"We have all encountered something we failed to understand, yet smugly believed we understood because we couldn't conceive of the dimension to which we were blind."
Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis

Atman presents us with a ten minute psychedelic vision of what has been referred to as a Buddhist deity of destruction. If gods exist, maybe this film is the closest approximation of the sensory dissonance we'd experience in getting a glimpse into the divine plane, which might be some further dimension beyond the three we exist within.

But in Mahayana Buddhism, the Atman is the self, or the soul. The link may be entirely spurious, but I love the idea of the God of Destruction being a part of our own soul. By which I mean - that's a fucking terrifying idea, but it has the ring of truth to it, does it not?

HoopTober Diez… And Goez to Hell…