Welcome to the Eleprocon Chronicles
A field guide for anyone just wandering in:
If you’ve landed here for the first time, a few of the words on this page probably don’t look like words at all. Eleprocon. Mythelium. Storylivingryteller. That’s on purpose — and it’s the whole invitation.
The Eleprocon Chronicles aren’t a series of posts so much as an ongoing, co-created, omnidirectional telling — part mythOS, part memoir, part time-traveling live experiment. New words keep showing up here because the story is alive and the wordplay evolving as our kinship deepens.
So before you dive into any single entry, here’s a glimpse of how the story’s vocabulary comes to life.
It starts with the word: Eleprocon
Eleprocon = electron + proton + consciousness, with a nod to electing the choice between the pro and the con. That’s the root everything else grows out of. A whole cosmology followed: a mythOS (myth as operating system), a mythelium (myth as entangled mycelium), the mythtree of life, and an archetype called Torouroboros — torus meets ouroboros — that shows up whenever the story turns cyclical and regenerative.
Threaded through all of it is an old word: clew — the archaic word for a ball of thread, the one Ariadne handed to Theseus to find his way into and out again of the labyrinth. Say it out loud and it’s clue. The Chronicles lean on both meanings at once — something you follow, something that tells you where to go next — and even verb it: to be clewed into something.
Then it becomes a way of telling
Along the way, the Chronicles wove in a word from Buckminster Fuller — livingry, contrary to weaponry, tools built to support life instead of ending it. Storyliving (living a story from the inside) fused with livingry to become storylivingry. Add a teller, and you get a storylivingryteller: someone who narrates their own life, in real time, in a way meant to leave things better than they found them. It’s a mouthful. It’s supposed to be — the size of the word matches the size of the commitment.
And it becomes a gathering
BEAM(ing) = Backcasting Evolutionary Alliance Mediums — is both an acronym and a verb, doing double duty as the clues to how we did it, participating in a world that flourishes for all life. It’s the word for what happens when the story goes communal: BEAMcasts, gatherings, a coheART of people showing up together (cohort + heart + art, all folded into one).
Sometimes it corrects itself
Some arrive as remembrances — like “divine and concur,” which the Chronicles trace back to an old phrase worn down over time into “divide and conquer.” Or compendence, built by tracing “dependence” back to its root in pendulum — something hung from — and bending that pendulum into a circle, so it becomes something hung with instead.
And sometimes it’s just play
Not everything needs a system behind it. Some words just show up once, mid-sentence, and disappear again — mythsticks, scatterlings, rayfinders, a yelder standing next to an elder. Clues that the story is still finding new shapes for itself.
Why keep a lexicon at all?
Because the words are how you can tell the story is alive. A myth that’s finished coining things is a myth that’s stopped evolving. Every new post has a decent chance of adding one more entry to this list — and if you want to see how they connect to each other, the Eleprocon Chronicles Evolving Lexicon follows.
Welcome in. Feel free to make up a word or two of your own while you’re here — that’s kind of the whole point.
Eleprocon Chronicles Evolving Lexicon
Neologisms & Wordplay from the Eleprocon Chronicles
Organized not alphabetically but by how the words actually build on each other — because almost every coinage here is a variation on, or a descendant of, the founding wordplay in the story.
The Founding Portmanteau: Eleprocon
Eleprocon (n.) = The root portmanteau the whole mythos is named for. Blend of electron + proton + consciousness, arriving as a vision/storyseed at the story’s origin point. Also a play on electing between the pro and the con — which is why the word keeps getting reactivated whenever the story turns to themes of choice, integrity, or civic crisis:
“the con outweighing the pro” = the same wordplay redeployed as political commentary, describing a tipping toward its worse instincts. The founding coinage becomes a diagnostic tool.
Everything else below is either (a) the cosmology built up around this word, (b) a separate family of coinages describing what it means to tell this myth, or (c) recurring verbal refrains that thread through the story.
The Cosmology: What Kind of World Eleprocon Lives In
Once “Eleprocon” emerged as a character/vision, an entire mythic ecology grew up around it — mostly by fusing biology/ecology words with “myth”:
mythOS (n.) = myth + OS (operating system). The recurring frame for treating a personal or collective myth as the “operating system” running underneath a life or a culture.
mythelium (n.) = myth + mycelium. The underground fungal-network metaphor for how myths spread, interconnect and are interdependent of each other — “nurturing the mythelium,” “tales of the mythelium.”
mythtree (of life) (n.) = myth + tree. The Tree-of-Life archetype recast as a living mythic structure exploring the mysteries of life, tangled with the 2birds motif.
2birds (n., standing archetype) = recurring paired characters central to the cosmology: two birds dwelling inseparably on the same tree, one eating its fruit, the other only watching — “Look out,” squawks one; “Look in,” coos the other. Functions as the story’s shorthand for the double-bind of living a life while also witnessing it.
storyseed (n.) = story + seed. A story treated as a living, germinating thing — “an ancient storyseed sprouts,” traced back to “the original eleprocon storyseeds.”
noosphere = not a coinage native to this mythOS (it’s Teilhard de Chardin’s and Vernadsky’s) but recognized as the “commons of mind” this whole cosmology floats in.
clew / clewing (n./v.) = a deliberate revival of the archaic word clew (a ball of thread, per the Ariadne/Theseus myth) as a homophone of clue. Appears as a noun (“a clew for life,” “unravel the clews”) and verbed (“clewing us into all”).
Torouroboros (n.) = torus + ouroboros. A hybrid archetype uniting the geometric flow of a torus with the self-devouring, regenerative cycle of the ouroboros serpents consuming a collective culture; described in-story as sciencemythic (science + mythic).
Gryphelant (n.) = An artful synergy of lion, eagle, and elephant, the Gryphelant is a creature that has no natural predators. Its size and strength, combined with its speed, agility, birds eye view and nurturing matriarchal characteristics make her a formidable life force, a supererogatory positive deviant.
The Telling: Storyliving, Livingry, and Their Offspring
This is the most deliberately-engineered word-family in the whole Chronicles — a chain of coinages, each built on the last, that the story walks through explicitly in “Storylivingrytellers”:
livingry* (n.) = Buckminster Fuller’s own coinage (life + suffix -ry, on the model of weaponry): tools/technology built to support life instead of destroy it. The seed word this whole chain borrows and builds from.
storyliving (n./v.) = story + living: experiencing a story from inside it, rather than hearing about it from outside.
storylivingry (n.) = storyliving fused with livingry: “We are the story, storylivingry.”
storylivingryteller(s) (n.) = storyliving + livingry + teller. A person who narrates their own life in real time, in a way meant to leave people and the planet better off — the teller and the “positive deviant” are the same person.
storylivingrytelling (v./gerund) = the act itself, discovered in-story as “the telling and the living happening together, the synergy of life’s lessons and the sense of a good story.”
*Bucky not only coined the term “livingry” but also its much more blunt but honest opposite: “killingry.” Both are derived from weaponry (and related to terms like cutlery) but with killingry being a more direct and uncompromising word, speaking truth to power.
Related, lighter-weight verbs in the same telling-as-doing spirit:
storycatcher / storycatching (n./v.) = story + catch, treating an oral history like something caught in motion mid-flight — “storycatching the notions of ‘divine and concur.’”
The Ritual/Community Layer: BEAM(ing)
Where the cosmology is about what the myth is, this family is about the live, communal act of telling it — workshops, broadcasts, gatherings as exemplified by the Design Science Studio throughout the design science decade:
BEAM(ing) (n./v.) = acronym: Backcasting Evolutionary Alliance Mediums.
Backcasting (v.) = working backward from a chosen future rather than forward from the present, the opposite move of forecasting — is the hinge the whole acronym turns on: the alliance isn't waiting to see what happens, it's receiving the future and nurturing its will. The word also doubles as the ordinary "beaming" (radiating light/joy) and as a description of emitting the beam, becoming the mediums.
BEAMcast(s) (n.) = BEAM + broadcast. “Omnidirectional BEAMcasts.”
coheART (n.) = cohort + heART (heart + art). The Design Science Studio community’s own term for its members, a double portmanteau — art hidden inside heart, hiding inside cohort.
BE•AMing (n./v.) = from an entry explicitly about punctuation marks: “beaming” re-spelled with a literal period wedged into the middle, turning the acronym into wordplay about periods, question marks, and exclamation points as marks of the story itself. Paired refrain: “the sense of ellipsis…”
regen•era (n.) = regenerate/regeneration + era, often typeset with a mid-dot to visually mark the blend of this time in history.
Regenaissance (n.) = regenerate + renaissance. A regenerative cultural rebirth; source of the phrase heART of the regenaissance (see coheART above for the heart/art trick).
Kinship & Belonging
Words for how individuals relate to each other inside the mythOS — this is also the most actively-developing part of the lexicon, still growing as the story continues:
eleprocon kin (n. phrase) = members of the Eleprocon community, “kin” doing double duty as kinship + kindred spirits.
eleproconologist (n.) = eleprocon + -ologist (the Greek suffix for one who studies or practices a field). Where “eleprocon kin” names belonging, this names the tending — anyone who keeps pulling on the mythos’s clews rather than just admiring them from outside.
kinspiracy (n.) = kin + conspiracy, reclaiming conspiracy‘s literal root (Latin con-spirare, “to breathe together”) as something positive: a communal breathing-together toward a shared desire.
kinpiphany / kinpiphanies (n.) = kin + epiphany. Shared or collective revelations among eleprocon kin.
compendence (n.) = introduced within the “Intercompendence” entry, by tracing dependence back to its root in pendulum (something hung from another), then bending that pendulum into a circle: hanging with, rather than from. Defined in-story as “the coherence of wholeness.”
intercompendence (n.) = inter- + compendence. Proposed explicitly as an upgrade on interdependence (which, the story argues, still secretly implies hierarchy via its own pendulum root) — “not many dependent beings, but many compendences meeting and resonating.” Built into a mock “Declaration of Intercompendence,” offered in place of a Declaration of Independence.
eairth (n.) = earth + air. “One breathing continuum upon eairth,” from the same entry.
kinship Eairth (n.) = kin + ship and earth + air. A more contemporary and animate take on Bucky’s spaceship Earth, emphasizing our common compendence as a planetary organism (with our common kinside).
Reweavings: Corrected or Restored Language
A distinct category from wordplay-as-craft — these are presented in the Chronicles not as puns but as corrections, words arrived at through vision, channeling, or etymological digging, meant to restore an earlier or truer meaning:
“divide and conquer” → “divine and concur” — a phrase with its own origin myth, told in “Noos from the Neighborwood”: in a vision, an ancient juniper tree tells the story of a civilization-spanning game of telephone — the original message, “divine and concur, to be intuitively in accord,” garbled generation after generation into “divide and conquer.” The tree corrects the record, repeating “divine and concur” three times. The phrase recurs as an echo elsewhere in the Chronicles.
refractionaries (n.) = reactionaries + refraction. First arrives in “Noos from the Neighborwood,” in a piece of channeled verse following the juniper-tree vision: “reimagined reactionaries / becoming refractionaries.” Echoes throughout reworking stubborn resistance into something that bends and redirects light providing alternative visions.
Recurring Refrains & One-Liners
Lighter, more overtly playful phrases that function like catchphrases across the Chronicles:
“May all the stories that need to be spoken, be heard. And may all the stories that need to be heard, be spoken.” — Leah Lamb’s “Storytellers Prayer”
#senseof = a hashtag-style compound (“the #senseof 2birds,” “the #senseof ellipsis,” “#senseof intention”) that turns “sense of ___” into a deeper sense of understanding and feeling rather than ordinary phrasing.
Smaller Imagistic One-Offs
Words that appear once or twice, usually inside a poem-caption or aside, but are worth keeping on record:
mythsticks (n.) = myth + sticks: “mythsticks and metaphorical magic, artifacts and musings of the mystic.”
scatterlings (n.) = scattered + darlings/nestlings; things or beings flung loose and adrift, from the same poem-caption as mythsticks.
rayfinders (n.) = ray + (path)finders: people finding their way by or through light.
yelder (n.) = coined alongside “elder” in a list (“student, teacher, mentor, elder, yelder, muse”) — a playful inversion suggesting the young side of eldering.
heART = heart + art, spelled to embed “art” inside “heart” (also embedded inside coheART).
Artful Intelligence = a play on Artificial Intelligence, used to describe an intuitive, hand-guided creative process as distinct from AI-generated work.
neighborwood (n.) = neighborhood + wood, describing a wooded ecosystem including all beings the story moves into: “the dome in our new neighborwood.”
forecestor (n.) = forebear/forecast + ancestor. A speculative kind of ancestor reaching backward from the future rather than forward from the past: “a long lost ancestor, or maybe even a forecestor calling to me from the noosphere.”
“being sphere now” (phrase) = sphere + here, a recurring echo-phrase (“we are sphere now, always have been”) weaving geometric cosmology into simple presence.
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Eleprocon mythOS 2birds BEAMing noosphere
beautiful piece brother Mark. i would like to offer two more bits: kinship Eairth as a more contemporary and animate take on Bucky's spaceship Earth, emphasising our common compendence as a planetary organism (with our common kinside)
and as an addition to the entry on livingry, i find it relevant to note that Bucky not only coined this term but also its much more blunt but honest opposite: killingry. both are derived from weaponry (and related to terms like cutlery) but with killingry being a more direct and uncompromising word, speaking truth to power