By Joe Perez i The cat is breath. The bird is voice.π opens with nothing in it.π is voiced before it is anything. That is the whole of the quarrel,and it was settled in the throat,before the garden, before the grass was green. ii πβπ β no. Look again. πβπ.πβπ. Two glyphs the same and … Read more
An experimental transcription β working note, not part of the whitepaper The passage below is the standard specimen text of the International Phonetic Association, chosen because it is the most widely transcribed paragraph in phonetics and so invites comparison with existing IPA renderings. Method and conventions Every glyph here was generated arithmetically from the tables … Read more
Lingua-U is still young. It is not yet a full-fledged constructed language. It does not have the vocabulary and grammar of Esperanto, Lojban, or Klingon. It is not a mature philosophical system, and it certainly does not arrive with the centuries of practice, commentary, and community that surround established spiritual traditions. What Lingua-U does offer … Read more
Try this before you read any further. Take a breath, and on the way out, let your jaw fall open and sound a long ah. Not loud. Just enough that you can feel it. Let it run the length of the exhalation and then stop. Now do it again with ee. Tongue up, forward, the … Read more
Sacred words are usually inherited. Someone hands you the syllable, tells you where it comes from, explains what it means, and lets you know what generations of practitioners have found in it. You arrive late to something already furnished. There is nothing wrong with that. It is how most living traditions work, and the furniture … Read more
What might a sacred language of sound look like if we were designing one today? Many spiritual traditions have treated speech as more than a vehicle for ordinary meaning. Mantra, sacred names, mystical alphabets, prayer, chant, and other forms of vocal practice all begin from the intuition that sound can participate in spiritual lifeβnot merely … Read more