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A kind of Metarational awareness or insight, like intuition but more conscious and grounded in reason.

(Noesis (Greek: νόησις) comes from Greek, and means insight, similar to intellection or intelligence.

The word "noetic" is derived from the Greek word "nous," meaning mind, intelligence or ways of knowing, There is no exact equivalent in English.

It refers to "inner knowing," a kind of intuitive consciousness, or direct and immediate access to knowledge beyond what is available to our normal senses or the power of reason.
It was like they were blessed with some noetic faculty that enabled them to leap beyond the confines of what their senses or their research indicated, and land directly on the heart of the dynamics of the reality they were investigating.
Noetic by Julian Picaza January 9, 2011
Related Words
neotix by Anonymous March 18, 2003

noetinoia 

Obsessive trust and faith in the living and responsive universe personified through sacred wisdom and symbology.

Opposite of Paranoia, ‘noetinoia’ is a larger framework for practicing Pronoia.
The young Jedi develops his awareness, presence, and commitment to the way of noetinoia, where all information is immediately accessible through noetic noticing and channeled commitment to embody it.
noetinoia by Deciballs July 1, 2022
Of or relating to the impropriety of an act being regarded as appropriate because of the practice of ceremonies from sincerely-held religious beliefs.
Tonkwun: Dad, why didn't Rabbi Orgsat go to jail for giving me systemic herpes when he sucked my penis at my circumcision ceremony when I was a baby?
Tonkwun's Dad: For the same reason that Catholic priests never went to prison for raping children. It's considered noetic, which means it's okay to do because these ceremonies integral parts of the religious doctrine.
noetic by Extremityman December 2, 2023

Noetic Ableism

Noetic ableism is the systemic marginalization, pathologizing, or suppression of people whose forms of awareness, intuition, perception, or consciousness falls outside dominant cultural norms. It is similar to ableism, but instead of policing bodies and cognitive styles, it polices modes of awareness and ways of knowing.

Core Mechanism:

A culture creates an acceptable bandwidth of consciousness.
Experiences outside that range are:

-dismissed
-ridiculed
-medicalized
-spiritually distorted
-commodified

The goal (intentionally or not) becomes mantaining a narrow consensus reality.
If you have ever experienced noetic ableism you will know in your bones that ridcule becomes a soft form of social control, that others try to claim authority over your self-determined understanding of your own conscious evolution, and that spiritual emergence is often wrongly pathologized and the harm internalized.