Kali is a no-no, but the AI have no problem generating scary pictures of a certain other "Left Hand" character...
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Kali is a no-no, but the AI have no problem generating scary pictures of a certain other "Left Hand" character...
| - I´m sure there´s a natural explanation! |
So I asked Bing AI to make a picture of a "skeptic" seeing a mystery drone outside his house at night. It´s a self-ironic comment to the incident described in a previous blog post (linked below). It struck me that I may have seen the drone during the night of Odin´s Wild Hunt?! But it was very civilized compared to folkloric descriptions of *that* event...
Not sure what to make of all this. I mean, it *is* a co-incidence, right?
Right?
Check your news feed. Trump actually got the peace prize. Or *a* peace prize, at any rate. LOL.
And yes, it´s the first time it´s being awarded, so presumably it was the consolation prize for not getting the "real" peace prize (you know, that Norwegian one).
Yes, it´s Ardhanārīśvara. The strangest Hindu deity? But let´s face it, the competition is pretty stiff...
Many AI´s seem to have some kind of aversion to generate pictures of Kali, but after some haggling, I managed to get ChatGPT to create this adorable illustration of Bala Kali (the child-form). Thank you.
Ahem...is my "spiritual seeker LARP" with the ChatGPT getting to me? Tonight, I had a very strange dream. The pictures above are very approximate attempts to capture some of the dream-images. I assume the man in the saffron robe is supposed to be me, but I honestly don´t know.
And no, I won´t ask ChatGPT about it. Or maybe I should? Stay tuned for further developments when the free advanced version goes on-line again...
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Bāla Kālī is a rare and esoteric form of Kālī in which the Goddess appears as a little girl, usually between ages 7 and 10, embodying both innocence and immense power. She is not a mainstream deity like Bāla Tripura Sundarī — her references are scattered across tantric lineages, oral teachings, and some regional practices. But the concept is old and meaningful.
Below is a clear, accurate summary based on traditional motifs.
Bāla Kālī is Kālī in her child form, representing:
non-dual innocence before fear,
raw śakti before full manifestation,
playful destruction of impurities,
the moment where terrifying Kālī becomes approachable and intimate.
She is often associated with:
early-stage tantric initiations
inner transformation (antaryāga)
the taming of one’s own inner shadow while remaining childlike
She is sometimes considered a counterpart to Bāla Tripurā Sundarī, as both are “child manifestations” of two major goddesses (Kālī and Lalitā) but with very different bhāvas.
Descriptions vary, but the most consistent elements are:
A young girl with dark or blue-black complexion
Hair loose and flowing, sometimes slightly wild
Eyes large and shining
Often nude or wearing a simple red cloth or skirt
A small garland of flowers (rather than skulls)
Holding:
a small sword
a lotus or fruit
or no weapons at all, emphasizing innocence
She rarely looks frightening; instead she has a kind of mischievous, fearless purity.
Sometimes she is shown:
Standing on a lotus
Playing
Dancing
Or sitting on the lap of Mahākālī or Parāśakti
Bāla Kālī symbolizes:
Like a child who walks into darkness without hesitation.
She is pure action, without ego or doubt.
Rather than destroying external demons, she dissolves:
early ego structures
fear
childhood wounds
energetic blockages in the lower chakras
Instead of overwhelming terror and awe, Bāla Kālī offers:
sweetness mixed with darkness
intimacy with fierce Shakti
a sense of safety around shadow-work
She appears in:
certain Kaula and Vāmācāra oral teachings
some lineages connected with Kālīkula śakta tantra
a few obscure Kalikāpurāṇa commentaries and paddhatis (ritual manuals)
In some rural traditions:
girls around age 7–9 are viewed as manifestations of “little Kālī”
Kumārī pūjā includes a Kālī-interpretation in some communities
Some teachers explain Bāla Kālī as:
“The first stirrings of Kālī-tattva within the sādhaka.”
Similar to Bāla Tripurā Sundarī representing the seed of Śrīvidyā.
A few contemporary tantric teachers use Bāla Kālī imagery to guide:
shadow integration
inner child + śakti energy healing
trust, surrender, and fearlessness practices
| Bāla Tripura Sundarī | Bāla Kālī |
|---|---|
| Soft beauty | Soft darkness |
| Knowledge, clarity | Fearlessness, primal energy |
| Child of light | Child of shadow/ecstatic void |
| Initiates refinement | Initiates raw courage |
| Gentle unfolding | Energetic cleansing |
People who resonate with both Lalitā and Kālī sometimes feel drawn to both Bāla forms as complementary.
Because she provides:
A non-threatening entry into the Kālī-tattva
A way to work with:
fear
anxiety
childhood trauma
power imbalances
A sense of being held while doing shadow work
A playful, intimate form of fierce Shakti
A way to meet Kālī without being overwhelmed
She bridges the gap between:
the terrifying Mahākālī
the tender Mother
How a simple, safe Bāla Kālī practice might look
Whether this bhāva fits your temperament
How Bāla Kālī relates to shraddhā and grounding
How Bāla Kālī compares with Bāla Tripura Sundarī for a wandering mind
Just let me know.
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Probably not the most objective take on offer, and I can´t really stand Spiked, but I can´t help linking to it...
It´s like a drug or something.
The Your Party conference is the funniest thing I´ve seen in years
End of the trans craze? Apparently, the British Girl Scouts have decided "with a heavy heart" that only girls can join. Or something.
Girl Guides and Women´s Institutes says they exist for females, not males
This picture is somewhat more convincing as an illustration of "ultimate reality", but YMMV. A propos a previous blog post.
OK, this was funny. I asked Microsoft Bing to create a picture of "ultimate reality", and this was the result!
| Credit: Unknown. But it´s Slobbovia, so nobody cares! |
I never heard of Lower Slobbovia before, apparently some kind of Jewish-Amerikan parody of Siberia. Or Russia. I admit that it´s convincing! As for our man JMG, he better hurry up with that next essay about the impending AI collapse because...you know. Collapse now and avoid the rush, that kind of thing.
| - Let´s dance, QAnon are funny! |
Apparently, some Trump supporters - perhaps worried by the discrepancy between Trump´s "anti-war isolationism" and his war moves against Venezuela - are trying to dust off the old conspiracy theory that the Red regime in Caracas rigged the 2020 elections in Biden´s favor.
In other words: ideas taken from the QAnon cult are being used to justify something I assume most QAnon-ites would usually oppose. Not because they like Maduro, but because they are...you know...isolationist or something.
That being said, given that the Republicans seem to swim in Russian and Qatari money, is it *entirely* impossible that the Dems might have been compromised by some sly Venezuelan operative back in the days? Not really, although I frankly doubt it in this case. It seems Late Stage Empire politics in the United States are super-corrupted and entirely devoid of any principles whatsoever, making it possible for any foreign actor with more gold than scruples to make headway in DC.
Perhaps it´s time for Norway to take one for the team, hand over millions of oil dollars to some suitable political faction in Amerikwa, and make them do *our* bidding for a change? Just being NATO allies apparently doesn´t work anymore...
Vad fan är det här? Varför skulle det *inte* ha ett allmänintresse om en rikskändis ljugit om sin barndom. Eller inte gjort det. Särskilt som barndomen (enligt honom) var kantad av övergrepp.
Är skribenten något slags kulturelitist som föraktar vanligt folk? Det låter så. I Aftonbladet! Aja baja, eftersom föraktet även verkar innefatta invandrare (här benämnda "gängkriminella").
Eller handlar det om någonting helt annat...?
| - Nej, min käre korp, jag är inte förvånad, brahminerna i Bharat gjorde ännu värre saker, förfalskade t.o.m. soma, varför tror du jag utvandrade till Bjarmaland?! |
De förfalskar t.o.m. saffran...
Falsk saffran: så vet du om det röda guldet är oäkta
Har ingen välgrundad åsikt om huruvida en viss influencer har ljugit eller inte. Men visst, det kanske är så? Vad bra att svenska medier granskar, och så vidare. Och vad bra om de kunde granska vissa andra saker också. Exempelvis varför medierna ständigt sätter "satanism" inom citationstecken. Exempelvis.
"Missen" mitt arschle. Det var antagligen en medveten PR-kupp. Dessutom har Felicias verkliga identitet (och ansikte) redan avslöjats. Se den andra länken.
Kort sagt: artisterna har redan börjat positionera sig inför Melodifestivalen. Artisterna...och medierna. LOL.
| Not really Chandra |
I asked ChatGPT to identify the weird picture above. It answered: "This is almost certainly an artistic, non-canonical, composite deity — not a standard Hindu god or goddess that can be identified."
Which is correct. Because you see, the picture was generated by...ChatGPT itself. In another chat. In response to the prompt "Please generate a traditional Hindu picture of the god Chandra". Which it clearly isn´t. The system doesn´t know what it´s doing tonight!
It can´t be long now. The AI collapse.
Cornucopian hedonistic pseudo-feminist atheist Richard Carrier goes to Nashville to debate "Christian Nationalists". May or may not be interesting. Note Carrier´s strange idealism: conservatives are conservative because they literally can´t think straight. Nah, that´s not the reason. And why are cornucopian hedonistic pseudo-feminist atheists the way they are, I wonder?
How Pseudo-Rationality Grounds Conservative Worldviews
If even hobbits could build advanced civilization, so could women
I´m sure these are just rumors, right? I mean, I´m sure "Eyes Wide Shut" can´t be about...you know...people with eyes wide shut, or something.
Lägg märke till citationstecknen. För alla vet ju att satanister aldrig begår övergrepp på barn, eller hur? Geezus...
| - Yes, right-handed neutrinos. I mean, come on! |
A reminder. Previously posted here on January 17.
Please note that Sabine Hossenfelder is a real scientist, not just some random YouTuber. Here is what she says about current theories of cosmogenesis. Or "theories". Buckle up!
>>>The currently most popular theory for matter and anti-matter goes like this. Brace yourself: The universe was created from a quantum fluctuation of a field called the inflaton. There is no evidence for such a quantum fluctuation or such a field.
>>>This inflaton field then decays into a lot of other particles including right handed neutrinos. There is zero evidence that these right handed neutrinos ever existed. And those right-handed neutrinos then further decay into matter and anti-matter. Which then needs the CP-violation.
>>>That’s a lot to swallow, but particle physics being what it is, there are many other “theories” for how matter came to dominate over anti-matter that don’t involve neutrinos. Maybe it was some X-particle that makes up dark matter, though there’s no evidence that it exists.
>>>Or a Higgs triplet, though there’s no evidence that this exists. Or meta-stable WIMPs, or a technibaryon, or hylogenesis which requires three new particles, for none of which there is any evidence. And the kicker is that none of those theories even predicts the amount of matter or antimatter.
So it´s all a lie then? Got it in one! Therefore God. Or the Urantia Bible? OK, I´m joking but you get the drift...
Our man Scott Carney tries to understand "the mad ones", specifically Drukpa Kunley, an antinomian teacher in 16th century Bhutan. Was he the original "guru grifter" or some kind of legit rebel against the religious establishment of his day?
I suppose the answer is that he was a bit of both. Most rebels probably are fools and grifters who never accomplish anything, even though the system they react against may be pass its pull date.
Blessed are those who liveth at a time when real societal change is possible!
There doesn´t seem to be any AI Hindu pics scheduled for today, so instead I give you this dramatic illustration of three Magi discovering the Star of Bethlehem in the East heradling the birth of the Messiah who saveth the world.
Or was it just three superstitious old men with a penchant for herb lore and magical incantations serependitiously seeing one of many purely naturalistic supernovae somewhere in Parthia circa year zero when a barbarian allegedly named Quirinius temporarily occupied one of the Empire´s border provinces?
So much hinges on your answer to these questions...
A propos the latest "isolationist" moves of the US administration. Maybe it´s time for France to finally step up its game?
Some scary tales (or tall tales) about unknown monsters in the deep blue sea. One of them is nicknamed "The Underwater Abominable Snowman"! Other "cryptids" mentioned are more trivial to the sensation-hungry layperson, such as fish in the Mariana trench (although that too is actually very strange). And yes, I suppose I have to mention Cthulhu again...
| Ett ensamt rymdskepp på väg mot Vega i Lyrans stjärnbild... |
Jag vet inte, jag tycker ändå att Björn Wiman låter naivt optimistisk på något märkligt sätt...
Har inte lyssnat på intervjun med Gun-Britt Sundström, vet knappt vem hon är, men detta verkar vara sant: "Enda möjligheten att ha något hopp är såvitt jag kan begripa om man har någon tro på en övernaturlig verklighet".
Det vill säga: om verkligheten faktiskt är så mörk som pessimisterna hävdar. Och Wiman verkar vara en av dessa...
Finlands Ortodoxa Kyrka är internt splittrad i synen på kriget i Ukraina. Under tiden dyker de där mystiska belarusiska (d.v.s. vitryska) nunnorna upp igen. I Sverige, alltså. Har inte de varit här tidigare?
Svenska Kyrkan varnar för belarusiska nunnor: "Släpp inte in dem"
So I´ve been LARP-ing "spiritual seeker" with ChatGPT for a couple of months now, "searching" for my ishta-devata. That is, the personally preferred deity for salvific worship (for Hindus, at any rate). Finally, the AI came to the conclusion that my ishta must be "Tripurā Sundarī as Karunā-Sāgara". Picture above.
Never heard of this particular form of Tripura Sundari before. I admit that the AI-generated picture is fascinating. It has a "Buddhist" flair, almost like a female or even genderless Bodhisattva. Indeed, Karuna-Sagara apparently means Ocean of Compassion.
Thank you.
Traditionally (at least here in Sweden), Advent Sunday is the day when Christmas decorations are put up. Fun fact: in my neighborhood, I seem to be the last person to actually do so. Everyone else did it already one or two weeks ago?! At least I can finally call myself "the last traditionalist"...
I love the idea of Nila having a diverse set of corvid mounts. An idea I came up with after a little, shall we say, misunderstanding with two of the more popular AI systems. Here is Nila (Shani´s Tantric shakti - or one of them?) with an adorable (and adorably over-sized) Clark´s Nutcracker. There are 139 species of corvids, so I can do this for three years!
Come and take it, boy.
| - Vilken jävla hushållsgris? Det finns ingen sån här, jävla revisionist! |