Angels Among Us: 'The Beyond'

The Beyond Few things can engender compliance like fear, and few fears are more compelling than the fear of the unknown.

- Paul D. Collins and Phillip D. Collins

When faced with ontologically and epistemologically overwhelming forces, the human mind tends to entertain the previously untenable transaction of liberty for security. Thus, the invocation of such forces can be especially advantageous for would-be oligarchs. Those forces, however diverse and dissimilar, fall under a single descriptive appellation: the Beyond. The core commonality that unites them is their origin with that side of reality that has been arbitrarily deemed unknowable. As inhabitants of terra incognita, they are ontologically and epistemologically beyond man. Thus, each one of these supposedly unknown forces constitutes individual manifestations of the Beyond.