Words

In my breathwork session, when I was vocalizing, at some point I said the word AM over and over.  I felt it had psychological significance, and it likely did, but in playing with my mouth I realized also that AAAAA  starts in the back of the mouth and moves forward to MMM, which is the frontmost sound.  I AM, if you do it carefully a couple times–say it, I mean–you will notice that the I stands like a tree in the middle of the mouth, then AM folds around it, from back to front.

Am, of course, is similar to the Sanskritic root syllable, as it is often called, Om, which is really more like OWUUUM.

A space is created, then terminated at the lips.  Add an EEEE to it, so AMEEEEEEEE.  It flows out into the world.  Is the word AM symbolic of property and place?  A sense of being related to termination?  Are there linguistic roots that caused “life, liberty and property” to arise within the English sphere?

Interesting questions.  I pondered how one might approach this scientifically, and the best I could do was to hook someone up to a brainwave monitor of some sort and have them make sounds, and see if the brain reacted differently to different sounds.   Since sounds in our language have affective elements, it might be interesting to have them say basic words in languages they couldn’t know, like Navajo, and see if the words for, say, home and mother caused reactions.

It may of course be a complete waste of time, and my speculation idiotic. It happens.  Try a lot, and failure is inevitable.  I suppose you could even measure a man’s life by the quantity and quality of his failures.

Few more: holy and wholly.  Stan Grof’s signature creation could be spelled Wholotropic.  It could be altered to Holytropic, moving towards the Holy.  Note that H is basically breath going out, that is morphed into something, and that that word ends in EEEE, a going out.  It is a going out of the breath, pneuma, prana.

Man starts in the front, moves all the way to the back, then ends up in the front again, but not completely, since N is behind M.  Man is an incomplete movement, an incomplete circle.  The complete circle is Ma’am.  Woman contains more information, more movement.  W is all the way in the front, O opens up the mouth, then it does the man circle.

One could argue that man is contained in woman because woman is larger and richer.  That seems both plausible and true.  Man should not be excised by feminists, but woman celebrated.  I will note the ratio of women to men was roughly 2 to 1 in my class.

Womb is contained in Woman.  Womb and Room are quite close, to the point that the substitution of W for R is a common speech defect.

That’s enough for now.  I am fortunate in having a job where I can sleep in and dream.  I get less outward work done when I do so, but I would submit that this qualitatative work is useful too, and less common.