I’m very interested in the life of King David, to include historicity but also any other Jewish knowledge that might not come through in a Christian curriculum. Do you have any advice or interest in doing an episode? Absolutely love your work. The best series on TH-cam of all time. Your friends over at LTR and Angela’s Symposium are great too. Thank you.
Im over the moon about more Hildegard episodes. She was an absolute visionary. Catherine of Siena is another brilliant medieval mystic. Have you thought about doing an episode on Francis of Assisi? There is so much to stay about him. I am particularlly fascinated by his stigmata and the series of saints that came after him that also displayed the stigmata and... bizarre bodily changes post-death.
Esoterica video on stigmata could be interesting, I dunno if there's a whole lot there that is esoteric since it's the gold standard of piety in Catholicism but it's certainly a rich topic.
@@theeccentrictripper3863I see what you're saying, but from the medieval perspective, Francis's stigmata was revolutionary. Things also got very bizarre in the following years, as the trend only got more extreme. After her death, Clare of Montefalco's heart was found to have a crucifix imprinted on it. Really fabulous stuff.
I‘m friends with the nuns of St. Hildegards Abbey (yes, it still exists) and they are always happy when someone acknowledges her body of work beyond herbs and medical stuff. So looking very much forward to more Hildegard content. Will send the video to the sisters.
Today is my Birthday and I feel like you have given me the best gift of another woman to look up to, study and hyper fixate on… I just purchased a few books on Hildegard and am so looking forward to diving into the deep end with them. I also very much appreciated the “Can’t we just believe her?” bit. Thank you, Dr. Sledge 🙏🏻
I love Hildegard's music. I became obsessed when I first discovered her work while getting my vocal degree. I really appreciate that your channel covers her history and religious writings.
What I like about Hildegard is that she was identified as a migraineur by Oliver Sacks. I have been a person of vision for longer than I was eventually diagnosed with persistent migraine aura and I feel connected in a neurodivergent way, I have been seeing psychedelic stuff since probably as long as I can remember and not having a clue what it was all about. It goes beyond that as well into various kinds of perceptual distortions that have been called "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome and the reason I think that "speaking in tongues" as I have heard it in pentacostal communities is a load of bull is because I can slip in and out of a glossolalic prolixity just like that and it is purely a neurological thing nothing to do with magic or psycholinguistics at all, more connected I suspect with Tourettes which I also have a problem with. Oh to be such a terrible rationalist, which is why I enjoy this channel so much, I have read a great deal of esoterica and weighed it all in the balance. Yeah but regardless of all Hildegard is my sister for sure.
I am Catholic and I was confirmed as Hildegard von Bingen. She's my patroness❤ I am beyond excited to see you post more content about her extraordinary life! Also looking forward to a St Bernard episode! Will you dive into the manna mysteries? 👀
I’m thrilled to see you tackle Hildegard, an enthusiasm of mine since college. I knew and know so little about her lingua ignota, so it’s wonderful to hear more. I think it’s important to see her as part of the remarkable flowering of the so-called High Middle Ages-so many developments in governance, society, culture, and religion, and so many gifted people-Henry II of England, Abelard, Bernard, Francis, Aquinas, Hildegard herself-on and on.
I just listened to Canticles of Ecstasy (prompted by this video) the whole album. I meant to only listen to one song just to check it out… I love this. Thank you.
It's the Episcopal Deacon, Pete, again. I came across Hildegard von Bingen during my formation years. I found a cd of her music when searching for meditation chants. Her music takes you to different worlds. Also, if you meditate on the drawings of her visions you may also get a jolt here or there. Thank you for producing this gem! As it's shown in a good many other comments, further episodes will be greatly welcome!
I studied medieval and Renaissance women's literature with Dr.Katharina Wilson. Y'all can't imagine how obscure many of these important women were in 1988. We are so lucky to have Justin's excellent presentations.
I gave birth to my daughter listening to Hildegard's music on repeat, nearly 20 years ago, and I've loved walking the Labyrinth listening to her music. Rev Dr Lauren Artress talks about her in the Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator training. Loved this episode. Thank you.
It's interesting you mention Hildegard's language having a droning/buzzing sound. I have been thinking lately how English is kinda hissy...lots of "sss" and "shh" sounds. I'm likely noticing it more due to my recent endavors to become a stenographer. Everything is phonetic for us. Snakes and bees. This was an interesting watch. Listening to her acheivements was simultaneously inspiring and exhausting.
Thank you for featuring Hildegard! I first discovered her through her music, then later the other amazing accomplishments she achieved. An amazing woman of wonder, and the person at the top of my heroes list. I look forward to your future episodes on HIldegard. 🙏🙏🙏
Just discovered you through the “Let’s talk religion” channel, and as a Catholic I’m happy as all heck this was one of the first vids I found myself with here! Looking forward to watching the content, and thanks for what you do!
I am a massive fan of Hildegard. I teach her in my World Literature courses. I was thrilled when she finally made her way into the Norton Anthology. I have all the books on her, and I'd love to see you cover her again and again.
I found a book at my local bookshop about medieval mystic women a few weeks ago and an illustration of Hildegard is the cover- every drawing of her is so cool
I first learned of her this summer, from the Christian Mysticism podcast. Her description of the fire of her experiences felt like what I experience sometimes, and then I began listening to her music which is absolutely wonderful. This is the third time now that she's popped into my sphere, unexpected and welcome. I really enjoy your podcast, thank you for all the hard work you put into it.
Thank you so much for revisiting this. I'd never heard of her before watching your channel. Your channel is a wealth of information I've never had access to.
Pretty fascinating stuf! If Hildegaaard was indeed a Physician [including exorcisms], it seems like it would benefit her and her team to have extra-lingo terms for so many issues: disease, sins, bodily concepts.. so that they could discuss unmolested amongst themselves even during tense processes. To brainstorm without a perceived evil & potentially wicked smart force reckoning it. Wonder if around such code words Latin cushioned it all for ease?
Fascinating video, looking forward to more presentations on Hildegard and Bernard of Clairvaux. Not sure if you'd come across it, David Lynch produced an album of Hildegard's music with the singer Jocelyn Montgomery, Lux Vivens. It's one of my favorite albums, kind of a cross between Lynch's musical style & cinematic sound design with her medieval music, and I think the vocalist is fantastic.
It was many years ago when I first began to truly enjoy classical music and 'accidently' bought a CD of Hildegard's music. It really is quite beautiful!🙏🕊️🙏
I sometimes see symbols and characters like those that Hildegard saw, when I am just waking up. It is like a remnant of the dream within my retinas. They do look like flowing characters like that which she described and illustrated. Very cool stuff, no idea what they mean though. I am sure that her scientific work did not get impaired by her creating her own language or seeing symbols in her visions. I think she was reaching for something good.
I adore Hildegard; excited to see this episode and very much look forward to more of them. Even though I did a deep dive into her life and works a few years ago, I can never get enough hearing others speak of her - thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful description of Hildegard's multifaceted work. I did not know of her lingua ignota, so you have given me something to ponder. I listened to her Ordo Virtutum, where the only character who got a speaking part was Satan, because music is, of course, a gift of God.
As someone agnostic and skeptical I oddly can’t help but be drawn towards these types of scholarly videos. I don’t believe these people got in touch with some mystical being or beings but I don’t believe they are crazy either. They are spiritual artist with conviction of the mystical and sacred.
Maynard!! 😍 Great way to start out this video! (I haven't watched the rest of it yet, but had to say something because I got super excited you included him!) Ok, now on to watching the rest! 🙃🤘🏻
I recently started listen to some chant of the liturgy of the hours in the mornings. Not because I am particularly Catholic, but because I find it a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Now I have a whole new catalogue to explore. Thank you!
I've never heard of such an astounding mystical figure, I'm surprised! Her musical compositions and melodious inspirations are very beautiful, it gives me joy that her works can be performed and listened to across the world now. It feels like her vision wanted this divine inspiration to last through ages, it is a fascinating contribution to the spirit of humankind.
Thank you so much for this exploration of the extraordinary creations of Hildegard of Bingen. She was one of my earliest musical influences. I wrote a short work for six-part women’s choir using her lingua ignota as part of my dissertation concert. I could not imagine concluding my formal education in composition without acknowledging the extraordinary woman who had inspired that education in the first place. ❤
Regarding ontological shocks... Kicking off the episode with Snoop Dogg hanging with Maynard? You know how to appeal to us young un's, Doc Sledge! Or in the parlance of today... That is totally rad, dude. Oh, and happy belated new year to you!
That theory of lingua Ignota as a shared language picturing life at the abbey reminds me of Wittgenstein (and, ironically, Deleuze & Guattari) idea of Language as the expression and structure of a form of life. The idea thata synthetic as well as poetic mind like Hildegard of Bingen would find within her (with all the problems interiority adds into language theory... see the linguists' meltdown on the problem of a "private" language) the resources for that lingua ignota strikes me as the most plausible theory, and also the most beautiful one. Pure poetic creation as a means of collective cohesion. Is that isn't mysticism or religion at its best, I don't know what would be that.
Thanks a lot. I'm just reading a study of Hildegard by one of the Polish scholars. This is an interesting book but I'm happy to say that your brief intro is much better. Looking forward to next episodes.
The connection between semiotics and ontology is absolutely necessary for sacraments. This is why medieval inquisitors had such a hard time deciding what was illicit and licit magical praxis. Pickstock has a book where she calls this connection the “doxologic” that I found very useful though a slog.
if you're a metal fan, def check out the musician Lingua Ignota, aka Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter. very cool music, often influenced by heavy metal, classical, experimental, and avant garde styles. she really does evoke hildegard, and not just in name :)
what I kind of love about the first answer as to the nature of the language is... that it doesn't answer the question? like, it doesn't even try to. it's sexism, but furthermore, it is sexism used for deflection. "why did she write this?" "she didn't." "oh? then why has it been made, and by whom?" "it was her secretary." "and what does it mean?" "who cares, she didn't make it." "I still think it would be intere-" "she didn't make it, moving on" "and hang on, where did you get this idea from?" "oh, that's simple. she's a woman. of course she didn't make it." "I? What?" "Making a language is a feat so magnificent, only a man could do it." "obvious sexism aside, wouldn't you want to know even more now what this script had been written for, if you think it's a feat so grand, only half the population even has the hypothetical capacity to pursue it?" "nah" "why- why not?" "it's gibberish, mate, no point in trying to make sense of it" "what?"
Your introductory point about Saussure being a preeminent anti-mystic by virtue of the arbitrariness of the relation between the sign and signifier is fantastic and eye opening. This might sound overdramatic, but it makes my imagination race. I suddenly have inspired inklings of possibly fascinating new ways of reading various post linguistic turn philosophers. I can see how someone might very fruitfully approach Tractatus Wittgenstein, Derrida, Lacan, and even, like, Donald Davidson from an esoteric-ish perspective, and I can see how certain strains in their work might be really about trying to take various approaches to heal the rift of the symbol.
"1006 glossed or translated words-it's about 1012 if you count the repeats and unglossed words" Out of over a thousand words, she had fewer than SIX repeats? That's even more impressive than the Lingua Ignota is in the first place.
I have been convinced for a long time that a lot of oracles and mystics, they suffered from migraines. I suffer from quite severe ones, and if I was born in another time, I'd either be tried as a witch or revered for some hidden knowledge. You want speaking in tounges? Aphasia from auras. Visions of x? Symbols? That art of her vision rendered? Visual hallucinations from migraine auras. The voice x being? Music? Auditory hallucinations from migraine auras. Want an out of body experience? Migraine auras. Migraines bring pain but for some they also bring insights and revelations. Creativity. Inspiration. Some fear their auras Hildegard embraced hers.
there are a few notes at the end of your intro song that always lead me into a very specific part of Electric Head part 1 by white zombie, so I get it stuck in my head after watching you. It's a good thing though :)
So excited about this series. The point about many mystical languages containing that "z" sound makes me wonder if there's something deeply rooted in how our brains "do" language. When I was at primary school, I started to invent my own language (#UndiagnosedAutistic 🤣), most of which is lost to memory, except for one phrase, meaning "I am becoming angry": "Jiz jiznig binz!" Whatever was going on in my 6yo mind, it's interesting to note that same "z" sound cropping up. Maybe it's just that this actually *is* the language of an esoteric parallel realm, and the likes of Hildegard of Bingen and (to modestly append myself to the list!) Six-Year-Old Jae of Leeds are somehow managing to tap into it........?
Again Dr Justin Sledge... Wonderful work. But that said i am hugely biased. Firstly I'm a fan of yours.. (if i had the spare cash I'd be making a donation on patreon) secondly I've been a huge fan of Hildergard Von Bingen and this created, discovered language of hers is largely unexplored. He compositions are remarkable and transformative. I cannot recommend highly enough anything recorded by Sequentia.
Fascinating. There are so many esoteric languages out there. Are these languages and visions useful for everyone or just the recipient. This is a personal search to verify.
Dr. Sledge, love these language mysticism topics; thank you. Off-topic question, sorry: I’m trying to understand the Gnostic understanding of the relationship between the Greek letters and the Gnostic Aeons. In the letter mysticism of people like Marcus, were the Greek letters and the Aeons being essentially equated? Any chance of a deep dive into Gnostic letter mysticism? I don’t quite get it.. Is it like alpha is Anthropos, and omega is Ekklesia, and the remaining letters are the lower Aeons? Is it spelled out anywhere?
One of the earliest conlangs we know of, I also love the idea that was intended as a secret language for her convent. I could very easily see her getting into a trance and just conlanging.
I have always thought the conflict in philosophy of language was unwarranted like I think the "reason" symbol has information in it is its relationship to the "real" thing is communicating and the symbol is arbitrary about the information but the "style" of the symbol communicates how the receiver should be retrieving the informative in it. Kind of like a zip file vs a tarball vs pgp
: 42 ; I'm stoned coming off that Theraputae episode, and you're just coming out the gate talking 'Dawgology' with a random pic of Snoop and a rando white guy, has me in an intense hysterical ruminating contemplation of Bliss, lmfao, You are Treasure sir. 🎖️
I would guess z would be a ts-sound, based on German. It would curiously be the same feminine ending of certain greek forms in -sia, which used to be pronounced -tsia (from *-tia).
Not being Catholic, still the historical content is interesting to my studies in Hermetic Philosophy, Alchemy and Magick. Thank you for the introduction!
Yes, she was brilliant in many fields, she was brilliant in self-promotion too. So "selling" something that was "just" another product of her creativity as divinely revealed helped in promoting it. So there may never have been more words than those ~1000, she may have created them as needed.
Has anyone considered this origin story: Hildegard and her sisters at the nunnery came up (together) with a funny way of talking, so they could speak their minds to each other in front of outsiders, which Hildegard herself committed to writing, perhaps as a way to establish consistency for the training of novices? Yeah, just thought that one up myself... Six minutes left in the video to find out whether the idea already exists (at least in your sources)...
Speaking of symbols and meaning, I’ve been curious about the Mayan looking symbol on your page header. If it’s Mayan it must be a word or name. It’s a left hand maybe covering a mouth? Does it mean esoteric? It has me intrigued. Love your videos btw!
Another Catholic nun that was a scholar and mystic as well was Saint Teresa of Avilay, also known as 'St Teresa de Jesus' from Spain. She had numerous mystical visions which she documented in her writings. Her autobiography called: "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus"- includes descriptions of her ecstatic visions of the divine.
Visions accompanied by headaches? Sounds like migraines! As a migraineure myself, i hadn't considered how migraines would have been understood and experienced before the advent of modern medicine/neuroscience
I prefer your theory to the notion that this incomplete series of nouns is a divine language hand-wrapped by God for this lady. The imagery surrounding her visions is what keeps me coming back, it's both delightful and horrifying in a schizophrenic kind of way and I can only imagine the overwhelming confusion and resulting ecstasy from perceiving these, things, as images from/of the divine.
Did i just receive a bonus primer on the concise definitions for semiotics and ontology 1:25 🎉? The passage of spoken Latin is prodigious, Professor Sledge! Glossolalia! I thought that term was only used (obviously not) by Terence Mckenna in his almost stream of consciousness lectures. Will do must listen to her music! 🎉
I have for quite some time seen Hildegard as of the same archetype as the Mexican nun Sor Juana who graces the 200 peso bank note. Are you aware of any discussion of the similarities and/or differences between these two women separated by centuries, but doing things not really permitted to women in a religious context?
Hildegard has had modern influence on the music of the Elon Musk’s pareja, the singer/song writer Grimes. Hildegard also is credited with writing the first opera…
Hey, do you have any insight on “MASKELLI MASKELLO” and it’s frequent occurrence in the PGM, I would assume it was another gibberish set of nomina barbara but it also appears in the Pistis Sophia as a specific entity, kinda equated with “Zarazaz”(?)
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I’m very interested in the life of King David, to include historicity but also any other Jewish knowledge that might not come through in a Christian curriculum. Do you have any advice or interest in doing an episode? Absolutely love your work. The best series on TH-cam of all time. Your friends over at LTR and Angela’s Symposium are great too. Thank you.
Im over the moon about more Hildegard episodes. She was an absolute visionary. Catherine of Siena is another brilliant medieval mystic. Have you thought about doing an episode on Francis of Assisi? There is so much to stay about him. I am particularlly fascinated by his stigmata and the series of saints that came after him that also displayed the stigmata and... bizarre bodily changes post-death.
Esoterica video on stigmata could be interesting, I dunno if there's a whole lot there that is esoteric since it's the gold standard of piety in Catholicism but it's certainly a rich topic.
St Francis of Assisi! Yes please!
@@theeccentrictripper3863I see what you're saying, but from the medieval perspective, Francis's stigmata was revolutionary. Things also got very bizarre in the following years, as the trend only got more extreme. After her death, Clare of Montefalco's heart was found to have a crucifix imprinted on it. Really fabulous stuff.
@@ewinternetvideos that's insane! Will have to read more about this, thank you
Any direct insight into Catherine? Another cloistered mystic or something less austere?
I‘m friends with the nuns of St. Hildegards Abbey (yes, it still exists) and they are always happy when someone acknowledges her body of work beyond herbs and medical stuff. So looking very much forward to more Hildegard content. Will send the video to the sisters.
Share the video with them!
Not to be confused with Hildegard von Blingin, who does medieval covers of modern pop songs. Also worth a listen.
Damn you! You beat me! 🤣
Blingen also covered one of the abess' works, which is really cool!
Not 'arf bardcore.
@@HelperUTTP You're weird...just one video. And you do know the idiot Austrian corporal wasn't a fascist, right? :P
i think i like miracle aligner better
Today is my Birthday and I feel like you have given me the best gift of another woman to look up to, study and hyper fixate on… I just purchased a few books on Hildegard and am so looking forward to diving into the deep end with them. I also very much appreciated the “Can’t we just believe her?” bit. Thank you, Dr. Sledge 🙏🏻
Happy birthday and many thanks !
Happy birthday 🎉
Happy belated!
I love Hildegard's music. I became obsessed when I first discovered her work while getting my vocal degree. I really appreciate that your channel covers her history and religious writings.
What I like about Hildegard is that she was identified as a migraineur by Oliver Sacks. I have been a person of vision for longer than I was eventually diagnosed with persistent migraine aura and I feel connected in a neurodivergent way, I have been seeing psychedelic stuff since probably as long as I can remember and not having a clue what it was all about. It goes beyond that as well into various kinds of perceptual distortions that have been called "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome and the reason I think that "speaking in tongues" as I have heard it in pentacostal communities is a load of bull is because I can slip in and out of a glossolalic prolixity just like that and it is purely a neurological thing nothing to do with magic or psycholinguistics at all, more connected I suspect with Tourettes which I also have a problem with. Oh to be such a terrible rationalist, which is why I enjoy this channel so much, I have read a great deal of esoterica and weighed it all in the balance. Yeah but regardless of all Hildegard is my sister for sure.
I am Catholic and I was confirmed as Hildegard von Bingen. She's my patroness❤ I am beyond excited to see you post more content about her extraordinary life! Also looking forward to a St Bernard episode! Will you dive into the manna mysteries? 👀
As an Athiest, that is dope af
And St. Bernard was boss
edit: I'm not truly 100% athiest, but the statement is funner that way
@@bradivany7008 then you aren't at all. just like you can't be 100% a vegan
@@bradivany7008 I respect you!💗
@@langustajablecznaAtheists can either be gnostic or agnostic about it 👀 no need to be sharp
@@jeremias-serus then you aren't atheistic, very simple. It's fine to be agnostic
I’m thrilled to see you tackle Hildegard, an enthusiasm of mine since college. I knew and know so little about her lingua ignota, so it’s wonderful to hear more.
I think it’s important to see her as part of the remarkable flowering of the so-called High Middle Ages-so many developments in governance, society, culture, and religion, and so many gifted people-Henry II of England, Abelard, Bernard, Francis, Aquinas, Hildegard herself-on and on.
I just listened to Canticles of Ecstasy (prompted by this video) the whole album. I meant to only listen to one song just to check it out… I love this. Thank you.
It's the Episcopal Deacon, Pete, again. I came across Hildegard von Bingen during my formation years. I found a cd of her music when searching for meditation chants. Her music takes you to different worlds. Also, if you meditate on the drawings of her visions you may also get a jolt here or there. Thank you for producing this gem! As it's shown in a good many other comments, further episodes will be greatly welcome!
I studied medieval and Renaissance women's literature with Dr.Katharina Wilson. Y'all can't imagine how obscure many of these important women were in 1988. We are so lucky to have Justin's excellent presentations.
I gave birth to my daughter listening to Hildegard's music on repeat, nearly 20 years ago, and I've loved walking the Labyrinth listening to her music. Rev Dr Lauren Artress talks about her in the Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator training. Loved this episode. Thank you.
It's interesting you mention Hildegard's language having a droning/buzzing sound. I have been thinking lately how English is kinda hissy...lots of "sss" and "shh" sounds. I'm likely noticing it more due to my recent endavors to become a stenographer. Everything is phonetic for us. Snakes and bees.
This was an interesting watch. Listening to her acheivements was simultaneously inspiring and exhausting.
Thank you for featuring Hildegard! I first discovered her through her music, then later the other amazing accomplishments she achieved. An amazing woman of wonder, and the person at the top of my heroes list. I look forward to your future episodes on HIldegard. 🙏🙏🙏
Her music is enchanting and otherworldly ❤
Just discovered you through the “Let’s talk religion” channel, and as a Catholic I’m happy as all heck this was one of the first vids I found myself with here! Looking forward to watching the content, and thanks for what you do!
Dr. Sledge you are a treasure ! Respect
I am a massive fan of Hildegard. I teach her in my World Literature courses. I was thrilled when she finally made her way into the Norton Anthology. I have all the books on her, and I'd love to see you cover her again and again.
Could you kindly tell me which of those books you would recommend to read first?
Your reverence for women is always a breath of much needed fresh air. We appreciate you!
I wouldn't call it reverence. I would call it basic human respect. Which makes it all the more pity that it's even noticeable.
I found a book at my local bookshop about medieval mystic women a few weeks ago and an illustration of Hildegard is the cover- every drawing of her is so cool
I first learned of her this summer, from the Christian Mysticism podcast. Her description of the fire of her experiences felt like what I experience sometimes, and then I began listening to her music which is absolutely wonderful. This is the third time now that she's popped into my sphere, unexpected and welcome. I really enjoy your podcast, thank you for all the hard work you put into it.
Thank you so much for revisiting this. I'd never heard of her before watching your channel. Your channel is a wealth of information I've never had access to.
Pretty fascinating stuf! If Hildegaaard was indeed a Physician [including exorcisms], it seems like it would benefit her and her team to have extra-lingo terms for so many issues: disease, sins, bodily concepts.. so that they could discuss unmolested amongst themselves even during tense processes. To brainstorm without a perceived evil & potentially wicked smart force reckoning it. Wonder if around such code words Latin cushioned it all for ease?
Fascinating video, looking forward to more presentations on Hildegard and Bernard of Clairvaux.
Not sure if you'd come across it, David Lynch produced an album of Hildegard's music with the singer Jocelyn Montgomery, Lux Vivens.
It's one of my favorite albums, kind of a cross between Lynch's musical style & cinematic sound design with her medieval music, and I think the vocalist is fantastic.
It was many years ago when I first began to truly enjoy classical music and 'accidently' bought a CD of Hildegard's music. It really is quite beautiful!🙏🕊️🙏
I baked her recipie for Spelt Bread once, it was delicious. It felt cool to taste something of her creation.
I sometimes see symbols and characters like those that Hildegard saw, when I am just waking up. It is like a remnant of the dream within my retinas. They do look like flowing characters like that which she described and illustrated. Very cool stuff, no idea what they mean though. I am sure that her scientific work did not get impaired by her creating her own language or seeing symbols in her visions. I think she was reaching for something good.
As a woman from the current age, I really enjoyed your beautiful sigh, thank you for expressing that feeling 17:52
It's so stupidly frustrating to have to deal with misogyny like that...and I'm not even a woman.
🙌 preach ❤
I adore Hildegard; excited to see this episode and very much look forward to more of them. Even though I did a deep dive into her life and works a few years ago, I can never get enough hearing others speak of her - thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful description of Hildegard's multifaceted work. I did not know of her lingua ignota, so you have given me something to ponder. I listened to her Ordo Virtutum, where the only character who got a speaking part was Satan, because music is, of course, a gift of God.
As someone agnostic and skeptical I oddly can’t help but be drawn towards these types of scholarly videos. I don’t believe these people got in touch with some mystical being or beings but I don’t believe they are crazy either. They are spiritual artist with conviction of the mystical and sacred.
Maynard!! 😍 Great way to start out this video! (I haven't watched the rest of it yet, but had to say something because I got super excited you included him!) Ok, now on to watching the rest! 🙃🤘🏻
I recently started listen to some chant of the liturgy of the hours in the mornings. Not because I am particularly Catholic, but because I find it a beautiful and relaxing way to start the day. Now I have a whole new catalogue to explore. Thank you!
I've never heard of such an astounding mystical figure, I'm surprised! Her musical compositions and melodious inspirations are very beautiful, it gives me joy that her works can be performed and listened to across the world now. It feels like her vision wanted this divine inspiration to last through ages, it is a fascinating contribution to the spirit of humankind.
Her music is beautiful
A beautiful, fruitful, and harmonious New Calendar Year to you, my friend! Cheers!
Every single time a HvB episode shows up, it was sorely needed in my procession of ideas. Thanks again Dr. Sledge
Didn't know that about the etymology of "mysticism". Excellent video, I'm going listen to some of her music now!
The music is powerfully moving.
Thanks for being a trekkie. My mom and aunt would be proud!❤
Thank you so much for this exploration of the extraordinary creations of Hildegard of Bingen. She was one of my earliest musical influences. I wrote a short work for six-part women’s choir using her lingua ignota as part of my dissertation concert. I could not imagine concluding my formal education in composition without acknowledging the extraordinary woman who had inspired that education in the first place. ❤
Absolutely riveting video, and I’m very much looking forward to more videos about this remarkable woman. Thanks for all you do.
I absolutely love the cultural references you make in your videos, dawg. (Meant with due respect)
Very interesting video! I look forward to more on Hildegard
Regarding ontological shocks... Kicking off the episode with Snoop Dogg hanging with Maynard? You know how to appeal to us young un's, Doc Sledge! Or in the parlance of today... That is totally rad, dude. Oh, and happy belated new year to you!
That theory of lingua Ignota as a shared language picturing life at the abbey reminds me of Wittgenstein (and, ironically, Deleuze & Guattari) idea of Language as the expression and structure of a form of life.
The idea thata synthetic as well as poetic mind like Hildegard of Bingen would find within her (with all the problems interiority adds into language theory... see the linguists' meltdown on the problem of a "private" language) the resources for that lingua ignota strikes me as the most plausible theory, and also the most beautiful one. Pure poetic creation as a means of collective cohesion. Is that isn't mysticism or religion at its best, I don't know what would be that.
I appreciate how you revise your old videos. I just watched your previous version of this video last night. Keep up the good work
please do a few more episodes on Hildegard 🌿
Yep
Looks covering her written works would be worth of an episode unto itself
love your channel! thank you so much, you are wonderful.
I appreciate the absolute deadpan. You are a performer after my own heart. Much love. 💓🙏🏻
Thanks a lot. I'm just reading a study of Hildegard by one of the Polish scholars. This is an interesting book but I'm happy to say that your brief intro is much better. Looking forward to next episodes.
anything about hildegarde is awesome. also, saving up to buy merch, you have the most badass stuff of any youtuber!
The connection between semiotics and ontology is absolutely necessary for sacraments. This is why medieval inquisitors had such a hard time deciding what was illicit and licit magical praxis.
Pickstock has a book where she calls this connection the “doxologic” that I found very useful though a slog.
great one, looking forward to more about Hildegard von Bingen
if you're a metal fan, def check out the musician Lingua Ignota, aka Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter. very cool music, often influenced by heavy metal, classical, experimental, and avant garde styles. she really does evoke hildegard, and not just in name :)
“The John Coltrane of playing Chant”. Doc. Every time I think I got you, you get deeper on me Bro.
what I kind of love about the first answer as to the nature of the language is... that it doesn't answer the question? like, it doesn't even try to. it's sexism, but furthermore, it is sexism used for deflection.
"why did she write this?"
"she didn't."
"oh? then why has it been made, and by whom?"
"it was her secretary."
"and what does it mean?"
"who cares, she didn't make it."
"I still think it would be intere-"
"she didn't make it, moving on"
"and hang on, where did you get this idea from?"
"oh, that's simple. she's a woman. of course she didn't make it."
"I? What?"
"Making a language is a feat so magnificent, only a man could do it."
"obvious sexism aside, wouldn't you want to know even more now what this script had been written for, if you think it's a feat so grand, only half the population even has the hypothetical capacity to pursue it?"
"nah"
"why- why not?"
"it's gibberish, mate, no point in trying to make sense of it"
"what?"
Wish I had studied her in college when I had the chance. Great video!
These are definitely some of my favorite episodes I really enjoy this stuff!
So excited about this series 😍🫶🏼Thank you❤
I would like to thank you for sharing this kind of knowledge with us, for free, on the internet. As it should be :)
Your introductory point about Saussure being a preeminent anti-mystic by virtue of the arbitrariness of the relation between the sign and signifier is fantastic and eye opening. This might sound overdramatic, but it makes my imagination race. I suddenly have inspired inklings of possibly fascinating new ways of reading various post linguistic turn philosophers. I can see how someone might very fruitfully approach Tractatus Wittgenstein, Derrida, Lacan, and even, like, Donald Davidson from an esoteric-ish perspective, and I can see how certain strains in their work might be really about trying to take various approaches to heal the rift of the symbol.
Her music is beautyful
"1006 glossed or translated words-it's about 1012 if you count the repeats and unglossed words"
Out of over a thousand words, she had fewer than SIX repeats? That's even more impressive than the Lingua Ignota is in the first place.
These are basically from the symphonia
Thank you, this resonates early Christianity and the importance of women in the church is important and needed.
Thank you so much! Best channel on TH-cam!
I have been convinced for a long time that a lot of oracles and mystics, they suffered from migraines. I suffer from quite severe ones, and if I was born in another time, I'd either be tried as a witch or revered for some hidden knowledge. You want speaking in tounges? Aphasia from auras. Visions of x? Symbols? That art of her vision rendered? Visual hallucinations from migraine auras. The voice x being? Music? Auditory hallucinations from migraine auras. Want an out of body experience? Migraine auras.
Migraines bring pain but for some they also bring insights and revelations. Creativity. Inspiration.
Some fear their auras Hildegard embraced hers.
there are a few notes at the end of your intro song that always lead me into a very specific part of Electric Head part 1 by white zombie, so I get it stuck in my head after watching you. It's a good thing though :)
So excited about this series. The point about many mystical languages containing that "z" sound makes me wonder if there's something deeply rooted in how our brains "do" language. When I was at primary school, I started to invent my own language (#UndiagnosedAutistic 🤣), most of which is lost to memory, except for one phrase, meaning "I am becoming angry": "Jiz jiznig binz!" Whatever was going on in my 6yo mind, it's interesting to note that same "z" sound cropping up.
Maybe it's just that this actually *is* the language of an esoteric parallel realm, and the likes of Hildegard of Bingen and (to modestly append myself to the list!) Six-Year-Old Jae of Leeds are somehow managing to tap into it........?
Again Dr Justin Sledge... Wonderful work. But that said i am hugely biased. Firstly I'm a fan of yours.. (if i had the spare cash I'd be making a donation on patreon) secondly I've been a huge fan of Hildergard Von Bingen and this created, discovered language of hers is largely unexplored. He compositions are remarkable and transformative. I cannot recommend highly enough anything recorded by Sequentia.
Fascinating. There are so many esoteric languages out there. Are these languages and visions useful for everyone or just the recipient. This is a personal search to verify.
Snoop and Maynard! That just made my day ;)
Dr. Sledge, love these language mysticism topics; thank you. Off-topic question, sorry: I’m trying to understand the Gnostic understanding of the relationship between the Greek letters and the Gnostic Aeons. In the letter mysticism of people like Marcus, were the Greek letters and the Aeons being essentially equated? Any chance of a deep dive into Gnostic letter mysticism? I don’t quite get it.. Is it like alpha is Anthropos, and omega is Ekklesia, and the remaining letters are the lower Aeons? Is it spelled out anywhere?
One of the earliest conlangs we know of, I also love the idea that was intended as a secret language for her convent. I could very easily see her getting into a trance and just conlanging.
So, can we please have no more replies from literal NAZIs?
Thank you Justin, Along with the wish of a wonderful year for you.
I love her music so much
I have always thought the conflict in philosophy of language was unwarranted like I think the "reason" symbol has information in it is its relationship to the "real" thing is communicating and the symbol is arbitrary about the information but the "style" of the symbol communicates how the receiver should be retrieving the informative in it. Kind of like a zip file vs a tarball vs pgp
Thank you Justin! Happy new year!
: 42 ; I'm stoned coming off that Theraputae episode, and you're just coming out the gate talking 'Dawgology' with a random pic of Snoop and a rando white guy, has me in an intense hysterical ruminating contemplation of Bliss, lmfao, You are Treasure sir. 🎖️
Amazing she wasn't condemned as a witch and burned at the stake.
Very much the opposite
I would guess z would be a ts-sound, based on German. It would curiously be the same feminine ending of certain greek forms in -sia, which used to be pronounced -tsia (from *-tia).
Not being Catholic, still the historical content is interesting to my studies in Hermetic Philosophy, Alchemy and Magick. Thank you for the introduction!
Yes, she was brilliant in many fields, she was brilliant in self-promotion too. So "selling" something that was "just" another product of her creativity as divinely revealed helped in promoting it. So there may never have been more words than those ~1000, she may have created them as needed.
Has anyone considered this origin story: Hildegard and her sisters at the nunnery came up (together) with a funny way of talking, so they could speak their minds to each other in front of outsiders, which Hildegard herself committed to writing, perhaps as a way to establish consistency for the training of novices? Yeah, just thought that one up myself... Six minutes left in the video to find out whether the idea already exists (at least in your sources)...
They lived in a convent and never really interacted with outsiders.
@@TheEsotericaChannel how bout the idea that it developed communally, as opposed to being entirely Hildegard's creation? Thanks for the feedback btw
There's no evidence for that and there's no evidence that her language continue to be used after her death
Let's @#$&'ing Goooooo! Another amazing video from the professor! ❤
Your usage of imagery language is most interesting.
I love hearing more about hildegard, such a fantastic and interesting figure
Speaking of symbols and meaning, I’ve been curious about the Mayan looking symbol on your page header. If it’s Mayan it must be a word or name. It’s a left hand maybe covering a mouth? Does it mean esoteric? It has me intrigued.
Love your videos btw!
The answer is on the FAQ on my web page
Another Catholic nun that was a scholar and mystic as well was Saint Teresa of Avilay, also known as 'St Teresa de Jesus' from Spain. She had numerous mystical visions which she documented in her writings. Her autobiography called: "The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus"- includes descriptions of her ecstatic visions of the divine.
Where can i listen to Hildegard's music online?
Never mind. I found plenty of TH-cams on this.
Visions accompanied by headaches? Sounds like migraines! As a migraineure myself, i hadn't considered how migraines would have been understood and experienced before the advent of modern medicine/neuroscience
Yes, she has been retrospectively diagnosed. A few of her illustrations show aura typical elements.
Those who are interested in Hildegard might want to check out Sarah Higley's talk at Kopikon, a conlanging conference, which is on youtube.
I’d love an episode on golems.
Thanks!
I prefer your theory to the notion that this incomplete series of nouns is a divine language hand-wrapped by God for this lady. The imagery surrounding her visions is what keeps me coming back, it's both delightful and horrifying in a schizophrenic kind of way and I can only imagine the overwhelming confusion and resulting ecstasy from perceiving these, things, as images from/of the divine.
Did i just receive a bonus primer on the concise definitions for semiotics and ontology 1:25 🎉? The passage of spoken Latin is prodigious, Professor Sledge! Glossolalia! I thought that term was only used (obviously not) by Terence Mckenna in his almost stream of consciousness lectures. Will do must listen to her music! 🎉
I’m so excited about these episodes on the topic of Hildegard… I guess you could say I’ll be “Bingen” them (sorry)
I have for quite some time seen Hildegard as of the same archetype as the Mexican nun Sor Juana who graces the 200 peso bank note. Are you aware of any discussion of the similarities and/or differences between these two women separated by centuries, but doing things not really permitted to women in a religious context?
There unfortunately no longer is available on Netflix the Spanish telenovela biography of the life of Sor Juana.
Hildegard has had modern influence on the music of the Elon Musk’s pareja, the singer/song writer Grimes. Hildegard also is credited with writing the first opera…
Hey, do you have any insight on “MASKELLI MASKELLO” and it’s frequent occurrence in the PGM, I would assume it was another gibberish set of nomina barbara but it also appears in the Pistis Sophia as a specific entity, kinda equated with “Zarazaz”(?)