
Laurel Airica discusses the transformative power of language and wordplay in enhancing consciousness and communication.
Laurel Airica (1944-2024) was a Linguistic Evolutionary and Educational Entertainer. She is the creator of WordMagic – a way of playing with words that makes people smarter, wiser, kinder, 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 HumanKindness. She is author of, Horsing Around: The Inside Word on Marriage and Horses, WordMagic: WordPlay That Puts a New Spin on the Whirled and the Book of E: A Book of Alphabet Alchemy. Her website is laurelairica.com.In this video, rebooted from 2022, Laurel describes how we can self-awaken through wordplay. She plays with words that coexist with different concepts that are married through sounds, such as a homonym or pun. She has developed an intuitive “inner-standing” of how language echoes and reflects us. She suggests that the English language is the leading software of the western mind. However, words can be debilitating, confusing, and loaded with subliminal and contradictory messages. We can collectively and creatively upgrade language…
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