overview*

Table top view of some of the Mercury suit components including gloves, boots, and helmet; 1961 (NASA)

I don't know to describe what this endeavor is, but when I heard this list of words, I felt its resonance. So, here is an incomplete but provocative list of descriptors.

Alien

Anomalous

Archetypal

Doomed

Extra-empirical

Esoteric

Extraordinary

Imaginal

Immaterial,

Inexplicable

Inter-dimensional

Liminal

Miraculous

Mysterious

Mythical

Non-human

Numinous

Occult

Other

Paranormal

Parapsychological

Psychical

Sacred

Strange

Supernatural

Super-normal

Super-sensible

Uncanny

Unexplained

Unidentified

Unknown

Unscientific

Visionary

Consciousness

Cosmos

Existence

Flip

Life

Magic

Mind

Phenomenon

Reality

Religion

Self

Soul

Spirit

Transcendence

Universe

Any to add?

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* The title of this blog post is inspired by the overview effect, the personal impact of seeing "spaceship Earth" from space.