tantra – Mitchell Pluto

Charnel Ground

Impressions from the somatosensory cortex while crossing the Bardo. Collage by Mitchell Pluto

It isn’t easy being a scapegoat.

A shadow pursues my light.

I have a goat that has a habit of eating all the things that I make.

The weight of Saturn is on my shoulder, but thank God, Kali is my lover.

This narrative starts before the cemetery incident.

Everyone has an interior cornerstone inside of them.

A foundation of the self that unifies the past with the future.

Birth of trauma results in complications and haunts everyone.

The importance we place on something defines what we believe.

It’s vital to locate the object within the graveyard that meant so much.

Though the stones remain mute, language marks them.

Does the gravestone function like a tooth?

It depends on who you ask.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.

While enduring a cycle of replication, a plastic figure might provide redemption in this case.

The letter “I” is the basis for all the thoughts I have about things.

I direct orchestras with this baton.

There is relief in finding out that it was the poets who created the gods in this manner.

Breathe easy; it’s all make-believe.

Then, of course, we cross the bardo and find nothing so sweet.

Regardless, remember the truth and space are simply awareness with no words to describe them except on stones left here.

Written by ©Mitchell Pluto 12/7/2025

Transformation of Matters Andrew Mendez

Psychic automatism by Andrew Mendez 2022

If the notion of compassion is missing, this leads to darkness.. forgiveness is the letting go. It opens the space for the surreal.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is else where. What’s the need of a new manifesto if we have yet to meet the goals of the old one..

I live in balance with the Gods and they live in balance with me. The stone is compassion, not a matter what school. To know that it is. As it is, is to accept the idea. Do something about it , cause and effect… this is good alchemy.

Andrew Mendez 2022

The Relationship with the Star

The Tantra is a special connection (fusion) with a deity or geometric symbol. Meditating on this double generates a navigating map towards a sapient future self. This is traditionally similar to a Yidam in Tibetan Buddhism.

I was inspired by Chögyam Trungpa’s book The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness and the metaphor of the Star in the Tarot. Tantra means weaving and is about a relationship between the projector and the projected (or programmer and program) The woman in the painting is a personal interpretation of Tara, the mother of liberation.

from my personal Tarot symbolique et maçonnique by Jean Beauchard. The Star card with it’s twin geometric blueprint below the surface of the image.

from a French Freemason Lodge

“The Star, still called pentagram, represents for the Pythagoreans, the radiant initiate. Indeed for a long time, we represent a man, arms and legs apart, registered in the Star. His five points are thus attributed to the five extremities of the man whose head occupies the summit. She can register in a circle. It is no longer about the man inscribed in the matter, but about the man who has straightened up, who has reached his Star.”

***étoile flamboyante: Love when it is sufficiently intense, is source of light and knowledge, in this respect we can say that the blaze associates with the star is Love.***

“If we manage to register in the Flaming Star, to use this magnificent template which is offered to us we will have, found our balance, realized our own unit and we will have found this spark of divinity in us which will allow us to blaze. The Star, under the Delta, receives its influence as it receives that of the Sun and the Moon. She is the Great Architect of the Universe in Man in general and in the companion in particular. It blazes in addition to the radiation of the Delta, it completes the Knowledge by Love.”