While I thoroughly agree that the present state of the average mind having been sucked into the perpetual cycle of artifice is nothing short of a fully manifested illness within post modern culture, and the term "viral" is rather appropriate to describe the phenomena of memeology. I cannot help but guard myself against the notion of "The most apparent trouble with the “religions” of the modern world — and by that I mean everything which has displaced religion, from atheism, to ideology to new age DMTism — is that they all evolved under conditions of abundance and instability."
While it's true that many spiritual prospectors seem to jump to whatever is new and hot, or perhaps one might even say viral... It would be short sighted to place all of these new ideas and concepts in bed with the virility often found constantly churning meme culture.
The Abrahamics as humanity knew them in the pre-industrialized age are dead. This has occurred because of their inherent unwillingness to adapt to what was clearly a transition between eras. What we are seeing now, in the form of new-age religions, is humanity's desperate attempt at reaching for something with some semblance of meaning, something that carries with it the sort of muse inspired art produced by the Greeks, the Sumerians, or any other era of renaissance. This is the dualistic reaction to the all too obvious age of artificial uselessness you described in meme culture.
Having cast off the shackles of our previously dogmatic and tyrannical systems of faith (e.g. Christianity), and with them the closed off medieval psyche, they seek out an existential meaning in something more adaptive, more robust to the times you might say. It is here where you begin to see people experimenting with psychedelics, meditations, modes of magick otherwise forbidden by the a priori oppressors of the pre-industrial age, or even humanism (often disguised as atheism) whereby their version of god is the abstracted faith of humanity prevailing. What all of these have in common is the inherent desire to reach to the heavens, and seek out knowledge and understanding of existence. Logos and Pathos. What will come out of all of this, will be something transmutable, digestible, individualized. For the connection one has with the divine is like no other individual relationship. Like fingerprints, the religious experience is a wholly individual thing, and cannot be reproduced between two different people. It is in this way that the virus of short term pop-culture dies, and in its place is the ascension of the individual psyche to a higher mode of understanding and fulfillment. Of course this will not happened for everyone all at once, and the world will always be filled with the moblike sheep, scampering about, looking for whatever gives them an immediate sense of satisfaction. These are the lost souls often depicted in the works of Heronymus Bosch, trapped in their own self made hells of all contentedness.
Ultimately I believe you and I to be on very similar pages on this topics, in that the art of the robust and higher thinking mind will survive this strange age of artifice, while the producers of your aforementioned banal and mundane memes will ultimately fall prey to the inherent nihilism that dwells at core of their heart.
The mobs may seem appeased, but the individual is thirsty, hungry, starving. Their mind in a state of famine. They will begin, and many already have begun seeking out something deeper, something greater, something filling.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but I'd agree with more of what a Christian would say back.
Abrahamic religion will resurge with a vengeance within the first minutes of a real civilizational downturn. Spiritual individualism strengthens nobody. It sustains nothing, upholds nothing, it is humble before nothing. It is a pastime and it will die a pastime, remembered with bewilderment and contempt. It is the kind of thing that can only take root in a people far too familiar with pleasure and safety and who come to take the two for granted.
Men and women walked joyfully to lions, stakes and crosses for Christ and even today, many would do it for Him again. There is no such affection for the gods of the times, nor are they worthy of it. Nothing but this fact is worth our consideration.
I had forgotten about our exchange here (which I rather enjoyed) until someone liked my comment today and I was aptly reminded. I hope your thoughts on this subject are still fresh enough to appreciate my follow up.
I find your second paragraph both fascinating and terrifying. For it seems to outline precisely the reason that Nietzsche ascribed Nihilism to Christianity (as well as the other Abrahamics). The penultimate connection being the dogma of 'hopelessness without authority'. That human souls are destined to be unquestioningly, spiritually ruled over in conceptual perpetuity. And without that authority we will perish in darkness. That all fates are predestined, and all agency rebuked. Thus none of it really matters because 'The Abrahamic God is going to win anyway'.
Precisely the trick I would play if I was the devil.
What it supposes to negate is the fire that burns within the spirit of man. The spark of light within every man, woman, and child, wherein lies potential - ad infinitum. The capacity to render unto the universe that which the God(s)/Nature could not.
It refutes our wonder and our suffering wherein we discover horrors and beauties inconceivable. Our ability to create and manifest, bringing into the world that which we've conjured from our imaginations.
What it ultimately declares, is that man is something to be suppressed and controlled, overcome by God, rather overcome by man himself. And while I would deny this notion's
correlation to beings like Christ, I wouldn't hesitate to ascribe it to the deity often called Jehova and/or Yawei. Who has a verifiable history of intent to dominate.
Your last paragraph regarding Christ, I want to affirm with you the sincere respect I have for him as a human being whom I believe really did exist. I much regard him (In Buddhist terms) as a sort of Boddhisatva who no doubt impacted the world in an unprecedented way. Who is, however, not the first (nor the last) deity with worshippers willing to die (and kill for that matter) for their god. By that token, walking with Christ would amount to us willfully walking with lions ourselves right now. And wishing for his 'righteous vengeance' stands in contrast to everything he is said to represent.
I also think there is more nuance to Christ than just being a mere sacrificial lamb, hoisted to the cosmic slaughter so as to ensure his father's victory in the end times.
To your final line, I must insistently retort - Everything is worth our consideration.
I just stumbled upon your YT video "CONTACT 2020", I had faith but now I am certain, thank you. From the pic cover that reads much more than it seems, specifically. Eradiates the color blue, yellow and red appeared the sun head on top of a tower, Tower, rotation on 2 axis and 2 bridges. I feel less alone as the mission ahead can be overwhelming. We ok :)
Resilience is the difference between memes and archetypes. Archetypes are memes so powerful that we’ve adapted to them biologically and they’re no longer simply cognitive.
Definitely food for thought. I'd like to address the the bit about whore of Babylon. From my research, I gather it's the base 10 counting system used in basic arithmetic including operators. It's also tied into morals and values. The Sumerian Gunas was a counting system inspired by the sense organs, (the watchers), also related to open vowels sounds. The Gunas, which in Persian means sins, morphed into the sins of the Christians. Ancient religion seems to have be overtly teaching grammar, astrology, physiology, music, song, math and knowingly teaching it through metaphor and archetypes.
If this is in fact a person! After watching your works on YouTube I felt that it was a form of deja vu! I have discovered more pieces of the puzzle in physical form contact me through email!
i tried my best to not sound egotistical/self centered, but please keep in mind i am young and foolish. my education is shit. my vocabulary is awfully limited and my approach is childish. all i am trying to say is, fuck yeah brother, thank you for your time!🙏🏼
This is why I shop at the mall and listen to pop music and watch advertisements. Strengthen the old psychic immune system.
This is an omen
While I thoroughly agree that the present state of the average mind having been sucked into the perpetual cycle of artifice is nothing short of a fully manifested illness within post modern culture, and the term "viral" is rather appropriate to describe the phenomena of memeology. I cannot help but guard myself against the notion of "The most apparent trouble with the “religions” of the modern world — and by that I mean everything which has displaced religion, from atheism, to ideology to new age DMTism — is that they all evolved under conditions of abundance and instability."
While it's true that many spiritual prospectors seem to jump to whatever is new and hot, or perhaps one might even say viral... It would be short sighted to place all of these new ideas and concepts in bed with the virility often found constantly churning meme culture.
The Abrahamics as humanity knew them in the pre-industrialized age are dead. This has occurred because of their inherent unwillingness to adapt to what was clearly a transition between eras. What we are seeing now, in the form of new-age religions, is humanity's desperate attempt at reaching for something with some semblance of meaning, something that carries with it the sort of muse inspired art produced by the Greeks, the Sumerians, or any other era of renaissance. This is the dualistic reaction to the all too obvious age of artificial uselessness you described in meme culture.
Having cast off the shackles of our previously dogmatic and tyrannical systems of faith (e.g. Christianity), and with them the closed off medieval psyche, they seek out an existential meaning in something more adaptive, more robust to the times you might say. It is here where you begin to see people experimenting with psychedelics, meditations, modes of magick otherwise forbidden by the a priori oppressors of the pre-industrial age, or even humanism (often disguised as atheism) whereby their version of god is the abstracted faith of humanity prevailing. What all of these have in common is the inherent desire to reach to the heavens, and seek out knowledge and understanding of existence. Logos and Pathos. What will come out of all of this, will be something transmutable, digestible, individualized. For the connection one has with the divine is like no other individual relationship. Like fingerprints, the religious experience is a wholly individual thing, and cannot be reproduced between two different people. It is in this way that the virus of short term pop-culture dies, and in its place is the ascension of the individual psyche to a higher mode of understanding and fulfillment. Of course this will not happened for everyone all at once, and the world will always be filled with the moblike sheep, scampering about, looking for whatever gives them an immediate sense of satisfaction. These are the lost souls often depicted in the works of Heronymus Bosch, trapped in their own self made hells of all contentedness.
Ultimately I believe you and I to be on very similar pages on this topics, in that the art of the robust and higher thinking mind will survive this strange age of artifice, while the producers of your aforementioned banal and mundane memes will ultimately fall prey to the inherent nihilism that dwells at core of their heart.
The mobs may seem appeased, but the individual is thirsty, hungry, starving. Their mind in a state of famine. They will begin, and many already have begun seeking out something deeper, something greater, something filling.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but I'd agree with more of what a Christian would say back.
Abrahamic religion will resurge with a vengeance within the first minutes of a real civilizational downturn. Spiritual individualism strengthens nobody. It sustains nothing, upholds nothing, it is humble before nothing. It is a pastime and it will die a pastime, remembered with bewilderment and contempt. It is the kind of thing that can only take root in a people far too familiar with pleasure and safety and who come to take the two for granted.
Men and women walked joyfully to lions, stakes and crosses for Christ and even today, many would do it for Him again. There is no such affection for the gods of the times, nor are they worthy of it. Nothing but this fact is worth our consideration.
I had forgotten about our exchange here (which I rather enjoyed) until someone liked my comment today and I was aptly reminded. I hope your thoughts on this subject are still fresh enough to appreciate my follow up.
I find your second paragraph both fascinating and terrifying. For it seems to outline precisely the reason that Nietzsche ascribed Nihilism to Christianity (as well as the other Abrahamics). The penultimate connection being the dogma of 'hopelessness without authority'. That human souls are destined to be unquestioningly, spiritually ruled over in conceptual perpetuity. And without that authority we will perish in darkness. That all fates are predestined, and all agency rebuked. Thus none of it really matters because 'The Abrahamic God is going to win anyway'.
Precisely the trick I would play if I was the devil.
What it supposes to negate is the fire that burns within the spirit of man. The spark of light within every man, woman, and child, wherein lies potential - ad infinitum. The capacity to render unto the universe that which the God(s)/Nature could not.
It refutes our wonder and our suffering wherein we discover horrors and beauties inconceivable. Our ability to create and manifest, bringing into the world that which we've conjured from our imaginations.
What it ultimately declares, is that man is something to be suppressed and controlled, overcome by God, rather overcome by man himself. And while I would deny this notion's
correlation to beings like Christ, I wouldn't hesitate to ascribe it to the deity often called Jehova and/or Yawei. Who has a verifiable history of intent to dominate.
Your last paragraph regarding Christ, I want to affirm with you the sincere respect I have for him as a human being whom I believe really did exist. I much regard him (In Buddhist terms) as a sort of Boddhisatva who no doubt impacted the world in an unprecedented way. Who is, however, not the first (nor the last) deity with worshippers willing to die (and kill for that matter) for their god. By that token, walking with Christ would amount to us willfully walking with lions ourselves right now. And wishing for his 'righteous vengeance' stands in contrast to everything he is said to represent.
I also think there is more nuance to Christ than just being a mere sacrificial lamb, hoisted to the cosmic slaughter so as to ensure his father's victory in the end times.
To your final line, I must insistently retort - Everything is worth our consideration.
J E H O V A H - 7
E L O H I M - 6
A D O N A I - 6
C H R I S T - 5
A B R A X A S - 7
M I T H R A S - 7
S E R A P I S - 7
A L L A H - 5
T H E L E M A - 7
K R Y S T H L - 7
I love me some Hebrew numerology, although I'm not familiar with KRYSTHL. Do you have anymore info?
Also, I've never seen Christ associated with the number 5. Perhaps the pentagram representing a man?
Truly mind blowing analysis!
Epic
Redpill is one of those insidious memes that taps into the sense of insecurity and unworthiness of one and then, trough time, castrates.
What is the aquarian winter?
If you find the Buddha on the road, kill him.
I just stumbled upon your YT video "CONTACT 2020", I had faith but now I am certain, thank you. From the pic cover that reads much more than it seems, specifically. Eradiates the color blue, yellow and red appeared the sun head on top of a tower, Tower, rotation on 2 axis and 2 bridges. I feel less alone as the mission ahead can be overwhelming. We ok :)
Resilience is the difference between memes and archetypes. Archetypes are memes so powerful that we’ve adapted to them biologically and they’re no longer simply cognitive.
Definitely food for thought. I'd like to address the the bit about whore of Babylon. From my research, I gather it's the base 10 counting system used in basic arithmetic including operators. It's also tied into morals and values. The Sumerian Gunas was a counting system inspired by the sense organs, (the watchers), also related to open vowels sounds. The Gunas, which in Persian means sins, morphed into the sins of the Christians. Ancient religion seems to have be overtly teaching grammar, astrology, physiology, music, song, math and knowingly teaching it through metaphor and archetypes.
delicious food for thought.
Go watch "Memes, Genes and brain viruses" from emergent Garden. He comes from a more scientific angle but explains the very same thing. https://youtu.be/Y5OUS-pM9Mc?si=72S7qsSJeWKpTxYm
If this is in fact a person! After watching your works on YouTube I felt that it was a form of deja vu! I have discovered more pieces of the puzzle in physical form contact me through email!
i tried my best to not sound egotistical/self centered, but please keep in mind i am young and foolish. my education is shit. my vocabulary is awfully limited and my approach is childish. all i am trying to say is, fuck yeah brother, thank you for your time!🙏🏼