This is why I garden. This is why I go on a hike every day, alone, singing. This is why I go to the wilderness alone for days to a week at a time. This is why I study the Western magical tradition. This is why I am learning the guitar. Make haste, slowly. Seek transcendence, then do the laundry. I find myself meditating more and more.
2030 is the goal for the UN and WEF with their Great Reset, total trans-formation of the West. That is also about the time oil constraints are really going to assert themselves, fracking being mostly played out by then. I suspect more likely the great reset will be the collapse of globalism and much of what we understand as modernity, to a more analog life for a lot more people. Ironically, that will be much healthier for people and the earth, but looking at it from this side for most people it looks horrific, and a lot of people are not likely to survive it.
I've been anticipating this as long as I can remember. It becomes more clear by the day.
I really like this post. It reminds me of Rudolf Steiner and his ideas of Ahriman, the Zoroastrian destructive evil spirit / thought / mind, which is one pole of Steiner's two extreme forces of evil that draws the soul into denser and lower forms of matter.
"According to Rudolf Steiner, mainstream science is Ahrimanic."
I remember reading something where he described the manifestation of Ahriman as a mechanical and technological being. He's got some interesting visuals regarding these concepts, and technology as you described it seems to fit his themes.
We may very well be approaching a cataclysm or the end of a cycle. Nihilism and empty consumption have certainly infected every corner of society. Whether these things come to pass in our time or not, a relationship with the transcendent is something we all need to try to develop and preserve.
Great essay and thanks for mentioning my post as well.
Great essay! I have been thinking of some similar things, but from a Judeo-Christian perspective. The Prophet Daniel interprets the vision that Kind Nebuchadnezzar has in Daniel Chapter 2, the vision of the statue made of various materials. I was shocked to read what you wrote of Guenon, and how similarly the Hindu Conception of ages aligns.
31 “Your Majesty, you had a vision. You saw a large statue. This statue was very bright. It stood in front of you, and it looked terrifying. 32 The head of this statue was made of fine gold. Its chest and arms were made of silver. Its stomach and hips were made of bronze. 33 Its legs were made of iron. Its feet were made partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 While you were watching, a stone was cut out, but not by humans. It struck the statue’s iron-and-clay feet and smashed them. 35 Then all at once, the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were smashed. They became like husks on a threshing floor [a] in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain which filled the whole world. 36 This is the dream. Now we’ll tell you its meaning.”
It is my personal conviction that Daniel, Guenon and the Hindus were correct. We are in the Iron Age, or more specifically the age of Iron and clay. We retain some of the strength of those who came before us, but we have been weakened, as with clay.
Good day to you Neo-Feudal Review and thank you for this article, specifically on the subject of the Yuga Cycles.
An interesting factor is that the Vedic Yugas consist of fractals within fractals. A Yuga contains a Sub-yuga and there is a Sub-sub-yuga within the Sub-yuga. I have visualised this in graphs I have created for the purpose, based on the work by David Frawley at the American Institute of Vedic Studies who have revealed the existence of the fractals within. You can see the graphs and my analysis of the real-world impacts and implications of the cycle-fractals here:
On the subject of acceleration-ism, thank you for these insights by Rene Guenon, I have to look into his work closer, but it rhymes with the metaphysics of a cycle winding down and its energy petering out at its end resulting in collapse on various levels (which is happening as we speak). That's then followed by a revival and rejuvenation as the new cycle starts.
These interpretations are also in line with the same type of phenomenon described by Pitirim A. Sorokin in 'The Crisis of Our Age':
According to his analysis (dated forward to our time contextually) we are currently at the very end of the Sensate/Material Age (Kali Yuga equivalent) . Everything collapses upon itself from corruption, greed, lack of spirituality, extreme materialism, etc at the end of such an age.
It rots from within at an accelerated pace. The Sensate/Material age then gives way (after much turmoil) to a Spiritual Age. It's inevitable.
Sorokin lists numerous instances in history where these transitions have happened. By my estimation the process will take anything from 20 to 50 years in our present transition. Big upheavals are to come especially in the 2030's, but the rest of this decade is bound to be very volatile as the final stages of collapse are unfolding. This can be mapped in the Yuga and Maya cycles too (2027 to 2032 are KEY years), as I have done in the article that I listed above.
I suspect this is also why Nietzsche went off the deep end. But there is also the reality that we can't walk alone and if we can't convince people to walk with us voluntarily, we are flailing around in empty space. No matter how amazing the ideas, If you can't get people on board, they are pointless. His formulation of a 'superman,' wasn't a good idea in any case, and I think he just couldn't think of anything better.
But then he was limited to Christianity. I think we need to start with there's something out there greater than ourselves that wishes the best for us. Being aspirational matters.
Rene Guenon remains to this day a well respected voice in the field of religion. I believe it was his observation that religion protects as long as its foundations remain hidden, a valuable understanding indeed. However, I can't help but note that his examination of God never allowed God to escape the grasp of his thought. Further, initiation has never been the purview of organized religion, it has always, when genuine, occurred through the meeting with the numinous. Religion was, at best, merely a nod from the greater society, an exoteric recognition of an event already established. We don't observe such ceremonies in the western world due to the undeniable fact that abrahamism evinces a far too jealous demeanor to recognize the numinous outside of its own rather limited scope.
In terms of his depiction of the Hindu ages, Guenon did correctly convey current dogma, yet there is more than a little evidence that earlier thought saw the ages as essentially similar in duration, but reflecting eachother in both ascending and descending order.
Savitri Devi is demonized to this day for actually bringing to her readers a glimpse of the mystical nature that underpinned National Socialism, and the prophetic nature of the phenomenon of Adolf Hitler. However, few in this modern world are capable of understanding her efforts. The term Nazi, for example, is a derogatory slur popularized by the enemies of National Socialism, enemies who themselves exhibit no understanding of the role played by the Runes, for example.
Devi worked with a fundamental theory of National Socialism that has very real archaeological and textual support.
I will conclude this comment by pointing out that modern technology exists primarily to enshrine extant institutions, and cement in the existence of the renter class. It operates on a philosophy that is desperately anti-life, obsessed with coercive power, and immensely energy dependant. As such, it cannot be anything other than a polarizing alienating force.
I have no cell phone, just a desktop that is very old. i have reverted to the native nature based faith of my hereditary lineage, the old gods that have looked after my blood for so very long. as long as you can stay anchored in truth, you should be alright, i think. get out in nature she will set you straight. garden. stargaze. dance.
Yes, technology not only causes time to speed up but also accelerates the genetic devolution of the human race. According to Dr. Eugene McCarthy, an American geneticist and one of the world's leading authorities on hybridization in animals, the human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee.
The more I contemplate it, the more I agree with McCarthy. As hybrids with high-end technology at our disposal, the human body will eventually become obsolete and useless. In my opinion, the next era will not result in a return to a less technological world; in fact, my prediction is that humans will cease to exist in the material world, and reality will be 100% virtual.
Not only do I think that we are hybrids, but I also subscribe to the idea that "gods" were involved in the hybridization process. The creators needed us for a specific reason which has now expired. That's why we have religions all around the world referring to them with slight variations.
I don't trust traditional or modern religions because, as stated above, they only refer to these "creators" who made us and used us (and still do to an extent). These religions hide the truth about our true origins.
I hold a particular opinion about any type of gods, believing that there could not be a benevolent god or gods. Any entity possessing higher intelligence than us is not going to act solely in our favor. It's a dynamic similar to that between us and the domesticated animals we eat. We look after them for a while, providing shelter and food, but only until we have to slaughter them for food. We might even develop attachments, but we always prioritize ourselves first.
Finally, the rapid acceleration of technology is most probably aided by the same "gods" who help us develop in a certain direction. They simply use "messengers," which we like to call "inventors", to teach us about certain technology. Tesla was one such messenger, and religion calls them "fallen angels".
In conclusion, these are the true final days of the human race as we know it. This place we call Earth is most likely a kind of prison planet, and personally, the thought of our final days is rather liberating to me. Every creature down here exists to eat and destroy other creatures, so I am not particularly fond of this place. No, I am not a vegan - quite the opposite, actually and look after animals for food.
Once we transfer our consciousness with technology into the virtual space, the creators of the human hybrid are most likely to pull the plug, and we will completely evaporate into nothingness - as both physical bodies and consciousness.
The gods are not our friends; the so-called spirituality is an illusion. The best approach in my mind to ease the ride through the final days is to prioritize health and wellness as people will become increasing irrational due to their declining health and thus mental well being.
I can't help but feel the materialist-quantification vs. transcendental problem is actually one of THE issues of our time. Sometimes I feel it is just a discordance between the idealist and pragmatist. But then I read something like this and I can see it it front and center for many others.
This is why I garden. This is why I go on a hike every day, alone, singing. This is why I go to the wilderness alone for days to a week at a time. This is why I study the Western magical tradition. This is why I am learning the guitar. Make haste, slowly. Seek transcendence, then do the laundry. I find myself meditating more and more.
2030 is the goal for the UN and WEF with their Great Reset, total trans-formation of the West. That is also about the time oil constraints are really going to assert themselves, fracking being mostly played out by then. I suspect more likely the great reset will be the collapse of globalism and much of what we understand as modernity, to a more analog life for a lot more people. Ironically, that will be much healthier for people and the earth, but looking at it from this side for most people it looks horrific, and a lot of people are not likely to survive it.
I've been anticipating this as long as I can remember. It becomes more clear by the day.
I really like this post. It reminds me of Rudolf Steiner and his ideas of Ahriman, the Zoroastrian destructive evil spirit / thought / mind, which is one pole of Steiner's two extreme forces of evil that draws the soul into denser and lower forms of matter.
"According to Rudolf Steiner, mainstream science is Ahrimanic."
I remember reading something where he described the manifestation of Ahriman as a mechanical and technological being. He's got some interesting visuals regarding these concepts, and technology as you described it seems to fit his themes.
We may very well be approaching a cataclysm or the end of a cycle. Nihilism and empty consumption have certainly infected every corner of society. Whether these things come to pass in our time or not, a relationship with the transcendent is something we all need to try to develop and preserve.
Great essay and thanks for mentioning my post as well.
Great essay! I have been thinking of some similar things, but from a Judeo-Christian perspective. The Prophet Daniel interprets the vision that Kind Nebuchadnezzar has in Daniel Chapter 2, the vision of the statue made of various materials. I was shocked to read what you wrote of Guenon, and how similarly the Hindu Conception of ages aligns.
31 “Your Majesty, you had a vision. You saw a large statue. This statue was very bright. It stood in front of you, and it looked terrifying. 32 The head of this statue was made of fine gold. Its chest and arms were made of silver. Its stomach and hips were made of bronze. 33 Its legs were made of iron. Its feet were made partly of iron and partly of clay. 34 While you were watching, a stone was cut out, but not by humans. It struck the statue’s iron-and-clay feet and smashed them. 35 Then all at once, the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were smashed. They became like husks on a threshing floor [a] in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain which filled the whole world. 36 This is the dream. Now we’ll tell you its meaning.”
It is my personal conviction that Daniel, Guenon and the Hindus were correct. We are in the Iron Age, or more specifically the age of Iron and clay. We retain some of the strength of those who came before us, but we have been weakened, as with clay.
I always enjoy your work, keep up the fire!
Good day to you Neo-Feudal Review and thank you for this article, specifically on the subject of the Yuga Cycles.
An interesting factor is that the Vedic Yugas consist of fractals within fractals. A Yuga contains a Sub-yuga and there is a Sub-sub-yuga within the Sub-yuga. I have visualised this in graphs I have created for the purpose, based on the work by David Frawley at the American Institute of Vedic Studies who have revealed the existence of the fractals within. You can see the graphs and my analysis of the real-world impacts and implications of the cycle-fractals here:
https://energyshifts.net/the-lights-along-the-way
On the subject of acceleration-ism, thank you for these insights by Rene Guenon, I have to look into his work closer, but it rhymes with the metaphysics of a cycle winding down and its energy petering out at its end resulting in collapse on various levels (which is happening as we speak). That's then followed by a revival and rejuvenation as the new cycle starts.
These interpretations are also in line with the same type of phenomenon described by Pitirim A. Sorokin in 'The Crisis of Our Age':
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275906/mode/2up
According to his analysis (dated forward to our time contextually) we are currently at the very end of the Sensate/Material Age (Kali Yuga equivalent) . Everything collapses upon itself from corruption, greed, lack of spirituality, extreme materialism, etc at the end of such an age.
It rots from within at an accelerated pace. The Sensate/Material age then gives way (after much turmoil) to a Spiritual Age. It's inevitable.
Sorokin lists numerous instances in history where these transitions have happened. By my estimation the process will take anything from 20 to 50 years in our present transition. Big upheavals are to come especially in the 2030's, but the rest of this decade is bound to be very volatile as the final stages of collapse are unfolding. This can be mapped in the Yuga and Maya cycles too (2027 to 2032 are KEY years), as I have done in the article that I listed above.
Best regards,
J.J. Montagnier
I suspect this is also why Nietzsche went off the deep end. But there is also the reality that we can't walk alone and if we can't convince people to walk with us voluntarily, we are flailing around in empty space. No matter how amazing the ideas, If you can't get people on board, they are pointless. His formulation of a 'superman,' wasn't a good idea in any case, and I think he just couldn't think of anything better.
But then he was limited to Christianity. I think we need to start with there's something out there greater than ourselves that wishes the best for us. Being aspirational matters.
Rene Guenon remains to this day a well respected voice in the field of religion. I believe it was his observation that religion protects as long as its foundations remain hidden, a valuable understanding indeed. However, I can't help but note that his examination of God never allowed God to escape the grasp of his thought. Further, initiation has never been the purview of organized religion, it has always, when genuine, occurred through the meeting with the numinous. Religion was, at best, merely a nod from the greater society, an exoteric recognition of an event already established. We don't observe such ceremonies in the western world due to the undeniable fact that abrahamism evinces a far too jealous demeanor to recognize the numinous outside of its own rather limited scope.
In terms of his depiction of the Hindu ages, Guenon did correctly convey current dogma, yet there is more than a little evidence that earlier thought saw the ages as essentially similar in duration, but reflecting eachother in both ascending and descending order.
Savitri Devi is demonized to this day for actually bringing to her readers a glimpse of the mystical nature that underpinned National Socialism, and the prophetic nature of the phenomenon of Adolf Hitler. However, few in this modern world are capable of understanding her efforts. The term Nazi, for example, is a derogatory slur popularized by the enemies of National Socialism, enemies who themselves exhibit no understanding of the role played by the Runes, for example.
Devi worked with a fundamental theory of National Socialism that has very real archaeological and textual support.
I will conclude this comment by pointing out that modern technology exists primarily to enshrine extant institutions, and cement in the existence of the renter class. It operates on a philosophy that is desperately anti-life, obsessed with coercive power, and immensely energy dependant. As such, it cannot be anything other than a polarizing alienating force.
Finally, thank you for this provocative piece.
"Or as Junger wrote in the quote above, “if someone somehow still preserves this relationship to transcendence, he is “ultimately” safe from fear."
Today the Gospel was John8:51-59.
A verse of it read:
"If one obeys my word, he will never meet death" (my onw, certainly rough-around-the-edges, translation from Italian).
A Rene Guenon post lfggg
I have no cell phone, just a desktop that is very old. i have reverted to the native nature based faith of my hereditary lineage, the old gods that have looked after my blood for so very long. as long as you can stay anchored in truth, you should be alright, i think. get out in nature she will set you straight. garden. stargaze. dance.
We are the architects of the Golden Age to come, and we WILL win
Yes, technology not only causes time to speed up but also accelerates the genetic devolution of the human race. According to Dr. Eugene McCarthy, an American geneticist and one of the world's leading authorities on hybridization in animals, the human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee.
The more I contemplate it, the more I agree with McCarthy. As hybrids with high-end technology at our disposal, the human body will eventually become obsolete and useless. In my opinion, the next era will not result in a return to a less technological world; in fact, my prediction is that humans will cease to exist in the material world, and reality will be 100% virtual.
Not only do I think that we are hybrids, but I also subscribe to the idea that "gods" were involved in the hybridization process. The creators needed us for a specific reason which has now expired. That's why we have religions all around the world referring to them with slight variations.
I don't trust traditional or modern religions because, as stated above, they only refer to these "creators" who made us and used us (and still do to an extent). These religions hide the truth about our true origins.
I hold a particular opinion about any type of gods, believing that there could not be a benevolent god or gods. Any entity possessing higher intelligence than us is not going to act solely in our favor. It's a dynamic similar to that between us and the domesticated animals we eat. We look after them for a while, providing shelter and food, but only until we have to slaughter them for food. We might even develop attachments, but we always prioritize ourselves first.
Finally, the rapid acceleration of technology is most probably aided by the same "gods" who help us develop in a certain direction. They simply use "messengers," which we like to call "inventors", to teach us about certain technology. Tesla was one such messenger, and religion calls them "fallen angels".
In conclusion, these are the true final days of the human race as we know it. This place we call Earth is most likely a kind of prison planet, and personally, the thought of our final days is rather liberating to me. Every creature down here exists to eat and destroy other creatures, so I am not particularly fond of this place. No, I am not a vegan - quite the opposite, actually and look after animals for food.
Once we transfer our consciousness with technology into the virtual space, the creators of the human hybrid are most likely to pull the plug, and we will completely evaporate into nothingness - as both physical bodies and consciousness.
The gods are not our friends; the so-called spirituality is an illusion. The best approach in my mind to ease the ride through the final days is to prioritize health and wellness as people will become increasing irrational due to their declining health and thus mental well being.
https://stevenberger.substack.com/p/subhumanity-technique-and-the-myth?utm_medium=reader2
Great read!
I can't help but feel the materialist-quantification vs. transcendental problem is actually one of THE issues of our time. Sometimes I feel it is just a discordance between the idealist and pragmatist. But then I read something like this and I can see it it front and center for many others.