Thought for the Day
Wednesday, June 3,2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the first things to understand about the word olmelleon is that it is not to be judged by it\u2019s absence from any known language or dictionary. It is not there at all. This is because the other is speaking a new language. This illustrates that the psyche (the \u201cother\u201d as I call it) is originating a new language, as it also originates new myths, new stories. I take this to be a word that applies in some way to the conflagration my dream referred to. When I experience a new word like this, the first thing I do is to close my eyes and repeat the word out loud until \u201csomething\u201d happens. As I noted last week, \u201cseeing with the eyes closed\u201d is the literal meaning of the word \u201cmystery.\u201d Doing this (closing the eyes) is one way into the mystery the word presents. Repeating the word becomes a chant, a kind of mantra. Speaking this way with the eyes closed has all the qualities of a ritual and begins to excite the deeper psyche. One of my experience in doing this brought an image of smoke on a distant horizon, billowing clouds of dark smoke, a major blaze to be sure. This image presented itself autonomously and without any conscious effort on my part. Another experience produced an image of smoke as well as flames\u2014closer this time. A third time, the image was looking out over a fire ravaged area completely engulfed in flame and smoke over a vast area. When I was saying the word out loud I would say it in \u201cthrees.\u201d This reflects my habitual use of the \u201cRue of Three\u201d Whenever I can when faced with the unknown, uncertainty, or doubt. It is one way into holding Keats\u2019 negative capability. So, doing the experience with the eyes closed and saying the word olmelleon led to three images. My sense is that images were providing the \u201cmeaning\u201d of the new and created word. It might be synonymous with the word \u201cconflagration\u201d that the dream referred to. But the important thing I feel is that this word means more than just the destruction of a conflagration. It\u2019s pointing to something far more destructive and I believe it is pointing to what is transpiring now on our way to the future. I take it now as the name of what is happening culturally, politically, economically and socially: utter destruction. Olmelleon is what it is. It is, I believe, one aspect of the sixth extinction manifesting on many levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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