Speak a new language so the world will be a new world.” — Rumi

Laurel Airica – A concept that has gone in and out of fashion among linguists for decades is that words affect perceptions. This would seem obvious to most of us. But now cognitive science has proven beyond doubt that this is true.¹

So, what would you do if you knew that the words in your mind-mouth-ears — and throughout the at-most-fear² — were literally ‘bugged?’ What if you discovered that the food-for-thought packed into letters and words contained cultural biases -— akin to computer viruses — that infected the thinking of long-dead people and have profoundly affected your own worldview? Would you want to spit them out in a hurry — or at least clean up your speech?

As one who has spent a lifetime playing in the magical undercurrent of word symbols and sounds, I have come to the conclusion that English is largely a fear-based language of limitation and persuasion toward conformity and mediocrity. And I think we need to do something about it.

Betrayed By Our Own Tongue

“The Women say the language you speak poisons your glottis tongue palate lips. They say, the language you speak is made up of words that are killing you.”³

Consider the sad ring of ‘mourning’ that greets us each new day as we come ‘a wake’ from our nightly immersion in our personal Life’s Dream. Hear how the ‘week days’ sounds like the ‘weak daze’ and how ‘weekend’ is hardly different from ‘weakened’ — which is precisely how so many of us feel after being pulverized in the ‘daily grind’ through which we endeavor to ‘urn’ our living at various jobs⁴ and ‘undertakings’.

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