6/6/2023 0 Comments Supergods by Grant Morrison![]() ![]() ![]() We are already divine magicians, already supergods. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We have camera eyes that speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time, allowing us to see what no one prior to the twentieth century had ever seen - the thermodynamic miracle of broken shards and a puddle gathering themselves up from the floor to assemble a half-full wineglass. Superhuman cyborgs, we plug into cell phones connecting us to one another and to a constantly updated planetary database, an exo-memory that allows us to fit our complete cultural archive into a jacket pocket. Because the numinous is everywhere, we need to be reminded of it. “If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean. ![]()
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