“…One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal…
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In a 1958 television interview, Aldous Huxley predicted the technological capability to bypass reason and manipulate behavior through subliminal means. …” Dr. Joseph Mercola[1] I just had the oddest experience…
Have you heard people speak of mental ‘mettle’? Or is this one of those important words that have lost their currency in the public mind? Mettle is synonymous with courage…
Have you ever wondered why the day commemorating the torturous crucifixion of the Prince of Peace is called ‘Good Friday?’ What, exactly, was good about it? Conversely, the biggest shopping…
“The vital principle that guides the development and function of an organism The Soul” [per Google] Years ago, Eye encountered the word entelechy by turning to the word quite…
“Life is short, and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who make this earthly pilgrimage with us, so be swift to love and make…
Few of us give conscious thought to the everyday metaphors that color our communications. Yet these prefabricated phrases are often loaded with undesirable inferences that retain their currency, and perhaps…
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde, 19th C Irish poet and playwright. During the Retreat at Elohee…
With World-Changing RePercussions Some Stunning Puns & Telling Words The footprint of the culture can be read throughout the language—and our deeper wisdom ‘unearthed’—by looking more deeply into words. Then, like fireworks...
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After watching my 2010 YouTube video, The Secret Spells of the English Language, people want to know ‘Who did this to us?’ It’s a really good question and is perhaps…
Speaking Beauty We are Godlings on this planet – Here because we all pre-planned it Ghastly, ghostly shadows damn it Now’s our chance to Superman it! Lift your…
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly”. Buckminster Fuller, 20th C American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist One…