TIMES, TIME, AND HALF A TIME. A HISTORY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

Comments on a cultural reality between past and future.

This blog describes Metatime in the Posthuman experience, drawn from Sir Isaac Newton's secret work on the future end of times, a tract in which he described Histories of Things to Come. His hidden papers on the occult were auctioned to two private buyers in 1936 at Sotheby's, but were not available for public research until the 1990s.



Showing posts with label Amnesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amnesia. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Lingering Malaise of an Uncertain Present

Source: Youtube.
 

I've recently embarked on writing a new novel serial, Vampire Daddy, which, despite its Martian Gothic futuristic trappings, reflects our current sense of unease about ... everything. One facet of this distress is the characters' pervasive amnesia. The protagonist is constantly trying to remember his past. While I seek to represent this misery in fiction, I've rarely heard the phenomenon described so well as was done so today on the channel, The Functional Melancholic.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Awaken the Amnesiacs 14: Songs from the Halls of Amenti

 

Today, I present the best conspiracy theory songs and music of red-pilled culture, which I have curated from Suno AI:

Conspiracy Theorists' Red-Pilled Mixed Tape

This blog has collected conspiracy theories as cultural artefacts from a critical period when social media exploded. With the aid of AI, netizens are paying homage to these ideas in a new genre of alienation and self-reflection. 

Many of these songs revolve around an underlying conviction that humanity suffers from a collective amnesia about our deep history. Is this a glitch in the Matrix? A moment of Jungian enantiodromia? The awakened masses intuit that we and our planet are part of a great story which we have forgotten. Can a historical date, say, 38 thousand years ago, really be projected onto these musings?

Every rabbit hole, every cover-up, every riddle in the dark, every exposé of aberrant corruption seems to lead back to this problem of species-wide amnesia. It doesn't matter whether we speak of the top of the pyramid or the core of the human heart. Somehow, the source of it all is a profound absence of memory. In place of memory, we get a degraded nightmare, as evident in reports from the Diddy trial (see Rotten Mango's coverage here and Tisa Tells' coverage here). 

Prior to that, perhaps the most recent major news item in this speculative space was the 15 March 2025 press release which asserted that a city has been located beneath the Khafre Pyramid on the Giza plateau:

 

SAR Scan of Khafre Pyramid Shows Huge Underground Structures by Greg Reese

One of the greatest mysteries just got bigger

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You can see more from Jonathan Evatt: 'What's Really Happening Beneath the Giza Plateau?'

This talk echoes long-standing occult whispers of Thoth's so-called Halls of Amenti, a hidden city beneath the Egyptian pyramids. Or was it another dimension or realm? This is a place where the concealed history of humankind, immortality, cloning"secrets of the stars, the blueprints of the universe" are inscribed, it is said, in marble walls and pillars. That story criss-crosses with rumours of Plato and Atlantis, aliens and the New Age; check out more here, here, here and here. You can watch many videos relating to Manly P. Hall's lectures and writings on Thoth / Hermes here.

The March 15 fringe academic findings are comparatively sober. They maintain that there are columns beneath the pyramid which stretch down two kilometres:

"Corrado Malanga, from the University of Pisa, and Filippo Biondi, involved in radar and remote sensing research with the University of Strathclyde, published peer-reviewed research in 2022 via MDPI, entitled, 'Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered High-Resolution Internal Structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza.'

Their research was conducted using SAR data, Synthetic Aperture Radar, along with proprietary software, developed by ... Biondi, that transforms the radar signals into phononic information which allows for the detection of millimetric vibrations. This cutting-edge technology is capable of revealing underground structures invisible to traditional methods, and revealed internal structures never seen before."
More:

  • Schumacher, T., Pugacheva, P., Allam, H. et al. "Confirmation of the ScanPyramids North Face Corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza using multi-modal image fusion from three non-destructive testing techniques." Sci Rep 15, 9275 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91115-8 (18 March 2025)
  • Trevor Grassi, Facebook (20 March 2025): THE KHAFRE PROJECT ... is REAL! [Updated post as of March 27] HERE IS THE THE CONFERENCE, with English subtitles. You don't have to believe me; the team is speaking now... Initial hour long release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpdJFlLpRE Here is the FULL CONFERENCE, with English subtitles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM8vzUUZdVM A friend,The team has also created an official facebook page with many new images: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574443323296 Here is a short interview I have released with Jahannah James setting the matter straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuyYGdfWw48 Here is another interview I gave with Mike Ricksecker: https://www.youtube.com/live/Gt7MeqFoJPA Here is my super deep dive with Jay Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhT6Vd9vO3U&t=3336s Here the team's first English interview with Jay Anderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b513P5g7XmQ Here is their second English interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ISC9ji-WA And here is their third [English] interview with me ... : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3bjfxLM9s Original Post: For the record, if people are now looking to my feed here, for more information, yes; I was the source of this document and images. It is the project abstract, given to me by the Khafre Project Team; Corrado Malanga, Filippo Biondi, Armando Mei, and Nicole Ciccolo. (It is a separate document from their 2022 report on the Great Pyramid.) I've been helping them to help get their great discovery out to the world, and they gave me permission to release this. Their 2022 paper is peer reviewed, and they will release a written report on this one, but not until probably late June. It is in the works, I have confirmed. I have also released some major disclosures about the Giza Underworld, on my youtube channel, which are directly related to this new discovery and the Italian team. ... I am trying my hardest to get out a video to explain it all; how it was released, and why no one can find the source webpage. Those images were released by me, right here on this feed, on the day of the conference (15th). ... This discovery is REAL, and everything will be explained completely in time, rest assured! I feel completely honored to be the person who broke this story, and for the record, I had NO IDEA that was going to be the case ... . If you are interested in learning more about how this new innovation on traditional SAR scanning, which we are calling the 'Biondi Protocol', the ONLY source you should look to is Manu Seyfzadeh's fb page, where he has been explaining it in detail with many excellent posts. Manu was mentioned by name in the press conference, and he is now working to provide the [necessary] material to allow a secondary team to reproduce the results of the Khafre Project, for an unbiased confirmation of the method. See his profile here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016513153080
  • Related book, Under The Sphinx.

See all my posts in the series, Awaken the Amnesiacs.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Back to the Matrix: 2021 Blog Posts on Patreon


Grendel's Mother, 13th century manuscript excerpt. Image Source: Kate Innes.

Dear Blog Readers,

I received a message recently from a reader. Had I stopped blogging? No, but my most recent posts are on my Patreon page. I also have a Discord group for recent links, Telegram channel for rarer links, and a private forum for serious discussions. You are welcome to join all three. You can become a Patreon Patron here, or by clicking the button below.


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My most recent posts from this year are below. I  will update this list with new links until 31 December 2021. 

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The Matrix Resurrections – Official Trailer 1 (2021). Video Source: Youtube.


Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Pivot Point for the Great Awakening: Unconscious Collectivism


Fake political news is growing, so how can you spot the misinformation? (26 January 2021). Video Source: Youtube.

I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:

The Miracle of Context

It concerns how one can recognize hidden truths in the post-truth world, where information is controlled, manipulated, denied, erased, and suppressed.

Leonardo DiCaprio Deep Fake Face (21 January 2021). Video Source: Youtube


While there are legitimate concerns over technological manipulation and dissemination of unverified information, the establishment are making a mistake if this is the sword they want to die on. 

Our leaders seek to monopolize the right to discuss information publicly, based on their power and expertise. As I have said in a previous post:
"It is not good enough, in the Age of Information, to state something and be believed just because one is authoritative. Purveyors of information must be telling the truth."
If our public figures abuse their power to hide information which challenges that power, they will be exposed. Of course, they will crack down on the free Internet before that happens.

I will soon be exploring practical responses to censorship for my $1 patrons on Patreon, with reports on how you can invest in decentralized social media platforms.

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Whether truth is shared inside networks or is observed in the real world, it has a meaning which cannot be controlled or measured. Secrets cannot really be hidden; forbidden knowledge cannot be eradicated. This point has come to a head partly because the Internet takes us into virtual reality, which is a platform for Carl Jung's collective unconscious. We don't need to know something consciously in order to be aware of it unconsciously. And that knowing extends beyond our own individual unconsciousnesses into a collective, objective reality. This is definitely not the type of collectivism that the technocrats want!

The Principle of Causality Confronts the Principle of Synchronicity

Unconscious collectivism is a serious problem for materialists and rationalists. The modern period taught us that the principle of causality provides the foundation of scientific thought. It describes linear, Cartesian consciousness: I think, therefore I am. It is the scheme for testable reality, derived from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It reveals the world as discovered by the rational mind, awakened within a limited consciousness, bounded by the experimental framework of science.

Image Source: Wiki.

But can you know something without knowing it or measuring it? Can you know something without thinking? Do our unconscious selves, particularly when they act in the realm of the collective unconscious, have autonomy and independence? Can they fight for freedom of knowing inside that realm? Are those who are still asleep the unexpected foot soldiers of the Great Awakening? 

In the information wars over the past decade, battle lines were drawn between awakened parties, dark and light, battling over unawakened sheep. This is why you have seen stern warnings to the public from the mainstream media, celebrities, and politicians not to look at dangerous information. They are saying: "Don't look at that information, because it might wake you up."

This is also why you have seen frantic appeals from the alternative media to the public to wake up. I posted a message along these lines last year: Wake Up, You're Next. I also explored this issue in my Awaken the Amnesiacs series.

But perhaps the truth is equally a force in the unconscious and conscious realms. This is a revolutionary idea: maybe you don't have to be awake to be part of the Great Awakening. Maybe the sleeper doesn't have to awaken to defend the truth of the human condition. All the world's sleepers might be a bit like the dead army in the Lord of the Rings.

If anything would make the occult controllers say, "Uh oh," it would be that.

According to Carl Jung (1875-1961), the laws of the universe do not work solely according to cause and effect. 21st century experience confirms Jung's ideas. His principle of synchronicity provides an alternative to the principle of causality, where the former is defined by 'meaningfulness.' Meaningful synchronicities are alarming to empiricists, because they are unverifiable. They exist outside conscious thought, and they reside in the realm of the collective unconscious, that is, in the soul spaces of memory, myths, madness, death, and dreams. They are fundamentally uncontrollable.

Image Source: 4chan.


For example, I don't need to explain why I've juxtaposed the 'Free Hugs' bunker photo above with the Finger Lakes New York map. If you don't know why, it really doesn't matter whether you search for the reason or not. I don't even need to share the material here at all. The information, and its meaning, are already out there and have become independent memes. Both are affecting your reality now, whether you are conscious of them or not.

This will be a news flash as much to the alt media as it is to those who thrive on secrets in darkness: information does not behave according to simplistic, linear, cause-and-effect, manipulatable patterns. Truth can be suppressed; but it still affects reality and everyone knows this, even if they remain unconscious about that fact.


In George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, oligarchical collectivism triumphs because Orwell believed that political realities depended on conscious knowing. Once truth could be eradicated inside the mind of the last radical individual, freedom was surgically removed from the human condition. This outcome presumes that there is no higher order which could reveal itself to human minds trapped inside a technocratic political system.

Orwell was wrong. Even in a completely censored, totalitarian system, the stars would align to point the ways to truth, and the truth would exert a force of its own accord which could not be controlled. Truth arrives in surprising, non-linear, lateral ways, interstitially, through surrealism and synchronicities.

Image Source: World Wide Weber.

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In Jung's concept of synchronicity, events may appear in parallel and not be causally connected. The connectedness occurs instead through higher forms of meaning. Meaningfulness has already been demonstrated online as an independent online force through memes. The meme wars of the 2016 US election showed how memes magically connect people. Memes spontaneously generate independent, powerful meanings inside decentralized, anonymous networked systems.

Synchronicities cannot be assessed by scientific method and cannot be tested empirically. They are coincidences which exist outside the probabilities of chance. Jung described them as "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events."



It appears that social media's inventors tried to harness the power of synchronicities. Algorithms on social media guide people so that they never see anything or anyone challenging. That false harmony is an artificial version of smooth, synchronized awareness.

The same goes for advanced marketing, in which search engines, AI, IoT, and surveillance mechanisms work together to present us with fake synchronicities. For example, I may talk on the phone about buying dog food. The next day my computer, which was in the same room, begins showing me dog food ads. What a (false) coincidence!

These artificial echo chambers rapidly become bell jars. They initially work, but later they drive people crazy, because deep down, everyone knows something is wrong with them. They are a poor replacement for real synchronicities. It is right at that point of madness that the collective unconscious will depart social media, aka big tech's fake consciousness construct. In short, we will connect to the truth, and respond to it, whether we know it or not. That is how real synchronicities, as natural phenomena, could mobilize the collective unconscious in the Information Age. 


Thursday, May 14, 2020

New Post at The Dragonfly: Calling until the Cows Come Home



I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:

Calling until the Cows Come Home

The post explores the idea that the pandemic crisis awakens us to the nature of our surroundings, calls souls out of amnesia, and demands discernment between safety and danger.


See all my posts on Epidemics here and here.


Monday, May 4, 2020

Awaken the Amnesiacs 13: Wake Up, You're Next


Wake Up Outta Your Sleep (3 May 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

The Technological Revolution stands at a crossroads. The leaders of the technocratic movement are using the global population to enter the heart of darkness. My Awaken the Amnesiacs series concerns the ways in which the technocratic movement has exploited human slumber, both the collective unconscious and a deliberately-imposed unconsciousness, forced upon our daily awareness.

Wake Up, You're Next

Dear members of the global public, you must wake up. You must heed the warnings. You must not sleepwalk into the technocratic heart of darkness. Authoritative voices will tell you to trust authority under the guise of the left-right division. They will tell you that believing them is part of your personal identity. You are intelligent, well-educated, prosperous, respectable, well-traveled, civilized, and liberal.

Make no mistake. The technocracy will use these slogans, but it is about being none of these things. Stop believing authorities, just because they are mainstream and official. It is not good enough, in the Age of Information, to state something and be believed just because one is authoritative. Purveyors of information must be telling the truth.

Nor is the current debate solely about COVID19, lockdowns, or a mandatory vaccine. This is not about whether a citizen is personally 'respectable' or 'intelligent,' or not. This is not about what other people will think if you change your mind. It is not even about the virulence of the virus and whether good citizens obey lockdowns. Leave all smug dismissals and judgements of others at the door. This is about whether you and everyone else will be subjugated to technocratic totalitarianism. It is about the implementation of the human body and brain as the new technocratic operating system. This is not a game.

If you agree with the mainstream media and official line because you think that Bill Gates is a selfless great humanitarian and his critics are ignorant, stupid, and left behind, impoverished racists, then you are reacting based on your social, educational, political, and professional conditioning.

For your own sake and for of all humankind, step back from politics. Even step back from the pandemic. Investigate the COVID19 question purely in terms of what is happening in the technological space. Look at what is being done in that space. Begin researching the proposals and projects which are bring brought forward now, particularly in the areas of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Listen to the years of speeches, made by tech leaders. Listen to the words they have used, the plans and promises they have made. Start with the fact that Bill Gates called his vaccine, "the Final Solution." That was not a mistake. Wake up.

Do not only consider the sources you usually consult. Examine the companies involved. Read their Websites. Do not do this to criticize the anti-vaxxers or the moronic, racist populists and conservatives. Stop relying on outdated political ideologies and rhetoric, which were designed to enslave you and keep you asleep, trapped in the false emancipation of hating the other half of the political population. Look into these questions now, as if for the first time, because if you do not, your own life, as an individual, will be destroyed.

What Americans MUST Remember Once the Dust Settles... (4 May 2020). Video Source: Youtube.

Pitted against these authoritative voices are alternative voices, like the Youtuber above. It is not these contending mainstream and alternative media actors who will profit or lose, based on your decision over whom to believe - it is you, directly. Do your research. Read and listen widely, not just in the places you are accustomed to seek information. You must wake up.

Imagine the picture presented in Robert Browning's 1844 poem, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, about which I have blogged here.

Childe Roland is a poem about a knight, cut off from his company, all of whom have been picked off, one by one. This knight is the last of his companions. In despair and isolation, he comes to a crossroads, where a smirking, sinister guardian of the road encourages the knight to take the wrong turn: "My first thought was, he lied in every word." The knight ends up at the Dark Tower, and all around him, there are ear-splitting warnings, screaming at him. He is deaf and blind, but in a sudden moment, he hears the alarms and recognizes that he has nearly wandered into the heart of darkness.

Into the Heart of Darkness

The Heart of Darkness scene from King Kong (2005) © Universal Pictures. Reproduced under Fair Use. Video Source: Youtube.

As the technocrats push humanity toward the heart of darkness, at double time, and drive us forward with crowbars and sticks, we may well ask: why do they keep going? They know that they are pushing everything past the point of no return. Some of these moguls and tech designers have even had moments of doubt. Why are they so convinced that there are problems, yes, but we must do this anyway? Hurry, hurry, hurry, we must do this now. There is no time to debate. There is no time to pause and contemplate. Their breathless rush is a warning sign that something is wrong.

Political and media authorities, and the tech leaders behind them, do this on purpose so that the global public cannot wake up and question them. We will be given no time or space to consider whether or not the technocratic course and transhumanist cybernetic immersion is healthy and justified. The time to consider these questions was in the independent media, from 2005 to 2019. If you did not use that time wisely, then you will have to wake up quickly, and you must wake up now.


Deus Ex: Mankind Divided All Cutscenes (Game Movie) 1080p HD (22 August 2016). Video Source: Youtube.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Full Game Walkthrough - Longplay No Commentary (PS4) (24 August 2016). Video Source: Youtube.


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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Awaken the Amnesiacs 12A: You're Locked in Here with Me


KEVIN SPACEY AND HIS BIZARRE CHRISTMAS EVE VIDEO | Double Toasted (25 December 2019). Video Source: Youtube.

To follow on my previous post on Kevin Spacey's Christmas video, see the above discussion from Double Toasted, which explains Spacey's video clearly. As host Korey Coleman points out, Spacey is owning his alleged sexual predator status and is using the scandal as a dark moment of supervillain self-empowerment. Notice the public reaction is one of confusion and puzzlement. We in the public are offended, but that has no effect on Kevin Spacey. Instead, he blossoms. We are taken off guard, our status as moral arbiters shaken and it provokes discussion as to what is going on, when in fact the punishment, if Spacey were to be found guilty, should be swift and severe. Instead, the mob withdraws to laugh, to chat about it, to wonder what is happening. We can't help but admire the audacity of it, the sheer insanity of the situation.

This is a supervillain victory. Supervillains have milestone moments too, and unfortunately, everyone identifies with this because the Internet peddles motivation, ego-boosting formulas, and self-improvement, beyond what is right and wrong. This reveals how social media can be turned upside down, to invert values, to appeal with negativity, to charm with revulsion. Spacey comes into his own as a supervillain, extending his bat wings and letting his scales breathe for the first time. As I stated in my previous post, Spacey's new theatre is the public space in virtual reality.



Spacey in his youth. Images Sources: TVOM, Bored Panda, Stack Exchange.

The message is, as Double Toasted host Martin Thomas states, akin to that of the Watchmen's Rorschach: I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. Social media platforms are one big prison, and we're locked in with the celebrity lunatic who can, with one tweak of the atmosphere, unhinge us all. Double Toasted's Korey Goodwin stated: "I've never had somebody aggressively act at me."

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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Awaken the Amnesiacs 12: Kevin Spacey's Fourth Wall Christmas


Image Source: pinterest.

On Christmas Eve, the American actor Kevin Spacey posted a sociopathic video, entitled KTWK, on Youtube. He appeared in character as House of Cards' Jack Underwood and uttered veiled threats at unnamed nemeses.

KTWK (24 December 2019). Video Source: Youtube.

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Awaken the Amnesiacs 11: Depart from the Camera Obscura


A natural instance of a camera obscura: an image of the New Royal Palace at Prague Castle projected onto an attic wall by a hole in the tile roofing (2 August 2011). Image Source: Gampe/Wiki.

For this weekend's solstice, the blog journeys into the darkness, the blind spot. Try this experiment. If you are left or liberal, try watching or reading conservative news and alt-media for a week. If you are conservative or libertarian, force yourself to listen to or read liberal-left media for a week.

The holidays are a good time to do this, when many people encounter friends and family they haven't seen in awhile, and have conversations which reveal uncomfortable political differences. Have compassion for your fellow human beings at holiday dinner tables, because we are all equally hammered by divisive and misleading propaganda.

If you follow the 'wrong' politicized narrative for a few days, you will notice that people are being fed the exact same story with which you may be familiar, but the players are changed.

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Space and Struggle to Become Responsible


Vice President Pence Unveils U.S. Space Force Plans (C-SPAN) (9 August 2018). Video Source: Youtube.

The news is full of space headlines. On 9 August, the American Vice President Mike Pence announced that the United States will build a sixth branch of its armed forces, a "space force" to "prepare for the next battlefield." The full statement is here.

Thursday, February 1, 2018

Awaken the Amnesiacs 10: The World of Machines and the Retired Engineer


Image from 2017's Cicada3301 rabbit hole, an online/real world code-breaking scavenger hunt. Some people believe that the Cicada online games are recruitment puzzles for an unknown organization. Image Source: Youtube.

This blog is named for a phrase written by Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) in his secret journals. In Yahuda MS 1.1, folio 16 recto, Newton wrote: "the holy Prophecies" of the Scripture are nothing else than "histories of things to come." He was using magic and religion to predict the future and the end of the world. The exact passage in his Untitled Treatise on Revelation (held at the National Library of Israel in the Yahuda manuscripts collection, as cited above; you can see the actual document here) reads:
Rules for interpreting the Apocalyps.

"12. The Construction of the Apocalyps after it is once deter {16r} mined must be made the rule of interpretations; And all interpretations rejected which agree not with it. That must not be strained to fit history but such things chosen out of history as are most suitable to that.

13. To interpret sacred Prophecies of the most considerable things & actions of those times to which they are applied. For if it would be weakness in an Historian whilst he writes of obscurer actions to let slip the greater, much less ought this to be supposed in the holy Prophesies which are no other then histories of things to come.

14. To proportion the most notable parts of Prophesy to the most notable parts of history, & the breaches made in a continued series of Prophesy to the changes made in history And to reject those interpretations where the parts and breaches of Prophesy do not thus bear a due proportion to the parts & changes in History. For if Historians divide their histories into Sections Chapters & Books at such periods of time where the less, greater & greatest revolutions begin or end; & to do otherwise would be improper: much more ought we to suppose that the holy Ghost observes this rule accurately in his prophetick dictates, since they are no other then histories of things to come. Thus by the great breaches made between the sixt & seventh seal by interposing the vision of the sealed saints, & between the sixt & seventh Trumpet by interposing the vision of the little book, that prophesy is divided into three cardinal parts, & the middle part subdivided by the little breach between the fourth & fift Trumpet made by interposition of the Angel crying Wo, & all the other seals & trumpets are as it were less sections. And therefore to these breaches & sections, according to the rule, must be adapted periods of time which intercede & disterminate proportional revolutions of history. Again if a Historian should use no proportion in his descriptions but magnify a less thing above a greater or attribute the more courage to the softer of two persons &c.: we {17r} should count it an argument of his unskilfulness. And therefore since the dictates of the Holy-Ghost are histories of things to come, such disproportions are not to be allowed in them. Thus in Daniel's vision of the four Beasts, it would be grosly absurd to interpret, as some Polititians of late have done, the fourth Beast of Antiochus Epiphanes & his successors; since that is described to be the most terrible, dreadfull, strong, & warlike Beast of all the four, & the Prophet dwels far longer upon the description of that then of all the others put together: whereas the kingdom of Antiochus Epiphanes & his successors was both less & weaker & less warlike then any of the three before him.

15. To chose those interpretations which without straining do most respect the church & argue the greatest wisdom & providence of God for preserving her in the truth. As he that would interpret the letters or actions of a very wise states man, so as thence to know the council wherewith they are guided & the designes he is driving on, must consider the main end to which they are directed & suppose they are such as most conduce to that end & argue the greatest wisdom & providence of the States-man in ordering them: so it is in these Prophesies. They are the counsels of God & so the most wise, & fittest for the end to which they are designed: And that end is the benefit of the Church to guide her & preserve her in the truth. For to this end are all the sacred prophesies in both the old and new Testament directed, as they that will consider them may easily perceive. Hence may appear the oversight of some interpreters whose interpretations if they were true would make the Apocalyps of little or no concernment to the Church. Perhaps what follows may be better inserted in the preface.

Yet I meane not that these Prophesies were intended to convert the whole world to the truth. For God is just as well as merciful, & punishes wickednes by hardening the wicked & {18r} visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children. But the designe of them is to try men & convert the best, so that the church may be purer & less mixed with Hypocrites & luke-warm persons. And for this end it is that they are wrapt up in obscurity, & so framed by the wisdom of God that the inconsiderate, the proud, the self-conceited, the presumptuous, the scholist, the sceptic, they whose judgments are ruled by their lusts, their interest, the fashions of the world, their esteem of men, the outward shew of thing or other prejudices, & all they who, of how pregnant natural parts soever they be, yet cannot discern the wisdom of God in the contrivance of the creation: that these men whose hearts are thus hardned in seeing should see & not perceive & in hearing should heare & not understand. For God has declared his intention in these prophesies to be as well that none of the wicked should understand as that the wise should understand, Dan: 12.

And hence I cannot but on this occasion reprove the blindness of a sort of men who although they have neither better nor other grounds for their faith then the Scribes & Pharisees had for their Traditions, yet are so pervers as to call upon other men for such a demonstration of the certainty of faith in the scriptures that a meer naturall man, how wicked soever, who will but read it, may judg of it & perceive the strength of it with as much perspicuity & certainty as he can a demonstration in Euclide. Are not these men like the Scribes & Pharisees who would not attend to the law & the Prophets but required a signe of Christ? Wherefore if Christ thought it just to deny a signe to that wicked & adulterate generation notwithstanding that they were God's own people, & the Catholique Church; much more may God think it just that this generation {19r} should be permitted to dy in their sins, who do not onely like the Scribes neglect but trample upon the law and the Prophets, & endeavour by all possible means to destroy the faith which men have in them, & to make them disregarded. I could wish they would consider how contrary it is to God's purpose that the truth of his religion should be as obvious & perspicuous to all men as a mathematical demonstration. Tis enough that it is able to move the assent of those which he hath chosen; & for the rest who are so incredulous, it is just that they should be permitted to dy in their sins. Here then is the wisdom of God, that he hath so framed the Scriptures as to discern between the good and the bad, that they should be demonstration to the one & foolishness to the other.

And from this consideration may also appear the vanity of those men who regard the splendor of churches & measure them by the external form & constitution. Whereas it is more agreable to God's designe that his church appear contemptible & scandalous to the world to try men. For this end doubtles he suffered the many revoltings of the Iewish Church under the Law, & for the same end was the grand Apostacy to happen under the gospel. Rev . If thou relyest upon the externall form of churches, the Learning of Scholars, the wisdom of statemen or of other men of Education; consider with thy self whither thou wouldest not have adhered to the scribes & Pharisees hadst thou lived in their days, & if this be thy case, then is it no better then theirs, & God may judg thee accordingly, unless thou chance to be on the right side, which as tis great odds may prove otherwise so if it should happen yet it would scarce excuse thy folly although it might something mitigate it.{/19r}{/18r}{/17r}{/16r}"
Newton's occult papers, some of which are now published online, were kept hidden for centuries. When these mysterious diaries resurfaced, about half of them were purchased in 1936 by the economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946); another large portion was collected by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951). You can read details about the 1936 Sotheby's auction of Newton's 'Portsmouth Papers' here and here.

Isaac Newton, Untitled Treatise on Revelation, Yahuda MS 1.1, folio 16 recto (National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel). Published online June 2004. Click to enlarge.

It was Keynes who said that Newton “was not the first of the age of reason ... . He was the last of the magicians.” Keynes lectured on Newton in 1942 and 1943, waiting until the very end of his life to reveal this secret dimension of Newton's work. Prior to that, it was not public knowledge at all. The full text of Keynes's 1946 essay on 'Newton, the Man,' is here.

"much more ought we to suppose that the holy Ghost observes this rule accurately in his prophetick dictates, since they are no other then histories of things to come": Isaac Newton, Untitled Treatise on RevelationYahuda MS 1.1, folio 16 recto (National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel). Published online June 2004. Click to enlarge.

Thus, the title suits this blog, which considers present trends in terms of their potential historical significance and imagines their future consequences. However, this blog also has that name to ask its readers to reconsider ideas they take for granted.

The reason we are discussing Newton now is because his papers were kept hidden and not brought to public light at all until the 1990s. They weren't disseminated online until the 2000s. That is a long time for a central piece of information about the Scientific Revolution to be missing. Newton's private papers tell us how he arrived at his scientific breakthroughs, his methods, and his intentions.

Newton's occult works mean, plain as day, that the Scientific Revolution is not, and never was, what we were told it was. On the surface, Enlightenment principles of secularism and rationalism rejected God and mystical and religious ideas as fairy tales. Religion offered an infantile grasp of the world, beyond which we have matured and evolved.

This would be convincing if secularism and rationalism did not bear all the operational marks of a heretical cult, complete with a hard little esoteric nut at the centre, available only to the initiated. The supreme irony that the cult declares itself the ultimate-anti-cult does not make it any less cultish.

In the cult-like anti-cult atmosphere, anomalies sit out in the open and provoke occasional confusion before the rationalist mantras seal everything back up.

Why was the father of modern science also an alchemist and magician? The occult writings are explained away: Newton was an extremely intelligent, curious individual and he lived in times when religion and superstition had not been completely extracted from scientific thought.

Was Newton really the last of the magicians? The post-2008 economic recovery from the Great Recession was managed according to Keynesian principles. Why was Keynes, a famous thinker in modern economics, so fascinated by Newton's esoteric writings? Keynes's Newtonian occult collection is explained away: it was the economist's personal interest. Magic had and has nothing to do with Keynesian economics.

Well, look at the bottom of this post, and read the transcript from the lecture by German philosopher Jürgen Mittelstraß. He describes the occult distinction between macrocosm and microcosm, with its famous magical spell 'as above so below.' Ask yourself if that sounds anything like the distinction between macroeconomics and microeconomics.

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Awaken the Amnesiacs 9: A True Mirror of a Better World



The preface to this post is a new piece I have published at Vocal Media:


Part of my series, Awaken the Amnesiacs, involves coming to terms with life in a surveillance state, where privacy has been lost. My earlier post, Reflection Reversal, introduced the idea that computer screens and monitors act like mirrors which turn viewers into objects, rather than subjects.

The core of this idea is the fact that we think we are in control of technology. Tools are objects and we are subjects. Right? We think we are using computers to empower and express ourselves. But there is a warning sign in our addiction to technology.

Our technology is constantly subliminally objectifying us, enslaving us, and siphoning off our energy. This unconscious inversion of individual integrity is creating underlying cognitive dissonance, tension, anxiety, and stress. As a result, we are absolutely convinced that 'something is wrong' with the whole world. There is endless harping, conflict and confusion over 'who is to blame' for this grating distress. It never occurs to us that 'what is wrong' is the lens we are using to view reality, not reality itself, nor the people [insert annoying/threatening group here] who bother us.

Thus, part of resolving 'what is wrong' with the world is not to: ramp up our attacks on the annoying people who bother us; or to withdraw into depressive, individual introspection; or to get lost in wacky spiritual practices or cults; or to become engrossed in conspiracy theories as a comforting alt-reality; or to lose yourself in virtual reality environments like Facebook or video games; or to heal what is wrong by self-sacrificing to aid the world and help others; or to immerse yourself  completely in the real world, like work, job, bank account, and hard, cold facts no matter what ...

Part of resolving 'what is wrong' with the world involves reconsidering the art of perception and self-perception in the turbulent times of the nascent surveillance state.

So how should we define ourselves? As we see ourselves, as others see us, or as technology sees us? The conventional self-help wisdom these days is to define ourselves from the inside out, not the outside in. We are counseled to know ourselves, and to go forth in the world in an authentic and grounded way.

The Limits of Consciousness

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth (18 July 2017). Video Source: Youtube.

Good luck with that! Before you can get past the social contract, the job, the expectations, the cv - before you can tame your ego and become a soulful human being through internal consciousness and then try to awaken beyond consciousness - and before you can even get to the fact that computers are constantly undermining that process - there is another problem.

Consciousness -- the final frontier | Dada Gunamuktananda | TEDxNoosa 2014 (16 April 2014). Video Source: Youtube.

The True Mirror

We almost never see ourselves accurately, at least physically. Because we primarily have used mirrors to see ourselves, we do not see ourselves correctly, nor do we know how others see us.

Robbie Burns Day just passed, and the great Scottish poet wrote in his 1786 poem, To a Louse:
"in the original Scottish, 'O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!' Or, in modern English, 'Oh would some Power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us.'"

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Awaken the Amnesiacs 8: You are Now Inside the Computer


Image Source: The Hedge Mason.

The Urban Dictionary defines Youtube comments as:
"The only place where a polite discussion about kittens can lead to a flame war about government conspiracies."
Conspiracists vary in style. On Youtube, there is a spectrum. David Seaman's vitriol approaches incendiary levels, his this-is-not-a-threat promises are so chilling that they help me understand the history of mass psychology better, especially that of the 1930s.

This post is not exactly about Seaman, nor the accusations he levels in a brooding monotone at the bankers, politicians, deep-staters, evil cabal, establishment figures, and finally - the tech leaders who censor him (like Youtube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, whom he calls "Catshit Face"). This post is about Seaman's and others' rhetorical style in relation to conspiratorial subject matter, and what it means for all of us.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Awaken the Amnesiacs 7: The Economist Predicts the Year 2017


The Economist predictions for 2017, released November 2016. Image Source: The Economist.

When I saw that The Economist's tarot spread cover for its special issue predicting next year, my heart sank. After the American election, #proofoflife at WikiLeaks, and the impeachment of the South Korean president, I did not want to think about any more political weirdness. In case you have had enough too, here is my TL;DR on The Economist's message:

The cover may or may not predict a terror attack in Europe or a nuclear threat in Asia in the first quarter of the year, cementing Trump's presidency in the second quarter. Despite the fact that Trump will backtrack on promises, his ability to mesmerize the populist masses will grow. A huge upheaval is expected in the third quarter, with Merkel likely to lose the German election and Wilders and LePen gaining in earlier elections in the Netherlands and France. A divided body politic must find middle ground. After watching this unfold, the globalist liberal establishment will renew itself by December through the debut of exciting new technology, increased connectivity in developing countries, and a redoubled effort to control the public space, both online and off, with figures from government, banking, entertainment and academia entering online discourse in earnest. They will absorb formerly independent Internet enterprises, recapture lost ground, go on the attack, and flip the populist script.

On Youtube, I sensed the alt-right, alt-media types didn't want to look at The Economist. They are weary. "They do this to us every year," sighed one Youtuber after making three videos on the subject. Even the conspiracy theorists are sick of conspiracy theories. They only reviewed this Planet Trump thing out of a dogged sense of obligation to keep up their end - New World Order, Illuminati, Trump, Pizzagate, yadda yadda. They were all sure about one thing. The cover contains a hidden message.

I envy the flat rationalist, who would scoff before imagining anything arcane here. This is merely an illustrator's whimsical reference, as though the editors had chosen a picture of a woman reading the future in a crystal ball. I hope it is true.

Perhaps the editors did this as a tongue-in-cheek layout to bait crazy conspiracy theorists. Actually, I think the editors at The Economist do not care how the cover is received by the alt-media, who are beneath their contempt. If so, then this is another tone-deaf, top-down misconception of the impact of the Internet on the public debate. On the Internet, mimetics, semiotics, virality and truth excavations rule the day, not inside jokes and polished arguments to a select audience. A tarot spread confirms the worst conspiracy theories about magic infecting high politics. To give evidence of this - straight from the horse's mouth - strengthens the alt-media, which cannot be good for The Economist.

In an earlier post, Magic, Numerology and the IMF, I observed that Christine Lagarde did not realize that she now had to speak to two audiences. Every speech she made would be channeled into the old MSM theatre, as well as the alt-media. She plainly did not understand the latter at all. Her clever asides would be taken the usual way by the old establishment, but on Youtube, they would feed the independent machine of conspiracy theorizing and populism.

To make matters worse, she seemed to confirm the conspiracy theorists' fears about a magic-obsessed establishment. Lagarde was making predictions for the year 2014, peppering her predictions for the coming year with numerological nudge-nudge-wink-wink-hint-hints, which promised (precisely, down to the day) the manipulation of oil prices to hurt Russia. To the alt-media, this made it look like her policy speech had a magical subtext and potency. The liberal democracies are supposed to be secular, humanist, and rationalist; they should not be run by the rules of parlour games, or by people who believe that parlour games are real. I argued that parlour games should stay in the parlour.