Ethereal Insights

Garuda ( गरुड ) according to Ida Made Tlaga ( អ៊ីដា ម៉ាដេ ត្ឡាហ្គា ) Mechanism | Wednesday – May 20, 2026 B eware of the claim that any system that can be described and defined in quantitative terms is a perfect, symmetric, and/or closed system – beware of the mechanization of the mind !      While mathematics may seem quite symmetrical, or at any rate it seems that the mechanism of mathematics tends towards symmetry, but the argument against this, read " Naturalism and Its Confused Opponents ", is that humans seek symmetry, they seek meaning and beauty , in the meaningless and the inscrutable . Therefore, it seems quite natural for men to seek some kind of explanation, or more to the point some kind of resolution, and this was the point of beauty and the wonders of the enchantment, but since all of this has been lost in the solidification of the world, there is none of that essential in life left, almost none; instead men wager that their mechanical and material explanat...

Garuḍa ( गरुड ) devouring Nāga ( नाग ), at Wat Phra Kaew ( วัดพระแก้ว ) Competition | Tuesday – May 19, 2026 C ompetition, why not? Well, because not! No, that is not the right answer, but yes you may ask why competition is good or why it is bad. The truth about competition is actually quite easy to understand from very primitive intuition alone, really almost a kind of induction really, because after all competition is truly the inversion of the metaphysical order of things  in action, because any man that is truly elevated above the frail, so to speak, simply will not engage in the bickering and the hysteria of ordinary people, read " Politics ". A truly qualified  man will not engage in the capering or quite frankly men with low mentality, because competition is above all a kind of manipulation: men who believe in competition tend to be very ignorant and stupid, because they lack the simplest and most primitive set of skills necessary to interact with nature in any way ...

Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction of Shiva ( शिव ) as Bhairava ( भैरव ) Self-Hatred | Monday – May 18, 2026 S elf-hatred or self-loathing is another perfectly modern phenomenon never heard or seen of before, mostly because of modern humanity's obsession with identity and all things temporal.      Yes indeed, why should you hate yourself? Besides, if you are unable to reach a certain level of sophistication is this in and of itself a kind of self-hatred? I am serious here, because it seems to me that an awful amount of people "hate" themselves, of all people, these days, but also seems that an awful amount of things " qualifies " as self-hatred these days, such as not accepting certain clear and obvious flaws about yourself, and the moment a man realizes that he is flawed and seeks to improve this, he is full of self-hatred, because you are apparently supposed to accept , embrace, and even celebrate your individual uniqueness, because after all you and only you are so uniqu...