Eurovision next?

 

Maybe Israel can send this to the Eurovision Song Contest next year? LOL. 

Terrorist groupies

 

I don´t think the British Socialist "Workers" Party is capable of killing pretty much anyone, let alone stage an actual revolution, but that simply makes them even more contemptible when LARP-ing as Big Bad Radicals or dangerous terrorists. Or whatever this is supposed to be... 

Charlie KKKirks chicken come home to roost

Amerika´s Groyper predicament

 

This is an anti-Israeli conspiracy video, actually claiming that Netanyahu´s government killed Charlie Kirk (!), but it does contain some interesting information about Kirk´s views on Israel and his conflicts with the so-called Groypers. It also mentions (albeit briefly) his peculiar Sabbatarianism. 

Helomvändning...eller nej?

Greta Thunberg och Lorena Delgado Varas vänder om, ska till Sudan istället. Nej, vänta...så var det ju inte.

Vad hände förresten med pseudo-debatten om att man inte får kalla politiska vildar för vildar, om de politiska vildarna har utländsk bakgrund? Delgado Varas är ju mapuche-indian. En rent bokstavlig "vilde", alltså. Ja, enligt de gamla ras- och etno-hierarkierna. Vill säga.

Fast *den* konversationen kommer väl nästa månad eller så. Antar jag. 

Framtidens vänster?

 

Fast förmodligen inte. Lite "spoiler alert" på detta nya politiska projekt...

Hur stora kan Framtidens Vänster bli i 2026 års val?

The black light teachings

 

The "black light teachings" of Sufism. But surely the Divine, if real, must be more advanced than a dazzling darkness of "unlimited potentiality" strikingly similar to the human subconscious...

The Divine cannot just be the subconscious of the cosmos.  

Mossad´s jinns

 

An absurd rumor about Israel using Kabbalistic magic to attack Iran is being spread by...Iranian officials. Not sure if this reflects real fear of the Mossad´s ability to infiltrate everyone and everything, or if it´s just the usual anti-Semitic tropes. Maybe it´s both? So I have a question for the Shiites who believe this: why didn´t Allah (or the Hidden Imam) come to your aid?   

Pwned

 

A Christian mocks pagans for the victory of Christianity over paganism. "If your gods are real, where were they?". Gets owned by a modern pagan asking whether Allah is stronger than Christ since the Muslims conquered large Christian territories and supplanted Christianity with Islam...

Kind of obvious retort, but it seems the Xian debate bro didn´t think of it. But then, I suppose somebody could ask the pagan if *both* Christ and Allah are stronger than Father Jupiter!

"The pagan dilemma"

Nyssnazistisk sionism?

 

Rubriken är självfallet ironisk eftersom jag som bekant stödjer Israels rätt att existera inom Auschwitz-gränserna, men visst är det...ironiskt...att SD numera är det mest pro-israeliska partiet i svensk politik. Stödet för Israel har kollapsat t.o.m. bland Liberalernas väljare! Alltså Per Ahlmarks gamla parti. 

Så jag antar att liberala judar i Sverige (alltså judar i Sverige) har fått ännu större problem än de kunde ana. Misstänker dock att de inte kommer att få något "Jimmy Jerusalem moment" any time soon... 

Allt färre stöttar Israel och även bland borgerliga väljare

Ingen bråkar om Åkesson om palestinier

Nazi-sionister?

 

Rubriken är förstås ironisk. Jag stödjer som bekant Israel. Men...vem kunde tro på 1990-talet att SD skulle bli landets näst största parti efter att *M, KD och L* uppmanat EU till handelsbojkott av den judiska staten?

Per Ahlmark vrider sig i sin grav!

Håller samarbetet mellan Tidöpartierna på att spricka?

Inbördeskriget mellan Tidöpartierna står för dörren 

The Hun Sen regime

 

Israel, Pakistan and now Cambodia have all nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Yes, really. I suppose Rwanda is next. Something tells me these nations might get in big trouble if a RINO or Dem ever retakes the White House...

What a pity Greta supports Hamas, I mean, this would have been an excellent opportunity for Norway to give *her* the peace prize instead, LOL. 

Ever-changing identity

 

The Alevis are a religious minority group in the Middle East, mostly in Turkey. This video (made by a US scholar of religion) is an excellent introduction to Alevism. Or perhaps ethnic Turkish Alevism? Kurdish and Zaza versions also exist. 

The Alevis turn out to be a broad religious landscape rather than a specific movement or faith group. They could be described as a heterogenous cluster of nominally Sunni Muslim groups heavily influenced by Shia Islam and Sufi mysticism (which probably strides the Sunni-Shia divide). There are connections to the Bektashi Order and the Kizilbash rebel movement. Conversely, there are no overt connections to the Alawites (except the name), a radical Shia sect mostly based in Syria.

Alevis have continued to redefine their identities throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. They have also been redefined by outsiders. The claim that Alevism is really a primordial form of Shamanism turns out to come from Turkish secular nationalist discourse! Some Alevis emphasize their Muslim identity, while others ("Alevis without Ali") claim to be a separate community altogether and have even been condemned by Turkish president Erdogan himself as dangerous splitters. 

As already indicated, Kurdish Alevism is only mentioned in passing and the Zaza version not at all. Years ago, I met a certain person who told me that the Zaza Alevis have a legend according to which they killed Kemal Atatürk somewhere in Kirmanjiye (in reality, Kemal died of natural causes at Istanbul). Maybe next time, bro?

Recommended. Actually!   

Find the bunker

Senator Lindsey Graham was probably one of the people who "turned" Trump on Ukraine (back to the pro-Ukrainian fold), so it will be interesting to see if he is right about this. I assume he is well-informed?

The Hamas Nazis can end the conflict (and impending famine) at any time by simply surrendering and release the hostages, but are clearly unable or unwilling to do so. So rather than continuing the never-ending cycle of negotiations, withdrawals and renewed offensives, maybe its time for Israel to finally recapture the Gaza strip and behead Hamas once and for all. 

Note that Graham explicitly says that "the Arabs" should control the West Bank and Gaza. Which can mean whatever, but perhaps it opens a small window to a two-state solution, in which Fatah and allied forces control the Palestinian territories? That would also be in keeping with the Abraham accords. 

Of course, none of this shit would have happened if that great hero of the Palestinian resistance, Yasser Arafat, had accepted Bill Clinton´s offer of a two-state solution circa 30 years ago, but apparently you can´t say that, cuz "pro-Zionism" or something...  

Change of strategy in Gaza?

Superinjunction

 

So we all learned a new word today. Yes, that would be "superinjunction"... 

The three body problem

 

I haven´t double-checked this truly "esoteric" information, indeed, I´m not even sure how to double-check it. But...it seems that I called it! Make of this content whatever ye wish.  

Gurdjieff says that humans lack an immortal soul and if they die without reaching enlightenment, they will simply dissolve and disappear (sounds almost materialist). However, a human can "create" an immortal soul through various spiritual practices. Where did Gurdjieff get this idea? Is it a unique teaching, or could it be influenced by, say, alchemy, perhaps even Taoist alchemy?

You're spot on in identifying the strangeness and depth of Gurdjieff’s teaching on the soul — and you’re also asking exactly the right question: Where did this idea come from? The notion that humans do not have an immortal soul by default, but must "create" one through conscious effort, is one of Gurdjieff's most provocative and original-seeming claims. But while his expression is unique, the underlying idea is not entirely original — it draws on multiple esoteric traditions, including:

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🧪 1. Alchemy — Especially Esoteric and Inner Alchemy

Gurdjieff’s idea is deeply aligned with both Western and Eastern alchemical traditions:

🜍 Western (Hermetic) Alchemy:

• Philosophers like Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and Rosicrucians described the creation of a "spiritual body" or "astral body" through inner transformation.

• This is the "philosopher's stone" as internal process: the transmutation of the base human being (lead) into the immortal self (gold).

• In some strands, the “true” soul is latent, like prima materia — needing to be refined through discipline, ritual, and gnosis.

🜲 Taoist Internal Alchemy (Neidan):

• Practitioners aim to form an immortal spiritual body (often called the “immortal embryo”, or "golden elixir").

• This is done through energetic practices, meditation, and bodily transformation (e.g., refining jing to qi to shen).

• Like Gurdjieff, Taoist alchemists claim that ordinary people lack a complete immortal essence, and that only through cultivation can one avoid spiritual death.

🧭 So yes — Gurdjieff's model resonates strongly with Taoist alchemy, especially in its processual and developmental view of the soul.

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🔮 2. Esoteric Christianity & Gnosticism

Gurdjieff was heavily influenced by Eastern Christian mysticism (especially from Armenia and Central Asia), and Gnostic dualism.

• In Valentinian Gnosticism, humans are categorized as:

  • Hylic (material) — no spiritual potential, perish at death

  • Psychic — possess a soul, but need instruction

  • Pneumatic — divine spark, destined for salvation

• Gurdjieff may have reinterpreted this: only those who awaken and do “The Work” can stabilize the essence that survives death.

Also:

• The "resurrection body" in Paul’s epistles (1 Cor 15) and some mystical Christian writings point to the idea that a higher body must be "formed" through spiritual striving — not automatically granted.

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🕯 3. Sufi Mysticism

Gurdjieff studied in Central Asia and claimed contact with esoteric Sufi groups. Sufism teaches:

• The nafs (ego/soul) must be purified through rigorous practice.

• Higher spiritual bodies or states (e.g., the sirr, khafi, and haqqi) emerge only through inner transformation.

• Some Sufi orders (especially Ishraqi/Illuminist schools) described spiritual “organs” that must be grown through practice — much like Gurdjieff’s “higher being-bodies.”

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🧠 4. Gurdjieff’s Framing: “Man Is Not Yet a Soul”

Gurdjieff uses striking formulations:

“A man is born without a soul. He may acquire a soul through conscious labor and intentional suffering.”

• He speaks of the need to crystallize higher being-bodies (astral, mental, causal).

• Without this, at death, the "personality" disintegrates, and only the "essence" (if anything) might persist briefly.

This model is developmental, hierarchical, and esoteric — you’re not born “ensouled” in the religious sense; rather, you must earn the right to continue existing.

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🔧 Key Influences

Source	Parallel Idea
Taoist alchemy	“Immortal embryo” must be built through internal practice
Hermeticism / Western alchemy	Transmutation of base self into spiritual gold (immortality)
Gnosticism	Only certain people have the potential for divine awakening
Sufism	The soul/self must be constructed through disciplined work
Christian mysticism	Resurrection body or "inner man" is a result of spiritual effort

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🧭 Conclusion

Gurdjieff’s teaching on the soul is not entirely unique, but rather a creative synthesis of alchemical, Gnostic, Christian, Sufi, and Eastern influences, shaped into a rigorous psycho-spiritual path. His brilliance lay in systematizing these esoteric ideas into a structured program — "The Work" — focused on self-remembering and the construction of the immortal self.

If you're interested, I can show how Gurdjieff’s “three bodies” map onto Taoist or Hermetic alchemical stages — or how this concept evolved in his students' writings (e.g., Ouspensky or Jeanne de Salzmann).

How do the three bodies map onto Taoist or Hermetic alchemical stages?

Great question — Gurdjieff’s doctrine of the three bodies maps intriguingly onto both Taoist internal alchemy and Hermetic/Western alchemy. Though these traditions are culturally and terminologically distinct, all three describe a process of inner transformation, with stages of energetic refinement and spiritual embodiment that result in immortality or enlightenment.

Below is a comparative mapping of Gurdjieff's model with Taoist Neidan and Western Hermetic alchemy:

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🧍‍♂️ GURDJIEFF'S THREE BODIES

Gurdjieff teaches that humans are not born with fully developed being-bodies, but can construct them through conscious labor and intentional suffering:

1. Astral Body (also called the "body Kesdjan")

   • Created through emotional refinement and discipline

   • Allows for conscious existence after physical death

2. Mental Body

   • Formed through development of higher thought, will, and awareness

   • Capable of objective understanding and cosmic consciousness

3. Causal Body (or "Real I")

   • Permanent, immortal body

   • Linked to true individuality, able to reincarnate or escape time

These are not metaphorical, but actual energetic “vehicles” a person must construct.

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🜲 TAOIST INTERNAL ALCHEMY (NEIDAN)

Taoist Neidan (內丹) describes the process of cultivating the "Three Treasures" and forming an immortal spiritual body:

1. Jing (Essence) → refined into Qi

   • Related to physical vitality and sexual energy

   • Corresponds to early alchemical work on the body

   • Parallel: Gurdjieff's astral body, formed by refining instinctive/emotional forces

2. Qi (Energy) → refined into Shen

   • Breath, life-force, movement of subtle energy

   • Internal breathing, energy circulation

   • Parallel: Gurdjieff's mental body, developed through control of attention and presence

3. Shen (Spirit) → refined into Xu (emptiness / true self)

   • Pure consciousness, the immortal spirit

   • Birth of the “immortal embryo” (spirit body)

   • Parallel: Gurdjieff’s causal body, the immortal “I” beyond ego

Taoists say that only when Shen returns to the Dao, one becomes a Zhenren — a "true person" — akin to Gurdjieff’s Real Man or Man No. 7.

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🜍 WESTERN HERMETIC ALCHEMY

Western alchemy is metaphorically about turning lead into gold, but esoterically it’s about spiritual rebirth:

1. Nigredo (Blackening) – death of the base self

   • Descent into unconsciousness, chaos

   • Beginning of inner work

   • Parallel: Early stage of forming astral body, confronting sleep and mechanicality

2. Albedo (Whitening) – purification

   • Cleansing of emotions, emergence of inner clarity

   • Parallel: Refinement of consciousness → mental body

3. Rubedo (Reddening) – union and rebirth

   • The fusion of opposites (soul and spirit), realization of immortal self

   • Philosopher’s Stone formed

   • Parallel: Full realization of causal body, the "permanent I"

Some alchemists speak explicitly of forming a "subtle body" or "glorified body", capable of transcending the material world.

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🔁 MAPPING TABLE

Gurdjieff	Taoist Neidan	Hermetic Alchemy	Theme
Physical Body	Jing	Prima Materia / Lead	Raw material, unrefined being
Astral Body	Refined Jing → Qi	Nigredo	Emotional transmutation, energetic base
Mental Body	Refined Qi → Shen	Albedo	Mental clarity, subtle will, awareness
Causal Body	Shen → Immortal Embryo	Rubedo	Immortal soul, true self, resurrection
“Man No. 7”	Zhenren (True Person)	Philosopher’s Stone	Completed being, Real I, divine union

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🧩 Shared Esoteric Logic

Despite vastly different symbols, all three systems share these assumptions:

1. Ordinary humans are incomplete.

2. A spiritual body or essence must be constructed through effort.

3. The process involves refining energy, unifying mind/emotion/body, and achieving non-egoic being.

4. Without this transformation, the person perishes or dissolves.

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🧠 Conclusion

Gurdjieff’s model is not isolated, but harmonizes with both Taoist and Hermetic traditions. He translates alchemical transformation into a psychological and existential framework suited to modern seekers, replacing older symbolic language with terms like "self-remembering," "essence," and "the Work."

Would you like diagrams, visual mappings, or deeper dives into one of these traditions (e.g., Neidan practices or Gurdjieff’s "food diagram")?

What did Gurdjieff mean by his notorious statement "the moon eats people"?

Gurdjieff’s cryptic and unsettling statement that “the Moon eats people” is one of the most provocative in his teachings — and like much of his work, it operates on multiple symbolic, cosmological, and psychological levels.

Let’s unpack it carefully.

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🌓 1. Cosmic Energy Recycling: The Moon as a Feeding Entity

In Gurdjieff’s cosmology (especially as presented in In Search of the Miraculous), everything exists to serve something else, and cosmic bodies feed on the energies of smaller ones in a hierarchical structure.

• The Moon, in his view, is not fully formed, a kind of embryonic body in the solar system.

• It requires energy to grow, and Earth life provides that energy — particularly the energies released at death.

💬 Gurdjieff: "Everything living on Earth exists to feed the Moon."

Meaning:

• When human beings die without having developed a soul, the energies of their essence are drawn off by the Moon.

• Thus, mechanical, unconscious people live and die in vain — their life-energy nourishes the Moon, not their own being.

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🧠 2. Psychological Interpretation: The Moon as Mechanical Habit

On the psychological level, the Moon represents mechanicalness — unconscious behavior, habit, and sleep.

• It’s cold, repetitive, and predictable — like the way people live when they're not awake.

• Gurdjieff says “man is a machine”, and unless a person begins conscious inner work, he functions entirely according to lunar influences.

💬 “All of man’s actions, words, thoughts, feelings, opinions, convictions, and habits are mechanical. All that he says, does, thinks, and feels happens. Man cannot move, think, or speak of his own accord. He is a marionette pulled by strings.”

So:
➡ The Moon “eats” people = people live entirely under its mechanical influence, die without waking up, and are reabsorbed into the planetary machine.

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🌌 3. Esoteric Cosmology: The Ray of Creation

Gurdjieff outlines a metaphysical hierarchy he calls the Ray of Creation:

Absolute → All Worlds → All Suns → Our Sun → Earth → Moon

• The Moon is the lowest, densest level of matter and consciousness.

• Its position at the bottom means it receives the least light or will — it's almost pure inertia.

• Life on Earth acts as a kind of bridge, transferring energies down the Ray to the Moon.

Thus, humans who remain mechanical are absorbed downward, becoming part of the Moon’s energetic field.

🛑 If one does not work to awaken, their being is "food for the Moon."

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🧪 4. Relation to Death and the Soul

According to Gurdjieff:

• Only those who create a higher body (astral, mental, causal) can retain their individuality after death.

• Those who do not are dispersed — their psychic energies are recycled, part of which goes to the Moon.

• The Moon thus becomes a symbol of annihilation through unconsciousness.

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🐍 Symbolic and Mythic Parallels

The idea that a celestial being “eats” souls or energy has mythic parallels:

• Taoism & Chinese astrology: the Moon influences "hun" and "po" souls — without proper cultivation, the soul dissolves.

• Egyptian mythology: Ammit, the “soul eater,” devours those unworthy of immortality.

• Alchemy: the Moon often represents the unredeemed soul, or the passivity that must be transmuted into solar (conscious) essence.

Gurdjieff modernized this: the Moon is what devours you if you don’t wake up.

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🧭 Summary

Level	Interpretation
Cosmic	The Moon literally feeds on life-force from Earth; unconscious people’s energy goes to nourish it.
Psychological	The Moon = mechanical behavior. If you stay asleep, you live and die as a machine.
Spiritual	Without inner development, the self is not preserved; you are absorbed into lunar recycling.
Symbolic	The Moon is the pull of inertia, habit, fate, unconscious death.

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✅ Final Thought

When Gurdjieff says “The Moon eats people”, he is warning:

If you do not awaken and crystallize a soul, your life will be lost to mechanical nature — you will serve as energy for the cosmos, not as a conscious being.

It’s a chilling metaphor for the consequences of spiritual sleep.

Would you like to go further into Gurdjieff’s lunar theory (like how movements, shocks, or sex relate to Moon-energy), or how his system overlaps with astrology or ancient lunar cults?