I have to admit, I don't read your newsletters as often as I should because they always offer something interesting. I still think about the "How to be lucky" one from time to time. I opened this one because the headline is something that has been on my mind ever since my awakenings.
Your summary of the average Western mindset - or the pa…
I have to admit, I don't read your newsletters as often as I should because they always offer something interesting. I still think about the "How to be lucky" one from time to time. I opened this one because the headline is something that has been on my mind ever since my awakenings.
Your summary of the average Western mindset - or the patchwork of fundamental beliefs that exist in the collective unconscious, as it also can be described - is really succinct, and when you couple this with individualism amplified by social media it adds another argument for a systemic shift being close. Individualism is a consequence of the tribalism that still rules parts of the world, and fueled by consumerism (which is required to prop up the current global network of financial systems) it is pushing the limits of what is acceptable. The growing number of movements that aim to cripple vital parts of the Matrix (consumerism, corporatism, eternal growth) that I've seen act as an immune system fighting the decay rather than the civilizational death doulas we need.
Looking at the grander scale of things, we are in an interesting stage of evolution of consciousness – the crisis is becoming acute and current civilization is running on a death clock. The system is making the host hemorrhage, but we don't have a bypass machine. It's not like we can pause the world for a year while we figure things out and find new agreements with each other and our biosphere. It's not like the billionaires will give up a majority of their fortune willingly. The crisis demands a solution, and the longer a solution takes the more severe the consequences - but I don't know if there is any question of more contemporary significance because it shows that the Matrix is poisoning our biosphere, and puts science as a crutch for doubters. In order to stay below 1.5°C the average Westerner would have to cut their consumption by 80%. We're all prisoners on Snowpiercer, heading for a cliff ahead, but if we slow down too much the machine explodes.
The needed shift in science is also looming, with a five sigma study going so far as directly challenging the current LCDM model. I think that we collectively need a shift in how we view science: science became the Authority for the Enlightened in the Copernican revolution, but it inherited much of the same bias that Abrahamian religions are based on: man as the crown of evolution. The inherent materialist bias has set research back decades, if not a whole century, when it comes to the nature of consciousness and the universe, because they are the same. Right now, we are studying the stream, and asking how it causes water to be wet without understanding that it is we who make it so. Science should be understood as painting the beginning of the picture, not the end product. The end product will always be subjective, and this is another issue with the Western mindset: the laws of nature are deterministic, and since consciousness is emergent it is governed by those laws and therefore there is no free will. "I am a result of my biology" and "my biology is a result of me" are both functional world-views, but with vastly different philosophies.
I recently read "The Cosmic Serpent - on DNA and the Origins of Knowledge". It makes a compelling argument for consciousness driving biology, rather than the other way around, and highlights the difficulties with contemporary language when it comes to mind and consciousness. Where does attention end, and mind start? How does mind relate to consciousness? Another good read (if a bit scattered at times) is The Egg and the Rock here on substack, which makes a science based case for the nature of the universe being more like an egg and less like a rock.
I'm really excited for this next part of your journey. I'm sure the world will be that much better for it!
Thanks brother. Wild to think about how we "woke up" simultaneously. Such a strange time in our lives. We should reconnect properly sometime via zoom. Feel like we've been entangled somehow.
I am going to work obsessively in doing whatever I can to prevent unnecessary suffering, like much of my dark night, for others. And at the least put some differentiated and interesting content in front of interested audiences.
I have to admit, I don't read your newsletters as often as I should because they always offer something interesting. I still think about the "How to be lucky" one from time to time. I opened this one because the headline is something that has been on my mind ever since my awakenings.
Your summary of the average Western mindset - or the patchwork of fundamental beliefs that exist in the collective unconscious, as it also can be described - is really succinct, and when you couple this with individualism amplified by social media it adds another argument for a systemic shift being close. Individualism is a consequence of the tribalism that still rules parts of the world, and fueled by consumerism (which is required to prop up the current global network of financial systems) it is pushing the limits of what is acceptable. The growing number of movements that aim to cripple vital parts of the Matrix (consumerism, corporatism, eternal growth) that I've seen act as an immune system fighting the decay rather than the civilizational death doulas we need.
Looking at the grander scale of things, we are in an interesting stage of evolution of consciousness – the crisis is becoming acute and current civilization is running on a death clock. The system is making the host hemorrhage, but we don't have a bypass machine. It's not like we can pause the world for a year while we figure things out and find new agreements with each other and our biosphere. It's not like the billionaires will give up a majority of their fortune willingly. The crisis demands a solution, and the longer a solution takes the more severe the consequences - but I don't know if there is any question of more contemporary significance because it shows that the Matrix is poisoning our biosphere, and puts science as a crutch for doubters. In order to stay below 1.5°C the average Westerner would have to cut their consumption by 80%. We're all prisoners on Snowpiercer, heading for a cliff ahead, but if we slow down too much the machine explodes.
The needed shift in science is also looming, with a five sigma study going so far as directly challenging the current LCDM model. I think that we collectively need a shift in how we view science: science became the Authority for the Enlightened in the Copernican revolution, but it inherited much of the same bias that Abrahamian religions are based on: man as the crown of evolution. The inherent materialist bias has set research back decades, if not a whole century, when it comes to the nature of consciousness and the universe, because they are the same. Right now, we are studying the stream, and asking how it causes water to be wet without understanding that it is we who make it so. Science should be understood as painting the beginning of the picture, not the end product. The end product will always be subjective, and this is another issue with the Western mindset: the laws of nature are deterministic, and since consciousness is emergent it is governed by those laws and therefore there is no free will. "I am a result of my biology" and "my biology is a result of me" are both functional world-views, but with vastly different philosophies.
I recently read "The Cosmic Serpent - on DNA and the Origins of Knowledge". It makes a compelling argument for consciousness driving biology, rather than the other way around, and highlights the difficulties with contemporary language when it comes to mind and consciousness. Where does attention end, and mind start? How does mind relate to consciousness? Another good read (if a bit scattered at times) is The Egg and the Rock here on substack, which makes a science based case for the nature of the universe being more like an egg and less like a rock.
I'm really excited for this next part of your journey. I'm sure the world will be that much better for it!
Thanks brother. Wild to think about how we "woke up" simultaneously. Such a strange time in our lives. We should reconnect properly sometime via zoom. Feel like we've been entangled somehow.
I am going to work obsessively in doing whatever I can to prevent unnecessary suffering, like much of my dark night, for others. And at the least put some differentiated and interesting content in front of interested audiences.