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>>47236816
>ultimately it's fun.
It really has been, hasn’t it. Messy & Exciting while still retaining a great amount of Thought & Awe.

Truly Numinous Indeed…

>Hecatia, Hekate, one of the most enduring old European deities is in Touhou
>At that time [Jason Miller] did not know what she was, only that the entity that appeared to him was not of any Tibetan or Buddhist origin
>Could Hekate have sent one of her lampads to check out who on Earth is this weird Eastern man, spinning strange new mythologies for a strange new world, intently staring at the moon, wondering what's out there?
Frankly I don’t think the subject of Hecatia Lapislazuli is terribly tangential given the scopes we’ve reached by this point, honestly kinda surprised there hasn’t been anything deeper directly derived from her overall involvements yet but I suppose I’m no more well-equipped to approach such a subject then any of you might be at this time…
Power-scaling aside, ZUN most certainly has some manner of detailed personal history when it comes to dream experience or just generally interacting with the other Layers in far-more intimate ways (whether he leans into letting that on overall or not/is even fully aware of things in these ways regardless).
It’d be clear enough to any number of higher-powers, at least to me, that his doors for potential influence/application would indeed be somewhat “open” as you’ve hypothesized. I don’t think he’d have to worry about too many bad actors from those Levels at this point either really…

>I don't know if there is a real, strong connection, but both th16 and th18 have a lot of Yin-Yang Orbs, and both have incidents set in motion by deities...
Those Orbs/Wheel-Ghosts also tend to show up more frequently in places where potentially-humanistic-ego-based personifications may have much harder times properly metastasizing, such as the later stages deep in the Rainbow Dragon Caves in Unconnected Marketeers as you’ve partially mentioned or when you first reach the Lunar surface in LoLK for example (pretty sure it’s just all Wheel-Ghosts in the Lunar Capital at least). Perhaps 神 and other-such beings are more naturally inclined towards influencing these forces in a more casual or “naturalistic” & almost unconscious sense

>apparently some kind of interfacing can happen or people wouldn't be able to communicate with them at all - which they apparently do
Interconnectedness, nothing more~

>essentially there are a grouping of most probable futures, and we might be able to perceive and steer ourselves into them?
In a more basic sense that certainly isn’t too far off from things. Most people think they’d seriously need something like a precise internal GPS to map-out some of these routes as they see-fit but you really do only need even just the Slightest inclinations for greater substantial action regardless at certain necessary moments. “One step at a time”, as long as you’re being as conscientious as you need to be in a grander sense.
>perhaps even very much outside of the expected path
That “infinite wellspring/pool of raw potential/possibility/influence” I keep circling around has many different layers & crevices of depth throughout its vast span lying beneath that serene surface. Some areas intimately stretch far below, some portions are far-more shallow in comparison and can only offer so much for those who may be concerned.
>I wonder if something particular will happen if you stray far away from the "most likely"...
If the area of the pool in-question is too shallow for your own given sets of overarching circumstances or there are fundamental clashing-points (physical, causal, mental, logical, what-have-you) betwixt where you’ve come from & where you’re going based on those various key moments/decisions, then, to put things somewhat-lightly, that is when true greater dissonance Will start occurring through multiple Layers of expression & influence and by the end of whatever route that follows overall things may end being somewhat…
…”Corrected”.
The change isn’t always necessarily forced, but there are certain breaking points any disparate number of through-lines can reach without the right kind of larger considerations or forethought.

>>47229061
>”fermenting”
All the recent posting of mine seen above is what happens when I “ferment” for long enough personally. Maybe not always the most desirable but…it does help to somewhat have enough space for these thoughts on multiple accounts ^^;;

>>47238359
Yeah! You know, perfectly Normal things. :)
Like the other anon said, it’s all "psychofauna" ripe for the taking & cultivating.
What you see is what you get! Even if it can all feel just “in the mind”

>>47238468
Maybe I'm just painfully optimistic, but given how many posts the last thread continued to receive well-past the 250 mark I'd say we still have some time here...