Ethereal Insights

Krishna ( कृष्ण ) Vanquishing the Crane-Demon Bakasura ( बकासुर ) Friday: Why the righteous path? | August 1, 2025 Verily, why the righteous path in a time of moral decline and willful chaos ? It would seem preferable to most far-seeing men to go down the path of self-destruction when the world around them is falling apart, for the values of times gone by have fallen out of favor with modern man, and the warrior culture raised to fight for the benefit of such values have been reduced to the enormous and egalitarian horde fighting for the decline and the degeneration itself, indeed fighting for the beast. I can only answer this question by asserting my view that there has always been a dynamic between the forces of Kali (destruction and decay) and the forces of ( Brahma ) the good, but in modern times the scales have been significantly put out of balance by the forces of Kali, but do note that this has happened , not because the forces of Kali have all of a sudden been conscripted ...

Bhairavi Ragini ( भैरवी रागिनी ), Manley Ragamala ( मनले रागमाला ) Thursday: Should sin be forgiven? | July 31, 2025 When man sins, he commits a crime against the natural and the orderly , by pushing the limits of the celestial order so far that he can be said to have fallen outside the moral universe, and as such he has committed a crime not only against the creator and the societal organism , but a crime against himself and his sacred honor . No man in his right mind would willingly commit sin and that's why all sinners suffer from the mental illness of lust , for only lust and  the acceptance and open tolerance of lust  can motivate man to sin against the orderly and the creator of the orderly; such men are depraved and unknowing of their crimes. This is why I hold that on a fundamental level it should be considered quite righteous to wish the sinner well, but not his sin and indeed my view is that it would be right to forgive the sinner and not not his sin, for the...

Tibetan depiction of Vajrayoginī ( वज्रयोगिनी ) Wednesday: What is addiction? | July 30, 2025 Quick clarification : I am not a medical doctor or a medical professional of any kind , and the views I present in this text are my own views and not necessarily the views of the medical establishment. In no way am I trying to cure or recommend anyone with medical issues to take a course of action; this is merely me attempting to provide spiritual guidance by providing answers that address the many issues of addiction that go beyond the profane. If you are suffering from addiction of any kind, seek medical attention – I am again not trying to cure you or anyone else.     Addiction as it is portrayed by the revolutionary elite  as something that a person is afflicted and affected by, and verily in the material sense this is surely the case and I have no further comments or opinions that diverge from that fact, but in the spiritual sense addiction can be seen as a process, a proces...

Ragini Todi ( ਟੋਡੀ ) Mughal depiction, c. 1750 Tuesday: What is selfishness? | July 29, 2025 Selfishness is often portrayed as the man only concerned with himself—the man that stands in no regard to other men and/or to society at large, the man that is navel-gazing—and while this description of selfishness represents a form of selfishness I hold that it is important to try to understand what selfishness actually is and the many forms that it takes and how being human has destined man for a life of selfishness , regardless of his actions in the material world . Verily, in modern times men are completely self obsessed for they have been thought and encouraged by the liberal paradigm, the humanist axiom , to idolize themselves and other men, for modern man has lost his cause and his reason for contemplation and action, moving towards the light , because to him only the immediate and the short term, invariably at the expense of the sacred and the honorable , has taken up his imagination ...

The Anchorite, The Hermit, by – Gerrit Dou . Monday: Why, for whom, and what do we pray? | July 28, 2025 In accordance with the righteous intentions of the man operating for the betterment of himself and all sentient life in existence, prayer is the most sacred form the material action of ascending above the Earth takes and the object of why this ritual is performed is a profound question that cannot always be easily answered, but in this post I attempt to answer that very question, within the frames of my own ability, patience, and discipline . Verily, to pray is to call on the forces of the creation, the creator , to extend divinity to the untimely , or in other words: prayer is the act of seeking order and guidance in the world by becoming ordered within so that you may be enabled to seek order in other aspect of the creation, or to see the profound insight . Prayer is not however, asking for something and people that operate under that assumption are indeed mistaken and they are...

Kazusa Kanōzan ( 上総鹿野山 ) – Mount Kanō ( 鹿野山 ) Sunday: What is tradition? | July 27, 2025 The artifacts shaped by the forces of deep time that are particular to any culture, region, or land can be said to be the material aspects of that tradition, for they shape and govern the course of destiny and as such they become integral parts of the human condition as well as the cardinal feature that clearly separates one culture from another, one region from another, and one land from another – this is the essence of tradition in the material domain. The wish to adhere to tradition is for man the call to uphold the orderly , to remain on the course of destiny and to remain anchored to the celestial order , for all men have upon their shoulders the awesome responsibility of ancestral responsibility, for a man that rejects the wish and the ways of his ancestors is not a man, he is the beast , and such is the case with modern man, a pathetic creature in the shadow of a once great man. Traditi...

Radha ( राधा ) and Krishna ( कृष्ण ) in the Rain c. 1780 Saturday: What is animal welfare? | July 26, 2025 Animal welfare is the protection and stewardship of every sentient being within the creation , without material forms of interference, and this is surely the case with man, since on every account, except when it comes to the mental faculties of man , he stands below the rank of the apex of creatures in harmony with the celestial order, and as such man would deserve to be devoured by most apex predators, but the serpent has protected man with his intellectual abilities, but this quality also makes it necessary for any man trying to be moral and to operate in harmony with nature to respect nature and the animal kingdom therein, for he is the alien form. As such, it stands clear that man has no legitimate and moral claim against the animal kingdom— even though he claims to own the whole of or some part of the creation — and in every act that deprives sentient life of quality, sacre...

Hida Shūzan  ( 飛田 周山 ) Withdrawal of the devils ( 悪魔 ) Friday: What is Mental illness? | July 25, 2025 When the mental body is out of order, that is when the qualities essential to a sound mind are out of tune with each other and out of balance with the celestial order, the mind can be said to be ill or in disarray – mental disorder. In the contemporary world this state has been made the normal state or the average state of being for most people, for what can be described as a sound mind is far out of line with contemporary norms derived from the humanist axiom of absolute liberation from the conditions of life, the human condition itself . Disorder exists for a reason: when man is unable to see the light or when he rejects the light, it becomes clearer and clearer that the world is essentially wrong, but what appears to be a world in disorder or in circumstances that are not to the liking of the mentally unstable man, the beast, is indeed no such thing, for it is the beast, t...