Word Magic with Laurel Airica (1944-2024) (4K Reboot)

Summary

Poet and self-described linguistic evolutionary Laurel Airica explains Word Magic, her lifelong practice of finding hidden meanings, puns, and reversals inside everyday English words. She argues that English works like software for the Western mind and is loaded with subliminal, contradictory spells, such as 'good morning' echoing 'mourning' and 'hello' reversing to 'oh hell.' She calls on listeners to upgrade the language together through intuition, old dictionaries, angelic guidance, and invented words that raise consciousness and kindness.

Key takeaways

• 1Airica says many of her insights about the alphabet came in cannabis-induced altered states, and she describes having 'double hearing' that picks up subliminal messages in words
• 2Her 2010 YouTube video 'The Secret Spells of the English Language' went viral, and she also released a 'Word Magic Global Anthem' called 'Taking Command of the English Language'
• 3She claims English was shaped by a manipulative church theology, and she cites Fred Alan Wolf's introduction to Brian Bates' 'The Way of Wyrd,' which says Christians reversed Anglo-Saxon meanings by 180 degrees
• 4She cites William Henry's book 'The Language of the Birds,' given to her by Anne and Whitley Strieber, as evidence that her visionary poem echoes ancient mythology
• 5Examples of her wordplay: 'dogma' reversed reads 'am God,' 'beautiful' becomes 'be you too full,' 'obvious' versus 'oblivious' differs by 'L-I' (a lie), and adding an L turns 'word' into 'world' and 'God' into 'gold'
• 6Other people and works referenced: Leonard Shlain's 'The Alphabet Versus the Goddess,' Teilhard de Chardin's 'The Phenomenon of Man,' Jeffrey Mishlove's 'The PK Man,' Lorna Byrne's 'Angels in My Hair,' Sydney Banks' Three Principles, Joe Dispenza, Terence McKenna, Confucius, and Orwell

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Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue Series is Charles T. Tartt, 70 Years of Exploring, Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed. Conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Emmy Vadness, co-host with Jeffrey Mishlove. Our topic today is Word Magic. My guest is Laurel Erica, who's a linguistic evolutionary and educational entertainer. She is the creator of Word Magic, a way of playing with words that helps people be kinder, wiser, and more literate. Laurel shows in verse and prose how young and old around the globe can collectively, creatively, and quite rapidly take command of the English language and upgrade it to facilitate our essential evolutionary leap from humankind to human kindness. Laurel is author of Horsing Around, The Inside Word on Marriage and Horses, Word Magic, Word Play that Puts a New Spin on the World, and The Book of E, A Book of Alphabet Alchemy. Laurel is based in Santa Monica, California, and now I'll switch over to the internet video. Welcome, Laurel. It's such a joy to have you with us on New Thinking Allowed today. Thank you so much. I'm so delighted to play with you, Emmy. For most people, words are just a way of simply communicating, but you found deeper meaning in them, and you even created Word Magic. Can you describe what that is? Well, my most recent succinct description, which I will elucidate after enunciating, is own-grown, grass-fed, synergistic, mystolinguisticism, self-awakening wordplay on beyond the leading edge. So, to make that more clear, this is how I entertained myself throughout my life, by playing with words, and they revealed all sorts of obvious yet overlooked wisdom and contradiction. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Aug 26, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.