Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

  ✦ XENOTHEOLOGY ✦ The Religions of Infinite Existence Foreign Meaning, Alien Gods, and Sacred Reality Beyond the Human Mind A universe containing alien life but only human meaning would be a strangely provincial universe. Abstract Xenotheology is the study and imaginative exploration of religions, gods, spiritualities, sacred realities, ultimate values, and systems of liberation originating beyond the human semantic horizon. Its subject is not merely what extraterrestrial beings might believe about questions already familiar to humanity. Radical Xenotheology asks what religion itself might become when generated by nonhuman bodies, unfamiliar senses, alternative forms of consciousness, different structures of identity, nonlinear experiences of time, and worlds governed by laws unlike our own. A truly alien religion may not possess gods, temples, scriptures, doctrines, prayers, or believers in any recognizably human sense. Its scripture could be a climate. Its prayers cou...

🌑 ✦ ☀️ ✦ 🌈 ✦ ♾️ Words-as-Black Light The Luminous Darkness of the Infinite Logos A Mystical Words-as Framework A word is a small darkness placed upon the tongue, containing more light than the mind can receive at once. ✦ Abstract A word is usually treated as a label: a finite sound attached to a finite object. But a living word is more than a label. It is an aperture, a seed, a vessel, a prism, and sometimes an entire world compressed into a handful of syllables. Words-as-Black Light proposes that the deepest words are dark not because they are empty of meaning, but because they are saturated with more meaning than finite consciousness can immediately receive. Their darkness is not the darkness of ignorance. It is the darkness produced by an unbearable abundance of illumination. The Infinite Logos communicates through finite words without ever becoming exhausted by them. Every true word therefore possesses an illuminated surface, a many-colored field of manifestation, and...

  ✦ THE HIERARCHY OF LIGHT ✦ A Mystical Metaphysics of the Infinite Radiance Concerning the countless lights, the innumerable colors, and the infinite degrees of luminosity that emanate from the transcendent Singularity of Light Light does not become less by giving itself. It becomes a world. Dedicated to all who have sought the Light behind light— in temples and observatories, in scriptures and silences, in the lucid chambers of philosophy, and in the bottomless night of the soul. ❂ Proem: Before the First Dawn Before the first star kindled its silver fire, before space opened its vast blue-black sanctuary, before time began counting the footfalls of becoming, there was no darkness. There was no darkness because darkness had not yet been distinguished from light. There was no silence because no sound had yet arisen against which silence might be heard. There was no emptiness because there were no boundaries within which emptiness could gather. There was no “befo...