I know some folks find this website hard to use – it sometimes seems like a blog and other times like a fixed site….can’t it be both until I decide which works best?

Anyway, I wanted to clarify something on the whole subject of sound and language and the lost word.  Ive had a few comments and letters from people and because I only have the tip of the iceberg published online theres a lot of confusion and misunderstanding.

While theres a lot of wordplay stuff on my website and on the little clips, that is only the beginning, the foot in the door of something much much bigger.  The simplest way to express it is to pick on the number one point people make: ‘its just english i’m picking on -what about other languages?’

OK – i use english because im aiming at an english audience.  However, I have had Czech and Spanish and German students who see how my work applies in their languages too. 

The key to all this lies in what ISN’T published on my site, because, lets face it, peoples internet attention is so brief, and people seem to want emotional/emotive charged and animated displays to hold their focus, and they want the answers of the universe delivered in a 30 second soundbite or thats it, they’re off…..

I use wordplays to get peoples attention to see that theres more to words than meets the eye, but beyond that lies what we make our words from – the alphabets.  Now, the alphabet is something that multiple languages use.  There are a good few dozen languages who all use the latinized alphabet and what I’m talking about applies to all of them, and more, it applies to ALL human alphabets.  I’m working on writing the method of decoding alphabets just now because it is standard for all human alphabets, and this  will be published in the near future – im not sure if I’ll put it online as a series of posts, more probably an ebook of some kind, but its not something you just read over a cup of coffee, because if you do, you are missing the real point. being made, because these truly esoteric symbols we call ‘letters’ and ‘characters’ form a bridge to a part of our awareness that for the vast majority of people is in their subconscious/preconscious, and it is in THAT awareness that we find the answers to all our questions….

heres the reply I sent to a recent enquirer – it covers a lot that I haven’t published on here simply because its not really ‘net material’…

Begin reply:

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts.  Its always good to hear from another word lover.

The stuff on my website is a fraction of the model I am getting at in this, and I agree with many of your statements. My work is only partly about The Lost Word, and partly about en-glish and its use, or misuse. If all I had discovered was the mental field of wordplay and the mental field it relates to, I too would not have found it some great truth, simply curios and something fun to mentally banter with. But we are not talking about the exact same things here, well, we are superficially, but not ‘behind the scenes.’

When you look at each facet of linguistic curiosity in isolation, or even exploring the abstractions of the meanings to which the words refer, the key facets of what lies in language and the associated sounds is still missed.

Beneath language you have the alphabets, and you have multiple distinct languages using the same alphabets. The alphabet level is where the heart of my work is, and while you rightly point out that ‘the map is not the territory’ in relation to apples, the map itself IS the part of the fabric of a territory of something else.  The alphabets and number sequences of all human languages actually all follow a standard pictographic form, all with a standard method in which they can be ‘decoded’ to redeem the fabric of the territory that made up the map in the first place, that is a quality of mental substance which we don’t have access to when we are exploring the ‘territory behind the map’ in relation to words because we are not even aware of the qualities and energies of mindstuff which are tied up in the making of the ‘map’ which are the words we use. 

The significance of ‘in the beginning was the word’ has become clouded by 2000 years of devotee confusion and insufficient mental awakening.  The significance of the geometry and symbology inherent in the alphabets is what gives rise to the significance of that particular phrase and the word to which it refers.  You are thinking of the phrase only in terms of a defined religion, in a particular part of the world, and as used by one culture, whose presence on the mental and emotional planes (which we all explore every day as we follow our everyday mental and emotional pathways) is highly charged with years of distrust and bad feeling and for good reason.  This phrase goes much, much, much farther back, to our tribal beginnings, and the significance of The First Word is not just about mental theorising, but about a fundamental recognition of brotherhood and recognition between humans and their environment in its most expressive form.  That first word is not linguistic, therefore it refers to something more naturally human  than our constructed languages. The fact that we have rendered the symbols of the alphabets as we have is not accidental, and not without effect.

In the science of cymatics, the shape matter adopts when the human voice makes a sustained ‘O’ sound (short o, not oh) is a circle (with an inner circle.)  It is not a coincidence that we have used that shape in association with that sound and that sound has the effect on matter of that shape.  This is not chicken and egg – the sound came before the written prose.  But the written prose followed the sound, instinctively.  Now, I am not saying that in cymatics all the sounds of all the letters adopts  those shapes – they don’t.  What I am saying though is that sounds have an effect on matter and the shapes we have used to represent them have a quality which we refer to as their Character.  When we are talking at character level, we are not talking about one language, but multiple languages. And we are talking about the same rules that can be applied to all of them. 

The pictograms of the alphabets are specific symbols which our preconscious reads in a specific way, and it is the same for all humans once they learn language from birth.  In the same fashion, the sounds have a specific effect on human pre-consciousness, and this too is standard, for in the pre-conscious mind, in the moment of awareness preceding interpretation and conscious mind, the manner of processing sound and linguistic Characters is the same in us all. Just like you can put a human in an infinite number of situations, but our responses are finite. From 1,000 situations we can feel fear, or anger, or passion, yet passion is passion, and anger is anger, no matter the situation – we respond the same.  We shy from heat and cold extremes, we have certain in built responses and the processing of language and sound is one of them. 

By decoding the alphabets and playing with the languages, we regain the raw material of that piece of the territory that was used to build the map, and find out what else it can do – because it can serve another function and that is the point of my work is showing that we don’t use words properly, and we don’t use the fabric of raw material that we use to make words properly either. We don’t understand the mental forces we are dealing with, and the delusion, confusion and mayhem of the last few thousand years have mainly resulted from misdirection with words.  That is a more powerful influencing force than any other – behind religious control, government manipulations, all of it lies on the basis of words to claim authority over or suchlike. However, the mental positions it has brought us to are dead ends.  By unpicking language we can find new routes for our awareness, and therefore our expression of our awareness, which then becomes the world we build and live in, becomes something that isn’t a dead end.  And all this from understanding the power of the word.

The significance of the First Word, and the problem with its mis-spelling is that the effects of that misspelling will be the very thing which helps us realise how bloody important attention to detail is when you are playing with such powerful stuff as the fabric of mind.

When you have been referring to concepts in your letter, like good and evil, and god, and so on, you were simply outlining the location in mental space where the common interpretation of those words leads, you described your experience of how the church has manifest, or how the ideas of good and evil have been presented to you in your world  – just because that is how those words are used, it does not mean that that is what they mean. I say ‘mean’ in the mathematical sense, where meaning is the manner in which we assemble words in mental space to ‘get peoples points.’  So, ‘do you get my point’ or ‘do you get what I mean’ is referring to ‘do you see the space the average assembly of my words is pointing towards?’  The more abstract or subtle or specific a point is, the more words are often required to squeeze the exact nuance intended, especially when restricted to written prose, and without the freedom of our other tools of expression when communicating.

If you have someone who does not under stand something properly, it means  they cannot ‘point it out’ to others properly.  If you have a chain of that happening over a period of time, generations even, and then more, how much accuracy is left?  Of course, some seekers come along and ‘get the point’ of things, whatever they are, religious, philosophical, spiritual, whatever, and then try to‘re-point’ people in a more benevolent and inclusive direction.  But in general, what you have is generations of ever-increasing misinterpretation and lost meaning and it then becomes like the person with normal vision in a town of colour blind folks – just because 50 believe they are right against the 1, does it mean that they are?  Good and Evil? What are they? God? As you said..personified bully.  But that is not what those words mean. 

What I am getting at is that they are skewed signposts – that they do not point where they are supposed to point.  They have lost both reference and reverence (those words being closely related, the f and v being hard and soft versions of the same sound.) – this being true of words and what lies beneath and behind words in general.

And the word referred to in the phrase ‘in the beginning’ refers not to those concepts, but to something bigger than a concept – something all our concepts came out of. Something all our concepts will return to, and this being true for every single human being, irrespective of religion, belief, practice, sexual orientation or language – is that not inclusive? That is the point of The First Word – it is the most inclusive thing there is because it is the only thing that applies to ALL of us, everything is an idea or concept that must be translated for ALL of us to get it.  This is why ‘in the beginning’ is an alchemical phrase, because it refers not only to tribal beginnings and brotherhood, but also to our birth and First Word (not first ‘sound’) in this life, and every living human has experienced birth and that First Word – it needs no translation and is therefore a first point of common ground for us all. It is GOO Consciousness – and it refers to the infant state of pre-conscious awareness we were all born into and we all experience in our moments of connection, intuition, pre-conscious and subconscious awareness, sexual union, dance, meditation and suchlike. 

Anyway, I’m getting carried away as usual.

People create the world they think about, whether they realise it or not.  The words we choose and how we use and interpret them influence that greatly.  If we choose carefully and with the UTMOST care, considering what can be learned from decoding the alphabets and the number sequences, then I mean UTMOST, then really inclusive things can happen, and things which DO lead somewhere, somewhere distinctly beyond words.

This is where my other work comes in which combine with the work I do on words and language, stuff on gender, perception and more which don’t get any real presence on my website.  It is when all these are looked at overall that it can be seen that ‘bloomin eck there really is something there’, and ‘its right under our noses and oh what a bunch of twats we’ve been.’

This is not just about wordplay – I publish wordplays because that is the arena which piques people’s mental curiosity.  There are many wordplayers around and it’s a growing energy because you cannot move beyond mental space without unpicking fixated ideas, so pretty much everyone has to move through that phase at some point. It’s the entry level and the beginners starting point.  It is by no means the endgame, nor is it even worth much more than idle curiosity and mental jest at the humour inherent in it all.

I don’t get the testimonials I get by giving people wordplays.  Nor conceptual dances about comparative theology or positionless philosophy.  I offer people real means and methods to experience their pre-conscious consciously, and to experience the spaces and awareness beyond their mind, and to organise the clutter that IS their mind and emotions and this is not based solely on word dances.  I say this only to be clear that when you say ‘you resist the feeling you have found some great truth’ when you explore the spaces behind words and start to grasp the significance of word usage, and that to do so ‘smacks of those in power than those  of us who are freethinkers’ is true, but I distance myself from it because your realisations are not what my work is founded on, and nor are those  introductory levels of wordplay what the work is about – its merely the doorstep at best.

Anyway, I am grateful for you taking the time to write.  Its been a pleasure reading your thoughts and considering how to best respond.  I hope I’ve made some point towards recognising your position, but also highlighting how my position is very different behind the scenes, despite superificial similarity.  Don’t get me wrong, I have a number of wordsmiths on board in my network who all contribute at wordplay level and we all amuse ourselves no end sharing word dissections, missed meanings, and hidden-in-plain-sight hilarities – and we really do enjoy smacking our heads and dropping our jaws and having a proper old laugh at things.  But there are also those few involved at a deeper level working across languages but using the same alphabets, but including and accounting for all accented variations and the varied permutations of meaning they carry. Then there is the work at sub-alphabet level, where we are dealing with intuition, masonry (building permutations of awareness), geometry, and cymatics.  It really is a case of how far down the proverbial rabbit hole you want to go, but one thing is for sure, wordplay and exploring meaning is just the first antechamber of a very deep rabbit hole….and its one where a lot of good work can be done, when a position is taken, and when due reference and reverence are applied to words and their building blocks.

Once again, thanks for writing, and I hope I’ve clarified the similarities but also the differences in relation to the letter you sent.

 Best wishes

Darren