There is no basis for rosy historical optimism. Christianity does not teach it. The world is moving towards a tragic division and struggle of opposing spiritual principles. But in these paths it makes great sense to eliminate illusions, to expose true realities.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The only universal mystical/transpersonal experience that transcends all possible conceptual objectifications is the experience of the nondual (meaning the lack of the subject-object dichotomy and other dichotomies) Light—transcendent consciousness-in-itself.
Every (inter)subjective phenomenon is the transcendent Light—consciousness-in-itself—reduced by transcendental (inter)subjectivity that "collapses" its "universal wavefunction" (a math description of infinite potential). Consciousness—transcendent, transcendental and phenomenal—is all there is, and this Consciousness is God.
The only Holy Trinity is the trinity of three dimensions of divine Consciousness: transcendent (the Light), transcendental (constitutive intersubjectivity) and phenomenal (constituted objectivity).
One in three.
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Faith is the fulfilling and moving element in the depths of man, in which man is linked, above and beyond himself, with the Origin of his being.
— Karl Jaspers
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The whole problem of neuroscience … is how to connect brain activity with consciousness, and all we can say in general is that these processes are running in parallel.” — Oliver Sacks (translated from Russian)
The reduction of phenomenal consciousness to the intersubjective phenomenon "brain" is an absurd recursion. The correlation between subjective and intersubjective phenomena proves only that the brain is a phenomenal representation of constitutive transcendental subjectivity. I.e., when I look at the brain and the results of scientific observations of it, I look at the way one's transcendental subjectivity is experienced phenomenally across our nexus of transcendental intersubjectivity. It's just an intersubjective phenomenal image-interface of the soul.
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Nietzsche was the first to draw a frightening picture of the modern world, which has been relentlessly repeated by everyone ever since: the collapse of culture: education is replaced by empty knowledge; spiritual substance — by the universal facade of fake life; boredom is drowned out by drugs of all kinds and thrills; every living spiritual germ is suppressed by the noise and rumble of the illusory spirit; everyone talks, but no one listens; everything decays in the flow of words; everything is blabbed and betrayed. None other than Nietzsche showed the desert of the mad race for profit; showed the meaning of the machine and the mechanization of labor; showed the meaning of the emerging phenomenon — the masses. But all this is for Nietzsche in the foreground, a ripple on the surface. Today, "when the whole earth is trembling, when everything is cracking at the seams," the main events take place in the depths, and what we observe are only consequences; a resident of a cozy age of calm and complacent bourgeoisie, Nietzsche writes with a shudder of genuine horror about what no one has yet noticed: the main event is that "God is dead". "Here is the monstrous news that will not reach the consciousness of Europeans until a few centuries from now; but then — then it will long seem to them that things have lost their reality...". "The rise of nihilism," Nietzsche predicts, "will be the history of the next two centuries. Our whole European culture has long been moving with agonizing tension, with trembling and grinding, increasing from decade to decade, toward catastrophe; not moving calmly, but convulsively, in rapid spurts, as if by force: "I wish it would end sooner rather than later, if only to avoid waking up, because it is so terrible to wake up and come to your senses"... Whereas for Christianity the general course of history was predetermined and the question of the salvation of the soul remained open for each individual, for Nietzsche the direction of the general process is in question: in which direction it will go depends on the will and activity of man. Hegel refused to pose the question of the future; Marx urged to hasten the coming of what was already coming by virtue of necessity, which, as it seemed to him, was irrefutably proven by his science; but Nietzsche saw in the future the most terrible danger: man can perish, can become an ape again, if at the last moment he does not succeed in decisively changing the direction of history.
— Karl Jaspers
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This sick civilization deserves to end in flames. It is cursed by its demons and their terrible sins.
https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1681742631980638209
В музее «Body Worlds» в Амстердаме есть такие экспонаты. Только там настоящие распиленные надвое головы мертвых людей. С ресничками, проросшей уже, видимо, после смерти щетиной, морщинами и жировыми складками. А внутри вот эта органическая каша, в которой, по мнению, увы, слишком многих, локализовано чудо сознания, экзистенции. Ясперс и другие справедливо критиковали эту теорию и называли ее нейромифологией, ведь старательно выдаваемые материалистами за ее доказательства факты свидетельствуют в лучшем случае о параллелизме, но отнюдь не о локализации психики в теле, о какой бы его части ни шла речь. Однажды на лекции по теме искусственного интеллекта я обратился к лектору, доктору каких-то там наук, с вопросом действительно ли он считает теорию мозговой локализации психики строго доказанной, на что он ответил, что нет, не считает, просто она наиболее удобная. Наиболее удобная и вместе с тем наиболее одурачивающая тех, кто, если бы не это возведенное в догму псевдонаучное суеверие, мог бы задуматься, удивиться, увидеть в себе чудо из чудес, а вслед за тем услышать То, что стоит за этим чудом. Но этого как раз никак допустить нельзя, человек должен слушать совсем другие голоса, уводящие его все дальше и дальше прочь от пробуждения, освобождения.
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I'm very pessimistic about the future of this civilization, because most people don't even notice the fundamental problem from which all other problems stem—their misunderstanding of the nature of the empirical reality of phenomenal consciousness. False metaphysics gives rise to false values and goals. We won't change our insane world without changing the metaphysical basis of our insane worldview.
"Measurements made on subglacial sediment from the Camp Century ice core in northwestern Greenland show that the location was ice free during the interglacial that occurred around 400,000 years ago. Christ et al. used luminescence dating and cosmogenic nuclide data to show that the sediment was deposited under ice-free conditions after having been exposed at the surface to sunlight fewer than 16,000 years earlier. The absence of ice at that location means that the Greenland Ice Sheet must have contributed more than 1.4 meters of sea-level equivalent to the high sea-level stand, when the average global air temperature was similar to what we will soon experience because of human-caused climate warming."
Which means we're fucked. Good! This madness must end. Civilization must begin anew, and this time, instead of taking the suicidal technocratic path, humanity (or whatever corporeal form intelligence will take in the future) must take the path of spiritual evolution.
Just because our eyes are open does not mean we are awake.
— Haemin Sunim
"Ultimately, #NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth. NATO is on the wrong side of history."
#Ukraine #UkraineWar
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/19/the-dynamics-of-war-insanity-natos-ukraine-roulette/
Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret
Russia can’t lose and the Ukrainians can’t win. Biden should end this now, but he can’t
"Joe Biden’s early-stage dementia and cognitive decline is a fitting symbol of Western imperial decline. When all you have to offer the world us unending conflict and mayhem, you have nothing to offer. All empires fall as a result of the hubris and complacency that accompanies them. This is what we are witnessing now when it comes to the United States.
When it comes to to the killing fields of Ukraine, what is unfolding is the dying of the old world and coming into being of the new. Here, nobody said it better than Ernest Hemingway: “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currently; the second is war. Both bring temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruing. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
Funnelling tens of billions of dollars into the coffers of one of the most corrupt countries in the world, Ukraine, can be described as many things, but a sound and principled foreign policy is not one of them.
Joe Biden is America’s Claudius. Like his Roman counterpart, he is the accidental leader of an empire in decline, though blindly refusing to recognise the fact and continuing to act and make decisions according to the realities of yesterday rather than today.
Claudius’s reign was succeeded by that of Nero. Donald Trump says hello."
Пока я остаюсь в этом мире, я остаюсь головой дракона. Наивно было бы полагать, что может быть иначе. Подлинно святых и просветленных здесь не было, нет и никогда не будет, ведь достичь просветления значит достичь освобождения от власти этого инфернального мира, выйти из него и больше не возвращаться. Невозможно стать буддой не умерев, но можно умирать и рождаться в этом мире снова и снова так и не став буддой — так и не достигнув освобождения из этой тюрьмы, оставаясь головой дракона, его марионеткой, его невольным или добровольным агентом влияния. Невозможно освободить себя от его власти не заметив его в себе, не поймав за руку прежде всего вот этого столь рассудительного суфлера в своей голове, не увидев пути дьявола широко открытыми глазами и отказавшись идти по ним. Но одни не замечают, а другим "в аду интереснее".
Написал это и услышал как за окном мать нечеловеческим голосом орет на своего плачущего ребенка: "Закрой рот! Закрой свой рот!!!". Дракон жив. Дракон живее всех живых.
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From the beginning there has been something irreplaceable in philosophy. Through all the change in human circumstances and the tasks of practical life, through all the progress of the sciences, all the development of the categories and methods of thought, it is forever concerned with apprehending the one eternal truth under new conditions, with new methods and perhaps with greater possibilities of clarity. It is our task today, amid the most extreme nihilism, to ascertain this truth once more.
— Karl Jaspers
Nazi Ukraine is a terrorist state.
Ukraine: The Empire Strikes Back
In the debate over NATO expansion, the fate of Ukraine is something of an afterthought.
The real issue centers on reviving damaged aspirations of American global primacy. ...
The U.S. global military footprint will expand. U.S. efforts to put its house in order domestically will founder. Pressing global problems like the climate crisis will be treated as afterthoughts. But the empire that has no name will persist, which ultimately is the purpose of the game. ...
But today the importance attributed to NATO testifies chiefly to the bankruptcy of American strategic thought and an inability to prioritize actually existing U.S. national interests, both foreign and domestic.
A sound revision of U.S. national security strategy would begin with announcing a timeline for withdrawing from NATO, converting it into an arrangement wholly owned and operated by Europe. The near impossibility of even imagining such an action by the United States testifies to the dearth of imagination that prevails in Washington.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ukraine-the-empire-strikes-back/
В девятнадцатом веке умер Бог. В двадцатом веке умерла истина. В двадцать первом веке умер здравый смысл. Свободе приготовиться.