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.]
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.
Woman to Woman
Nin, in the excerpts above, imagines June as a sort of goddess - she is out of reach, she provokes devotion and admiration. It is almost as if Nin's affair with Henry himself, was an attempt to get to know June - to learn something about her through the man June was with. This blonde, selfish, towering goddess has a dominant presence, unlike Anaïs, who tends to be sensitive and receptive. Yet, like she says, it is not exactly the same feeling that Anaïs would get from a man — she feels that even though June carries a dominant energy, she is still very much a woman and very feminine.
The Transcendence of Love
As much as we cling to our ego and care to maintain its strength, we long even more to be free of it. To be free of the name we did not choose, of goals and hopes, of memories and expectations, of having this, of not having that is what the soul craves, at least for short moments. It is brief freedom from existence as we know it. In the experience of "little death", we come to see that we live even when everything we know of ourselves dies and fades — that experience is giving us a glimpse into our own immortality, into our own existence beyond the separation.
The Seductress and the Eros
Giuditta and Carmen are both dancers, and they both captivate with their dance. Unlike the more pornographic, dances, they, like Salome, leave something "behind the seven veils", they show and invite without overdoing, they incite curiosity, the desire for the unfolding of the story and not the quick release.
The Ethics of Logos and Eros
Eros brings, at least, for a moment, freedom from our mental abstraction and allows us to experience the pure joy of being and of transcending our limited “I” identity. It belongs to the night and the interior and that is where the true freedom is found.