Ethereal Insights

A closeup of Pope Urban II ( Urbanus II ) How to Pull off a "Black Bag" Operation | Tuesday – March 10, 2026 H ow do you pull off a "Black Bag" job, a surreptitious entry, and why ? Well, a question like that may come out of the blue for this blog, but really there are actually very important reasons why you should ask this question, because in all truth you are going to need to earn plenty of purely profane and truly corporeal abilities if you are going to survive in the modern world, read " Urban Survival ". But before I can proceed further, allow me to define what a "Black Bag" operation is. The term "Black Bag" operation or job, simply refers to the surreptitious entry into some facility, or building, or even community, in order to gain a certain intelligence advantage in connection to that facility or community; the facility itself is seldom important, but the connection that the facility has to information that is of vital import...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Cleaning | Monday – March 9, 2026 L ately, cleaning or the habit of cleaning has caused much controversy, especially on the internet, and while I attempt to not pay too much attention to the noise and the nonsense going on online, I did feel that I had to share this observation about the world, read " Observations about the world series ". I've written about routines and " dealing with time " in the past, and in that post I very briefly mentioned cleaning, and since I didn't feel compelled at that time to write more about this subject, I felt that it simply was time for me to try to explain why I believe that the entire subject of "cleaning" is quite silly.     See, most people seem to believe that cleaning is a chore that you either have to do when you "feel" like it or when you've scheduled that it's time for cleaning. Of course, this is a completely nonsensical way of understanding cleaning, or ra...

Saint Jerome reading a pseudo-Mongol script ( Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος ) Notes on Marriage Equality | Sunday – March 8, 2026 M arriage is a subject that I have covered in the past because the magnitude of the topic on the entirety of the social organization is simply too important to ignore, read more about marriage here and here , and sure there are many other such topics that are important from a social point of view, but I still find that marriage is at the core of the question of civilization, and truly I can assert with a great deal of confidence that without marriage there can be no civilization; at the core of all civilizations is the sacred unity between husband and wife. And yes, it is certainly the case that the consecration of marriage between husband and wife is under severe attack in the West, especially as this pertains to the concept of "Marriage Equality", that is to say the extension of marriage, in a legal sense, to members outside this sacred unity be...