An intersection between geopolitics and spirituality
coming to terms with the duality of the human condition
I have been asked to start a substack of my own, to gather together information I shared in comments on Rod Dreher’s substack.
This was mostly as a reaction to my sharing important titbits about Hungarian politics and history, that aren’t available to the general public in the English-Speaking world.
Although my interest in Hungarian politics is rather tepid (I haven’t voted in quite a while), it is still important to share whatever I can with those that cannot access Hungarian sources, due to the impenetrability of the Hungarian language, which I must admit also catches me out sometimes. I much prefer to write in English, which is so much simpler and elegant in terms of how it can express complex and convoluted thoughts, as opposed to the often roundabout and laboured way other languages express them. This doesn’t just apply to Hungarian, as French and German are guilty of similarly unnecessary complexity and verbosity, though Hungarian is certainly the most impenetrable to outsiders overall.
A bit about my background.
I’m Hungarian on my father’s side, Polish on my mother’s. I did part of my growing up in India as my family lived there for a couple of years during the eighties. I graduated from university in Hungary with a BA in English, then proceeded to move to Ireland in 2001. In 2006, I moved to Singapore, where I lived until 2009. In 2010, I moved to London and stayed there until 2014, when I moved back to Hungary. I currently live in Sopron, a border town about an hour’s drive from Vienna, Austria’s capital.
At the moment, I work in an office role, as a commercial manager for a medium-sized firm. That’s just to pay the bills, my real passion is and always has been the pursuit of truth. In other words, my one and only driving ambition, since I had self-awareness, was to find out what’s going on. In pursuit of this goal, I have studied languages, delved into mythology, religion, physics, history, geopolitics, philosophy and any other area that promised to reveal the truth about the human condition.
As the title states, I found that philosophically speaking, we must all come to terms with out dualistic nature. In other words, that we are made of finite, gross matter, which severely limits our lifespan and capacity to understand the world, but that we are also spirit, which in ineffable, boundless and immortal. One of life’s great realizations, for me, has been, that the two are ultimately inseparable. In other words, one cannot study just one or the other, but the two must exist in harmony, complementing each other. Fusing dualities that exist in seeming separation, even opposition of each other is the enduring theme of every mystical tradition, no matter the religious or philosophical background it comes from.
Whether it is Jewish Qabbalah, Christian Mysticism, Sufism, Tantra, Advaita Vedanta, or any other mystical tradition, the goal is always the same: Union With the Godhead. Whilst each tradition takes a different route, they all end up at the same destination. And one cannot be ignorant of matters of the spirit, or that of the material world, if one wishes to be a complete, balanced human.
So, in the posts to follow, I will write about both and try to find not only the balance, but the intersection between them. At what points of the fabric of spacetime does the spiritual realm intersect with the material realm? When and where does that happen and what can we learn from studying both?
Even though it may seem, that politics and economics have nothing spiritual about them, that is an illusion. As in all things, the same forces that fight each other in the spiritual realm, find an expression and influence things in the material realm too. Ever since the universe came into existence, whatever your opinions are on what gave it that initial spark so that it blossomed from a timeless, spaceless quantum singularity into a multi-dimensional universe, the forces of light and the forces of darkness have been battling it out amongst each other for an eternity.
These very same forces of duality are present in every area of life. It is our role in life to recognize that and see the divine plan behind the great play that we experience as life. We all have our assigned roles to play in this great play, so once we recognise what our role is and how we contribute and fit into the picture, we can partake in it with that much more confidence and gusto.
I believe my role has always been singular - to discover and recognise the truth, then to live according to the principles I have uncovered. I have indeed uncovered much, particularly as it concerns the hidden dimensions of life, which most people never encounter and know about. I will endeavour to bring to the surface and reveal hidden, little-known or obscure truths one-by-one and thus contribute to the enlightenment and self-discovery of those that are ready to hear what I have to say.