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.]
On Urge to Withdraw
There was nothing to gain, nothing to have or strive for. It seemed that I was to be but an animal with verbal skills - animal who can only care for life if it has progeny or property, if it can see a trace of its own self somewhere in the world. It seemed that everything that exists or has existed, had to serve a certain end, and existence of nothing was enough. I thought, if existing or being alone is not enough, then existing or being is meaningless, and everything beyond that is simply a lie, a vanity that must be upheld to make the spectacle of life bearable.
The Way of the Mask
Headlessness and decapitation is such a common religious motif because the head, that is, the face is the source of identity. We identify who we are, and who others are, mostly on the basis of face and our facial features. Is it a wonder then, when upon applying make up, one says to "feel different" or even as a "different person"? The reflection in the mirror is different, and we relate to that reflection with a different sentiment. Head, is also, the source of rational thought and ego - identity, which is the very core of the separation, but that is a topic for another essay.
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.
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.