In this episode, ILA Radio welcomes Elder Nerd The Black a.k.a. David Lum’ahn Mosley, an artist, technologist, and nature-lover who sees the world as living information.

With an Aquarius Rising and a Virgo stellium, David bridges the analytical and the intuitive, building apps from instinct, composing music from myth, and speaking in shapes when words can’t hold the meaning.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt both grounded and galactic—who codes by night and communes with trees by day, who feels truth in their body as much as they think it through their mind. Together, we explore discernment through the twelve ways of knowing, from emotional and empirical to spiritual and archetypal, discovering how each becomes a key in the song of self-understanding.

🎧 Listen in and remember:
you are allowed to be both reason and rhythm—designed to know the world through every sense you have.

For more on David, visit:

https://beacons.ai/a.fictional.mind

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NOTES FROM THE EPISODE
RE: CONNECTION TO THE
ORNELIAN FRAMEWORK

Click below to learn about the different ways of knowing

MIND・Analytical Knowing

ARIES・Experiential Knowing

TAURUS・Cultural Knowing

GEMINI・Empirical Knowing

BODY・Embodied Knowing

CANCER・Emotional Knowing

DM (Cancer Moon): needs that knowing in order to create

LEO・Playful Knowing

DM: Leo in Jupiter using AI as the fire that expands him and his work

VIRGO・Somatic Knowing

DM (Virgo Stellium): feeling best when in nature; built an app based on intuition and working with AI

SPIRIT・Narrative Knowing

DM: “She says, ‘Myths? We don’t consider these myths. We consider this information. This is all information.”

DM: “if you look at it, everything is just information that we can just utilize in this world”

LIBRA・Aesthetic Knowing

SCORPIO・Relational Knowing

DM: discusses his song about Frankenstein and his bride

SAGITTARIUS・Participatory Knowing

DM: I hug trees. I talk to animals. All animals love me. I love nature. I go to the park once a week. Everything is alive. I like to be connected.

SOUL・Reflective Knowing

DM: Shadow work is continuous. You have to go deep.

CAPRICORN・Rational Knowing

DM: uses reason and intuition together simultaneously

AQUARIUS・Archetypal Knowing

DM (Aquarius Rising): On the intro to my second album, I don’t speak in words, I speak in shapes.

“I’m speaking in metaphors and pictures because that’s how we see things; that is our fastest way of communication”

PISCES・Spiritual Knowing

DM (SN Pisces) brought up the seven clairs:

• Clairvoyance — Clear Seeing 👁️ The ability to receive intuitive insight through mental images, symbols, colors, or visions. You might “see” flashes, dreamlike scenes, or light around people and places.
• Clairaudience — Clear Hearing 🎧 The perception of intuitive messages through sound — words, music, tones, or internal phrases that seem to come from beyond your own thoughts.
• Clairsentience — Clear Feeling 💞 The ability to feel energy or emotions from people, spaces, or situations. You sense truth, mood, or vibration through your body — the “gut feeling” or empathic knowing.
• Claircognizance — Clear Knowing 💡 When you just know something without knowing how you know. Sudden insights, downloads, or truths that arrive whole and complete.
• Clairalience — Clear Smelling 🌹 The intuitive sense of scent — like catching a whiff of perfume when no one’s around, or smelling flowers, smoke, or herbs connected to a memory or presence.
• Clairgustance — Clear Tasting 🍯 The ability to taste something without physically eating it — often linked to spirit communication, ancestral memory, or energetic association (like tasting honey when receiving sweetness or healing).
• Clairtangency — Clear Touch ✋ Also called psychometry, this is when you receive intuitive information through physical contact — touching an object, plant, or person and feeling its energetic history or essence

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