Episode 17: Words and Symbols

Symbols have an important role in the development of language throughout the centuries from hieroglyphics to the alphabets we know today, but within the occult community they also take on other meanings. Join the hosts as they talk about the science behind words and symbols in the occult. How accurate is the suggestion that a sigil is most effective when you destroy and forget? Is it possible to ever truly forget? Get lost in the murky waters of the unknown with us because its complicated.

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Resources:

Perceptions of perceptual symbols: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/perceptions-of-perceptual-symbols/3F4B2D65B7685F18BF2C840E77761574

Amodal/modal dichotomy of concepts (Review): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-020-09678-y

Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02865

Brain mechanisms linking language and action: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15959465/

Language in context: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15809000/

Parallel memory systems...: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16828565/

From symbols to sounds: visual symbolic information activates sound representations: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15318877/

Neurochemical and neurological localization of semantic processes: https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1364-6613%2813%2900122-8

Uses, misuses, new uses, and fundamental limitations of resonance imaging in cognitive science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5003851/

Neuroimaging during trance state: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500298/

The Demonstration of Short Term Consolidation (a concept similar to the burn and forget sigil activation): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010028598906843?via%3Dihub