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revealed as just provisional silhouettes if you will, capable of dissolv- ing, swapping, and transcending through spiritual awakening and transformation. Aspects of ancient Buddhist and Hindu scriptures did not merely tolerate fluidity; they wielded it as a scalpel to excise the illusion of inherent nature. In this light, the modern emergence of “xenogender” — identities that defy human taxonomy and soar beyond biological binaries — is not a sudden, secular invention. It is a contemporary echo of an an- cient and underlying current that has long whispered that identity is a site of eternal flux and infinite becoming. To embrace this is to accept that the “self” is a verb, not a noun — a dance of magical transforma- tion rather than a cast iron statue of permanence. In a cosmos where even the gods themselves shift form to reveal the ineffable, liberation lies not in finding the “correct” identity for any one being, but in the courage to drift in the liminal spaces, to shed the skin of certainty, and to rest in the vast, ungraspable freedom of existence itself. Sheer Zed is an author, Buddhist shaman, musician, and artist. He has contributed to Inner Traditions, Hadean Press, Indie Shaman, and Rituals & Declarations. A countercultural activist, underground music artist, and magical practitioner for more than 30 years, he lives in Bristol, United Kingdom. https://linktr.ee/SheerZed
A depiction of Arddhanarishvara; source: Wikimedia Commons
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