Words are living beings. Every word has a story. Words are our symbionts. Beautiful writing into the heart of who we are. Words are poems that our hearts write upon our soul. Thank you Veronika 🙏❤️
What a beautiful post, Veronika! I truly enjoyed reading it. Thank you for sharing the link; it made my evening and deepened my understanding of the expression of our 'lingua'. Words may seem complex, but they are not complicated, maybe magical. Wild Motherword is beautiful indeed.
Thank you Katerina. This was one of the early ones... and the exploration of of the word w-o-r-d held so many surprises (for me!) that I know I was on to something...
I'm glad you enjoyed it (although I think/ hope my presentation skills have considerably improved since) xxx
I love thinking of words as symbionts whose definitions are entire ecosystems of symbionts simultaneously existing as constituent member symbionts of other ecosystems/definitions of symbionts and on and on. Eric Voegelin has some wonderful definitions to illuminate the truth of existence and structure of reality. https://watershade.net/ev/ev-glossary.html Each word would be, in his words, a cosmion, a little world, while the cosmos becomes "the bond of being between God and world." I'm enjoying thinking through any philosophy of order in cosmos and history (the gravitas, or density of meaning, any word gravitates around) while wondering how to rewild the vernacular and how to translate the language of dream to generate symbionts for the symbiocene.
I once read energy flows through matter as efficiently as possible over time, a law that scales at the largest and smaller orders, including in language: the evolution of hieroglyphics into demotic and coptic scripts allowed for greater complexity to be communicated in less time. Complexification through simplification for the sake of more efficient rates of energy flow is why so many branching patterns self-similar across scale and emerge in nature to scale this energy distribution -- the structure is the most efficient form for this energy to flow through.
This has me wondering about dreams, fairy tales, and their cross species equivalents, and the shared wisdom we tap into as we move toward where we are called. It has been fun to see certain "magical motifs" surviving generations to aid us in our journey today :) something you may enjoy:
A big THANK YOU for introducing me to Eric Voegelin. I've never heard of him and will definitely dive into his glossary and ideas ›› every word a cosmion ›› I love that!!
And Welcome to Symbiopædia ~ a glossary for the Symbiocene in progress here https://www.symbiopaedia.com ~ (founded in the spirit of a communal project in 2023, although so far I'm the sole symbiophant in the wildwordwoods).
"energy flows through matter as efficiently as possible over time..." that's a powerful impulse to my thought process in relation to my work on Synchronosophy (my other substack channel, which I believe you have already discovered too)
And "wondering about dreams, fairy tales, and their cross species equivalents, and the shared wisdom we tap into as we move toward where we are called" ~ I've been wondering about these kind of symbionts too, a lot, in diverse configurations and forms of expression.
What a beautiful exploration! I love how living it feels to explore these symbionts! Also I love how "Word" is both an abstraction and an organic expression.
Thank you, Alicia! That's how it always felt to me. Many years ago, as a young student at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, I fell in love with etymological dictionaries. I used to read chapters about a word at a time, fascinated by their life history. Although etymologies come mostly in snippets, I read them as word-biographies. My creative mind joins the dots and fills in the rest. Thank you so much for your appreciation 💕 ₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ 🙏
I love the way you describe word biographies and word fairies. I love learning more about these living breathing beings that are the Word/word. I went to a Christian undergrad so my first exposure was the WORD John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word was and the Word was with God and the Word was God...
Many teachings preached and spread by the church don't make sense. That's because the church claims to be a 'representation of divine expression' while having a hidden agenda with ulterior motives.
True. Word is generally presented as THE translation of Logos, although Logos means more than 'word', and it is not the only term for the English 'word' either.
Words are living beings. Every word has a story. Words are our symbionts. Beautiful writing into the heart of who we are. Words are poems that our hearts write upon our soul. Thank you Veronika 🙏❤️
thank you so much Jamie 🙏❤️
What a beautiful post, Veronika! I truly enjoyed reading it. Thank you for sharing the link; it made my evening and deepened my understanding of the expression of our 'lingua'. Words may seem complex, but they are not complicated, maybe magical. Wild Motherword is beautiful indeed.
Thank you Katerina. This was one of the early ones... and the exploration of of the word w-o-r-d held so many surprises (for me!) that I know I was on to something...
I'm glad you enjoyed it (although I think/ hope my presentation skills have considerably improved since) xxx
I love thinking of words as symbionts whose definitions are entire ecosystems of symbionts simultaneously existing as constituent member symbionts of other ecosystems/definitions of symbionts and on and on. Eric Voegelin has some wonderful definitions to illuminate the truth of existence and structure of reality. https://watershade.net/ev/ev-glossary.html Each word would be, in his words, a cosmion, a little world, while the cosmos becomes "the bond of being between God and world." I'm enjoying thinking through any philosophy of order in cosmos and history (the gravitas, or density of meaning, any word gravitates around) while wondering how to rewild the vernacular and how to translate the language of dream to generate symbionts for the symbiocene.
I once read energy flows through matter as efficiently as possible over time, a law that scales at the largest and smaller orders, including in language: the evolution of hieroglyphics into demotic and coptic scripts allowed for greater complexity to be communicated in less time. Complexification through simplification for the sake of more efficient rates of energy flow is why so many branching patterns self-similar across scale and emerge in nature to scale this energy distribution -- the structure is the most efficient form for this energy to flow through.
This has me wondering about dreams, fairy tales, and their cross species equivalents, and the shared wisdom we tap into as we move toward where we are called. It has been fun to see certain "magical motifs" surviving generations to aid us in our journey today :) something you may enjoy:
Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.150645
How WONDER-full ~ thank you so much!!!
A big THANK YOU for introducing me to Eric Voegelin. I've never heard of him and will definitely dive into his glossary and ideas ›› every word a cosmion ›› I love that!!
And Welcome to Symbiopædia ~ a glossary for the Symbiocene in progress here https://www.symbiopaedia.com ~ (founded in the spirit of a communal project in 2023, although so far I'm the sole symbiophant in the wildwordwoods).
"energy flows through matter as efficiently as possible over time..." that's a powerful impulse to my thought process in relation to my work on Synchronosophy (my other substack channel, which I believe you have already discovered too)
And "wondering about dreams, fairy tales, and their cross species equivalents, and the shared wisdom we tap into as we move toward where we are called" ~ I've been wondering about these kind of symbionts too, a lot, in diverse configurations and forms of expression.
What a beautiful exploration! I love how living it feels to explore these symbionts! Also I love how "Word" is both an abstraction and an organic expression.
Thank you, Alicia! That's how it always felt to me. Many years ago, as a young student at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, I fell in love with etymological dictionaries. I used to read chapters about a word at a time, fascinated by their life history. Although etymologies come mostly in snippets, I read them as word-biographies. My creative mind joins the dots and fills in the rest. Thank you so much for your appreciation 💕 ₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ 🙏
I love the way you describe word biographies and word fairies. I love learning more about these living breathing beings that are the Word/word. I went to a Christian undergrad so my first exposure was the WORD John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word was and the Word was with God and the Word was God...
This is a translation of Logos.
So the idea that the Word/words are living breathing intelligence, divine expression that is both Divine and an expression of...
has always made sense, while much of what I encountered in the church did not! Lol...<3 Love
Many teachings preached and spread by the church don't make sense. That's because the church claims to be a 'representation of divine expression' while having a hidden agenda with ulterior motives.
Very well said! <3
True. Word is generally presented as THE translation of Logos, although Logos means more than 'word', and it is not the only term for the English 'word' either.
If you haven't read it yet, I think you might enjoy my wordcast on Mythos (& Logos) here: https://www.symbiopaedia.com/wordcast/1477970_the-myth-of-mythos / also on substack: https://veronikabondsymbiopaedia.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-mythos