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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 21 Oct 2006
Time: 15:18:15 -0500
Remote Name: 205.188.117.8
Hi, Ken. Words possess incredible power. How important it is to be reminded of that time and time again. Your paper does that so well and with real immediacy since it intimately involves our client-clinician relationships with those who have stuttering problems. The ancient Hebrews and contemporary observant Jews, the Chassidic, for example, pay particular attention to names because they believe them to contain the essence of that which is being named. Consider how, in the Jewish Scriptures (The Torah), God was reluctant to reveal his name, which God did, only to Moses, and, then, gave the enigmatic appellation: "I am Who I am." Ancient Hindu's, and, possibly, contemporary ones as well, also ascribe great significance to the power of names to convey particular attributes of the named but also to the sounds released by the names as they are uttered, believing that the particular sounds and sound blends, or physical energies, of a name have great spiritual power of invocation. This belief may be somewhat verified in the recent research of Masaru Emoto, first reported in his book, The Hidden Messages in Water. In the book, he reported on experiments he conducted that recorded the effects of words on the physical appearance of ice crystals, the symmetical appearance of crystals when exposed to positive words, such as "peace," and the chaotic appearance of crystals exposed to so-called negative ones, such as "fool!" >>> At any rate, neither from the standpoint of respect nor that of spiritual energy, should we underestimate "What's In A Name?" Thank you for helping advance that, in my opinion, very important idea. Best, Ellen-Marie Silverman