You can just feel out there — can’t you?

This aura that is: weird.

For some, it’s “high strangeness,” a term they’ve been using in the alt-media for years. But it’s not just that kind of unusual. It gets back to a different feeling, especially in recent weeks, throughout private and public spheres.

Everywhere.

The skies cloud. The clock ticks so fast! The air thickens.

It’s more an “atmosphere,” a mood, an inversion, a cloudiness of the psychological-emotional-spiritual kind than anything physical. Sometimes it is nearly physical. Many have come down in recent months with illnesses that are not the standard cold or flu; again, a different feel to them. Listen for the coughing. Watch for the fatigue.

Insomnia?

Rampant.

There is a tense ambiance, and it not only infringes on slumber but the way we all interact, the way we are talking to or about others. (Be cautious of this; leave harshness out of your repertoire. We must atone one day even for wrong thinking!).

Our strange time: Are all the bizarre reports of various creatures or aerial luminosities and ghosts and poltergeists a spiritual intrusion or a psychological one?

In Peru, bizarre reports of floating aliens have been in the national news. In some places, it has caused panic.

Spirits play many games.

And spirits are very prevalent.

They are showing themselves — or making themselves felt — as never. They cause uneasiness (dis-ease). They cast shadows.

Mood, Tenor. Undercurrent. An unfamiliar mise-en-scene.

Much sickness out there. At the moment, most is low-grade. “Long covid”? In some cases, effects of the vaccine? Or something new and under the radar?

Physical. Nonphysical. Psychological. Metaphysical. An uncanniness: Perhaps that’s the best word to sum it up. Something new seems afoot, permeating the air, affecting even dreams.

Is it just the pressure of the current crazy religious and cultural and political upheaval and uncertainties, the confusion?

There is the final word: confusion, a first sign of the enemy.

We are in a stupefaction and disorientation, and even in prayer, after the fog lifts, there is nonetheless the taste of a new world, leaving us to guess what that “new world” may turn out to be.

[resources: books of devotion]