A spoonful of sugar?

Like allot of people, I love science fiction action movies. One reason I love them is for their "edutainment" value.

When done well, they can subliminally "tempt" peoples minds to open, without the viewer even realizing it. It's one of the few media genres that make it "fun" to explore new concepts.


Consider movies like The Matrix and Star Wars, and how many concepts and supporting language they've introduced to the culture.

There are allot of people who would not be so familiar with concepts like a "FORCE that binds the universe together", or the idea of a reality that is an illusion, with our larger selves being part of some completely different "Matrix" of consciousness.


On top of providing these ideas in candy coated form to the masses, these modern popular literary exploits also provided whole descriptive vocabularies that are refreshingly void of religious reference.



I ran across "PUSH" recently, movie buffs have apparently been aware of it for sometime, its a kind of psychic thriller. Here's the "PUSH" movie official site.

I am always happy to see the subject matter covered by mainstream media, (and hope it won't fill our heads with negative connotations of psychic abilities.)

I have no idea if this will be a good picture or not. But at least the trailer is a good romp.

Difficult to Describe...

Language shapes our reality in ways we don't often consider. How do you talk about something there are no words for, in fact, how do you even think about it?

A simple example is to consider that there is only one word in English to describe love, yet in other languages there are words that clarify and classify the type of love (parent/child, platonic and romantic, etc)

The extra descriptors facilitate the discussion and even the mental exploration of what love is, they allow the concepts to be refined and combined. The language creates not only a way of communicating, but also a mental matrix for internal dialogue as well.

As an artist and writer, I want to help create a new vocabulary, one robust enough to describe the nuances of human experience and yet simple enough to be useful. I, of course, want to focus on areas that describe experiences and events at the edges of our reality.

I REALLY don't know what this language would look or sound like, but I do know that it is going to need to reflect multidimensional and subjective realities. To me this sounds like something that must go beyond words, it seems that it almost must use a combination of a wide array of symbols and media to even approach describing these subjects.

I also think it will need a new kind of "objectivity", which is simply an understanding and acceptance that all reality/perspectives are both uniquely subjective AND valid.

So you can imagine my excitement when I stumbled across this site today, "Xenolinguistics" where their stated purpose is: "evolving language in the psychedelic sphere". Just the idea that other people are considering the concept that we need more from our language in these areas seems to me as another pointer that our mass consciousness is opening up.

"Ghost" on mainstream news

CNN covered this story about an apparition that apparently appeared on the security cameras at gas station awhile back.

It's the story that inspired a persistent idea that a part of this big "awakening" is that the mass consciousness seems willing to expand their awareness to include "evidence" of something unexplainable on mainstream media.

(I believe that humans are only one of endless varieties of consciousness, and that the only reason we aren't consciously aware of everyone else is that we're choosing to limit our perceptions to the "game" we think of as life).

What catches my attention here is that the reporter and interviewees have no conceptual framework to discuss about this apparition beyond referring to it as a "ghost" or "angel" .

Something tells me this is just the beginning, (not that it's anything new to have footage of something strange, but it IS new for a large news outfit like CNN to think its valid enough to cover it.) If I'm right and things start showing up, we're gonna need a new vocabulary that extends beyond religious iconography if we ever hope to understand our relationships with extra-dimensional beings.