I studied languages. I became translator of Italian, where every noun is gendered. This is the correct use of the word gender. Rule-breaker modern Italian words sometimes originated in Greek. As a student of Italian you notice the gender grammar rule break and questions arise as to why the rule doesn’t apply. This is can lead to investigation into etymology. This is where interesting things can be revealed. The Latin word ‘animus’ which we would presume means soul, anima, also means breath. This is in line with phrene in Greek, and here we have a time-capsule word meaning that points to a totally different interpretation of our current concept of ‘mind’, which we moderna love to locate in the brain. The Eastern sciences of consciousness are founded on the premise that the mind resides in the phrenic centre, the brain is connected but peripheral circuit to mind embodiment. I’m Irish, we originally spoke Gaelic, most of us now learn it in school, which manages to batter the soul out of this coded mindscape. The English language has been so bastardised, so denuded and watered down this last century that it is actually difficult to speak congruently and spirituality adroit English now.
“It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” –Brian Friel, author of ‘Translations’.
I read a book on Gnosticism. It states that the in languages that use gender, the more abstract the term, the more likely it is to be feminine. The more concrete the term, the more likely it is to be masculine. Is this true for what you know?
Offhand it’s true for French and Italian, but they are of the same family. I actually studied Gaeilge, Irish, to a high level without being conscious that it was gendered. But the abstract-feminine rings true. Japanese (I studied) has no gender. I’m guessing that the whole concept of the godhead as a being is important in forming gender in languages. Eastern thought views the godhead more as an essence, actual consciousness, and so does not need to nail down or personify the idea of this spirit force/intelligence in life. Deities are important, but not the fountainhead. Cultures that view the godhead as a being that is external to humans, or plainly monotheistic cultures, often allocate gender to god, the Father creator, and so this sets us up for gendering the world. It’s interesting to see nations gender their country, the fatherland, Mother Ireland, etc.
I did not study linguistics, but I grew up in a country with a sense of inferiority regarding our indigenous language, one of the most ancient living languages, and am rediscovering that it is a container-system for expansive spiritual knowings.
Our fight for freedom against British Empire (who desecrated our living culture and language) began at latter half of 19th century through revival of Gaeilge and our old culture. This is happening again, albeit much less vigorously, and the Globalist captured media is on to it, with a huge increase in Gaeilge sound bytes, which are often well-bastardised and basically English thinking spoken in Gaeilge words.
You couldn’t be up to their tricks.
I wrote a very Irish-centric essay on this last year, Thinking Irish Mammy, Substack
Thanks for the explanation. Coincidentally I'm trying to learn Irish. It's a tough language to learn. My brain just simply refuses to lenent or eclipse a word.
What led you to study Gaeilge? The older languages permit us to pin down different types of knowings that fall outside the remit of the modern mind. I hear younger people use the word ‘vibe’ a lot. It reminds me of older languages, or something like the word ‘numen’ in Latin. Maybe the younger people are so trained to visual communication that they will re-inject a stronger sense of physical intelligence back into contemporary language.
I was led to Gaeilge just because I found the language pretty.
I wouldn't be too optimistic. What you're seeing is a break-down of language into more essential forms of thinking that have since been dismissed for good reason. I don't know much about Gaeilge nor do I know what you mean by container for knowledge. Make no mistake, modernity is an implementation of Gnosticism and for this reason is deeply flawed. However, your choice language concerns me. You already use Gnostic constructs by identifying the "Globalists." In Gnosticism, there's always that power structure that stifles the truth thing and that power structure is threatened by that true thing. We Americans do this all the time and we're falling apart. While I do recognize Globalism as a threat, it's because it too is a Gnostic creation.
I can argue that through Puritanism, which led way to progressivism is how we made it to our current state, a disintegration of our intellect. We are losing our capacity to think, becoming like animals without words or wisdom. We are now feelings without meaning, actors without thought, just things. We are the product of the globalists, and we affirm their arrogant delusions of elitism.
This evidence you recognize is unfortunately proof that modernity and globalism is winning.
I don’t really know about Gnosticism, I know about the alive otherness in my other native language, it pulses on, not always capable of fitting into word clothing and costumes of other
languages. It feels like there’s always a lot of important stuff held back, and maybe it’s time that we birthed this stuff into our overt expression, as a sword to fight against the Gnostic’ or whatever claptrap-talk of our times, ‘and we can return to doom the knowledge we stole but could not use’
I studied languages. I became translator of Italian, where every noun is gendered. This is the correct use of the word gender. Rule-breaker modern Italian words sometimes originated in Greek. As a student of Italian you notice the gender grammar rule break and questions arise as to why the rule doesn’t apply. This is can lead to investigation into etymology. This is where interesting things can be revealed. The Latin word ‘animus’ which we would presume means soul, anima, also means breath. This is in line with phrene in Greek, and here we have a time-capsule word meaning that points to a totally different interpretation of our current concept of ‘mind’, which we moderna love to locate in the brain. The Eastern sciences of consciousness are founded on the premise that the mind resides in the phrenic centre, the brain is connected but peripheral circuit to mind embodiment. I’m Irish, we originally spoke Gaelic, most of us now learn it in school, which manages to batter the soul out of this coded mindscape. The English language has been so bastardised, so denuded and watered down this last century that it is actually difficult to speak congruently and spirituality adroit English now.
“It is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” –Brian Friel, author of ‘Translations’.
I read a book on Gnosticism. It states that the in languages that use gender, the more abstract the term, the more likely it is to be feminine. The more concrete the term, the more likely it is to be masculine. Is this true for what you know?
Offhand it’s true for French and Italian, but they are of the same family. I actually studied Gaeilge, Irish, to a high level without being conscious that it was gendered. But the abstract-feminine rings true. Japanese (I studied) has no gender. I’m guessing that the whole concept of the godhead as a being is important in forming gender in languages. Eastern thought views the godhead more as an essence, actual consciousness, and so does not need to nail down or personify the idea of this spirit force/intelligence in life. Deities are important, but not the fountainhead. Cultures that view the godhead as a being that is external to humans, or plainly monotheistic cultures, often allocate gender to god, the Father creator, and so this sets us up for gendering the world. It’s interesting to see nations gender their country, the fatherland, Mother Ireland, etc.
I did not study linguistics, but I grew up in a country with a sense of inferiority regarding our indigenous language, one of the most ancient living languages, and am rediscovering that it is a container-system for expansive spiritual knowings.
Our fight for freedom against British Empire (who desecrated our living culture and language) began at latter half of 19th century through revival of Gaeilge and our old culture. This is happening again, albeit much less vigorously, and the Globalist captured media is on to it, with a huge increase in Gaeilge sound bytes, which are often well-bastardised and basically English thinking spoken in Gaeilge words.
You couldn’t be up to their tricks.
I wrote a very Irish-centric essay on this last year, Thinking Irish Mammy, Substack
Thanks for the explanation. Coincidentally I'm trying to learn Irish. It's a tough language to learn. My brain just simply refuses to lenent or eclipse a word.
What led you to study Gaeilge? The older languages permit us to pin down different types of knowings that fall outside the remit of the modern mind. I hear younger people use the word ‘vibe’ a lot. It reminds me of older languages, or something like the word ‘numen’ in Latin. Maybe the younger people are so trained to visual communication that they will re-inject a stronger sense of physical intelligence back into contemporary language.
I was led to Gaeilge just because I found the language pretty.
I wouldn't be too optimistic. What you're seeing is a break-down of language into more essential forms of thinking that have since been dismissed for good reason. I don't know much about Gaeilge nor do I know what you mean by container for knowledge. Make no mistake, modernity is an implementation of Gnosticism and for this reason is deeply flawed. However, your choice language concerns me. You already use Gnostic constructs by identifying the "Globalists." In Gnosticism, there's always that power structure that stifles the truth thing and that power structure is threatened by that true thing. We Americans do this all the time and we're falling apart. While I do recognize Globalism as a threat, it's because it too is a Gnostic creation.
I can argue that through Puritanism, which led way to progressivism is how we made it to our current state, a disintegration of our intellect. We are losing our capacity to think, becoming like animals without words or wisdom. We are now feelings without meaning, actors without thought, just things. We are the product of the globalists, and we affirm their arrogant delusions of elitism.
This evidence you recognize is unfortunately proof that modernity and globalism is winning.
Im in a writing cave. I’ll read and reply when i surface. Thanks for replying.
I don’t really know about Gnosticism, I know about the alive otherness in my other native language, it pulses on, not always capable of fitting into word clothing and costumes of other
languages. It feels like there’s always a lot of important stuff held back, and maybe it’s time that we birthed this stuff into our overt expression, as a sword to fight against the Gnostic’ or whatever claptrap-talk of our times, ‘and we can return to doom the knowledge we stole but could not use’
Thank you.
👏👏👏💪🧠🙏🏻 Bravo! We need more of this. Thank you. OIG
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