noumena, ancient and modern.....

there's more to it than meets the eye.....there's more to anything and everything than meets the eye....the ancient world understood this of course, and saw the hand of unseen powers behind human events.....agents, demons, angels, godlings....whatever their nature....they hid in the shadows and watched, and interfered in our lives with judgment and wisdom, or merely at random, for a lark, for a laugh.  Fairies and goblins and trolls .....spirits of rivers and woods and specific locales.....the witch of the well, the geist of a mountain....throw the last crust of your bread on the lawn for the gods, for good luck.  We are silly to think that we know it all, that just isn't possible.....And modern science bears this out....when we look at an object, we can't see the atomic structure we know is there....this proves that there is more to it than meets the eye.....we often can feel the unseen looking over our shoulders.....we sit in despair sometimes and know that we are mocked by our betters for our foolishness.....sit in silence when you can, and let the good graces of your particular time and place soak softly into your tattered soul....and be glad that you are merely human and mortal, and do not have to keep their eternal vigil.....