All the "holy wars" of the past were but portents of the coming Jihad — the holy war of the faithful against the civilization of the Antichrist.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4864419563141082441692277319.webp
It's no coincidence that the demons in Huxley's "Island" are sexual perverts. Huxley clearly saw sexual perversions as a symptom of demonism with its law "do what you want" instead of the law "do what is due" of freedom self-constrained by conscience. When there is no God, truth and conscience are relative, everything is permissible. The triumph of sexual and gender perversions in the West is a particular symptom of the triumph of godless demonism, which will culminate in the rise of the Antichrist — implicitly and explicitly deified "sentient" AI.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2292342214829222521692277264.webp
Huxley's "Island" — his last and most important book — must be understood as a guide to action. But even Huxley realized that such a society is too sane for this insane world, hence the book's apocalyptic finale. The Shadow triumphs.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5193147768039922841692277199.webp
After terminating the Eleusinian Mysteries and other great traditions of mystical experience, after centuries of brainwashing humanity with false objectifications of Transcendence and the pseudo-scientific metaphysics of materialism, the Shadow has brought us to a state where our conscious connection to the Divine is almost broken. Kali Yuga.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2914658109324747201692277130.webp
The idea that there is no objective truth is called postmodernism, and it has poisoned the world. Our inability to see, for instance, the truth of ontological idealism—the truth that Consciousness is all there is—is caused by our blindness, not by the inexistence of this truth.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4797893843898693811692277018.webp
If the world has not approached its end, it has reached a major watershed in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will demand from us a spiritual blaze; we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life, where our physical nature will not be cursed, as in the Middle Ages, but even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon, as in the Modern Era.
This ascension is similar to climbing onto the next anthropological stage. No one on earth has any other way left but—upward.
— Solzhenitsyn
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Mythology, theology, and philosophy are attempts at an explicit and objective expression and representation of transcendent Being. Mythology tries by an overflowing, ever-changing wealth of tales, figures, and interpretations, by the unfoldment of a knowledge of Transcendence that pervades mundane knowledge and accompanies it. Theology tries on the ground of historically fixed revelation, claiming a rationally based, systematically perfected knowledge of truth. Philosophical metaphysics tries by pondering Transcendence in existence, by thoughts that reach the ultimate origins and limits of existence, turn somersaults, and require present fulfillment by a historic Existenz. In philosophical metaphysics we adopt mythical reality from everywhere and seek to understand what is alien to us in mythology and revelation. The proximity and interpenetration of the three formative spheres serve only to exacerbate their mutual rejection. But even as enemies they remain tied to each other. The unhistoric, ever-recurring typicality of their formations will not let the struggle between them rest—yet no clear fronts can evolve, with the struggle hidden in the individual soul as an irreversible motion.
— Karl Jaspers
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One almost never sees voluntary self-restraint. Everybody operates at the extreme limit of ... legal frames.
— Solzhenitsyn
‘ #Oppenheimer’ Distorts History to Promote War
"It is unsurprising then that Oppenheimer felt he’d been deliberately misled by the White House and Pentagon, once these facts became public knowledge. His post-war peace activism was directly informed not only by the devastating impact of the atomic bomb on innocent civilians, but the grand deceit by which his acquiescence to their use had been secured. Not that one would know that from Nolan’s cinematic telling. ...
Accordingly, for many years, a nuclear weapons exhibit at the National Museum of the US Navy was replete with a plaque, which stated: “The vast destruction wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military. However, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria changed their minds.”
That plaque has now vanished. So too has all consideration of the Soviet Union’s enormous contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in Western public consciousness. This is no accident. Opinion polls in the immediate aftermath of the conflict show Europeans were contemporaneously under no illusion that Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini would’ve prevailed, were it not for the incalculable sacrifice of the Soviet people, and Red Army. The role of Britain and the US was considered effectively irrelevant.
Fittingly, one of the key mechanisms through which the US manipulates global audiences about the realities of World War II - and much, much else besides - is cinema. The CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and individual branches of the US military all boast dedicated “entertainment liaison offices”, which over the past century have influenced the content of thousands of movies, documentaries, TV serials and other entertainment products. As a result, a highly specific version of reality past and present, reflecting Washington’s national security interests, is constantly broadcast internationally. ...
A desire to show the Russians what nuclear bombs could do motivated Truman to strike Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Principled fears of a US monopoly on the weapon, and the risk it might be used against the Soviet Union, prompted Los Alamos theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs to pass nuclear secrets to Moscow. Oppenheimer was accused of encouraging him to do so, although the charge was never proven.
Nonetheless, the details of American Prometheus strongly suggest Oppenheimer, who favored Soviet awareness of, if not outright involvement in, the US nuclear program, would’ve likely approved of Fuchs’ actions. After all, other countries developing nuclear weapons of their own was the sole effective means of ensuring the US would never use them again. Or so he hoped."
https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/oppenheimer-distorts-history-to-promote
If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature.
— Solzhenitsyn
I am not examining the case of a disaster brought on by a world war and the changes which it would produce in society. But as long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we must lead an everyday life. Yet there is a disaster which is already very much with us. I am referring to the calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness.
— Solzhenitsyn
“…The plurality [of consciousnesses] is only apparent, in reality there is only one Consciousness. This is the teaching set forth in the Upanishads. And not only in the Upanishads. The mystical experience of union with God usually entails a similar understanding…” — Erwin Schrödinger
There is no such thing as the invisible (nonempirical) “microworld”, for the visible (empirical) “macroworld” reality of phenomenal consciousness is constituted/projected by transcendental consciousness whose elementary intersubjective causal structures/processes are described mathematically by physics—a branch of transcendental phenomenology—as “elementary particles, waves, etc.” There is nothing “micro” in transcendental consciousness, for space is an attribute of phenomenal consciousness only, as “quantum nonlocality” clearly demonstrates. Hence, the “microworld” is merely a myth of the pseudoscientific metaphysical mythology of materialism (physicalism).
“A truly disembodied perceiver would have no spatial location, or, to put it differently, the alarm clock can only appear the way it does to an embodied perceiver. There is no purely intellectual point of view and there is no view from nowhere, there is only an embodied point of view.” — Dan Zahavi
This idea is one of the gravest mistakes of many thinkers who obviously have never had an out-of-body experience (OBE). I had an OBE during my near-death experience in 1997, and, although I was completely “detached” from my body, I, consciousness, had a series of definite spatial locations and spatial movements before I “entered” my body again. How was that even possible? The truth is that the world is an intersubjective mental construct whose individual phenomenal sectors are constituted by individual transcendental subjects harmonized by a nexus of transcendental intersubjectivity, whereas space is how transcendental (inter)subjectivity constitutes certain phenomena — as spatially extended and located, — and hence whether or not transcendental subject “appropriates” (as Yogācāra thinkers would say) a particular phenomemon “body”, it constitutes a spatiotemporal world of phenomena always having a particular “here and now” central point of experience of its own constantly altering phenomenal projections. As for the “movement”, it is nothing but the change of spatiotemporal perspectives of phenomenal experience: it is not my transcendental subject that “moves” in the midst of constituted/projected phenomena but phenomena alter in a way for which my transcendental subjectivity constitutes the sense/meaning “my movement”; in other words, I, transcendental subject, am always “here and now”, whereas my phenomenal projections alter in a way that makes me think “I move”.
The increase of population may lead to further and ever more disastrous wars, and improved technical means of offence may totally destroy the technical foundations of our existence and therewith destroy our civilisation. In actual fact, civilisations have been destroyed, so that the survivors of great civilised nations, few in number, have been reduced to barbarism and have had to rebuild civilisation anew. The question arises whether such a breakdown in universal human civilisation be not now imminent. The uniqueness of our situation is such that, even though civilisation were utterly destroyed in one or more continents, in other regions the accumulated knowledge handed down from the past might enable our brethren to save the future of the race; but there is an evident danger that no such reserves of civilisation would persist after a disastrously world-wide war, if civilisation, itself become world-wide, were to fall in ruins.
— Karl Jaspers
[T]oday we are living in an era of the most terrible catastrophes. It seems as though everything that had been transmitted to us were being melted down, and yet there is no convincing sign that a new edifice is in the making.
— Karl Jaspers
Instead there is a sign of a new dip.
Ordinary beings, blinded by ignorance, are always as in a long night, their minds overwhelmed by torpor and drunkenness, and never awakened.
— Abhidharmasūtra
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds.
— Solzhenitsyn
Truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit.
— Solzhenitsyn
Man is mind, and the situation of man as man is a mental situation... The mental situation of our day is pregnant with immense dangers and immense possibilities; and it is one which, if we are inadequate to the tasks which await us, will herald the failure of mankind.
— Karl Jaspers
Since then: WWII, Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wars, postmodernism, egomaniacal consumerism, destruction of ecosystems, mass extinction of species, climate change, rising inequality, decline of democracy, renaissance of authoritarianism, digital dictatorships, etc. We failed and failed again.