»the more that I embrace the tough stuff and the more light can shine through me.« – YES! It's because "embracing the tough stuff" is directly related to inner growth. And inner growth is directly related to becoming more 'translucent' – or what the German philosopher Jean Gebser called 'diaphanous' – which literally means 'light shining through'.
I mean anything about light and sound - and since words are sound that gives light to ideas...and you are gifted with words, I'd love to hear whatever inspires you that you'd like to share! <3 <3 <3
True. And words shed light into our thoughts and minds...
The first thought that comes to mind is a word coined by Nora Bateson, which she calls 'aphanipoiesis'. She has spoken about this in a talk available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhTGKvy_Y8
In an earlier wordcast I explored the 'spoken word' which is not explicitly 'sound' but definitely connected to it. It's about Pheme (the Greek daimona of fame), which is closely related to 'phonetics' (from Greek phone = sound, voice) https://www.symbiopaedia.com/wordcast/1462365_phemes-infamous-brood.
(Both have been inspirations for one each of my Wordfairies!)
I've had so much fun exploring your work the last day and a bit and sharing it with my family too! I love word creation and have done it more than once accidentally. It was fun to read excerpts to my husband and son, too! If light, true light is unseen (I read that scientists flooded a contentless black chamber that was created not to reflect light with the brightest light and instead of "bright" it actually looked pitch black, showing that light is what reveals the subjective (my interpretation) but is inherently invisible (I think this is also a buddhist concept), then maybe words are the same...the fundamental concepts or ideas in an inaudible state. Like aphanapoiesis.
"In the Symbiocene, humans have to relearn what nature has been doing all along 〰 to live together. What should be easy, because we are social beings after all, and it’s in our blood and genes, turns out to be surprisingly hard." - also if we believe in Gaia Theory we are part of one organism...we live in Sophia Gaia's body, are made of her own body, will return to her body, on a physical level.
very interesting! Yes, I think of words as not inherently 'meaningful' but as carriers of meaning. Like messengers perhaps. And the context (the space in which a word lives – in analogy with the black chamber) is significant too. After all, identical words can be carriers of very different meaning in different languages!
"Aptostichus barackobamai is a spider named after 〰 you guessed it 〰 Barack Obama."
Long ago, when I voted and when I was still a liberal, my youngest called him broccoli Obama. She reversed the naming process, naming him after a plant! lol! <3
The conversation about Pheme and Fame and Gossip/Rumor is fascinating. Wowza! I remember practicing some skating tricks on the playground and being told not to show off. I was mostly in the joy of my practice and also enjoyed the self-expression of having another see what I was expressing. Like all concepts there is almost always a perversion of the higher meaning in our current world designed to disempower, to make invisible, to unpseak that which we would speak, to reduce our phemes to memes that are approved....and I am sure much of this is unconscious. I love the idea of celebrating one another rather than trying to get people to make themselves smaller. Learning to listen, as well as speak, to give and to receive. To become diaphanous, while knowing we are all the same light expressing through our uniqueness, so there is nothing to "brag" about - it's just the joy of living and being who we are, which we which as a blessing for all to experience!
Absolutely! I think most of us were 'downtrodden' as children because our elders were scared of our joy of self-expression (having been downtrodden themselves). Now this is called 'Adverse Childhood Experience' – often complicated with intergenerational and religious trauma. In other words, a big mess we all have to sift through to get back to the joy of self-expression. On the other hand – what a joy to rediscover that magical ability to play – if not with skating tricks on the playground, we can still do so with our thoughts, and creative process. I feel blessed to be able to share this experience with you right here and now! 💗
Woah! I am going to respond to you tomorrow because your comment is worthy of the time I want to spend with what you've shared! Thank you soooooooo much!!! <3 Joy to you today!!!
Thank you for sharing, sister. ✨
<3 Thank you for being you! xo Love to you!
Aww!! Right back atcha!
<3 <3 <3 and thank you sister!!
Have a beauty day, being the sunshine for the world!! 🌞✨❤️
Sending you starlight and love today!
Be the light you are
Let's play!
Don't let the darkness take that way
Frisky
Aligned
Holy
Divine
Right on time
Activate Divinity
Shine Shine Shine
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Shine shine shine!!
✨✨✨✨✨
Keep glowing! Your light travels far. Thanks for sharing 🙏💚
Aww!! <3 Thank you!!!!
»the more that I embrace the tough stuff and the more light can shine through me.« – YES! It's because "embracing the tough stuff" is directly related to inner growth. And inner growth is directly related to becoming more 'translucent' – or what the German philosopher Jean Gebser called 'diaphanous' – which literally means 'light shining through'.
This is exactly spot on, sister! I love what you wrote about Jean Gebser 'diaphanous" literally means "light shining through"
Have a diaphanous day!
What a great word!! ✨✨✨
Agreed!!! Let's be the diapanous ladies
YES!!!! Let's!!! XOX hahahaha!!
Lol...XOXOXO <3 In trails of light did they enter the tunnel that birth canal
Beyond the dismal abysmal banal
Diaphanous ladies
One and all
Answer the call
Lighten up
It's a costume party
And the diaphanous ladies are dressing light
Underneath is there anything at all?
I don't know, but we're having a ball!
<3
hahahhaa!!! WOW!!! You're SO amazing!!!! ....still laughing!!!
thank you! xx
what a de-light-ful conversation between two diaphanous ladies!
Makes more words related to 'bringing to light' pop into my head.
How about 'phenetic' (used in taxonomy, "arranged by overall similarity based on all available characters,")
Coming to think of it, your poem seems both diaphanous and phenetic.
A phenomenal phantasmagoria of epiphanies
(all words from the same Greek root phainein "bring to light, cause to appear, show")
Wonder-ful feast of meanings...I'd love to hear your reflections on light and sound.
you mean words related to light and sound?
I mean anything about light and sound - and since words are sound that gives light to ideas...and you are gifted with words, I'd love to hear whatever inspires you that you'd like to share! <3 <3 <3
True. And words shed light into our thoughts and minds...
The first thought that comes to mind is a word coined by Nora Bateson, which she calls 'aphanipoiesis'. She has spoken about this in a talk available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxhTGKvy_Y8
I have written a wordcast where I've explained aphanipoiesis and added my own comments here: https://www.symbiopaedia.com/wordcast/1474275_the-symbiocene-in-waiting
In an earlier wordcast I explored the 'spoken word' which is not explicitly 'sound' but definitely connected to it. It's about Pheme (the Greek daimona of fame), which is closely related to 'phonetics' (from Greek phone = sound, voice) https://www.symbiopaedia.com/wordcast/1462365_phemes-infamous-brood.
(Both have been inspirations for one each of my Wordfairies!)
Curious to hear your thoughts xxx
I've had so much fun exploring your work the last day and a bit and sharing it with my family too! I love word creation and have done it more than once accidentally. It was fun to read excerpts to my husband and son, too! If light, true light is unseen (I read that scientists flooded a contentless black chamber that was created not to reflect light with the brightest light and instead of "bright" it actually looked pitch black, showing that light is what reveals the subjective (my interpretation) but is inherently invisible (I think this is also a buddhist concept), then maybe words are the same...the fundamental concepts or ideas in an inaudible state. Like aphanapoiesis.
"In the Symbiocene, humans have to relearn what nature has been doing all along 〰 to live together. What should be easy, because we are social beings after all, and it’s in our blood and genes, turns out to be surprisingly hard." - also if we believe in Gaia Theory we are part of one organism...we live in Sophia Gaia's body, are made of her own body, will return to her body, on a physical level.
very interesting! Yes, I think of words as not inherently 'meaningful' but as carriers of meaning. Like messengers perhaps. And the context (the space in which a word lives – in analogy with the black chamber) is significant too. After all, identical words can be carriers of very different meaning in different languages!
"Aptostichus barackobamai is a spider named after 〰 you guessed it 〰 Barack Obama."
Long ago, when I voted and when I was still a liberal, my youngest called him broccoli Obama. She reversed the naming process, naming him after a plant! lol! <3
🙃 😀 🥦 🤭
The conversation about Pheme and Fame and Gossip/Rumor is fascinating. Wowza! I remember practicing some skating tricks on the playground and being told not to show off. I was mostly in the joy of my practice and also enjoyed the self-expression of having another see what I was expressing. Like all concepts there is almost always a perversion of the higher meaning in our current world designed to disempower, to make invisible, to unpseak that which we would speak, to reduce our phemes to memes that are approved....and I am sure much of this is unconscious. I love the idea of celebrating one another rather than trying to get people to make themselves smaller. Learning to listen, as well as speak, to give and to receive. To become diaphanous, while knowing we are all the same light expressing through our uniqueness, so there is nothing to "brag" about - it's just the joy of living and being who we are, which we which as a blessing for all to experience!
Absolutely! I think most of us were 'downtrodden' as children because our elders were scared of our joy of self-expression (having been downtrodden themselves). Now this is called 'Adverse Childhood Experience' – often complicated with intergenerational and religious trauma. In other words, a big mess we all have to sift through to get back to the joy of self-expression. On the other hand – what a joy to rediscover that magical ability to play – if not with skating tricks on the playground, we can still do so with our thoughts, and creative process. I feel blessed to be able to share this experience with you right here and now! 💗
Have you seen this, Alicia?
David Whyte just shared his stunning two part piece::
Blessing for Sound & Blessing for the Light
https://davidwhyte.substack.com/p/blessings?publication_id=1377056&post_id=133551721&isFreemail=true&r=2uc3l7
Woah! I am going to respond to you tomorrow because your comment is worthy of the time I want to spend with what you've shared! Thank you soooooooo much!!! <3 Joy to you today!!!
<3 <3 <3