Ethereal Insights

The norns Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld beneath the world tree Yggdrasil ( ᚢᚴᛏᚱᛅᛋᛁᛚ ) Eugenics | Monday – May 11, 2026 E ugenics is on my mind, not because I believe that the concepts of eugenics are any more salient today than say a century ago, but because the question of modifying humanity, read " Transhumanism ", is very salient. Of course, you may dismiss the concept of Eugenics as something that once was salient, but the fact is that a lot of people still believe, rather foolishly, in these principles, and yes partly because they are stupid and misinformed but also because most people believe, read " The Case For Education ", all sorts of stuff, because when people do not know of the world they are very easily influenced, and in those moments cynicism tends to prevail, particularly in the internet age , which is somewhat of an indication of the mentality of most people , and another argument against democracy of course, but that is a point for another time. I sh...

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...