Wednesday, September 4, 2013

divine obscuration? human obfuscation?

as there are "divine revelations" (whatever one may think or believe as to their veracities), so there can be concieved "divine obscuration"
as if eg the reported ancient light on Sinai had become so faint as to be barely discernible, obscurable centuries later
and it might be added that any divine revelation was certainly subject to human obfuscation a la theology
 

Friday, July 19, 2013

Ideensgeschichte -- "Vermutungsgeschichte"?

as there is a history of ideas: Ideensgeschichte,
so there c/should be a history of (conscious, un/semi-conscious) assumptions: Vermutungsgeschichte.
  

Friday, July 5, 2013

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

self-bespelling, self-bespellment, self-lulling

when someone, as it were, puts a spell over their self with words to believe or accept something. a kind of self-lulling.
(conceived while reading Life of the World to Come: Near-death Experience & Christian Hope (Albert Cardinal Meyer Lectures), 1996, about the relation of Christian beliefs and modern NDEs, Near-Death Experiences.)

Monday, May 27, 2013

ideography

as there is geography, so there could be an ideography, a kind of world of ideas, mapped, as it were, in which one travels, explores, become an experiential traveler, even a guide. not the physical world, but that of ideas conceived as a single world.
and if there is a publication National Geography, so to there might be eg an historical ideography

Friday, May 24, 2013

sleepwriting = somnscribing

as there is sleepwalking, somnabulism, so there should be sleepwriting, somnscribing
both in the direct sense, and in the indirect sense of "writing as if one were asleep"