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WORD MAJIK, SPELL-BINDING AND THE REFINED ART OF SYNCRETISM AND ETYMOLOGY By Made Manifest It is my great pleasure to invite you into the study of Syncretics is a term I use as a formula for learning, with the term syncretism as the act of applying this formula. Syncretism means the from Greek synkretismos , from synkretizein , (that being ignoreand separation from our common origins) from synas in ‘to ’. F rom my perspective, it is about searching through sources of information, despite differing beliefs and opinions, and sifting through it, in order to find the most valuable nuggets of truth, and to find the common root similarities, so that we may see how all the pieces fit together to provide a much larger and unrestricted view of reality, in order to better understand ourselves in relation to one another, without declining into argument and dispute over seemingly opposing perspectives and points of view, or . It’s about turning over stone, the good, the bad, and the ugly, to see what lies beneath, regardless of our own personal judge-ment (judging the mind/ ment: Latin, meaning ) of what it is that we may find. If you fear something.... The more you learn about it, the more understanding you gain. Suddenly, you know about it, and although you may still dislike it, you no longer fear it, because you realize its not the thing itself that is ominous, but rather, only your limited understanding of it. “Its hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a featherbed.” - Terence McKenna All Information is inherently . It is only when passed through the mind of it’s observer, that it gets imprinted with polarity (good vs bad, light vs dark, + vs -), based on the preconceived notions accumulated by one’s own background experiences and picked up from our social env-iron-ment. Light is . . Thus, information Only when weighed on the scale of one’s own Heart, against the feather of Truth, and refracted through the Prism of the Mind, can one easily discern Truth from fallacy. When we start to see how all things connect in some way or another, then we start to see a pattern emerge, that illuminates the similarities which connect all fields of study and learning, from science, art, language, number, music, astrology, geometry, theology, mythology, and just about every other area of Learning and communication. For me, this journey is all about getting to the heART of the subject matter, to where we can finally see that everything has a valid right to exist, so long as we’re not imposing on another’s ability to choose freely, and that includes the suppression of information as well. I often see the greater reality likened to a Universal Library, the Akashic, if you will, and in this Library, , parallel to one another, just as the books in any library. All books have an equal right to be available for anyone to study, and just because some of them may not be our own personal preference, that doesn’t make them any less valid to be there. If TheSovereignVoice.Org