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Guenon was no mere occultist. He was an
authority on the Sanskrit teachings, Sufism, Taoism, and many others
including western esoteric traditions. 'The Reign of Quantity' is
his masterwork and was the turning point in my own understanding as
he convinced me to accept the Cycles of Time as reality.
In the chapter on 'Knowledge and Action'
Guenon explains in his razor-like French precision that the modern
world, its sciences and philosophies, its very foundations have
become completely disconnected from any metaphysical truth. The
reason for this is our ongoing Kali Yuga descent into matter and
limited five-sense perception, which blocks our understanding of the
Invisible Realms that are the support and substratum of this entire
universe.
Thus the various and always changing theories that become the basis of our lives are profoundly flawed, unsound, and subject to collapse.
Rene Guenon:
The intelligence that is now held in
high esteem is of the lowest order - regardless of how many
corporate global policy institute think tanks these modern era PhD
priests are ensconced within.
This is the traditional ancient way of immersing consciousness to reach wisdom knowledge and is precisely what the shamans still today practice.
In the west and spreading around the globe, this process of intense identification is overlooked and,
One is reminded of
Plato's shadows in a
cave being taken as real.
These servants of the corporatist scions are blind to the fact that acts thus disconnected from metaphysical truth degenerate,
Arthur Koestler, the now forgotten genius whose works were highly honored not so long ago, wrote about this in his 1959 book, "Sleepwalkers" in which he chronicles the parade of scientific theories that have been discovered, lauded and discarded.
We have become addicted to surface effects. Recent observations, one might say warnings, from Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr reveal that surfing the Internet is reconfiguring the human brain. The evidence is conclusive.
We are lost in what Guenon back in 1942 called,
This external multiplicity is merely the
temporal 'appearance' generated by the eternal Real, the One
substratum beneath all appearances. And yet the best and seemingly
the most intelligent are consumed in its quantitative analysis, a
bottomless pit of frantic change for its own sake and profit.
Nothing is of value that cannot generate profit, while the wisdom that is born from silent contemplation is ridiculed. Thus we live in an intellectual environment suffused in,
Michael Lewis' 2014 best seller 'Flash Boys' explains that the process of buying and selling have been transformed into a high speed mechanism in which those with the biggest fastest computers and most sophisticated algorithms will always be winning, the 'front runners' over any others.
The markets have been rigged by the
impenetrable wizardry of the science of algorithms. Sophisticated
slight-of-hand advantage smacks of criminality and contributes to
the collapse of fragile democracies around the planet, allowing the
worst to rape the earth.
Complexity theory expresses the notion that complex systems must inevitably collapse as they become more complex and unstable. We are approaching the edges of instability in the realm of fiat money, sovereign debt default, trillions of dollar derivatives, and an increasing loss of confidence in the world's reserve currency.
Indeed as many far more knowledgeable and brighter that me have publicly stated, confidence is all that remains between our safe secure world and a complete breakdown of civilization.
Once this 'confidence' is gone no one
really knows what will follow.
But who created this instability?
In his most recent book 'The Death of Money' James Rickards says that the Federal Reserve does not understand that the recent unlimited printing of trillions of dollars, known as QE (quantitative easing), can be a perilously irreversible process. The reckless creation of fiat money (along with now $600 trillion in derivatives) may produce a total loss in confidence not only in the dollar, but also in the financial institutions themselves.
Once this loss of confidence occurs, a
new system must be created to replace the abandoned one.
Is this all 'bad' as the conspiracy researchers have warned us?
Surely there is an argument for a more fair system that does not solely serve only one country.
The multinational corporations are poisoning the planet and her oceans.
I need not enumerate the plethora of irrefutable evidence, anyone can see,
...and more.
Here clearly we see the results of a
loss of individual financial sovereignty and remote control global
governance.
In 'The Death of Money' Rickards says that when the dollar ceases to be the world reserve currency there are three probabilities:
Are we being warned? Accept the global system or face the frightening consequences. Anything will be better than lawless mad-max chaos and disorder.
But will it...?
A ten-year IMF transition plan has been 'informally endorsed' by the United States. What? So, we are told this is a done deal.
No one has asked the public, there has been no democratic vote, no consensus from we the people. In a rather causal unexpected sentence, Rickards calmly says that money riots would be (his words) 'squashed quickly'. I see. Resistance is futile indeed.
This suppression of money riots is already legal because of a little known legislation passed in 1977, the IEEPA, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Many of the rather frightening rumors floating around the Internet begin to make sense in light of this impending transition.
Follow the money,
indeed!
Thus the quantitative easing may go on,
but he cautions the reader that the plan for a peaceful transition
to SDRs or even gold may not occur before the collapse - and because
of the prevalence of high frequency trading, collapse of the
financial markets will be likely come flash-crash fast.
Rickards says that the large banks, such as Goldman Sachs will be instrumental in the future distributions of the new planetary reserve currency, the SDRs. Thanks to Matt Taibbi's courageous journalism, we have fully understood how deserving the Vampire Squid is of our complete trust.
James Rickards' publishing company
Portfolio Penguin also happens to have published three books that
were finalists for the prestigious Financial Times/Goldman Sachs
Business Book of the Year Award.
Steil is extraordinarily bright, knowledgeable, and a wonderful writer. He says many in the USA will not be willing to undermine the US monetary sovereignty.
However a lack of confidence in a
dollar, which is used globally, will undermine the ability of
the Federal Reserve to control
interest rates, inflation, and contain any domestic financial
crises; and therefore inevitably the power of the FED will decline
to the point that the sovereignty of the USA becomes, in his words
'meaningless'.
Yet the question remains:
This incessant frantic descent into ever increasing multiplicity and complexity is, as Rene Guenon says, the result of,
An intelligence that has been disconnected from the immutable imperishable substratum that lies beneath 'the curtain of each atom' [Mahmud Shabistari's Sufi poem] is necessarily precariously unstable and inclined to collapse.
Without metaphysical wisdom, each
temporal 'fix' our elitist servant PhD's come up with will only lead
us closer to the final moments of this Kali Yuga.
Rene Guenon would not have been surprised to witness our current predicament.
Guenon offers us one last profound comfort in the final sentence of his brilliant 'The Reign of Quantity':
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