METAPHORICAL DICTIONARY
Book 1
GUISM: PSYCHICAL MUTATIONS OF HOMO SAPIENS
Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk
Translated by Kate Bazilevsky
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Philological Problem With Proto-Language Is Solved
Driver
Guism: Psychical Mutations Of Homo Sapiens
Bibliography
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PREFACE
We suppose that not only linguists and psychologists know that the main function of language is communicative. Language was created, first of all, to transfer information from person to person. As to when and by whom it was created—whether by gods or by people themselves—that is a different question, which we will leave to philologists.
As psychologists, who in parallel study language related matters, we were more interested in something else: can the solution of one of the philological problems—the problem of finding the proto-language (also called proto-world or proto-human language)—help solve the problem of communication between people? We were very successful in finding the answer to this question and decided to share our research results.
However, the main thing is that during the course of our research we found the proto-language itself! The proof of this is the Metaphorical Dictionary, created on the basis of the proto-language that we found. We will share fragments from this dictionary in this series of books.
A metaphorical dictionary is a dictionary that explains the meaning of concepts, but instead of being created based on words of some language like all other explanatory dictionaries—it is created based on images of collective unconscious, using the words of Carl G. Jung, as well as individual unconscious, about which neither Jung nor other psychoanalysts did not know anything.
This dictionary is absolutely, and we are not afraid to use this word, unique—if you decide to look for a metaphorical dictionary, you will not find one like this anywhere.
Why does humanity need the Metaphorical Dictionary and is it needed at all? Answers to these questions lie on the surface, as no one will deny that communication problems between people in this civilization exist. Moreover, they are so serious and neglected that in fact there is much more understanding even between representatives of the animal kingdom, who are much more primitive compared to Homo sapiens.
As we found out, the matter is that the transition from hieroglyphics to phonemographic language deprived words of images. An image is expressed by a word, recorded by letters of an alphabet, and for each person, who says it—there is his own, individual underlying image that is different from the image of another person, who uses the same word. With replacement of hieroglyphic writing with phonemographic the meaning, the essence, the same range of understanding destructurizes interpersonal relations to one degree or another.
Our Metaphorical Dictionary easily solves any communication problems, or rather—it eliminates them altogether since this Dictionary is not just a collection of words and their meanings: behind every concept under consideration is an image, a picture. As it is known, a picture helps understand the meaning of words. It is not for nothing that small children around the world learn their native language from books with pictures! After all, you can try describing what you mean using words for quite a long time, but your opponent still might not understand you, but if you show him a picture, then at once everything is clear and understandable.
Psychologists can continue believing that people think using words and religious figures can continue to appeal to the Bible that states In the beginning there was a word,
but millions of years ago Homo sapiens thought using images, and continue to successfully do so in the 21st century.
In any language words are only a form of transmission of mental images. After all, a person deaf since birth does not hear words, but this does not mean that he does not think.
Our Metaphorical Dictionary is intended for each and every person. After all, communicative problems are universal and every person in this civilization encounters them, regardless of social stratum, educational level, skin color, gender, language, and so on. Good education and culture certainly help, but they still cannot solve this problem.
At the same time, people need to communicate every day because none of us exists in this world by himself—we all live in society of our own kind. A different matter is: are we really similar, if we take into account the fact that different people using the same word mean different things? Given the existence of this problem, we think that the Metaphorical Dictionary can be quite interesting and useful for absolutely everyone—for representatives of any social stratum, race, nationality, gender, religion and so on.
This Metaphorical Dictionary includes some selectively taken materials from over 40 research studies of images: both natural and artificial (or human imagination—see http://www.humanpopulationacademy.org/faq/). However, this research is still under way, so it is very likely that in the future we will publish it as a continuation of this series of books.
Those people, who do not have special psychological or linguistic background should not turn way when they see the title of this book because, despite that books in this series include results of strictly scientific research, they are written using maximally simple, understandable language and we tried to avoid the use of scientific terminology when possible. We did this in order to enable anyone to get acquainted with results of our research and use it to solve their communicative problems. We hope that our colleagues will forgive us for a somewhat simplified language.
In conclusion, we would like to state that the research of proto-language described in this series was carried out over two decades ago, but we are publishing it only now. Although, probably, this is for the better because over the years not only we ourselves and colleagues at our laboratory, but also our numerous clients had enough time to make sure that recipes provided by the proto-language that we found really work. And now, we are proposing that you, dear reader, confirm this for yourself.
Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk and Kate Bazilevsky
Los Angeles, California
December 2017
INTRODUCTION:
PHILOLOGICAL PROBLEM WITH PROTO-LANGUAGE IS SOLVED
As it is known, linguists have long been interested in the matter of existence of the proto-language as the first language (world language),¹ from which all languages of the world came into existence. Some of them are of the opinion that this language once existed, but then disappeared without a trace. At some point, we—psychologists—became interested in this matter as well.
Why? Due to presence
