Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Endgame?
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| Credit: Dion Art |
Some interesting information in this one. Is this the endgame? If so, Trump´s and Vance´s treason is even worse than I assumed, since they want Ukraine to leave its most fortified positions in the Donbass at a time when Russia may (slowly) be losing its grip?!
A finite universe
It´s fascinating that we can observe galaxies at the (alleged) outer rim of the universe (which - supposedly - means we see them as they looked like perhaps 280 million years after the Big Bang), while we can´t discover Planet X in our own cosmic backyard, and still don´t know exactly how the interior of the Earth really works. Nor do we know how the schmuck our own brains can be conscious. And for a very long time, scientists didn´t realize that the giant panda is actually a bear...
And this in a supposedly "finite" universe. LOL.
Monday, May 4, 2026
Goodbye
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| - Nah, I´m cool. |
So Trump will withdraw 5,000 American troops (or more) from Germany since the Gerries don´t want to help him against the Iranian regime yada yada. OK, so will these troops be sent to the Strait of Hormuz, then?
Or no?
I suppose the French Foreign Legion can replace the US servicemen, so I won´t lose much sleep over it, Even apart from the fact that the erratic POTUS will just change his mind next week away, LOL.
Havsdrönare
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| Credit: Jarkko Järvinen |
Ryssland har inte lyckats knäcka Ukraina trots fyra år av krig, och nu exporterar Ukraina nya generationer av drönare till Gulfstaterna! Intressant.
2026 ökar
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| Credit: Giles Laurent |
En sådan här debatt hade varit omöjlig så sent som för några år sedan. Men okej, måste vi så måste vi. Vive la France!
Operation Freedom
The title of this blog post is click bait, of course. So I´ve been reflecting on the goddess Chinnamasta, whose iconography must be the most bizarre in Hinduism, nay, the world. The goddess is depicted as a naked 16-year old girl with a garland of skulls, standing on a couple engaged in sexual intercourse. Chinnamasta beheads herself (!) and the blood that streams out of her neck nourishes her two quasi-demonic attendants, Dakini and Varnini.
Which may mean...whatever. Different interpretations exist. But here is my (somewhat subjective) take.
Chinnamasta is a very graphic symbol of pantheism or rather the pantheist life-force. This force flows through all of creation, indeed it *is* creation. It feeds and nurtures all beings. It´s inevitably connected with death. However, since the life-force is constantly replenished, the process never ends: life, death, rebirth as new life. Chinnamasta is therefore Shakti, which is further confirmed by stories in which she is identified with Shiva´s wife Parvati (i.e. Shiva´s shakti).
Note that Chinnamasta combines the traits of Kali (the sword and the garland of skulls) with those of Lalita Tripura Sundari (the red skin and her young age). Kali is the most destructive of the secret Tantric Mahavidyas, a group of strange goddesses to which Chinnamasta belongs. Lalita is the most erotic, her erotic desire also being a symbol for creation.
The most common interpretation is that Chinnamasta is a symbol of the kundalini rising. Kundalini is a form of the shakti "sleeping" close to the sexual organs, and when it´s "awakened", it eventually reaches the head, making it metaphorically explode! The three streams of blood coming out from the neck of the goddess are the three "nadis" or energy channels through which kundalini rises. Dakini and Varnini symbolize the "inner" and "outer" aspects of creation, both being nourished by the energy gushing forth.
So is the life-force a curse or a blessing? From a Gnostic or orthodox Buddhist perspective, it´s surely a curse, since it traps you in the material world of death, destruction and desire. Chinnamasta is the Demiurge or samsara personified. From a pantheist perspective, Chinnamasta is full of grace, since she sacrifices herself so the life-force can flow and nourish her children. But note that Dakini and Varnini never seem to change: they remain ugly, immature and (perhaps) insatiable even after drinking the blood of the Goddess! Somehow, this vision of a never-ending pantheistic cycle doesn´t appeal to me.
But then, neither does Gnosticism or "orthodox" Buddhism. A more constructive view would be "panentheist" rather than strictly pantheist or dualist. The process of birth-death-rebirth is both a blessing and a curse. It´s not a "solution" to anything, but the life-force is a blessing since it keeps us alive until we reach liberation. Our souls can never be truly lost. And the life-force is also an instrument we can use to reach liberation. How remains to be sorted out! Although I strongly suspect self-capitating maidens wearing skulls isn´t going to be a very central part of that yoga...
Please don´t ask what prompted me to write this, LOL.
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