Ah, re: “clinical,” apparently “pronoia” has made its way into the field of psychology, where it is evidently roughly the opposite of paranoia, or is “the delusion that others think well of one.” I have to assume it migrated there from the original usage in philosophical settings, but whatever we are talking about, that modern sense doesn’t seem germane.

Thank you for the break down above…very useful. Interesting to note the presence of “nous” (itself a potent term) in there.

Happy new year to all, and a prayer for blessings from the gods…