Ethereal Insights

Bridge over a green waterfall By Blake Verdoorn It's better to listen than to seek | Saturday – February 14, 2026 In most Oriental traditions, particularly in the Tao Te Ching ( 道德經 ), the emphasis is on the contemplative mode of being, that is to say the higher and substantive outlook , and this is why the East tend to produce less warriors— Kṣatriya's ( क्षत्रिय ) to borrow from the Hindu caste system— and more Brhamins ( ब्राह्मण ),  persons of high intellectual aptitude , again to borrow from the Hindu caste system. One way to paraphrase this more contemplative and substantive outlook is to always listen to the creation, as opposed to seeking out what you want, for what you want may not always be meant for you, and this could just as well be summed up into the anti-Western act of simply giving up. But to give up is not to lose in the sense that most westerns would put it, because the fact of the matter is, that you do not have a free will that can be used reshape the...

Aniconic representation of Dharmakaya ( धर्म काय ) "Sarvavid Vairocana" ( वैरोचन ) The Primordial Body | Friday – February 13, 2026 I n all the sincere and true traditions of the world —that is to say, traditions that are derived from the great primordial unity —the notions of quality and quantity are central in the conception of the metaphysical order of things. That is to say: the notion of a pure substance where the essence of all possibility (manifestation) is situated atop the natural order of things ( sacred hierarchies ); and where essence is substance manifested at the various planes of the creation, particularly within the temporal domain. This primordial body, or unity as we shall soon see, can be understood from various metaphysical point of views, but they all converge around the ontological delineation between something that is of pure possibility—in Buddhist tradition the pure substance of the Buddha, Dharmakāya ( धर्म काय ), or the unmanifested, Acintya ( अचि...

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush The Police | Thursday – February 12, 2026 Who are the police? Well, that's an easy question to answer: the police are the people that the law of the land has delegated the lowest but most expressed form of temporal power to. But I thought that I should be digging just a little bit deeper here: I mean, why would any man in his right mind want to become a police officer? Most men, in my view, that choose this line of work are basically people who like to hold power, immediate and rudimentary power. See, the reason why I describe the powers immanent to the police as rudimentary and immediate is because this is the lowest form of power, from the point of view of metaphysics; of course, the highest point of power is no such thing, because power is deals only with the physical world and therefore belongs entirely to the temporal domain. However, power is correlated with authority, spiritual authority, and whence this form of power is, tr...