Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Fear! Thursday – February 5, 2026 Are you afraid? I hope not, but the people in power want to keep you afraid, something that I've already lightly covered here . See, modern propaganda, something that I've also covered in the past , works not by attempting to re-direct your attention but rather by overwhelming your attention, to the point where you just give up on the concept of an objective reality all together, this is also relevant in my post " The end of history ". I don't intend on going over things that I've already described in the past, and that's why I keep linking to past posts. But, fear is a very important tool that can completely re-shape reality or the way you and most other people relate to reality, because fear is an emotion that is able to override whatever other faculties you rely on to orient yourself in the world, especially your rational mind, but also to an extent in your supra-rational mind; however, wh...

Tibetan depiction of Red Jambhala ( ཛམ་བྷ་ལ་དམར་པོ་ ) Temporal Power | Wednesday – February 4, 2026 T emporal power—what moderns refer to as the state —constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of primordial wisdom or knowledge , and this power, the word power being used to symbolize some physical ability to change or alter the conditions of the material domain , is always derived from the mandate of Heaven, as the Confucians put it; the sovereign is in other words the envoy of the spiritual authority. Spiritual authority is different from temporal power, and according to most scholars it is fitting to delineate the words "authority" and "power" in this manner by evoking their different application: authority being inherent in wisdom and knowledge and therefore a part of contemplation, or the nature of the sacred and the immutable ; whereas power is something much more immediate and terrestrial, having very much to do with action and change, as previously mentioned;...

"Modernity" – Marina Reich Third Rome | Tuesday – February 3, 2026 There's been much discussion historically and on the internet about the concept of a "Third Rome", and at least three states have claimed this title, and they include: The Holy Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire. Now, I have no interest in attempting to adjudicate whether any of these historical entities had more or less of a claim to this title, but I find the concept of a Third Rome interesting for a couple of reasons. First, if there's a Third Rome, shouldn't there be a second Rome? What about a Fourth Rome? Of course, the First Rome, if you will, was the old Roman Empire that existed from the time of late classical antiquity until the extreme early dawn of the Middle Ages, and the collapse of this Empire marks, according the the scholars, a temporary readjustment of the metaphysical order; it should also be noted that many of the modern confusions that reign supr...