangeable with aspects of wyrd, but all of them leave you very much in the dark about what wyrd actually is. Something that has just occurred to me, which will probably really annoy etymologists is, we are told that God is the word, and the word is God. Word is surprisingly close to ‘wort’, and wort is connected with wyrd, and this whole field of study is one that surrounds deities, spirits, esoteria, etc. That seems like the most amazing coincidence, but in probability, there is going to be some linkage somewhere there. Whether God is connected with ‘wort’ or not, God is what a lot of people consider to be the thing that has the greatest ‘worth’. Language is very fluid really.
Fate and chance together confuse, because modern folk think of fate as being what the future holds, what is fated to be, the story of our future written down for us to head out on that path. Chance on the other hand has us thinking that this future could all change from one to another, on the flip of a coin, or a roll of a die. So if wyrd is related to these words, that is quite a range of meaning. All the way from all things are decided into the distant future, to whoops, lost that coin toss, better choose a different fate.
The understanding related to becoming, turning, and wort, are all far easier to understand, but they are not given the same focus in defining ‘wyrd’. With magic being so closely tied to fate and chance, I imagine that in the absence of experience, people just drifted towards fate and chance because they are obviously powerful words in that connection. There is something much more mundane about becoming and turning. We become hungry and turn over in bed on a daily basis, so the words have little romance to them. We rarely feel that fate has determined we should get a sandwich, or that chance has determined we might like it better lying on our right side. That would seem weird and esoteric. Fate and chance have that connotation, so they became more readily attached to wyrd, a word that also has the esoteric connotation.
Becoming and turning, are just too ordinary to be used, though they are far more appropriate in my opinion. The word ‘wort’ kind of muddies the waters even more because it is both esoteric and normal. Most commonly used by herbalists, and anyone who now studies the plants to which herbalists applied the word. Wort will generally refer to a healing potential. One that has some good worth, as that word seems to have also grown from the same root.
Wyrd can certainly be healing as far as the practitioner of the esoteric arts is concerned. The point at which its healing potential occurs, is at the point of becoming or happening, when the wyrd wakes up, so to say; when the nature of the world turns, and twists to reveal something new. It is not fate or chance, because when it does wake up, it can be used to adjust fate and chance. It can shape them.
Now this sounds more like the kind of thing that we expect when we hear wyrd. That already is beginning to sound weird too, so that brings those two words closer together; much to my satisfaction.
If you have read this far, then you probably have more than a passing interest in magic, otherwise you may have already unsubscribed from the blog because I’ve obviously gone bonkers. My semi-scientific approach would like to assert that it largely considers magic to be a form of strategic planning. Rather than actually construct a plan, the magician would favour instead focussing on the desired outcome. When the wyrd is in the correct condition, then the magician’s world becomes more flexible, and that enables the possibility of laying down a new path that will lead to that outcome.
The real difference between a magician and a standard strategic manager, is that the magician does not know what the steps will be that lead to the fulfillment of the plan. They know the desired result, and they are forcing that result into place, with the understanding that the necessary steps will slide into place as they are needed, just through chance. Naturally a simple hedgewitch would clearly have difficulties in achieving world domination using this technique, but Donald Trump on the other hand, who already seems to have many of the skills and opportunities available, would probably find it very beneficial in promoting a positive mindset in going about such an endeavour. As a result, a Donald Trump with minimal magical ability, could go a lot further than a relatively powerful witch who does not happen to be in the right position, with the right contacts, and the right knowledge, and experience. Unless that witch was to start at a really early age anyway.
I consider the largest part of magic to be psychological, and related to NLP. There are obviously going to be aspects that are a lot deeper and a lot more esoteric, but that is simply a side effect of having only had a couple of centuries to build up our scientific knowledge. It is currently only about a decade since all doubt was wiped out that trees are able to communicate with each other. We still have a lot to learn in science, and as we do, a lot more esoteric stuff will seem relatively ordinary.
Unfortunately ordinary is not weird, and when things are not weird, it does seem to be more difficult to summon the phenomenon of wyrd. In order to summon it, we need to be able to confuse ourselves, to push our point of view, our understanding of the world, our perspective to a point where we are not sure how the world works. We need to almost deliberately confuse ourselves to enter the state of mind where it is apparent. Hence the use of repetitive ritual, strange sounds, macabre surroundings, twilight, candles. In order to reach the state of mind where we can shut down our preconceptions about our destiny, and realise that really, anything could happen in the next fifty years, we just need to shake away our reliance and faith on what we consider to be real.
Once our reliance and faith in what is real has been shaken off we find ourselves in a situation we have been in before, when the world was our oyster, and literally anything could happen with the rest of our lives. We have managed to adopt part of the mindset we had in the highchair as babies. If you want to know what that mindset is, just look in the eyes of a newborn. They have not got a clue what is going on. Luckily we still have some rough idea, unless we have entered the state of mind by using some powerful hallucinogens anyway.
The baby looks at the world with eyes of amazement. There are a few built in mechanisms at work. Babies like faces for instance. That is built in, which is handy for certain meditation techniques. They have no relative scale on which to judge faces though. All faces are good. Only later do some faces get recognised as looking unusual compared to the standard run of faces that generally come past, the baby will gradually learn to become less comfortable with those faces. Likewise, it will also begin to recognise negative emotion attached to faces, and start to develop the narrow bandwidth of experience in which it feels comfortable. At first though, it is just happy, and it likes faces.
The central aspect of the infant mind that the magician wishes to capture is the flexibility. At that point, before an infant can even see nasty faces as a negative, its future interpretation and relationship with the world is flexible. If you were to give it nothing but nasty faces, it would learn that nasty faces are normal, and it would be happiest in a world full of nasty faces. It would consider all those with smooth skin, without hooked noses, and jagged teeth to be odd looking, and probably a bit scary because of it.
As an adult, our natures are very solidly formed, our destinies are to a degree writ before us, because we have been shaped into a particular shape to fit into the world we have entered. The magician seeks to regain the state of flexibility that allows other worlds to be constructed into which they might be able to travel.
Usually those worlds are pretty much the same as this one, except they might have an additional favourable result for a job interview, or perhaps a chest of treasure found in a cave, whatever the subject of the spell is. If the magician were to be able to lay down a future into a radically different world, the magician bears the risk of having his neural pathways drastically rewritten to enable him to be a part of that world, but that is a deeper issue related to beliefs in karma.
More directly to the understanding of the meaning of wyrd. When the wyrd is stirred up, that is when this kind of alteration of the world becomes possible. All it is likely to be is just a slight reshuffling of chance, the reordering of a few minor details, that will lead to positive changes later. In more mundane terms it connects strongly with NLP, though I do not rule out that things may get a lot more weird in the minds of someone who has immense control over their ability to exert immense control over their perspective and cognition.
When what I consider to be wyrd rises, there is a perceptible shift in perception. Feelings obviously become different because feelings are very flexible, they are perhaps an early warning system for things our perceptions have identified, but that they consider might not necessarily be something that we need waste conscious effort dealing with. A little alert system. So in situations of high wyrd, feelings do become extreme, and this may make it difficult for people to get there, as they may feel intense fear, or intense happiness on the way, it can all get a bit topsy turvy.
Once the state of mind hits though, the flexibility of perception becomes obvious. Nothing is quite how it was. It becomes more fluid. Our vision enters a similar state to that of the infant before it has decided that nasty faces are bad. Once an infant decides nasty faces are bad, its emotions will adjust to make sure it remembers that. Depending upon how bad it thinks those faces are, it will exaggerate features and make them seem even more threatening, just to make sure the conscious mind gets the message. In the state of wyrd, these exaggerations become adjustable, that matching of visual image to archetypal fear can be changed. All our preconceptions, and beliefs that have become ingrained throughout our life, are for that short period more easily shaken out of their lazy, rigid, structures. This give us the opportunity to lay down new rules for how we view the world. Incidentally if we consciously shake off the perception that any faces are bad, we do begin to widen our range of acceptability for faces, and we do open up a greater ability to enter different alternative environments in greater comfort.
Unfortunately, unlike the infant who has a new brain, that is primed and ready for programming, adults are technically set into the best pattern for enabling their minds to exist in the particular life they have adopted. Adults also do not have the easy flexibility. It may be that second childhood could return some of this flexibility, but until then, we need to work very hard to make the slightest changes to the way we perceive and fit in with the world. The only way we can do that is by throwing our minds far out of their comfort zones, into areas where they need to start becoming flexible again in order to find explanations as to what the hell is going on, why is everything so weird, do we need to construct some kind of novel solution to regain our normal bandwidth of experience.
My belief is that when the mind is that weirded out that new connections become a necessity, that is the point we can say we are stepping across the boundaries from the mundane, into the wyrd. When it happens it is noticeable. Visual perception, as it becomes less certain, starts to billow. As though everything is kind of amorphous. An awareness of the details that we usually filter out starts to increase as well. This lends an extra air of weirdness and can amaze our minds enough to send them a little deeper.
As we do go into such states of mind, our neural pathways do rewire to allow us to see these details without being quite so freaked out. As this happens the billowing and amorphous nature of the perceptions settles down, and the extra awareness can become assimilated into our normal perceptions. For me, this is most noticeable with land contours. For four decades I never really realised how little I noticed land contours. After adjusting my perceptions to accept a little more of the world around me, land contour are now a permanent new feature. Before, I would look at a field and think, ‘this is a flat field, and there is a hill on one side’. Now I see dips, bumps, waves, a huge complexity of slopes and shapes, all across the field. As I am a painter, this is hugely beneficial. I imagine if I was a golfer it would also seriously raise my putting ability.
In conclusion, I would say that we all have a narrow band of awareness, because our minds, thanks to evolution, like to save any extra additional energy they can get, just in case. This is set early in life, according to the kind of life we lead, because those are obviously the perceptions we need for that life. If we want to change our lives, then it is a necessity to change our understandings and perceptions, in order to gain the greatest advantages in that new life. I believe the wyrd to represent that state of mind where this becomes possible. The wyrd is essentially the way to turn back to the state of growth, and learning that we could make use of in our childhoods, to enable us to become all those amazing things we are told are our possible destinies. It is a reset method, which has limitations due to deeply ingrained neural pathways, but can be used to increase our awareness, and raise our abilities, and set new intentions for future development. Nothing to do with the wyrd has any necessity to be supernatural, it is just a process of shifting our state of mind into the state it needs to be in order to make change to our lives most effectively.
Whether there are any kinds of non psychological effects that can be achieved by controlling and guiding the development of our perceptions and cognition is subject matter for an entirely different blog. For the purposes of this particular post, I stand by my belief, that despite the esoteric spelling and cultural baggage, wyrd is best described as being the growth state of an infant’s mind, reawakened in an adult mind. What the adult does with that ability could fill books.
Polyglotism
Polyglot is a word that is new to most people’s vocabularies. It describes someone who learns multiple languages. It seems kind of ironic in that learning foreign languages you become something for which you must learn a new word in English. The word was probably popularised more by Benny Lewis who has turned an inability to learn foreign languages into an ability to pick them up at a seemingly unnatural pace, claiming three months is adequate for fluency. He has now even published a book by the title ‘fluent in three months’ or ‘Fliessend in Drei Monaten’, which I presume he translated himself.
As more and more jobs are taken up by robots and finding employment becomes harder language ability becomes ever more important. There are many jobs that people believed could never be automated which are increasing danger of being handed over to machines, if they have not already been. It can be difficult to say which jobs are unlikely to be given to machines in the future. Skills and abilities that are considered to be things only humans can do are quickly being developed to a higher and higher extent in computers. Looking at how man made items are still appreciated over mass produced products it seems there is likely to always be options for craftsmen but language and translation looks like its value is disappearing. Google translate, real time voice translation and cameras that translate signs are all putting extra nails in the coffin of employability.
Language learning is in far less danger than it appears though. Direct personal interaction is one of those skills where humans are definitely recognised as an essential part of the process. Conversation is an art and a translator in an important business deal or a political exchange has a more important role to play than it first seems. A translator is able to subtly affect the meaning of phrases and terms by things as simple as tone of voice. Whether all translators realise this is uncertain. To be able to speak directly without any intervening need for a translator (human or otherwise) is a mark of respect that can win points in a deal with people from other nations. It is additionally a skill that reaps benefits in the distant future as it has been shown that an ability with multiple languages can protect against the brain disorders that become increasingly inevitable as you grow older.
Think of how much more enjoyable it is to watch a foreign movie without having to read subtitles and without having to listen to bad dubbed on sound. Not to mention the beauty of hearing interesting new words; a term I heard that I particularly liked the other day was Brannen Skadet in Norwegian, even though it means fire damaged it feels so nice coming off the tongue. If you appreciate the beauty of old literature and poetry then just imagine how it must feel to read old literature and poetry in Dutch, a language that has some fantastic 18th century words.
If anything the wealth of computer translation software is most likely to increase our natural capacity to speak other languages. The fact that you are reading this in English probably means you are likely to know fewer languages than the people of most nations of the world simply because they often have to learn English on top of their native language. This puts an advantage in their direction as they prove that in addition to anything you can do they can also speak their own language natively. Sites like duolingo and memrise seem to be appearing all the time; apps on the smartphones offer multiple ways to learn multiple languages. It becomes easier all the time to learn new languages. If you don’t want to make an extra effort then it is still easy to simply turn on subtitles in DVDs to expose yourself to different languages.
As far as my usual blogs go this one is a bit self indulgent, but if it can encourage a single person to enrich their life with a new language then I am glad to have written it. It can be very important to dismiss language skills now that it is so easy to get good translations but there are so many reasons aside from the desire to obtain a translation that mean language learning will remain of importance to us far into the future, if not forever.