December 21st, 2008
The importance of names
Names are incredibly important. We spend lots of time deciding our children’s names, as well as how we ourselves want to be termed. The sound vibrations of our name are inherent in our own energy. We embody our names, which is often why some people look like their name. Of course some people do not look like their names, which perhaps could be interpreted as their name not quite being an appropriate vibration for the way they have developed.
Names shape reality, they are part of our nature and structure our environment. In some cultures, especially in the culture of the classroom, names are power. Learning a child’s name is one of the first things that the supply teacher must do. Sharing names is an essential step to feeling like you can relax with a person.
Names, while more than words, are still words. And words are our way into the world. They act as symbols, whose reverberations acts in the same way as music might. They derive from a gut level, and they are shaped, cut and reformed in the same way as blacksmith shapes a shoe. They are in essence recyclable and we reuse them to describe a vibration, a tone or capture an energy - whether we know we are doing this or not.
Knowing the essence of our name requires us first to break it down into its phonemes - in other words, its vibrations. Each vibration has an essence with a character, the depths of which we are only now just beginning to understand.