Now who would be the long ago ancient people who were part of the process of creating the baybayin writing system? They were probably those who were already recognized for their previous contributions to the community. And it is also probable, that they were those who were recognized as sages who lived their wisdom every day, and who had innate knowledge and understanding of many things(kaalaman galing sa loob). Remember now, that...
Read MoreCarl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, saw dreams as images wrought with symbolism generated by the psyche. Jung and his followers brought together their findings of world mystical and mythological symbolism through the ages to use them as guides to bring about psychological breakthroughs and spiritual transformation. Jungian therapists use the deeper, ancient meanings of symbolism in order to help...
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It is very well possible that some of the symbols that became incorporated in the baybayin system were first used to denote ideas—with no specific sounds or words in mind. Objects and thought forms come before language so it is not unfeasible that the writing symbols of the baybayin evolved from pictographs that initially represented ideas/concepts and objects. That theory is illustrated here on how the BA baybayin symbol very...
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We need to remember and understand the indigenous worldview of our Philippine ancestors, and maybe even embrace it again. It was one where there was a respect for all of life because of the belief that all things had a soul and meaning. In order to understand the deeper meanings of Baybayin symbols and to accept that they are NOT just one-dimensional letters in an alphabet, we Filipinos need to rediscover in what ways our ancestors...
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“Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words are the symbols of spoken words.” (Interpretation, Aristotle) In a sense, phonetics may justly be called a study of symbols. The process we call speech is essentially a system of symbolization that has been built up to make negotiable from one individual to another his concept of certain objects, qualities, acts, ideas… (Source: Phonetics: An Introduction to...
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To come to know the baybayin symbols’ deeper meanings, we will need to be aware of our tacit knowing. …a corporeal or postural schema gives us a practical and implicit notion of the relation between our body and things. In this way we experience presence which, in the pre-verbal period of early childhood is a situation seemingly without distance, one of immediacy. It is this aspect of perception, of presence in a world...
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