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 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.
Levin and Kitty
Anna and Alexei's love is a passionate, consuming love — it burns like a fire and just like fire, it expands. Their love is not pejoratively judged, but over the time, the jealousy, the expectations, even the selfishness, the inability to choose and leave certain attachments behind, bring a destruction and tragedy to both Vronsky and Karenina. A reader may wonder then, whether it was love, or whether they both saw in each other a moment of freedom, liberation from the social expectations and loveless life. Or perhaps it was that the love led them to freedom that their souls so eagerly desired. The burning was perhaps what they wanted. The beauty of their love was in the alchemical flame that consumed both of them and the world around them.
Knight in Shining Armour
Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic and generous actions and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world
The Swan King
It embodied the notable Knight of the Swan legend — a mysterious knight who comes in a swan-drawn boat to rescue a damsel. "Lohengrin" never left Ludwig's heart, him continuing his love of swans and keeping swan figures and paintings in his castles. Very often, the King was painted himself as a Knight of the Swan. Wagner's operas inspired the fantasy loving Ludwig.