French: égrégorEnglish translation: egregor/collective spirit 
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Tech/Engineering - Architecture | | French term or phrase: égrégor | This is from an interview with an acoustical engineer talking about the building of concert halls and acoustics in general.
Le syndrome MP3! Je m'y refuse, et préfère pour ça la salle en arène. Je la recommande aux architectes, pour la fusion qu'elle facilite, l'égrégor.
I can't find a definition for égrégor, although I think it has something to do with being on one's own.
Can anyone help? |
| | | definition | Explanation:
Egregore (also "egregor") is an occult concept representing a "thought form" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme
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The word "egregore" (also "grigori") is a transliteration of the Greek word, ἐγρήγοροι (egrḗgoroi), meaning "watchers".
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Gaetan Delaforge, in Gnosis (magazine) in 1987, defines an egregore as a kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose."
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Companies, political parties, religions, prayer groups, states, and clubs [and concert audiences, presumably] all can be said to have egregores. A prayer is a positive egregore. When a project "takes on a life of its own," an egregore might be said to be present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
So, if you fear – as I fear you rightly might – that the word "egregor" would be a very great mystery to most readers, you might have to delve into something like "group spirit", "collective spirit", "common interest", "fusion of minds", "collective harmony (of the audience, not the players)", ...
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Bourth
France
| Note from asker to answererAnother difficult one to grade, since all the answers were useful. I must admit Bourth, I don't like the word egregor, which I had never heard of before. I think the majority of readers would not understand it, so collective spirit seems a good alternative. Thanks to everyone.
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| egregor
Explanation:
même mot (sans accents)
The ORDER of HERMES TRISMEGIST, Emerald Table, magic order, school ...- [ Traduire cette page ]The ceremony goal is to connect the to hermetic egregor and tuning yourselves ... You will feel the circulation of the spirit force as a pure spirit light, ...
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Anyone here ever... - Shamanism - tribe.net- [ Traduire cette page ]Certainly I've heard of the Golden Dawn view of egregor type spirits which attends to groups, although I'm less familiar with embodied ones. ...
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| egregore
Explanation:
Some sort of power of the collective spirit
Example sentence(s):- The fact that many are working together for the same end ensures a tremendous focus of power in a given direction. There develops a group "egregore", or group soul/mind, which unites the members in very subtle and potent ways.
Reference: http://www.jwmt.org/v1n0/getstart.html
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| definition
Explanation:
Egregore (also "egregor") is an occult concept representing a "thought form" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme
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The word "egregore" (also "grigori") is a transliteration of the Greek word, ἐγρήγοροι (egrḗgoroi), meaning "watchers".
[...]
Gaetan Delaforge, in Gnosis (magazine) in 1987, defines an egregore as a kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose."
[...]
Companies, political parties, religions, prayer groups, states, and clubs [and concert audiences, presumably] all can be said to have egregores. A prayer is a positive egregore. When a project "takes on a life of its own," an egregore might be said to be present.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
So, if you fear – as I fear you rightly might – that the word "egregor" would be a very great mystery to most readers, you might have to delve into something like "group spirit", "collective spirit", "common interest", "fusion of minds", "collective harmony (of the audience, not the players)", ...
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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-04-20 21:52:01 GMT)
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Down
4 - On-line Eastern cardinal in spirit of communion [7]
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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-04-20 21:54:35 GMT)
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Can't count: [8]
| Bourth
France
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 350
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| Note from asker to answerer| Another difficult one to grade, since all the answers were useful. I must admit Bourth, I don't like the word egregor, which I had never heard of before. I think the majority of readers would not understand it, so collective spirit seems a good alternative. Thanks to everyone. |
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