Living language / visible sound

✦Description

Synesthetic geometry in which heard sound becomes seen object — 'things heard become things seen.' McKenna's elves 'spoke in some kind of colored language which condensed into rotating machines'; survey participants saw hieroglyphs and ancient scripts.

✦Further notes from the corpus

Augment: the DMT-Nexus lexicon documents the mechanism — 'audioplasticity,' where 'sounds and words become entangled' across the senses — as the substrate of McKenna's visible Logos. Shanon's ayahuasca typology independently catalogs script/symbol visions, situating visible-language within a cross-tradition pattern.

✦What the sources say

Elves 'making objects come into existence by singing them into existence'; 'use your voice to make an object.'

Symbolic objects in ~17%: 'Egyptian hieroglyphical writings,' ancient language/hieroglyphics.

'Audioplasticity' — synesthetic entanglement of sounds and words with the visual field, the felt basis of 'seeing' language.

Structural typology includes visions of writing, scripts and symbols among figurative visual classes.