Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

self-bespelling, self-bespellment, self-lulling

when someone, as it were, puts a spell over their self with words to believe or accept something. a kind of self-lulling.
(conceived while reading Life of the World to Come: Near-death Experience & Christian Hope (Albert Cardinal Meyer Lectures), 1996, about the relation of Christian beliefs and modern NDEs, Near-Death Experiences.)

Monday, May 27, 2013

ideography

as there is geography, so there could be an ideography, a kind of world of ideas, mapped, as it were, in which one travels, explores, become an experiential traveler, even a guide. not the physical world, but that of ideas conceived as a single world.
and if there is a publication National Geography, so to there might be eg an historical ideography

Friday, May 24, 2013

sleepwriting = somnscribing

as there is sleepwalking, somnabulism, so there should be sleepwriting, somnscribing
both in the direct sense, and in the indirect sense of "writing as if one were asleep"


Thursday, April 11, 2013

pneumagraphy

as there is geology (from the Greek γῆ, gê, "earth" and λόγος, logos, "study")
and geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, lit. "earth description")

and as there is pneumatology (from the greek πνευμα, pneuma, spirit and λογος, logos, teaching about)
so there could be pneumagraphy (from Greek πνεύμαραφία, pneumagraphia, lit. "spirit description")

and as there is pedagogy, so to there could be pneumagogy (a schooling of spirit)

(and to psychology, psychography)

Sunday, October 28, 2012

theophany? physiophany?

over the centuries, the "Sinai theophanies" of the "burning bush", the storm phenomena on Mount Sinai , the guiding columns of smoke and light, the presence in the Tabernacle...has been attributed to physical causes, not godly, hence the words: physiophany.

and if Feuerbach et al were correct, one might conceive: anthopophany

Friday, October 5, 2012

eulogy to monsters

There should indeed be an historical eulogy to monsters written, as they have played such a vital part in the testing and trials of humanity, and for many perhaps still do.