Ethereal Insights

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Why I refuse to vote | Saturday – January 17, 2026 Without revealing too much information about myself, read more on that here , I can inform anyone reading this page that I in fact live under the metaphysical tyranny of " democracy ". Indeed, some people would say that it is prudent to cast your vote if you can, and even if that makes you morally complicit and compromised. But this claim is of course nonsense: there is no reason at all why I should take part in, or want to take part in, this mass mobilization of the beastly horde, or indeed in the metaphysical warfare that is modern politics , and as if any of these people will change the course of the direction of present events. No, this is a laughable and ludicrous proposition and I simply and frankly refuse to take part in this mass hysteria. But, I also refuse to take part in this ritual, because I do not recognize the authority of the state , and in fact I regard the...

The City, by Lightman Qian Urban survival | Friday – January 16, 2026 In my post " Life in the city ", I explained why I dislike cities and urban life, which I regard as completely unnatural and something that really promotes disease and mental confusion ; if you want to find out more about such topics then read that post first. Also, when it comes to the subject of security, you may read more about them here and here . This post will not endeavour to go into any great details in what can only amount to an exercise in repeating already stated facts and/or opinions.     Most people in the modern world, or really at least that can claim to live in a " modern civilization " do indeed live within, or at least around, an urban environment, a milieu that can only be described as completely unnatural and really an expression of the monstrous nature of the material order . Within the urban landscape you will find all sorts of things, ranging from public transportation , t...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Preferences | Thursday – January 15, 2026 Do you have preferences? Well, I am sure you do, and I am not going to argue with you about them. However, I would like to just highlight the individualist and modern nature of so-called preferences? After all, who in the times of the ancients would have the inclination to boast about all sorts of preferences in relation to anything? No, this didn't occur, and that's because the world of today is completely material, and really one can only think of the concept of having preferences as an expression of individualism and materialism, but in all matter concerning me, these two concepts are in fact the same thing, but again different expression of that same thing in different aspects of the material domain, and from that point of view you may also say that individualism and collectivism are the same as well; yes collectivism is really just another expression of individualism, read about the concept of "po...

Ganapati ( गणेश ) with Riddhi ( ऋद्धि ) and Siddhi ( सिद्धि ) Democracy | Wednesday – January 14, 2026 In my Personal Note XX about this same topic, I made it clear why I don't like democracy. So if you would like to find out why, then you should read that post.     What is democracy if not an inversion of true and sacred hierarchies , based on the normal and quite universal notion that two distinct entities where one and the other exist in a complementary relationship and where the other is subordinate to the former? Well, this description of democracy is actually false, but not because an attempt hasn't been made to invert sacred hierarchies, but because the notion that is democracy, that is to say the rule by the people and for the people is metaphysically and even materially quite impossible: democracy is really nothing but a negation of the true cosmological order and even the true material order , but the empty platitudes of democracy orated by the leaders of democracie...

Tibetan thangka, depicting the wrathful goddess Palden Lhamo ( དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ། ) Inner fury! Tuesday – January 13, 2026 In life, at least in life under material circumstances, you're going to deal with rage and fury , and it would seem that this inner fury, if you will, is something that the material order in particular tends to promote. I don't believe that fury or indeed rage are bad things, but the way in which they are expressed tend towards bad things, at least in our material world. See, I am sure that you've heard of people that tell you to seek to greatness as you allow the fury to fill you up with motivation, motivation towards action and movement, and yes this may seem fine, and it may even, for a short while, promote some material success, but in the end relying of fury to fuel your motivation is an enterprise that is destined to fail, and either you're fury will slowly fade away, or it will turn into blind rage, and then you have turned against yourself. No...

Lorenzo hitting pier Porthcawl By Marcus Woodbridge My Existential Crisis | Monday – January 12, 2026 Yes, it's that time of the year again. January... February... March, the time for reflection and contemplation. In February 2021, my mental world was turned upside-down, and this ruptured my emotional and inner tranquility, really it erased my confidence in who I was, where I was, and my place in this world – this was my existential crisis and my moment of detachment from the material world. I can't say here in January of 2026 that I've ever really recovered from this existential, or really metaphysical, crisis, but this doubt has still been more important than whatever material need I might have or may have had in my mind that I one day should emerge from the shadows and become "normal" again, become yet another material man. Yes, you may say that I exist at the necessary and unavoidable metaphysical tension between modernity and the past; this is why I no longer...

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush My views on motivation | Sunday – January 11, 2026 Motivation is to me really an infuriating word, or concept rather, but I do not allow this provocative concept to lead me down the path of rage . The main reason why I dislike, to say the least, the concept of motivation is that it should not take extra effort for you to finish the task that you have sought out. But the more subtle reason why I dislike motivation is of course that motivation is something temporary, fleeting, and always transient: motivation is really a concept that is designed for the modern world. I cannot conceive of such a concept, at any rate I will not attempt to conceive of such a concept, among men of the past, for their lot in life was to complete the task at hand. But individualism and really the social confusion of the modern world has enabled this concept to take root in the minds of most men, and consequently most men lack not only skills but any way of ...

Photograph of the Atlas globe No rearrangement in sight | Saturday – January 10, 2026 It's clear to me that the contemporary world order is changing, but this should not be taken as a sign that the metaphysical body of the world is changing. In fact, the circumstance that the material order from time to time will come to rearrange itself is nothing but a necessary part of the continual need for change, evolution, and progress in service of the material order . Really, I don't consider these so-called "geopolitical" changes to be of much importance, at least not from the aforementioned metaphysical tendencies of the world, but yes I do still feel the need to provide some commentary. It's clear that the so-called "liberal and rules based" order is being disrupted, and this is something that I have anticipated all along, because once the material order start to evolve and grow away from the need of mass mobilization and the medium of politics , the humanis...

Jacques de Molay, by Chevauchet Can Western civilization be restored? Friday – January 9, 2026 As I've mentioned in my recent post about modern civilization , it's clear that one can surely assert the equation between modernity and the western outlook. This doesn't mean that modernity and its many confusions haven't or can't affect the East; the East is very much being affected today, but it's clear that the origin of this confusion, that is modernity, is very much the West. Before I can proceed to answer the question in the heading I need to just make a couple of observations clear: there are indeed many forces today claiming to work for the restoration of something traditional or even primordial, or may I say normal, in the west, but most, if not all, of these forces tend to make the same mistakes; mistakes that really show that these forces who claim to speak on behalf of the traditional western outlook do no such thing and that they indeed are just as caugh...

Hindu Rajasthani Depiction of Vishnu ( विष्णु ) Modern civilization | Thursday – January 8, 2026 When it comes to the topic of civilization it's commonplace to divide the great civilizations of the world into Eastern civilization, or really civilizations, and Western civilization , yes singular. In the East civilization has still retained some of its original and traditional character , anchored in the primordial, but this is not the case in the west, where the confusions and ailments of modernity are most expressed, and more often than not in the form of the metaphysical and historical monstrosity that is the modern nation-state , an arrangement that has served to uproot all traditional modes of being in the west and has rendered western civilization a material and profoundly empty place, really a lowering of humanity to the lowest level, or a civilization that completely lacks skillful means and insight/knowledge . Of course, due to western colonialism and encroachment in the ea...

Hindu depiction of the Goddess Kali ( काली ) Destruction! Wednesday – January 7, 2026 Destruction is a much needed aspect of the material domain, for without it nothing good could come, and every good quality in the world would slowly fade into obscurity, hidden away forever and lost to history, and really history itself would die. I have covered some aspects of this cosmic force in my post about " Crime and metaphysics ", that deals with this aspect of the material domain in the everyday life of ordinary men. In this post I intend to widen the scope to also include the nature of our cyclical order and the fact that we are living in the dark ages – the Kali Yuga.      Indeed, destruction is a force for good, and yes this might be hard for most ordinary and modern men to understand; after all the entire enterprise that is the modern world, the materialist order, seems geared towards the eradication of true knowledge , really an attempt to solve the human condition all tog...

Spring, by Tomoko Uju Should you create an alter ego? Tuesday – January 6, 2026 The short answer is that you may actually need to create an alter ego, and this in order to protect yourself in the world. The reasons why you may want to create an alter ego can be many, but for the purposes of this post the main reason would be to protect yourself. Indeed, it can be quite tedious and even hard to create an alternative you, really an alternative identity , but here at the end of history this may be something unavoidable, if you seek to remain in the world. While I can't speak for you—since I am generally unaware of the specific circumstance you find yourself in—I can at the very least provide some ideas as to what your alter ego might look like, but before that allow my to again explain why this action or really the intend to enter a new mode of being may be necessary if you intend to remain in the world. See, the world is a dangerous place, specifically the material domain, and since...