The oral tradition is one of the most powerful mechanisms humans have for sharing, exchanging and uplifting each other. Its roots lie in the most distant past and transcends anything any written text has ever accomplished to date.  No book, no film, no ‘media’ (plural for ‘medium’, ie ‘intermediary’) even comes close in its potency to the spoken word.

I am a firm believer and proponent of Living Words, spoken words which last only as long as the moment of their utterance and which can be carriers of magical subtleties only the human vehicle is capable of transmitting – with no ‘medium’, no intermediary.  If I write, your understanding is limited by my penmanship skills and how your mind operates while reading. With the spoken word, there are forces at play that even the most advanced psychological understandings have no hint of even today.  As I always like to say:“we spell all our words because all our words are really SPELLS.”

If I speak to you, I can use many skills of many aspects of self to help lift the veils in your mind and perception and ‘point out’ new (yet old) pathways, taking into account the subtle signals your whole presence sends to me.  This has ever been the most potent way of passing on truly profound subjects and ideas.

There is no way to convey to you the importance of this point about Living Words unless you explore the subject yourself, or come to one of my sound or language events. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well a single Living Word can be worth just as many if not more written words.  Especially when combined with the multitude of other subtlties and nuances we can imbue when communicating orally.

I use this ancient tradition of the human vehicle as the mode of transmission, and that is where my skills lie, not penmanship (or web design!).  That makes it hard for me to share what I want to share with articles and text on this website and they forever frustrate me.  I am now working on films and film clips with people to help compensate for this, so while there are only a few on here just now, there will be more added soon, so please be patient!

There will still be articles published on this site over time that will also make some headway in sharing my work with you, and I can only hope that my penmanship is up to the task!

Of course, The Living Word has other connotations too, for those of you who spotted it.  The Living Word is a term used in the Bible a lot and, while I do not support what mainstream religion has become, the teachings of all faiths have great value for all of us should we know how to use them. In this context, The Living Word, or The Word Made Flesh is something that is dealt with in-depth at the more advanced Sound, Language and Lost Word events, and is much more relevant to us today than you may think….