Hi, I'm Sachin. This is my webpage where I post writing (see the writing or blog sections), music (tba), and microgames (tba), and more. If you know me from real life, mwah mwah! I'm using this page just because I need some place to put the stuff that I make and write that isn't a social media account. This page is to be cross-hosted on nekoweb and neocities.
Why is this page called "thunder, perfect mind"?
"The Thunder, Perfect Mind"
is a Gnostic poem written originally in Coptic found in the Nag
Hammadi library. I've been looking into esoterica and early
christian heresies (such as Gnosticism) for a few years now.
It's been really helpful for me to contextualize the Church that
I grew up within christian religious history across the world.
It's helped me understand that I am not alone in the ways my
brain is messed up from growing up in the church, and that the
church has been messing up people's brains up since time
immemorial. "The Thunder, Perfect Mind" has resonated with me
since encountering it initial in a video on the youtube channel
ESOTERICA
. The poem is in large part about the paradoxical sensation of
the divine --- across gender and imperial class in particular.
It's not hard for such a poem to hit with a brown, queer,
ex-sunday school kid.