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, approach them as gentle meditations. Let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows. Perhaps they invite you to dream or to look at Reality with an expanded gaze.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
The Inner Apartments
While the Night allows, it also hides. Perfect intimacy manifests only when hidden from the vulgar gaze of the masses. Would you speak of a perfect night you spent with your lover, of the ecstasy experienced, of the wine and sherbet that flew, of the music that played? And could that night, spoken into the world, ever be free?
Embodying Art and Culture
Perhaps her world is false, a fancy lie, an offense to the reality that demands strain and effort. Or perhaps not, perhaps her world is what everyone and everything is, and they visit her so they would remember, and not forget.
The Womb That Bears Love
Love seems to be not only the highest principle, but rather, the only principle, and everything that turns its face away from Love, reasonably, fears the Judge.
Feminine as the Initiator
This fluid which arises spontaneously is the symbol of the goddess, because the goddess is constantly emanating, giving fluid, the whole reality is sustained and created by it.
The Metaphysics of Beauty Rituals
This female avatar is known as the goddess of Enchantment. Dancing and tricking the asuras into giving her the Amrita, she gives it back to devas. There are a few retellings of the story, and in some of them, Mohini is described as Maya, illusion of the Vishnu or even his false appearance. But in either case, the Maya or Illusion is used to serve the dharma, that is, the righteous action.
The Demon Lover
The demon lover is an archetype that can be, if analysed, noticed easily in the works of female writers — Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte or Sylvia Plath. Very often, despite writing beautiful poetry or prose, these women expressed a tremendous amount of grief in their works. It was not any kind of grief either — it was a grief of being trapped and of being unable to relate and engage with life itself. They are locked inside themselves, yet they are foreigners to their own selves, and their own "I" is barely visible to them. It is not rare that this kind of female writers often end their own lives, or die an early death, sometimes caused by a disease.
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 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.
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 Great Devouress
How we relate to the irrational, to the non-linear, to the intuitive rather than logical, often reveals, how we relate to this Great Goddess, both as a metaphysical principle and as a psychological principle, within each individual. The urge to constantly define, measure and put everything under a microscope, while useful, can make us mechanical beings who do not see themselves having anything else but cognitive functions — it marks an inability to see, with, what Sufis call "the eye of the heart" and dharmic religions describe as the third eye.