Ethereal Insights

The Crescent Moon ( هلال ) By Ali Fekri The Hypocrisy of the Pious | Sunday – May 10, 2026 H ow dare you? How dare you invoke moral purity without adhering to the doctrines , the teachings, and the principles? Really, how dare you, read " My Views on Fundamentalism "?. Well, a lot of people do "dare" to operate in this manner and these people are false prophets and really the first politicians  or at any rate the precursors to politicians and politics in general, because if you ever scrutinize politicians close up you should notice how they themselves almost never live up to all the talk they like to make. No, metaphysics is NOT about moral preaching or politics. Metaphysics is about higher principles, higher knowledge, and above all the unseen, or really those aspects of the manifestation that require proper qualification . Moral preaching is only truly about the exoteric aspects of one tradition or the other and more often than not these " exoterisms ...

Persian depiction of the Divan ( دیوان ) By Jean-Étienne Liotard Traditional Forms | Saturday – May 9, 2026 F orms in their essential and traditional way have a certain and often subtle charm to them that only qualified people can sense, but even less qualified people tend to be able to pick up on this, even if they can only sense something in the abstract, here " abstract " refers to the noise that moderns would be able to conceive of in this connection. Take the traditional couch, the Divan: would the Divan be complete without Opium, read " Are Imagination Enhancers Good? ", or indeed the man or woman sitting on it in the traditional way? Of course not, and these small details matter, because nothing exists within a vacuum, in some kind of compartmentalized isolation, away from the right context, read " Hierarchies " and " The Problem of Borders ". The Divan would also not fit, even close to its traditional form, outside the right context, b...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Disease Control! Friday – May 8, 2026 B lack tar... Like a black and tar-like substance... It clings onto you... It clings onto every surface... And it's impossible to remove.      Indeed, that is disease for you, unless of course you decide that you do not want to be infected or affected by them, but you see the contemporary and actually rather blasé attitude is of course that disease is something unpreventable, really that you should expect disease and that it may even be a good thing. How absurd, but more to the point – how evil. Yes, these people are truly evil and they are evil not only because they want you and other people to get sick; they are evil in particular because they are truly nihilistic and truly would not care if they themselves got affected by some disease. Yes, because are you not supposed to be so tolerant and so open minded? Of course, it will not hurt you if you are affected by some virus, some bacteria, because "this...