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As filmmaker Mykhailo Bogdanov explains, ‘so much of modern life is built around distraction. ‘Avoesis’ is, in part, an invitation to step away from that noise and become fully present in the natural world’. Watch the full video here buff.ly/BJwGyfo

psyche.coThere’s a nourishing calm in quietly wandering, far from goals and distractions | Psyche VideosA mediation on what we can discover about ourselves and the world if we truly wander aimlessly, free from distractions

24/8/26, 11:15 am2 reposts4 likes

Basil inGress

@basil-ingress.eurosky.social

24 Aug

A fine message on noise and distraction. The neologism Avoesis by @dublinsoil.bsky.social, is somewhat inaccurate however. Voe (Βοή) means a cry for help, voesis (βόησις) a deliberate action, and by inference a background noise. The negation is a lack of a cry for help, not noise.

Basil inGress

@basil-ingress.eurosky.social

24 Aug

There's a word already that signifies the lack of noise, used in Christian theology, that is Hesychia (Ησυχία) as in quietness or silence. See wikipedia and the lexicon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesychia

lsj.grβόησις - Ancient Greek (LSJ)-εως, ἡgrito de súplica, Plu.2.171d, cf. Thd.Ps.21(22).2, Quint.Ps.21(22).2.