Moved that way, or: Swayed there

A Sijo

Footnote

Reena’s Xploration Challenge 435

For Reena’s RXC prompt, she invites us to compose poems inspired by the word:

‘NUMINOUS’

numinous (adjective)

nu·mi·nous /ˈnuːmɪnəs/

Definition:

Example:
The music created a numinous atmosphere that left listeners feeling both comforted and unsettled.

Etymology:
From Latin numen (“divine presence,” “divine will”) + -ous.

Synonyms:
transcendent, mystical, spiritual, awe-inspiring, sacred, otherworldly.

Usage Note:
Numinous describes the experience or feeling of encountering something perceived as greater than oneself; it does not, by itself, imply that the source of that feeling is objectively supernatural.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Island Universe, William Hays

https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1075171

There are more of these great prints by the artist there.

I'm reading a book of short stories by J.G. Ballard and I read one last night that I really liked. A scientist that was slowly succumbing to a disease basically did some science magic to himself to activate secret mutations and he developed the sense ability to see and hear time and the stars and the ultimate source of the universe. Really enjoying the author's work, highly recommend.

#art #stars #listen #theStars #time #space #creator #transcendence #alive #undead #magic #mutation

If "becoming God" means:

-more control
-more domination
-more authorship over others

→ then it's not transcendence, it's metaphysical capitalism.

The question isn't whether you become God-
but whether you become conscious enough to stop playing the Demiurge.

#gnosticism
#transcendence

Let me share my favorite in-story welcome message in all of #literature. It's spoken by Pablo in STEPPENWOLF by #HermannHesse (occasionally misquoted in translation):

"'This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred or a thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless for you to go through it as you are. You would be checked and blinded at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality. You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.'"

Another guy who upbraids/upbraided his readers a bit, huh? Though not overtly.

#transcendence

https://mindly.social/@setsly/116261108553498504