Second edition of "Kali breathes this fire"

I have today released a second edition of Kali breathes this fire. Because I constantly write about the Mahavidyas & other forms of Dark Mother I have needed to add a little to the introduction. I do not deny that I caught a couple of typos too. I shall certainly produce further revisions, but this is the current one. The main difference is that I have added much more about the incommensurability of intensity & the shortcomings of language, as well as a few pages with extensive references about spiritual narcissism. There's also some discussion of my use of the term "patriarchy", elucidated by reference to Juliet Flower MacCannell, & I can totally recommend her Regime of the Brother.

My book is available here at Lulu, & soon be available on Amazon, since I have sorted out what the issue was there. 

EDIT: This book is now approved for Amazon 7 will be there shortly. Currently the older version (232 pages) is on sale there, but when it's listed as slightly longer (& £12.99) it will be the new one.  It looks like the book is available now at 239 pages but the price is still £13.75 & the back cover looks like the old one, though "look inside" gives the new TOC. I would assume that the new book is what you will get. The price should update soon.

The book about Lilītu & Lamaštû & the book about Tara are both being written right now & I trust that they will be pleasing to Maa.

"Lalita drinks too much" on Amazon

 Lalita drinks too much hits Amazon (soon) at this link or at this one for US Amazon.

Here it is at Lulu.

Samples posted in this post.

Cover & blurb below.

This book continues McLean's series about Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas & is about Lalita or Shodashi, the third Mahavidya.

The poems are preceded by a lengthy & controversial introduction, where McLean discusses goddess; the selective Nietzschean eternal return as a template for reincarnation; Kali & temporality; the imaginary ego; spirituality & narcissism; the narcissistic nature of the guru phenomenon; intensity & incommensurability; the patriarchy & fratriarchy; & the colonialism to which the tribal peoples in India are subjected.

The cover image is the Sri Yantra.

Four samples from "Lalita drinks too much"

As usual I post here a few poems as samples from the latest. Here it is at Lulu. Amazon link coming later.

"Lalita drinks too much"

The latest in the Mahavidya books is now available, a little more controversial than usual. The Divine Mother wants this one out now, & I am starting a new one about Tara. The order in which these books are appearing is fairly arbitrary. In this book, I discuss Deleuze, Lacan, Nietzsche, colonialism, & spiritual narcissism, & I swear as little as possible while so doing.

The book is on sale here at this link, it is coming on Amazon soon, & the cover & blurb follow.

This book continues McLean's series about Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas & is about Lalita or Shodashi, the third Mahavidya.

The poems are preceded by a lengthy & controversial introduction, where McLean discusses goddess; the selective Nietzschean eternal return as a template for reincarnation; Kali & temporality; the imaginary ego; spirituality & narcissism; the narcissistic nature of the guru phenomenon; intensity & incommensurability; the patriarchy & fratriarchy; & the colonialism to which the tribal peoples in India are subjected.

The cover image is the Sri Yantra.

 

 

Of astrology & various books

The North node is now in Aries. My natal North Node is Virgo, & in the eighth house. Naturally, I long ago rejected material values & affirmed transience & the incomplete. It is time for everyone to eradicate trauma bonding & eliminate energy vampires from your life. People-pleasing is stupid. Cut that shit out of your life, & correct any dysfunctional situation where you lose your energy to some worthless motherfucker.

The nodes getting away from the Taurus nonsense is good news for everybody, except narcissists, so it's extra good for the rest of us. The basic meaning of Aries is independence, fire, energy, & courage. Libra is basically to do with partnership & cooperation. The shift means that it is time to affirm your true inner self  above the others. Libra tends to people-pleasing, dishonesty to keep the peace, & passivity. Nowadays, cooperating with the other tends to involve adapting to the demands of a narcissistic society. This nodal shift says "fuck that" very emphatically. You affirm yourself & defend yourself. It is not selfish, to be, first & foremost, yourself.

Libra is in my eighth house but governs nothing at all for me. I have never sought to please others, I write for the Divine Mother alone, but I witness now others needing to break away from people pleasing. It's the perfect time to do so until January 2025.

Thankfully the eighth house can be said to govern death & rebirth, as well as sex. The sun is in my second house but, since money is of no interest to me, I am reading this as a very good aspect for weightlifting again &/or the approbation of the Dark Mother, with which She has lately been very generous. More generally, it's to do with self worth. For everybody, though, the North Node in Aries should help you cut away the bullshit people from your lives, & the horses the fuckers rode in on. Own your own part in things, but focus on yourself. The Aries/Libra axis will help you realise the nature of any dodgy interpersonal dynamics.

Had to correct a footnote in Kali breathes this fire, the revised version of which is now uploaded, with a somewhat modified cover. In a few days, the Amazon link will give the corrected version. I have approved the proofs for Durga sings every night & dressed in flesh so these will be on Amazon shortly too. For now they are available on Lulu at the above links. Because Amazon suck ass, not least by paying me a fraction of what Lulu pays, above & beyond treating their employees like shit, I prefer that people buy the things from Lulu. But, naturally, I myself use Prime, like the whore that I am, & I understand if others do so too. 

EDIT: Here is Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.

"Durga sings every night"

Here my latest book is now available. Durga Maa is represented by Her yantra, which is the perfect solution for cover images. Here is Durga sings every night, Because of the subject matter, I am fairly stroppy in the introduction, mounting  a vicious attack on narcissism, indeed on all forms of fascism, &, equally predictably, on the motherfucking patriarchy with its new egomimetic development into the regime of the brother, first depicted by Juliet Flower MacCannell.

This book by David C. McLean is a complement to the series that he is writing on Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas. 

It contains an introduction that relates Durga to Kali, & describes the contrast between the demands of commensurability & intensity, between chaos & order, & between goddess & patriarchal oppression. 

McLean argues that the only fundamental wrong is narcissism, & describes the selective eternal return in Deleuzian terms so the ego is excluded, only the partial & fragmentary gets to be born again, only that which is incomplete & process.

 

"Kali breathes this fire"

Finally got my new book finished after much buggering about, since I need to be comfortable with it, it being about the Divine Mother as it is. But Maa Kali cherishes imperfection & impurity, so that's something of a consolation. I am releasing it now because I have been constantly & obsessively adding to it, & want to hurry up with writing the next book about Matangi instead.

It is on sale here at Lulu, & here it now is on Amazon at this link. It is listed on  Amazon UK as well. The book is more expensive than I might wish, £12.50 or $16.50, with other currencies at corresponding rates, but blame the twats at Amazon for that, given that the book is 232 pages in length.

Four poems are on the images below, one of which is on two pages. 

The book contains a 45 page introduction about Kali. The introduction does not pretend to be comprehensive but relates the scriptures about Her to posthumanism, & the selective & creative nature of reincarnation, & speaks of the ultimate eternal return after the dissolution, when Her restive & fickle nature will create again. Some of this is drawn from the Posthuman poetry manifesto & adds to that. (Here the manifesto is on Amazon too.) Anyway, as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa wrote, She only saves one in a hundred thousand. 

The introduction also includes much ranting about narcissism, neo-colonialism against indigenous peoples, the patriarchy, the caste system, the narcissism of many "gurus", & the disgraceful British empire.

Blurb, cover, & samples follow:

This book is the first about Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas that McLean has written. This is what he proposes to write about in the future. 

The book includes a 45 page introduction in which McLean relates the Divine Mother to posthuman themes. There will no full manifesto on the basis of this but the ideas will be developed in later books.

The cover image is Kali's yantra.