Thience: (sounds like science) The modern version of ‘ways of stupid’ that functions to replace reality with misunderstood metaphors and descriptions from science, especially in various new-age and ‘esoteric’ subcultures where abstraction to systems has become a schizophrenic extension of integral psychosis. Also: ‘Scientism’. Also: the result of nearly every attempt to collapse science and ‘public mysticism’ into a salable pablum suitably contagious and lethally blinding.