David Abram: The Magic of Reading

[@learning2read]

Thank you, my friend!

[@MrsCalabresesTeachingChannel]

"In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God...." Indeed reading and the "Word" are powerful. Learning to read is an awesome tool, yet how sad that many children are not learning to read simply because the METHODS employed in teaching them to read are not adequate.

[@TheAhovking]

You just blew my mind!

[@ChildrenoftheCode]

@Donkolopis According to anthropological linguists, the earliest discovered alphabet emerges in the Sinai and seems to be used as a way or ordering materials. It is used the by Egyptians for rendering the names of people (something hieroglyphs don't do well). As you suggest, many early uses imbue the alphabet with mystical powers in a spiritual alchemical 'spell casting' way...

[@johnbutton1975]

Helpful to know this History and how Awesome it is!

[@samann9]

being a dyslexic i can understand how magical it would have been for the natives ... sort of ESP via clues on paper with ink.

[@idkwhattonameitlol]

Had to watch this for uni, I get what he is saying but... what is he smoking?

[@davidboulton1357]

It's less about what he is smoking and more about the Kool-Aid he isn't drinking.

[@ChildrenoftheCode]

@Donkolopis See: "The Alphabet's Big Bang" here on the COTC Channel

[@zezt]

@Donkolopis but as Zerzan would claim--there can also be a danger in using abstract language which devides the psyche from the sensous world for example, this quote from Galileo: The grand book of the universe...is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures..." he also claomed that 'subjective' experience was less real than his math objective worldview! so not only alphabet but SYMBOLS can act as barrier to interelationship.

[@cogsofrust8630]

heavy

[@akazinsomniac3007]

You would love ancient Hebrew! Lab Tahawar bra Laya Alahym