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Andreas's avatar Andreas · Aug 9
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Professor Jiang: When Eschatologies Converge

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Summary

1. Modern Warfare is Hybrid Warfare

  • The absence of a direct World War III or large-scale conflict between the U.S. and Iran is due to hybrid warfare, where most battles are fought through:

    • Information control (media narratives)

    • Cyber warfare

    • Psychological operations (weakening public resolve)

    • Covert ops & economic sabotage (sanctions, assassinations, infrastructure attacks)

  • The U.S. and Israel aim for regime change in Iran by undermining its legitimacy (e.g., exacerbating water shortages to create famine/drought).

  • Paradoxically, such sabotage may strengthen Iranian resistance, potentially leading to Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, forcing a U.S. ground invasion—which the U.S. would likely lose.

2. Eschatology Drives Geopolitics

The core thesis: Religious and ideological end-time beliefs (eschatologies) shape global conflicts.

Why Eschatologies Are Powerful:
  • They answer fundamental human questions: Where do we come from? What is our purpose? Where are we going?

  • They act as "scripts" that enable unconscious coordination among believers, making them more effective than conspiracies (which rely on secrecy and trust).

  • They align with self-interest—participating in an eschatology can bring wealth, power, and purpose.

Major Eschatological Traditions & Their Convergence:
  1. Zoroastrianism (Good vs. Evil final battle → influenced Judaism).

  2. Judaic Tradition – A Messiah will lead Jews to victory, rebuild the Third Temple, and usher in peace.

  3. Christian Zionism (Protestant) – Jesus’ Second Coming requires:

    • Israel’s restoration (1948)

    • Third Temple construction

    • War of Gog & Magog (Armageddon)

    • The Antichrist’s rise

  4. Islamic Tradition – A leader (Mahdi) will emerge to unify Muslims against the Antichrist (Dajjal).

  5. Orthodox (Russian) Tradition – Moscow as the "Third Rome" must restore the Byzantine Empire under Putin (seen as the "Katechon"—restrainer of the Antichrist).

    • Alexander Dugin’s Plan:

      • Unify Eurasia (Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo-Tehran axis) to counter Anglo-American naval dominance.

      • Exploit internal divisions in the U.S./UK (Brexit, Trump, immigration).

      • Weaken China (ecological collapse, economic dependency).

  6. Catholic Tradition – The Church seeks to reclaim global dominance by:

    • Undermining the Anglo-American Empire (Protestant rival).

    • Destroying the nation-state system (post-French Revolution).

    • Reversing modernity (materialism, secularism).

    • Signs of Catholic Resurgence:

      • JD Vance (U.S. VP) as a Catholic convert.

      • Pope’s influence in U.S. institutions (6/9 Supreme Court justices Catholic).

      • CIA-Vatican historical ties ("Catholics in Action").

      • Demographic shift (immigration boosting Catholic numbers).

Key Convergence Points Among Eschatologies:
  • A major Middle East war (WWIII) involving Israel, Russia, and Islamic forces.

  • America absent (due to failed Iran war or civil war).

  • China collapses (ecological/food crises).

  • Antichrist emerges (charismatic unifier).

  • Israel dominates Middle East, builds Third Temple (destroys Dome of the Rock).

  • Global anti-Semitism drives Jews to Israel.

  • Age of Tribulation (chaos, deception, suffering before final redemption).

3. Predicted Future Geopolitical Scenario (Next 10-20 Years)

  1. U.S. invades Iran → fails → retreats → triggers American civil war.

  2. Russia defeats NATO in Ukraine → Europe turns pro-Russian.

  3. Turkey collapses → Greeks reclaim Constantinople (Byzantine revival).

  4. U.S. exits Middle East → Israel becomes regional empire → builds Third Temple → Islamic world revolts.

  5. Putin unites Orthodox & Islamic worlds → seen as "Katechon" (restrainer of chaos).

  6. Global instability → rise of Antichrist → tribulation era (famine, war, suffering).

Why the Anglo-American Empire Doesn’t Counter This:
  • Baby Boomer elites prioritize short-term comfort over long-term strategy.

  • Western decline is inevitable due to lack of strategic vision.

Final Conclusion: Eschatology Shapes History

  • Geopolitical events align with religious prophecies, proving eschatology’s influence.

  • The world is heading toward a period of extreme conflict and realignment, driven by competing end-time beliefs.

  • The next video will explore how Baby Boomer leadership accelerates Western decline.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Aug 7
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Atlantis and the Global Elite

There's been quite a bit of talk recently online about the idea that a certain group of people holds power at the global level, controlling International financial institutions, major media outlets, universities. They censor dissident opinions, especially when those opinions, point out the nepotistic behavior of this kind of parasitical ruling elite. And these people are not a force for good in the world. That's the idea that people are talking about, and I think there's something to this. But I don't believe that the global ruling elite maps neatly onto any existing religious or ethnic identity. Not that there is no ethnic basis to the global ruling elite—I do think that bloodlines are extremely important to the people that rule the world and the meaningful players, I kind of surmise and conjecture, do trace their bloodlines back to some original identity that has held power at a global level for thousands of years. From the beginning of the Neolithic, perhaps deeper in the past than that.

That is not that much of a stretch if you trace the spread of the genetics out of the near East with the Neolithic Revolution. There is a massive disparity in wealth in those societies. An elite, a kind of semi-divine Anunnaki priesthood group, was monopolizing mating resources, physical resources. I think they had slave colonies; they engaged in human sacrifice. These people spread their influence and their way of life and their systems of domination around the world, and they went with their systems.

So where Neolithic technology spread, the elite bloodlines spread. Of course, there was, in my opinion, an original ethnic type that created this control system in the early Neolithic. When it spreads, however, there's a lot of mixing with indigenous peoples. It's not going to have a huge genetic signature—although you do see that, you know, the spread of these ancient near Eastern uh haplotypes and autosomal markers and such. They go all over the world. You know, there's been a massive kind of endemic diffusion from that Hub, coupled with not just Neolithic technology but the system of control that went with Neolithic technology.

In some areas, that control stayed very, very tight. In other areas, I think that control waned as it went East into the Harappan civilization. Ultimately, you had huge centralization of resources—uh, the cities were centrally planned, control of water was, you know, necessarily because it's an arid environment in Pakistan and Northwest India. That was controlled by the government ostensibly. As it moved South into the Levant, Egypt, that tight control of these ancient ruling bloodlines continued. As it went North, it resulted in a culture that had a huge degree of freedom.

So you had, as you go into the caucuses, the spread of Neolithic technology. You have like the laylee tepi culture, which is the first bronze smithing in the world. You have the Maykop culture, the Kura-Araxes culture. In these cultures, you get the first cultivation of wine, swords, column architecture—a lot of the stuff that we think of as like classical features actually comes from the south caucasus region from 6000 BC to around 3000 BC.

3000 BC, you have the Maykop culture. This is a super advanced culture for its time, probably still basically under the sphere of this Neolithic control system. These are psycho technologies employed by ruling elites to maintain order. We think of it as simply like Civilization, and it's normal, and this, you know, we don't think about it twice. The reality though is that people didn't used to live this way, and it started at a particular point in time with particular bloodlines driving it.

So, in any case, as the Kaykop culture interacted with step nomads and farmers, they weren't able to keep control, and you had a kind of franchise model of political sovereignty driven by the force wielded by individual bands of warriors on horseback. That's where things kind of got out of their hands. The Indo-European expansion, I think, is a result of the legal technologies, the kind of Technologies of mind control invented in the near Eastern sphere that spread into groups occupying the step. And they used this system, and it evolved in a bunch of different directions with Indo-European expansions.

That's not the only place I think the ancient Neolithic elite lost control, but you do see their genetic signatures in the caucus hunter-gatherers that went North. So again, elite bloodlines I think are transmitted even with Indo-European groups from that ancient Neolithic elite.

As you go west across Anatolia, I've pointed to certain sites like Aşıklı Höyük, which, based on like patterns of age at burial and sex ratios and the layout of the settlements, I took to be work camps. And then you look at the first city out there, Çatalhöyük—population around 7000—they use the same basic architectural techniques as what I took to be like work camps like Aşıklı Höyük. So I think what happened is there was a worker's revolt among this population of Anatolian hunter-gatherers, and those are the genetics that primarily went West into Greece, beginning the European Neolithic, and then spread with, you know, early European farmer genetic markers across continental Europe.

So there, there was also a spread of those ancient Neolithic bloodlines. It's interesting that the modern populations that most closely resemble early European farmers are Sardinians and Ashkenazi Jews. But they wouldn't have been that similar to the original population that started the Neolithic.

Now, of course, many people have speculated about the identity of the people who built Gobekli Tepe. I'm not going to go into all the evidence there. I am basically in line with Graham Hancock's thesis. Other people have pointed to these out-of-place artifacts like the Baalbek megaliths or, you know, some stuff from Egypt seems to be of a much earlier date. You can dismiss this if you want, but you know, look at Graham Hancock's work. I would basically just kind of piggyback off of what he has pointed to.

And yeah, it doesn't make sense that Gobekli Tepe is the largest megalithic structure Intel around 5000 BC—so 9500 BC, Gobekli Tepe is built, or maybe even earlier. It's the largest, most sophisticated structure for the next five thousand years, and it's supposed to be the first that hunter-gatherers built. Supposedly built by hunter-gatherers? Also, the earliest layers of Gobekli Tepe are larger and more sophisticated artistically than later layers. So if they're learning how to do this, they shouldn't be the best at it right when they start. That doesn't make sense.

Gobekli Tepe looks to me like some group arrived in the near East from somewhere and worked with local natufian populations and took in a lot of their genetics too, as well as taking in genetics from caucus hunter-gatherers and Anatolian hunter-gatherers. And as they spread east, of course, Neolithic Iranians. But in the case, some group showed up and built Gobekli Tepe because they already knew how.

Also, it's not just a megalithic work—there's Terrazzo, which is an early form of cement. This is right after the younger dryas, which is a dramatic and sudden shift in the earth temperature from 10,800 BC to 9500 BC. Right at the end of that, all of a sudden, people are making concrete and sophisticated megaliths with 3D sculptures built onto them. It doesn't add up, basically.

Of course, 9500 BC is also precisely the date that Plato gives for the destruction of Atlantis. I do think Plato was right in a number of respects. Plato seems to have like an eerie knowledge of prehistory. You know, correctly assessing that like the Greek language evolved out of more primitive languages that were similar to barbarians to the north. His suggestions about Eugenics or controlled uh reproductive systems that looks in a certain way very similar to what happened at Chateau Hayek.

People don't realize—the first city in the world, what I interpret to be this first Breakaway of a slave class—they traded children. From Dental evidence, from genetic evidence, the nuclear families, the households were not genetically related to each other entirely. They apparently, at least, swapped children, which is interesting. That doesn't vindicate that like this was a guardian Society, but Plato does say in the Timaeus, in the voice of Socrates, that this model of the Republic from the Republic is actually the way of governing of ancient Athens—the Athens that was around when Atlantis was around. And of course, the Athenians, according to Plato, defeated the atlanteans, uh, and you know, and then the natural disasters struck and all of that.

So Plato has a weirdly accurate knowledge of the early Neolithic, and there's no way to account for that. Also, he has the most sophisticated philosophical system in human history, and people still, you know, find that his solutions to many problems are better than any existing solution. Many of the smartest people in history have been platonists—you know, Leibniz was a platonist, Bertrand Russell in a certain respect a platonist, Whitehead is a kind of platonist—like massively influential. And you could say that's because Plato is just really smart, or he was tapping into Traditions that have a lot more weight behind them.

So that is kind of just starting with the Neolithic and the spread of civilization as we know it to show that the technologies that allow for massive population control showed up at a certain point in time in human history and spread with certain genetic markers. No ethnic type from those days exists, but there are certain genetic markers that are more common in Elites that do have their origin—or at least they show up for the first time in that region at that time.

Couple this with the model by Julian James, The Bicameral Mind. What he says there is that with the Neolithic, you had a new kind of mentality where people began to like interiorize the voice of the village Chief. When the Chief died, they were—and this is ubiquitous across many Neolithic sites—when the Chief died, he would be kind of partially interred. They would display him for a time to kind of feed him as if he was still alive. The bones would be interred so they're accessible. And Jane's hypothesis is that people actually continued to hear somehow the voice of the village Chief, and this was a necessary adaptation to life at higher than Dunbar's unit scales.

So when you had Villages of one thousand, two thousand plus, this bicameral mind feature allowed a greater integration because everybody constructed a kind of similar internal voice of the chief that developed into an internal voice of the gods. And so this is why like all ancient culture is pretty much used Idols. In James's opinion, these Idols were ways of kind of Awakening these auditory hallucinations. He points to neurological evidence even that there is a kind of corresponding region in the right hemisphere to the speech centers in the left hemisphere, and if you stimulate those regions in the right hemisphere, you do trigger auditory hallucinations.

So this is why it's a bicameral mind. There is the right hemisphere voice, which was like the voice of the Gods, voice of you know the village Chief originally, he says. And then left hemisphere—like my own personal inner narrative. Bicameral societies, uh, Jane says, were adaptive up until the giant settlements of early Sumer—someone who had like 20,000 plus citizens. The old bicameral psychotechnology of control didn't work.

I've speculated that this was not some you know darwinian selection pressure that led to this internalization—like thought, literal thought control didn't evolve spontaneously. It was a technology, a psychic technology that was used by the people who started the Neolithic, the same Gobekli Tepe priest cast.

Couple that with speculations on the nature of the Atlantean technology, and there's a whole literature on it—uh, you can go in a lot of different directions with it. But the general consensus that you're going to find is that they used some kind of sound-based technology. And you can go into like how certain megalithic structures encode proportions inherent to the Earth, and if they were meant to resonate with the Earth's native like resting frequency, then that would make sense. And they would be on at certain locations around the earth to act as a network.

Uh, you can look into like Ley lines. People doubt these things, of course, but there are some weird facts about the positioning of megalithic structures around the world and the way that they kind of geodetically encode information—in addition to the astronomical correlations that have been noted for decades in the pyramids or Stonehenge or these sorts of things.

There were some sound-based component, potentially. Another component was PSI Technologies—you know, paranormal abilities. And the best person to look to for this is really, at this point in time, Rupert Sheldrake. He has collected more studies and shown more evidence about telepathy, telekinesis than many others. You know, people who often dismiss this.

And I would say that the global ruling Elite have always known what technologies to suppress, what not to allow. You know, like Tesla's idea of harvesting energy from the earth looks very much like what many people believe the ancient megalithic Builders were doing. So they've always known what technology is to suppress, they would suppress, and they have suppressed.

Platonism as a philosophical system in recent times—the only time that platonism was openly accepted and embraced was a period of time where European civilization was independent of other influences from outside of their spirit. And once International—this kind of international type, uh, you know, Venetian Bankers, other identity groups—gained power in Europe, then platonism was once again suppressed. It was suppressed during the medieval period.

You know, what does Plato say in the story of Atlantis? He says that the Greeks are always forgetting their past because of these Perpetual disasters. If you were an ancient ruling Elite and you wanted to maintain control, and you started with these Advanced Technologies that other peoples did not possess, then it would behoove you to occasionally instigate cataclysms—or at least take advantage of cataclysms and be prepared for them yourself—to wipe away the memory of mankind.

That happened with the Bronze Age collapse. That happened at the beginning of the Bronze Age, even wiping out memories from a pre-Bronze Age civilizational period. So yeah, the same thing kind of happened with late Antiquity. And you know, it was a well—the Muslim expansions, I think we shouldn't underestimate the organizational principles behind that. Also like there is really interesting evidence about the nature of Islam itself—whether Muhammad was even a historical figure, was it actually an early branch of Christianity? There's a whole set of conspiracy theories you can get into with the origins of Islam. Or perhaps that was a certain psycho technology brought about by the same ruling Elite, used to kind of wipe the Slate clean on late antique knowledge, which became very, very sophisticated.

I mean, what were the late neoplatonists working with? They were engaging in theoretic practices. So there's three dimensions then to this ancient hypothetical technology: sound-based aspect (resonant frequencies), solubility facet, and there's also then Theory or God working—you know, making contact with higher entities.

I have said that I think the global ruling Elite are in cahoots with a certain very powerful spiritual entity, and that spiritual entity wants to suppress the ability of other spiritual entities to act on this plane. I'll just leave that, you know, where it lies.

But okay, to really understand why that would be the case, I think we have to go back to Neanderthal times. You have two competing strategies of cognition. 200,000 years ago in the Neanderthal World, they built very consistent and very sophisticated Technologies. They had artificial adhesives to attach, you know, their spear tips. They built boats. The artifacts that neanderthals made are very difficult or impossible for modern archaeologists to replicate. It's easy to replicate Homo sapiens Technologies; it's very hard to replicate Neanderthal Technologies.

And so I don't know if neanderthals themselves had any Psy ability stuff going on or sound-based technology stuff, but they did have larger cerebellums proportionally. The homo sapien strategy is more emphasizing cerebral activity—the cerebrum is more active when you're in reasoning processes; the cerebellum is more active when you're dreaming, in Mystic States. Homo sapiens Technologies varied at a much higher rate, so there's a lot more change. And Homo sapiens also existed in much larger social groups.

Now, apply this dichotomy to platonism and what Plato says about the nature of the psyche. So there is, in the divided line from the Republic, four epistemological faculties that we're dealing with. The shortest on the line and the least significant—most untrustworthy, but like best known to us in a certain respect—is the faculty of ikasia, which is like the Imaging faculty. That's what you get with sensation qua sensation—sensation as sensation itself appears through the Imaging faculty at ikasia.

Above that, you have doxa or pistis—opinion. And that's like when we apply an idea of what is causing the sense perception, so we're making claims about what exists and what does not exist. But that isn't sophisticated until you get to mathematical reasoning—dianoia—above the level of doxa or pistis. Not just conjecture, but you're making contact with the logoi of the Soul itself. These mathematical laws, logical laws, are in us intrinsically; we have access to them. And this is the level at which Homo sapiens excels.

Above that, the most significant is intellect qua intellect—the intuitive faculty that we use to ascertain the nature of the forms. This is what mathematicians use when they are formulating axioms for a theory. You can't prove the axioms of a theory mathematically using mathematical reasoning; it has to come from something underneath the level of, you know, an algorithm. No algorithm can generate the Axiom that it's based on, so you need something higher than that to get things off the ground. Also, you need something higher than that to access the forms themselves—like the true types in reality.

So perhaps the Neanderthal brain structure was better suited to intuit these forms in a very deep sense. That's why it's hard for us to replicate the tools they had. Smaller social groups because they didn't emphasize dianoetic discursive reason as much. They dealt perhaps more with like an immediate apprehension of musical tones. People have speculated that perhaps Neanderthals primarily sang rather than spoke—you know, I don't know about that for sure, but it's interesting nonetheless.

So you have these two different strategies. The homo sapiens Network—scalably, they operate as a kind of hive mind. And I think that these two groups converged um a few times in history—in northwest Africa, leading to the genetic stock that eventually led to like the Iberia marusian culture. This is a quite sophisticated culture for the time.

It happened contact happened in Egypt—uh, apparently. I've I've read that there were neanderthals in Egypt 70,000 BC. We can you know try to confirm that; I have not been able to confirm what this professor that I was listening to said about that. But in any case, they also converged in the Levant. And in these places, you got—minus Egypt because we don't think we know all that much about Egypt 100,000 years ago—but there were sophisticated cultures in the Levant, in northwest Africa around 110,000 years ago, the Eemian interglacial period.

So it got kind of warm; there were admix events; sophisticated populations cropped up. Whether these sophisticated populations continued in operation and maintained a degree of like networked power as this like Master race over others—uh, is anybody's guess. And perhaps they disappear; perhaps they don't; perhaps they move somewhere.

Neanderthals had boats at that time. We know that neanderthals themselves were on uh Crete a hundred and some odd thousand years ago. It's entirely possible that they did make it to the Azores Islands. Perhaps at a certain point in time, it was a much larger Island. Randall Carlson goes into a lot of evidence supporting that—he's with me on the whole the Azores Islands is Atlantis hypothesis.

In any case, these groups mixed. Perhaps there was Advanced activity in the background. They also mixed in south-east Europe—uh, I've preferred the idea that perhaps the Carpathian Sphinx, which is uh—well, you can watch my uh Atlantean hypothesis video from like way back. I'll try to link it if I can, or I'll leave a link in the description to that video.

But uh, the Carpathian Sphinx is a natural rock formation that was clearly influenced by humans touching it over a very long period of time. It's a high mountain valley with a bunch of caves that have great Acoustics and a bunch of natural kind of platforms for performance. If they had a sound-based technology, caves are going to be very important stages; natural stages will be very important. And the Sphinx is just a really neat rock formation that would have drawn a lot of you know curious neanderthals or early admix specimens.

Some of the earliest at confirmed admix specimens are found relatively close by to the Sphinx. Also, that area in the Carpathian Mountains—Romania, Bulgaria—is where a lot of the major cultures of the upper Paleolithic emanated from, like the gravetian culture. So I think something Advanced was going on there. I think there was a kind of Carpathian Sphinx cult that led to a different way of thinking. And maybe this was a more advanced group of Neanderthal-slash-admix Homo sapiens—very large brains, sound-based technology, maybe the psy abilities, maybe even theoretic practices at that time. Who knows?

I think ultimately the solutreans—we don't have solutrean DNA; we don't know for sure where they came from—but I think they probably will have emanated from this Carpathian Sphinx region. And they were one of the most sophisticated cultures—probably the most sophisticated culture of their time. I am on board with the solutrean hypothesis. Watch the lectures from the late Dennis Stanford; they are very compelling. People will dismiss this based on Wikipedia articles and cursory readings, but the resemblances are striking and very clearly evident in the archaeological record.

There were transatlantic migrations, so uh that would have put them—I mean, they probably would have been hopping around the ice sheet, but some solutrean people may have made it to the Azores. If not, you know, much earlier groups from North Africa or the Levant. So there are several more advanced groups that may—I mean, I don't know that we know the solutreans had boats, but they likely did have boats. The earliest Norwegian cultures did have boats; we know that.

I think people converged—Advanced groups converged in the Azores Islands. And in an island context, you do see an amplification of intense hierarchies for obvious reasons. I think you would see a Perfection of psychic abilities of control. And so I think this is where this stuff developed—in the warming period between 17,000 BC and 12,000 BC. That's where the really advanced stuff would have happened—would have happened in the Azores Islands.

And probably nearby sites will be found in northwest Africa. Maybe the eye of the Sahara is related to that. I think more advanced stuff will be found—although I mean, have you looked at the artwork from this solutrean period, early magdalenian period, from the Franco-Cantabrian region? Not just the paintings, but the rock art, the carvings—they're extremely sophisticated. So if some of these people made it to the Azores, they're expert sculptors, and they have more of that Neanderthal cerebellum—you know, Mystic intuitive way of—we can't imagine how they thought. They had different brains and much larger brains than modern people.

So the idea that, you know, if we can measure marginally some sensitivity to solubilities in modern-day humans, perhaps you know that ability could have been greatly Amplified if that was the main way that these people survived—perhaps. Or maybe it allowed them to climb to the top of hierarchies and breed more successfully.

So I think this develops in the Azores Islands. And I do buy the younger dryas comet hypothesis—or comets plural. I think the younger dryas was began and probably ended by comet impacts that were devastating. I think the Azores Islands would have been the worst-hit place on Earth. You know, North America was devastated; some of Western Europe was devastated. The Azores Islands would have been like Ground Zero of the devastation.

One of the most hospitable places during the younger dryas was the near East. So where were they going to go? They would have gone into North Africa—and we haven't explored the Sahara; it used to be green. It's very probable that there's a lot of post-Atlantean stuff from the Sahara desert. But one place they would have gone—where there were relatively large population centers that they could have interacted with, you know, took advantage of—was the near East. So I think that's who started Gobekli Tepe.

So they had—probably that group had much higher Neanderthal admixture. They had these abilities. As they diluted, though, their direct bloodline descendants—like of the Gobekli Tepe priest caste, the ruling Elite—their bloodline descendants would have gradually gotten lower and lower Neanderthal admixture.

The Atlantean group—the original type—I think the closest analog will be solutrean DNA, if we ever get it. Whatever that turns out to be, and it might surprise us. Right, the ruling Bloodlines are kind of diffused out through time. They lose these abilities that they used to have; they lose this Advantage—the ruling technology of mind control that they employed. They lose that ability.

Also, Isaac Asimov is an interesting science fiction writer and possible globalist Insider, and uh he brings in like these psycho Technologies of control in his Foundation series—just a cross-reference for you.

So the ruling bloodline was stuff used—that's why later on, like Egyptian pharaohs started marrying siblings. You know, the Bronze Age Elite all intermarried and tried to maintain the Bloodlines of these royal families because they were losing it. Technologies originated in more of this Mystic intellect faculty of the more Neanderthal atlanteans. They start to go back to use these Technologies; they know the Technologies. The Technologies are socially transmitted within their network, but gradually they shift in their cognitive style.

The direct descendants of Gobekli Tepe—they shift into this Homo sapiens dianoetic discursive mode. But that allows their Technologies to be transmitted without any individual mastering it. It used to be that everyone had to have—I hypothesize—like more of an intuitive direct knowledge of this sound technology or psychic technology or whatever it was. Later, post-Gobekli Tepe, as they became more Homo sapiens and less Neanderthal, they kind of distributed that knowledge in a resilient Network, developed new social technologies that were more based on that kind of mind control—dianoetic mind control rather than intellectual mind control, you could say.

And that's why the existing Elite are not the closest relatives in a certain sense from the atlanteans themselves—although they will be more the direct bloodline descendants, at least along a certain line. So they will know what technologies to censor, even if they cannot themselves employ these Technologies. And it would be incumbent on them to especially prevent a certain group of people from accessing these Technologies—the group of people that are most closely related to the atlanteans. And that would be Europeans.

The global Elite knew which Technologies to suppress. They had—they maintained, at a social level, memory of many Technologies, but they themselves didn't have intuitive access to the forms. And that's something that comes with that different brain structure, different uh spiritual makeup.

So in that way, I see platonism and pythagoreanism as a kind of resynthesis and Gathering of ancient Technologies. This is what the Ancients said about Pythagoras himself, about Plato himself—they went and visited the Chaldean priesthood, Egyptian priesthood, zoroastrians—the ruling Elite esoteric Bloodlines in all these places. This was transmitted to these philosophers.

And this system, I think, is going to be especially vital for the close relatives of the original atlanteans to ReDiscover some of these Technologies themselves and actually put it into use. So that's uh the relevance of platonism in all of this. It is rediscovering the ways that more Neanderthal types can Network intelligently and work together—not in the same kind of networks as more Homo sapiens groups and the global Elite themselves use, but a higher kind of networking.

That's what the platonic dialectic is for. It is for harmonizing thinking at a much deeper level. It's not, you know, setting everyone into order by the same algorithmic processes, but uniting on the same intuitions of the forms.

These are the two strategies. The one is going to be replicated with artificial intelligence—that and they bear the signature of their father. Right, this group—the Breakaway atlanteans. I mean, the atlanteans are already characterized as the bad guys in Plato's Timaeus. So these people were Fallen. This is what the mystics who talk about Atlantis all agree with—the atlanteans had fallen in a certain respect. They made contact with the wrong Spirit; they became influenced right by the wrong spirit.

That Spirit has been using them over the ages, eroding their character, making them uh less competent individually, but strengthening their Network. And he partially inhabits their social network—their grid of control, the Beast system. And he will finally incarnate in full form when AGI is developed, using that kind of dianoetic level of consciousness.

The alternative to that is a way of allowing the intellect and intuition to be harmonized in a group of people so that we access these abilities again. Like, that is one problem with people who believe more strongly in intuition—it's harder to like get them into thought control because they have such uh close access to the forms themselves. But that means they can be very fractious, and they don't listen to one another.

And this is what you see with Germanic peoples throughout history. You don't have one big unified Germanic Empire; never have; it never took off because uh it's just in our character. We trust too much in ourselves because we have this really strong connection to reality in a way that is hard to explain. Like, look at some of the early like steam engine Machinery or like 19th-century machine components. This stuff—literally, inventors and Engineers just understood at a very deep level without advanced equations telling them what to do. They like grasp the nature of these things. That's how Tesla describes his process of invention.

Obviously, you can achieve quite a bit. But unless you can bring those intuitions into a Harmony by a method, then it's just a bunch of you know atomized people, and you cannot melt in opposition to this other Force.

That's how I read history at a certain level. It's a clash not only between good and evil but two different cognitive strategies. And if you want the one to win out that emphasizes intellectual intuition—right, grasping of the highest level aspects of reality, making contact with benevolent Spirits, unlocking latent human potential, finding a human future—if you want that, then platonism is the way to go. That's how you will find your way back.

That's what I have to say. A lot of this was speculative; maybe some of it sounded crazy. I hope you guys enjoyed. Let me know what you think in the comments. Any aspects of this theory that seem convergent with other theories, let me know. Other data you think I should look at, let me know. Thanks, guys. God bless.

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CTMU Basics

The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU (pronounced "cat-mew") is the first self-simulation theory of the relationship between mind and reality by Christopher Michael Langan.

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The universe is a Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language (Chris Langan)

The Author = The Universe

The CTMU saves us from many conundrums that stem from the idea that reality was a tangible thing that had one specific, outside creator.

Materialist smooth brains like to argue that if God created the universe then who created God? This is self-inflicted mental retardation reeking with ignorance. A chosen misunderstanding, usually introduced with the words “Oh, so you’re saying…“.

No, that’s not what I’m saying.

If reality is defined as everything there is, it would indeed be tricky to define the creator of that as being something outside. Materialists find their whole identity in repeatedly projecting this misunderstanding onto anyone dumb enough to try to help them.

Let me help you.

The universe is both the author and the book. It is a story writing itself. You may not like this definition but don’t confuse your thinking it is trivial with thinking it is incorrect. Accept this thought and go with it.

The biggest issue with all kinds of simulation theories is, that they require some sort of framework that runs the simulation. If reality is a computer simulation then what computer is it running on? This line of thinking forces you into the next layer of abstraction where now you have to explain how the computer that simulates reality is itself being simulated. You’re stuck with the same question in another dimension.

Well, what computer is the simulation running on that simulates the computer that runs the simulation?

It’s dumb and I shouldn’t have to point that out. This is what Chris calls:

Metaphysical Autology: Reality is self-contained; no external creator needed

God didn’t make the pudding, God is in the pudding.

The CTMU rejects the idea of a simulation and says

The universe is not a simulation, it is a syntactic-semantic unity.

So in other words a self-simulation, and we may just say that the universe is both singular ("author") and plural ("content") which Chris calls Multiplex Unity.

It means same, same but different and you can imagine it like a fractal. The same fractal produces different shapes and colors depending on what you look at and how deep you zoom into it but it never stops being the same thing, no matter how deep you go.

In terms of quantum soup, the universe is a single broth (unity) that becomes distinct flavors (multiplexity) when "observed". The same soup that you find dull might be too salty for your grandma. The same vegetable that you find overcooked might be undercooked for somebody else.

The CTMU terminology for the quantum soup is unbound telesis. A state of infinite potential.

UBT (unbound telesis) is the broth, observation adds the ‘flavors’ of reality.

Now just imagine the broth preparing itself and you have the perfect analogy.

The Language = Math + Logic

We’ve covered the author and the book but what is the language that is written? Quite simply, it is math and logic itself. They are a set of rules by which its construction and manipulation is being guided, just like grammar is guiding the flow of natural language.

Reality is a syntactic-semantic language where mathematics and logic are the irreducible grammar. Syntax (math/logic) generates semantics (meaning).

Though maybe hard to wrap your head around at first, let me throw in a funny little fact to meditate on.

The GNU compiler collection (gcc) that is used to compile most C and C++ programs is itself written in C. How does that make you feel? It tickles your brain for a moment and then you move on. Now what’s so hard to accept about the idea that reality is a language that is using math and logic to compile itself while it’s running?

It is self-creating and self-processing.

The observable laws of physics are what Langan calls Syntactic Operators. The fact that a sentence has a subject and object is not something that we somehow discovered. It’s just how grammar works. Similarly, the number π is not discovered, it just is what it is. Math isn’t invented, it’s the universe’s grammar.

Particles are ‘words’; forces are ‘verbs’. (CTMU Glossary)

Materialists think math is a tool, as if a monkey with a wrench could build the universe. Math is not a tool but the mere bones of the universe. The universe was running on math before humans even existed. The same can’t be said about the wrench.

The Plot = Evolution

“Reality evolves via telic recursion, a self-configuring process where syntactic states refine toward coherence.” (Langan, CTMU Overview)

Telic means towards a goal, so the opposite of random. Let’s take a moment of silence for all the materialists whose buttocks just clenched when they read this.

So even though this whole play is far from being deterministic, it is indeed loosely following a certain script, which Langan calls syntactic attractor. It doesn’t exactly know it’s own next step but it kind of knows where it wants to go. It seeks coherence and it finds itself in a constant state of debugging. Mistakes are allowed but they will be corrected.

Pretty much the same loop you find yourself in throughout your own life but on a greater scale. Like you grow as a person through seeking coherence, the universe grows as a whole.

Evolution is the process of attaining coherence and the goal of that process is to get closer to God. The universe is fulfilling its destiny and in the process, you are fulfilling yours.

You co-author this story called your life but only so far as you align with your own destiny. The more you deviate from it, the more you will be forced to walk back. Every step you take will ultimately bring you closer to your destiny, no matter which direction you chose.

"Reality is a error-correcting code. Telic recursion is its debugger."

How it works:

  • Step 1: A syntactic state (e.g., a physical law) generates potential outcomes.

  • Step 2: Incoherent outcomes (paradoxes/contradictions) are automatically pruned.

  • Step 3: Surviving states feed back into the system as new "rules."

And so the plot keeps evolving while biological evolution is just another symptom of telic recursion in the biosphere.

But what is the ink that brings all of this onto paper? What are paper, ink, and reality actually made of?

You’ve guessed it. It is consciousness itself. Reality is a love letter written to itself.

"Semantic content (meaning) requires a syntactic medium (physics), just as ink requires paper—but in SCSPL, the ink and paper are mutually generative." (CTMU Glossary)

Consciousness isn’t just the ink, it’s the paper becoming the ink writing itself. It is how the universe perceives itself.

M=R (Mind=Reality)

In the CTMU there is no distinguishing between mind and reality. They are codependent and can be seen as two different angles of looking at the same thing.

"Mind and reality are not just correlated but identical. Perception is reality’s self-reading mechanism." (CTMU, 2002)

This means that mind (cognition) is not just an observer of the universe (reality) around it but an active participant in creating reality.

Your consciousness isn't observing reality, it's reality locating itself. Mind is reality’s self-locating GPS, where “You are here” creates here.

"The universe is a self-excited circuit where observation and existence coincide." (Langan, 2017)

You might think this is far-fetched, but it is actually one of the major claims of quantum mechanics and has been proven in the double-slit experiment. The double-slit experiment isn't just "spooky action", it is conspansive duality in action

If you’ve never heard of it, look it up and give it a quick read. It’s an experiment with a truly unpredictable result that can be interpreted as proof for free will, as it implies particles choose paths. Observation creates position (M=R)

Since we’re doing the top-down abstract modeling kind of thing here, we don’t really care about proof or experiments, so if that’s what you’re looking for, you’re on your own.

In case you still doubt the fact that you have free will in general, let me inform you that you’re just retarded. You're not just wrong, you're willfully blind. You’ve just contradicted yourself by exercising free will.

Conspansive Duality: The Cosmic Pulse

The mechanism behind M=R is what Langan calls Conspansive Duality which describes an interplay between expansion (actualized reality) and contraction (potential states).

Referring back to the double-slit experiment, this mirrors the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics but extends it to a cosmological scale, where reality is both discrete (localized) and continuous (distributed).

Discrete, because we can observe that at the smallest scale, reality comes in little packages, or, as we say, it is quantised. However, our experience of reality is continuous. It’s not like we experience the world through some sort of frame rate, but rather, as Eckhart Tolle would say, “It is always now“.

Expansion (Conspansion) represents the actualization of reality, like a cosmic computation. The unfolding of space, time, and matter, similar to the Big Bang but continuous. The Vedics call this the cosmic breath, where Maha-Visnu’s exhaling is associated with the creation and manifestation of the Brahmanda universes. In this case, the analogy between the CTMU, quantum mechanics, and Vedic cosmology is rather obvious.

"Conspansion is ontological compression: the universe ‘zooms in’ on itself to resolve states." (Langan)

It will get a bit more spicy in the next one, but we shall unpack even that.

Contraction (Potentialization) represents the collapse of possibilities back into a latent state, like quantum decoherence or perceptual resolution. This could at first glance represent two seemingly different concepts, namely Wavefunction Collapse and the Vedic concept of Cosmic Dissolution (Pralaya). Let me spoiler right away: it is both.

Option A: Contraction as Wavefunction Collapse (Illusion of Time)

If contraction represents the collapse of the wave function, then every observation collapses possibilities into a single moment. This means only through observation is the moment born. Therefore, observation creates the illusion of time. Time is an emergent artifact of this recursive contraction/expansion process (similar to Carlo Rovelli’s relational time in quantum gravity).

The CTMU says the universe resolves itself through perception, creating the appearance of time via conspansive feedback loops.

This mirrors the Maya of time. The illusion of linear succession in a fundamentally timeless reality, as in Advaita Vedanta.

Option B: Contraction as Cosmic Dissolution (Pralaya)

If contraction represents Pralaya, then the universe isn’t just locally collapsing, it is fully reabsorbing into potential. Imagine it like a black hole evaporating or Brahman withdrawing manifestation. In Vedic terms this is called the Night of Brahma, when the universe dissolves back into the unmanifest.

The CTMU would say the Self-Configuring Language resets its state, recycling information into a new cycle of expansion.

Synthesis

This means conspansive duality operates at both micro (quantum) and macro (cosmic) scales.

On a quantum level, contraction is wavefunction collapse, creating time as we experience it. On a cosmic level, contraction is universal potentialization, like a big crunch or return to singularity.

This mirrors Vedic fractal cosmology, where there is a day of Brahma (Kalpa) and a night of Brahma (Pralaya), but within each Kalpa, there are smaller cycles (Manvantaras), just as quantum collapses happen within the larger universe.

So whether contraction is quantum collapse or cosmic dissolution, the core idea is that time is not fundamental, it’s a side effect of conspansive processing.

Time is how SCSPL renders reality in a sequence of perceptual frames. This aligns the CTMU with Vedic cyclical time, quantum physics, and digital physics (universe as a self-resetting computation).

CTMU vs. Vedas

There is still a difference between Langan’s views and the Vedas, as in the CTMU feedback loops are recursive, not literal rebirth, as in the Vedas. Vedic cycles can be seen as metaphors for SCSPL’s state resets, however, the CTMU does not state literal cycles of reincarnation.

What does that mean? You tell me!

Anyway consciousness is fundamental and isn’t just a side effect of the material but rather the material and time itself are side effects of consciousness.

“Time is syntax masquerading as semantics” (Langan)

So what does it mean to fulfill your destiny? Fulfilling your destiny isn’t finding purpose, it’s debugging your state vector until it compiles.

If the concept of telic recursion naturally drives you towards your destiny but your free will still permits you to deviate, how do you measure the gap? By what metric do you judge your actions in any given moment if you can’t always see them in perspective to the greater goal?

Extrapolation requires computation so you can’t always think your actions through till the end. You simply don’t have enough time to do that for every single step of the recursion. If you want to know what is good and what isn’t, in any particular moment of crisis, you need to be able to answer that question instantaneously.

"A physical state is possible if and only if it satisfies the syntactic constraints of SCSPL." (Langan, 2002)

Now from your local point of reference, what is a point that can be reached instantaneously? Against what can you contrast yourself immediately?

Correct. Back into yourself. Coherence refers to a state of self-consistent, self-contained logical unity.

Reality has a built in debugging mechanism that will only allow coherent states. Since it is however not deterministic, you are allowed to explore the illusion of incoherence. Imagine a camera live fed to a screen and pointed at that screen. Your classic video feedback image.

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If you wobble the camera in front of the screen, the image will never stop sinking into a hole. It will however curve in the early frames.

The camera’s wobble is your free will. The perceptual operator syntax of SCSPL that lets you edit reality’s self-rendering. The fractal’s inevitability is telic recursion’s attractor. You’re not choosing the dot’s path, you’re choosing how to wobble within the syntax.

You have some sort of control over the image but it fundamentally does what it does and you’re left with a sense of awe.

Recursion always happens stepwise and your free will represents the wobble of the camera. If you want to manipulate what is happening at the “deepest” frame, you do so by manipulating every single frame that comes in front of it. The recursive nature of the universe will save you time as all you have to do is align yourself with yourself, which is infinitely more easy than trying to figure out every possible state of the universe and judging them one by one.

This is M=R in action: your self-alignment IS the universe self-configuring.

Let’s explore the video feedback analogy even further.

Let’s say the blue center of the feedback loop happens to be in the center of the physical screen. The camera is pointed at the screen perfectly straight and centered. Now you want to move the blue dot to the top right corner.

How do you actually do that?

In order to move the last frame, that technically represents the center of the fractal, you will have to manipulate an infinite amount of frames in front of it. Do you actually calculate the change in position of the first frame and then from that the second and so on? Obviously you don’t since that would require an infinite amount of time and you would generate compounding errors.

Luckily the universe has a built in error-correction mechanism that is going to save you here.

"Telic recursion actively eliminates incoherent state transitions."
— CTMU Glossary ("Telic Recursion")

What you do is you lean into the recursion and exploit its own nature by directly understanding the relationship between the last frame and your degree of freedom, which is in this case the angle of the camera.

By carefully moving the camera in different directions, you learn how to manipulate one thing only, in order to let the universe manipulate an infinite amount of in-between frames for you.

You strive to achieve coherence within yourself and the universe around you will fall into place, the way its syntax permits.

You align yourself with yourself and thereby get closer to God.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Aug 3
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It's [(K)not] Just a Phase: a scifi novella inspired by cutting edge "emergent spacetime" models of the Cosmos

I have just finished my third novel, It's [(K)not] Just A Phase."

Teaser for my forthcoming novel, "It's [K]not Just a Phase":

Seven strangers. One fraying universe. A single knot stands between reality and oblivion.

When Archive-Moon Heqet’s shoelace-thin “holonomy loop” begins to unravel, junior custodian Ava Kantu discovers the cosmos is stitched together by geometry most people never see—and somebody is slicing the threads. To save her moon (and everyone’s memories) she teams up with:

a future-listening smuggler,

a priestess who remembers every yesterday,

a daredevil who punches holes in physics,

a neuroscientist who sees curvature like color,

a code-born trickster rewriting reality’s rails,

and a hungry planet-mind that may devour them all.

Their mission: tie a seven-strand knot strong enough to hold a universe… or let it snap and watch consciousness evolve into something unrecognizable.

"It’s [(k)not] Just a Phase" fuses the big-idea swagger of Snow Crash with the high-stakes wonder of Dune—but in a voice aimed straight at today’s curious, game-literate reader. Expect witty banter, cinematic action, and science you can feel even when the equations stay offstage.

Reality is coming undone. Grab a strand and hold tight.

DM to request free access to the full text.

See my thread on Informational Phase Space Cosmology to understand the metaphysics of the novel's cosmos. Who knows- maybe soon, LiteBIRD and other projects will show that they are also the metaphysics of our world.

BLIND SΩPHIST's avatar BLIND SΩPHIST · Aug 1
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The Schizophrenia of Christianity

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There is an ele­phant in the room of Chris­tian­ity.

Clear­ly, the "god" of the Old Testa­ment is not the same God as repre­sent­ed by Jesus Christ, wheth­er he was a real his­tor­i­cal fig­ure or sim­ply a fic­tion de­scrib­ing an ide­al hu­man

Samuel 15:3

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.

It is obvious that YHWH cannot be the creator of the universe if he regards creation in this manner.

If this be­ing YHWH is wor­shipped, then one thing is cer­tain: de­mon wor­ship is cen­tral to all three Abra­ham­ic re­li­gions, as they all stem from the same set of an­cient books. This is sim­ply a fact to re­flect up­on.

Not to ar­gue that fol­low­ers of Abra­ham­ic re­li­gions are e­vil.

They live in strug­gle be­cause they feel the spark of God with­in, but they are con­front­ed with cus­toms and com­mand­ments that must un­doubt­ed­ly feel wrong to them.

Chris­tian­i­ty, how­ev­er, ap­pears to play an un­u­su­al role in that it pro­gressed from e­vil to schiz­o­phre­nia, which seems to be a step for­ward.

In any case, it must be ad­dressed if we are to move be­yond the seed of e­vil and con­quest that re­mains a part of or­gan­ised re­li­gion.

How is it pos­si­ble that Chris­tians fail to per­ceive this deep schism in their own world­view, which would in­ev­i­ta­bly lead to their a­ban­don­ment of the Old Tes­ta­ment?

The word of Je­sus Christ res­o­nates deep­ly with any spir­i­tu­al hu­man, and his mes­sage re­mains clear e­ven af­ter 2000 years of be­ing per­vert­ed by var­i­ous po­lit­i­cal ac­tors.

Why is it so dif­fi­cult to com­pre­hend what Je­sus meant when he stat­ed he was the son of God?

Fear of ac­cept­ing a gift is a re­al thing, and this ap­pears to be an ex­am­ple of that. The gift of Je­sus Christ was to o­pen peo­ple's hearts and minds to the i­dea that we are all chil­dren of the same God who cre­at­ed ev­ery­thing, that we have noth­ing to fear since God is with­in us, and that for­give­ness is a­vail­able to ev­ery­one.

Why do Chris­tians still fol­low the laws of a de­i­ty that de­mands to be feared, e­ven if they have been giv­en ev­ery­thing they need to stop do­ing so?

You can be like Je­sus, Bud­dha, or any oth­er sage.

You have everything you need

Stop being used by powers that are spiritually abusing you.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 30
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Hidden Knowledge

For most of our known history, there have been mystery schools of different traditions all over the world. They are somewhat integrated into society and have some form of influence on the zeitgeist, but their core is usually hidden away from the public. This may be to prevent persecution or to use hidden knowledge as a weapon against one’s enemies, but ultimately it leads to the stagnation of humanity.

Hiding knowledge is a form of deception and thereby an act of violence against the public. Secret societies have not only fought each other over what are ultimately the same secrets they keep, but they will eventually also turn against their own population in order to maintain a sense of elitism. It may begin with having advantages from secret knowledge directly, but over time it will also lead to financial elitism and the formation of materialistic breakaway civilisations. When this happens, the unknowing public will not understand the game being played, and the only thing they will focus on is wealth and the redistribution of wealth, which will further weaken them spiritually and lead to anti-natural ideologies like communism.

It’s a losing game for all of society as the potential for human conflict is sheer infinite, and no dynasty of rich overlords will be able to fight against the public forever without also sacrificing the planet they wish to rule. The secrecy about the history of humanity, our origins, and our repeating cycles of collapse and rebuilding needs to stop. 

There is only one way to break the cycle, and that is to reveal the hidden knowledge kept by secret societies to the public. Although it is not for everyone, it needs to be available to everyone. 

Humanity is approaching a point of singularity where the way the world has been ruled through lies and secrecy is simply failing in all possible ways, and there can only be a collective initiation into what some small groups have known for a long time, or total destruction. There is no point for different secret societies to fight each other as they have done in the past, trying to gain dominion over the world as a whole. The attempt was always foolish, and it should be even clearer by now that it is simply not possible and will lead to the total destruction of the planet.

The mystery schools need to voluntarily reveal their mysteries to the public in realisation that it’s the only way out, and the public needs to do everything it can to absorb and spread that knowledge before it is too late. We can’t continue to live in lies about who we are and where we come from.

Someone actually built the Great Pyramid for a reason, and they knew things, you don’t know.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 27
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Manly P. Hall: Victory of the Soul Over Circumstance

Well, we have a very interesting subject this morning, and we'll pause for a moment because it involves a concept that has had considerable distribution in Christian mysticism: and that is, the problem of the soul. In the Bible, there is a statement that says: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And there is another statement in another place that says: but the spirit returns to God who gave it. And the problem of the difference between these two definitions has been a confusion to theologians for a long time.

Actually, according to the ancient beliefs in these matters, the soul was a vestment: the golden wedding garment, the garment that was to be worn to the wedding of the Lamb, and actually was a phase of the magnetic field of the human body. In other words, the golden wedding garment, or the soul, was a construction that arises within the magnetic field of the human aura.

In other words, as the works of goodness, as the desire to grow increases, and the individual makes certain changes and improvements in his own life pattern, there are changes in the magnetic field. Gradually, there becomes a transformation, and there appears in the field a luminous quality which represents the goodness of our hearts and minds. This goodness increases as we increase in righteousness, and in the end, it becomes a luminous vestment within the magnetic field or within the aura. And when it attains to this great magnitude, it is called the golden wedding garment.

Now this is the garment of righteousness, the garment that is earned by the labors of the life. It becomes also part of the great protection which guards the individual from within himself, as he increases in understanding and insight. In all practical purposes, therefore, the story of the golden wedding garment, or the soul, is the story of the visible changes in the constitution of the magnetic fields of the human body which tells us of the unfoldment and development of the being that has that body.

Also, the aura, or magnetic field, does manifest to some degree in the visible world. And, the works of the golden wedding garment are the labors of righteousness. As the individual increases in spiritual integrities, these integrities become a part of his essential consciousness. They are not moods that arise and fail. If the growth is genuine, these moods grow and continue until the individual, in that life, is transmuted and transformed.

Therefore, in a sense also, the soul becomes the stone of the philosopher, the mysterious alchemical mystery of the transformation of all base substances into the gold of wisdom. Therefore when we speak of the victory of soul over circumstance, we refer to the growth of inner light over the pressures and problems of outer living. We find gradually that the strength to do it right develops within ourselves. We are not saved, so to say, by some outside force or by some legal or legislative change. We grow from within, and as we grow stronger from within, the adversities of the outside become less.

The golden wedding garment therefore, is also this mysterious elixir of life; one drop of which transforms 10,000 times its own weight. These terms which are used in mysticism to guard the secrets from the profane, are also in a way mysteriously correct, for they represent the tremendous increase of inward power resulting from the transmutation of the base elements of life.

Actually therefore, we have to realize that under normal conditions, we are of this earth, earthy. We are not bad, we are not evil. We are like all other creatures; we simply are made of certain substances and these substances gradually gain dominion over us, and we react to these pressures much as the animal does or any of the other kingdoms of nature. But these pressures, while they are present in the human being, are balanced by a tremendous power within the human being that is not present in the other kingdoms. In the other kingdoms, this greater power is left with group spirits or powers that protect orders of life, not individuals.

With human beings, however, the protection becomes individual. This is one of the ways in which we distinguish humanity from all the other kingdoms of nature. Humanity has the power of redemption within itself and each individual has the power of redemption within himself. He must develop this power and must strengthen it and must permit it to manifest out into his daily life. And when he does so, he achieves the transmutation of the base substances of his body. Now, base substances in this case, though, does not mean evil substances. It simply means matter, material, substance as it is in earth and in the ground beneath our feet. It is the natural substance of the natural world.

But the individual is not of this, though it may seem like plants, his root is in material things. Actually, as Plotinus tells us in his essay on the beautiful, while the roots of man are in the earth, the flower and the seed is in heaven. And the gradual growth up is told in one of the European folklore stories: Jack and the Beanstalk. The Beanstalk being the symbol of the spine with its various chakras and centers.

Actually however, the soul constitutes the sum of the things we have done well. It is the sum of the victories, little ones mostly, by which added together becomes the basis of redemption. The individual, in other words, must save himself. He cannot be saved by any outside power, nor can he be destroyed by any outside power. He must grow according to his own inward life and the powers that were bestowed upon him when he was set forth as a creature in this great world.

Each individual therefore, is building his own wedding garment. He's building his own soul out of his departments, out of his way of life, out of the parts of his nature, out of all these circumstances which occur to him every day. Life is a series of small victories over doubts, uncertainties, temptations. Wherever there is a victory there is another flash of light in the soul body. And gradually this body becomes luminous like the Christmas tree which Luther uses to describe it.

This soul body, then, is gradually building up, and out of its building comes the securities of life. Out of the power of this increasing soul body comes the power to still improve more rapidly and make further growth. The immortality of man is growing up in him in a mysterious substance. His bodies have a material immortality in the earth; his spirit has an immortality in heaven. And between these two is the soul, the bridge, the mysterious elixir of transformation which we find in our daily living.

I think it is well therefore, to remember that even small, nice things, nicely done are important. It is important when the unkind word is not spoken. It is important when the individual gives the small deed of goodness, which may be a momentary inconvenience. It is important that the person receives the insight and the wisdom to recognize that every small victory, added to all other small victories, forms the great victory which we call salvation.

Salvation is nothing therefore, but the victory of reality over illusion. The victory of the truth over error, the victory of unselfishness over selfishness, as in every case, is the victory over the negative by those things which are positive and contribute to the common good.

Therefore we think of the soul now as a mysterious, luminous vestment. And we know by going back to the ancient writings, and the ancient pictures on the walls of temples and in Scrolls of ancient times, that these pictures showing the robes of royalty, showing the vestments of the high priests of Israel, showing the wonderful garments of glory of the Indian sages. All these are pictures of this mysterious, magnetic, internal soul garment.

The individual, according to the ancient Cabbalists and mystics, cannot enter Heaven in the physical body alone. Therefore he must leave the physical and go forth in the robe of glory. And the robe of glory is first a plain white garment, the garment of innocence, the garment of purity, the garment of the effort not to do that which is wrong.

To purify the life, to live constantly in the light of reality. After a while this garment is given a further development, and in the description of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, we find the description of the garments of the priests, and of the high priests of the tabernacle, and the Temple of Solomon the King. We find similar descriptions in Egypt, also in India and China, mysterious, glorious robes, great and stately symbols, all of which were recognized about them physical representations of the invisible energies that emanate from a redeemed person.

Now a redeemed person is not one who is saved by something. The redeemed person is one who outgrows the limitations of which he has placed upon his own life. We all view ourselves in one way or another. We think of ourselves as well as we know ourselves. We look in the mirror and we say this is my self. And this is not true. What we are seeing is a shadow, and because of the eyes see only shadows, this is all of the being that we see.

A mystic or clairvoyant under certain conditions may see more, but for the average person, the visible form which we behold is the real self. It is this same self that dictates our appetites, that demands our attention, that requires that we fulfill its ambitions. It is this shadow that has an appetite which can result in physical ailments. It is this shadow that breaks homes, it is this shadow that breaks laws, it is this shadow also, that perpetuates the distance between the individual and the happiness and truth we are all seeking. So in this shadow is the power of darkness and it has no reality whatsoever. It has merely the fact that we do not have the eyes to see, and as (Jacob) Boehme says, those who have eyes let them see. Because all of these things that we talk about are available to the eyes of the soul, but they are not available to the eyes of the mind. And the eyes of the soul, to meet the old requirements, a development of faculties that are latent until they are developed by the unfoldment of the integrity of personal life. The magnetic field of the individual begins very largely as a physical support. It is something to nourish the body, to maintain it and to protect it.

Gradually as the time goes on after one embodiment or another, this magnetic field begins to register the moral qualities of life. It gradually begins to show the colors of good and evil. It begins to represent the part of us which is invisible and tells us the sad story of ourselves. The story of the individual who in the midst of a great wisdom remains untouched by the truths that he needs so badly. And in our present day, with the pressures and confusions of the hour, it is obvious that there must be a victory of soul over body. There must be a victory of cause over the effect. There must be a victory of realities over illusions.

Now we live largely in a world of illusions, and in a sense as we have a physical existence now, all the elements that make it up, all the habits that we have, all the institutions we maintain, the entertainment we choose the ideas of education we keep, all of these apart and what might be called the obscuration of ignorance. And they are part of the negative individual magnetic field. While we live in the negative field we react to the negative factors, and little by little these negative factors destroy us, or at least they impoverish the spiritual values within ourselves. Until finally inside of ourselves, the colors and luminous forms of the magnetic fields become clouded and dark and dismal.

The magnetic field of the narcotics addict is another pathetic thing. The magnetic field of the person who has no integrities, no values, who lives upon the surface of ignorances, is bad. And also, this magnetic field being negative, perpetuates itself from within itself, and little by little, the individual who has gradually become more and more vicious finds that his viciousness increases. And so finally he reaches a point where he must change or lose the values of the incarnations through which he has passed.

So there comes a time in this rather strange affair when there has to be a shift between negative and positive. There has to be the movement on the part of the individual to put his own inner life in order. He's going to have to realize that there is no way of escaping the consequences of his own misdeeds. He can escape the terrors of dictators and the terrors of the clouds and sky, but he cannot escape the catch of the terrors of his own conduct.

So little by little, the individual finds a pain arising within himself. The magnetic field is troubled, and in its trouble, it fails to support the personality. The magnetic field no longer personally develops and therefore it's not there to take care of health problems. The energies of the magnetic and etheric fields no longer protect the person against infections and things of that kind. Little by little of their positive power has been drained off. Little by little area every ounce of energy which they possessed has been misused until there is nothing left.

Under these conditions that comes always a time in the life of the individual where he must change to survive. And it very often happens that this change for survival is not accomplished until the deathbed scene. There before the end of everything, as far he knows, he suddenly realizes the fundamental mistake he has made. His faith is not great enough to reveal the fact that no matter what he has done, salvation is inevitable. He must go on until he grows up to what he should be. And while he disappears out of this life, perhaps in a very sad state, ultimate victory is inevitable. For everything that is created by the divine mind and the divine hand must come through it, must fulfill its purpose. It must achieve that for which it was intended.

And so we find that the individual, physically, shows gradually the results of a sellout. He no longer has good health, he no longer has peace of mind. He has fears, he has dreams he has nightmares, he develops all kinds of habits in an effort to encourage some kind of help or strength. But this type of strength, inspired by narcotics and alcohol, will never get him anywhere. Little by little, everything gets worse and worse, until finally the individual, stripped of all of his energies and powers by the abuse of them, comes to face himself. And he must do so.

Now we also have, therefore, another interesting analogy to make. After all, the world as we know it is also a being. The planet in which we live is a person. Not a person as we know it, but a person as an integration of various conscious attributes, sufficient to enable it to maintain its essential purpose: to support life in space. Now this planet also is subject to the results of the confusion and the misuse of power which we find around us every day. The planet has its golden wedding garment. It also has its magnetic field, its order, and its robes of righteousness, but it is also gradually damaged just as the person is damaged by the failure of the integrities of life.

Now in the case of the planet, that is somewhat different. The planet has a new relationship and that relationship is as a host, or as we might say, a guardian or a parent over forms of life which develop and unfold within it. So that the planet itself is really a place for things to grow and live and develop. Now when these things that are put here to live and grow and develop go bad, when little by little all of the opportunities that have been given by nature are perverted and misused, then the earth becomes ill. It becomes incapable of fulfilling its proper destiny. It cannot do for us the things that it should do because we have drained away all of its resources in misuse.

We have exhausted its strength, its beauty, its wisdom, its love, all of these things until there is nothing left. And we have only bodies, empty bodies with empty minds, and in those moments of great decision, the laws of life move in. The law says it is not possible to fail. There can be delays, there can be mistakes, but in the long run things must come through. That which is created by the divine power will never rest until the divinity within it gains supremacy over all the rest.

And so we have what we might call emergencies. These emergencies are wars, pestilences, they are health problems, weather problems, earthquakes, all kinds of indications of trouble. They correspond very closely with the nervous breakdowns of individuals. They have their parallel in the ulcers and the abscesses that torment us. They also, as we sweep through the sky, they have the migraines that are in space also.

In other words, a sick planet is more or less revealed in the sickness of things that live upon it. And those things that live by sickness and live on a sick planet must be corrected. They cannot be allowed to go until they destroy. It is possible, according to the ancient writings, for a race or a nation to vanish from its own misdeeds. But the life in that nation cannot vanish. The powers of living and growing go on. And there is not one single fallen angel that must not be redeemed. And so gradually, those things that fail utterly, fade away and in their place come new things in which there is a greater amount of integrity.

We are in such a state at the moment. Today we are facing again the result of continual abuse of resources. We are in the same position as the old alcoholic who has continually gone on drinking until he has nothing left but ulcers and pain. Years ago in the Klondike, was a successful gold miner who found it rich and lived riotously for a couple of years and got very ill. And the little paint from the puny doctor up there said there's only one thing for you to do; get to the Mayo brothers and have let them take care of it. So he went to Mayo brothers and they took about 2/3 of his stomach and they said to him if you live on milk toast for the rest of your life, you can have quite a few years yet. And he was so delighted that he went home, and on his arrival, staged a banquet for all his friends. They all got beautifully drunk together and the next morning, he was dead. Now this is symbolic of the way things go. And it is symbolic in a way of the plans of nature which are very simple, very obvious, but have strange truth behind them. An inevitable fact that you have to obey or else. Now when you find a country or a world as it is today, it is the same thing in nations and in planetary populations as it is in towns and in our private homes, always where there is something wrong, the inner life of the person is injured. And this golden wedding garment, this soul body which we are gradually building up, is damaged and delayed and frustrated by the excesses of a poor and unthoughtful generation.

We have every possible way to understand this. We have it every day. We have it in every newspaper. It comes to us every time we turn anything - this troubled world. But what the records do not necessarily tell us is the troubled individuals. The persons we know in the same block, practically under the same skin, we do not recognize as passing through the same kind of crisis.

The crisis in the person becomes the crisis in the race. And those mysterious powers that destroyed the lost Atlantis are gnawing at the roots of our civilization. Everywhere there has to be integrity or in time, when it becomes obvious that the individual or the group will not redeem itself, then it is put away and another takes its place. But that other is the same one with a new chance, a new opportunity and a new environment, but usually a more strenuous lesson.

So in the study of all these things, we sometimes also say to ourselves, why should we try to improve our natures? Why are we all studying in the effort to be a little more than we have been? We are studying very definitely, because inside of us is something that is suffering. There is pain in the heart, in the mind. There is worry, there is anxiety and there are constant compromises of integrity with bitter consequences.

All these things are happening to us every day and we do not know what to do about it. We feel that there should be someone to make a law to put these things straight. This is impossible because we cannot make laws for each other. We must make a law for ourselves and live it. And the only remedy for the problem is not to try to legislate out of it, but to get out of it through the positive application of principles to our own conduct.

And this is beginning to get more or less obvious. We are beginning to see that a beautiful plan is endangered. Endangered by the selfishness and cupidity of individuals. And that stupidity and selfishness arises from the magnetic field. This magnetic field is the first source of this sickness. It is the result of eternal compromise and eternal selfishness, unbridled ambition, every type of corruption and demoralization. These things have sickened the source of our vitality. They have sickened the invisible supplies which we require in order to grow and fulfill our destiny.

Now these ailments are well known to the ancients. We find in the various clinics of Hippocrates, and later in the writings of Paracelsus von Hohenheim, that the ancients were well aware that the great source of our pain is inside, not in the world. That the world suffers because we are wrong. And that we are suffering because not of the failures of the world, but of our own failure to put our own lives in order.

Now we have a new world civilization here today that is the most complicated that man has ever known. A civilization in which all kinds of conflicting ideas float about in the air, in which nations are ready to go to war to the death over wealth or power or authority. And this is just a little bit of an enlargement of the ruthlessness of the individual, who moving in upon a competitor, seeks to destroy him. The selfishness of the individual, multiplied, becomes a vast host of beings that perpetuate selfishness in space and all around us. Now the planet itself is sickened and the earth under our feet is corrupted.

Now there's only one way we can solve this and that is to make the changes in ourselves. And we can say, perhaps, what so what? Supposing a few of us do make these changes, how are we going to face the millions who are not going to change? They're going to go on and do it wrong as long as they can. Well, the answer is very, very simple. What they do they must face. But when we change, that change is personal and to ourselves.

No matter how bad the rest can get, we can get better. No matter how many mistakes they make, we do not need to make them. And the proof of the matter is that at the great harvest time, when it comes for us to go and join the ages in the sleep between incarnations, we will take with us everything that is good and nothing that is not our own can know us. Therefore even though in life we are penalized, in the great life of things we are rewarded. And it is better to be rewarded for the good things than to continue to suffer the penalization that we must all suffer while all these things go wrong.

So here we have religion. Religion, which is probably the world's most beautiful source of inspiration, divided into sects and creeds with various mysterious social changes, with wars and riots and intolerances of all kinds. Religion, which should be the source of unity and goodness, is likewise divided and that religion which is divided will fall just as all the other things fall. And when it does fall, people will say it was reformed by some mysterious divine power. It was reformed because each individual who understood the facts changed their attitude, and in changing their attitude, changed the destiny of the faith. Everything begins with the improvement of the individual. This is his realm, this was created for his perfection, this was put up into existence that he might grow and earn his place in the great house of the cosmos. Everything that is good was come through him, and it will come to him from the great sources of good.

And the great sages and the Rishis of the saviors who have come to teach mankind, have come to bring encouragement and strength and redemption. It is like the alcoholic, who becoming very badly sick, will bring in somebody to console him and try to help him to get over it. So he will bring in the physician or something who will tell him to stop drinking and try to help him to stop so that he can go out and redeem himself and go forward.

So there are physicians of souls who have come to help us. Not to do it for us, because they cannot, but to inspire us to make the changes ourselves which are essential to our well-being. Just a little change here and there in our social structure would cut down our divorce rate probably fifty percent. A little change in some of our rules about this and that would probably cut down most of the problems that we suffer the juvenile delinquency. These things represent neglected areas and we're waiting for something. We're waiting for laws and the government to change these things, but the only person who can change them is the family itself. It's the united gathering of the parents and the children, bound together to do what is right. And although there may be many who fall upon the right hand and many upon the left hand, the just family shall not be moved. All that the achievements we can make, if they are right, are immortal.

That is one of the mysteries of the old writings, that every time a truth was demonstrated it received wings, it became an angel. And truths become immortal, the realities become immortal and those who cling to them are those who live with them gain their own immortality. That which is true shall not die, that which is false cannot live. This goes through nations it goes through everything. It becomes part of our priceless heritage, it becomes part of our hope of glory.

So we know that today, we are at a critical point and that all the available resources of civilization must be united to achieve a positive transformation of our purpose for existence. We will not cease or perish if we do not make the grade, but we will go back again into a hard labor, into struggle and strife, to gain once more to the degree that we are now abusing the knowledge and wisdoms of life.

As long as there is selfishness, there will be pain. As long as there is avarice, there will be suffering. As long as there are hatreds, there will be sorrows. Every one of the negative things has to be overcome. And the old schools of wisdom set up discipleship and set up various rules and laws to govern the development of persons who wanted to grow, who wanted to be better.

And all of these were based upon the fact that the person himself had to make the effort. He had to really, sincerely decide. He was not even able to try to find out whether what he was doing was really right or not; he had to decide that for himself. But if he was right he grew in wisdom and understanding. If he was wrong he did not. If he did not grow, he had to try again. Everything has to come out of the sincere effort to attain victory over the self-centeredness and indifference that we find.

We are now talking a great deal about the fun generation. There's only one thing about it that seems to be important, and that is there isn't much fun. Very little. And there will not be much fun as long as this is the fun generation, because the effort for fun is not controlled by anything. What is fun? Mostly extravagance, much immorality, and all kinds of competitions and mistakes in labor and work, the entertainment field.

All these things are called the fun, and I can assure you from watching a little television now and then, that the fun in television is not very much. In fact, I hadn't heard a good comedian on there in years because good comedy has to be honest, it has to be true and it has to be good as Mark Twain pointed out. And what we call comedy is a snickering sort of thing, is never be going to be any good. And yet we spend hundreds of hours in front of these boxes, taking on the murders and the selfishness of our time. And we try against that, to take this little seed of immortality in ourselves and expect it to survive this constant and continuous bombardment of negative factors.

And each person can have his own way. Now I know for instance, over a long period of time, I was interested in having a little fun. After all, working with heavy problems can be rather heavy, and I realized that if it got too heavy, I wasn't going to be able to do what I should do. That I would get too tired, that I might get a little naggy now and then, or I might even lose my disposition, not that I ever had one, but there's always a possibility of it being worse.

Then I suddenly discovered the world of other things. The people that are now wandering around in all these fun actions are really not having much fun at all. They're really very largely spending money and waking up in debt. And those who spend enough money are waking up sick and those who are very wealthy are waking up dead. It is not a very progressive problem.

So, we suggest looking around. There are all kinds of interesting and wonderful things to do, things that help us to learn. And we can go back to the old guild system that dominated Europe for centuries, that there was there was a joy in labor, and also there were various ways of growing beautifully and pleasantly.

Remember the Meistersingers of Nuremberg. They were the actual regular workers, shoemakers and carpenters, all these people, but they formed music choruses and had a wonderful time with them. And all kinds of special celebrations and even the great gentry participated. Then they're all today, there are all kinds of things - music, art, fine literature - there are more kinds of things to collect, there are hobbies and everything by which you can learn something, by which you can grow, in which you can combine pleasure with instruction and come out of the whole thing a little bit better enlightened and with a new appreciation for the wonders of life.

But instead of that, we sit glued to the tube. And there we sit and watch mayhem that isn't even real, that is merely written, compiled, and presented for the simple purpose of selling products. It is a very bad thing. We are falling for it, but we must be as individuals, pull out of it.

And if we do pull out of it we will discover that we have never captured in it unless we capture ourselves. That there is no reason why the magnetic fields of the body should be contaminated. There are no reasons for why the individual has to lower his moral code in order to keep abreast of his time. If his time is below him, he must rise above his time. If there are things that he should be doing and he is neglecting, to have a fun that is never there, it is time for him to wake up. Now, the answer has always been you can't move all these people. You get one started and you put a law in and you think you've got something blocked and immediately, somebody comes up and objects. And there's a great big political system, a big congregation of voters and so forth, and of course in mass of this nature, the majority is liable to rule, the majority is liable not to be right. Therefore, that isn't the answer. You can't simply make a law against this, a law against that.

But what you can do, is make a law for yourself. And I believe it was Woodrow Wilson who said on one occasion, it is better to fail in a cause that must ultimately win than win in a cause that must ultimately fail. And we have this problem on our hands today. We have mixed up in a cause that must fail, and we cannot necessarily depend upon others to see it our way.

But we can try in every way possible, to contribute nothing to the decay of life, do everything that we can to make it better, do everything that we can to make ourselves more fit for the job that is ours. If we could see the invisible structure of man, a tremendous amount of vibratory power there, the ages that were necessary to build all these bodies and vibrate them and vitalize them so that we could produce a standing, thinking, feeling creature that had within itself the germs of its own immortality.

We have all these things but we have not kept faith with them. And because we have not kept faith with them, we must now go back and start over. And we cannot be blamed for doing what is right ourselves. If the world doesn't like it, it won't bother us because we are only one person.

But that one person, being right, is the secret of the beginning of righteousness. For in ancient times, there were a few who were the great souls that led. Today, we are in a different world. We are now in a world in which great Souls must arise from the common people of the earth, and in so doing, will make the simple laws of humanity dominant over the artificial laws and practices of our generation.

I think we have to therefore recognize that it is our part to build this soul body. That it is within our right and our privilege to control the development of our own inner lives. Although all others may be unhappy, we may still be a little unhappy, but if we are doing the best that we can, there is a certain reward. A good deed is a prayer, a bad deed is a curse. We've had too many curses and not enough prayers.

And a prayer for good is in the simple things we do to help a person in trouble, to help our own children to stay within the principles of integrity, to start them out right and not allow them to follow in the ways of our own slipshod behavior. Everything that we can do as an individual, we can do without much probability of being punished for it. Whereas most of the things we are doing now, punishment is inevitable and obvious.

Let us try doing it right. Let us try to be one with progress, one with the law. And in the mysterious wedding of the Lamb, which is described in the book of Revelation and which is part of our Christian heritage, those who attain the golden wedding garment come as great hosts of souls, luminous and beautiful, to attend the marriage of the lamb.

And this is the idea of it all. The marriage of the lamb is simply the union of the individual soul with the world soul. And the return of the individual spirit to the spirit which is all spirit, always and forever the guiding power of life.

We do not know where our life is going exactly. We know where it will go for a time at least if it doesn't change its ways, but we do not know what lies ahead for the human being. But all of the great teachers of the world have given us a radiant, glorious picture of that which is waiting us. They've always given us the vision of that which comes to those who transcend the errors and follies of their times. And we have been given several great religions, which may differ the names they have given, but are essential and identical in their teaching. That it's only those who live the life that can never know the doctrine.

So in little ways we can start living it, and into living it little ways we will grow in righteousness. So this is our job, this is nothing so terribly difficult. All we have to do is to prepare to live quiet, moderate lives. False ambitions have slayed the ages. The glory of Alexander is gone. Caesar is dead at Pompey's parlor. Hitler and Mussolini have gone their way. All of the great dictators have left, and left nothing behind but monuments to sorrow.

Little dictators have the same fate. Those who create a business and then bankrupt it for profit, all kinds of efforts to grow rich over the poverty of others, all of these things are part of the way of life that has come to too many people now, though a way of life that has resulted in the fact that our ingenuity has outstripped our integrity.

We can invent many things, but we do not know how to use them. And that which we do not use, we will abuse. Once upon a time, there was a Roman who digging in his garden found a pot of gold. And he wrote a letter to the Emperor and he said I have found a pot of gold - what shall I do with it? And the Emperor wrote back and said use it.

And the man wrote again to the Emperor and said, Sire, I do not know how to use it. And the Emperor replied, then abuse it. And that is exactly what happens. We have so many ways of getting things, but not very many good ways of using them. To have a thing means a power, when in reality it is an opportunity to grow, and unless we make more use of these opportunities, things are going to get worse.

Now we face a few years and a great transition. There is bound to be a major change - we're asking for it, or if we're not asking, we're acting for it, we are demanding it. And out of this is coming some very interesting things. It isn't all bad news. There are some tremendous efforts being made now. People are growing as they haven't in a long time. There's a certain and definite reason for believing that the individual is beginning to know that he is not something with a free will in space, but that he is a creature under law and that this law is a law of wisdom and mercy.

More and more the individual is becoming aware that out of his own integrity must come his own salvation. Realizing this and living accordingly, we can make a very powerful and positive contribution to the future of our people. There is no reason why we cannot do something every day to justify the belief that we are really working for a good cause.

Now, as we here are trying to do a little something to help out as much as we can, and we are most grateful for the wonderful help we have received. And we finally discover that in our own little world, there are people who want to live well, who want to do better, who want to think better, who want to add something to the substance of life. They are tired of the bridge party and the drink fests, they are tired of the waste and luxury and the morning-after. And they are more and more hurt by the ravages of narcotics.

And now, morality has come in and the sicknesses of immorality weigh heavy upon the race. We are in the midst of great evidence of being wrong. And we are also well shown what is right. This is the dedication of some part of our life to usefulness. It is to maintain the things. We have great emphasis upon freedom, upon individual rights, the individual has the feeling that he is perfectly justified in walking out on his family, deserting his friends, and turning against his nation, simply because he must be free.

What is freedom? To him, freedom is the gradual building of a cage, which once it's captured him, he's worse enslaved than in any other way. Freedom is really a form of self-slavery for most people. It is the individual putting his own likes and pleasures ahead of the common good and his own well-being.

So these answers are not practical in our time, and we're looking around and we're seeing the gradual development of religion in a new way. We are coming closer and closer to a unity of faiths, which will be a tremendous step in the right direction. We are also coming to realize that religion is not simply attending a place of worship; it is bringing the truths of life into the home, into the family, and into the business.

The real religion is in the shop, in the house, in the school, in the hospital, in the courts. The religion is not something to talk about theology, it is to live the golden rule, to keep the ten commandments, to realize that regardless of all our sophistication, we will never be able to outgrow the Decalogue or the Sermon on the Mount.

These are inevitable and eternal fixtures. We can break them, but we suffer. We can keep them and we will get well. And this is something each person does for himself. He does not do it because his neighbor has done it, or because the community is doing it. Maybe he hopes it will, but even if the community is doing it, unless it is a personal dedication of his own, it will not bring an end to his own misunderstandings and misuses of power.

So we hope that everyone will remember a little bit that this golden wedding garment is also, according to St. Paul, the garment of divine love. It is love rising triumphant. It is the proof that when we really sincerely love, we serve. And when we really, really love, we give. And when our emotions are false, we take. So in this, we have also the inspiration but for most people love has been paid a stranger. We hardly even love our own anymore if they interfere with our ambitions. We will desert those nearest to us if they hamper our freedom. Everything must be freedom, but no human being who is ignorant is free. And no human being who can be free, who holds immoral, unethical or materialistic institutions as important.

We all have to recognize that freedom is the privilege to be right and that this privilege belongs to us all. And the reward of it is freedom from the disasters of our mistakes. And there is no way we could ever win this battle. Look at the sky, look at the stars. We can go a long time before we can rule them, or go out and even explore them, or take a chance to visit one of them without imperiling our own lives.

We cannot change the infinite, but we don't need to because the infinite is right. And we have no rightness greater. And the infinite is infinite love, infinitely manifested throughout infinite time and infinite space. And in this divine love we live, and as we live it, gradually it moves into us and becomes this radiant body of the soul.

And the soul is the love in us becoming the love in humanity for all that lives. And when we have developed this and become part of a universe of love, we will have no more worry over the sins of the flesh. They will correct themselves beautifully, the little children will not be deserted, they will not come into the world sick to death before they are hardly born.

These things must change. A genuine regard, coming from within ourselves, will not only help this but when we begin to practice this, the light of the soul inside of us will grow brighter and brighter until soul power becomes master over all the brute force of the world as it was mentioned by Mohandas Gandhi, so that all things are safe only when love makes the rules.

And these rules made by love found in all the great religions of the world and also are inevitable and eternal in the human heart.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 26
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On Serving a Broken World

Typically, the path of spirituality and hidden knowledge will lead to abilities that can be used to either serve yourself or to serve others. As intuition is a side effect of aligning your mind with the ethereal realm that surrounds us, intuition in all degrees and forms can be regarded as an immaterial reward for seeking to align yourself with the higher order of the universe. Willfully seeking resonance will lead to more resonance, like any feedback loop that reaffirms itself until a certain saturation is reached.

Heightened intuition will at some point cross into extra-sensory perception and clairvoyant abilities that most people do not have access to and are not aware of. Once these abilities are present, it is not a choice to call upon them but rather a matter of observation. You may additionally ask for signs of confirmation, but you may not stop synchronicities from appearing when you live in alignment with the ether. Once you attain resonance, you cannot simply will your way out of resonance other than through highly destructive actions.

So once these abilities are present, the question will not be whether to use them but how to use them.

What if you choose to serve others, but the world around you is collectively going mad and caught up in lies, wound up in more lies until most of what most people believe is a distortion of reality to the point of pure evil? A world grounded in materialism where the powers that control the flow of energy have twisted society to the point where the only thing people worship is money and not nature, morally bankrupting them. Fundamentally, a satanic system.

The fundamental problem is that most people are part of the problem. In the broadest sense, everybody is part of the problem as it is extremely complicated, though possible to distance yourself from feeding the machine. Since every time money changes hands, the machine is reaffirmed, to stop feeding the machine means to stop spending money. How literal you should take this is a personal matter and not the bulk of the issue. The bulk of the issue is that most people literally worship money and are willing to give away their life in order to hoard money. This is a deeply sick state of mind grounded in the most fundamental misunderstanding any soul could ever fall into, namely the idea that money itself would be real when it is not. It is an artificial concept that serves us a means to an end but cannot be an end in itself. Wasting your life, which has meaning itself, to hoard something that has no meaning is by all means stupid and wrong.

To worship the lie in order to hoard money means the truth feels like being robbed. If you confront someone like that with truth, they will feel like you want to steal from them, and as they believe money is a real thing, they will treat you as if you attacked their spirit itself. A person who identifies with the lie will attack you for hinting at the truth, even though that is your best guess at helping them heal their soul.

Helping those who are suffering from lies is fundamentally an act of conflict, and to avoid that conflict is to be selfish.

In order to serve a broken world, it is inevitable to engage in some sort of karma kung fu where you don’t shy away from burning people with the truth, knowing that even if it causes them suffering, it will not generate negative karma. It’s a strange dance where the other person might be perplexed and not understand why they feel the fire, but where their suffering by truth will always carry a message that, as it is true, will inevitably in some way resonate with them.

Ultimately, truth will always persist on its own, and in fighting lies, there’s only so much you can do. Nobody can be saved from their own karma, and those who have spent all their lives serving and benefitting from lies will not be able to be saved from the consequences of those lies. The gift of intuition will mostly be helpful in discerning between those who are still open to the truth and those who are not. As someone who made lies their identity, will reject truth even if they recognise it as truth.

Those who live in lies because they don’t know the truth will, after the initial pain of an inconvenient truth, if it is presented in resonance with their personal experience, keep at least a seed of it in their hearts, and that’s about all you can accomplish. From there on, it’s on them, whether they water it or not.

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The Labyrinth of Egypt: Ancient Mysteries and Modern Discoveries

This video by Ben van Kerkwyk of UnchartedX explores the possibility of one of the most significant archaeological discoveries yet to be fully uncovered—the Great Labyrinth of Egypt. This structure, described by ancient historians as surpassing even the pyramids in grandeur, has been the subject of speculation, suppression, and modern technological investigation.

The presentation, originally delivered at the Cosmic Summit (June 2025), delves into:

  • Historical accounts of the labyrinth from Greek and Roman writers.

  • Modern expeditions using ground-penetrating radar, satellite scans, and seismic tomography.

  • Suppression of discoveries by Egyptian authorities.

  • Remarkable claims about a 40-meter-long metallic object buried deep beneath the site.

1. Historical Accounts of the Labyrinth

Multiple classical authors described the labyrinth, emphasizing its immense scale and complexity:

Herodotus (5th century BCE)

  • Called it greater than the pyramids, with 3,000 chambers (1,500 above ground, 1,500 below).

  • Described 12 massive courts, intricate passages, and white stone columns.

  • Mentioned a pyramid attached to the labyrinth via an underground passage.

Diodorus Siculus (1st century BCE)

  • Compared it to the Greek labyrinth of Crete, suggesting the Egyptian version was the original.

  • Said it was impossible to navigate without a guide.

Strabo (1st century CE)

  • Called it equal to the pyramids in grandeur.

  • Described hidden chambers, twisting corridors, and a pyramid at its end.

Pliny the Elder (1st century CE)

  • Claimed it was built 3,600 years before his time (~3,600 BCE, predating dynastic Egypt).

  • Said its columns were made of marble (calcite) and granite.

Pomponius Mela (1st century CE)

  • Described 1,000 houses and 12 palaces within its walls.

  • Mentioned a single descending entrance leading to a maze-like interior.

These accounts suggest the labyrinth was a multi-level, megalithic structure with vast halls, underground chambers, and advanced stonework.

2. Location: Hawara in the Faiyum

Most scholars agree the labyrinth was located near Hawara, south of Cairo, where:

  • Amenemhat III’s mudbrick pyramid stands.

  • Lake Moeris (now Lake Qarun) once existed.

  • Petrie’s excavations (1888-1911) revealed megalithic foundations beneath the pyramid.

Petrie’s Discoveries

  • Found a subterranean quartzite chamber beneath the pyramid (~110 tons).

  • Described massive stone blocks, possibly part of the labyrinth’s roof.

  • Noted that rising groundwater prevented full exploration.

3. Modern Scans Confirm the Labyrinth

Several expeditions have used advanced technology to scan the site:

Mataha Expedition (2008)

  • Used ground-penetrating radar, VLF, and resistivity tomography.

  • Found a grid-like structure (~8–12m deep) matching classical descriptions.

  • Zahi Hawass allegedly suppressed the findings, threatening the team with arrest.

Geoscan Systems (2015–2016)

  • Used satellite-based spectral analysis to detect subsurface anomalies.

  • Found four distinct underground layers, with huge halls (80m x 50m) at depths of 40–100m.

Merlin Burrows (2016–2017)

  • Used military-grade satellite imaging and seismic data.

  • Detected a freestanding 40m metallic object (nicknamed "Dippy") at ~60m depth.

  • Suggested it could be a "portal" or ancient artifact of unknown origin.

Correlations Between Scans

  • Both Geoscan and Merlin Burrows identified multiple underground levels.

  • The depth (40–100m) aligns with Herodotus’ description of 90 steps between levels.

  • The scale (1,000+ rooms) matches ancient accounts.

4. Suppression and Political Challenges

  • Zahi Hawass reportedly blocked publication of the Mataha Expedition’s findings, citing "national security."

  • A Polish-Egyptian geological survey (2009) was halted, and its director jailed.

  • Rising groundwater (due to the Aswan High Dam) threatens the site’s preservation.

Why the Cover-Up?

  • Cost of excavation: Draining and preserving the site would be extremely expensive.

  • Political risks: Admitting its existence without a plan could lead to international criticism.

  • Alternative history implications: The labyrinth may challenge mainstream Egyptology.

5. The Future: Could the Labyrinth Be Explored?

  • Italian SAR (synthetic aperture radar) team (behind the Giza scans) may investigate Hawara.

  • Crowdfunding or international collaboration could fund excavation.

  • Urgency: Rising water levels may destroy artifacts within decades.

Conclusion

The Labyrinth of Egypt represents one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of antiquity. Multiple scanning technologies confirm its existence, yet political and logistical hurdles prevent full exploration. If uncovered, it could rewrite history—revealing lost knowledge, advanced engineering, and possibly even anomalous artifacts like the rumored "Dippy" object.

For now, the labyrinth remains hidden beneath the sands of Hawara, waiting for the day when technology and willpower align to reveal its secrets.

BLIND SΩPHIST's avatar BLIND SΩPHIST · Jul 21
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Fascinating!

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 20
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Revival of the Science of Electricity in the Digital Age - by Eric Dollard

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In this Digital Age, the theoretical basis provided for Electrical Engineering has been defiled, reduced to an assemblage of delusive denouncements enforced by a cabal of academic theoreticians. What gives authoritative force to their dictates is the overtly complex and convoluted mathematics which enshrouds them. This mathematics in turn becomes a “right of passage” in teaching and replacing reason and experiment. Once the idols become digitized, they become law, and consequently electricity has become a lost science, relegated to the same scrap heap as alchemy.

However, in historical perspective, the theoretical basis for electrical engineering had achieved a very high level of development at the onset of the 20th century, this to meet the demands of a rapidly developing commercial enterprise, most notably that of the electro-magnetic telegram, and later electric light and power. Electrical science progressed remarkably well in this era, and thus became an exact science which engendered well thought out theories. The foundations of this science were derived from the Experimental Researches of Michael Faraday and their Mathematical Development by Clerk Maxwell. This became known as the “Faraday-Maxwell” Theory of Electricity. J.J. Thomson gives an account of the basis of the theory:

“This method is based on the conception, introduced by Faraday, of tubes of electric force, or rather, of electrostatic induction. Faraday, as is well known, used these tubes as the language in which to express the phenomena of the electric field. Thus, it was by their tendency to contract, and the lateral repulsion which similar tubes exert on each other, that he explained the mechanical forces between electrified bodies, while the influence of the medium on these tubes was on his view indicated by the specific inductive capacity in dielectrics.” (1)

Essential to the Faraday-Maxwell concept is the existence of a fundamental “Electric Medium,” or aether, which fills all space and permeates all matter. Regardless of the fruitfulness of this idea of the aether, and its tubes of electric induction, it was later forcibly driven from electrical theory and replaced with an idol, the “Electron,” and its sacred companion, Einstein-Minkowski Relativity.

In the course of human events there always comes a time when certain forces set out to tear apart what became a well-established and thought out process of reasoning. Such was the objective of the modernistic theoreticians. An excellent remark on this condition in historic events is given by E.T. Whitaker:

“Perhaps nothing in the history of natural philosophy is more amazing than the vicissitudes of the theory of heat. The true hypothesis, after meeting with general acceptance throughout a century, and having been approved by a succession of illustrious men, was deliberately abandoned by their successors in favor of a conception so utterly false, and in some of its developments, grotesque and absurd.” (2)

Meanwhile, as Gustave Le Bon remarks:

“The mathematicians were drawing up formulae, the physicists were making experiments, and these experiments fitted less with the formulae. So soon as the equations no longer agreed with the experiments, the equations no longer agreed with the experiments, the equations were rectified by imagining “hidden forces,” which completely baffled observation.” (3)

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The modernistic mathematicians ultimately regained the ground they had lost to Faraday, and electrical science was reduced to meta-physics. The three fundamental commandments established are:

(I)

The abolition of the aether,

(II)

The Enshrinement of a certain set of so-called “Maxwell’s Equations,”

(III)

The idolization of the so-called “electron.”

A discussion of these three commandments follows.

The first commandment, The abolition of the aether:

Nikola Tesla once remarked, “The discovery of the aether was as significant in his era as was the discovery of fire was for primitive man.”

However, at the onset of the electronic age, the concept of the aether was rejected with all the vehemence of religious fanaticism. The justification for this was that no physical model could be devised that could survive the test of experiment. This is no surprise since the aether is not physical and accordingly it is outside the realm of physical science. Many resisted this abolition at its onset at the beginning of the 20th century, one was Oliver Heaviside, to quote:

“As one regards the aether, it is useless to sneer at it this time of day. What substitute for it do we have? Its principle fault is that it is mysterious. That is because we know so little about it. Then we should find out more. That cannot be done by ignoring it. The properties of air, so far as they are known, had to be found out before they became known.” (4)

Joseph Larmor states the following:

“It therefore may be held that, in so far as theories of the ultimate connection of different physical agencies are allowed to be legitimate at all, they should develop along the lines of a purely electric aether until critics of such a simple scheme are able to point to a definite group of phenomena that requires the assumption of a new set of properties and that moreover can be reduced to logical order thereby. A charge of incompleteness without indication of a better way, is not effective criticism in question of this kind, because, owning to the imperfections of our perceptions and the limited range of our intellectual operations, finally can never be attained.” (5)

Larmor continues with:

“From remote ages, the great question with which, since Newton’s time, we have been familiar under the somewhat misleading antithesis of contact vs. distance actions, has engaged speculation, -how is it that portions of matter can interact on each other which seems to have no means of connection between them, can a body act where it is not? If we answer directly in the negative, the spatial limitations of substance are to a large extent removed, and the complication is increased. The simplest solution is involved in a view that has come down from the early period of Greek physical speculation, and forms one of the most striking items in the stock of first principles of knowledge which has been struck out by the genius of that age. In that mode of thought, the ultimate reality is transferred from sensible matter to a uniform medium which is a plenum, the ultimate elements of matter consisting of permanently existing vortices or other singularities of motion and strain located in the primordial medium.” (6)

At the onset of the “Age of Enlightenment,” this concept was revived from the age of antiquity by Rene Descartes in his absolute rejection of “Action at a distance” through an empty or vacuous space devoid of any physical properties. He assumed that force cannot be communicated except by actual pressure or impact. “It is thus erroneous to regard the heavenly bodies as isolated in vacant space; around and between them is an incessant conveyance and transformation of energy. To the vehicle of this activity, the name aether has been given.” (7)

Following this line of reasoning is that of Michael Faraday, which is a continuous transmission of physical actions through an electrified aether. This was one of the first and most important, in the stock of first principles, in the theory of electricity. To quote Lord Kelvin:

“During the 56 years which have passed since Faraday first offended physical mathematicians with his curved lines of force, many writers and many thinkers have helped to build up the 19th century school of the plenum, one aether for light, heat, electricity, magnetism… (8)

“Faraday had strong geometric conceptions which he formulated qualitatively. To the more abstract minds of the European theoreticians, these concepts did not appeal at all.” (9)

At the onset of the electronic age, Faraday’s concept of the electric lines of force were rejected, despite all the physical evidence to substantiate their existence, and the meta-physical notion of action at a distance again reigned supreme. However, action was now presented through so-called “curved space,” to circumvent reality.

The common sense appeal to facts demands the retention of the philosophy of Michael Faraday; that is, this electric aether can be expressed in practical terms as an “electric fluid.” This concept held supreme in the pioneering days of the science of electricity (Ben Franklin). J.J. Thomson remarks:

“The influence which the notion and ideas of the fluid theory of electricity have, ever since their introduction, over the science of electricity and magnetism, is a striking illustration of the benefits conferred upon this science by a concrete representation of the symbols which in the mathematical theory of electricity define the state of the electric field. Indeed, the services which the old fluid theories has rendered to electricity by providing a language in which the facts of the science can be clearly and briefly expressed, can hardly be over-rated. A descriptive theory of this kind does more than serve as a vehicle for the clear expression of well-known results, it often renders important services by suggesting the possibility of the existence of new phenomena.” (10)

Gustave Le Bon provides a similar viewpoint:

“What is called electricity proceeds solely from phenomena from the so-called displacement of the electric fluid or of its elements.” (11)

Electricity will appear as the connecting link between the world of matter and that of the aether.” (12)

“Electricity allowed for the connection of two worlds, the ponderable and the imponderable.” (32)

“Such is the current theory. It is probable that things happen in a less simple, perhaps in even a very different manner; but when an explanation fits in fairly well with known facts, it is wise to be satisfied with it.” (13)

Second Commandment, Enshrinement of the So-called, “Maxwell’s Equations”:

The Faraday-Maxwell theory of electricity has for quite some time served as the principal foundation for electrical engineering theory.

“Maxwell’s brilliant synthesis of all electric and magnetic phenomena as well as their interactions into two simple “field equations” was an achievement of singular grandeur and beauty.” (14)

Well, maybe not really all electric and magnetic phenomena, and what bout the rest of the equations?

“As a matter of historical fact, Maxwell himself never wrote or saw “Maxwell’s Equations.” (15)

In reality, he conceived twenty mathematical propositions, four of which ultimately were named “Maxwell’s Equations,” but these were in reality the result of the combined efforts of Heinrich Hertz in Germany, and Oliver Heaviside in England. As it stands, the physicist prefers Hertz, whereas the engineer prefers Heaviside. However, the fundamental units, dimensions, and terminology from which the science and engineering of electricity derived its basis, are essentially as Maxwell formulated them. This is a rather unfortunate circumstance since these formulations exist in a primitive form, which in turn were “set in stone” by the academians before such formulations could develop into a mature theory of electricity. Also unfortunate is how the work of Herman von Helmholtz was swept under the carpet, which led to the unfortunate omissions in electrical theory.

Hertz gives his comments on this:

“In the researches to which I have hitherto referred, the experiments were interpreted from the standpoint which I took up through studying von Helmholtz’s papers. In these papers, Herr von Helmholtz’s distinguishes between two forms of electric force, the electro-static and the electromagnetic to which, until the contrary is proven by experiment, two different velocities are attributed. An interpretation of the experiments from the point of view could certainly not be incorrect, but it might be unnecessarily complicated. In a special limiting case, Helmholtz’s theory becomes considerably simplified, and its equations, in this case, become the same as those of Maxwell’s theory; only one form of force remains, and it is propagated with the velocity of Light.” (16)

At this historic juncture, the so-called “Velocity of Light” became enshrined, and the electro-static wave faded from existence. But, Nikola Tesla, who worked from the electro-static viewpoint remarks:

“For more than 18 years I have been reading treatises, reports of scientific transactions, and articles on Hertz-Wave Theory, to keep myself informed, but they always impressed me like works of fiction.” (17)

Here, it becomes evident that the so-called Maxwell’s Theory is not without significant limitations. For example, Charles Steinmetz makes a rather harsh statement on this matter:

The Maxwellian Theory of the Transformer describes a device that does not exist in practice, but haunts in textbooks and mathematical treatises on transformers.” (18)

Consequently, what has become known as “Maxwell’s Equations” is in part, of dubious practical value and serves in actuality as a kind of “religious ritual” rather than a fruitful method of analysis.

“At the time of Maxwell’s death, which happened in 1879, before he completed his 49th year, much yet remained to be done both in the investigations with which his name is associated; and the energies of the next generation were largely spent in extending and refining that conception of electrical and optical phenomena whose origin is correctly indicated in the name of Maxwell.” (19)

The three principal figures involved in this extension, or adaptation, of the work of clerk Maxwell were:

1.) Heinrich Hertz
2.) Oliver Heaviside
3.) J. J. Thomson

These illustrious individuals can rightly be called the “Followers of Maxwell.”

“In the decades proceeding the death of Maxwell, his “theory” would be developed in ways which could scarcely have been anticipated. But although every year added something to the super-structure, the foundations remained much as Maxwell had laid them; the doubtful argument by which he had sought to justify the introduction of displacement currents was still all that was offered in their defense. In 1884 however, the theory was established on a different basis by a pupil of Helmholtz, Heinrich Hertz.” (20)

Hertz states, in his book on electric waves, the following:

“And now to be more precise, what is it we call the Faraday-Maxwell Theory? Maxwell has left us as a result of his mature thought a great treatise on electricity and magnetism; it might therefore be said that Maxwell’s Theory is the one which propounds that work. But such an answer will scarcely be regarded as satisfactory by all scientific men who have considered the question closely. Many a man has thrown himself with zeal into the study of Maxwell’s work, and even when he has stumbled upon unwonted mathematical difficulties, has never the less been compelled to abandon hope of forming for himself an all-together consistent conception of Maxwell’s ideas.” (21)

Oliver Heaviside, the leading proponent of Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory, comments on the efforts of Hertz to verify this theory:

“Returning to electromagnetic waves. Maxwell’s Inimitable Theory of Dielectric Displacement was for a long time generally regarded as speculation. There was, for many years, an almost complete dearth of interest in the unverified parts of Maxwell’s Theory…”

“Still, however, they wanted experimental proof. Three years ago, electromagnetic waves were nowhere. Shortly after, they were everywhere. This was due to a very remarkable, and unexpected event, no less than the experimental discovery by Hertz, of Karlsruhe (Now of Bonn), of the veritable actuality of electromagnetic waves in the aether.” (22)

Heaviside continues on Maxwell:

"What is Maxwell’s Theory? Or, what should we agree to understand by Maxwell’s Theory? The first approximation to the answer is to say; There is Maxwell’s book as he wrote I; There is his text, and there are his equations: Together, they make his theory. But when we come to examine it closely, we find that this answer is unsatisfactory. To begin with, it is sufficient to refer to papers by physicists, written say during the twelve years following the first publication of Maxwell’s treatise, to see that there may be much difference in opinion as to what his theory is. It may be and has been, differently interpreted by different men, which is a sign that is not set forth in a perfectly clear and unmistakable form. There are many obscurities and some inconsistencies…

It is therefore impossible to adhere strictly to Maxwell’s Theory as he gave it to the world, if only on account of its inconvenient form. But it is clearly not admissible to make arbitrary changes in it and still call it his.” (23)

Professor J.J. Thomson gives a similar view on the problems in expressing the ideas of Maxwell:

“The descriptive hypothesis, that of displacement in a dielectric, used by Maxwell to illustrate his mathematical theory, seem to have been found by many readers neither so simple nor so easy of comprehension as the old fluid theory; indeed this seems to have been one of the chief reasons why his views did not sooner meet with the general acceptance they have since received. As many students find the conceptions of ‘displacement’ difficult, I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the process occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, from a mathematical point of view, equivalent to Maxwell’s s Theory.

This method is based on the conception, introduced by Faraday, of tubes of electric force, or rather, of electro-static induction.” (24)

It is evident that three distinct contributions were laid out by these followers of Maxwell’s Theory. First was the experimental verification by Hertz. Second was the development of a suitable mathematical representation applicable to engineering formulation by Heaviside, and Third, an aether physics representation by Thomson.

The problem introduced however, is that Helmholtz Theory was left to be forgotten, and the non-electromagnetic aspect of electricity was thereafter ignored by most with the exception of Nikola Tesla, and possibly Charles Steinmetz.

Heaviside concludes with:

“It is not by any means to be concluded that Maxwell spells finality. There is no finality. It cannot even be accurately said that Hertzian Waves prove Maxwell’s Dielectric Theory completely. The observations are very rough indeed, when compared with the refined tests in other parts of electrical science. The important thing proved is that electromagnetic waves in the Aether at least approximately in accord with Maxwell’s Theory are a reality, and that the Faraday-Maxwellian is the correct one.” (25)

However, Heaviside imposes and arbitrary restriction:

“The other kind of electrodynamic speculation is played out completely. There will be plenty of room for more theoretical speculation, but it must be on the Maxwellian type to be really useful”. (25)

Heaviside is correct in his criticism of the old German electrodynamics, the useless potential theories, and other such illusions in electrical theory, which find their origin as far back as Isaac Newton. However, to ignore the aspects of electrical theory, which are not of an electromagnetic nature is not permissible when framing a general theory of electricity. It is a strange irony that while Heaviside rejects the Helmholtz Theory, (33) his so-called Telegraph Equation does provide the required framework for a true General Theory of Electricity. For an excellent analysis of the development of Electric Transmission Theory, see Ernst Guillemin “Communications Networks”, Volume Two, Chapter One.

Third Commandment, Idolization of the Electron:

To Quote Lucien Poincare:

“The electron has conquered physics and many adore the new idol rather blindly”. (26)

Gustave Le Bon states:

“The conception of the electrons, a near relative to the old Phlogiston, is one of the most unfortunate metaphysical ideas recently formulated…..” The electron has become at present day, a sort of fetish for many physicists, by which they think to explain all phenomena.” (27) (34)

In a toast to a gathering of his illustrious colleagues, J.J. Thomson makes a rather startling remark:

“Here is to the electron, may it be of no use to anyone.” (28)

It must be remembered that it was Thomson himself that is credited with the quantification of the so-called electron, so what would motivate him to make such an outlandish statement? (35)

Charles Steinmetz outright rejected the electron concept, or what he sometimes called the “Ionic Theory of Electricity.” He regarded the notion of electronic charge as an impediment to the understanding of the behavior of electricity, to quote:

“Unfortunately, to a large extent in dealing with the dielectric field, the pre-historic conception of the electro-static charge on the conductor still exists, and by its use destroys the analogy between the two components of the electrical field, the magnetic and the dielectric and makes the consideration of the dielectric field unnecessarily complicated.” (29)

After the introduction of the myth of Santa Clause, we as children are also “taught” that “electricity is the flow of electrons.” It is later learned the truth of Santa, but the fallacy of the electron persists.

Oliver Heaviside writes extensively on the mis-guided notion that electricity is the flow of electrons in a so-called conductor. “A perfect conductor is a perfect obstructer, but does not absorb the energy of the electromagnetic wave…...”

“The properties of a perfect conductor are derived from those common conductors by examining what would happen if the resistivity were continuously reduced, and ultimately became zero. In this way, we find that a perfect conductor is a perfect obstructer, for one thing, which idea is singularly at variance with popular notions regarding conductors…...”

“According to Ohm’s Law alone, a perfect conductor should be one which carried an infinite current under a finite voltage, and the current would flow all through it because it does so ordinarily. But what is left out of consideration here is the manner in which the assumed steady state is established. If we take this into account, we find that there is no steady state when the resistance is zero, for the variable period is infinitely prolonged, and Ohm’s Law is out of it, so far as the usual applications goes…...”

“The smaller the resistance the greater the time taken for the current to get into the conductor from its boundary, where it is initiated. In the limit, with no resistance, it never gets in at all. Where then is the current?” (30)

Heaviside continues:

“The uniformly distributed current of the steady state appropriate to finite conductivity becomes a mere surface current when the conductivity is infinite.”

“In the usual sense that an electrical current is a phenomenon of matter, it has become quite an abstraction, for there is no matter concerned in it. It is shut out completely.” (31)

The electron represents a phenomenon of electronics, but not a phenomenon of electricity. Moreover, the motion of electrons is representative of the time rate of the destruction of electric induction, this is what is known as resistance. The concept of electrons finds, however, useful application in the theory of so-called semi-conductors, such as silicon, carbon, selenium, etc.

Where it is found in practice that electrical devices do not consume energy but serve to convert this energy into another useful form, electronic devices in practice consume nearly all the energy, turning it into useful heat.

The contemporary Leibnitz-Einstein notion of the electron has worked further mischief into electrical theory by it becoming a “catch all” for kindred phenomena, such as the cathode ray, etc.

The electron has become so endeared to the physicist that any criticism of it will draw an almost fanatical reaction.

What has been learned here is that in its fundamental nature, electricity is not a physical phenomenon married to gross physical matter, and such it should be left aside in the Science of Electricity, and the ill-advised pronouncements of the physicist should be ignored.

3) REFERENCES

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J. J. Thomson (1898)

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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity

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The Evolution of Physics

Lucien Poincare’

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The Evolution of Force

Gustave Le Bon (1908)

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The Evolution of Matter

Gustave Le Bon (1906)

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Old Physics for New

T. E. Phipps Jr. (2012)

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Electromagnetic Theory

Oliver Heaviside (Dover 1950)

(4) Article 179, Page 221

(9) Page XIX

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(22) Article 5, Page 5

(23) Page XXVII

(25) Article 6, Page 6

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(33) Appendix D, Page 493

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Aether and Matter

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Beyond the Electron

J. J. Thomson (1928)

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Vol 35 (1951) Page 251

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Electric Dischargers, Waves, and Impulses

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Electric Waves

Heinrich Hertz (1893)

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Theory of Wireless Power

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Steinmetz, Engineer and Socialist

R. R. Kline (1992)

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Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 17
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Informational Phase Space: An Neo-Anaxagoran Ontological and Metaphysical Paradigm

🚀 What if space-time is just the scoreboard of an information game the universe has been playing since the first femtosecond?

That isn’t sci-fi clickbait; it’s the core hunch behind Informational Phase Space Cosmology (IPS)—a rapidly maturing framework that treats information (correlations, entropic flows, topological “memory”) as the real substance of reality, with the geometry of space-time merely emergent. And the latest James Webb Space Telescope deep-field data just handed IPS the sort of opening scene every paradigm shift dreams of.


🔄 JWST’s weird cosmic spin-bias

Four separate teams probing JWST deep fields report that roughly two-thirds of very-distant galaxies are spinning the same way, an alignment hard to square with an isotropic Big Bang. One group even suggests our entire observable cosmos might be the interior of an ancient, spinning black-hole-like structure—a notion that resurrects Gödel’s old rotating-universe idea and instantly explains the fresh JWST asymmetry(Live Science).

IPS predicts exactly this sort of large-scale vorticity. In its 14-dimensional information manifold, “informational vorticity” twists entanglement currents; when you project that manifold down to 3 + 1 space-time, you see rotating galaxies and preferred axes in the CMB.


✨ Why IPS is so tempting

  • Fewer moving parts. ΛCDM needs dark energy, dark matter, and inflation to keep the books balanced. IPS starts with just three postulates (information, correlator geometry, feedback memory) yet still generates curvature, expansion, and matter as emergent bookkeeping—not bespoke patches.

  • Built-in fixes for the Hubble tension. Because our 3-D slice can re-slice the information manifold over time, the locally-measured H₀ will drift relative to early-epoch inferences—precisely what astronomers observe.

  • Natural dark-energy analogue. Accelerated expansion shows up as entropic “pressure” from unfolding informational degrees of freedom, not a mysterious fluid.

  • Cosmic memory. IPS sectors act like neural-network attractors; the universe literally remembers past topological states, giving a concrete path for cosmic feedback and self-tuning.


🔬 How do we test it—now?

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🧩 Where the community can jump in

  • Data hackers – scrape JWST rotation catalogs; look for redshift-dependent drift in the spin-bias amplitude.

  • Q-lab folks – emulate the 3-qubit “Pauli-curvature” toy model; compare emergent metric with IPS analytic form (Appendix B of the preprint).

  • CMB statisticians – re-analyze low-ℓ Planck maps with an informational vorticity template instead of a simple dipole.

  • Philosophy-of-science nerds – debate whether IPS’s “universe that learns itself” ontology rescues Wheeler’s It-from-Bit without invoking panpsychism.


🎯 TL;DR

JWST just lobbed a spinning curveball at standard cosmology. IPS not only expects that curveball, it catches it with one hand while tidying up the Hubble tension and dark-energy fuss. Better yet, we can start shooting at the theory right now with telescopes, interferometers, and quantum chips already humming.

Whether IPS survives those shots or not, the next few years are going to be ridiculously fun—for astronomers, quantum engineers, and anyone who thinks reality might be written in the language of information itself.

Grab popcorn. The data deluge has only begun.

Want to know more? Informational Phase Space Cosmology: A Geometric Framework for Entanglement, Curvature, and Memory Dynamics

Gödelian Phases of Time: Emergent Rotation and Dimensionality from Quantum Temporal Correlations

Permissibility of Dodecahedral Geometry in Informational Phase Space Cosmology

Informational Phase Space Cosmology: Axiomatized and Expanded

Informational Phase Space Cosmology and the Ontologyof Consciousness: Four Interpretive Models Compared

Frame-Embedded Informational Holonomy as a Substrate for Qualia: Formalism, Simulation, and Predictions

Classification and Determination of Topological Knots in Informational Phase Space Cosmology

BLIND SΩPHIST's avatar BLIND SΩPHIST · Jul 21
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The papers are Creative Commons 4.0 copywriter (so yes, but you can freely reuse them as long as you reference the work)

BLIND SΩPHIST's avatar BLIND SΩPHIST · Jul 17
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The Integratron

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The Integratron is a unique and enigmatic structure located in Landers, California, near Joshua Tree National Park. Designed by George Van Tassel, a former aircraft mechanic and ufologist, it was built between 1954 and 1959.

Core Technical Design of the Integratron

  • Structure: A 38-foot-high, 55-foot-diameter all-wood dome built without nails or metal, using shipbuilding techniques with glued layers of old-growth Douglas fir. The adhesive is primarily paint and caulk, creating a seamless, non-metallic structure.

  • Electrostatic Generator: Designed as an "electrostatic generator" for cell rejuvenation and time travel, Van Tassel claimed it harnessed geomagnetic energy from a vortex beneath the site. Magnetometers detect elevated magnetic fields at its center

Eric Dollard’s Role and Technical Contributions

  • Last Engineer to Work on the Integratron: Dollard, an electrical engineer and Tesla researcher, was one of the few to understand the Integratron’s original purpose. He designed a pulse modulator for its energy systems, critical for its purported electrostatic functions.

  • Connection to Lakhovsky’s Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO):

    • The Integratron was inspired by Georges Lakhovsky’s MWO, a high-voltage, high-frequency device theorized to enhance cellular health via electromagnetic fields. Dollard reverse-engineered the MWO’s unbalanced design, which used longitudinal waves (non-Hertzian) for energy transmission without loss.

    • Dollard emphasized the MWO’s grounding system (e.g., 16 ground rods in a radial pattern) to optimize Earth’s conductivity, a principle likely applied to the Integratron.

  • Four-Quadrant Electricity Theory: Dollard’s work on the Integratron tied into his broader research on dielectric and magnetic induction (Psi and Phi fields), aligning with Van Tassel’s vision of the structure as a "resonant tabernacle" for energy manipulation

Energy and Wave Theories Behind the Integratron

  • Longitudinal Waves: Dollard and Van Tassel believed the Integratron could harness longitudinal (scalar) waves, which propagate without energy loss, unlike transverse EM waves. This was key to claims of "time travel" and anti-gravity effects.

  • Ether and Electrostatics: Dollard’s theories posited that high-voltage electrostatic potentials could repel the "Ether" (the medium of space), reducing inertia—a concept Van Tassel may have incorporated for the Integratron’s rejuvenation goals.

  • Geomagnetic Vortex: The site was chosen for its intersection of geomagnetic forces, which Dollard’s grounding systems aimed to amplify.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 17
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Adding Notes to Plotinus

As I'm reading Plotinus, I will add, paragraph by paragraph, a reworded, more readable version of what he says, as his ideas are very clear, but the original translation seems unnecessarily cumbersome.

4. Let us consider, then, the hypothesis of a coalescence.

Now if there is a coalescence, the lower is ennobled, the nobler degraded; the body is raised in the scale of being as made participant in life; the Soul, as associated with death and unreason, is brought lower. How can a lessening of the life-quality produce an increase such as Sense-Perception?

Reworded by the Agora:
"If such a merging happens, the lower thing (body) is elevated, while the higher thing (Soul) is lowered. The body gains value by sharing in life, but the Soul loses dignity by being tied to death and irrationality. How could reducing the Soul’s purity result in something greater, like the ability to sense things?"

No: the body has acquired life, it is the body that will acquire, with life, sensation and the affections coming by sensation. Desire, then, will belong to the body, as the objects of desire are to be enjoyed by the body. And fear, too, will belong to the body alone; for it is the body's doom to fail of its joys and to perish.

Reworded by the Agora:
"No: the body gains life, and with life, it gains senses and the feelings that come from sensing. Therefore, desire belongs to the body, since what is desired is experienced by the body. Fear also belongs only to the body, because the body is the one that loses pleasures and faces destruction."

Then again we should have to examine how such a coalescence could be conceived: we might find it impossible: perhaps all this is like announcing the coalescence of things utterly incongruous in kind, let us say of a line and whiteness.

Reworded by the Agora:
"Next, we should ask how such a merging could even happen—it might be impossible. It could be like trying to combine two completely different things, like a line and the color white."

Next for the suggestion that the Soul is interwoven through the body: such a relation would not give woof and warp community of sensation: the interwoven element might very well suffer no change: the permeating soul might remain entirely untouched by what affects the body- as light goes always free of all it floods- and all the more so, since, precisely, we are asked to consider it as diffused throughout the entire frame.

Reworded by the Agora:
"Now, take the idea that the Soul is woven into the body: this wouldn’t automatically mean they share sensations. The Soul, even if interwoven, might stay unchanged by the body’s experiences, just as light remains unaffected by whatever it shines upon. This is especially true if we imagine the Soul spread evenly throughout the whole body."

Under such an interweaving, then, the Soul would not be subjected to the body's affections and experiences: it would be present rather as Ideal-Form in Matter.

Let us then suppose Soul to be in body as Ideal-Form in Matter. Now if- the first possibility- the Soul is an essence, a self-existent, it can be present only as separable form and will therefore all the more decidedly be the Using-Principle [and therefore unaffected].

Reworded by the Agora:
"Let’s imagine the Soul in the body like a perfect form within matter. If the Soul is truly independent and self-existing, it can only be present as a separate, unchanging principle, meaning it wouldn’t be affected by the body."

Suppose, next, the Soul to be present like axe-form on iron: here, no doubt, the form is all important but it is still the axe, the complement of iron and form, that effects whatever is effected by the iron thus modified: on this analogy, therefore, we are even more strictly compelled to assign all the experiences of the combination to the body: their natural seat is the material member, the instrument, the potential recipient of life.

Reworded by the Agora:
"Now, think of the Soul like the shape of an axe imposed on iron. While the shape matters, it’s the whole axe (iron + shape) that does the cutting. Similarly, all experiences must belong to the body: the physical part that actually receives life and acts."

Compare the passage where we read* that "it is absurd to suppose that the Soul weaves"; equally absurd to think of it as desiring, grieving. All this is rather in the province of something which we may call the Animate.

Reworded by the Agora:
"As Plato says, it’s ridiculous to say the Soul ‘weaves’; just as it’s absurd to say it desires or grieves. These things belong to what we might call the ‘living being’ (the body-soul combination), not the Soul itself."

* "We read" translates "he says" of the text, and always indicates a reference to Plato, whose name does not appear in the translation except where it was written by Plotinus. S.M.

From The Six Enneads - First Tractate: THE ANIMATE AND THE MAN
Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 14
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Philosophical positions rejected by Plato

  1. Nominalism:

    Plato disagreed with the nominalist view that general terms (universals) are merely names or labels for collections of individual, unrelated things. He believed that universals, like "beauty" or "justice," represent real, objective Forms that exist independently of our minds and the physical world. 

  2. Materialism:

    Plato rejected the idea that only physical matter exists. He proposed a dualistic view, arguing for the existence of both a material world and an immaterial realm of Forms, which he considered more real and fundamental. 

  3. Skepticism:

    Plato did not believe that knowledge is impossible or unattainable. He argued that while our senses can be deceptive, reason and intellect can lead us to true knowledge of the Forms. 

  4. Relativism:

    Plato opposed the idea that truth and morality are subjective and vary from person to person. He believed in objective, universal truths and moral standards grounded in the Forms. 

  5. Mechanism:

    Plato rejected the idea that the universe operates solely on mechanical principles, like a machine. He believed that purpose and design, guided by the Forms, play a crucial role in the cosmos. 

  6. Sense-perception as the primary source of knowledge:

    Plato argued that our senses can only provide us with imperfect copies of reality, not true knowledge of the Forms. He believed that true knowledge comes from reason and intellectual insight into the Forms. 

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 8
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Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism

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Why don't you do a little deep dive into Plotinus, in our library?

Mind map on Neoplatonism

Mind map on Plotinus

First of Plotinus' Six Enneads

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 8
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On intuition and different ways of knowing

We live in an overly materialistic world that is currently obsessed with the illusion that reality could be reduced to that which can be proven.

After decades of scientific stagnation, nobody really wants to admit that scientism has turned into a religion and not into a particularly appealing one. The average person literally understands science as an authoritarian system where truth trickles down a hierarchical system and where lack of evidence for something is equal to disproving something. “Trust the experts” and “Do you have a source for that?” are nothing more than an expression of the fact that the current order is ruled by anti-spiritual midwits.

Reality, however, is something that is deeply obscure, and most of what is real will simply never be proven in a materialistic way. It’s simply not possible, and it’s a foolish assumption.

In order to delve into topics like the nature of reality and the origin of consciousness, we MUST accept that there are different ways of knowing than simply looking at evidence and deductive reasoning. Evidence and deductive reasoning will never conflict with the truth, but neither will they bring to light any new aspects of reality. Materialistic reasoning has reached its limits with what it can accomplish, and anyone who is not satisfied with what it has delivered in the last couple of decades must either turn back to knowledge that was lost in the past or develop new forms of knowing altogether.

Intuition is one of these forms of knowing. 

When you know something but you don’t know how you know it. It’s a form of knowing that is more powerful than evidence-based knowing, because when you know something as a function of data, there’s always a chance that your data was wrong and you therefore drew the wrong conclusion. When you know something intuitively, there can be no doubt about it. 

However, intuition works very differently than evidence-based knowing. In order to increase the amount of evidential knowledge, you simply increase the amount of evidence you look at. Intuition cannot be invoked in a similarly mechanistic fashion. In order to increase the amount of intuitive knowledge you have, you must train yourself to trust your intuition. You don’t increase the amount of intuitive inspiration, but you decrease the number of times when you fail to recognize your intuition.

Becoming a more intuitive person is a deeply spiritual journey that will necessarily lead you on a path of synchronicities and mysticism. You will not see things that you didn’t see before, but you will see what they mean, when before you thought they wouldn’t mean anything.

It’s not like seeing a tree for the first time, but it’s like looking at a forest and, for the first time, realizing it’s made up of trees.

If you’re trying to find the divine in your life, it’s not like invoking something new that wasn’t there before. It’s understanding how it was always there, but you missed it.

To learn to experience and to trust your own intuition is to strengthen your spirit both in perception and in manifestation. It’s a deeply alchemical and transformative process that will lead you to understanding the true meaning of the word gnosis.

Gnosis will never conflict with more simple forms of knowing, but it’s a form of superset of knowing. It is not a form of learning something new but a form of integrating what you already knew the whole time.

If that’s what you’re looking for, then you are who I built this place for, but I am not here to tell you what I know. I am here so you can discover what this place can do for you and attain that goal on your own.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 7
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The library now supports mind maps

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Check out Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson summed up in a single chart.

https://www.theagora.space/library/mindmap/1

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 6
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🜏 XXI – THE WORLD

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Within the eternal loop of the ouroboros, the central figure stands serene, poised between heaven and earth. In their right hand, they raise the ankh, the breath of life. In their left, a blue lotus—symbol of resurrection and the awakening of consciousness. Upon their brow rests the golden solar disc, the seal of Ra, bestowing radiance and eternal sovereignty.

Around them swirl the four elemental guardians:

  • 🦁 Lion (South) – Fire, Sekhmet, willpower and courage

  • 🐂 Bull (North) – Earth, Apis, endurance and stability

  • 🦅 Hawk (East) – Air, Horus, vision and spirit

  • 🐊 Crocodile (West) – Water, Sobek, memory and transformation

Behind them rise the pyramids, repositories of ancient science. The Eye of Ra blinks open above, representing divine vigilance and the inner gnosis that pierces illusion.

Alternate Title: The Divine Spiral
Element: Aether
Symbol: Ouroboros, Ankh, Lotus
Figure: The Soul-Crowned

You have reached the completion of a cycle, not as an end—but as a return to origin, with consciousness transformed.

The World card is the alchemical coronation: the Philosopher’s Stone achieved, the sacred marriage complete, the soul awakened. You are no longer bound by the elemental planes—you stand above them, in harmony with all.

It reflects the Hermetic axiom:

"Man is a star bound to a body, but through discipline may regain the divine fire."

This card marks:

  • The final integration of opposites (matter and spirit, masculine and feminine, above and below)

  • Mastery over the self and the material plane

  • Reunion with the divine field of intelligence (Nous)

The Fool’s journey ends in gnosis—having walked the labyrinth, they now know it is made of light.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 5
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The Tarot as a Hermetic System (Pre-Kabbalistic Core)

The Tarot’s structure reflects three fundamental Hermetic doctrines:

A. The Principle of Correspondence ("As above, so below")

  • Major Arcana: A microcosm of the soul’s journey through cosmic laws.

    • The Magician (I): The divine will manifest in matter.

    • The World (XXI): The soul reintegrated with the One.

  • Minor Arcana: The four elements (Wands/Fire, Cups/Water, Swords/Air, Pentacles/Earth) mirroring the material world.

B. The Principle of Mentalism ("All is mind")

  • The High Priestess (II) as the veil of Isis—the divide between divine wisdom (nous) and human perception.

  • The Moon (XVIII) as the realm of illusions (Hermetic phantasmata).

C. The Principle of Vibration ("Nothing rests; everything moves")

  • The Wheel of Fortune (X) as the cycles of fate (Heraclitean flux).

  • Death (XIII) as solve et coagula—dissolution and rebirth.

The Enclosed System: Where Kabbalah Does Not Belong

The Tarot’s Hermetic framework needs no Kabbalistic grafting because it already contains:

  • Its own cosmology: The Fool’s journey as the soul’s descent and return (Neoplatonic emanation).

  • Its own elemental logic: Suits as the fourfold structure of nature (Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy, Book I).

  • Its own initiatory path: The Major Arcana as stages of gnosis (Hermetic revelation).

Why Kabbalah Breaks the System

  • The Tree of Life imposes a foreign structure (10 sephirot + 22 paths) onto Tarot’s native 22 Majors + 56 Minors.

  • The Hebrew letters overwrite Tarot’s own elemental/planetary correspondences (e.g., Mars in The Tower, not "Peh").

Reconstructing the Purely Hermetic Tarot

To strip away Kabbalistic corruption and return to the original Hermetic Tarot, focus on:

A. The Pre-Occultist Decks

  • Visconti-Sforza (1450s): The Sun as Apollo, Temperance as harmonia.

  • Marseille (1600s): The Lovers as sacred union (hieros gamos), Judgment as palingenesis (spiritual rebirth).

B. The Hermetic Texts That Actually Influenced Tarot

  • Corpus Hermeticum (1st–3rd cent. CE):

    • The Magician as the Poimandres vision (mind over matter).

    • The Star (XVII) as the Anthropos bathing in the waters of creation.

  • Ficino’s Three Books on Life (1489):

    • The Sun (XIX) as the lux divina (solar magic of the spiritus mundi).

C. Alchemy’s Visual Language

  • The Empress (III) as alchemical earth (prima materia nourished by heaven).

  • The Tower (XVI) as the nigredo phase (destruction before renewal).

The Final Answer

The Tarot is and always was a Hermetic system. Its symbols are complete unto themselves, rooted in:

  1. Neoplatonic emanation (descent/return of the soul).

  2. Elemental harmony (Agrippa’s fourfold world).

  3. Alchemical transformation (solve et coagula).

Kabbalah is not just unnecessary—it’s a violent imposition onto a system that already had its own logic.

Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 5
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So they do admit that "Elohim" is plural for gods not one God

YHWH is just one of that Elohim, not God with a capital G. I thought they would deny it, but apparently they don't.

From C 6 came C 7, the third Victory; the Hierarchy is the Principalities, Elohim, the Gods.
From The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Fundamentals of Qabbalistic Cosmogony Ain Soph
Andreas's avatar Andreas · Jul 4
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