Ethereal Insights

Another depiction of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ( محتشم سلیمان ) Enemies | Wednesday – April 8, 2026 E nemies... How do you deal with them? Well, I am unable at this time to make too many broad or specific, for that matter, claims about how to handle them, and it is of course true that each situation having to do with enemies being involved in one way or another is highly specific, which makes generalizations somewhat deaf and specifications, if you will, or qualifications out of harmony. So again, there can be no single way, for the most part at any rate, in which you should deal with enemies, but one thing that I can assert to be true: is that you do have enemies. This fact is actually a somewhat complicated matter, because often you may be strolling down the street not knowing that you have enemies, because you see, you are not privy to all your enemies; it is not the case that you get to choose your enemies. Truly ask yourself this: would you create enemies for no good reason,...

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Why I Write | Sunday – April 7, 2026 P erhaps I write because I find meaning and joy in writing? No, not at all. I guess though, that it would be cliché to say, to write in this case, that I am writing because I have to write, but in my case this is very much true. In all honesty I cannot say that I particularly enjoy writing at all, but the fact is that I do not need to enjoy something that I have to do, or rather that I need to do. You may also say that this is a kind of calling, but that would also be untrue. There is just no such thing as a calling on a personal level: I am not writing because God told me to write; I am writing because this has to happen, at this point in my life. At another point in my life I will reach another phase, another cycle, and then it may no longer be the case that I should write, and at that point I would need to put my pen down. It is also not the case that I am being, at least not trying to be, indi...

Sougandhika Parinaya ( सौगन्धिकापरिणय ) lithograph: Romancing around the Tree Marriage Advice | Monday – April 6, 2026 C an there be such a thing as a "dysfunctional" marriage ? Of course not, marriage and dysfunction are impossible in coexistence, and if there is such a thing as a marriage in dysfunction, then that marriage is not a true marriage; a marriage in the name of the law is indeed no such thing as holy matrimony, and really many marriages are unholy, and should perhaps, depending on inclination, not even be considered marriage, but that is a note for another time.     The point of marriage in modern times seems to be quite different from the truly sacred unity that marriage represents, and if one cares to rely too much on the vocabulary of the moderns, then yes referring to marriage as a kind of "institution" makes sense, but this modern institution is really an economic union. Sure, there are marriages in the legal sense that do meet the criteria for a k...