BOOK - The Angelish Dictionary Original Language of Creation by John Sacelli
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"Words are spelled because they are castings of spells. Words are placed in sentences because we are sentenced to live by the spells we cast." John Sacelli
"Angelish' is an inner logic lying inside ordinary language which reconnects us to the original 'spelling' (spell-casting) of words." John Sacelli
The Angelish Dictionary includes further essays on Angelish, the Original Language, and 1,000 new Angelisms (exs. Defense - de fence I keep around me; Question - the quest I am on.) Topical lists such as Disease demonstrate how the name of the disease revels its origin and etiology. While the names of Drugs describes the reason why we're taking the drug. And the names of Presidents reveal the 'Precedents' set during their administrations. The signs of the Zodiac are also rendered in Angelish.
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"Angelish' is an inner logic lying inside ordinary language which reconnects us to the original 'spelling' (spell-casting) of words." John Sacelli
The Angelish Dictionary includes further essays on Angelish, the Original Language, and 1,000 new Angelisms (exs. Defense - de fence I keep around me; Question - the quest I am on.) Topical lists such as Disease demonstrate how the name of the disease revels its origin and etiology. While the names of Drugs describes the reason why we're taking the drug. And the names of Presidents reveal the 'Precedents' set during their administrations. The signs of the Zodiac are also rendered in Angelish.
Each book is signed by the author.
The price reflects shipping and handling to addresses inside the contiguous (lower 48 adjoining states plus Washington, D.C.) of the U.S.A.
At most conferences where I present are other presenters. Some take the stage by storm, some command the stage, and some reveal that which creates the stage and all the actors upon it. The author of Angelish, John Sacelli, teaches his audience about the power of words and demonstrates how to create the stage, command the stage, become the stage, and be the most memorable stage holder of the event.
We are looking forward to delving into the mathematics of the words and the words of the mathematics soon.
John is more than an author. Judy was privileged to also experience John's poetry, his music, and to meet his beloved.
Poetry and Politics
the politics of revelation
and the economics of our own revulsion
to be overfed, and futile
in the face of desperation, hate and hunger
shatter such a crystal web
as the dreamer's sere poetic law
break idealist empty forms
scatter the thin glass of spirit
into powdered sift
and sweep that romance from the mind
but the old dream pieces filter down
into the new social stomach
and that's inside the rub, I think
of very raw gut revolution
man's own self-creation
will follow the historic line
but men in part will have their own
the struggle times man's history
but there are other, private time
quiet, awed and sudden moments
not of politics and economics
and if events are dialectical
they still repeat their themes
conceal, retain, reveal - to us
and require the rhythm of our minds
the dialectic is an art
and the artist is a man
poetry is born
of more than revolution
but let the revolution sing
and the poet will march
from night to day the dream is act
from day to night the act is dream
John Sacelli, 1968
Introduction to Angelish, Spelling Weirds, Casting Spells. The I Magi Nation
Words are spelled because they are castings of spells. 'Word' comes from Olde English or Nordic 'wyrd' (also the root of 'weird') which meant a spelling or casting of fate. When words are spelled they are combined into 'sentences' - and we are 'sentenced to live by the words we have spoken, the spells we cast'.
Some years back, when John was receiving his 'Shaman's Visions' or 'Medicine Dreams', the totem which came to him in the Dreamtime was a Lynx. After a while he began to find that he could enter the dream consciously, and travel with the lynx. These dream-time journeys went into other lands and cultures, but also into the past, and eventually 'other dimensions'. In addition, a group of people began to assemble around him who shared some of these past-life visions and experiences, a group which John came to call his 'soul circle'. At some point he had an abrupt realization: linking up to these people and experiences were 'the links' - another 'spelling' or dimension of 'lynx'. This was the beginning of John's tutorial in 'Angelish', which his inner guides described, humorously, as the 'Original Language'. That 'words are wyrds' was a part of that teaching.
These 'inner teachers' were a raucus lot. They were equally apt to show up in John's dreamscape in the image of Plato or Pluto, Einstein or Elvis, the Goddess Isis or Mae West. But other times they claimed to be a tribe of primitives, the land-dwelling males looking rather wolfish (though with hands), and the females living in the sea like mermaids with long green hair. What their mating rituals were like John won't try to describe. This outlandish appearance, and their tendency to shapeshift, they claimed said something about who they were, but equally a great deal about who John was. Because, according to them, John was actually one of them. A magician or magi. A part of their clan, tribe or nation. Specifically, we were all magicians, members of the tribe of the I Magi Nation. And that collectively, by our spellings and our visions (our imagination), we created the world.
John told them that insight was a flash of genius! "Genie us!" they applauded.
But it was also a little dangerous to think one had that kind of power, wasn't it? "Danger, us!" they concurred.
But couldn't this kind of logic screw up your mind, leave you insane? "In seine", they nodded; "caught in your own net."
And how does one come to learn Angelish! John pressed on. "Intuition," they replied. "To go to college and learn from others, pay tuition. To learn from self, pay intuition."
Over and over, the 'guides' asked John to listen more deeply to the words he was speaking. The word 'soul', for instance. Why is 'soul' a homonym (pronounced the same) as 'sole'. Because, to 'have soul', you must be uniquely (solely) yourself, you must have discovered your own unique sole, or solo, self. Okay, John could understand that. But they pressed on: why then do we have our 'souls' (soles) in the bottoms of our feet? Because a 'soul' which is not grounded in something greater than self is only an ego, a pretense. To really have soul, you must have both, be a unique expression of a greater whole. You cannot have soul without having community (grounding).
Another of John's early favorites in Angelish was the word 'pray', whose soundalike is 'prey'. How different are those two! But the guides (donning gauzy angel wings and devil horns) insisted not. To prey without prayer, they agreed, is heartless, empty and cruel. But - to pray without prey, they added, is impotent. Life is vital when love and power work together.
Then there were the various forms of dancing the 'angels' showed John. For instance, there was transcendance - the 'trance end dance'. To escape boredom and rigidity, dance the trance-end-dance! Or take the word 'abundance'. If you seek prosperity, well then, you have to move your ass (the females flashed their curvaceous mermaidly tails) - a bun dance! I was a little embarrassed looking at their cute (but somewhat fishy) posteriors. They giggled and pointed back at me. I looked down to find that I was also without a stitch of clothing. 'Embarrassed', they grinned (still shaking their booties) means 'I'm bare-assed'. Which, however, is not the same thing as ascendance - the ass end dance, or ungrounded desire to fly away. Or avoidance, a void dance, dancing alone.
That was all very cute, John told them, but he was cynical. He accused the guides of making bad puns. "Ah, cynical," they replied, wagging now their fingers (or paws or fins) at him. "The 'cynical' is the 'sin I call'. What I denounce in others, I make part of myself."
John became irate with the constant punning: "Irate!" they retorted," - the I-rate! The cost of separation."
The males and females were all still dancing, a twisting erotic spiral. You guys are more than a little kinky, John told them. "You the same as us," they responded. "All family. A little kin-key."
They moved faster and began to sparkle, shimmering vortices of light. Then slowed a bit, and John saw the forms of fairies. The fairies gathered together and took on the shape of the lynx. Then separated out into fairies again. "We're all fairies," they seemed to be saying, then turned collectively into a ferry boat, "because it's our job to ferry you back and forth between this reality and others."
They became the Lynx again. "It's all magic," they said. "Every part of reality. People used to know that they were magical. That everything was alchemy. That everyone was all key me. You think alchemists were trying to change lead into gold? They were changing 'led' into 'goaled'. Changing passive lives under the control of others into purposeful lives in which people set their own goals. Alchemy - all key me."
I asked them why they called their language Angelish. "Because we think in Feminist Mathematics," they told me. "Ma-Thematics, the Mother's Themes. The Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden was Geometry, the Geo-Me-Tree. Angels are angles. That's why a big important angel is called an Archangel while a big important angle is called an arc angle.
We all come from God. Each one of us is the radius, or Ray Dius (ray of God) of our own sphere of being.
There was more. A lot more. So much in fact that John eventually compiled an entire Dictionary of Angelish.
But sometimes John thinks it's all too much. Why do I listen to you? John asked them.
"Because," they said.
Because what?
"Be cause. Or be caused." And they were gone.
About John:
John Sacelli, a graduate of Yale University with B.Arts in philosophy, has spent 35 years exploring alternative therapies, spiritual paths, body work, and shamanism. He spent fours years as a Civil Rights Worker in Alabama and Community Organizer in Chicago, then enrolled in Berkeley Free University in California, taking classes in Aikido, Polarity, Gestalt Therapy, Reichian Energetics, Tae Kwon Do, Kundalini Yoga, Deep Tissue Massage, and 'anything that sounded weird, oriental or exotic'. He has worked and studied with gurus, yogis, Zen masters, kahunas, sages, witches and 'medicine people' of all persuasions.
John has hitchhiked through America, Mexico, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe while it was 'behind the Iron Curtain'. He has taken a canoe from Michigan to New Orleans, and a motorcycle across the US, Canada and Mexico.
He has made his living as taxi driver, migrant farm laborer, writer, editor, massage therapist, commercial fisherman, yoga teacher, astrologer, and is currently a free-lance 'Urban Shaman' in Chicago. He has conducted workshops in Polarity Therapy, Kundalini Yoga, Deep Tissue Massage, Soul Circles, The Dreamtime and Shamanism across North America.
While experiencing a series of Shamanic Visions, he met his totem Lynx (links) who introduced him to a series of interdimensional, alternative and past life adventures, and also to the subject of 'Angelish, the Original Language'. 'Angelish' is an inner logic lying inside ordinary language which reconnects us to the original 'spelling' (spell-casting) of words.
John has spent years tracking down old texts on history, prophecy, mythology and ancient cultures, and also been deeply involved with the Change of Ages as the beginning of an entire new Platonic 'Great Year' (26,000 year precessional cycle). His guides have told him the 'earth changes' forecast in many traditions, which produced the events of the 'Great Flood' and 'Sinking of Atlantis' at an antipodal point 13,000 years back, can be obviated and directed through spiritual intention by connecting through 'Center Self' to 'Center Earth' and 'Center Source', since 'All Center is One with All'. This has brought him to an understanding of the work of Alchemy (Angelish 'All Key Me'), the purpose of which was not to turn lead into gold, but 'led' (controlled by others) into 'goaled' (living in creative partnership with Spirit).
John's Mission Statement:
Each one of us enters this life with a mission, a unique and special task we seek to accomplish over the duration of our lives. A purpose which utilizes and tests and pushes us to the edge of our creativity, our compassion, our courage and spirit. When we are 'on task', life opens to us, the air is fresh, each day holds new possibilities. When we 'lose the path', and try to live according to other people's values, fail to take risks, exaggerate or minimize our abilities, blame or attempt to use or control others, become greedy or fearful or lazy - then life appears flat, dull, painful and pointless. Finding our Soul Purpose brings us alive again.
John has been fortunate to have a number of special teachers along the way who have put him back on his path. Taught him to honor the truth, to open his heart, to recognize the gifts of others, to understand 'Original Mind', to reach across the dimensions, to hear the voices of people, animals, totems, devas, spirits. To find his own path, and, in doing so, become part of something greater than himself. It has become his work to share these teachers, these messages, these experiences in encouraging others to find their own unique and creative soul missions. As well as the collective missions we share together.
Copyright 2007 - 2016 by John Sacelli. All rights.