Words Are Magic

A long while back, I wrote a post that touched on the magic of words. I’ve decided to revisit that concept this week.

David Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous has stuck with me, though I haven’t read it for years. But I can go straight to it on my bookshelf! (Be impressed – be very impressed.) In it, he proposes that written language to people and cultures without is is a profound kind of magic.

Words shape reality. Or they shape the perception of reality, which, according to physicists is one and the same. For proof, look no further than personal mantras and affirmations. Look to Octavia Butler’s journals where she .