{"id":4588,"date":"2025-09-17T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:49:13","slug":"clarifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/clarifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think my last articles surprised people quite a bit, but probably not all for the same reasons. If I talked about anything spiritual in the recent years, it would usually be the unpleasant stuff such as karmic transformations, and for some reason I think people interpret that as me being fucked up and inventing some rationalisation to explain it as something non-obvious, and since I didn\u2019t mention God much either they concluded it\u2019s because I\u2019ve fallen out of grace or something. Also, the fact that I write about photography or politics doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t write about other things. It\u2019s just that writing about God isn\u2019t my only way of writing about God, if you get what I mean.<\/p>\n

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Also, I did not get weaker over the years and decades. Someone will say “who knows when that darshan<\/em> he’s talking about happened, it might be decades ago”. No, it was last week, and again yesterday as I wrote the last article, thank you for asking (she made a comment). However, the last time before that was in the late 1990s, if I recall correctly. Too long; 27 years or something, unless you count being married to her tulku<\/em> as a form of darshan <\/em>and lila<\/em>, which you actually should, in which case it’s a whole different story. Then someone’ll say it might not be real, it might be my mind playing tricks because I was feeling terrible and it’s a coping mechanism. Sorry to disappoint, but during those 27 years I felt mostly terrible and during the entire time I couldn’t even remember something like that well enough to fake it, or even well enough for it to be any comfort, let alone pull the experience out of my ass. It just doesn’t work that way. You see God when God wants to be seen, not when you want it or need it. Why now; I don’t know. Why not before; I don’t know that either. However, feeling terrible means I’m doing my job of being an anvil that breaks all hammers, not that I have fallen from God’s grace.<\/p>\n

Some are asking the right questions, such as who the fuck am I, really, if all that is true? Well, that’s the worst kept secret of all time, I guess. Some will be in the “we knew it!” camp, others in the “oh fuck…”, but I have no wish to waste time spelling it out for you. But yes, I also take pictures of heather bushes in the sunset, and I also write political commentary and spend inordinate amounts of money on gear. \ud83d\ude42 You might ask “why”, and the answer is “why not?” I’m not a fan of pompous and pretentious bullshit of any kind; in the afterlife, I’d be the one in jeans, chatting up the team over some equivalent of coffee that they have there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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