Re: Language and "mysticism," whatever that is.

Am 04/30 00:43  Sally Caves yscrifef:

> Bwa ha ha!  Well, I have been teaching a course called "The Body
> Monstrous in the Middle Ages," but I didn't until now think that I
> was the monstress. :)
>
You may be an aglaecwif, but your _our_ aglaecwif!  And no more
terrifying than any other member of the Cthulhu Mythos. :)
> > I have decided that any future art languages I create would include such
> > words as "the warm season of an indian summer" and "cold, as the
> > characteristic of atmosphere not just of an object, cold that eminates".
> > :)
>
> "Cool!"  :)
>
Literally, and having just stepped outside I have mentally added
"weather somewhere between mist and drizzle" to that list.  I must have
a weather fixation at the moment.  It must be autumn!

> This is very interesting.  Thank you.
>
You're welcome.
>
> What do you think of glossalalia?  Is it mystical?
>
I don't think of glossalalia as automatically mystical, but this does
not rule it out as being mystical for the experiencer.  One theological
interpretation would say that glossalalia begins when intelligible words
fail.  I find with glossalalia that there is no experience of the Thou
to which the words are addressed, in which case I prefer to address the
silence with silence.

- andrew.
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