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 Heroine’s Journey
In another Greek myth, that of Psyche, the mother is not mentioned, but Psyche also does not have a voice in her own life. Her father is worried about her remaining unmarried, Apollo gives his oracle, and Eros, hiding his true identity behind the mask of the monster takes her to his mansion. In the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the heroine is put in the situation after her father lies to the king about her alchemical powers of turning spin straw into gold.
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.
The Bulbul and the Rose
Everywhere we look, anywhere we allow our gaze to fall is an unique opportunity for this connection through nothing but pure love and devotion. It is an eros that seeks to destroy the boundaries between the two and it is also a bhakti (Sanskrit for devotion, love, worship, purity), an emotional devotionalism that also seeks not the boundary to dissolve because the yearning and the desire, the need, the hunger for the Beloved, will also disappear. Standing between her desire for Unity and desire for selfless, self-sacrificing devotion, the lover is tormented and deeply enjoys the torments.
The Gentle Hedonism
Such pleasure is itself an art. It requires a life force and vitality that can go into fire and endure. It requires a sensitivity for the subtle, the non-obvious.
The Meaning of Pain
Perhaps the word they are looking for, or the feeling they are looking for is not happiness but rather contentment — the state of deep satisfaction, of realisation that even if life has had its sorrows, some big and some small, that you are still content, grateful and proud of the life you lived.
The Primordiality of Poetry
Poetic art is thus a principal part of many peoples' earliest heritage — Homer is a jewel of Greece, Ovid and Virgil is pride of Rome, Beowulf of the Anglo-Saxons, Kalevala is unforgettable in the memory of Finnic peoples, Poetic Edda is where the Icelandic and other Nordic people find their cosmological root; we also recall Epic of Gilgamesh, Popol Vuh, Ramayana, Shijing, and many more epics and ballads. These all eventually became part of the universal human heritage, recognised for their value in the entire world. Poetry is at once, humanity’s most primordial (even “primitive”) and highest expression.
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
A Woman’s Life Saga
By completing her heart's last wishes and giving back to the world that which she had learned from it, she is ready to leave the life on earth fulfilled and with no regrets on her deathbed.
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.