Asemic Texts = Alien Writing?
My intention in this post is to examine ideas and engage in a bit of freeform speculation, while not claiming that any specific statement is “true.”
Yesterday, Mac Tonnies linked a site called The New Post Literate from his blog that showcases and examines an art style called “asemic writing.” A wiki entry describes the term:
Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”.
Illegible, invented, or primal scripts (cave paintings, doodles, children’s drawings, etc.) are all influences upon asemic writing. But instead of being thought of as mimicry of preliterate expression, asemic writing can be considered as a postliterate style of writing that uses all forms of creativity for inspiration.
Some asemic writing has pictograms or ideograms, which suggest a meaning through their shape. Other forms are shapeless and exist as pure conception.
Where does this put us with regard to supposed “alien” writing, where the percipient almost always assumes that symbols witnessed do have some “specific semantic content?” Asemic writing (at least as it is postulated by artists working in the genre and other interested parties) may have no overt meaning, but the creators are apparently trying to communicate something, even if it’s just the voice of their subconscious bubbling up though the conscious mind, through their hands, and onto the page, canvas, or computer screen. This is one of the main ideas behind modern and post-modern abstract art. Artists use color, line, and shapes to communicate or examine how we interpret and react to basic visual inputs.
Dr. Mario Pazzaglini’s rare book Symbolic Messages may be a fair commentary on both Asemics and aliens. For many years, Pazzaglini worked with people who either claimed physical or mental contact with ufonauts, or had “channneled” messages and scripts from otherwise disembodied sources. Symbolic Messages is composed of about half commentary written by Pazzaglini and page after page of words in alien, angelic, occult, or apocryphal languages.
Pazzaglini acknowledged that humans are perfectly capable of making up their own inscrutable languages. One of the best examples given is the Voynich manuscript, a handwritten book from the 15th or 16th century which has so far eluded any efforts at decryption.
Detail from Voynich manuscript
Looking at the illustrations in Symbolic Messages, it is difficult to determine what is being communicated, if anything, but one example, simply titled “A Cursive Script, 1990″ was described as working on many levels other than just simple information transmission from one mind to another.
The graceful squiggles were described (by the recipient) to Pazzaglini as attempting to communicate a message on several levels. As he explains:
[this is] an interesting script where it is conjectured that it represents a summary of: 1. The internal state of the sender 2. The intended internal state of the receiver. 3. The state of the relationship. 4. The message itself.
Therefore, there are no, strictly speaking, repetitions of symbols but a line-symbol of interrelated states and message. This is a good example of a totally foreign (to us) kind of writing system; it would be essentially untranslatable.
He adds at the bottom of the page:
In another example of this type, a symbol was “decoded” by tracing it out and thereby “receiving” a message–”like playing a record.”
Used in this way, written language may be much like a living (although primitive) intelligence itself, interpreting nuances of emotion and shades of meaning to communicate much more than just a mere message. Strangely, this is also places it in the same general category as the widely denounced “Caret” symbols, touted by the anonymous source “Isaac” in 2007. The source claimed that the symbols themselves were part of the design of an alien device, and activated the mechanism on which it was printed, which he and a team of researchers attempted to back-engineer in the 1970s.
CARET symbols
Could mere symbols be part of an interface between a machine and its creator or user? This idea resembles (and in some ways surpasses) the philosophy behind many occult writing systems, particularly John Dee’s channeled language of “Enochian,” as well as others like magical symbols called sigils and even designs used in voodoo. The symbol itself and the act of writing it is supposed to activate forces to be used by the magician.
This magical sigil, for example was created by an occultist for a specific purpose which was described as
…a means of exerting my will to achieve a specific end (in this case, the return of stolen property)…The idea is to turn conscious desires into unconscious events, allowing that secret daemon inside our skulls to affect reality on a subtle level and, presumably, satisfy your encoded desire.
Are disembodied “aliens” using symbols to exert their wills on unsuspecting UFO/ abduction witnesses? It is an idea that has been suggested by a few researchers. Witnesses have also claimed that “aliens” interfaced with their craft and other devices on a deep mental level. While in a hypnogogic state, I once imagined endless columns of numbers that were somehow arranging to plot against me!
Maybe one of the asemic artists will wake up some morning with a hulking “something” in their bedroom awaiting instructions! More likely though, we are dealing with a phenomenon at the edge of our understanding which may be one more key to a better examination of supposed non-human intelligence, and one way that they may be sending us garbled messages, or perhaps the “messages” are just etheric junk to which we assign our own meanings without realizing it. William Burroughs said that “We may be tuning into a universal message with faulty radios.” At the very least, a better comprehension of this phenomenon may also bring us a step closer to an understanding of how our minds interpret symbolic input.
P.S. I am still trying to get permission to reprint Symbolic Messages, as well as some of Pazzaglini’s examples of his own channeled writings as well as those of others.
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Jul 21 2009 
July 21st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Your post provoked more thought beyond those posted at Mr Tonnie’s, in terms of pattern recognition, meaning and coherence. On one hand, we have quantum communication which while sounding “New Age” is not, as many encryption systems are being developed around this phenomenon, which is the state of the receiver must match the state of the sender. Then again, simple questions seem to always produce complex answers. What is meaningless versus what is meaningful? Do we decrypt meaning in an endless personal cipher that is dependent on certainty versus chaos? Is chaos a prerequisite to coherence? I went over the Voynich manuscript and found it possibly a metaphysical text concerning the garden of souls, germination, variety and all that by oddly, the pictographs..then again was I superimposing my own meaning? We seem to have two codexes maybe ten or a hundred, divided by externals versus internals, in which we try to objectify…a negotiated treaty of sorts. A fascinating follow up. I would love to read “Symbolic Messages.” I have a friend, Dr Coral Hull, who seeming comes upon synchronizations or meaningful coincidences as commonly as we would traffic signs. This in of itself poses more questions than answers.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 am
Previously at his blog, Mac linked a video of Carl Sagan explaining the projection of 4-dimensional beings in our 3-dimensional space.
I can’t help thinking that the video and the explanation is somehow linked to this discussion.
Maybe sigils and asemic writing is a way to project into our conscious reality elements that exist outside our normal levels of consciousness; and just like a teseract cannot really exist in our 3-dimensional space, the end result of the asemic writing is just a “shadow” of the true nature of those “paraconscious” entities.
A mockup of a cube or a teseract are tools intended to help the left hemisphere to understand abstract terms of mathematics. Sigils and asemic writing might be tools to help the right hemisphere to grasp equally profound and abstract notions.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 am
I wonder if any of these alien scripts have been presented to savants or autustic persons? On more than one occasion, they’ve deciphered coded messages that we normal folk can’t begin to even comprehend. Our brains simply don’t process data the same way theirs do.
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 am
Bruce,
The alien writing sample above (from Pazzaglini) seems to be the answer to many of the old contactees’ claims that there is no war on other planets. If you can completely understand and empathize with others through written communication, there would be no misinterpretation. Then again, perhaps the witness was projecting his or her own wish-fulfillment on some meaningless but perhaps sophisticated scratches. The example given almost looks like Gregg shorthand.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 am
RPJ,
From my understanding, sigils are used to encode desires or wishes in an abstract way so that the creator of the design can more easily detach themselves from the desire in order to have a “clear signal” to the symbolic realm (or “4th dimension”), unencumbered by emotion. As you suggest, perhaps the method is reflexive.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 am
Carlos,
That’s a good idea! Mario would have been able to perform that experiment. I don’t know who could do it now.
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:18 am
I did a search
Previously at his blog, Mac linked a video of Carl Sagan explaining the projection of 4-dimensional beings in our 3-dimensional space.
but couldn’t find it. I’m rather new at this, can you provide a URL?
Thank you!
~admin
http://www.truthsilenced.net
July 24th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Thanks for continuing to work on getting this reprinted. I’ll be first in line to buy one.
July 25th, 2009 at 2:40 am
@ christi_truthsilenced,
Not only is Sagan’s video still at Posthuman Blues (you have to scroll down) but, in a rather interesting set of synchronicities, Greg Taylor has just posted it over at the Daily Grail. Sorry for not providing the direct URLs, but Wordpress always acts bitchy whenever you add one in a comment.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
This subject is constantly confronting me. There has to be something to it. It is “Universal”.