[2] After careful consideration, I amend my PS (just a bit): “Aura,” “aliah,” “vision,” “daimon,” “wampeter,” & “port” all blur what we call “abstract,” where the line between concrete & abstract more resembles quantum foam.
[1] "Book" here refers to the tripartite division within this curriculum—that is, when albionspeak was conceived in book form. Each book, or triad, consists of three lessons. These divisions remain firmly in place. (More on this later.)
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albionspeak: a draught of language (3.5)
Home Study Guide
“Words, Words, Words”
albionspeak: a draught of language is not a forever set of axioms or rules of behavior, despite my offering certain “facts” about existence. Rules change. This is not a path, not religion. I offer a paradigm for understanding our true place & purpose, both in & outside of life, a process which has become historically necessary now that consciousness burns out of control—without wisdom, without balance—threatening this precious Earth and all future life. It is, once perceived, actually a very simple paradigm, nowhere near as complicated as the theologies of the major religions, although it is indeed infinitely complex and flies in the face of the modern scientific paradigm, which is finite. Therefore, what may appear difficult for 21st century people to get their heads around, should, in fact, be quite simple for any child born to such a mind.
This process can be taught, and I frame it within the overwhelming labyrinth that both structures & imprisons our minds: language. Most of us think in language to such a degree we largely find it impossible to think outside of it. We are evolved talking animals who have forgotten completely that language is symbolic only, mere technology. It is, I believe, language itself which, over countless millennia, has led us down this beautiful-horrific maze; and we have lost ourselves within it, individually and collectively. Language defines us.
As one who doesn’t particularly “love” language, I find it ironic that this template of language & vocabulary marks my own gift to humanity. I am surrounded by language-lovers. My mother was a voracious reader who loved word play. My father was conversationally fluent in perhaps nine languages, having studied eight or nine more. My daughters are both fluent in multiple languages and may yet become masters. More to the point, Don and Scribe both devoted their lives fully to language, while I was always more attracted to math & games & travel. And yet I, like my friends, belong to Circle Cup, which contains “not wine not blood but language.” Below, in fact, are more than fifty new vocabulary words, not one of which was introduced by me. I am no Shakespeare. I am an albion, one who has long tried to see past life & “reality” as we know it, to get above the fray & din of the world, this world, which means outside of language itself. Most of our ancient ancestors had very limited language.
I say I don’t love language, but I also insist I don’t particularly love children either, as many teachers profess. And yet I was a gifted teacher, “loved” by many of my students, as I seem to convey rather instantly my full professional devotion. I teach from necessity; children must learn content & self-discipline & responsibility, or they will not survive our modern world, which is terribly cruel & indifferent. My job was to prepare children for their independent futures, not to coddle or entertain them—although “fun” certainly is a big part of learning. So it’s not about love, then, as an emotion; but perhaps it is entirely about love as commitment & conviction. This is exactly how I feel about albionspeak: The world must prepare for what’s coming. This being a language-world, a place where people think entirely within grammatical structures bounded by space & time, I offer a new way of speaking. For this is survival.
Below is simply a list of the new vocabulary introduced in Lessons 1-3. Many of these, you’ll see, are explained more thoroughly in the subsequent lessons. The words I regard as essential right now I list in bold type, and these are the terms I further define & expand & test in the Home Midterm, which immediately follows this study guide. “Absence,” for example, is vital to this curriculum, but I leave it for Books Two & Three to show why.[1]
Of course, many of these terms are familiar English words, while others come from unique sources. I am not concerned here with the standard definitions per se, nor do I have any vested interest, frankly, in these words’ ever being adopted into some official lexicon. These all have special meanings & functions in the paradigm, but they comprise my tools of technology only. That is, I’d rather use an axe than a rock to cut down a tree; but if someone later offers me a chainsaw, I’d be happy to drop the axe. Look past the symbols.
Oh one thing (I echo Don’s tease for a nontrivial postscript): Only after compiling these new vocabulary terms from my nine finished lessons—words arising mostly from the original ouija sessions themselves & requiring explanation—did I realize my list represents a (huge) statistical anomaly. A single word I ultimately excluded, “planchette,” brought this home to me: I knew most readers would not be familiar with this object, so why did I toss it? I realized it didn’t fit my vocab list, because it’s concrete and a reader can look it up elsewhere. That is, every term on this volume’s new vocab list is an abstract noun, a concept. I am quite surprised, though perhaps disappointed that I have laid out my thoughts in this way, exclusively as nouns, when so much of my emphasis is on soul motion and connection—namely, verbs. I don’t claim yet to understand why, although this was clearly a pedagogical choice agreed to by my full circle of teachers, not just by me or Albion alone. And while this initial Home midterm focuses almost entirely on vocab, the School midterm following Lesson 6 focuses far more on usage. My father's son, I, too, know how to study a new language.[2]
Home Vocabulary (Lessons 1-3)
absence flame ma'at
Advisor flight mandala
albion free will
Albion origin
aliah the Good overseer
anamnesis granfalloon overview
anchor Guide
auras place
auroras ice-nine POV
idolatry port
caring immersion pulling
colour infinity
contact intent scribe
cricket Scribe
the Jewel sequence
daimon the Jewel Net serpent
deep ally soul
dreamweight karass
eternal center kite telos
eternity knots
vision
figure learning circle
firefishes the loom wampeter