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 in Water” by Masaru Emoto: http://amzn.to/2sWX1Pn Joshua P. Warren & para-cymatics: http://www.joshuapwarren.com/   SUPPORT  Podcasting costs money. Website maintenance, storage space, equipment, late night organic juice runs when we're up all night editing. Help us offset some of that cost by supporting the show monthly. This will also help us increase our storage space so we can provide longer episodes and more of them. Leave your name in a note and you and your support level will be recognized on air. We have seven levels of monthly support: Initiate - $1.11 Astrologer - $3.33 Magician - $5.55 Alchemist - $7.77 Adept - $9.99 Shaman - $11.11 Ascended Master - $13.13   Don't want to support the show monthly? No sweat. You can make a one-time donation in an amount of your choosing. https://www.occulturepodcast.com/support   MUSIC Vestron Vulture - “I Want to be a Robot (Tribute to Giorgio Moroder)” https://soundcloud.com/thevulturex/2-i-want-to-be-a-robot-tribute   SOCIAL https://www.snapchat.com/add/ryanpeverly https://www.facebook.com/occulturepodcast/ https://twitter.com/occulturepod https://www.instagram.com/occulture_podcast/ https://occulturepodcast.tumblr.com/ https://www.pinterest.com/occulture/   DISCLAIMER This podcast is produced in the Kingdom of Ohio and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode   REMINDER love yourself // think for yourself // question authority