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January 12, 2023 from KingsleyDennis Website
Part Two
what is working
in the world
for the sake of
the world.'
That is,
Forces that impinge and participate within human life in this realm do so relative to the time and place. In other words, it can be said that consistent forces involved within the evolutionary journey of humanity are consistently adapting according to the epoch.
Human life upon this planet is now transitioning into an era of techne (technē).
That is, the mechanical arts were imperfect in attempting to imitate, reproduce, and/or substitute the processes of Nature.
The mechanical arts also represented not only the mechanical objects/structures themselves but also the sets of ordered practices and skills that went along with them.
In other words,
If human behavior becomes more automated by a piece of technology, such as the use of a spell-checker (as is being used here), then the laziness in personal grammar that results from this is also a part of the techne of the computer and word processing software.
What I am saying here is that the direction that humanity is taking, in the name of progress, is towards establishing a new environmental infrastructure that will reorganize and recalibrate human behavior.
It will also require a
re-adaptation as this is not a minor transition, such as a
generational linear progression, but a major transformation in how
life is experienced upon this planet. Human adaptation also requires
an adaptation in consciousness.
For example, the Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser noted how human consciousness is not continuous but is in transition; and that these transitions, or switching of modes, are not continuous but rather 'mutations':
Gebser outlined the following consciousness structures:
Each of these structures framed how people perceived the world around them and the forces within it.
Such consciousness structures also influenced how particular worldviews, behaviors, and environments emerged. At each stage, how we think affects what we create.
Since humanity has now, according to Gebser, entered into the 'integral structure,' then this is being projected into how our cultures and civilizations are being reconstructed.
The world-building of each aeon of history is influenced by the incumbent structure of human consciousness (which is itself influenced by cosmic factors). [i]
According to Gebser, the integral consciousness structure was made evident by a new relationship to space and time
In some ways, we can see how this is manifesting through our increasingly digitalized cultures that have drastically altered how people experience space-time relations.
Consciousness, and intelligence, are themselves unseen (and often unrecognized) forces that have huge influence upon human life.
Conversely, how an environment is built-up also then reflects back certain influences and impacts upon a person's consciousness. A very basic analogy here is the difference between being immersed in Nature, in a natural environment, as opposed to being immersed within a high-density urban environment.
In this context, the human being is now being exposed not only to a digitized ecosystem but also to an unprecedented electromagnetic one.
We are literally existing within a sea of unseen, and hidden, forces. It can be said that the planet is undergoing a mode of terraforming. And the 'form' that is under construction will be amenable to a certain type of intelligence.
It will be kind to those
who are willing to accept a life 'within the grid' of
digital-everything - finances, surveillance, internet-of-bodies,
5G/6G/7G/8G, etc - and it will be unkind to those wishing for an
off-grid, or less digitally-dense, lifestyle.
What is also being described is a new mode of materialism that does not need to rely on physical solidity for it to be material, as the immersion into the physical-digital ecosystem is still a mode of materialism, albeit more ethereal. I have referred to this as the 'material fallacy' that represents a reterritorializing of physical matter.
This fallacy is that the continuing encapsulation of the human being into artificial constructs (such as the Metaverse) is a deepening deception of materiality.
And such an environment also affects the cognitive functioning of the mind as it becomes ever more deeply immersed into an electrified realm.
This will designate the new domain of techne where different cognitive skills will be necessary.
Humanity will become symbiotic.
New processes of integration are being established between the biological world, the digital, and the electronic. What may be emerging here is a wholly different form of planetization that merges genes, machines, and societies.
The human intelligence that will result from this is, as yet, unformed and, in most ways, unknown. And it may become home to more than one form of intelligence.
As I have mentioned previously, there is the danger that as people slip further into an ecosystem of automation, not only their behavior but also their state of cognition will be affected.
The unconscious human may, by degrees, be transformed into the robosapien where behavior sets and cognitive perception are limited to a very low level. Such a person will, effectively, be little more than a cog in the machine.
And the machine will be well-oiled by AI-regulated infrastructures.
Yet the real 'hidden
force' in such an electrified world may be something more nefarious
than the automated human being.
When the ecosystems of Nature are broken down, reduced to material systems, then the building blocks for artificial structures - structures devoid of organic life - are established which give host for the manifestation and expression of anti-developmental forces (or what I sometimes refer to as entropic forces).
The present times are hyper-materialistic and heavily intellect dominant.
This allows for an organization of human thinking where free speech, human imagination and intuition, is highly controlled and subjected to monitoring, management, and technocratic administration.
If this continues then it is likely to lead to a state where the human species, unknowing to itself, will have lost the ability for true, genuine thinking.
The inner world will have become diminished, and any inner, developmental impulses become over-ridden by material forces. Furthermore, we may be oblivious to the many unseen fields that make up our ecosystem of electro-energies.
These energies are sub-nature. They are part of living existence, yet they are a lower form of life vibration.
According to Austrian mystic-philosopher Rudolf Steiner, electricity is light in a sub-material state.
That is, it is a form of light that has fallen below the level of nature and has become what he termed 'sub-nature.' It is because of this that Steiner warned humankind to be cautious not to build cultures dependent or based on electricity.
An electro-ecosystem will only serve to draw us farther away from our natural environments and into a lower vibrational state of sub-nature.
In a lecture from 1925, Steiner says:
Rudolf Steiner made great
efforts to outline aspects of the various forces acting against
humankind's development. One of these forces he termed as
ahrimanic, and the intention of these forces was to draw
humanity into their realm; that is, to drag human beings further
into deep material entanglement.
And for the large part, they are unseen or hidden.
For Steiner, Ahriman is a very real intelligent being, or form of intelligence, and it represents a realm (or reality) that is dry, mechanistic, intellectual, devoid of vital energies (what we would call as 'spirit' or 'soul') and may even be devoid of organic life.
The goal here is to present such events as the best direction for the future of human evolution. In a nutshell, think transhumanism...
The advent for such forces to ingratiate themselves into an electrified realm of sub-nature is being prepared by an Earthly environment where electricity is replacing our need for genuine light, and chemical skies are increasingly blocking the reception of the sunlight.
Furthermore, such forces, being highly materialistic, are primarily focused upon the dominance of an economic realm; a reality where humans are coerced into thinking of economy as the main driver and principal concern.
The focus is upon the
quantity and not the quality, exemplified by a culture that is
governed by numbers, statistics, algorithms, data harvesting, and
evidence-based proof. It is these unseen forces of cataloguing,
identifying, and accrediting (see also the China-led social credit
score system) that are dividing people away from their natural,
organic relations.
It is precisely within human divisions where antagonistic forces are more likely to intervene.
As Steiner wrote in his notebook in November 1920:
As I have said, we do not need to personify such forces here, only to recognize the presence of counter developmental forces that, through whatever function, are hostile to the inner growth and perceptive capacities of the human being.
In this respect, the greatest danger is that people are sleeping through these times; as such, they remain ignorant or unaware of such forces operating within their midst.
To be conscious of such forces, and the instruments/vessels through which such forces operate, is paramount now so that we are not seduced by these impulses unknowingly, and thus do not unwittingly become their puppets.
Also, it is through awareness (consciousness) and knowing that such forces can be transformed into serving humanity by compelling individuals into increased understanding and a wish for development and a betterment of the human condition.
The terraforming of modern life, through techne (automatism) and technocratic governance, is having the result of desensitizing people and separating them from the realm of vital, creative forces.
People's thoughts have become more and more like dead shadows:
For some time now, human intelligence has been instrumentalized, splintered, and fractured so as to produce an increased sense of alienation from the natural world and from connection with the inner being's elan vital (vital spirit).
Yet, it may be that we have to encounter such forces in these times in order to make choices regarding our own path of development.
If a person falls too much into materialism, distraction, psycho-emotional fog, then this can result in a number of factors such as,
In short, they become
detached from the inner being.
In such cultural circumstances as we find ourselves in, people need to dig deeper to find the inner strength in order not to be overwhelmed by these external forces.
It is precisely through conscious discernment that we can find the inner strength to face the conditions of the world.
It is this discernment that will enable an individual to see through the manufactured narratives that are programming people into supporting the external forces of 'efficiency,' 'rationality,' and 'progressiveness,' that are seemingly more and more anti-human.
As one recent popular cultural historian said:
Such ideas, agendas, and their supporting forces, view the human being as a component within a technical system; that is, as part of the processes of techne.
And through this perspective, the human being is a flawed creature that requires to be technologically improved.
Again, this is a view that moves further and further away from the understanding of the human being as a vessel of spirit:
These are part of the unseen forces of life that are acting through, and orchestrating, physical events across the planet.
One Anthroposophical [ii] researcher and writer even went as far as to state the following:
A destiny such as this lies upon a path of ignorance and an abandonment of the inner life.
Such a future can only come about by the continual accumulation of present trends acting one upon the other to form a stairway to a determined end.
If this is seen as destiny, then it is one that emerges through either ignorance or laziness.
In other words,
There are unseen, hidden
forces in life that are striving for such anti-human ambitions - yet
it is their lack of grace and vital energy that also is their
greatest weakness.
That is why there are tremendous efforts to keep as many people as possible unawares to events beyond the programmed narrative.
As the opening quote from Rudolf Steiner says,
For this is our human
world, and there is no place in it for anti-human forces.
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