The first letter of the Alphabet whose symbolic significance and transformational properties became apparent to me was the Letter L.<\/p>\n
As a teenager, sitting on my bed with a pen and pad of paper in hand, I was contemplating the opening statement in Genesis (John 1:1):\u00a0 \u2026In the Beginning was the Word. <\/em>I wrote WORD on my note pad and then, on a whim, inserted an L.\u00a0 In that instant, the Word became the WORL<\/sup>D.<\/p>\n Next, because Genesis says, The Word was God, <\/em>I wrote God on the notepad and added an L. In a flash, GOD turned to GOL<\/sup>D. And since so many people worship Gold as God on Earth \u2013\u2013 I real-eyes\u2019d in that moment that Gold is Fools\u2019 God!<\/em><\/p>\n I also realized that L probably represents God in the Alphabet. After all, in Hebrew, the sound of \u2018EL\u2019 stands in for god in a generic sense. And in Spanish, that sound represents both the masculine pronoun, He,<\/em> and the article the<\/em>, which introduces masculine nouns. In French, the sound of Elle refers to S<\/sup>HE.<\/p>\n The word the<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>is interesting in itself. It is composed of the sign of the cross \u2013\u2013 \u2020 \u2013\u2013 placed in front of the word he<\/em><\/strong>. (Parenthetically, if you want to see how we feel when we make an error \u2013\u2013 and why \u2013\u2013 just put the sign of the cross in front of that word and you\u2019ll get the whole picture: \u2020error).<\/p>\n So, far from being nondescript, \u2020he carries significance. And when we add an O, which obviously symbolizes completeness, emptiness, and eternality, we create an ancient Greek word for god: Theo. <\/em><\/strong>As a person\u2019s name, Theo means \u2018Divine Gift.\u2019 In English, theo<\/em><\/strong> is a prefix for many words pertaining to God \u2013\u2013 like theocracy<\/em> and theology<\/em>.<\/p>\n I thought about how Christian missionaries were ostensibly spreading their theology <\/em>to Save Souls so that \u2018heathens\u2019 <\/em>could enter Heaven. <\/em>Thus, I wrote down the word SAVE and inserted an L. Voila, the actual result of this often well-meaning but ultimately misguided attempt to convert people\u2019s belief systems became immediately evident: SL<\/sup>AVE.<\/p>\n This fits perfectly with the Pray\/Prey <\/em><\/strong>and Prophet\/Profit<\/em><\/strong> paradigm in which the shadow and the light coexist in identical vibrations (aka homonyms).<\/em> Such linguistic synchronicities <\/em>are not related through their history but united through their sound.<\/p>\n Continuing on with this theme, and with the Letter L, I saw how God \u2013\u2013 by whatever name and definition we impose upon It \u2013\u2013 endows the sacred crucible of the pubic area<\/em> with the spark of life that creates the PUBL<\/sup>IC arena<\/em>.<\/p>\n Having \u2018gone forth and multiplied,\u2019 we are now nearly 8-billion in number. And the ethos in predatory capitalism has been to function together like competitive contestants in the Human Race <\/em>now destined to reach an imminent deadline<\/em>. But is competing with each other for limited resources really the best we can do? Are we supposed to measure our \u2018weight in gold,\u2019 to be considered better than everyone else?<\/p>\n Consider how well that strategy worked for the greedy Mr. Getty, <\/em>and the ganster, Mr. Gotti, <\/em>as well as for the mad man who Madoff <\/em>with everybody else\u2019s gold? Such upside down and backward priorities and behaviors create \u2018El <\/em>on Earth\u2019 for everyone.<\/p>\n Imagine what our relationships to each other would be like if, instead, great numbers of us decided to follow the COMPASS of COMPASSION<\/sup><\/strong> at the C<\/sup>ENTER<\/strong> or our own HE<\/sup>ART<\/strong>. What if we pursued the Pleasure Principle, instead \u2013\u2013 choosing to experience the joy of GEN<\/sup>EROSITY <\/sup><\/strong>instead of self-imposed MISERY<\/sup><\/strong>?<\/p>\n The answer again reveals itself by inserting the letter L in the word compete <\/em>to see that we are actually designed to COMPL<\/sup>ETE <\/strong>each other. So, here\u2019s a novel word-tweak that was created in the early 90s by Raymond Noorda, president of Novell Corp. The intent was to name what it takes to create a win-win between various entities: Coopetition<\/strong>. It is defined as \u2018collaboration between business competitors, in the hope of mutually beneficial results.\u2019<\/p>\n If we all endeavored to be fair \u2013\u2013 and to contribute the best of ourselves to enrich the CommonWealth to which we all our heir \u2013\u2013 how might we fare? Could we pull ourselves back from the brink of mass extinction??<\/p>\n I envision us all as members of the HEIRESSTOCRACY<\/sup><\/strong> \u2013\u2013 not because we \u2018give ourselves airs,\u2019 which implies that we think we are better than other people or species. I imagine us shifting our focus, raising our spirits and vibrating on a freer frequency together. By so doing, we could elicit and transmit scintillating energies through our personal and collective neural circuitries that enable us all to rise collectively to meet the M<\/sup>OMENT<\/sup><\/strong> with wisdom and kindness. What kind of a WORL<\/sup>D might we create with that strategy?<\/p>\n Let\u2019s imagine together. And please let me know what other words you find that are significantly transformed by the simple insertion of the Letter L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first letter of the Alphabet whose symbolic significance and transformational properties became apparent to me was the Letter L. 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