#numinous

[imaginal-ai]

"Nocturnal Visitor" (0002)

(More of The Spirits of the Night Series)

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[searchsystem]

Numinous / 72.Revival / Folder / 2024

[so-true-overdue]

Ah, the delicate art of deception, Russia’s enduring magnum opus. In a world awash with superficial ephemera and algorithm-driven hysteria, it has emerged as a master puppeteer, manipulating the strings of disinformation to sow discord in the vulnerable Western psyche. The battlefield of choice? Social media platforms, of course—those gloriously fertile grounds where any unverified tweet or video clip can blossom into the viral infection of modern civilization.

Through meticulously crafted disinformation campaigns, Russia has weaponized truth, distorting it beyond recognition and serving it on a platter to the unsuspecting masses who consume it with insatiable gullibility. The irony is, while most of the Western world fancies itself intellectually superior, the very same platforms they created to exchange cat memes have now become tools of psychological warfare. And why wouldn’t they? What better way to dismantle a society than by first unraveling its understanding of objective reality?

Enter the antidote: verifiable journalism. Yes, that relic of an era when facts were sacrosanct and not merely alternative options on a drop-down menu. Only through rigorous, investigative journalism can we fortify the crumbling ramparts of reason against the onslaught of misinformation. In an age where everyone with a smartphone fancies themselves a beacon of truth, the numinous—a word traditionally reserved for spiritual transcendence—takes on new significance. It is through the sacred, almost mystical reverence for truth that we might reconnect with an epistemological certainty. The numinous, in this case, isn’t found in the divine but in the sheer act of seeking verifiable, unadulterated information—an endeavor that feels increasingly like an act of faith itself.

Yet, the dissonance remains palpable. Instead of scrolling through rigorously researched articles, many remain transfixed by whatever ideological poison is peddled by the latest bot, leaving the defenses of reason to rot. Because, after all, who needs journalistic integrity when you have a meme to confirm your worldview?

In this grim theater of cognitive warfare, it is not weapons but narratives that determine the victor. And unless we are willing to hold up verifiable journalism as the last bastion of intellectual integrity, the West may find itself losing more than just a few online arguments. It could lose the very essence of reality itself.

[kick-the-clouds]

We are losing touch with reality.

It's easy to reject science. It tells us things we don’t always want to hear. It often feels distant and cold, full of jargon and concepts that seem too complicated to matter. It's easier to believe something that feels simple, something that fits our existing views, something that doesn’t challenge the way we already see the world.

But science isn’t the enemy. It’s a light in the dark.

Imagine standing at the edge of a vast ocean. You know the waves are real because you see them. You can feel the wind, hear the rush of water. But someone tells you it's all a trick, that the ocean doesn’t exist. If you believe them, for a while, you might feel safe from the uncertainty of what lies beneath the surface. But the truth of the ocean remains. Denying it doesn’t stop the waves from coming.

Science works the same way. It helps us understand the unseen—things too big or too small for us to grasp on our own. Like gravity keeping us grounded, like germs making us sick, like the climate changing around us. Science shows us these realities, even when we’re afraid to face them.

Denial is tempting because it feels easier than confronting the unknown. But denying science leaves us adrift in a sea of misinformation. Only when we open our minds to what science reveals can we start to find solid ground again.

The beauty of science is that it's not there to control us. It's there to help us. To protect us. To give us a way forward, even when the answers are hard to hear.

Facing facts doesn’t have to take away wonder. It can lead to something greater. By embracing what science tells us, we open the door to awe, to a deeper understanding of the world, and to our place within it.

The truth is out there, waiting for us to see.

[rookrock]

TMAGP has me thinking about the sublime. The idea of beauty and terror sharing a space in your brain, and the exultation of artistry - a painter like Daria or the virtuoso with the demon violin - to the point of destruction. The joy and horror at seeing a loved one return from the dead. The excitement and fascination of becoming something not quite human, the distress and panic as your body is changed. The shiver of fear as a pleasurable sample of terror.

I wonder where they're going with this.

[grxpfruit]

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[lokavisi]

My friend gave an absolutely beautiful sermon at our UU congregation yesterday about what healthy mysticism looks like. It's one of those things I can struggle to articulate when someone asks me how I could possibly believe in something so fantastical without scientific proof. Or when dealing with extremely spiritual people who think scientific fact has no place in their understanding of the world. This is one of those things that I wish everybody, on both ends of the spectrum, understood. So I'll let her explain it to you better than I ever could 😁

Side note: You can follow her blog on the Glasse Witch Cottage website or Facebook page. She has decades of experience in witchcraft and paganism and is a fountain of knowledge. And like myself, she is both UU and Heathen!

[ancientcynic]

MY RECENT SHOW 😊

[numinousnotes]

My power is in you and all around you.

Numinous Notes

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[imaginal-ai]

"Nocturnal Visitor" (0001)

(The Spirits of the Night Series)

[searchsystem]

Numinous / 72.Revival / Printed Matter / 2024

[russellmoreton]

Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/favorites russellmoreton.blogspot.com

[aphroditeslover11]

That feeling of writing a theology essay (in which you strangely end up including Isidor I. Rabi) with the rain pouring outside whilst blasting the Oppenheimer soundtrack through a pair of headphones. I was forced into taking theology as part of philosophy, I didn’t choose it, but this is bizarrely fun!

[theidealistphilosophy]

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Paul Tillich, Source Unlisted.

[kaiasky]

what if i took paints into the machine room in the company's basement and made a mural do you think they'd get mad

[mamokzalku]

Presenting a novel to be released...

NOREALM LOONE

BOOK ONE :

MY CURIOSITY KILLED THE BLACK CAT

NOREALM LOONE is a book series from an alternate reality Canadiana-Americana SOntario Gothic detective style fiction, thematically about occult mysticism and military science and technology, and the effect it has on society, analyzed through the lens of psychedelic postmodernist science fiction murder mystery, our main characters, goofy heart throbs who stand at the center of the spiders web of globalized conspiracy in 1993 Rosewhich Duffering County, Canada Nouveax Le Ŕegime D'Amérique; two criminals Nicky and Cola are wanted for various reasons hiding in rural nowhere, have returned to their hometown which held a mysterious and paranormal string of murders, people they knew disappeared they remembered in the 70s when they are young, the Satanic Panics of the 80s brought old fears back to life through the proliferation of competitively developed futuristic virtual systems inter-network communication technologies, powerful computer devices in the palm of your hand were changing policing and escaping the police, one cold night Nicky meeting up again to cross paths with Cola, is interrupted by a strange congregation on the rainy cold October night of Samhain, he meets a black cat with his friends face, is tricked by forces beyond his control and ominously 'somehow' he escapes unscathed to find his long-time-no-see not quite a friend Kacey has been murdered in his place in a complete mistake, the characters are spiraled into this revenge story, the mysterious degradation and retribution and moral decay of Nicky's search for the Black Cat who is always one step ahead of him & Cola's fascination with his violent "pro cleaner" past, woven by the digital world newly born from the New American Empire's mimetically bottomless MORZe CORP. : history is becoming something that can always shapeshift itself to bite you. A-and playfully clutch you with its inevitable jaws of the illusory "Wolf's Blood" a worldwide cult-conspiracy that wants him and his criminal associates dead. - MZ