Scribbles:Transrational
There has always been a sense that the past was a far more magical place than the present. The mysteries of the past seem darker, more powerful. But now, the unknown is simply something science hasn't got to yet. Of course, looking backward allows us the luxury of idealization. But the fantasies of the past feel like they had a very real gravitas. Where did that go?
Science became the source of the world's miracles. As electricity lit up the world, the supernatural dimmed. Magic failed when it collided with electromagnetic fields. Ghosts faded away under the glare of electric lights. Wires embedded in our walls and strung above our heads blocked out the boogie man, scared off Big Foot and silenced the songs of angels. Miracles and magic were replaced by a blanket of radio waves from radio towers, and the power of the stars could not make it past a web of satellites encircling the earth.
The supernatural was chased away to the wild places of the world while humanity was immersed in electromagnetism. For earlier generations, the cloud of artificial electromagnetism was unnatural, an alien intrusion. But mystery is a force in the universe far more fundamental than those known by science. For newer generations it became their natural habitat. In the electronic soup, mystery began to reassert itself. In the niche left empty by the supernatural, the transrational was born.
It is an existence that is born from the mundane world, descendant of the the works of humanity. And yet it is imbued with a sufficiently-advanced technology based upon the mysteries of an spiritually-animate noetic cosmos. The electromagnetic cloud that surrounds modern life is the dreamstuffs that the creative spark can coalesce into reality. It can be shaped, molded and transformed. It can connect into the bioelectric systems that we call life, and can reach into the subtle realms that we know as spirit. We can be explored, affected, modified, improved.
Now, the universe is open to us. We have discovered the keys to heaven and earth. We can rebuild it. We have the technology.
