Humanity stands at the threshold between two paths. There is a considerable risk of falling prey to the mechanical impulse and being incorporated into a dense, technologized world of control, surveillance, and restricted freedoms. This would paradoxically become a sub-natural world of super-technology and ‘intelligent’ machines. Yet it would be a realm dominated by the [...]
‘Humanity urgently needs to become aware that a spiritual world is working down into every detail of existence in the physical world.’ Rudolf Steiner As the last few essays in this series have indicated, there is the growing presence of entropic, or counter-evolutionary, forces within humanity. And these forces have been gaining dominance in [...]
Now here’s an interesting little story that erupted in the occult world in the final years of the nineteenth century. In 1893, a series of lectures were given to a group of individuals who were known as the Berean Society. These lectures were given by C.G. Harrison, a deeply learned initiate, as well as a [...]
‘Humanity had to go to sleep spiritually so that spirituality could reappear in a new form.’ Rudolf Steiner It is increasingly difficult in these times to speak of truthful matters, especially in relation to spirit-consciousness, for people are increasingly subjected to false beliefs and thinking patterns. This is itself a sign of social conditioning [...]
Where there is bright light, there are deep shadows. Old Saying It should be recognized that this current state of ‘inverted reality’ is a phase, and as such it has to be worked through. We cannot avoid the fact that we first have to learn how to live amongst these entropic forces before we [...]
“Do not fear those who can kill the body but not soul. Rather be afraid of him who can destroy both soul and body in the life after death.” Gospel of Matthew 10-28 I have described the machinic impulse as a force that is accelerating the automation of the human being and of life [...]
One of the most world-changing technological discoveries of our recent era has been that of electricity. The word electricity first entered the English language in a 1650 translation of a treatise on the healing properties of magnets by Jan Baptist van Helmont, a Flemish physician and Rosicrucian who worked on the borderline between natural magic [...]
James Cowan (9 April 1942 – 6 October 2018) The following essay was written to commemorate the life and work of my friend, the visionary writer James Cowan. It was first published in the ‘New Dawn’ magazine in its March-April 2023 edition. I share here publicly to celebrate the 82nd birthday of a [...]
The body is coming back into sight as a site for experimentation and as a target for a type of quasi-transcendence. Within the inverted world of the lesser reality, the physical body has always been recognized as the vehicle through which life is experienced. In other words, it is our avatar whilst in this [...]
‘But for those of us who have thrown off the myth of the machine, the next move is ours: for the gates of the technocratic prison will open automatically, despite their rusty ancient hinges, as soon as we choose to walk out.’ Lewis Mumford The arrival of a mechanized society has long been [...]
On the 1st of November, 2023, I travelled to a small spa town in south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, to be present at a large 5-day medical conference. Some colleagues of mine from a German medical unit (‘Evolutionary Medicine’) had invited me to [...]
‘Even as we watch, so may we be watched. Even as we experiment, so may we be experimented upon.’ John C. Lilly For anyone not familiar with Dr. John C. Lilly, he was a pioneer in researching human to dolphin and inter-species communication. Although principally a physician, he explored life as a neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, [...]
