David Abram: The Magic of Reading
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@Donkolopis but as Zerzan would claim--there can also be a danger in using abstract language which devides the psyche from the sensous world for example, this quote from Galileo: The grand book of the universe...is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures..." he also claomed that 'subjective' experience was less real than his math objective worldview! so not only alphabet but SYMBOLS can act as barrier to interelationship.
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"In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God...." Indeed reading and the "Word" are powerful. Learning to read is an awesome tool, yet how sad that many children are not learning to read simply because the METHODS employed in teaching them to read are not adequate.
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being a dyslexic i can understand how magical it would have been for the natives ... sort of ESP via clues on paper with ink.
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actually the oldest alphabets were invented by ritual shamans and priests for magickal intentions rather then for writing out events or somethingg, in some alphabets like Greek each letter would have a number, color, music note, astrological variable like a planet etc.
Donkolopis 1 year ago
@Donkolopis
According to anthropological linguists, the earliest discovered alphabet emerges in the Sinai and seems to be used as a way or ordering materials. It is used the by Egyptians for rendering the names of people (something hieroglyphs don't do well). As you suggest, many early uses imbue the alphabet with mystical powers in a spiritual alchemical 'spell casting' way...
ChildrenoftheCode 1 year ago
@Donkolopis
See: "The Alphabet's Big Bang" here on the COTC Channel
ChildrenoftheCode 1 year ago