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While reading about a cosmonaut, we suddenly had a few ideas gel together.
"Psychonaut" and "psychonautics" do technically describe some of what we do (just with our own batshit, rather than meditation, drugs, etc.), but we never found it a satisfying term. Then our brain suddenly thought of the word "psychosmonaut," which immediately spawned a few other related, in hindsight obvious terms:
Psycosmos: headspace. The internal universe, itself ordered by its own laws and structures.
Psycosmogony: the theories as to how the headspace came to be.
Psycosmography: the study and depiction of the structures and rules of the headspace.
Psycosmonaut: any tenant of the headspace, or someone unusually adept at navigating it.
Psycosmopolis: a headspace city made up of people from many universes.
Normally we try to avoid making up new words, but these jived with our long-simmering ideas that our headspace doesn't exist for our convenience, that it is not an inanimate tool or inert backdrop for our psychodramas, but a living, growing, changing environment with its own desires, needs, and purposes, independent of its inhabitants. That it should be taken seriously, and seen as something worth studying and paying close attention to.
It helps that we have Rawlin back, and she is clearly a groundskeeper of the place.
"Psychonaut" and "psychonautics" do technically describe some of what we do (just with our own batshit, rather than meditation, drugs, etc.), but we never found it a satisfying term. Then our brain suddenly thought of the word "psychosmonaut," which immediately spawned a few other related, in hindsight obvious terms:
Psycosmos: headspace. The internal universe, itself ordered by its own laws and structures.
Psycosmogony: the theories as to how the headspace came to be.
Psycosmography: the study and depiction of the structures and rules of the headspace.
Psycosmonaut: any tenant of the headspace, or someone unusually adept at navigating it.
Psycosmopolis: a headspace city made up of people from many universes.
Normally we try to avoid making up new words, but these jived with our long-simmering ideas that our headspace doesn't exist for our convenience, that it is not an inanimate tool or inert backdrop for our psychodramas, but a living, growing, changing environment with its own desires, needs, and purposes, independent of its inhabitants. That it should be taken seriously, and seen as something worth studying and paying close attention to.
It helps that we have Rawlin back, and she is clearly a groundskeeper of the place.
