The British SWP on the suspected gang rape at Cornell University in the United States. What a pity the perps weren´t Hamas terrorists and the victim an Israeli woman. I mean, then the SWP could have supported the "widespread violence" in good conscience. While of course denying it ever happened. You know, a bit like the Cornell administration...
The hypocrisy of these people never ceases to amaze me.
Cornell case exposes widespread violence at university campuses
Vänstern är inte längre Woke, Woke var inte vänsterns fel och dessutom var det aldrig särskilt viktigt. Det verkar vara budskapet i denna "recension" av en nyligen utkommen bok om just Woke.
Suck.
Vänsterns skuld i repris? Dessutom är vänstern fortfarande Woke. Om inte, okej, här kommer lackmustestet: What is a woman? (Womyn?)
Skulle inte förvåna mig om några av dem innerst inne är stalinister också...
Skulle vara intressant att få veta vad skribenten anser om adoptioner. Fast strängt taget bryr jag mig inte. Jag är nämligen inte en DÖP (Dunham-överintresserad person). Har väl bara kommenterat henne typ två gånger tidigare på den här bloggen...
Not sure if I like the implications of this, tbh. But it is what it is. Note the speculation that while our brains can´t evolve further, ape brains - at least hypothetically - could still do so. So "Planet of the Apes" is at theoretically possible? The idea that sugar rather than meat made our brains bigger is funny, since it sounds "gay" and "feminist". The sugar would have come from fruit and honey. And fruit could be gathered by females. But sure, Man the Hunter could be replaced by Man the Brave Slasher of Killer-Bees...
The implications I´m talking about is something else. So presumably part of our "junk DNA" came unplugged at some point in ape(ish) evolution, making our brains more complex and hence smarter almost by chance. Oookay. Let´s hope God put that junk in our cells, dude!
Some contrarian content from Michael Tracey. Note that the prosecutor seems to be "Woke" and looks like a stereotypical "evil feminist", so presumably the Alt Right keyboard warriors who demand the death penalty for Lindsay Clancy are siding with "the damn liberals"? And in Massachusetts! Ironic if true...
AB:s vikarierande assisterande andre kulturredaktör (ja, Jack alltså) upptäcker senkapitalismens realiteter. Den andra länken (en annan krönikör) får mig att undra om damfotbollen faktiskt är en lesbisk sekt. Eller åtminstone en sekt...
Kulturvänstern stretar på.
An essay on various Native American / American Indian legends about the Little People. And not just from southern Ontario, either! I suppose it *is* interesting that many (all?) cultures around the world have legends of both Little People and Giants. At the very least, we´re dealing with a very powerful psychological archetype here.
But I couldn´t help noticing something else...
Yes, the Iroquoian Confederation (extolled by feminists and romantic leftists) genocided other American Indian nations.
I somehow managed to miss this Britt Hartley video. It´s called "The ugly side of atheism / 5 things I hate about atheists (as an atheist)". The most sensational move is when Hartley uses secular psychology and evolutionary theory *to undercut the claims of atheists to rationality*. How can atheism be "rational" if our senses are fundamentally unreliable? Exaaactly...but this is of course a popular *Christian* argument against atheism! Here used by a fellow atheist to cut the perfectly "rational" (male) on-line atheists down to size.
I suppose we could call "Britt Hartley´s dangerous idea"...
The main reason, I think, why Hartley is so controversial in (male) atheist on-line spaces is that she "wants to both have the cake and eat it". In a very real sense, she wants spirituality without Spirit and religion without God. Differently put, she wants to keep the social and psychological dimensions of religion without the metaphysics. I think her (male) atheist detractors (and presumably her religious detractors, too) see this as a kind of LARP. A quasi-religious LARP, to be exact.
Could it work on a mass scale? Maybe. After all, civic religion is a thing. Still, since the LARP is supposedly rooted in our most basic psychological make-up, sooner or later the participants might feel drawn to actual religion, seeing it as "the real thing" or "the missing ingredient". Why not assume that a psyche molded by evolution to "feel" or even "see" Spirit *actually feels or sees Spirit*? The metaphysics are real. Especially if the LARP is very self-consciously modelled on explicitly religious communities (say Christian ones). I think Hartley´s (male) opponents see her as in some objective sense too "spiritual" or religious.
As usual, there is also an discussion on how atheism is male-coded (it´s cold, hard, rational yada yada) whereas religion and spirituality are female-coded. Hartley never says it out loud, but I think she suspects that her male critics see her as "the weak and confused woman" who can´t let go of her emotional support blanket.
Hartley has controversial takes on a few other topics, too. Would secularism really turn the United States into "Norway"? (I assume she means Sweden!) Do atheists really have higher IQ than religious people?
Could be interesting to watch.
Från SVT Nyheter idag:
Efter den uppmärksammade våldtäktsdomen - FN ändrar sina riktlinjer
Aftonbladets reaktion förra året:
Ultra-super-duper ateista Matt Dillahunty calls out "spiritual atheism", arguing that it´s an oxymoron since spirituality is simply nonsense. But note that even my man Matt de facto believes in...psychotherapy.
The second video is c/o Britt Hartley and clearly shows her peculiar eclecticism. On the one hand, the universe is meaningless, free will doesn´t exist, there is no soul or "self", und so weiter. She even calls herself a nihilist! On the other hand, this is apparently untolerable, so Hartley says atheists should "steal from religion" and become "spiritual" anyway. Which includes both meditation, ritual, community-building, et cetera. Note also the references to psychedelic drugs.
There is also a discussion on patriarchy and gender differences in relation to spirituality. Here we go again...
In other words: atheism (as in consistent atheist materialism) doesn´t work even for atheists. Conclusion has been drawn.
Doreen Virtue´s friend "Jac" talks about her experiences in the Golden Dawn, or rather a modern American version of this 19th century British esoteric order. "Jac" later became a Christian fundamentalist, so don´t expect any objectivity. Put somewhat mildly.
But...
When I listened to this video, I couldn´t help noticing the parallels between the Golden Dawn system (or this particular version of it) and certain forms of Tantrism. The masculine and the feminine must be balanced, the only way to worship a deity is to *become* the deity, Isis is a symbol of primordial matter (among other things), complex rituals are important and yes, it´s all secret (or nearly so).
Wtf, I love Golden Dawn now.
Many nations are implementing or contemplating social media bans for children and teenagers. Including some Western democracies. It won´t work, of course. But I suppose there *could* be a silver lining to these bans, in a best case scenario. Maybe they can stop new outbreaks of...you know, rapid onset gender dysphoria.
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En debattartikel om pedofilskandalen inom SD. Av - gissa vem - Kajsa Ekis Ekman.
Och apropå detta. Andra kan kommentera på min blogg, men absurt nog kan *jag* just nu inte göra det?! Inte ens anonymt. Ett problem som återkommer med ojämna mellanrum. Alltså har jag tagit in en kommentar av mig själv relaterad till debattartikeln, en kommentar som egentligen hör hemma under föregående blogginlägg.
SD och misstanken om barnporr - en lång historia
"Alexander Bard tillhör nog samma miljö. Alltså en hedonistisk libertarianism som glidit över i alt-höger. Bard hade också något slags kopplingar till Medborgerlig Samling. Riksdagskandidat? Pinsamt för SD att de inte upptäckte detta...jag antar att de vill projicera en lite annan image? Nooshi Dadgostar antydde förresten i en riksdagsdebatt nyligen att Centern har ett pedofilproblem, så pedofilnormalisering verkar finnas överallt. Tror att pedofilerna försöker utnyttja trans-frågan till att flytta fram sina positioner."
So is Durga associated with witches and various paranormal entities? Gemini and ChatGPT have somewhat different takes on the matter. Or maybe not.
[Gemini version] Is Durga associated with witches, dakinis or yoginis?
Yes, Goddess Durga is intimately, fundamentally tied to yoginis, dakinis, and what Western cultures would categorize as witches.
In the complex landscape of Tantra and Shaktism, these figures are not separate from Durga; they are her shadow forms, her battlefield commanders, and the raw, wild, un-domesticated expressions of her own cosmic power (Shakti).
The connection shifts seamlessly across folklore, classical scripture, and advanced Tantra:
In classical Hindu texts like the Devi Mahatmyam and the Puranas, yoginis are explicitly described as manifestations, attendants, or emanations of Durga herself.
The Battlefield Strategy: During Durga’s cataclysmic cosmic wars against demons like Shumbha, Nishumbha, and Raktabija, she manifests specialized female forces from her own body. When the demon Raktabija threatened to duplicate himself every time a drop of his blood hit the earth, Durga multiplied her energy into the 64 Yoginis (and the Matrikas, or Mother Goddesses). The yoginis leaped into action, forming a circular formation to catch and drink his blood before it touched the ground.
The Mandala of Power: Over time, these entities evolved into the famous Chausath (64) Yogini Cults of medieval India. Unlike standard Hindu deities housed in enclosed, dark shrines, the 64 Yoginis were worshipped in unique, hypaethral temples—completely circular and open to the sky. Durga (often in her form as Mahamaya or Chandi) sits at the exact center of this circle as the high commander, while the 64 yoginis face inward around her, representing different facets of her sovereign power.
The term Dakini undergoes an extraordinary evolution that bridges Hindu Tantra, folk belief, and Tantric Buddhism, always keeping a tether to Durga.
The Wrathful Attendants: In early Hindu puranic literature, Dakinis are depicted alongside Yoginis as the fierce, terrifying, and blood-drinking attendants of Durga or Kali on the charnel grounds. They represent the untamed, destructive aspect of nature that devours the human ego.
The Transmutation: In standard folk tradition, the word dakini was often used with fear to describe forest spirits or consumer entities. However, in Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism, the Dakini was elevated to the highest spiritual status: the "Sky Dancer" (Khandroma). Here, she is the embodiment of fluid, sharp, liberating wisdom. The Buddhist deity Vajrayogini (a supreme dakini) directly inherits her aesthetic—dancing on corpses, holding a skull cup and a flaying knife—straight from the wrathful matrix of Durga/Kali.
When Western researchers first encountered the texts and temples of the Yoginis and Dakinis, they almost universally translated the terms as "witches," "sorceresses," or "goblins." While those words carry a Judeo-Christian stigma of evil, the indigenous reality is much more complex:
The Linguistic Root: In modern northern India, the derogatory slang for a witch is Dayan or Dankuni. This word is a direct, corrupted linguistic evolution of Dakini.
The Human-Divine Blur: In Tantric Kaula lineages, the boundary between a goddess and a human woman is completely fluid. A highly realized female practitioner who mastered esoteric herbs, energy manipulation, and shape-shifting was believed to literally embody a Yogini.
The Counter-Culture: Like historical Western witches, the yogini/dakini cults operated completely outside mainstream, puritanical patriarchal norms. They practiced in secret, remote places (cremation grounds, deep forests, waterfalls), worked with taboo materials, and subverted social hierarchies.
If Durga is the supreme queen who protects cosmic order (Dharma) on a macro level, the Yoginis and Dakinis are her subterranean special forces.
They are the parts of the Divine Feminine that refuse to be neat, gentle, or safely domesticated. They represent the terrifying, ecstatic, and magical undercurrent of existence. To worship Durga in her deepest, most esoteric capacity is to inherently step into the circle of her yoginis—acknowledging that true spiritual liberation requires facing the wild, untamed, and "witchy" shadows of our own consciousness.
For a deeper exploration into the architectural marvels, hidden rituals, and history of these open-air esoteric temples, you can explore this documentary on
[ChatGPT version] Is Durga associated with witches, dakinis and so on?
Yes, but with important nuances. Durgā is not usually a “witch goddess” in the sense of a deity of sorcery or occult beings, but she has strong connections with themes that overlap with what, in other cultures, might be called witches, wild women, magical beings, and liminal feminine powers.
A few layers:
Durgā is the supreme warrior form of Devī in many Śākta traditions. She commands the mātṛkās (Mother goddesses) and other fierce divine forces.
Her circle includes beings such as:
These beings are not simply “witches”; they are often understood as manifestations of awakened or cosmic feminine energy.
This is probably the strongest link.
The Yogini tradition is closely associated with Śākta Tantra.
Yoginīs are portrayed as:
Durgā as Devī is often understood as their source or ruler.
This gives her a “mistress of magical feminine forces” aspect.
In the Devi Mahatmya, Durgā fights demons and releases various fierce powers.
She is surrounded by:
Her battlefield is not only physical — symbolically it is the realm where:
The word ḍākinī is especially prominent in Vajrayāna Buddhism.
A ḍākinī can mean:
The closest Hindu parallels are often:
Durgā is not usually called a ḍākinī, but the fierce, transformative, sky-roaming feminine energy overlaps.
A useful symbolic contrast:
So if Saraswati is the wisdom that illuminates, Durgā is the power that clears away what prevents illumination.
Given your earlier questions about mystery, prophecy, deception, Varuṇa, and dakinis, you might find a particularly interesting connection in Durgā as the power who rules the dangerous thresholds: the spaces between ordinary consciousness and the hidden world. She is not the witch herself; she is the sovereign power over the forces that witches, yogis, and tantric practitioners seek to understand or awaken.
Ligger ju en del i detta. Vad synd att Åsa Linderborg inte är lika engagerad i att bekämpa våld mot kvinnor...
En arbetares liv är inte lika mycket värt
