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Buddhist Priest living as lay, Sangha leader 🏳️🌈 Ally Gifted AuDHD. Knowledge, Philosophy, Politics. Inclusion, Social Justice, Profit Redistribution. Non-fiction Books. Meditation, Qi Gong, Esoterism. Photography, Linguistics, Neuroscience.
Quietude
Quietude is anything but passive. It is pre ontological, vibrational, temporal, psychological, and cosmological. The Gnostic interval between worlds is a mode of being through silence, insight, and disciplined refusal.
Taciturnitas est Aurum Occultum: Alchemical Stillness and the Gold That Refuses Exchange
The Latin axiom taciturnitas est aurum occultum / taciturnity is hidden gold must be read not as a decorative aphorism but as a compressed metaphysical thesis. It asserts that silence, far from being a mere…
Happy World Meditation Day
Let's celebrate meditation, today! World Meditation Day, observed on 21 December, coincides deliberately with the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest night of the year and the astronomical turning point at which the slow return of light begins. This…
It’s Yule!
Today is Yule, let's celebrate! Yule stands as one of the most ancient and symbolically dense ritual complexes in the religious history of Europe, a calendrical threshold in which cosmology, ecology, social structure, and metaphysics converge with unusual intensity. It is not merely a…
Capitalism provides employment and profits to the states
From today's Book of the Day, I have chosen the following sentence for a brief, deeper analysis: The most important reason is that states depend on the employment and profits from capitalist enterprise for both finances and…
Book of the Day – Confronting Capitalism
Today's, and last book of 2025 Book of the Day is Confronting Capitalism, written by Vivek Chibber in 2022 and published by Verso Books. Vivek Chibber (born in 1965) is an Indian-American sociologist and political theorist, currently a professor of…
Mauna and the Ontology of Withholding
Mauna and the ontology of withholding name a discipline that is routinely misunderstood as negation, repression, or retreat, when in fact it articulates a positive mode of being in which reality is allowed to appear without being immediately seized by…
The Alchemy of the Silent Self: Noble Silence and the Refusal of Premature Meaning
Silence enters thought not as an absence but as a discipline of refusal, a deliberate suspension of the compulsive production of meaning that modernity mistakes for intelligence. The phrase that names this…
Silent Self
The ultimate alchemy of the silent self reveals that the observer and the silence observed are not two. In the realisation of the asankhata, silence is no longer something one practises. It is what one is.
Liminal Science: How Reason and Ethical Refusal of Capitalism Lead to a Better Society
Liminal science names a mode of inquiry that refuses the false opposition between reason and transformation, between empirical clarity and ethical courage. It emerges in the interval where established…
Thresholds of Emancipation, Liminality as a Site of Radical Possibility
Liminality names a condition that resists ownership, resists stabilisation, and resists the grammar of the settled world. It is the interval in which a form has ceased to function while a new one has not yet cohered, the zone…
Crossing Thresholds
Crossing a threshold gives you a fragile freedom, provisional, and relational. It mirrors the nature of reality itself, empty yet luminous, contingent yet coherent, groundless yet capable of boundless care.
The Liminal Body: Somatic Practices and Threshold Awareness
The liminal body emerges wherever the flesh ceases to function as a mere instrument of labour, display, or optimisation and instead reveals itself as a threshold, a site of passage between forces that cannot be fully stabilised or owned.…
Rites, Signs, and Shadows: Symbolic Liminality in Art and Literature
Rites, Signs, and Shadows may be approached as a field in which the symbolic architectures of art and literature reveal themselves as liminal events that puncture the apparent solidity of everyday perception and disclose the…
Art, literature, and creativity
Art, literature, and creativity all possess the capacity to preserve the delicate, unquantifiable aspects of human experience that capitalism persistently attempts to eradicate.
Capitalist exploitation
From today's Book of the Day, I have chosen this sentence for out deeper analysis: “Capitalism needs non capitalist social strata as a soil in which it can thrive” Rosa Luxemburg, Die Akkumulation des Kapitals / The Accumulation of Capital, 1913, Chapter Twenty Six. In…
Book of the Day – The Accumulation of Capital
Today's Book of the Day is The Accumulation of Capital, written by Rosa Luxemburg in 1913. Rosa Luxemburg was born in 1871 in Zamość, then part of the Russian controlled Kingdom of Poland, into a Jewish family marked by political repression and…
Reclaim your time
Capitalism monetizes every interval of waiting, transition, or pause by transforming time into a revenue stream. Reclaim your time.
In-Between Ethics: Living at the Edge of Identity and Meaning
Ethical life within transitional states emerges not as a diluted or indeterminate form of morality but as a heightened mode of consciousness in which the self realises that its fixities were always illusions serving external regimes of…
Borderlands and Capital: Liminality under Political and Economic Regimes –
The modern border is not a line but a metaphysical weapon, a manufactured threshold engineered to produce obedience, scarcity, and stratification. It operates simultaneously as enclosure, filter, and theatre, presenting…
Rubedo
Alchemic rubedo contains both the culmination of transformation and the risk of co-optation by the very forces that you have sought to resist.
Alchemy of Becoming: Transforming Matter into Spirit through Liminal Practices
The alchemical imagination interprets the entire field of existence as a continuous ontological fabric in which matter and spirit interpenetrate through gradients of subtlety rather than occupying separate…
Gnostic Gatekeepers: Archons, Portals, and the Control of Passage
The architecture of Gnostic passage, when examined without concession to modern sentimentalism or superficial psychological allegory, discloses a ferocious metaphysics of filtration and obstruction in which every movement of…