Ethereal Insights

The City, by Lightman Qian Urban survival | Friday – January 16, 2026 In my post " Life in the city ", I explained why I dislike cities and urban life, which I regard as completely unnatural and something that really promotes disease and mental confusion ; if you want to find out more about such topics then read that post first. Also, when it comes to the subject of security, you may read more about them here and here . This post will not endeavour to go into any great details in what can only amount to an exercise in repeating already stated facts and/or opinions.     Most people in the modern world, or really at least that can claim to live in a " modern civilization " do indeed live within, or at least around, an urban environment, a milieu that can only be described as completely unnatural and really an expression of the monstrous nature of the material order . Within the urban landscape you will find all sorts of things, ranging from public transportation , t...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Preferences | Thursday – January 15, 2026 Do you have preferences? Well, I am sure you do, and I am not going to argue with you about them. However, I would like to just highlight the individualist and modern nature of so-called preferences? After all, who in the times of the ancients would have the inclination to boast about all sorts of preferences in relation to anything? No, this didn't occur, and that's because the world of today is completely material, and really one can only think of the concept of having preferences as an expression of individualism and materialism, but in all matter concerning me, these two concepts are in fact the same thing, but again different expression of that same thing in different aspects of the material domain, and from that point of view you may also say that individualism and collectivism are the same as well; yes collectivism is really just another expression of individualism, read about the concept of "po...

Ganapati ( गणेश ) with Riddhi ( ऋद्धि ) and Siddhi ( सिद्धि ) Democracy | Wednesday – January 14, 2026 In my Personal Note XX about this same topic, I made it clear why I don't like democracy. So if you would like to find out why, then you should read that post.     What is democracy if not an inversion of true and sacred hierarchies , based on the normal and quite universal notion that two distinct entities where one and the other exist in a complementary relationship and where the other is subordinate to the former? Well, this description of democracy is actually false, but not because an attempt hasn't been made to invert sacred hierarchies, but because the notion that is democracy, that is to say the rule by the people and for the people is metaphysically and even materially quite impossible: democracy is really nothing but a negation of the true cosmological order and even the true material order , but the empty platitudes of democracy orated by the leaders of democracie...