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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''cȳthan'', from ''cūth''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: to make known
==Description==
'''Kything''' is from an old Scottish word, "kythe," meaning "to make visible." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_L%27Engle Madeleine L'Engle] used it to describe a fictional type of [[communication]], in a sense like [[telepathy]], found in several of the books in her [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Quartet Time Quartet]. L'Engle reportedly [[discovered]] the term in "an old Scottish dictionary" belonging to her grandfather.
Kything in the Time books is a sort of wordless, mind to mind [[communication]] in which one person, in [[essence]], almost becomes another, seeing through their eyes and [[feeling]] through their [[senses]].
In such a frame of [[mind]], the two people [[intuitively]] know the [[meaning]] of what the other is telling them, disregarding such things as [[words]] or [[pictures]]. The idea may be based on the concept of [[Oneness]], which states that all that exists, is one in its source and end. Apparently, recollection and assertion of that concept puts a person "in Kythe" with that which they are [[concentrating]] on.
''Kything'' is portrayed as a way to be present with others without regard to [[space]], time, or relative size. Through ''kything'', humans can be together inside a subcellular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion mitochondrion], as seen in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door A Wind in the Door]'', or in communication despite being centuries apart, as seen in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Swiftly_Tilting_Planet A Swiftly Tilting Planet]''.
Characters depicted as ''kything'' include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wallace_Murry Charles Wallace Murry] (for whom it comes naturally), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Murry Meg Murry] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_O%27Keefe Calvin O'Keefe]. Meg and Calvin share a particular [[bond]] with each other, part of their growing [[relationship]] which eventually leads to [[marriage]]. Meg also spends much of ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'' ''kything'' with her brother, Charles Wallace, thus experiencing vicariously his travels in time while supporting his [[efforts]] with [[research]] and [[prayer]].
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Religion]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''cȳthan'', from ''cūth''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: to make known
==Description==
'''Kything''' is from an old Scottish word, "kythe," meaning "to make visible." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_L%27Engle Madeleine L'Engle] used it to describe a fictional type of [[communication]], in a sense like [[telepathy]], found in several of the books in her [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Quartet Time Quartet]. L'Engle reportedly [[discovered]] the term in "an old Scottish dictionary" belonging to her grandfather.
Kything in the Time books is a sort of wordless, mind to mind [[communication]] in which one person, in [[essence]], almost becomes another, seeing through their eyes and [[feeling]] through their [[senses]].
In such a frame of [[mind]], the two people [[intuitively]] know the [[meaning]] of what the other is telling them, disregarding such things as [[words]] or [[pictures]]. The idea may be based on the concept of [[Oneness]], which states that all that exists, is one in its source and end. Apparently, recollection and assertion of that concept puts a person "in Kythe" with that which they are [[concentrating]] on.
''Kything'' is portrayed as a way to be present with others without regard to [[space]], time, or relative size. Through ''kything'', humans can be together inside a subcellular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion mitochondrion], as seen in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door A Wind in the Door]'', or in communication despite being centuries apart, as seen in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Swiftly_Tilting_Planet A Swiftly Tilting Planet]''.
Characters depicted as ''kything'' include [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wallace_Murry Charles Wallace Murry] (for whom it comes naturally), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Murry Meg Murry] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_O%27Keefe Calvin O'Keefe]. Meg and Calvin share a particular [[bond]] with each other, part of their growing [[relationship]] which eventually leads to [[marriage]]. Meg also spends much of ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'' ''kything'' with her brother, Charles Wallace, thus experiencing vicariously his travels in time while supporting his [[efforts]] with [[research]] and [[prayer]].
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Religion]]