apophenic

As an 'apophenic' astrologer, it's clear to me that the more you look for connections, the furtheraway from the centre you get.

languagehat.com: APOPHENIA. 2005

It's hard to ascribe further significance to 23, 42, or any of the other numbers specifically because the true meaning of the 23 Enigma is likely a joke at the reader's expense: triggering our own apophenic psychoses and then stepping back for a little laugh to see how far we go in the websphere to jointly and futilely fail to find deeper meaning.

LOST: The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything James F. McGrath 2010

I suppose that, yes, it does rather sweep away all the apophenic wonders of the paranoid schizophrenic delusion that is God.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

I suppose that, yes, it does rather sweep away all the apophenic wonders of the paranoid schizophrenic delusion that is God.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Art, no stranger to schizophrenia, hallucinogenics, obsessive compulsions, grandiose delusions and apophenic rapture, knows as much about inspiration as religion.

The Sacred Domain Hal Duncan 2006

Art, no stranger to schizophrenia, hallucinogenics, obsessive compulsions, grandiose delusions and apophenic rapture, knows as much about inspiration as religion.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

You see, one of the things that I like to do to amuse myself is to create a sort of artificial numinosity, a kind of self-projected apophenic skewing of reality into some sort of higher ritual meaning.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

But I acknowledge that the apophenic acceptation of paranoia is not common.

languagehat.com: APOPHENIA. 2005

Jimmy Ho notes the connexion with Dalí above, and that one is very close to the apophenic "reading" of paranoia.

languagehat.com: APOPHENIA. 2005

And while an appreciation of the sublime in nature is at least a vaguely comprehensible motive for a faith that “it’s all there for a reason”, this too smacks of the apophenic state that sees signs in coincidence, patterns where they don’t exist, hidden order, profound meaning and grand design in the banal interconnectedness of chaos.

Archive 2008-12-01 Hal Duncan 2008