Ethereal Insights

Tara (female buddhist deity) – तारा Sunday: My views on compassion – June 1, 2025 Central to the character of any good man is his ability to feel compassion with other men, and indeed to all sentient life. Compassion makes man righteous because it demands of him to transcend the material world and ascend to the moral plane; compassion is the quality that upholds moral order, by making the righteous way manifest in the world. Without this quality of man, there would be no humanity and there would be no civilization – all things that make man essentially human would not be without his quality, above all else, to feel profound compassion.     In modern times however, compassion is a concept that has been perverted and misunderstood: often as something that should be seen as an ability by men to indiscriminately accept great quantities, always at the expense of the great qualities of life, in an attempt to include all, because by including all men, wicked as their actions tho...

Hindu Guru with disciples (गुरु) Saturday: My views on human nature – May 31, 2025 In modern times it is commonplace to equate human nature with morality, as if human nature is good in and of itself. The assumption made by modern man is that humans are good as they are in their natural state, and that anything that cannot conceivably be described as good is an aberration of human nature that serves as an expression of a soul that is merely confused in the moment, or has been led astray. The truth about human nature could not possibly be further from the truth; within every soul there exists a dark force, waiting to make itself apparent in the right moment, and for some individuals that force has already made itself apparent or is making itself apparent, because human nature is not good. This dark force is not always bad, and the assumption that all actions that seem harsh are bad and "immoral" is in line with humanist fantasies about an everlasting brotherhood of man, where e...

Madhubani (Mithila) painting depicting Indian life(मधुबनी चित्रकला) Friday: My views on promiscuity – May 30, 2025 Along with the lines of modern thinking about progress and moral relativism comes the seemingly inevitable erosion of boundaries – more often than not, sacred boundaries.     The world makes itself apparent in many different stages across many different dimensions, and in modern times this aspect of existence has been challenged and attacked, and as a result morality itself has become dispersed and extended to such an extend that any action has been and can be made acceptable within the moral domain: such as homosexuality, polygamy, the decay of marriage, the sexualization of children, individualism, the fetizhization of the human condition, and much more. Indeed, modern man seems to have fallen in love with himself, and in his state of self aggrandizement, self adulation, and complete idolatry, the world is falling apart all around him.  ...

Yama, mid-17th century, Tibet (विमानपेत) Thursday: My views on disease and decay – May 29, 2025 In the end everything decays and putrifies, but the people that did not observe the source allowed their bodies and their flesh to become corrupted much earlier – this is the essence of disease. Disease is a process, it's part and parcel of life; without disease life is not possible. To the extent that disease is an avoidable fate, man's relation to the pure plays an important role that certainly goes beyond the profane and that transcends the world. But today far too many people have been convinced of the idea that disease is a fate that can be avoided, but these people are surely mistaken, and they more often than not lead lives that go on to justify their own decay. Disease is therefore, more often than not the culmination of the many aggregate corruptive forces that leads to the degeneration of man and his soul.     Obesity, for instance, is the result of the cult of the grand q...

A page from the luxury illuminated manuscript Wenceslas Bible,... Wednesday: My views on secularism – May 28, 2025 In the course of what has been labeled the "enlightenment" the term secular is often considered imperative to that tradition. Secularism being primarily the concept of the separation of state and religion, the church in the west. While this sentiment has good and reasonable intentions, it fails to understand the importance of faith in the long and yet more traditional perspective of history. Religion is more often than not, something that has been shaped more by the culture of any given region, than the other way around. Religious beliefs and traditions have often informed man of profound truths and insights, and in so doing also improved the general condition of life.     In modern times, religion is often painted as something that is oppressive and something that has been imposed on a population, but considering the historical perspective this could not possibl...

Mandala of the Buddhist deity Chakrasamvara, approx. 1700-1800 Tuesday: My views on the meaning of purity – May 27, 2025 Purity is central to a healthy body and a healthy mind. Indeed, wherever life is thriving there is always at the center of that life a certain element of purity that is being evern encroached by the darkness of decay. Purity is not something that comes easy; for purity to be achieved, one has to work against the constant decay of the world. Purity represents the source all around us, and once purity has been obtained, man can begin to transcend the material. Purity as something profoundly central to life, not the least in the sexual domain, has been deemed such as well by almost all major world religions, and they hold dear the teachings and the rules about the act, and anyone that engages in the sexual act lightly is deemed immoral for good reasons. In the age of the Kali Yuga, sexual pleasure has been reduced to yet another commodity sold and packed in large number...

Mahakala (Protector of the Dharma) in Hindu and Buddhist mythology ( महाकाल ) Monday: My views on the unity of the source – May 26, 2025 Anything that is expressed in the world, anything that is apparent to anyone willing, flows from the transcendental downwards in a step wise manner, and at each step downward, from the original source, the apparent becomes expressed in an ever more diluted way. This is the world as it makes itself apparent, in line with the Dharma, at all moments in time. You can never create a complete representation of the world in the moment, because it is constantly being expressed in different manners, but in every moment it is clear that the world is converging from the source and diverging away from the source in this downward manner. This is the essence, as well, of sentient life in the world, as a process of something that is departing further away from the source. In the age of the Kali Yuga this becomes ever more apparent as the world enters a phase of entr...

Art of The Qur'an (ٱلْقُرْآن) Sunday: My views on the efficacy of ideas – May 25, 2025 In the pursuit of meaning and solutions to real problems, man has devised ingenious ideas to solve the apparent and immediate problems of the human condition: such as modern medicine, technology to generally improve labour conditions, and an assortment of different mechanical modules to make communication over large distances posible etc., and to this extent there is such a thing as progress. But when in the pursuit of non-profane truths and deeper meanings that go beyond the material, modern man has completely failed to grasp the importance of observing the profound truths of life, and has instead resorted to either nihilism or "alternative" and materialistic pursuits to feed his soul. This is in fact the mark of a civilization in decline: where wisdom and sacred truths become ever more a fragment of the distant past, and something to be ridiculed and laughed at. By dismissing ancient ...

Avatars of Vishnu lithograph by Raja Ravi Varma (विष्णु) Saturday: My views on the nature of equality (egalitarianism) – May 24, 2025 In line with modern confusions, the concept of equality (egalitarianism) has come to redefine human relations to the point where a significant contingent of any given population, particularly in the west, has adopted a completely skewed perception of the world: where those that are labeled as existing on the top are thought of as "stealing" from and "exploiting" those that exist on the bottom; and another contingent, though much smaller, that often adopts the view that those that exist at the bottom deserve their fate in some kind of animalistic game of survival of the "fittest".     This state is again, due to the pernicious influence of democracy, but more to the point, to answer the question of the hen or the egg, the concept of nationhood is even more to blame, for having enabled the merchant classes to exact their venge...

Tiger – of oriental/Chinese motif Friday:  My views on the atrophy of quality in modern times – May 23, 2025 Consider the tiger, excellent in form and feature: the tiger is the product of winners, and the bum is the product of losers. Nothing else can be said about this eternal and absolute truth. Egalitarianism in its many forms, is nothing other than a disease that has gripped the mind of modern man in his pursuit of so-called progress, a topic I partially covered the other day. Well, if equality and quantity is more important than quality, I want no part of this modern world and I gather that many other people want no part of this modern world.     The world is in crisis, a spiritual and metaphysical crisis, and it is time for man to recognize his own ability and strive to create a world shaped in his own image, not the other way around. Simple truths may be easy to come by, but they're often none the less profound in their depth. Take this to heart if you're not ...

Mahākāla ( महाकाल ) Protector of the Dharma Thursday: My views on the reign of quantity – May 22, 2025 In modern times, it seems quite natural for people to take for granted that any expression or any feature apparent in the world should necessarily be improved with time or "progress", as many people label it. This sentiment seems to be true in people's perception of the moral domain in particular; as if things just magically become better because some period of time has elapsed.     To provide an example: because something that is expressed today was considered immoral in the past but has come to be considered quite moral, and if not moral at least morally neutral, in the moral domain it has to be taken as a sign of progress, moral progress. This assumption of some kind of omniscient and inevitable improvement of the human condition—based on the seemingly arbitrary rule that what is considered morality should be extended or expanded—as a mere function of time is the...

First post: My views on sexual purity – May 21, 2025 🙏🙏अन्धगजन्याय🙏🙏 I believe in the complete, total, and unconditional victory – anything short of this is nothing but treachery against the good and the moral. By preserving your sexual purity you not only nurture your vital essence, you also don't allow your mind to become corrupted and putrefied by the forces of degeneration, aligned against morality. The many excesses of the modern world represents this corrupting force, and it is well overdue that the good in this world should stand up to the oppression and the colonization coming from the so-called modern parts of the world. Resist all evil temptations – preserve your purity! Embrace the ethereal and eternal truth. Welcome! Reginald Drax – May 21, 2025.