Occulture

In this episode, a chat with Laurel Airica, the Oracle of the Metaphorical, the Alphabet Alchemist, Sorceress of the Thesaurus, the Metaphysical Mother Goose. Laurel is a cunning linguist (ooh, see what I did there?!) and the true personification of a wordsmith. We’re talking about the magic and power of language; conscious thought and creation; casting spells with words; poetry as a form of alchemy; recreating the world with the word; Trump’s degradation of language; and much, much more! MENTIONS & RESOURCES Laurel’s website: http://www.laurelairica.com/ Laurel’s performance presentation, WordMagicGlobal: http://www.wordmagicglobal.com/ Laurel’s TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HctQ8YuWOdg Laurel’s article on the language of the birds: http://awarenessmag.com/july-august-2012/july-aug-2012-awareness-magazine-pg-18.html Recent New York Times article on Trump’s degradation of language: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/donald-trump-degradation-of-the-language.html “The Hidden Messages