mcshane on Nostr: broo not to go too schizo but there’s that old medieval idea that the sky wasn’t ...

broo not to go too schizo but there’s that old medieval idea that the sky wasn’t just empty space, it was a dome, the firmament. like a veil stretched over the world. beyond it were the higher spheres, the literal machinery of the cosmos turning

mystics & psychonauts have long made art and talked about that visual edge, the membrane between the visible world and whats running above. describing a visual line that cuts across the vision dividing two worlds, folding reality itself, often at an angle, that of earth’s tilted axis, which in their cosmo view was occurrd when adam & eve put humanity off kilter.

in some of these old cosmological distortion theologies, and contemporary psychonaut accounts, angels are described to float askew, at that angle, ~23 degrees off perpendicular, aligned with the state of the earth before the Fall

your photo feels like it caught the curtain mid shift. anyway, beautiful stuff as always bro!