For most of our lives, we rarely wonder how language was formed. It's not until someone comes along and starts playing with word choices, phrases, or phonemic sounds that we begin to understand the strategic game that is language. For example, the word "syntax." As I was writing my page on Transmutation Mythology , I incorporated a phrase I'd never heard of before: Sin Tax. I'm sure you can easily see what led me to "syntax." But, do the two correlate? When I wrote of the "sin tax" I referred to the  sin offering  of the Old Testament. As a redemptive confession, the sacrifice here was meant to purify us of any transgressions. A payment for our sin. A tax, by definition, lays a burden upon and accuses all at once. It asks, "How much do you want to be worth?" For the one who asks the question (even if it may be the egoic 'I') has already determined your devaluation as if it was there from the beginning. A sin means to be with...

  An excerpt from Unearthing the Sacred: proposed hypothesis for the ascendancy of the human species from a perspective of the i Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, and Sir James Frazer (just to name a mere handful) understood that our world Becomes through a mythological tapestry of woven threads, layered to perfection. We perform roles according to an archetypal law that weaves a storyline as old as time. By acting out these archetypes through various scenarios, environments, and mutable characters, we not only develop as individual souls and help the collective development as well but we expand the creative capacity of God. Within these scenarios, a symbolic language exists that intellectually we have only begun to grasp. There breathes a universal language substratum that speaks directly to the Soul. Indirectly, it may upload as thought and unearth into consciousness, albeit in a serpentine and, perhaps, perplexing manner. Myth only comes in riddles, symbols, and vocal...

Bi-fur-cation: to  divide  or fork  into   two   branches. One week ago, I had this word pop in my head and it just will not leave. Perhaps I had heard the word at some point, but it's not really one of those words that is even remotely used frequently, unless, possibly, if you're in divorce law or the mathematical field. In the past year, duality, polarity, mirror opposites, and the words of Robert Frost: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." (The Road Not Taken) have been floating in my immediate vicinity in a strange labyrinth of interwoven and layered puzzlement. In a sense, it is a reminder of this time in my past that everything I said in any philosophical conversation I had was countered (by me, in one breath) with its utter opposite. For within one truth can be found its equal and opposite truth. *** [The following indented portion is important but complicated if you are...

"It's called wayfinding, princess. It's not just sails and knots. It's seeing where you're going in your mind, and knowing where you are by knowing where you've been." - Māui, Moana   "...knowing where you are by knowing where you've been." A beautiful line that caught my attention while watching Moana (Yes! Finally I have seen it!) For years, I have kept detailed journals that analyzed every incident or person that frustrated me. I wanted to know the answer to the ultimate question, "who am I?"   "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." - Lewis Carroll   It wasn't until I reread them last year, however, that the understanding of where I've been versus where I was currently and was headed came with any enlightenment. Sometimes, we need to have the visual set before us to understand the enormity of our life choices or indecisiveness to see the change, stagnation, or cyclical repetitiveness....

  If you've even remotely studied the chakras or other metaphysical things, you've probably noticed the symbols that accompany them. Symbolism is the language of the soul. In the Middle Ages, art was not, for the most part, about technique. Seriously, if you've never studied art from that time period, it's sub-par compared to the present day, much less the Renaissance. The emphasis, instead, went into the myth and symbolism. Mary usually wears blue, sometimes red, depending on the storyline. The dove represents the Holy Spirit. The representation of Christ has its start in Appolonic representation, think "golden boy." (Apollo was a Greek god associated with the sun, among other things. He was usually depicted with sun rays emanating from his head, which became the halo later with Christ.) It was probably the Surrealists though that really learned to capitalize on a semiotic subconscious framework within their art. Everyone argues over whether something shou...