Today, we are excited to introduce you to Augur by Enrique Enriquez. This new 32-page book focuses on The Language of the Birds. It is an ideal companion for Beautiful Bullshit.
Here is what Enrique says about Augur:
Aside from looking at the stars, humans have been paying attention to birds for as long as we can remember. There is in the bird the promise of freedom that we interpret as a return to what we intuit as our original state. The search for that name is known as The Language of the Birds, a thirst for the language behind languages, the syntax of forms, and the tongue of prophecy.
Birds deploy two languages, the aural and the visual. Birds speak, true, but they also move reacting to our movements, to our presence.
This book focuses on the silence of birds, that is, their flight, that other rhythm through which the birds write their designs in the air.
The language of movement can effectively be translated into words, thus generating ideas that can find their analog in human experience. That is the job that the augurs once assumed, a skill that we will take up again by making a couple of fundamental changes. First of all, we will dispense with the templum, the frame within which the augur sought his omens. The augur sifted the voice of the world by raising a frame against the sky. Only within the square did the bird's flight become a portent. Instead of a physical window, we will see that our situation, our mood or state of mind, and even a question that we carry with us, constitute the circumstantial framework within which the bird's flight acquires the status of a sign. Second, we will dispense with the decree that tells us to take the bird that appears on the right as a good sign and the bird that appears on the left as a bad sign. We will read in the concrete reality of the line that the bird traces in the air a message that we will make useful to the extent of our abilities, needs, or circumstances.
We want to hold on to a sign that, without being deterministic, can be uplifting or thought-provoking, a sign not exempt from folly that allows us to tread the distance between beauty and madness.
Augur is in stock and is shipping now. You can pick it up at the link below!
Talk with you soon,
William Rader
Krisztin Kondor
