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March 01, 2024
go to sleep spiritually
so that
spirituality could
This is itself a sign of social conditioning and of a certain 'management of mind,' and this situation is rife throughout our human societies and is becoming increasingly predominant.
Social norms are persuading many people to prefer safety and security rather than the potential discomfort that comes from genuine realization.
A perceptive understanding of the human condition recognizes that inner potentials lie within our creative imagination.
Yet, unfortunately, we are witnessing how The Inversion has usurped this into a construct of fantasy, make-believe, and the crass and superficial culture industries that rule over these lands.
Any notion of Higher or Greater Reality has been twisted into an artificial lesser reality that acts as a block against the developmental impulse from penetrating.
This arrangement has culminated in dissociating humankind not only from its natural, organic, carbon-based environment, but also from its inherent contact with its origin - Source consciousness.
This increasing disembodiment is reflected in such forms as the techno-digital ecosystem, virtual worlds, computerization (including algorithms), and artificial intelligence.
For many people today, their digital devices have
become their instruments of salvation.
What is required is nothing less than a human re-evolutionary revival from lower impulses and stunted understanding towards a fuller realization of self.
Collective ignorance was a state that had to be passed through for there to be a stepping into an individualized self-awareness.
A period of 'inner sleeping' has enabled humanity to be in a position to regain its spirit-consciousness faculties as if anew. And abstract truths were dominant so as to force people to reach forth for more recognizable inner truths.
Modernity was arrived at through this period of gradual individual awakening from a slumber of mass formation, or mass conditioned mentality.
To remain at this level would be disastrous for human development, for it would indicate a falling back into lower states of vibration based upon base instincts and appetites.
It would also lead to opening the door towards further, and much increased, domination and enslavement.
What is needed is for a significant number of individuals to recognize the inner tools and capacities they already possess, and to relate to these.
To quote again from Rudolf Steiner:
To reiterate, humanity now needs to take up that which is flowing,
It can be rejected, as Steiner notes; yet if it is rejected then there is the consequence that those people who have rejected it lose the possibility for their further development.
This may sound dramatic, yet we need also to
recognize what is at stake in these times.
This then clears the path towards transhumanism, technocracy, and the domination of entropic forces, as mentioned in the previous essays in this series.
A closed-down person is the ideal candidate for inclusion into a socially managed and mind-programmed mass. This must be seen now for these forces and impulses are present in the Inversion with increasing speed and ferocity.
It is imperative that we do not get caught up within a mesh of materialism that supplies many fantasies and promises, yet ultimately delivers a package of containment, control, and even possession.
We need to recognize, in order to inform ourselves, that there are power groups operating within the Inversion (with conscious participation), who deliberately create programming, narratives, events, and more, that deepen the engulfing materialism...
These groups want to ensure that the masses live and breathe materialistic thoughts, at the exclusion of metaphysical thinking, from their birth until death (from the womb to the tomb).
This deliberate push into a deepened
materialistic path - the extension of reality into the digital
realms of an etheric materialism (as discussed previously) - not
only denies the existence of the spirit but attempts to imprison
this vital force within a cage of electrified matter.
This is all the more difficult at this time for there are also influences in place to push people into a space of 'personal darkening' that aims to debilitate, entrap, and block individual sovereignty and empowerment.
The impact and consequences of the incoming forces and impulses very much depends upon the state of consciousness with which they are met. And this will determine how humanity progresses, and whether it develops in evolutionary alignment or not.
There are powerful world forces, both those operating within visibility and those non-visibly, that would prefer that humanity resides in a state of unknowing.
To this end,
Similarly,
As a species, we either evolve and develop, or we do not.
Such entropic forces are the forces of opposition regarding the spiritual advancement of humankind.
And these forces have been compelled to make their move now, before enough individuals within the collective gain conscious awareness of those transcendental impulses that connect humanity with Source.
This is the period of spirit-consciousness, which is why the counterforces are working desperately to act against these developmental processes.
It is in this period that the conscious, individualized, independent thinking human being is required to emerge.
And emerge we must:
It is the programming side that is becoming increasingly dominant for it is pervasive now in forms of social conditioning and 'mind management' - literally so, as in the software programs, algorithms, and inorganic intellects that run in the digital background of physical life.
In Steiner terms,
There are already major signs that many people have adopted a digitalization of thought, with abbreviated texting, twitter-ing, and social media mutterings becoming dominant forms of everyday communication and expression.
The digitalization of human thoughts has erupted massively since the arrival of advanced computing and computer networks, although its earlier inception was with the printing press (beginning with Gutenberg) and the distribution and massification of information.
In the words of the Russian thinker Sergei Prokofieff:
Here is a direct indication that the influence, or seduction, of Ahrimanic forces is already in play.
People across the world have been connected like never before, and are communicating, organizing, and informing themselves through these networks of communication.
Yet the danger here, in relation to entropic forces, is that these webs of interrelation slyly coax a person deeper into the materialistic web and further away from inner connection to the metaphysical realms (including Source consciousness).
Connection on the physical-digital level may
increasingly denote isolation in relation to the transcendental.
In this way, they can stealthily establish conditions that make people increasingly dependent upon their systems and within their sphere of control.
The incarnation and presence of such forces is recognized also through the push toward dominance of the intellect over imagination and inner values.
The intelligence of the intellect is seductive, and logically reasonable (of course), yet it negates the role of imagination, intuition, and inspiration.
If this continues into the extreme,
Anti-developmental forces seek to exercise their control through influencing both the conscious and subconscious minds of people by means of instilling fear:
The focus of distraction, since earliest years of education, is placed upon an individual's physical needs - such as work, money, home, and security - rather than upon the forms of self-actualization that strengthen the internal gaze and higher faculties of perception.
The human being too has been colonized in an interior way through layer upon layer of misdirected education/information (or, in other words, programming).
In general, people who live in this modern age of controlled media, insipient entertainment, corrupt politics, managed economies, and more, have been purposefully impacted and influenced so as to be inwardly stunted.
Outward signs of physical and mental activity may easily hide a true state of inner stagnation.
If the entropic forces that work to block human development become prevalent within, and through people, then a dissociation occurs that hampers further inner growth within the individual.
There is no more inward maturity as the counter-forces place all attention onto external, superficial projections.
This is the state of a great many of our supposedly 'high status' individuals of today, including,
The masses are being led blindly by the inwardly immature who, perhaps unknown to themselves, are vessels for the incarnating influence of entropic, Ahrimanic forces.
In the end, human civilization must choose one of two alignments:
Negative influences have already been allowed to gain too great a foothold upon the earth.
Much of this, though certainly not all of it,
Their greedy actions fuel the programmed illusions that then rule over us, whether we are aware of this or not.
An alternate sphere of existence - a lower vibrational realm - may have already incarnated.
It is time we became informed of the Eighth Sphere...
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