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You’re a nest of soothing darkness, a pool of glowing rays. A shifting ball to be admired in my strangest days. A curling smile and porcelain egg, a perfect moon. You tug the ocean of my heart, make it flow and ebb and swoon. You’re a reflection of my journey to be a better man—not better than, but equal. You’re a guide in the clouded shrouded night, a beacon out of evil. As the sun goes down and hope is gone, you ward away despair at but a flashing glance. Waxing, waning, faint or fearsome, your every movement a lunar dance. The shroud of night and veil of day are curtains to your transitory play. No scientist can make you falter. No mysticism can make you stay. To you I fly, until I die, to hear the wisdom and courage on your lips. All power is empty, all force impotent, to bring our love to eclipse. What hubris to behold an endless cycle, as though you belong to me. It’s tempting to say I’m all there is when you revolve around my gravity. But the sun has outshined us both for one another, a joyous sphere. And we know many more stars are coming, although they’re not yet near. In the stellar nursery await those future people we’ll call our kin. Terrifying, exhilarating. With open arms, we let them in.

One common definition of “supernatural” is something unexplained by science or inaccessible to understanding. However, that creates a problem when those studying these topics reach a point at which they need to communicate their findings to fellow intellectuals. Carleslie Vernest, the alienist, set about the first rigorous and exhaustive system of classification for numinous events. But first, a quick rundown of psychics and ennoea. Ennoea, or intent, is the core principle of Extra Sensory Perception, or ESP. Mutant people who have ESP (the sixth sense), known as espers generally, can feel the animistic intent—ennoea—of the cosmos through their pineal gland. One way of looking at these mystical occurrences is that as scientific mystery goes up, probability goes down. Things are rare because the cosmos wants them to not happen often, and they’re common because the cosmos wants them to happen a lot. But an esper can release their own intent to make unlikely or even impossible things happen. This is known as thaumaturgy or intercession. The following method of classification links the probability of events to different types of beings capable of enacting them, including espers. There are three groups of four tiers each. The groups are Normality, Reality, and Naturality. Normality deals with the universal, objective and physical world. Reality deals with the personal, subjective and emotional world. Naturality deals with the numinous, abstract, metaphysical world. To quote the poet, Homero Eocrom, “the mind is the bridge between the heart and the body.” Normal (>100%) is what we call those things that are fixed, or fated occurrences. They are so integral to the way the universe works that they must happen. They cannot be influenced whatsoever. Normal events could be considered to be required, they will always happen. Concepts of destiny will be discussed in a different document. But know for now that these are either the fundamental laws of the universe, or entities so powerful that they cannot even be locally suspended using intent. An example would be the movements of the heavenly bodies. A global item extends beyond the local. They are far too large and have such immense ennoea in their own right that they cannot be changed, even by the most powerful occult practitioners. The laws of nature, as far as we understand them. Abnormal (91-100%) encompasses all things currently known by academia. This is the totality of sim and slo knowledge combined. Even if it isn’t known by anybody, it could be discovered any time by anybody so long as they had the right tools and knew where to look. These things happen enough to be considered repeatable and demonstrable. It’s the realm of the sciences which can generally go along without being questioned. Extranormal (81-90%) is what we call everyday average things such as people eating food, using the restroom, walking to work, so mundane that they happen all over the world and can be reliably anticipated, even without science, because they are objectively indisputable. The sun goes through the sky. We confirm that without a rigorous test by simply living every day. These things are less likely to happen depending on other circumstances. Things may not happen because plans can change, but they are going to happen almost all of the time. And even if they are interrupted, it’s usually because of some other Extranormal event. No intercession is required to make these things happen. It may be required to make them not happen, however one could easily halt plans by simply disrupting the flow of one’s routine. Paranormal (71-80%) events are still common, but not so common they happen everyday all over the world. They may happen once a month, like a phase of the moon, and can be cause for celebration to some. Real (61-70%) things are less likely, but still happen. There could be many Real events happening simultaneously, like births, weddings, or funerals, but only once in each person’s life. And these can also be events that cause people to experience confusion. “I can’t believe I’m married,” “I can’t believe he’s gone,” “I can’t believe I’m a father.” The real lies on the cusp between the objective and the subjective. Here, events occur with big impacts on people. Surreal (51-60%) things only happen a few times a year, or even once every few years, like a holiday, an eclipse, or the year of a certain zodiac sign. These things are incredible to witness, occasionally life changing, and they can be opportunities for forces from beyond to pierce the veil and wreak havoc. Hyperreal (41-50%) refers to the truly subjective, personal experience of a person. Things that may happen every day, but only be explored by that individual. Their unique perspective of an occurrence being the obvious one, but also their dreams, their intent, their body, their heart, their mind, all of them are different from everybody else’s. Hyperreal things can even sometimes refer to perceived influences from the sublime, such as prompts to perform a specific action. It means all things that are inaccessible to scientific objectivity, but may be considered potentially true. These can be found in an easy example: the perspectives people standing on opposite ends of an object have. Or perhaps two people look at an artistic object and cannot make any objective claims about its aesthetic quality. They are Hyperreal because they’re more real to the person having them. Unreal (31-40%) are those sorts of absurd scenarios that may happen every single day to people of all kinds, but seem less likely than they are to the general public who don’t get exposed to the experiences. These may be seen as wacky tales, but actually happened. Some perceived tall tale, like the iconic car chase in What’s Up Doc?, where the cars miss the glass pane and ladder three times in a row, but smash the bus so much it’s door falls off, and by the time the men have moved the glass pane out of the way, the last car hits the ladder, and the man on it grabs the banner, breaks the banner, swings down and smashes the glass pane. They are unprovable, and unbelievable anecdotes, including encounters with unexplained beings or objects. So bizarre in their retelling that we might call them Unreal in response. These start to blur the line between subjective and abstraction. Natural (21-30%) things are things we cannot explain, but they may in fact have some explanation we cannot comprehend. One might think “why would a person believe that, it doesn’t make any sense.” Simbody, however, has perhaps had a truly impactful vision of an angel, or other creature, and they therefore have personal testimony that seems valid to them. This is an objective truth locked to others, experienced subjectively. There are many people who base their religious beliefs on experiences like these, and they are entirely natural experiences, regardless how untrue they may seem to outsiders. Preternatural (11-20%) things are those which conflict with existing objective information. Something like a belief in personal and ongoing relationship with a god who provides no reciprocity. Or a belief in an omnibenevolent and omnipotent god who allows evil to exist, despite having the power and desire to stop it. Or a belief in an intercession from a non-interventionist god. To be clear, the only beliefs that go in this group are not necessarily god related. These examples are given to demonstrate that the beliefs can be totally contradictory, and a religious person might even realize that. But there may in fact be a logic to them that is entirely inaccessible to even the faithful. One must use their mind, their third eye, to push past this foolish conflict between facts and feelings, and see the truth, whatever it may be. Supernatural (1-10%) is all that lies on the bleeding edge of existence itself, where it is questionable that it exists at all. Things so abstract and disconnected from our everyday experience that they become very difficult to study. These things are not only illogical, but they are entirely impossible, or so it would seem. A paradox, for example, is a thing that clearly appears to actually be true, but by its very nature appears to be not true. Something like a stairway that never ends, or a sentence that renders itself false by being true, like “this statement is false,” or an effect preceding its cause. Paradoxes, and other Supernatural phenomena, may be more necessary than we realize. The idea of time coming into existence being a change in the state of things, and change requiring time to enact, is in itself an example of how our understanding breaks down at this level. Supernatural refers to everything that is unknowable and unfalsifiable, but that actually exists. In contrast to the sciences which approach the objective facts of normality, and religions which approach the subjective feelings of reality, The Supernatural is explored abstractly, through secular philosophies, which are cognitive, mental in nature. Not physical, and not emotional, but a mediating framework between them. This includes heavy meditation and martial arts, unity of heart and body, and clarity of mind, approaching the understanding of one’s soul. As Lenneth Keonard once said, heart, body, mind and soul are “four strands of rope.” Unnatural (

Tell me. Tell me how To get out of here. Tell me right now. Show me the way to town. If you’re the king, then wear the crown. You’ve got to take responsibility. You’ve got to reap what you sow. I know you think it’s scary but there’s something you don’t know. I want to help you see. Think of how exciting just a little change can be. How big the little things appear because just like you, they grow. There’s nowhere left to go But ahead. That’s what the voice in my head said. The longer I’m alive, the more I find That nothing you enjoy is ever a waste of time. Even if you’ve done it a thousand times before. If it never gets boring, what’s wrong with one more? Because kids can be responsible and adults can frolic too. There’s nothing stopping you from what you want to do, Except you. With just a little piece of me, and a lot of work from you, We each came together, and made somebody new. And it’s terrifying and exhilarating beyond a mountain view. It’s true.

Worried about the words I catch myself telling to the mirror. Worried they’re true and I’ll catch on if I make it any clearer. Worried that I’m wasting my time telling myself I’m better than that. Worried that I’m wasting my time trying something I’m no good at. Worried every step I take is taken in the wrong direction. Worried everything I think is a misapprehension. Worried I need to improve but worried I don’t know how. Worried I’m too good for this, but worried I’m stuck for now. Worried that I’m a mix of things that don’t compliment each other. Worried I’m just one thing and I’ll never become another.

On the wind, I hear joy calling— Calling me to a sunny shore, Where rain so gentle’s ever falling, But clouds shall block the sun no more. With bitter hardships interrupting, With sweet caresses in my sleep: Flowers, birds, waves disrupting A cutting silence I cannot keep. I find myself, in blissful dreaming, A place I cannot ever reach. A place with sands shimmering—gleaming. An imagined, lonesome, perfect beach.