December 13, 2024 • 68 mins
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.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi and welcome to the Shaman Isis Show.
I'm your host, shaman Isis, andI am delighted to be premiering
season four of my full regularepisodes.
I had fun this summer doingsome summertime shorts and you
guys really loved them, so I'mgoing to be doing shorter
episodes, but when I dointerviews you get like a good
20 or 30 minutes at least.
And today I am delighted to bejoined by Laurel Erika, who I
(00:31):
fell in love with on AubreyMarcus's show.
Laurel, thank you so much forjoining us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm so grateful that you invited me and, again, that
you have the emblem of thehummingbird right behind you,
because we are all humming inour lives, buzzing often with
the accelerated frequenciesgoing on, and so it's divine to
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get to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate you noticing thehummingbird.
When I changed and transformedand decided to choose happiness,
to choose bliss, hummingbirdsand birds in general especially
great herons, white and blueherons started showing up every
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day on my walks.
It was a trip.
I had never seen even one birdthat big and then suddenly they
were everywhere.
So hummingbirds are veryspecial to me.
You have the most fascinatingcareer and experience and the
content that you put out.
Could you share a little bitabout how you became a master of
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language and words?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, thank you for putting it that way.
I'm choking at the thought.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Please have some water.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So I was born to do what I am doing there's, I
announced to my parents when Iwas three or four I bet I now
know all the words in theEnglish language and I was
certain and I started puttingwords together and turning them
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I call it insight out andlooking to see what else was
within them.
And over time I came to therecognition that words that have
a share, a meaning, but are adifferent word entirely, those
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are called homonyms excuse me,synonyms.
But words that have the samesound and a very different
meaning are called homonyms andvery not.
A lot of people have lookedclosely at homonyms to see that,
even though they seemcompletely unrelated and may
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have an entirely differentsource, they actually have a
mirroring effect on each otherand of each other.
So I will give you someexamples that are favorite ones
of mine, please do.
The fact that praying sounds sosavage, yet it also sounds
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divine?
Or how about the way theprophet has become our bottom
line?
Could there be a brief orsummary of millennia of history
than these pray and profitmetaphors used to justify
so-called holy wars?
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Now add worship or worship,perish or perish, and you'll
soon understand why the world'sso nightmarish.
So just by playing with words,I discovered like a whole
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underlying story about thenature of reality, and it has
multifaceted and English is nowthe global language.
It is the language that hasswallowed all others.
When people playing I thinkit's Poole or Bill Yards talk
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about putting a little Englishon the ball, and we have put so
much English on globalconsciousness that it has
colonized our consciousness witha worldview that sounds more
like a death cult in certainways, and I will share the
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example of a what I call ourpremier life sentence.
I have a YouTube video that Iposted in 2010 called the secret
spells of the English language,and it goes this way we awake
each morning and go off duringthe weekdays to earn our living
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at various jobs and undertakingsuntil we come to the weekend,
and everyone agrees that's thenormal way of things.
However, more people die ofheart failure Monday morning
between six and 10 am than anyother time of the week.
And I heard that statistic fromDeepak Chopra, and then I asked
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several medical people and theysaid yes.
So I explained that what I dois a translation of the English
language and I spell itT-R-A-N-C-E, because words cast
spells that put us in a trance.
And when you translate thatlife sentence, we awake each
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morning.
Morning is a state of grief andawake is a funeral party for
the dead.
So when we say to each othergood morning on a subliminal
level, we're saying good grief,and I've noticed that people
around the world, many are usinggrand rising rather than good
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morning, and that's never camefrom me, but it's certainly one
solution.
So, moving on through that lifesentence, we awake each morning
and go off through the weekdays.
A weekdays is kind of the stateof a zombie and we earn our
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living.
We go through the weekdays toearn our living at various jobs
and undertakings earns you forthe ashes of the dead, and
undertaking.
Entrepreneur means undertaker,and job is a Hebrew word for
persecuted, so it's like this is.
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This is a huge, energeticupfront to our consciousness
which we have absorbed as anormal way of living.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Would you attribute that to?
To?
I'm sorry, just have to askthis Like would you attribute
that to sort of like the dumbingdown of people to get them to
do what the powers that be oneof them?
Well, I think it's part of that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
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 ofthe language.
I think there's also what Irefer to as sacred passwords,
and I'll share some of thosebecause they're extremely
important.
(07:56):
So so all of this negativity,and then what we get at the end
of this perverse bargain withlife is the weekend of the deal,
and we become progressivelyweakened.
And when I say to someone, if Isay to someone, have a good
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weekend, have or have a, youknow, have a good weakening,
draw their say have a good,strengthened.
And we call 10 years of this adecade, and many in Britain call
it a decade that's how theypronounce it.
And which makes so much sense.
It is, it's what happens, andour most prevalent greeting to
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each other is hello, and whenyou reverse the syllables you
get oh, hell.
So I explain it in verse what Ithink 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
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manipulate consciousness andthus influence what we create in
the world.
But I also think it happensElectromagnetically.
We talk about words beinggrammatical, but I think they're
hologrammatic as well, and Ithink this molten brew of symbol
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and sound moving fromconsciousness to consciousness,
across centuries, continents andcultures, cannot help but cause
certain words to come into thesame vibration that reveal the
underlying intent.
So, for instance, holy wars,the fact that PR a y and PR a y
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the the excuse, thejustification for coming in and
feeding from another country,and in slaving the people has
been we're saving them, butactually we're enslaving them
and robbing them.
So PR a y and PR a y are, theyreveal the guilty secret and the
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idea of the prophet Muhammad orJesus and the prophet that's
made.
On the birthday, the supposedbirthday of Jesus, there's
another telltale sign of thelanguage echoing us back to each
ourselves and each other.
(10:40):
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'msure my viewers are like God, I
could listen to this one on topforever.
I love everything that you'resharing.
Our words are spells, somethingI love to say because I've
learned that the hard way.
I used to lecture my team allthe time that I was like, please
don't speak that existence.
But I even find myself havingto remind myself that the things
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that I say are things.
I'm spelling them to life, I'mbringing them to life, and I got
reminded that when somebodysaid, if you say mosquitoes love
me, they're going to love youextra.
And then I caught myself sayingit last night and I was like you
know better.
It's interesting.
I love that you're touching onthis, I love that you're talking
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about the spells, and I've Ihave heard you talk about how
the language has been used, youknow, to suppress us humanity
and to keep you know, and for meit's to keep the average person
in line and doing what thepowers that be have designed the
system to do, and I think oneof the reasons that we're
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dealing with such a rise inmental health crisis across the
globe label it however you want,but I think it is because
people know that there'ssomething that needs to change
and we're working on.
I believe in being moreproductive, and I believe that
the world is changing for thebetter and that people are
waking up all over the planet toto this, this sort of
structures that we live in, andhow unhealthy they are for the
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average man, and and so when Ilook at things like the way our
education system is structured,the way language is utilized, I
see the prison bars that it'screating for people, and I think
one of the reasons young peopleare really struggling is that
they kind of bought into thesystem.
The system is collapsing andthey're like what are we
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supposed to do?
And so I love that you'retaught the whole conversation
about language.
Would you agree with with anyof those thoughts in terms of?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I do agree with them.
I mean, it's not just a Genesisstory of the Western Bible that
says it all began with the word, and the word is God and in
other words, this powerfulcreative force.
So we have said this withoutrecognizing how much power we
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have on the tips of our tongueand fingers to communicate and
language.
I mean there's some languagesbeing so degraded and people
spend all this money to lookmore beautiful and yet what
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comes out of their mouth can bepretty ugly.
The wholesale use of curse wordsand cussing, as if it makes you
sound hip and smart to to bespeaking in that way, and yet
you know the trash talk meansyou've got garbage in your mouth
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and you're spreading garbage inthe world and the dictionary.
I mean they're changing meaningsall the time.
It's good to have an old bigpaper dictionary, big volumes,
in fact I've got my computerresting on one at the moment.
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And because there are words inthe dictionary that one comes
upon by chance often that are soprofound and one of my, well, I
have that I wrote a bunch ofessays around obscure words and,
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by the way, there's a statementfrom Aristophanes that says hi,
hi, thoughts must have highlanguage, 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.
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Find your own language, changeyour gender, do as you wish, but
choose your own words.
Don't try and get the rest ofthe world to take a word that
has meant something inparticular, that is a biological
fact, and turn it into.
Well, you know Everythingthat's being done.
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There's so much manipulationfor the denigration of
consciousness.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I completely agree with that.
I do want to go back becauseand call me potty mouth, but I
have I have some, some colorfullanguage in my repertoire and
for me personally and I wouldlove to hear your thoughts on
this I feel like I love the factthat you focus on language
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having meanings and but I alsobelieve that there's a great
deal of training that goes intovilifying or I'm going to find
good word vilifying certaincertain things in.
I feel like certain words havebeen, we've been trained to give
them power and believe that is,it's a well, it's all a man
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made construction anyway, and sowhen I, when I, when I think
about things like language, it'slike I don't want to create
rules for other people that thattell them whether they should
or shouldn't do certain thingsbased on on someone else's idea
of what a word should orshouldn't mean.
I don't know.
(16:24):
It's an interesting topic.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, I think trying to change long established words
and say no, what no longermeans this.
It means that, as part of themanipulation of consciousness,
that reality, you know, thatreality is no longer what it is.
There are certain laws innature Really didn't mean to get
into this discussion and I'mnot looking to make rules, but
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just to suggest.
I mean colorful language,language, I mean beauty.
Everyone pays all this money tolook more beautiful.
Why not speak beauty and whynot speak in ways that are
vibrationally pleasant yeah,beautiful, harmonious, instead
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of just relying on words thathave a shock value, trying to
get everybody to change theirlanguage so your feelings don't
get hurt, because you decided tochange your sex.
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 thewords that really makes a huge
difference.
How, how did you fall into?
I mean, I've heard you do whatdo you call it?
When you go into one of your,it's almost like you're
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channeling language and you'rerhyming, and do you have a name
for that?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well that's.
I guess that falls in thecategory of word magic.
So I've always been interestedin the word sounds and rhyme,
because rhymes are like magnets,and when you can find a word
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that rhymes with another Thenit's like you're creating a
visible, audible connectionbetween them.
And the ancient Vedas were allwritten in verse, much easier to
memorize, and I have apropensity for it.
So I've been playing with words, as I shared, for early on.
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They've educated me profoundly,probably more than anything
else, just playing with a singleword, like the fact that I
remember where I was when I sawGosh.
It must have been in the 80swhen I noticed that earth and
heart were the same word.
And it's just where you put theletter H and love turned around
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, is the beginning of evolution.
So I saw oh then love helps meevolve my being and at the same
time that of other people.
And the heart earth connectiontells me that life is not about
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getting ahead of everybody elsein the human race, but getting a
heart full of love for allcreation.
So this kind of word play hashelped me become kinder, and so
so many tensions with anyquestion you might ask and it
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would take me a moment to goback to the question I was
responding to.
But if you have it on the tipof 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 thisinterview and what what you're
saying, about the tonality andthe energy and the intention
behind what you say, is thatyour, 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 andhealing, holy healing energy.
So related to why I speak inrhyme spontaneously, but often
on podcasts, I share somethingthat I've written in the past
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and, in fact, and I have to say,my first rhyming poem no, not
rhyming, but significant poemwas 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 twoof grass, and the old kind, not
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the stuff that's around today,that's so potent?
So one day I had one of the manyabsurd jobs I had along the way
by which I supported myself andfocused then and my child, and
focused on what interested me.
I was alone in an office, Itook a hit of grass, was sitting
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by a window and this littlepoem came to me.
Do you know that I flutter withbutterflies, that my heart
beats like hummingbird wings?
Do you know I'm the kind of thenatural mind that knows what
the hummingbird sing?
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May I give you a tour of thegarden just once, through, when
you two will see that the Lordhas just granted your pardon.
You've been given permission tobe so.
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That poem wrote itself throughme on that occasion.
I didn't know the garden I wasgoing to be giving people a tour
of.
It turned out to be the gardenof verses.
I subsequently wrote todescribe what I discovered as an
elemental being who goesthrough the looking glass into
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this dimension and has todeconstruct the language to find
her way back home again.
So that's the basis of myfairyography called the rites of
passion of PhilemellaNightingale, a fairy's tale.
So that happened after I hadwritten a.
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Well, no, it didn't.
Anyway, I wrote a manuscriptcalled Psycho-Semantics, english
in Translation.
I showed it to an editor in the80s or 90s.
He told me that without a PhDI'd never get it published.
I subsequently was a student ofReverend Michael Bernard
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Beckwith at the Agape Church inits early days.
I was a student and his editor.
In response to an assignmentabout do some creative
expression, about what thiscloser walk with the divine
means to you, I decided to writea poem.
I shared it somewhere.
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It garnered me an advance bythe founder of a New Age label
to write an album of my verse,and so I turned everything I'd
learned about words into rhymingpoetry, and I share it that way
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.
The company was purchased byVirgin Records before we did the
album, but that's how my wordmagic work got launched.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I love that.
Thank you for sharing thatstory.
It's fascinating the paths thatwe take.
I love language.
When I was growing up I was veryisolated, don't get me wrong.
I was surrounded by nuns at theorphanage until I grew up in an
imposter care, so it was arather colorful childhood.
But I didn't know that I wasautistic and it wasn't something
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that they diagnosed women withback then, and I learned how to
sort of be alone in how I taughtmyself, because school wasn't
really a great option,especially back in the 70s in
Memphis, which was the murdercapital of the country at the
time.
Books and language became how Ilearned and how I evolved and
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how I taught myself to believein myself.
I was reading things likeCharlie and the Chocolate
Factory and the Secret Gardenand all those wonderful books
that we get exposed to the linein which the war drove.
That told me that there was thisextraordinary world out there.
There was a magical world outthere that I could access
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through language, and eventhough I didn't have a formal
education, I eventually fellinto a career where language
became something that was veryimportant in the shifts that
happened.
So I love that you have thisincredible perspective on
language and how to play with it.
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Like you teach people how toenjoy language, is there
anything that you would share interms of how people can sort of
learn to play?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yes, certainly, thank you.
I will be filming my word magiconline course in December, so
for the new year the intentionis to have it.
But yes, it's enormous fun,like.
Just take the words eyes, nose,mouth and chin and you'll see
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we have yes in our eyes, no inour nose, out in our mouth and
in our chin, and there's so muchthat can be made of each one of
these things.
Because, for instance, yes inour eyes, well, another word for
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yes is C, spanish and Italianfor yes, and another word for
yes is I, a-y-e, i-i-s-r.
So there are many things onecan lean from that.
For instance, for me, it makesit clear that my perspective,
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what I am seeing, my perception,is what makes me unique.
I see things differently, as weall do, because we're all
standing in a unique point inspace, and sharing our
perspective is what broadenseverybody else's.
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And it goes on and on fromthere.
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.
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So then, one questions why wouldI have yes in my eyes and no in
my nose?
What can I make of that?
And that's what I would inviteyour readers to explore.
What do you think?
Why would ourself-contradictory nature be
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written on our faces, in thewords we use?
And I was so amazed when Inoticed that we have out in our
mouth and I thought, in our chinand I thought, well, what could
that be about?
And then I thought, oh, life isnot about consumption, it's
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about expression.
And when my chin is in, then mynose isn't up in the air.
And we have here's our ear, andwe 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.
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And then the T, and in themiddle of it is ear.
So I like to joke that Godcreated planet earth so the word
could be heard.
So there's no end to the musicand the mystery and the wisdom
(29:25):
that unfolds when we play withwords.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, it's interesting.
I think people almost need tohear that they have permission
to play with words, to play withlanguage, to create language.
One of the things I wasfortunate to do was be able to
add some language to the lexiconthrough the work that I did,
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and it was interesting for mebecause I never saw it as
something I shouldn't do.
But I think that had a lot to dowith the fact that I didn't
have the sort of strict formaleducation that a lot of people
had that enforces rules aboutwhat you can and can't do, and I
didn't have the traditionalconnections, that sort of
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reinforce, those prison cells,if you will.
And so I was kind of doingeverything that I was doing in
my field of marketing and PR onmy own, without a lot of input
from other people.
And I think that when people Iget asked a lot like you know
what caused you to do that?
And it was like because it wasthe solution that came to hand,
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and they seem to be surprisedthat you can make phrases up,
you can invent language, you canadd to our language, and I
think that's a gift to peoplewhen they get the chance to
realize that they're thatpowerful.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, when I post it, I'm so curious to learn about
you.
I knew we're only just meetingtoday and I didn't have any idea
of your history and what acourageous, amazing woman you
are and what a pleasure and anhonor to speak with you.
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So what I've discovered is thatlanguage is software, and
English is the leading softwareof the Western mind, and it is
filled with cultural biases thatare akin to computer viruses
that, in fact, are thinking withan antiquated and manipulated
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vision of reality promulgated bythe ancient church at a time
when people had to surrendertheir 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 thatresonates at a freer frequency
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is how we can talk our way backthrough the garden gate with
words that help re-consecratethis hallowed ground on which we
all are bound by fate.
I believe we chose to be hereand that one of our tasks, our
collective creative task, is tostart inventing new words and
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phrases and the symbols andsounds and metaphors that will
allow us to communicate aboutdiscoveries in physics that we
can't talk about through Englishand that will inspire us to
interact with greater kindness.
So would you share some of thewords you've invented?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh well, phrases is probably a better word for it.
Influencer marketing and brandcommunications are two
industries that I started in thecommunications field, PR field.
They were just solutions to theway that I saw things changing
through technology and what italso needed to change.
(33:10):
Influencer marketing came aboutbecause I was working with a
lot of very interesting peoplethat I was gifting products to
and getting them to share thatengagement with other people,
and that started in 2000, like2023 years ago and brand
communications it's actuallyI've been around a long time, so
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I've added several things tothe lexicon over the years, but
those are the two that I'mreally proud of because
ultimately, they became goodaspects to the industry that I'm
showing.
Which are the two Influencermarketing.
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 back20-something years.
Yeah, yeah, funny right, it wasinteresting.
I haven't explained to peoplewhat it was, but I could see the
world was changing and I couldsee that social media was going
to become a really big thing andI was marrying something that I
had done to get brands andproducts out there through
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people who other people admiredartists, writers it originally,
the people who originallyinfluenced marketing actually
stems from people who were, infact, actually really talented.
That sounds terrible and I willbe honest with you, laurel,
when it changed into a tool,influencer marketing became a
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tool for people who didn't haveany talents to become incredibly
successful I was really kind oflike not comfortable because of
the route that it was taking,but I had to kind of let go and
have some faith that it wouldpendulum back into something
that.
And now, of course, we've got alot of people sharing really
wonderful content and reallywonderful inspiring things out
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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 itreally?
I have to tell you, girl, I wasworking so hard for so long
that when I realized that bothof them were either studied or
were actually degrees that youcould get, I was like how fun.
I mean, it just shows you thatyou don't have to have the
background, you don't have tohave the degree, you don't have
to have the fancy the ends withpeople you can create.
(35:37):
All of that because I wasreally up against a wall in New
York City without a degree and aSouthern accent and I just was
determined and I feel veryfortunate to have been able to
enjoy some interestingexperiences.
Anyway, now I'm gettingembarrassed as I'm talking about
myself.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, I'm glad that you are and congratulations.
To come from that beginning andto have impact all over the
world, that's powerful.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Thank you Well, Touche.
I would love to hear about someof the things that you project,
Things that you're working on.
That would allow other peopleto get even more familiar with
the incredible work that you do.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Thank you.
Well, as I said, what am Idoing right now?
Okay, so currently the way tointeract with me ongoingly is to
join one of my writing circles.
I call them sacred rightscreative circles, and I've been
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leading three each month andthey draw people from around the
world to come into a circlewith each other and then
discover the synchronicitiesbetween them and together we
create a very warm womb forpeople to gestate their ideas
(37:00):
and bring them to birth in theworld.
People who may not even knowthat they're gifted as a writer
can become an amazing writer.
There's one of the women who'sbeen with me longest, who really
had no sense of her talent, andher first book is coming out
(37:23):
now, this month, and she hasothers underway.
She is so prolific and manyothers are starting to publish
their work, work that would nothave come into being had they
not come into a circle and feltthe nurturing love.
So those are the sacred rightscreative circles, and to find
(37:49):
them you would go to my website,wordmagicglobalcom, and scroll
down the home page and you'llsee very quickly the upcoming
events page and you click onthat and you see the dates and
to get a better description ofwhat goes on in a circle.
Simply subscribe to my websiteand you will get instant access
(38:16):
to my free ebook, which iscalled the Book of E, a Book of
Alphabet Alchemy, and you'llreceive emails with
announcements and descriptionsof upcoming events and such.
So that's what's happening.
Now.
I am completing a book calledMaking Light of the English
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Language in Support of OurCollective Evolution, and that
will be the book that goes withthe course that I'm developing
that will share word magic.
This way of playing with wordsthat makes people more aware,
more intelligent, more literate,more witty, more playful, just
(39:09):
by opening up words like oystershells and finding the pearls of
wisdom or the strange littlegremlin within them, is an
extremely self-educatingopportunity.
So one of the tagline on mywebsite, word magic global, is
(39:32):
word play that unravels masshypnosis and elevates the
frequency of consciousness.
And another tagline that Ihaven't put to use yet is
describes this work as Om grown,grass fed, synergistic, mystic
(39:55):
linguisticism, self awakening,word play on beyond the leading
edge.
So I grew up in a family it wasnot a good match and I did not
know.
I was intelligent and it was,and even though I went through
(40:20):
university.
So I have the degree, but Ididn't have the confidence in my
own capacities.
So playing with words has beenso self awakening and self
informing that what I'm sharingis what I gathered through a
lifetime of doing this.
(40:40):
So that course, the intentionis to have it ready for the
beginning of the new year andalso have on my website a place
to play a literary lotto whereyou open to the still small
voice with the intention ofdownloading new words, metaphors
(41:00):
and phrases that can inspirehigher consciousness and a
greater frequency of kindness.
And in 2010, when I posted thesecret spells of the English
language, I also posted and itpresents the problem.
Look at this the language isfilled with subliminal messages
(41:24):
that are more of a doomsdayvision, but there's something we
can do about it.
And so that second video that Iposted at the same time is my
word magic anthem, and it'scalled taking command of the
English language, and it givesthe example of someone who or it
(41:47):
refers to that, someone whoinvented that phrase.
It's something like commitrandom acts of kindness and acts
of senseless beauty, and thatwas.
I looked it up and it said thatsome woman wrote it on a napkin
in a coffee shop in Sausalitoand somehow it traveled the
(42:09):
world.
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 awakeningfor people, that it brought out
kindness of the heart that wasextended randomly to strangers.
And it still has traction.
(42:32):
And, as the poem says, to bethe one to release the dove of
peace on a wave of love thatlifts us all above our usual
sense of separation must surelybe the cause for an ongoing
celebration, for it is certainlyan experience that lifts us
(42:52):
well beyond words and beyondanything money could possibly
buy.
And yet it is free for all whowish to glorify God's living
presence and our human essenceand thus to bless the best in
the rest of us.
(43:13):
So that's a little stanza fromtaking command of the English
language.
And can you imagine?
I invented a word for thepleasure that comes from acts of
kindness that arrive insomeone's life at a catalytic
moment to transform them oruplift them in some crucial way,
(43:39):
and the pleasure that generatesinternally, because altruism,
kindness, stimulates the sameportion of the same part of the
brain as cocaine stimulates, youcan 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 theword Eros, the God of love, of
sensual love.
So this is a word about theexquisite experience of loving
kindness, randomly given, and itis metatransensuous,
(44:24):
suprasexual parahedonism, andthe tagline is accept, nothing
less Right.
Oh, that's brilliant, I lovethat.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I love that, and that word is so cool.
You made me think of onecrinial, because this is a
crystal for my pineal.
Oh beautiful, thank you.
And you made me think of thatas a word, but it's not nearly
as cool as that one.
I love all that you share.
I love that.
The spells the making peopleaware of the prison that
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language has been used to createand being able to see and I
don't mean that in a negativeway.
I mean it's important forpeople to understand that so
much of the language that theyhear, repeat it all the time,
and that they've been taught tosay in thought process, which is
, you know, language is thethought process expressed, and I
think that's a great thing.
And to be able to wake thempeople up to the idea that
(45:29):
they're casting spells all thetime.
Yes, and create.
You know, we create our.
I have a friend of mine, billyDees.
He's a podcast host as well,and he can't stand the phrase
creating your reality.
And I'm like creating yourreality is not about some hooey
nonsense.
It's literally about a personchoosing the reality that they
(45:50):
want to experience forthemselves Versus constructing
some.
He sees it as constructing afake 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 ourEEL, like a real of film, yeah,
yeah, and the film of the real,and so, and the idea that we are
(46:27):
living in a simulation and thatthe life's dream, row your boat
merrily down this stream.
Life is but a dream.
So the life's dream and thelife's dream and the life's
dream.
You can't hear a differencebecause there's not.
What if we're making it up?
(46:47):
We're making up reality all thetime and we've been programmed
to view things in a certain way.
And I even wonder whetherpeople who held different
visions from the mainstreamnarrative, which, in centuries
ago, was the church, this is howit is, this is what heaven
(47:08):
looks like, this is what hell islike, this is reality and this
is what you have to do.
So it was like creatingcompliance.
And what if?
That's?
Because the mind, theconsciousness, is so powerful
and the thoughts we entertain,like a film of the real, through
the light of consciousness, isprojected into the shared space.
(47:31):
So if you have people deviatingfrom the mainstream, they have
to be de-platformed, they haveto be censored, so we don't have
any minds wandering off ontheir own direction.
But one second, let me justshow 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 youwhile you're or the audience, if
you can or can't hear.
I got banned on the socialmedia 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 thingsthat I found very shocking as a
marketer that I could buy, andwhat I found out about what they
were getting, the data theywere gathering, and they
repeatedly banned.
I kept trying to repost it andthey would just ban me again,
and it was a really interestingexperience.
So I kind of got like reallyirredeemble social media.
(48:31):
It took me 10 years to get backon again.
Please, you got up to getsomething.
I'm dying to know what it was.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Well, I got my book.
I have so much materialunpublished but I do have this
book Word Magic Wordplay thatputs a new spin on the world.
And when people buy it, I givethem not just a book but a whole
little package of fun material,and I also send an attachment
(49:01):
in my appreciation note to themthat has a summation of my whole
word magic thesis plus linksfor where to learn more.
So one of the statements isthat we are poised, collectively
, to make the leap into higherconsciousness, or an ant heap,
(49:23):
and when you have a mind I meanTrump talking about herd
immunity and, accidentally said,herd mentality, that is what
they're looking to create.
So, this is a herd mentality,and so the language is being
changed.
Slogans are created to give animpression Like, for instance,
(49:48):
defund the police.
It wasn't about defunding thepolice, it was about
reallocating resources, yeahyeah, I remember that at the
time being, like seriously comeon.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, I don't even believe anymore almost anything
that I see going on like themedia is using mass media to
communicate itself.
Yeah, I immediately becomesuspect and think, okay, what's
the real agenda and who'sactually 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 truthlie?
Well, there's an oxymoron Truthdoesn'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
(50:37):
of the MO.
So, but it's also I imagine youhave felt this as well a sense
that everything is acceleratingand there are higher energies
coming to assist us in openingup to greater wisdom, our own
innate intelligence.
(50:58):
And so people, by the way, withwhat I do with words, people
have noticed so far disease isdis-ease, and that's the truth,
and history is his story butaren't aware that language is
constantly doing this.
So, for instance, the infinitelocates itself.
(51:20):
It tells us where the infiniteis in fun night.
So the infinite is in each oneof us, in this finite form,
because we are more than theform.
The form is our little spacesuit, our little vehicle of this
dimension that at a certainpoint, will need recycling.
(51:45):
Yet we will evolve through allof what we have gained through
this experience, and I dobelieve that we're like these
seeds that are meant to sprout.
Some seeds only sprout afterfires, and isn't that?
Speaker 1 (52:03):
fascinating.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Isn't it?
And obviously the world is onfire.
This is our moment, in a goodway.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
You know I was talking about this this morning
on wisdom, which is an app I'mon and sharing about it on X I'm
formerly down his Twitter thatwe have entered the age of
Aquarius.
We've been on the cusp for along time.
We just didn't have enoughpeople this is my personal
(52:31):
belief that we didn't haveenough people who were in higher
levels of consciousness andbecause of every you know.
Interestingly enough, one ofthe things that caused me a
breakdown and lifetransformation was the fact that
the country was closing and Iwasn't going to be able to carry
a project forward that I hadworked on for a couple of years
and I thought, oh my gosh, theworld's just falling apart.
But ultimately, with the thisis the way humanity does when we
(52:54):
do, when we turn things thatare, you know, tough into growth
and friction does that, thatfriction of the closures?
It caused so many people to getthe chance to sit back for a
second and see the media veryclearly, because there was
nothing else going on, peopleweren't going anywhere and they
got barraged with this, you know, because the media worked for a
(53:17):
long time in telling people howthey were supposed to think and
feel that day.
What's your perception of life,what's your perception of
America and the world around youhere?
Let me gift it to you throughthe media so that you're in
terror all the time and not asfunctional as you can be.
And when we closed, you know wegave all these people around
the world the chance to see that.
And so you know we have a levelof consciousness we've never
(53:40):
had before, which I findincredibly exciting.
We've got abundance coming, andI know AI.
I could go on about AI forever.
It has its negatives, but onething it does do is it
alleviates us of dangerous jobs.
It also brings in a level ofabundance around the world that
will allow us to feed everybodyand take in-house and take care
(54:03):
of everybody, and I think we'reawake enough to finally do the
things that we've needed to dofor a while.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well, I'm with you in sharing an optimistic view.
And everything is has bothsides, the dark and the light.
And it's what do we choose forourselves, for our lives, for
those we love, and how can weopen our hearts so that love
encompasses all life, everywhere?
(54:32):
So true.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
So true, I see the love in the world.
There's so many more peoplebeing brave and bringing love to
others in ways we haven't donein a while.
You know, we've kind of beenstumbling 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 lostyet can expand our sense of
human possibilities.
I wrote a series of essaysaround such words.
I just didn't know where I wasgoing with them.
I just started playing, and thefirst one is called a walk in
the woods and it begins I am anemophilist and a philocalist,
(55:20):
and you probably are as well.
A nemophilist is somebody wholoves the beauty and solitude of
the forest and the philocalistis someone who appreciates the
good, the noble and thebeautiful in general.
And just knowing, I mean, howmany people contemplate having a
(55:42):
love for the good, thebeautiful and the noble when
everything reflected back issuch degradation.
I mean I we could go on thattangent, but in any case, it
took me to following that aroundthrough some wonderful words
like suceris and cisterism andepixels and saxiclin, and I mean
(56:08):
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
(56:30):
huge flocks of birds that canfly together in the.
Oh, I love that.
I mean it's extraordinary.
So what is our capacity to reacha human murmuration, or it
usually takes crisis in crisis,people come together and the
(56:53):
walls drop between them becauseour hearts open and our mirror
neurons have us empathicallyembracing and supporting other
people.
And I just saw a video aboutwhat happened after 9-11, when
(57:14):
so many people wanted to get offthe island and didn't you know?
No one knew what was comingnext and all these people, these
call was put out and hundredsof people came with their boats
to rescue people.
What is our impulse and allthese walls and false divisions
(57:37):
between people and languagedoing that?
And you mentioned that languageis a prison, but it's also a
prism.
It's also a way to see itmulti-dimensionally.
And we are being confrontedwith one crisis after another
after another to keep people infear and compliance.
(58:01):
And yet all of this, we'reseeing, as you said, the falsity
of the narration and the motivebehind it to create compliance.
Speaker 1 (58:15):
Oh yeah, the manipulation has become very
obvious to so many people, whichis a huge shift, because 10
years ago, you know, peoplethought you were crazy when you
said things like this, but a lotmore people go, oh yes, now,
the younger generations inparticular.
It's interesting that youbrought up 9-11 as part of my
story is I was the publicist forthe World Trade Center during
(58:38):
9-11.
And yeah, and I was supposed tobe there that day and it was a
very important experience in mylife in terms of you know, that
was kind of a moment when I knewthat I was being told that I
needed to change and evolve as aperson and, like humanity, I
(58:58):
was like, oh, let me just gospend a couple decades doing
something else and pursuing thethree-dimensional and titles and
you know, the respect of thematrix and you know, finally
coming full circle to see, youknow that you're going to get
revisited with the same lessonsuntil you realize that it is a
(59:23):
lesson and that if you can learnit, then that it experience
dissipates.
So the human journey is amazingand language is such a huge
part of making it more beautiful, more colorful, more empowered,
which I think is what all ofyour work is about.
Speaker 2 (59:41):
It absolutely is.
It's about using the word forthe world's recreation and
turning the tide on the globalsea of consciousness.
S-e-e.
What are we?
Aiding the nightmare ordreaming a new vision of reality
?
As a metaphor, teller, theoriginal metaphor of a woman in
(01:00:05):
a garden seduced by a snake,takes a bite from an apple and
the whole world goes to hell andgirls and women are
subsequently denigrated.
Yeah, you know.
So we need new stories.
This is the time of the livingand the being and the writing of
the story.
And just imagine in, you know,long after we're here on earth.
(01:00:29):
Maybe you know the pleasure andnot pleasure, because it can be
terrifying but, ultimatelygratifying to show up in our
true self and, if I may, I mightshare an anthem for our era.
(01:00:50):
I wrote at the end of wellaround 20, at the end of 2018,
called Speaking.
Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Beauty.
Yeah, please do.
It's a great way to wrap up theepisode I love it?
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I think so, thank you .
So we are godlings on thisplanet here because we all
preplanned it.
Gastly, ghostly shadows, damnit.
Now's our chance to Superman.
It Lift your voices.
Re-enchanted Freedom's codes areall semantic.
(01:01:24):
Though we're small andsometimes frantic, souls are
whole and all gigantic.
These may be our darkest days,well, these may be our darkest
hours, but each of us hassuperpowers.
The infinite is infinite, whichmeans we can turn on the light.
(01:01:49):
All life's a dream and we'rethe dreamers.
Though hate streaming throughthe schemers, we're all here as
world redeemers, beaming peace.
We're love supremers.
So, mages, sorceresses, sages,artists of all sorts and ages,
(01:02:13):
share your gifts now.
Be courageous.
Daring actions are contagious.
A diamond mind and heart ofgold are gifts, the prophecies
foretold for those uniting soulson earth by honoring each
(01:02:34):
being's full worth.
When we let go of againstness,we step into our immenseness,
for the genesis of genius is thelight we strike between us.
When we share the gifts withwhich we're blessed to inspire
(01:02:57):
higher consciousness, then we'llgain what we've been dreaming
of the gift of everlasting love,the bliss of everlasting love.
Yes, everlasting love.
Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
So I wrote to your smileys, thank you all that was
beautiful and what a beautifulway to cap off such a I mean we
have to do this in Mostdefinitely.
Thank you so much for coming onthe show.
I've had such a good timelistening to you and I know that
(01:03:44):
our audience is going to enjoyall that you shared, so
beautiful and so genuine.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
And that's it.
We need genuine and beautiful.
Thank you.
Well, let me just then shareone final word, because one of
the things I affirm isauthenticity and eccentricity,
but not eccentricity.
I looked at that and I thoughtwhat's the egg we're supposed to
(01:04:12):
be centered on?
And, asking that question,putting it out in the universe?
A few days later, I was readinga 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,
(01:04:39):
and the ultimate way to bebeautiful is to be beautiful,
something we all can do likenobody else.
Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Right.
Another unique sellingproposition, you guys, is the
amalgamation of all of theexperiences that you've been
through, all the things thatyou've learned, and what you
bring to the party is that beingand everything that you've been
(01:05:13):
through.
So there is no room for shame,there is no room for
embarrassment, there is no roomfor celebration of the
uniqueness that is your essence,due to all of the incredible
things that you have learnedalong the way.
Life's too short to be anybodyelse but yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Really.
And Barton Wilder, the American20th century playwright, said
that not even the angels can dowhat one human broken on the
wheels of life can do, and thatonly we, the broken soldier, in
(01:05:55):
a sense, can serve.
That's an imperfect restatementof 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 orliberation and contribution in
(01:06:17):
extremely unique and essentialways.
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Thank you so much, Laurel Erika.
You've been a delight to hear.
If people want to learn moreabout you, your website is
wordmagic.
Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Wordmagiclobalcom.
For some reason, when youGoogle my name, you get Laurel
Erikacom, and that's my websitefor editing, and I only work
with a few clients every year asan editor.
Most of the time it's my owncreative work and wordmagic Love
(01:06:50):
it, love it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Well, stay with me for just a minute.
I'm going to say goodbye to ourfolks here and then I'll touch
base with you after I stopfilming.
Thanks, you guys so much forjoining us for another episode
of the Shaman Isis Show.
I am so delighted to be able tobring the original mindful
content that sort of meets atthe nexus of spirituality,
technology, culture and news.
(01:07:14):
If you are not familiar withthe show, please go check us out
.
We've got three previousseasons full of interesting
guests and authors andmindfulness experts that you can
really learn from to helpevolve your life and keep you in
emotional mastery.
If you're not familiar with mywork, please go check out my
website.
I've actually just launched anew website.
Author Shaman Isis.
(01:07:35):
I have a new book coming outDecember 5th called Memory
Mansion, which is the story ofhow I learned to lose the shame
and secrets that kept me quietfor 40 years, and it's the story
of the journey that I took fromorphanage to being on the run
for several decades, to wakingup, to realizing that I was very
(01:07:59):
unhappy and needed to change mylife and learn how to love
myself and how to lose thesecrets and shame, and so I
share the story of that journeyand how you can learn to glow up
in Memory Mansion.
If you're interested inpre-ordering it, go visit
authorshamanisiscom and you cansee a link right there.
It comes out December 5th.
If you are not alreadysubscribed to the Shaman Isis
(01:08:19):
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episodes.
Thank you again for all of yoursupport, all of the love, and,
laurel, thank you so much forcoming 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 (01:08:40):
Love you.
Hi and welcome to the Shaman Isis Show.
I'm your host, shaman Isis, andI am delighted to be premiering
season four of my full regularepisodes.
I had fun this summer doingsome summertime shorts and you
guys really loved them, so I'mgoing to be doing shorter
episodes, but when I dointerviews you get like a good
20 or 30 minutes at least.
And today I am delighted to bejoined by Laurel Erika, who I
(00:31):
fell in love with on AubreyMarcus's show.
Laurel, thank you so much forjoining us.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm so grateful that you invited me and, again, that
you have the emblem of thehummingbird right behind you,
because we are all humming inour lives, buzzing often with
the accelerated frequenciesgoing on, and so it's divine to
(00:59):
get to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate you noticing thehummingbird.
When I changed and transformedand decided to choose happiness,
to choose bliss, hummingbirdsand birds in general especially
great herons, white and blueherons started showing up every
(01:21):
day on my walks.
It was a trip.
I had never seen even one birdthat big and then suddenly they
were everywhere.
So hummingbirds are veryspecial to me.
You have the most fascinatingcareer and experience and the
content that you put out.
Could you share a little bitabout how you became a master of
(01:43):
language and words?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Well, thank you for putting it that way.
I'm choking at the thought.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Please have some water.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So I was born to do what I am doing there's, I
announced to my parents when Iwas three or four I bet I now
know all the words in theEnglish language and I was
certain and I started puttingwords together and turning them
(02:19):
I call it insight out andlooking to see what else was
within them.
And over time I came to therecognition that words that have
a share, a meaning, but are adifferent word entirely, those
(02:39):
are called homonyms excuse me,synonyms.
But words that have the samesound and a very different
meaning are called homonyms andvery not.
A lot of people have lookedclosely at homonyms to see that,
even though they seemcompletely unrelated and may
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have an entirely differentsource, they actually have a
mirroring effect on each otherand of each other.
So I will give you someexamples that are favorite ones
of mine, please do.
The fact that praying sounds sosavage, yet it also sounds
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divine?
Or how about the way theprophet has become our bottom
line?
Could there be a brief orsummary of millennia of history
than these pray and profitmetaphors used to justify
so-called holy wars?
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Now add worship or worship,perish or perish, and you'll
soon understand why the world'sso nightmarish.
So just by playing with words,I discovered like a whole
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underlying story about thenature of reality, and it has
multifaceted and English is nowthe global language.
It is the language that hasswallowed all others.
When people playing I thinkit's Poole or Bill Yards talk
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about putting a little Englishon the ball, and we have put so
much English on globalconsciousness that it has
colonized our consciousness witha worldview that sounds more
like a death cult in certainways, and I will share the
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example of a what I call ourpremier life sentence.
I have a YouTube video that Iposted in 2010 called the secret
spells of the English language,and it goes this way we awake
each morning and go off duringthe weekdays to earn our living
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at various jobs and undertakingsuntil we come to the weekend,
and everyone agrees that's thenormal way of things.
However, more people die ofheart failure Monday morning
between six and 10 am than anyother time of the week.
And I heard that statistic fromDeepak Chopra, and then I asked
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several medical people and theysaid yes.
So I explained that what I dois a translation of the English
language and I spell itT-R-A-N-C-E, because words cast
spells that put us in a trance.
And when you translate thatlife sentence, we awake each
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morning.
Morning is a state of grief andawake is a funeral party for
the dead.
So when we say to each othergood morning on a subliminal
level, we're saying good grief,and I've noticed that people
around the world, many are usinggrand rising rather than good
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morning, and that's never camefrom me, but it's certainly one
solution.
So, moving on through that lifesentence, we awake each morning
and go off through the weekdays.
A weekdays is kind of the stateof a zombie and we earn our
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living.
We go through the weekdays toearn our living at various jobs
and undertakings earns you forthe ashes of the dead, and
undertaking.
Entrepreneur means undertaker,and job is a Hebrew word for
persecuted, so it's like this is.
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This is a huge, energeticupfront to our consciousness
which we have absorbed as anormal way of living.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Would you attribute that to?
To?
I'm sorry, just have to askthis Like would you attribute
that to sort of like the dumbingdown of people to get them to
do what the powers that be oneof them?
Well, I think it's part of that.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
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 ofthe language.
I think there's also what Irefer to as sacred passwords,
and I'll share some of thosebecause they're extremely
important.
(07:56):
So so all of this negativity,and then what we get at the end
of this perverse bargain withlife is the weekend of the deal,
and we become progressivelyweakened.
And when I say to someone, if Isay to someone, have a good
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weekend, have or have a, youknow, have a good weakening,
draw their say have a good,strengthened.
And we call 10 years of this adecade, and many in Britain call
it a decade that's how theypronounce it.
And which makes so much sense.
It is, it's what happens, andour most prevalent greeting to
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each other is hello, and whenyou reverse the syllables you
get oh, hell.
So I explain it in verse what Ithink 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
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manipulate consciousness andthus influence what we create in
the world.
But I also think it happensElectromagnetically.
We talk about words beinggrammatical, but I think they're
hologrammatic as well, and Ithink this molten brew of symbol
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and sound moving fromconsciousness to consciousness,
across centuries, continents andcultures, cannot help but cause
certain words to come into thesame vibration that reveal the
underlying intent.
So, for instance, holy wars,the fact that PR a y and PR a y
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the the excuse, thejustification for coming in and
feeding from another country,and in slaving the people has
been we're saving them, butactually we're enslaving them
and robbing them.
So PR a y and PR a y are, theyreveal the guilty secret and the
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idea of the prophet Muhammad orJesus and the prophet that's
made.
On the birthday, the supposedbirthday of Jesus, there's
another telltale sign of thelanguage echoing us back to each
ourselves and each other.
(10:40):
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'msure my viewers are like God, I
could listen to this one on topforever.
I love everything that you'resharing.
Our words are spells, somethingI love to say because I've
learned that the hard way.
I used to lecture my team allthe time that I was like, please
don't speak that existence.
But I even find myself havingto remind myself that the things
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that I say are things.
I'm spelling them to life, I'mbringing them to life, and I got
reminded that when somebodysaid, if you say mosquitoes love
me, they're going to love youextra.
And then I caught myself sayingit last night and I was like you
know better.
It's interesting.
I love that you're touching onthis, I love that you're talking
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about the spells, and I've Ihave heard you talk about how
the language has been used, youknow, to suppress us humanity
and to keep you know, and for meit's to keep the average person
in line and doing what thepowers that be have designed the
system to do, and I think oneof the reasons that we're
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dealing with such a rise inmental health crisis across the
globe label it however you want,but I think it is because
people know that there'ssomething that needs to change
and we're working on.
I believe in being moreproductive, and I believe that
the world is changing for thebetter and that people are
waking up all over the planet toto this, this sort of
structures that we live in, andhow unhealthy they are for the
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average man, and and so when Ilook at things like the way our
education system is structured,the way language is utilized, I
see the prison bars that it'screating for people, and I think
one of the reasons young peopleare really struggling is that
they kind of bought into thesystem.
The system is collapsing andthey're like what are we
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supposed to do?
And so I love that you'retaught the whole conversation
about language.
Would you agree with with anyof those thoughts in terms of?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I do agree with them.
I mean, it's not just a Genesisstory of the Western Bible that
says it all began with the word, and the word is God and in
other words, this powerfulcreative force.
So we have said this withoutrecognizing how much power we
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have on the tips of our tongueand fingers to communicate and
language.
I mean there's some languagesbeing so degraded and people
spend all this money to lookmore beautiful and yet what
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comes out of their mouth can bepretty ugly.
The wholesale use of curse wordsand cussing, as if it makes you
sound hip and smart to to bespeaking in that way, and yet
you know the trash talk meansyou've got garbage in your mouth
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and you're spreading garbage inthe world and the dictionary.
I mean they're changing meaningsall the time.
It's good to have an old bigpaper dictionary, big volumes,
in fact I've got my computerresting on one at the moment.
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And because there are words inthe dictionary that one comes
upon by chance often that are soprofound and one of my, well, I
have that I wrote a bunch ofessays around obscure words and,
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by the way, there's a statementfrom Aristophanes that says hi,
hi, thoughts must have highlanguage, 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.
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Find your own language, changeyour gender, do as you wish, but
choose your own words.
Don't try and get the rest ofthe world to take a word that
has meant something inparticular, that is a biological
fact, and turn it into.
Well, you know Everythingthat's being done.
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There's so much manipulationfor the denigration of
consciousness.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I completely agree with that.
I do want to go back becauseand call me potty mouth, but I
have I have some, some colorfullanguage in my repertoire and
for me personally and I wouldlove to hear your thoughts on
this I feel like I love the factthat you focus on language
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having meanings and but I alsobelieve that there's a great
deal of training that goes intovilifying or I'm going to find
good word vilifying certaincertain things in.
I feel like certain words havebeen, we've been trained to give
them power and believe that is,it's a well, it's all a man
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made construction anyway, and sowhen I, when I, when I think
about things like language, it'slike I don't want to create
rules for other people that thattell them whether they should
or shouldn't do certain thingsbased on on someone else's idea
of what a word should orshouldn't mean.
I don't know.
(16:24):
It's an interesting topic.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, I think trying to change long established words
and say no, what no longermeans this.
It means that, as part of themanipulation of consciousness,
that reality, you know, thatreality is no longer what it is.
There are certain laws innature Really didn't mean to get
into this discussion and I'mnot looking to make rules, but
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just to suggest.
I mean colorful language,language, I mean beauty.
Everyone pays all this money tolook more beautiful.
Why not speak beauty and whynot speak in ways that are
vibrationally pleasant yeah,beautiful, harmonious, instead
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of just relying on words thathave a shock value, trying to
get everybody to change theirlanguage so your feelings don't
get hurt, because you decided tochange your sex.
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 thewords that really makes a huge
difference.
How, how did you fall into?
I mean, I've heard you do whatdo you call it?
When you go into one of your,it's almost like you're
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channeling language and you'rerhyming, and do you have a name
for that?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Well that's.
I guess that falls in thecategory of word magic.
So I've always been interestedin the word sounds and rhyme,
because rhymes are like magnets,and when you can find a word
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that rhymes with another Thenit's like you're creating a
visible, audible connectionbetween them.
And the ancient Vedas were allwritten in verse, much easier to
memorize, and I have apropensity for it.
So I've been playing with words, as I shared, for early on.
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They've educated me profoundly,probably more than anything
else, just playing with a singleword, like the fact that I
remember where I was when I sawGosh.
It must have been in the 80swhen I noticed that earth and
heart were the same word.
And it's just where you put theletter H and love turned around
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, is the beginning of evolution.
So I saw oh then love helps meevolve my being and at the same
time that of other people.
And the heart earth connectiontells me that life is not about
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getting ahead of everybody elsein the human race, but getting a
heart full of love for allcreation.
So this kind of word play hashelped me become kinder, and so
so many tensions with anyquestion you might ask and it
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would take me a moment to goback to the question I was
responding to.
But if you have it on the tipof 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 thisinterview and what what you're
saying, about the tonality andthe energy and the intention
behind what you say, is thatyour, 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 andhealing, holy healing energy.
So related to why I speak inrhyme spontaneously, but often
on podcasts, I share somethingthat I've written in the past
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and, in fact, and I have to say,my first rhyming poem no, not
rhyming, but significant poemwas 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 twoof grass, and the old kind, not
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the stuff that's around today,that's so potent?
So one day I had one of the manyabsurd jobs I had along the way
by which I supported myself andfocused then and my child, and
focused on what interested me.
I was alone in an office, Itook a hit of grass, was sitting
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by a window and this littlepoem came to me.
Do you know that I flutter withbutterflies, that my heart
beats like hummingbird wings?
Do you know I'm the kind of thenatural mind that knows what
the hummingbird sing?
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May I give you a tour of thegarden just once, through, when
you two will see that the Lordhas just granted your pardon.
You've been given permission tobe so.
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That poem wrote itself throughme on that occasion.
I didn't know the garden I wasgoing to be giving people a tour
of.
It turned out to be the gardenof verses.
I subsequently wrote todescribe what I discovered as an
elemental being who goesthrough the looking glass into
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this dimension and has todeconstruct the language to find
her way back home again.
So that's the basis of myfairyography called the rites of
passion of PhilemellaNightingale, a fairy's tale.
So that happened after I hadwritten a.
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Well, no, it didn't.
Anyway, I wrote a manuscriptcalled Psycho-Semantics, english
in Translation.
I showed it to an editor in the80s or 90s.
He told me that without a PhDI'd never get it published.
I subsequently was a student ofReverend Michael Bernard
(23:26):
Beckwith at the Agape Church inits early days.
I was a student and his editor.
In response to an assignmentabout do some creative
expression, about what thiscloser walk with the divine
means to you, I decided to writea poem.
I shared it somewhere.
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It garnered me an advance bythe founder of a New Age label
to write an album of my verse,and so I turned everything I'd
learned about words into rhymingpoetry, and I share it that way
(24:09):
.
The company was purchased byVirgin Records before we did the
album, but that's how my wordmagic work got launched.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
I love that.
Thank you for sharing thatstory.
It's fascinating the paths thatwe take.
I love language.
When I was growing up I was veryisolated, don't get me wrong.
I was surrounded by nuns at theorphanage until I grew up in an
imposter care, so it was arather colorful childhood.
But I didn't know that I wasautistic and it wasn't something
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that they diagnosed women withback then, and I learned how to
sort of be alone in how I taughtmyself, because school wasn't
really a great option,especially back in the 70s in
Memphis, which was the murdercapital of the country at the
time.
Books and language became how Ilearned and how I evolved and
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how I taught myself to believein myself.
I was reading things likeCharlie and the Chocolate
Factory and the Secret Gardenand all those wonderful books
that we get exposed to the linein which the war drove.
That told me that there was thisextraordinary world out there.
There was a magical world outthere that I could access
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through language, and eventhough I didn't have a formal
education, I eventually fellinto a career where language
became something that was veryimportant in the shifts that
happened.
So I love that you have thisincredible perspective on
language and how to play with it.
(25:48):
Like you teach people how toenjoy language, is there
anything that you would share interms of how people can sort of
learn to play?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yes, certainly, thank you.
I will be filming my word magiconline course in December, so
for the new year the intentionis to have it.
But yes, it's enormous fun,like.
Just take the words eyes, nose,mouth and chin and you'll see
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we have yes in our eyes, no inour nose, out in our mouth and
in our chin, and there's so muchthat can be made of each one of
these things.
Because, for instance, yes inour eyes, well, another word for
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yes is C, spanish and Italianfor yes, and another word for
yes is I, a-y-e, i-i-s-r.
So there are many things onecan lean from that.
For instance, for me, it makesit clear that my perspective,
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what I am seeing, my perception,is what makes me unique.
I see things differently, as weall do, because we're all
standing in a unique point inspace, and sharing our
perspective is what broadenseverybody else's.
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And it goes on and on fromthere.
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.
(27:56):
So then, one questions why wouldI have yes in my eyes and no in
my nose?
What can I make of that?
And that's what I would inviteyour readers to explore.
What do you think?
Why would ourself-contradictory nature be
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written on our faces, in thewords we use?
And I was so amazed when Inoticed that we have out in our
mouth and I thought, in our chinand I thought, well, what could
that be about?
And then I thought, oh, life isnot about consumption, it's
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about expression.
And when my chin is in, then mynose isn't up in the air.
And we have here's our ear, andwe 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.
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And then the T, and in themiddle of it is ear.
So I like to joke that Godcreated planet earth so the word
could be heard.
So there's no end to the musicand the mystery and the wisdom
(29:25):
that unfolds when we play withwords.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, it's interesting.
I think people almost need tohear that they have permission
to play with words, to play withlanguage, to create language.
One of the things I wasfortunate to do was be able to
add some language to the lexiconthrough the work that I did,
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and it was interesting for mebecause I never saw it as
something I shouldn't do.
But I think that had a lot to dowith the fact that I didn't
have the sort of strict formaleducation that a lot of people
had that enforces rules aboutwhat you can and can't do, and I
didn't have the traditionalconnections, that sort of
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reinforce, those prison cells,if you will.
And so I was kind of doingeverything that I was doing in
my field of marketing and PR onmy own, without a lot of input
from other people.
And I think that when people Iget asked a lot like you know
what caused you to do that?
And it was like because it wasthe solution that came to hand,
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and they seem to be surprisedthat you can make phrases up,
you can invent language, you canadd to our language, and I
think that's a gift to peoplewhen they get the chance to
realize that they're thatpowerful.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, when I post it, I'm so curious to learn about
you.
I knew we're only just meetingtoday and I didn't have any idea
of your history and what acourageous, amazing woman you
are and what a pleasure and anhonor to speak with you.
(31:11):
So what I've discovered is thatlanguage is software, and
English is the leading softwareof the Western mind, and it is
filled with cultural biases thatare akin to computer viruses
that, in fact, are thinking withan antiquated and manipulated
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vision of reality promulgated bythe ancient church at a time
when people had to surrendertheir 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 thatresonates at a freer frequency
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is how we can talk our way backthrough the garden gate with
words that help re-consecratethis hallowed ground on which we
all are bound by fate.
I believe we chose to be hereand that one of our tasks, our
collective creative task, is tostart inventing new words and
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phrases and the symbols andsounds and metaphors that will
allow us to communicate aboutdiscoveries in physics that we
can't talk about through Englishand that will inspire us to
interact with greater kindness.
So would you share some of thewords you've invented?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh well, phrases is probably a better word for it.
Influencer marketing and brandcommunications are two
industries that I started in thecommunications field, PR field.
They were just solutions to theway that I saw things changing
through technology and what italso needed to change.
(33:10):
Influencer marketing came aboutbecause I was working with a
lot of very interesting peoplethat I was gifting products to
and getting them to share thatengagement with other people,
and that started in 2000, like2023 years ago and brand
communications it's actuallyI've been around a long time, so
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I've added several things tothe lexicon over the years, but
those are the two that I'mreally proud of because
ultimately, they became goodaspects to the industry that I'm
showing.
Which are the two Influencermarketing.
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 back20-something years.
Yeah, yeah, funny right, it wasinteresting.
I haven't explained to peoplewhat it was, but I could see the
world was changing and I couldsee that social media was going
to become a really big thing andI was marrying something that I
had done to get brands andproducts out there through
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people who other people admiredartists, writers it originally,
the people who originallyinfluenced marketing actually
stems from people who were, infact, actually really talented.
That sounds terrible and I willbe honest with you, laurel,
when it changed into a tool,influencer marketing became a
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tool for people who didn't haveany talents to become incredibly
successful I was really kind oflike not comfortable because of
the route that it was taking,but I had to kind of let go and
have some faith that it wouldpendulum back into something
that.
And now, of course, we've got alot of people sharing really
wonderful content and reallywonderful inspiring things out
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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 itreally?
I have to tell you, girl, I wasworking so hard for so long
that when I realized that bothof them were either studied or
were actually degrees that youcould get, I was like how fun.
I mean, it just shows you thatyou don't have to have the
background, you don't have tohave the degree, you don't have
to have the fancy the ends withpeople you can create.
(35:37):
All of that because I wasreally up against a wall in New
York City without a degree and aSouthern accent and I just was
determined and I feel veryfortunate to have been able to
enjoy some interestingexperiences.
Anyway, now I'm gettingembarrassed as I'm talking about
myself.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, I'm glad that you are and congratulations.
To come from that beginning andto have impact all over the
world, that's powerful.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Thank you Well, Touche.
I would love to hear about someof the things that you project,
Things that you're working on.
That would allow other peopleto get even more familiar with
the incredible work that you do.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Thank you.
Well, as I said, what am Idoing right now?
Okay, so currently the way tointeract with me ongoingly is to
join one of my writing circles.
I call them sacred rightscreative circles, and I've been
(36:39):
leading three each month andthey draw people from around the
world to come into a circlewith each other and then
discover the synchronicitiesbetween them and together we
create a very warm womb forpeople to gestate their ideas
(37:00):
and bring them to birth in theworld.
People who may not even knowthat they're gifted as a writer
can become an amazing writer.
There's one of the women who'sbeen with me longest, who really
had no sense of her talent, andher first book is coming out
(37:23):
now, this month, and she hasothers underway.
She is so prolific and manyothers are starting to publish
their work, work that would nothave come into being had they
not come into a circle and feltthe nurturing love.
So those are the sacred rightscreative circles, and to find
(37:49):
them you would go to my website,wordmagicglobalcom, and scroll
down the home page and you'llsee very quickly the upcoming
events page and you click onthat and you see the dates and
to get a better description ofwhat goes on in a circle.
Simply subscribe to my websiteand you will get instant access
(38:16):
to my free ebook, which iscalled the Book of E, a Book of
Alphabet Alchemy, and you'llreceive emails with
announcements and descriptionsof upcoming events and such.
So that's what's happening.
Now.
I am completing a book calledMaking Light of the English
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Language in Support of OurCollective Evolution, and that
will be the book that goes withthe course that I'm developing
that will share word magic.
This way of playing with wordsthat makes people more aware,
more intelligent, more literate,more witty, more playful, just
(39:09):
by opening up words like oystershells and finding the pearls of
wisdom or the strange littlegremlin within them, is an
extremely self-educatingopportunity.
So one of the tagline on mywebsite, word magic global, is
(39:32):
word play that unravels masshypnosis and elevates the
frequency of consciousness.
And another tagline that Ihaven't put to use yet is
describes this work as Om grown,grass fed, synergistic, mystic
(39:55):
linguisticism, self awakening,word play on beyond the leading
edge.
So I grew up in a family it wasnot a good match and I did not
know.
I was intelligent and it was,and even though I went through
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university.
So I have the degree, but Ididn't have the confidence in my
own capacities.
So playing with words has beenso self awakening and self
informing that what I'm sharingis what I gathered through a
lifetime of doing this.
(40:40):
So that course, the intentionis to have it ready for the
beginning of the new year andalso have on my website a place
to play a literary lotto whereyou open to the still small
voice with the intention ofdownloading new words, metaphors
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and phrases that can inspirehigher consciousness and a
greater frequency of kindness.
And in 2010, when I posted thesecret spells of the English
language, I also posted and itpresents the problem.
Look at this the language isfilled with subliminal messages
(41:24):
that are more of a doomsdayvision, but there's something we
can do about it.
And so that second video that Iposted at the same time is my
word magic anthem, and it'scalled taking command of the
English language, and it givesthe example of someone who or it
(41:47):
refers to that, someone whoinvented that phrase.
It's something like commitrandom acts of kindness and acts
of senseless beauty, and thatwas.
I looked it up and it said thatsome woman wrote it on a napkin
in a coffee shop in Sausalitoand somehow it traveled the
(42:09):
world.
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 awakeningfor people, that it brought out
kindness of the heart that wasextended randomly to strangers.
And it still has traction.
(42:32):
And, as the poem says, to bethe one to release the dove of
peace on a wave of love thatlifts us all above our usual
sense of separation must surelybe the cause for an ongoing
celebration, for it is certainlyan experience that lifts us
(42:52):
well beyond words and beyondanything money could possibly
buy.
And yet it is free for all whowish to glorify God's living
presence and our human essenceand thus to bless the best in
the rest of us.
(43:13):
So that's a little stanza fromtaking command of the English
language.
And can you imagine?
I invented a word for thepleasure that comes from acts of
kindness that arrive insomeone's life at a catalytic
moment to transform them oruplift them in some crucial way,
(43:39):
and the pleasure that generatesinternally, because altruism,
kindness, stimulates the sameportion of the same part of the
brain as cocaine stimulates, youcan 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 theword Eros, the God of love, of
sensual love.
So this is a word about theexquisite experience of loving
kindness, randomly given, and itis metatransensuous,
(44:24):
suprasexual parahedonism, andthe tagline is accept, nothing
less Right.
Oh, that's brilliant, I lovethat.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
I love that, and that word is so cool.
You made me think of onecrinial, because this is a
crystal for my pineal.
Oh beautiful, thank you.
And you made me think of thatas a word, but it's not nearly
as cool as that one.
I love all that you share.
I love that.
The spells the making peopleaware of the prison that
(45:02):
language has been used to createand being able to see and I
don't mean that in a negativeway.
I mean it's important forpeople to understand that so
much of the language that theyhear, repeat it all the time,
and that they've been taught tosay in thought process, which is
, you know, language is thethought process expressed, and I
think that's a great thing.
And to be able to wake thempeople up to the idea that
(45:29):
they're casting spells all thetime.
Yes, and create.
You know, we create our.
I have a friend of mine, billyDees.
He's a podcast host as well,and he can't stand the phrase
creating your reality.
And I'm like creating yourreality is not about some hooey
nonsense.
It's literally about a personchoosing the reality that they
(45:50):
want to experience forthemselves Versus constructing
some.
He sees it as constructing afake 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 ourEEL, like a real of film, yeah,
yeah, and the film of the real,and so, and the idea that we are
(46:27):
living in a simulation and thatthe life's dream, row your boat
merrily down this stream.
Life is but a dream.
So the life's dream and thelife's dream and the life's
dream.
You can't hear a differencebecause there's not.
What if we're making it up?
(46:47):
We're making up reality all thetime and we've been programmed
to view things in a certain way.
And I even wonder whetherpeople who held different
visions from the mainstreamnarrative, which, in centuries
ago, was the church, this is howit is, this is what heaven
(47:08):
looks like, this is what hell islike, this is reality and this
is what you have to do.
So it was like creatingcompliance.
And what if?
That's?
Because the mind, theconsciousness, is so powerful
and the thoughts we entertain,like a film of the real, through
the light of consciousness, isprojected into the shared space.
(47:31):
So if you have people deviatingfrom the mainstream, they have
to be de-platformed, they haveto be censored, so we don't have
any minds wandering off ontheir own direction.
But one second, let me justshow 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 youwhile you're or the audience, if
you can or can't hear.
I got banned on the socialmedia 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 thingsthat I found very shocking as a
marketer that I could buy, andwhat I found out about what they
were getting, the data theywere gathering, and they
repeatedly banned.
I kept trying to repost it andthey would just ban me again,
and it was a really interestingexperience.
So I kind of got like reallyirredeemble social media.
(48:31):
It took me 10 years to get backon again.
Please, you got up to getsomething.
I'm dying to know what it was.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
Well, I got my book.
I have so much materialunpublished but I do have this
book Word Magic Wordplay thatputs a new spin on the world.
And when people buy it, I givethem not just a book but a whole
little package of fun material,and I also send an attachment
(49:01):
in my appreciation note to themthat has a summation of my whole
word magic thesis plus linksfor where to learn more.
So one of the statements isthat we are poised, collectively
, to make the leap into higherconsciousness, or an ant heap,
(49:23):
and when you have a mind I meanTrump talking about herd
immunity and, accidentally said,herd mentality, that is what
they're looking to create.
So, this is a herd mentality,and so the language is being
changed.
Slogans are created to give animpression Like, for instance,
(49:48):
defund the police.
It wasn't about defunding thepolice, it was about
reallocating resources, yeahyeah, I remember that at the
time being, like seriously comeon.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Yeah, I don't even believe anymore almost anything
that I see going on like themedia is using mass media to
communicate itself.
Yeah, I immediately becomesuspect and think, okay, what's
the real agenda and who'sactually 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 truthlie?
Well, there's an oxymoron Truthdoesn'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
(50:37):
of the MO.
So, but it's also I imagine youhave felt this as well a sense
that everything is acceleratingand there are higher energies
coming to assist us in openingup to greater wisdom, our own
innate intelligence.
(50:58):
And so people, by the way, withwhat I do with words, people
have noticed so far disease isdis-ease, and that's the truth,
and history is his story butaren't aware that language is
constantly doing this.
So, for instance, the infinitelocates itself.
(51:20):
It tells us where the infiniteis in fun night.
So the infinite is in each oneof us, in this finite form,
because we are more than theform.
The form is our little spacesuit, our little vehicle of this
dimension that at a certainpoint, will need recycling.
(51:45):
Yet we will evolve through allof what we have gained through
this experience, and I dobelieve that we're like these
seeds that are meant to sprout.
Some seeds only sprout afterfires, and isn't that?
Speaker 1 (52:03):
fascinating.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
Isn't it?
And obviously the world is onfire.
This is our moment, in a goodway.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
You know I was talking about this this morning
on wisdom, which is an app I'mon and sharing about it on X I'm
formerly down his Twitter thatwe have entered the age of
Aquarius.
We've been on the cusp for along time.
We just didn't have enoughpeople this is my personal
(52:31):
belief that we didn't haveenough people who were in higher
levels of consciousness andbecause of every you know.
Interestingly enough, one ofthe things that caused me a
breakdown and lifetransformation was the fact that
the country was closing and Iwasn't going to be able to carry
a project forward that I hadworked on for a couple of years
and I thought, oh my gosh, theworld's just falling apart.
But ultimately, with the thisis the way humanity does when we
(52:54):
do, when we turn things thatare, you know, tough into growth
and friction does that, thatfriction of the closures?
It caused so many people to getthe chance to sit back for a
second and see the media veryclearly, because there was
nothing else going on, peopleweren't going anywhere and they
got barraged with this, you know, because the media worked for a
(53:17):
long time in telling people howthey were supposed to think and
feel that day.
What's your perception of life,what's your perception of
America and the world around youhere?
Let me gift it to you throughthe media so that you're in
terror all the time and not asfunctional as you can be.
And when we closed, you know wegave all these people around
the world the chance to see that.
And so you know we have a levelof consciousness we've never
(53:40):
had before, which I findincredibly exciting.
We've got abundance coming, andI know AI.
I could go on about AI forever.
It has its negatives, but onething it does do is it
alleviates us of dangerous jobs.
It also brings in a level ofabundance around the world that
will allow us to feed everybodyand take in-house and take care
(54:03):
of everybody, and I think we'reawake enough to finally do the
things that we've needed to dofor a while.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
Well, I'm with you in sharing an optimistic view.
And everything is has bothsides, the dark and the light.
And it's what do we choose forourselves, for our lives, for
those we love, and how can weopen our hearts so that love
encompasses all life, everywhere?
(54:32):
So true.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
So true, I see the love in the world.
There's so many more peoplebeing brave and bringing love to
others in ways we haven't donein a while.
You know, we've kind of beenstumbling 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 lostyet can expand our sense of
human possibilities.
I wrote a series of essaysaround such words.
I just didn't know where I wasgoing with them.
I just started playing, and thefirst one is called a walk in
the woods and it begins I am anemophilist and a philocalist,
(55:20):
and you probably are as well.
A nemophilist is somebody wholoves the beauty and solitude of
the forest and the philocalistis someone who appreciates the
good, the noble and thebeautiful in general.
And just knowing, I mean, howmany people contemplate having a
(55:42):
love for the good, thebeautiful and the noble when
everything reflected back issuch degradation.
I mean I we could go on thattangent, but in any case, it
took me to following that aroundthrough some wonderful words
like suceris and cisterism andepixels and saxiclin, and I mean
(56:08):
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
(56:30):
huge flocks of birds that canfly together in the.
Oh, I love that.
I mean it's extraordinary.
So what is our capacity to reacha human murmuration, or it
usually takes crisis in crisis,people come together and the
(56:53):
walls drop between them becauseour hearts open and our mirror
neurons have us empathicallyembracing and supporting other
people.
And I just saw a video aboutwhat happened after 9-11, when
(57:14):
so many people wanted to get offthe island and didn't you know?
No one knew what was comingnext and all these people, these
call was put out and hundredsof people came with their boats
to rescue people.
What is our impulse and allthese walls and false divisions
(57:37):
between people and languagedoing that?
And you mentioned that languageis a prison, but it's also a
prism.
It's also a way to see itmulti-dimensionally.
And we are being confrontedwith one crisis after another
after another to keep people infear and compliance.
(58:01):
And yet all of this, we'reseeing, as you said, the falsity
of the narration and the motivebehind it to create compliance.
Speaker 1 (58:15):
Oh yeah, the manipulation has become very
obvious to so many people, whichis a huge shift, because 10
years ago, you know, peoplethought you were crazy when you
said things like this, but a lotmore people go, oh yes, now,
the younger generations inparticular.
It's interesting that youbrought up 9-11 as part of my
story is I was the publicist forthe World Trade Center during
(58:38):
9-11.
And yeah, and I was supposed tobe there that day and it was a
very important experience in mylife in terms of you know, that
was kind of a moment when I knewthat I was being told that I
needed to change and evolve as aperson and, like humanity, I
(58:58):
was like, oh, let me just gospend a couple decades doing
something else and pursuing thethree-dimensional and titles and
you know, the respect of thematrix and you know, finally
coming full circle to see, youknow that you're going to get
revisited with the same lessonsuntil you realize that it is a
(59:23):
lesson and that if you can learnit, then that it experience
dissipates.
So the human journey is amazingand language is such a huge
part of making it more beautiful, more colorful, more empowered,
which I think is what all ofyour work is about.
Speaker 2 (59:41):
It absolutely is.
It's about using the word forthe world's recreation and
turning the tide on the globalsea of consciousness.
S-e-e.
What are we?
Aiding the nightmare ordreaming a new vision of reality
?
As a metaphor, teller, theoriginal metaphor of a woman in
(01:00:05):
a garden seduced by a snake,takes a bite from an apple and
the whole world goes to hell andgirls and women are
subsequently denigrated.
Yeah, you know.
So we need new stories.
This is the time of the livingand the being and the writing of
the story.
And just imagine in, you know,long after we're here on earth.
(01:00:29):
Maybe you know the pleasure andnot pleasure, because it can be
terrifying but, ultimatelygratifying to show up in our
true self and, if I may, I mightshare an anthem for our era.
(01:00:50):
I wrote at the end of wellaround 20, at the end of 2018,
called Speaking.
Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Beauty.
Yeah, please do.
It's a great way to wrap up theepisode I love it?
Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I think so, thank you .
So we are godlings on thisplanet here because we all
preplanned it.
Gastly, ghostly shadows, damnit.
Now's our chance to Superman.
It Lift your voices.
Re-enchanted Freedom's codes areall semantic.
(01:01:24):
Though we're small andsometimes frantic, souls are
whole and all gigantic.
These may be our darkest days,well, these may be our darkest
hours, but each of us hassuperpowers.
The infinite is infinite, whichmeans we can turn on the light.
(01:01:49):
All life's a dream and we'rethe dreamers.
Though hate streaming throughthe schemers, we're all here as
world redeemers, beaming peace.
We're love supremers.
So, mages, sorceresses, sages,artists of all sorts and ages,
(01:02:13):
share your gifts now.
Be courageous.
Daring actions are contagious.
A diamond mind and heart ofgold are gifts, the prophecies
foretold for those uniting soulson earth by honoring each
(01:02:34):
being's full worth.
When we let go of againstness,we step into our immenseness,
for the genesis of genius is thelight we strike between us.
When we share the gifts withwhich we're blessed to inspire
(01:02:57):
higher consciousness, then we'llgain what we've been dreaming
of the gift of everlasting love,the bliss of everlasting love.
Yes, everlasting love.
Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
So I wrote to your smileys, thank you all that was
beautiful and what a beautifulway to cap off such a I mean we
have to do this in Mostdefinitely.
Thank you so much for coming onthe show.
I've had such a good timelistening to you and I know that
(01:03:44):
our audience is going to enjoyall that you shared, so
beautiful and so genuine.
Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
And that's it.
We need genuine and beautiful.
Thank you.
Well, let me just then shareone final word, because one of
the things I affirm isauthenticity and eccentricity,
but not eccentricity.
I looked at that and I thoughtwhat's the egg we're supposed to
(01:04:12):
be centered on?
And, asking that question,putting it out in the universe?
A few days later, I was readinga 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,
(01:04:39):
and the ultimate way to bebeautiful is to be beautiful,
something we all can do likenobody else.
Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Right.
Another unique sellingproposition, you guys, is the
amalgamation of all of theexperiences that you've been
through, all the things thatyou've learned, and what you
bring to the party is that beingand everything that you've been
(01:05:13):
through.
So there is no room for shame,there is no room for
embarrassment, there is no roomfor celebration of the
uniqueness that is your essence,due to all of the incredible
things that you have learnedalong the way.
Life's too short to be anybodyelse but yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Really.
And Barton Wilder, the American20th century playwright, said
that not even the angels can dowhat one human broken on the
wheels of life can do, and thatonly we, the broken soldier, in
(01:05:55):
a sense, can serve.
That's an imperfect restatementof 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 orliberation and contribution in
(01:06:17):
extremely unique and essentialways.
Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Thank you so much, Laurel Erika.
You've been a delight to hear.
If people want to learn moreabout you, your website is
wordmagic.
Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Wordmagiclobalcom.
For some reason, when youGoogle my name, you get Laurel
Erikacom, and that's my websitefor editing, and I only work
with a few clients every year asan editor.
Most of the time it's my owncreative work and wordmagic Love
(01:06:50):
it, love it.
Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Well, stay with me for just a minute.
I'm going to say goodbye to ourfolks here and then I'll touch
base with you after I stopfilming.
Thanks, you guys so much forjoining us for another episode
of the Shaman Isis Show.
I am so delighted to be able tobring the original mindful
content that sort of meets atthe nexus of spirituality,
technology, culture and news.
(01:07:14):
If you are not familiar withthe show, please go check us out
.
We've got three previousseasons full of interesting
guests and authors andmindfulness experts that you can
really learn from to helpevolve your life and keep you in
emotional mastery.
If you're not familiar with mywork, please go check out my
website.
I've actually just launched anew website.
Author Shaman Isis.
(01:07:35):
I have a new book coming outDecember 5th called Memory
Mansion, which is the story ofhow I learned to lose the shame
and secrets that kept me quietfor 40 years, and it's the story
of the journey that I took fromorphanage to being on the run
for several decades, to wakingup, to realizing that I was very
(01:07:59):
unhappy and needed to change mylife and learn how to love
myself and how to lose thesecrets and shame, and so I
share the story of that journeyand how you can learn to glow up
in Memory Mansion.
If you're interested inpre-ordering it, go visit
authorshamanisiscom and you cansee a link right there.
It comes out December 5th.
If you are not alreadysubscribed to the Shaman Isis
(01:08:19):
Show, please subscribe so thatyou can enjoy our content
whenever it comes out and getalerts to some of our newest
episodes.
Thank you again for all of yoursupport, all of the love, and,
laurel, thank you so much forcoming 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 (01:08:40):
Love you.
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