THE ASTRALOGOSPHERE

ASTRALOGOSPHERE [noun]

This word was first used in 1891 by the esotericist H.P.Blatavsky, to describe what is commonly referred to as 'the collective unconscious' - though she regarded it as being conscious in it's own right! I can almost taste the sight if this Victorian spiritualist and medium sitting down for a pot of tea and a biscuit, while exchanging polite tittle-tattle with The Astralogosphere about Queen Victoria and The End of The World.

This month saw this much under-feted word make an unlikely break for the mainstream, boasting a remarkable three appearances in the dailies, in as many weeks - probably due to its resonances with the emergent term 'blogosphere' - which describes the collective musings of the masses as expressed via the medium of the blog.

On reflection this suggested astral murmuring - being another kind of collected conversation - might have more in common with the blogosphere than a shared suffix. If one could prove ‘The Astralogosphere’ existed we could even go so far as to regard ‘the blogosphere’ as a technological extension of this realm, a material and verbal crystallisation of 'the word on the street'. Helena Blatavsky is not alone - being, as I am, completely stark-staring - I too believe in these things, and, as such, I propose that we insert the following elegant (yet wonderfully cumbersome!) alternative, whenever tempted to litter our literary musings with that tawdry, vulgar invented word: 'blogosphere':

TECHNOASTRALOGOSPHERE [noun]
The Blogosphere.

Of course, I am joking. A far more sensible system of nomenclature would be to abbreviate Astrologosphere to Alogosphere, thus restoring the B-logosphere's Ethereal precursor to it's A-list position without resorting to the untimely invention of gloriously absurd seven-letter words.



LOGOS [noun]
1. Philosophy. the rational principle that governs and develops the universe.
2. Theology. the divine word or reason incarnate in Jesus Christ.
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