Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, take them as gentle meditations and let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
Remembering the Sacred Center
It is probably a well known fact that when Muslims perform the pilgrimage to Mecca, they move in circle. In many other customs or even folk dances, circle is a common way to move. Our clocks, before they were digital, were most often circles. We sit in a circle around a fire even now if we go camping. The movement of celestial bodies is that of a circle. The circle is a symbol of Unity, of the Great Round. It tells that everything returns exactly where it began.
Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos
For this reason, there is a need for individual water carriers, because individual water carriers are the ones who make sure that the Truth is not forgotten. In profane times, even spiritual authority can be polluted and corrupted, but we can always appeal and look towards our Lord, towards that part of the Great Man in which the friends of our soul still live. There are angels, bodhisattvas, imams, saints, sages, mystics, who are still very much alive.
The Lady of the Underworld
Ereshkigal's own desires and ambitions are unclear to her and she fears to seize any part of her that desires authority. Fearing to pursue anything of her own, she as a mother may often be the one who subconsciously lives her ambitions through her son and as a consequence creates a mother complex in him. If she is no mother, she may try to live out her ambition through her husband, in one way or another, directing him to pursue the things she wished she pursued herself. She is always the acted upon, never an actor, a side character in her own life.
The Father’s Daughter
Her creativity and her curiosity are sustained by her father. She is moving along him. The father and daughter may eventually develop a psychic, unconscious allegiance against the mother, never allowing her space in the psychological intimacy that the daughter and the father maintain. In the words of psychoanalysis, this intimate microcosm that the father and daughter inhabit creates a psychological incest bond. That does not mean that subconsciously, the daughter wants to sleep with her father or vice versa - it simply means that between the father and the daughter there is an unconscious exchange of creative and sexual psychic energy. He is the one who sustains her and nourishes her and his is the scorn and rejection she fears the most.
The Matter and the Feminine
She is the lotus that grows out of mud and purifies everything it takes in. Nothing is impure, because the essence of everything is her essence, unchangeable and holy. She purifies herself from herself. She transforms matter into source of beatific vision.
Dwelling in Emptiness
Dwelling in the emptiness that is beyond space and time, beyond relating the phenomena to past or present, we allow the phenomena to show its inner truth. The perceiver and the perceived break the boundary between one another and there is nothing but the purity of the phenomena which arise in an never ending sequence, always new and always different.
God’s Defiant Lovers
For many of these "mad mystics", challenging, insulting God like in the poem above was not foreign. In other poems, the same mystics may express complete enamourment with God. A materialist may simply call it schizophrenic but for a mystic this is the usual dance between polarities - one polarity which is the feeling of God's distance and the rejection of the demiurge, and the other, which is the feeling of God's closeness and the death within the Absolute.
The Sacred Prostitute
Stranger is "the other", the foreign, the different, the man, the phallic, the penetrating. He is, as the Corbett calls him: "the phallic beast" for the maiden who faces his often visually aggressive sexuality. But in the ritual, the bond is honoured, he does not assault her, and that which looked foreign, beastly, strange, becomes the source of ecstasy. Symbolically, on the level of psyche, the woman allows her inner man, to penetrate her anima.
Nature, Sacred & Romantic Perspective
To allow ourselves to be lost in a star or in the harp's melody.
The Beauty of Grotesque and Ugly
Ugliness in its capacity to fascinate and inspire an awe, shares with beauty and reveals so often to be nothing else but her, albeit latent and hidden.