Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

“From my pursuit to my flight, and from my steed to my gazelle” Arabi We’re spinning on this earth, but where are we? – “at the borderlands “ Utterly, we’re spinning but whence went the earth? My pursuit, my flight, my gazelle Tis her, tis her and I – and where is she? On the…

I want to die tonight. But I won’t. If you can’t sort it out on earth, where will you ever? For its not as above so below, but as I look up to the heavens I would carry my broken heart with me. I always thought “when I smile in heaven, people will smile back”.…

Paul Klee I think I read the world’s first porno. A certain shaykh converts a pagan girl who ends up grovelling at his feet. This is her big moment of commune with God. Of course the book went in the bin, but it inspired this, and made me realise that, having read many spiritual classics…

I am of course reading Corbin atm and so in keeping with his articulation of the relationship between man (yes – man) and God in Alone with the Alone, along with my own reflections of not being a cis male (thank holy God! Otherwise I too might perhaps think women were here for my own…

“Effects of meditation” “Day and night think and meditate on Brahman, meditate with great one pointedness of mind. And during the time of awareness to outward life, either do some work for the sake of others or repeat in your mind, “Let good happen to Jivas and the world!” “Let the mind of all flow…

Note: the knowledge I have of the hag of the mill and the swineherd myth are entirely owed to Caitlin Matthews essay Shapeshifting in “the encyclopedia of Celtic wisdom” To her I thank her gifts hoping perhaps my own “interpretation” will be the fruit of something else and we can help “retore” what has been…

>note the references to the Samkhya Karika are sourced from Bawra and Bhasya The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism sourced from Corbin, Pearson, et al. mystics< I love life. Nature. SPIRIT. I also love yoga, but in the end, I do not entirely agree. For to me, Natures heart is Sentient. Or has Samkhya…

“Glory be to God” Do you kind of get the feeling too, that the Holy Grail was lost after those bastards murdered Jesus? It would seem so, but it was not lost, and never has been. It’s in you – a spoonful of love that cascades into an avalanche and grows into an infinite and…