Getting a group of people together to draw pictures and guess what you're drawing, without directly resorting to words is a form of symbol and sign recognition. Drawing Charades or Pictionary is something that people can play to guess what the object is, to apply a meaning to a drawing, which is how signs and... Continue Reading →
There are three board-game movies that come to my mind when I think about this, Zathura (2005), Jumanji (1995), and Family Pack (2024). Essentially, the theme or plot of the movies are that some people play a board game that alters reality and they can't leave until some conditions are met (they all 'lose') or... Continue Reading →
There's some esoteric ideas and jazz about signs and symbols, one of which is a keyhole and doorways. In the study of neuro-architecture, -people study how architecture affects neurology and memory and consciousness. How inspiring and grandiose places impact with a sense of awe, as well as how broken windows effect our subconscious mind in... Continue Reading →
Words have meaning, and that meaning itself exists as an idea. So I've explored the idea of ideas, or concepts, or meta-narrative stories or ideologies that permeate the substrate of physical reality. There is a world of thought or smoke beyond the world of pure visible smoke and touchable maya that makes up our reality.... Continue Reading →
So, there are four major types of colors in the Western School of Alchemy and Arcana, related to creating the 'great work' or the 'magnum opus'. These are referred to as stages, those being; Nigredo (blackening) -related to shadow, death, and dissolution or the abyss Albedo (Whitening) -related to purification, illumination, and Citrinitas (Yellowing) -related... Continue Reading →
A categorical thinker is someone who uses broad generalizations and categories to understand the world. In a simple sense, we put things into boxes with labels. We categorize them. What is 'good' what is 'bad' what 'is' and what 'isn't'. It's a short assumption we internalize or generalization into a cookie cutter label of 'true'... Continue Reading →
There was One soul, split into many pieces. Each piece lived in one day of this particular boy's life. At the age of 17, The boy had two dreams every night. The first dream, he had to wrestle with who he was yesterday. The second dream, he had to wrestle with who he would be... Continue Reading →
This is a bit of a rambling post, rambling about the various ways that American English contextualizes the word 'line' and it's symbolic meaning as well as it's uses in language. A line can mean a rope in seamanship, it can be a line that holds things or ties things together. The speed of the... Continue Reading →
Isn't it odd or peculiar that Trophy's are symbolically shaped in a Cup? Like a sort of homage to a Holy Grail? I'm not sure the meaning behind this, but if you think of a Trophy, it either shapes into a ball, for the sport, a human, for the shape of a human, a plaque,... Continue Reading →
The word Druid stems back to old Celtic and the Prefix 'Dru-' meaning 'Oak' and suffix '-id' meaning 'Knowledge'. Thus Druid translates to 'Oak Knowledge' or synonymously 'Deep Wisdom'. "high priests of the oak were the Druids, whose name derives from the ancient terms dru meaning “oak” and wid, “to see or know”. The Druids were those who... Continue Reading →
Words Mean Things 