Ethereal Insights

Photograph of a Parochial School Wednesday: My views on conservatism – September 3, 2025 Conservatism, as the word implies, means to conserve, or rather it means that one seeks to conserve something, often the status quo, such in the case of politics , but also when it comes to other aspects of life. Verily, when you really get down to it, it's actually quite impossible to separate politics from life: indeed life is politics and all decisions in life are an act of politics. I am of course a proponent of anti-politics, or really post-politics , but even I recognize that it's not quite possible to never be political, and what I mean by post-political is not to never be political or rather not to never engage in politics: post-political simply means moving beyond or really past the 20th century junction of mass politics , where the medium of change was and continues to be the mobilization of opinion, often derived not from good reason or even ideological principles, but from the e...

Photograph of a Crucifix at sunset By Aaron Burden Why I'm not a conservative | Wednesday – December 3, 2025 As I stated in my post from September 3 , about the subject of conservatism, with a small c that is: " ...I think it's quite appropriate on one hand to think of conservatism as a perpetually losing position  ... ", and by that I mean that if you seek to uphold and defend the status quo, the contemporary social order, you are never going to win, because the world keeps changing around you and around your society , which then forces society in the end to change, and this is mostly due to the fact that we live in a world that stands on material underpinnings : society keeps transforming into something new all the time. I think that the caricature of the conservative man is the old and bitter man without strength and without vigor, because you see he has aged out of his own past, yet he keeps clinging on to those memories of days gone by: indeed it's not possib...

Political Propaganda Poster Should you engage with politics? Wednesday – September 24, 2025 In my humble opinion there are really no valid/legitimate reasons to engage with politics, but allow me to explain why. What is politics? Well, I've discussed that topic in previous posts and you can find them all under the label " Politics & Ideology ", but in short: politics is basically the allocation of resources in order to change or alter the fundamental circumstances of life in the material domain, and in any society there are different forces that would favor allocation or reallocation of resources in desperate directions (the have and the have-nots), and this is often illustrated by the left-right divide, where left-wing forces tend to favor allocations of resources downwards from the top down, and where right-wing forces tends to favor hoarding of resources at the top of, and they do this by defending the status-quo, and sometimes they may seek to return to the status...

Photograph of the Imam Husayn Shrine By  أخٌ‌في‌الله What is Jihad? Tuesday – November 18, 2025 Throughout the last couple of decades there's been much talk about Islamic Jihad, Islamism, and terrorism, and while there have been good reasons for this discourse I fear that most people don't quite understand the purpose of the Jihad, and while I am by no means an Islamic scholar I would like to provide my own perspective on the Jihad, from both a historical perspective and a modern one. See, historically Jihad was no different from the many warrior cultures that existed throughout Europe and the rest of the non-Islamic world. Jihad was not merely used as a phrase to wage holy war because in those times there was essentially no difference between waging war and metaphysics: to wage war, was to restore the scales of the celestial order, on behalf of God, Allah, and this was again no different from the many wars that have been labeled "religious" wars in Europe, and the ai...

David by Michelangelo Transhumanism | Saturday – February 7, 2026 I am someone who, for metaphysical purposes, advocates for the complete abolition of the human body, and eventually the complete abolition of humanity, or some part of humanity, and since this post is part of my " Future series ", I recommend that you read more about my thoughts about the future, and this is not the first time that I've brought up this topic in this series, so again go read more about it.     Before I go on about transhumanism, allow me to explain shortly why I believe that the human body must be destroyed. In my view—I happen to take on a traditional and cyclical view of the nature of the world— destruction (Kali in the Hindu tradition) plays a central role in governing the balance of the scales of the celestial order, and as such I hold that the human body is the complete material representation of degeneracy and corruption of the primordial tradition ; really, the human body is the out...

Painting by Arthur William Heintzelman Ruination | Friday – May 1, 2026 R uination indeed – that is the way of the world in this 21st century. Everything keeps getting ruined and worse, at least this is how I see the world, and perhaps this is why this post should belong to my " Personal Notes series "? No, It will not, but that would be a great idea, though not in line with my intentions.     The threat of a looming ruination is of course nothing new, at least not during the current deviation, and if you do not contribute your work and your "hard earned money", read "Gold", then you are out of luck I guess. See, the politicians will never cease to attempt to ruin the world further, because that is the only thing politicians know how to do – to cause great ruin. All of these ideas, ideologies , never seem to actually improve anything do they? Of course not, but people are stupid and feeble enough to still subscribe to this identity , because this is very ...

An arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595 Hyperborea | Monday – February 2, 2026 A ccording to Greek mythology Hyperborea was a land "beyond" the God (Boreas) of the north wind, and this land of "Hyperborea" was inhabited by a people (Hyperboreans) who lived according to the principles of a pacific outlook  and in harmony with the creation, without disease, strife, and devastation; in a lot of ways Hyperborea can be considered a paradise on Earth. The exact location of this "mythic" place is unknown, but scholars would generally point to the far north, potentially the north pole, which would be in keeping with the Greek notion that Hyperborea was situated beyond the north wind. The ancient world's relationship to Hyperborea however, was much more established than merely a mythological figment in the collective imagination, and it's also clear that in the very deep past some kind of original or prototypical civilization was, at some p...

Hindu-Tamil ( ॐ ) depiction of Mariamman ( மாரியம்மன் ) Ideological Indoctrination | Wednesday – March 25, 2026 P olitical Indoctrination is a prerequisite in everything that requires the active engagement of the masses, and while this applies in particular to democracy , you would surely be hard pressed to find any other kind of engagement outside the officially established democracies, and this is perhaps best understood by the fact that most regimes around the world that clearly do not qualify as democracies still rely on that label or pretense, and whatever the case it is clearer still that such regimes while not being democratic in the formal sense still relies heavily upon the movement in on or the other direction of the masses . Indeed, it is even more clear that this kind of "zero sum" mentality is an inherent feature of democracy: either you are with me or you are against men, and surely most people cannot be against democracy? But political indoctrination requires m...

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Why I am anti-ideological | Thursday – October 2, 2025 I am anti-ideological for a variety of reasons and I believe that my anti-ideological theme can be noticed in most of my posts on this page, and this is also why I only consider conservatism  as an ideology, or really anti-ideology, to be worthy of respect. I do not identify as conservative, for a variety of reasons that I intend to cover in this series at another time. The main reasons why I am anti-ideological is because I believe in living in reality, and by that I simply mean that ideologies do not deal with reality: they deal with a conjured up ideological reality that treats people as good or bad, where the "good" people are on "our" side and the "bad" people are on the "other" side. Indeed, the way I view ideology is a little bit like the story of the collective, or the story/myth that people within the collective tell each other to justi...

Stock photo: A stack of old newspapers What is news and media? Saturday – September 20, 2025 First and foremost allow me to define the words news and media. I also want to add that both the words news and media tend to coexist, or they tend to be used interchangeably by many people, but news and media are two distinct words that may or may not refer to the same thing: news is media, but media isn't necessarily always news, and while this distinction may seem obvious to you, it doesn't seem to be that obvious to many people these days, especially those that use terms like MSM (mainstream media, mass media, etc, etc. News refers to news, it just means things that are new about the world, the contemporary world, and there are organizations whose job it is to report on such news, or changes to the contemporary order, and they often claim to be impartial and all that, but I will cover that later. Media can really refer to any organization that puts out information through some sort ...