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“This ‘pre-podcast’ interview wasn’t meant to be recorded, but, by ‘accident’, I hit the skype record button when we began talking. Who has heard of Dr. Gerald Schroeder? In most scientific circles, Dr. Schroeder commands respect from his academic efforts while his humility and endless gregarious nature do not fail to win you over. Dr. Schroeder holds two doctorates from M.I.T. in physics and applied physics. He was on M.I.T.’s faculty for 7 years, D.O.D. –having detonated ‘events’ with the atomic bomb underground in Nevada six times. Worked, helped create, enhanced a ‘brain’ that does not need bio-chemical reactions to ‘translate sound’, rather, perceives, translates to our sense of time, space, matter *an* information that has reverberated as ‘non-sound’ for distances of time —–and, ‘non-time’. Sounds nuts, I know. Dr. Schroeder lives in Jerusalem, having worked for decades with the Israeli Defense Department. Gerry speaks fluent Hebrew and parses the Hebrew Text with the scrutiny of a Quantum Physicist. He shows that the account of Genesis’ creation, in Hebrew, used a “META” language which would be ‘expressed’ millennia later. Here we stand, with Dr. Schroeder in this ‘pre-podcast’ discussion, learning that the Hebrew’s Meta language and the language of the Quantum field of Energy that precedes matter and time were the same.”

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This is my 3rd interview with Dr. Verlyn Flieger. Verlyn Flieger, one of the world’s leading Tolkien scholars, has offered her time and friendship to discuss with me her unpublished book, “Chancer and the Orphan Child”. It is a story of revelation to true identity, pasts remembered, sacrifice, death following the main characters symbolized by a Crow, etc.

Death – for Verlyn, both in story form and real time, is the *Final passage*. To Verlyn she says, ‘There is nothing after the porthole of death; it is over’.

Verlyn believed that early Christian Fantasy writers such as George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis (especially) had an agenda to proselytize though she doesn’t see Tolkien being a proselytizer in his works (so far as she has told me).

My answer to Verlyn in this fairly lengthy interview is that “Meaning” points to ‘causality and teleology’ (a.k.a., “Intent”)…something that lies past the ‘middle meaning’ of just a ‘fateful story’.

To sum it up, Verlyn and I have found true friendship over the years by not pulling punches but regarding each other with respect and dignity in our differing respective belief systems.

Please take time to listen to an endearing interview that might bring tears to your eyes. I consider Verlyn a scholar of scholars.

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Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. She is well known as a Tolkien scholar, especially for her books Splintered Light and A Question of Time. She has won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award four times for her work on Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings.

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We are honored to have one of the world’s greatest linguists on our site. Dr. Anna Meskhi is a Professor at Caucasus University and holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and the Theory of Linguistics. She is an established scholar of the English language and of teaching methods for foreign languages. She has conducted extensive research on Kartvelian and Old English language material for many years, and subsequently expanded into comparative analyses of the Sumerian, Egyptian and Basque languages and cultures. Dr. Meskhi’s books, research articles and presentations cover a wide range of subjects, including paleography, religions, mythology, foreign language teaching methodology and comparative linguistic studies.

The various solutions Dr. Meskhi offers to “chronic” problems in the mentioned areas include those to Sumerian and Egyptian phonology, Sumerian lexicographic notation, the decipherment of numerous lexical items and symbols, genetic relations between languages, issues of language origin and culturological factors of dead and living civilizations. One of the outstanding features of Dr. Meskhi’s research is the application of the Kartvelian languages and culture to all items across a wide range of humanities fields, covering an enormous chronological distance of at least 5,000 years and embracing the Near East, the whole of Europe and North Africa.

Although Dr. Meskhi discusses issues of great significance her language is easy to follow and understand and her solutions very logical and most trustworthy. Dr. Meskhi’s research generates highly thought provoking interests and offers its readers different perspectives on the problems she tackles.

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We are honored to have one of the world’s greatest linguists on our site. Dr. Anna Meskhi is a Professor at Caucasus University and holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and the Theory of Linguistics. She is an established scholar of the English language and of teaching methods for foreign languages. She has conducted extensive research on Kartvelian and Old English language material for many years, and subsequently expanded into comparative analyses of the Sumerian, Egyptian and Basque languages and cultures. Dr. Meskhi’s books, research articles and presentations cover a wide range of subjects, including paleography, religions, mythology, foreign language teaching methodology and comparative linguistic studies.

The various solutions Dr. Meskhi offers to “chronic” problems in the mentioned areas include those to Sumerian and Egyptian phonology, Sumerian lexicographic notation, the decipherment of numerous lexical items and symbols, genetic relations between languages, issues of language origin and culturological factors of dead and living civilizations. One of the outstanding features of Dr. Meskhi’s research is the application of the Kartvelian languages and culture to all items across a wide range of humanities fields, covering an enormous chronological distance of at least 5,000 years and embracing the Near East, the whole of Europe and North Africa.

Although Dr. Meskhi discusses issues of great significance her language is easy to follow and understand and her solutions very logical and most trustworthy. Dr. Meskhi’s research generates highly thought provoking interests and offers its readers different perspectives on the problems she tackles.

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