Spells Hidden in Language: Understanding the Secret Influence of Words: A Chat with Laurel Airica

What if the words you speak every day held secret meanings unbeknownst to you? That's what we explore this episode with Laurel Erika, a language expert who spins fascinating tales and sheds light on the magic behind everyday phrases. We dive into words you'd never think twice about, like 'Weekend', 'Job', and 'Hello', and uncover how they shape our perception of reality and manipulate our consciousness.

You might think of words like 'yes', 'no', 'out' and 'in' as simple, but as we delve deeper, we find they carry a multitude of interpretations, dictated by our unique perspectives. The power of language to influence and create is astounding—we talk about how language has evolved, even leading to phenomena like 'influencer marketing'. As we decode the words we use daily, we also explore the personal transformation that comes with a heightened understanding of language. 

Language has the potential to bring us into higher levels of consciousness, and this episode, we reflect on how the world's current experience is a moment of growth and evolution. The age of Aquarius invites us to utilize language in opening our hearts and minds to a greater understanding and love. Finally, we delve into the essence of authenticity and self-love. We explore how embracing our unique eccentricities can contribute to the world in powerful ways. Join us for this enlightening journey with Laurel Erika.

Visit: www.WordMagicGlobal.com for Laurel Airica 
Check out her new book. Memory Mansion, at AuthorShamanIsis.com 

Chapters

• 0:06 The Power of Words and Manipulation
• 12:04 Language's Power and Word Magic
• 26:17 Power of Language and Creating Words
• 35:01 Exploring Language and Personal Transformation
• 48:01 Social Media Bans and Language Manipulation
• 59:52 Empowering Authenticity and Self-Love
• 1:08:17 Subscribe to the Shaman Isis Show

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:06

Hi and welcome to the Shaman Isis Show. I'm your host, shaman Isis, and I am delighted to be premiering season four of my full regular episodes. I had fun this summer doing some summertime shorts and you guys really loved them, so I'm going to be doing shorter episodes, but when I do interviews you get like a good 20 or 30 minutes at least. And today I am delighted to be joined by Laurel Erika, who I fell in love with on Aubrey Marcus's show. Laurel, thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 2: 0:38

I'm so grateful that you invited me and, again, that you have the emblem of the hummingbird right behind you, because we are all humming in our lives, buzzing often with the accelerated frequencies going on, and so it's divine to get to talk with you.

Speaker 1: 1:01

Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you noticing the hummingbird. When I changed and transformed and decided to choose happiness, to choose bliss, hummingbirds and birds in general especially great herons, white and blue herons started showing up every day on my walks. It was a trip. I had never seen even one bird that big and then suddenly they were everywhere. So hummingbirds are very special to me. You have the most fascinating career and experience and the content that you put out. Could you share a little bit about how you became a master of language and words?

Speaker 2: 1:46

Well, thank you for putting it that way. I'm choking at the thought.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Please have some water.

Speaker 2: 1:57

So I was born to do what I am doing there's, I announced to my parents when I was three or four I bet I now know all the words in the English language and I was certain and I started putting words together and turning them I call it insight out and looking to see what else was within them. And over time I came to the recognition that words that have a share, a meaning, but are a different word entirely, those are called homonyms excuse me, synonyms. But words that have the same sound and a very different meaning are called homonyms and very not. A lot of people have looked closely at homonyms to see that, even though they seem completely unrelated and may have an entirely different source, they actually have a mirroring effect on each other and of each other. So I will give you some examples that are favorite ones of mine, please do.

Speaker 2: 3:18

The fact that praying sounds so savage, yet it also sounds divine? Or how about the way the prophet has become our bottom line? Could there be a brief or summary of millennia of history than these pray and profit metaphors used to justify so-called holy wars? Now add worship or worship, perish or perish, and you'll soon understand why the world's so nightmarish. So just by playing with words, I discovered like a whole underlying story about the nature of reality, and it has multifaceted and English is now the global language. It is the language that has swallowed all others. When people playing I think it's Poole or Bill Yards talk about putting a little English on the ball, and we have put so much English on global consciousness that it has colonized our consciousness with a worldview that sounds more like a death cult in certain ways, and I will share the example of a what I call our premier life sentence.

Speaker 2: 5:05

I have a YouTube video that I posted in 2010 called the secret spells of the English language, and it goes this way we awake each morning and go off during the weekdays to earn our living at various jobs and undertakings until we come to the weekend, and everyone agrees that's the normal way of things. However, more people die of heart failure Monday morning between six and 10 am than any other time of the week.

Speaker 2: 5:40

And I heard that statistic from Deepak Chopra, and then I asked several medical people and they said yes. So I explained that what I do is a translation of the English language and I spell it T-R-A-N-C-E, because words cast spells that put us in a trance. And when you translate that life sentence, we awake each morning. Morning is a state of grief and awake is a funeral party for the dead. So when we say to each other good morning on a subliminal level, we're saying good grief, and I've noticed that people around the world, many are using grand rising rather than good morning, and that's never came from me, but it's certainly one solution.

Speaker 2: 6:37

So, moving on through that life sentence, we awake each morning and go off through the weekdays. A weekdays is kind of the state of a zombie and we earn our living. We go through the weekdays to earn our living at various jobs and undertakings earns you for the ashes of the dead, and undertaking. Entrepreneur means undertaker, and job is a Hebrew word for persecuted, so it's like this is. This is a huge, energetic upfront to our consciousness which we have absorbed as a normal way of living.

Speaker 1: 7:24

Would you attribute that to? To? I'm sorry, just have to ask this Like would you attribute that to sort of like the dumbing down of people to get them to do what the powers that be one of them? Well, I think it's part of that.

Speaker 2: 7:35

I think it's part of that, but I've found so many words and I'm going to share. I call these secret spells of the language. I think there's also what I refer to as sacred passwords, and I'll share some of those because they're extremely important. So so all of this negativity, and then what we get at the end of this perverse bargain with life is the weekend of the deal, and we become progressively weakened. And when I say to someone, if I say to someone, have a good weekend, have or have a, you know, have a good weakening, draw their say have a good, strengthened. And we call 10 years of this a decade, and many in Britain call it a decade that's how they pronounce it.

Speaker 2: 8:36

And which makes so much sense. It is, it's what happens, and our most prevalent greeting to each other is hello, and when you reverse the syllables you get oh, hell. So I explain it in verse what I think is happening? I think certainly there is, has, as there is in this moment. There has been from the start, manipulation of the word to manipulate consciousness and thus influence what we create in the world.

Speaker 2: 9:12

But I also think it happens Electromagnetically. We talk about words being grammatical, but I think they're hologrammatic as well, and I think this molten brew of symbol and sound moving from consciousness to consciousness, across centuries, continents and cultures, cannot help but cause certain words to come into the same vibration that reveal the underlying intent. So, for instance, holy wars, the fact that PR a y and PR a y the the excuse, the justification for coming in and feeding from another country, and in slaving the people has been we're saving them, but actually we're enslaving them and robbing them. So PR a y and PR a y are, they reveal the guilty secret and the idea of the prophet Muhammad or Jesus and the prophet that's made. On the birthday, the supposed birthday of Jesus, there's another telltale sign of the language echoing us back to each ourselves and each other. So I want to let you comment, because I could go off.

Speaker 1: 10:46

Oh yeah, yeah, I was. I'm have to tell you, and I'm sure my viewers are like God, I could listen to this one on top forever. I love everything that you're sharing. Our words are spells, something I love to say because I've learned that the hard way. I used to lecture my team all the time that I was like, please don't speak that existence. But I even find myself having to remind myself that the things that I say are things. I'm spelling them to life, I'm bringing them to life, and I got reminded that when somebody said, if you say mosquitoes love me, they're going to love you extra.

Speaker 1: 11:22

And then I caught myself saying it last night and I was like you know better.

Speaker 1: 11:27

It's interesting.

Speaker 1: 11:28

I love that you're touching on this, I love that you're talking about the spells, and I've I have heard you talk about how the language has been used, you know, to suppress us humanity and to keep you know, and for me it's to keep the average person in line and doing what the powers that be have designed the system to do, and I think one of the reasons that we're dealing with such a rise in mental health crisis across the globe label it however you want, but I think it is because people know that there's something that needs to change and we're working on.

Speaker 1: 12:04

I believe in being more productive, and I believe that the world is changing for the better and that people are waking up all over the planet to to this, this sort of structures that we live in, and how unhealthy they are for the average man, and and so when I look at things like the way our education system is structured, the way language is utilized, I see the prison bars that it's creating for people, and I think one of the reasons young people are really struggling is that they kind of bought into the system. The system is collapsing and they're like what are we supposed to do? And so I love that you're taught the whole conversation about language. Would you agree with with any of those thoughts in terms of?

Speaker 2: 12:43

I do agree with them. I mean, it's not just a Genesis story of the Western Bible that says it all began with the word, and the word is God and in other words, this powerful creative force. So we have said this without recognizing how much power we have on the tips of our tongue and fingers to communicate and language. I mean there's some languages being so degraded and people spend all this money to look more beautiful and yet what comes out of their mouth can be pretty ugly.

Speaker 2: 13:31

The wholesale use of curse words and cussing, as if it makes you sound hip and smart to to be speaking in that way, and yet you know the trash talk means you've got garbage in your mouth and you're spreading garbage in the world and the dictionary.

Speaker 2: 13:54

I mean they're changing meanings all the time. It's good to have an old big paper dictionary, big volumes, in fact I've got my computer resting on one at the moment. And because there are words in the dictionary that one comes upon by chance often that are so profound and one of my, well, I have that I wrote a bunch of essays around obscure words and, by the way, there's a statement from Aristophanes that says hi, hi, thoughts must have high language, and when the language is so degraded and so mixed up, like a boy can be a girl, a girl can be a boy. That's nuts, I mean. Find your own language, change your gender, do as you wish, but choose your own words. Don't try and get the rest of the world to take a word that has meant something in particular, that is a biological fact, and turn it into. Well, you know Everything that's being done. There's so much manipulation for the denigration of consciousness.

Speaker 1: 15:19

I completely agree with that. I do want to go back because and call me potty mouth, but I have I have some, some colorful language in my repertoire and for me personally and I would love to hear your thoughts on this I feel like I love the fact that you focus on language having meanings and but I also believe that there's a great deal of training that goes into vilifying or I'm going to find good word vilifying certain certain things in. I feel like certain words have been, we've been trained to give them power and believe that is, it's a well, it's all a man made construction anyway, and so when I, when I, when I think about things like language, it's like I don't want to create rules for other people that that tell them whether they should or shouldn't do certain things based on on someone else's idea of what a word should or shouldn't mean. I don't know. It's an interesting topic.

Speaker 2: 16:26

Well, I think trying to change long established words and say no, what no longer means this. It means that, as part of the manipulation of consciousness, that reality, you know, that reality is no longer what it is. There are certain laws in nature Really didn't mean to get into this discussion and I'm not looking to make rules, but just to suggest. I mean colorful language, language, I mean beauty. Everyone pays all this money to look more beautiful. Why not speak beauty and why not speak in ways that are vibrationally pleasant yeah, beautiful, harmonious, instead of just relying on words that have a shock value, trying to get everybody to change their language so your feelings don't get hurt, because you decided to change your sex.

Speaker 2: 17:26

But so yeah, speak as you like, but just with more awareness.

Speaker 1: 17:33

That's, that's lovely. I like that. I think that's actually the. It's the intent behind the words that really makes a huge difference. How, how did you fall into? I mean, I've heard you do what do you call it? When you go into one of your, it's almost like you're channeling language and you're rhyming, and do you have a name for that?

Speaker 2: 18:00

Well that's. I guess that falls in the category of word magic. So I've always been interested in the word sounds and rhyme, because rhymes are like magnets, and when you can find a word that rhymes with another Then it's like you're creating a visible, audible connection between them. And the ancient Vedas were all written in verse, much easier to memorize, and I have a propensity for it. So I've been playing with words, as I shared, for early on. They've educated me profoundly, probably more than anything else, just playing with a single word, like the fact that I remember where I was when I saw Gosh.

Speaker 2: 18:57

It must have been in the 80s when I noticed that earth and heart were the same word. And it's just where you put the letter H and love turned around, is the beginning of evolution. So I saw oh then love helps me evolve my being and at the same time that of other people. And the heart earth connection tells me that life is not about getting ahead of everybody else in the human race, but getting a heart full of love for all creation. So this kind of word play has helped me become kinder, and so so many tensions with any question you might ask and it would take me a moment to go back to the question I was responding to. But if you have it on the tip of your tongue, I can. I can go back.

Speaker 1: 20:00

You have me so entranced, I'm I'm just listening. I can't remember what I asked. Is I? I find that your.

Speaker 2: 20:09

Oh, the verse. That's what you're asking about.

Speaker 1: 20:11

But go ahead.

Speaker 2: 20:12

You find that.

Speaker 1: 20:13

I find the way that you speak and I think this is what's so interesting about this interview and what what you're saying, about the tonality and the energy and the intention behind what you say, is that your, your voice and way of speaking is mesmerizing.

Speaker 2: 20:29

Well, that's lovely, because I desire to entrench people in the way of delight and healing, holy healing energy. So related to why I speak in rhyme spontaneously, but often on podcasts, I share something that I've written in the past and, in fact, and I have to say, my first rhyming poem no, not rhyming, but significant poem was when I was 20 and I wrote a piece called the Marijuana Sutra, or Splendor in the Grass, and I would take just a hit or two of grass, and the old kind, not the stuff that's around today, that's so potent?

Speaker 2: 21:22

So one day I had one of the many absurd jobs I had along the way by which I supported myself and focused then and my child, and focused on what interested me. I was alone in an office, I took a hit of grass, was sitting by a window and this little poem came to me. Do you know that I flutter with butterflies, that my heart beats like hummingbird wings? Do you know I'm the kind of the natural mind that knows what the hummingbird sing? May I give you a tour of the garden just once, through, when you two will see that the Lord has just granted your pardon. You've been given permission to be so. That poem wrote itself through me on that occasion. I didn't know the garden I was going to be giving people a tour of. It turned out to be the garden of verses. I subsequently wrote to describe what I discovered as an elemental being who goes through the looking glass into this dimension and has to deconstruct the language to find her way back home again. So that's the basis of my fairyography called the rites of passion of Philemella Nightingale, a fairy's tale. So that happened after I had written a. Well, no, it didn't. Anyway, I wrote a manuscript called Psycho-Semantics, english in Translation. I showed it to an editor in the 80s or 90s. He told me that without a PhD I'd never get it published.

Speaker 2: 23:21

I subsequently was a student of Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith at the Agape Church in its early days. I was a student and his editor. In response to an assignment about do some creative expression, about what this closer walk with the divine means to you, I decided to write a poem. I shared it somewhere. It garnered me an advance by the founder of a New Age label to write an album of my verse, and so I turned everything I'd learned about words into rhyming poetry, and I share it that way. The company was purchased by Virgin Records before we did the album, but that's how my word magic work got launched.

Speaker 1: 24:19

I love that. Thank you for sharing that story. It's fascinating the paths that we take. I love language.

Speaker 1: 24:28

When I was growing up I was very isolated, don't get me wrong. I was surrounded by nuns at the orphanage until I grew up in an imposter care, so it was a rather colorful childhood. But I didn't know that I was autistic and it wasn't something that they diagnosed women with back then, and I learned how to sort of be alone in how I taught myself, because school wasn't really a great option, especially back in the 70s in Memphis, which was the murder capital of the country at the time. Books and language became how I learned and how I evolved and how I taught myself to believe in myself. I was reading things like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Secret Garden and all those wonderful books that we get exposed to the line in which the war drove.

Speaker 1: 25:20

That told me that there was this extraordinary world out there. There was a magical world out there that I could access through language, and even though I didn't have a formal education, I eventually fell into a career where language became something that was very important in the shifts that happened. So I love that you have this incredible perspective on language and how to play with it. Like you teach people how to enjoy language, is there anything that you would share in terms of how people can sort of learn to play?

Speaker 2: 26:00

Yes, certainly, thank you. I will be filming my word magic online course in December, so for the new year the intention is to have it. But yes, it's enormous fun, like. Just take the words eyes, nose, mouth and chin and you'll see we have yes in our eyes, no in our nose, out in our mouth and in our chin, and there's so much that can be made of each one of these things. Because, for instance, yes in our eyes, well, another word for yes is C, spanish and Italian for yes, and another word for yes is I, a-y-e, i-i-s-r. So there are many things one can lean from that. For instance, for me, it makes it clear that my perspective, what I am seeing, my perception, is what makes me unique. I see things differently, as we all do, because we're all standing in a unique point in space, and sharing our perspective is what broadens everybody else's. And it goes on and on from there. No in our nose. The French word for nose is ne, ne-z, which the sound twin for that word is na-y. It means no again.

Speaker 2: 27:56

So then, one questions why would I have yes in my eyes and no in my nose? What can I make of that? And that's what I would invite your readers to explore. What do you think? Why would our self-contradictory nature be written on our faces, in the words we use? And I was so amazed when I noticed that we have out in our mouth and I thought, in our chin and I thought, well, what could that be about? And then I thought, oh, life is not about consumption, it's about expression. And when my chin is in, then my nose isn't up in the air. And we have here's our ear, and we have a third ear, just as we have a third eye. It's in our heart. If you look at the word heart, it's H-E-A-R, it's here, listen. And then the T, and in the middle of it is ear. So I like to joke that God created planet earth so the word could be heard. So there's no end to the music and the mystery and the wisdom that unfolds when we play with words.

Speaker 1: 29:29

Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 1: 29:30

I think people almost need to hear that they have permission to play with words, to play with language, to create language.

Speaker 1: 29:41

One of the things I was fortunate to do was be able to add some language to the lexicon through the work that I did, and it was interesting for me because I never saw it as something I shouldn't do.

Speaker 1: 29:55

But I think that had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't have the sort of strict formal education that a lot of people had that enforces rules about what you can and can't do, and I didn't have the traditional connections, that sort of reinforce, those prison cells, if you will. And so I was kind of doing everything that I was doing in my field of marketing and PR on my own, without a lot of input from other people. And I think that when people I get asked a lot like you know what caused you to do that? And it was like because it was the solution that came to hand, and they seem to be surprised that you can make phrases up, you can invent language, you can add to our language, and I think that's a gift to people when they get the chance to realize that they're that powerful.

Speaker 2: 30:48

Well, when I post it, I'm so curious to learn about you.

Speaker 2: 30:53

I knew we're only just meeting today and I didn't have any idea of your history and what a courageous, amazing woman you are and what a pleasure and an honor to speak with you.

Speaker 2: 31:11

So what I've discovered is that language is software, and English is the leading software of the Western mind, and it is filled with cultural biases that are akin to computer viruses that, in fact, are thinking with an antiquated and manipulated vision of reality promulgated by the ancient church at a time when people had to surrender their minds if they wanted to keep their heads about them, quite literally. So if language is software, then we can upgrade it, and inventing new language that resonates at a freer frequency is how we can talk our way back through the garden gate with words that help re-consecrate this hallowed ground on which we all are bound by fate. I believe we chose to be here and that one of our tasks, our collective creative task, is to start inventing new words and phrases and the symbols and sounds and metaphors that will allow us to communicate about discoveries in physics that we can't talk about through English and that will inspire us to interact with greater kindness. So would you share some of the words you've invented?

Speaker 1: 32:49

Oh well, phrases is probably a better word for it.

Speaker 1: 32:53

Influencer marketing and brand communications are two industries that I started in the communications field, PR field. They were just solutions to the way that I saw things changing through technology and what it also needed to change. Influencer marketing came about because I was working with a lot of very interesting people that I was gifting products to and getting them to share that engagement with other people, and that started in 2000, like 2023 years ago and brand communications it's actually I've been around a long time, so I've added several things to the lexicon over the years, but those are the two that I'm really proud of because ultimately, they became good aspects to the industry that I'm showing.

Speaker 1: 33:46

Which are the two Influencer marketing.

Speaker 2: 33:50

Okay, that's a phrase that you invented, that people can use In the field.

Speaker 1: 33:54

yeah and an industry that I created. Wow, fantastic, going back 20-something years. Yeah, yeah, funny right, it was interesting. I haven't explained to people what it was, but I could see the world was changing and I could see that social media was going to become a really big thing and I was marrying something that I had done to get brands and products out there through people who other people admired artists, writers it originally, the people who originally influenced marketing actually stems from people who were, in fact, actually really talented. That sounds terrible and I will be honest with you, laurel, when it changed into a tool, influencer marketing became a tool for people who didn't have any talents to become incredibly successful I was really kind of like not comfortable because of the route that it was taking, but I had to kind of let go and have some faith that it would pendulum back into something that. And now, of course, we've got a lot of people sharing really wonderful content and really wonderful inspiring things out there.

Speaker 2: 35:01

And the other one was brand.

Speaker 1: 35:03

Brand, brand communications.

Speaker 2: 35:06

Brand communications Okay.

Speaker 1: 35:12

Both of those are studied all over the world. Now, which just it really is it really? I have to tell you, girl, I was working so hard for so long that when I realized that both of them were either studied or were actually degrees that you could get, I was like how fun. I mean, it just shows you that you don't have to have the background, you don't have to have the degree, you don't have to have the fancy the ends with people you can create. All of that because I was really up against a wall in New York City without a degree and a Southern accent and I just was determined and I feel very fortunate to have been able to enjoy some interesting experiences. Anyway, now I'm getting embarrassed as I'm talking about myself.

Speaker 2: 35:52

Well, I'm glad that you are and congratulations. To come from that beginning and to have impact all over the world, that's powerful.

Speaker 1: 36:04

Thank you Well, Touche. I would love to hear about some of the things that you project, Things that you're working on. That would allow other people to get even more familiar with the incredible work that you do.

Speaker 2: 36:17

Thank you. Well, as I said, what am I doing right now? Okay, so currently the way to interact with me ongoingly is to join one of my writing circles. I call them sacred rights creative circles, and I've been leading three each month and they draw people from around the world to come into a circle with each other and then discover the synchronicities between them and together we create a very warm womb for people to gestate their ideas and bring them to birth in the world. People who may not even know that they're gifted as a writer can become an amazing writer. There's one of the women who's been with me longest, who really had no sense of her talent, and her first book is coming out now, this month, and she has others underway. She is so prolific and many others are starting to publish their work, work that would not have come into being had they not come into a circle and felt the nurturing love. So those are the sacred rights creative circles, and to find them you would go to my website, wordmagicglobalcom, and scroll down the home page and you'll see very quickly the upcoming events page and you click on that and you see the dates and to get a better description of what goes on in a circle. Simply subscribe to my website and you will get instant access to my free ebook, which is called the Book of E, a Book of Alphabet Alchemy, and you'll receive emails with announcements and descriptions of upcoming events and such. So that's what's happening.

Speaker 2: 38:33

Now. I am completing a book called Making Light of the English Language in Support of Our Collective Evolution, and that will be the book that goes with the course that I'm developing that will share word magic. This way of playing with words that makes people more aware, more intelligent, more literate, more witty, more playful, just by opening up words like oyster shells and finding the pearls of wisdom or the strange little gremlin within them, is an extremely self-educating opportunity. So one of the tagline on my website, word magic global, is word play that unravels mass hypnosis and elevates the frequency of consciousness. And another tagline that I haven't put to use yet is describes this work as Om grown, grass fed, synergistic, mystic linguisticism, self awakening, word play on beyond the leading edge.

Speaker 2: 40:04

So I grew up in a family it was not a good match and I did not know. I was intelligent and it was, and even though I went through university. So I have the degree, but I didn't have the confidence in my own capacities. So playing with words has been so self awakening and self informing that what I'm sharing is what I gathered through a lifetime of doing this. So that course, the intention is to have it ready for the beginning of the new year and also have on my website a place to play a literary lotto where you open to the still small voice with the intention of downloading new words, metaphors and phrases that can inspire higher consciousness and a greater frequency of kindness.

Speaker 2: 41:10

And in 2010, when I posted the secret spells of the English language, I also posted and it presents the problem. Look at this the language is filled with subliminal messages that are more of a doomsday vision, but there's something we can do about it. And so that second video that I posted at the same time is my word magic anthem, and it's called taking command of the English language, and it gives the example of someone who or it refers to that, someone who invented that phrase. It's something like commit random acts of kindness and acts of senseless beauty, and that was.

Speaker 2: 41:59

I looked it up and it said that some woman wrote it on a napkin in a coffee shop in Sausalito and somehow it traveled the world.

Speaker 2: 42:10

I don't know how it got there, but it transformed behavior all over the world when that was new. It was so potent, so awakening for people, that it brought out kindness of the heart that was extended randomly to strangers. And it still has traction. And, as the poem says, to be the one to release the dove of peace on a wave of love that lifts us all above our usual sense of separation must surely be the cause for an ongoing celebration, for it is certainly an experience that lifts us well beyond words and beyond anything money could possibly buy. And yet it is free for all who wish to glorify God's living presence and our human essence and thus to bless the best in the rest of us.

Speaker 2: 43:13

So that's a little stanza from taking command of the English language. And can you imagine? I invented a word for the pleasure that comes from acts of kindness that arrive in someone's life at a catalytic moment to transform them or uplift them in some crucial way, and the pleasure that generates internally, because altruism, kindness, stimulates the same portion of the same part of the brain as cocaine stimulates, you can give yourself-.

Speaker 1: 43:58

It makes so much sense.

Speaker 2: 44:00

We are meant to interact with generosity, and in the middle of generosity is the word Eros, the God of love, of sensual love. So this is a word about the exquisite experience of loving kindness, randomly given, and it is metatransensuous, suprasexual parahedonism, and the tagline is accept, nothing less Right. Oh, that's brilliant, I love that.

Speaker 1: 44:38

I love that, and that word is so cool. You made me think of one crinial, because this is a crystal for my pineal. Oh beautiful, thank you. And you made me think of that as a word, but it's not nearly as cool as that one. I love all that you share. I love that.

Speaker 1: 44:57

The spells the making people aware of the prison that language has been used to create and being able to see and I don't mean that in a negative way. I mean it's important for people to understand that so much of the language that they hear, repeat it all the time, and that they've been taught to say in thought process, which is, you know, language is the thought process expressed, and I think that's a great thing. And to be able to wake them people up to the idea that they're casting spells all the time. Yes, and create. You know, we create our. I have a friend of mine, billy Dees. He's a podcast host as well, and he can't stand the phrase creating your reality. And I'm like creating your reality is not about some hooey nonsense. It's literally about a person choosing the reality that they want to experience for themselves Versus constructing some. He sees it as constructing a fake reality and it's like no, no, no, no. Fake is perception based.

Speaker 2: 46:03

Well, it's so interesting too, and I should take notes when I hear you speak. So the reality, the word real, what is real and what is not, or what is real and what is our EEL, like a real of film, yeah, yeah, and the film of the real, and so, and the idea that we are living in a simulation and that the life's dream, row your boat merrily down this stream.

Speaker 2: 46:34

Life is but a dream. So the life's dream and the life's dream and the life's dream. You can't hear a difference because there's not. What if we're making it up? We're making up reality all the time and we've been programmed to view things in a certain way. And I even wonder whether people who held different visions from the mainstream narrative, which, in centuries ago, was the church, this is how it is, this is what heaven looks like, this is what hell is like, this is reality and this is what you have to do. So it was like creating compliance. And what if? That's? Because the mind, the consciousness, is so powerful and the thoughts we entertain, like a film of the real, through the light of consciousness, is projected into the shared space. So if you have people deviating from the mainstream, they have to be de-platformed, they have to be censored, so we don't have any minds wandering off on their own direction. But one second, let me just show you something. I love this.

Speaker 1: 47:53

Laurel's like excuse me, I'm just going to get up for a second. No, you know what? I'll share a story with you while you're or the audience, if you can or can't hear. I got banned on the social media platforms about 10, 12 years ago Facebook and Twitter.

Speaker 2: 48:08

Well, you were ahead of your time.

Speaker 1: 48:10

Well, you know, I wrote an article, if you will, sharing with people the things that I found very shocking as a marketer that I could buy, and what I found out about what they were getting, the data they were gathering, and they repeatedly banned. I kept trying to repost it and they would just ban me again, and it was a really interesting experience. So I kind of got like really irredeemble social media. It took me 10 years to get back on again. Please, you got up to get something. I'm dying to know what it was.

Speaker 2: 48:38

Well, I got my book. I have so much material unpublished but I do have this book Word Magic Wordplay that puts a new spin on the world. And when people buy it, I give them not just a book but a whole little package of fun material, and I also send an attachment in my appreciation note to them that has a summation of my whole word magic thesis plus links for where to learn more. So one of the statements is that we are poised, collectively, to make the leap into higher consciousness, or an ant heap, and when you have a mind I mean Trump talking about herd immunity and, accidentally said, herd mentality, that is what they're looking to create.

Speaker 2: 49:36

So, this is a herd mentality, and so the language is being changed. Slogans are created to give an impression Like, for instance, defund the police. It wasn't about defunding the police, it was about reallocating resources, yeah yeah, I remember that at the time being, like seriously come on.

Speaker 1: 49:59

Yeah, I don't even believe anymore almost anything that I see going on like the media is using mass media to communicate itself. Yeah, I immediately become suspect and think, okay, what's the real agenda and who's actually really controlling this?

Speaker 2: 50:14

Well, and we have the phrase, you know, wondering where does the truth? You know, where does the truth lie? Well, there's an oxymoron Truth doesn't lie, lies lie. And so there's such a confusion, there's such an attempt at a brain scramble, a fear mongering, and brain scrambling is part of the MO. So, but it's also I imagine you have felt this as well a sense that everything is accelerating and there are higher energies coming to assist us in opening up to greater wisdom, our own innate intelligence. And so people, by the way, with what I do with words, people have noticed so far disease is dis-ease, and that's the truth, and history is his story but aren't aware that language is constantly doing this.

Speaker 2: 51:16

So, for instance, the infinite locates itself. It tells us where the infinite is in fun night. So the infinite is in each one of us, in this finite form, because we are more than the form. The form is our little space suit, our little vehicle of this dimension that at a certain point, will need recycling. Yet we will evolve through all of what we have gained through this experience, and I do believe that we're like these seeds that are meant to sprout. Some seeds only sprout after fires, and isn't that?

Speaker 1: 52:03

fascinating.

Speaker 2: 52:04

Isn't it? And obviously the world is on fire. This is our moment, in a good way.

Speaker 1: 52:11

You know I was talking about this this morning on wisdom, which is an app I'm on and sharing about it on X I'm formerly down his Twitter that we have entered the age of Aquarius. We've been on the cusp for a long time. We just didn't have enough people this is my personal belief that we didn't have enough people who were in higher levels of consciousness and because of every you know. Interestingly enough, one of the things that caused me a breakdown and life transformation was the fact that the country was closing and I wasn't going to be able to carry a project forward that I had worked on for a couple of years and I thought, oh my gosh, the world's just falling apart. But ultimately, with the this is the way humanity does when we do, when we turn things that are, you know, tough into growth and friction does that, that friction of the closures?

Speaker 1: 53:04

It caused so many people to get the chance to sit back for a second and see the media very clearly, because there was nothing else going on, people weren't going anywhere and they got barraged with this, you know, because the media worked for a long time in telling people how they were supposed to think and feel that day.

Speaker 1: 53:21

What's your perception of life, what's your perception of America and the world around you here? Let me gift it to you through the media so that you're in terror all the time and not as functional as you can be. And when we closed, you know we gave all these people around the world the chance to see that. And so you know we have a level of consciousness we've never had before, which I find incredibly exciting. We've got abundance coming, and I know AI. I could go on about AI forever. It has its negatives, but one thing it does do is it alleviates us of dangerous jobs. It also brings in a level of abundance around the world that will allow us to feed everybody and take in-house and take care of everybody, and I think we're awake enough to finally do the things that we've needed to do for a while.

Speaker 2: 54:10

Well, I'm with you in sharing an optimistic view. And everything is has both sides, the dark and the light. And it's what do we choose for ourselves, for our lives, for those we love, and how can we open our hearts so that love encompasses all life, everywhere? So true.

Speaker 1: 54:35

So true, I see the love in the world. There's so many more people being brave and bringing love to others in ways we haven't done in a while. You know, we've kind of been stumbling around for a couple of decades, at least, that's. Maybe that was just me.

Speaker 2: 54:54

Well, that goes back to something I wanted to share in terms of words that get lost yet can expand our sense of human possibilities. I wrote a series of essays around such words. I just didn't know where I was going with them. I just started playing, and the first one is called a walk in the woods and it begins I am a nemophilist and a philocalist, and you probably are as well.

Speaker 2: 55:23

A nemophilist is somebody who loves the beauty and solitude of the forest and the philocalist is someone who appreciates the good, the noble and the beautiful in general. And just knowing, I mean, how many people contemplate having a love for the good, the beautiful and the noble when everything reflected back is such degradation. I mean I we could go on that tangent, but in any case, it took me to following that around through some wonderful words like suceris and cisterism and epixels and saxiclin, and I mean just gorgeous, delicious words, yeah, and it brought me at the end to the word murmuration. And a murmuration, of course, is a sound of murmuring, but it's also starlings in flight, these amazing aerial ballets of huge flocks of birds that can fly together in the. Oh, I love that. I mean it's extraordinary.

Speaker 2: 56:38

So what is our capacity to reach a human murmuration, or it usually takes crisis in crisis, people come together and the walls drop between them because our hearts open and our mirror neurons have us empathically embracing and supporting other people. And I just saw a video about what happened after 9-11, when so many people wanted to get off the island and didn't you know? No one knew what was coming next and all these people, these call was put out and hundreds of people came with their boats to rescue people. What is our impulse and all these walls and false divisions between people and language doing that? And you mentioned that language is a prison, but it's also a prism.

Speaker 2: 57:46

It's also a way to see it multi-dimensionally. And we are being confronted with one crisis after another after another to keep people in fear and compliance. And yet all of this, we're seeing, as you said, the falsity of the narration and the motive behind it to create compliance.

Speaker 1: 58:15

Oh yeah, the manipulation has become very obvious to so many people, which is a huge shift, because 10 years ago, you know, people thought you were crazy when you said things like this, but a lot more people go, oh yes, now, the younger generations in particular. It's interesting that you brought up 9-11 as part of my story is I was the publicist for the World Trade Center during 9-11.

Speaker 1: 58:40

And yeah, and I was supposed to be there that day and it was a very important experience in my life in terms of you know, that was kind of a moment when I knew that I was being told that I needed to change and evolve as a person and, like humanity, I was like, oh, let me just go spend a couple decades doing something else and pursuing the three-dimensional and titles and you know, the respect of the matrix and you know, finally coming full circle to see, you know that you're going to get revisited with the same lessons until you realize that it is a lesson and that if you can learn it, then that it experience dissipates. So the human journey is amazing and language is such a huge part of making it more beautiful, more colorful, more empowered, which I think is what all of your work is about.

Speaker 2: 59:41

It absolutely is. It's about using the word for the world's recreation and turning the tide on the global sea of consciousness. S-e-e. What are we? Aiding the nightmare or dreaming a new vision of reality? As a metaphor, teller, the original metaphor of a woman in a garden seduced by a snake, takes a bite from an apple and the whole world goes to hell and girls and women are subsequently denigrated. Yeah, you know. So we need new stories. This is the time of the living and the being and the writing of the story. And just imagine in, you know, long after we're here on earth.

Speaker 2: 1:00:29

Maybe you know the pleasure and not pleasure, because it can be terrifying but, ultimately gratifying to show up in our true self and, if I may, I might share an anthem for our era. I wrote at the end of well around 20, at the end of 2018, called Speaking.

Speaker 1: 1:00:58

Beauty. Yeah, please do. It's a great way to wrap up the episode I love it?

Speaker 2: 1:01:02

I think so, thank you. So we are godlings on this planet here because we all preplanned it. Gastly, ghostly shadows, damn it. Now's our chance to Superman. It Lift your voices.

Speaker 2: 1:01:19

Re-enchanted Freedom's codes are all semantic. Though we're small and sometimes frantic, souls are whole and all gigantic. These may be our darkest days, well, these may be our darkest hours, but each of us has superpowers. The infinite is infinite, which means we can turn on the light. All life's a dream and we're the dreamers. Though hate streaming through the schemers, we're all here as world redeemers, beaming peace. We're love supremers. So, mages, sorceresses, sages, artists of all sorts and ages, share your gifts now. Be courageous. Daring actions are contagious. A diamond mind and heart of gold are gifts, the prophecies foretold for those uniting souls on earth by honoring each being's full worth. When we let go of againstness, we step into our immenseness, for the genesis of genius is the light we strike between us. When we share the gifts with which we're blessed to inspire higher consciousness, then we'll gain what we've been dreaming of the gift of everlasting love, the bliss of everlasting love. Yes, everlasting love.

Speaker 1: 1:03:22

So I wrote to your smileys, thank you all that was beautiful and what a beautiful way to cap off such a I mean we have to do this in Most definitely. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I've had such a good time listening to you and I know that our audience is going to enjoy all that you shared, so beautiful and so genuine.

Speaker 2: 1:03:51

And that's it. We need genuine and beautiful. Thank you. Well, let me just then share one final word, because one of the things I affirm is authenticity and eccentricity, but not eccentricity. I looked at that and I thought what's the egg we're supposed to be centered on? And, asking that question, putting it out in the universe? A few days later, I was reading a New Yorker magazine and it had the word ECT in it E-C-H-T, and it means real, actual and authentic. So I affirm that I am eccentric, and we can each be eccentric, and the ultimate way to be beautiful is to be beautiful, something we all can do like nobody else.

Speaker 1: 1:04:51

Right. Another unique selling proposition, you guys, is the amalgamation of all of the experiences that you've been through, all the things that you've learned, and what you bring to the party is that being and everything that you've been through. So there is no room for shame, there is no room for embarrassment, there is no room for celebration of the uniqueness that is your essence, due to all of the incredible things that you have learned along the way. Life's too short to be anybody else but yourself.

Speaker 2: 1:05:32

Really. And Barton Wilder, the American 20th century playwright, said that not even the angels can do what one human broken on the wheels of life can do, and that only we, the broken soldier, in a sense, can serve. That's an imperfect restatement of his quote, but it's because we've had trauma. In the middle of trauma is OM, which means that our pain can point us toward our pathway or liberation and contribution in extremely unique and essential ways.

Speaker 1: 1:06:22

Thank you so much, Laurel Erika. You've been a delight to hear. If people want to learn more about you, your website is wordmagic.

Speaker 2: 1:06:30

Wordmagiclobalcom. For some reason, when you Google my name, you get Laurel Erikacom, and that's my website for editing, and I only work with a few clients every year as an editor. Most of the time it's my own creative work and wordmagic Love it, love it.

Speaker 1: 1:06:53

Well, stay with me for just a minute. I'm going to say goodbye to our folks here and then I'll touch base with you after I stop filming. Thanks, you guys so much for joining us for another episode of the Shaman Isis Show. I am so delighted to be able to bring the original mindful content that sort of meets at the nexus of spirituality, technology, culture and news. If you are not familiar with the show, please go check us out. We've got three previous seasons full of interesting guests and authors and mindfulness experts that you can really learn from to help evolve your life and keep you in emotional mastery. If you're not familiar with my work, please go check out my website. I've actually just launched a new website.

Speaker 1: 1:07:33

Author Shaman Isis.

Speaker 1: 1:07:35

I have a new book coming out December 5th called Memory Mansion, which is the story of how I learned to lose the shame and secrets that kept me quiet for 40 years, and it's the story of the journey that I took from orphanage to being on the run for several decades, to waking up, to realizing that I was very unhappy and needed to change my life and learn how to love myself and how to lose the secrets and shame, and so I share the story of that journey and how you can learn to glow up in Memory Mansion.

Speaker 1: 1:08:10

If you're interested in pre-ordering it, go visit authorshamanisiscom and you can see a link right there. It comes out December 5th. If you are not already subscribed to the Shaman Isis Show, please subscribe so that you can enjoy our content whenever it comes out and get alerts to some of our newest episodes. Thank you again for all of your support, all of the love, and, laurel, thank you so much for coming on the show today. You guys have an amazing, amazing week and I'll be back with more soon enough. Bye, thank you. Love to everybody, thank you.

Speaker 2: 1:08:40

Love you.