Ethereal Insights

Mithila painting featuring God ( महाविद्या-पार्वती and महाविद्या ) Saturday: Is God above the law? | August 30, 2025 Just to clarify: by the heading "Is God above the law?" I am referring to man's laws, those laws that are imposed on some political unit and enforced within that defined jurisdiction: often a state or a sub-unit of a given state, such as a region, a lesser state, or a lesser kingdom within that state. I am not referring to God's law and whether God is above his own law or not; that will be a subject of a later post, but I may cover some parts of that if it becomes necessary for this post. In the United States of America back in 2015, the Supreme Court (the SCOTUS) in a landmark decision, (Obergefell v. Hodges) decided that it was unconstitutional for states, the present 50 United States of America, to discriminate against same-sex couples seeking to enter into marriage and that any such law had to be overturned or at the very least not be enforced by t...

Chinese depiction of the nine colored deer ( 九色鹿 ) Friday: Are temples sacred? | August 29, 2025 Verily, according to many metaphysical traditions of the World—such as Islam , Christendom, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hindustani Paganism—the temple, usually a building, represents the creators all of ours Jehovah's representative on Earth, and that representative is usually a priest, an imam, a rabbi, or a monk of some sort, but these people are in my view merely men of ascendant rank , they do not represent the creator more than any man or indeed any sentient life, but the temple can be said to be the material representation of the sacred, the holy, and the divine, and as such many temples are exquisitely beautiful , such as churches and many mosques. There are indeed also certain sects of metaphysical traditions that hold that the temple is not sacred, nor does it represent a Connection with God, and this can sometimes be construed to be the case with the new testament in the Bible: wh...

Hindu depiction of Krishna ( कृष्ण ) Lifting Mount Govardhan ( गोवर्धन ) Thursday: Is Music immoral? | August 28, 2025 What is it about those rhythmic patterns that makes the soul release its energy? First and foremost, I need to explain what music is: sure music consists of rhythmic patterns and man was created to sense variations in the material domain, and to that extend music is no different from any other material enterprise, in that it is created by and for the short term and hedonistic benefit of man , but music consists of more than one dimension. Sure, there is the material dimension of music, but I would put it this way: it's not so much that music consists of more than one dimension as it is that music can enable man to see beyond the material; music is a medium that can temporarily transform man into the ascendant being, it can heal the soul and bring man to heel in front of the creator and the awe of the whole creation ; music reveals the profound truth about this our ...

Krishna ( कृष्ण ) Lifting Mount Govardhan ( गोवर्धन ) Wednesday: My views on The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science) – August 27, 2025 On a personal level I hold the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in high regard and I believe that she discovered a profound insight into the human mind, and I believe her application of mesmeric truth on the disease process as a mere illusion was essentially right, but I also hold that there indeed is such a thing as the material, and while according to the Christian metaphysical tradition and scripture man is created in the image of God, I hold that the indeed epic and amazing circumstance that mankind is created not only by the creator but in the image of the creator does not exclude the possibility and indeed the reality of adverse material circumstances , something that I have covered on multiple occasions, and indeed humanity also according to the Christian metaphysical tradition and scripture are deserving of their material circumstances, th...

Nude with Idol by  M.H. Maxy Tuesday: Is suffering good? | August 26, 2025 In short and from a purely profane point of view: suffering cannot be said to be good and indeed modern man has made many great technological strides to defeat suffering . Indeed, the modern world is constituted with the one intention in mind to lesser the suffering of men in their fundamentally depraved and hopeless condition, the human condition . I don't think that there are any sinister or evil intentions behind men who seek to lesser their own suffering and the suffering of other men, but I do hold that this great war against suffering and really the circumstances of the human condition has made modern man miss out on the sacred and the divine, and indeed these many great and often good strides towards less suffering has made man fully occupied and concerned with his own image, instead of trying to connect with the all and the sacred aspects of the creation . Verily more, it is the case that modern man...

Hindu depiction of Kali ( काली ) Monday: Essential survival strategies during the Kali Yuga – August 25, 2025 How do you survive the times of the Kali Yuga ? I intend to answer this question in this post and I will provide answers that pertain purely both to the material domain and to the transcendental arena, as well as answers that may not clearly fit into either of those two categories and those answers can be thought of as covering subjects that exist in between the material and the sacred: examples of that could include sexual conduct; but I will still try to keep this post about mainly the material and the spiritual, but again do bear in mind that some of the answers that I will provide cannot be said to fit neatly into either category, and whether you think of my answers as being purely material or sacred or vague, that is up to you; I will provide no flairs or notes on whether or not my answer belongs to one category or another, that's up to you to decide. First and foremos...

Depiction of Todi Ragini ( तोड़ी रागिणी ) Sunday: When is it appropriate to surrender? | August 24, 2025 First and foremost, what does it mean to surrender? To surrender means to essentially give up or give into someone or something: one example of surrender could be the man that allows himself to transform into the beast ; yet another example of surrender could be spiritual surrender , that is to resort to violent means when you have been defeated spiritually, often at the end of a battle of spiritual warfare , and this is the most common mode of being for the beast. But there are occasions in life, when even men of ascendant rank need to surrender, and one of those occasions could be when man meets with God, when the creator has granted him an audience : in those moments of splendor and epiphany you would do good if you surrendered yourself to God and allowed him to command you and to guide you, for if you resist, you are resisting against the divine providence of the universe ...