Picking up from Part Two…
(Token human digression before diving in: t’is amazing how the initial idea for this post began a week ago with an instantaneous moment of clarity… evolved into a 3200 intro word digression… and can now barely grasp what originally wanted / felt needed to communicate on the matter. Yet another point for the massively growing list for the ADHD diagnosis. Ha. Now that that’s out of the way… my apologies should the remainder of this end up of a degraded quality as attention on the topic has declined over the week of sitting waiting for the energy to swell for its completion. Or perhaps I’ll surprise myself with the outcome, observing what’s cultivated through the wait… 🤷♂️)
It’s perplexing, the amount of sheer noise existent on this planet, buzzing consequential of the viral-like ideological infestations propagating from person to person - whether passed through centuries of religious doctrine or more recently spread across the globe in seconds as people take to social media, word-vomiting perspectives that, seen from a higher objective vantage point, are anything but original, no matter how fervently they may act as though they’re adding something different or new to the conversation. The fog in the psychic space of the collective consciousness, infiltrated with a toxic haze of distorted emotions and scattered faulty thoughts stirred as shaken by events essentially repeating cycles, addressed by new generations awakening to the insanity persistent on this planet, as though our shining a spotlight on it will do more to change it all than previous ones…
No doubt, the spotlight on events in the Middle East recently have spawned highly charged responses from the human swarm - eliciting the full spectrum of foreseeable reactions, from horrific divisive support of “justified” murder of thousands/millions of innocent human beings to wiser, compassionate cries for peace. Irregardless of that frame of belief one views it all through, there is no doubt some rather serious significance to it all. Whether seen through the lens of various religions’ prophetic tales as indicative of “end times” or merely a here-and-now objective assessment of political-economical realities in which it may be becoming clear that WW3 is near (if not already happening), shit seems to be going down. I’m no expert on history such that can articulate the specifics to back the claim in any ways that’d satisfy academical skeptics who demand sources, references, etc, but one need not need be an artist knowing every specific color shade/hue to agree the sky is blue - nor one need to have an extensive knowledge of the history of the whole situation to foresee the world is on the edge of ”holy wars.”
Certainly, others may see this more clearly than others, and/or express it with greater passion - some of who may be more entrenched due to ancestral and/or religious connections. And certainly, there are many who do not have much knowledge of the whole backgrounds and complexity of the situation, yet who’ve added an equal amount of ferocity to the collective dialogue on the matter, triggered into responses as predictably programmed through American identity politics or other tribalistic psychology dynamics - having the channel of their minds turned on cue from the cult of COVID to BLM to Ukraine to Israel/Palestine right on cue, lending their support to whatever side told to by the sources of info they’re plugged into. More regurgitation of platitudinal talking points, more noise added to the psychic haze of Neptunian distortions through which clarity is. (And yes, all this critique of ‘mine’ is surely colored with its own biases, overgeneralizing to some degree, and lacking much discernment of nuance - perhaps partly out of necessity, for it’d probably take a 400 page book to articulate specifics required not to.)
T’is indeed possible we could see modern-day unfoldment of events as “evidence” of what’s been referred to as the “end times.” Though…
(gotta love memes, as sometimes they can speak 50,000 words in a single image.)
With humanity’s “advancement” of the internet enabling information to circulate across the globe in seconds, the intensity of images of war bombarding our attention like a tsunami, accompanied with the emotion triggered in millions observing it and propagating the ‘news,’ it might seem as though these pivotal events in the Middle East are unfolding as though monumental confirmation of “end times” prophecy… focus directed on the here & now, filtered through the context of confirmation biases to prescribe it meaning… while filtering out the fact that conflicts & wars such as these have been ongoing for a LONNNNNNNNG time.
With the noise level amped up through the existence of millions of media channels accessible within seconds - literally able to see & hear the emotionally-supercharged cries of billions of people all across the globe in a steady stream through our devices’ screens in rapid succession - the quiet space to reflect upon truths not screamed from rooftops & soapboxes is far & few between, perhaps even non-existent at this point unless driving off thousands of miles into the middle of nowhere, out of reach of 5G and wifi signals transmitting the encoded totality of the noise (although even then, with satellite signals pervading every inch of earth, there may be no “safe zone” completely unreachable by waves in which all the distortion is compressed - and not to forget the whole ‘quantum entanglement’ aspect of things, along with that of what is stored directly in our genetic code and in continual transmission & receiving irregardless of physical distance.) Perhaps this is where the ancients knew - and hence emphasized - the importance of “meditation” as a means of accessing states unperturbed by all the noise of the world. States which allow rememberance of truths not communicated through filtered outlets of belief systems and institutional machines, but that just are and will always be, whether our cognitive biases filter them out of conscious awareness or not;
Whether orchestrated as a false flag or not, partly with intent to foster yet more divisiveness between this group and that (or not), we’ve now millions worldwide with awareness of injustice & crimes against humanity that’ve been going on in the Middle East. But… have we forgotten about the countless other similar instances that’ve occurred throughout history? For as much as the appearance of these “holy wars” and human tragedies may support the conviction of “end times,” would it not have been inconceivable that generations past might have viewed the atrocities of their day in similar light - whether other conflicts in the Middle East going back thousands of years, the Spanish takeover of Mayan/Aztec cultures, Columbus’ arrival to America not the fairy-tale-esqe story taught in history class but its own hostile takeover complete with violent eradication of indigineous populations, or countless other genocides in Asia, Africa, Europe, or perhaps anywhere humans have set foot on throughout this planet’s history?
While the Middle East might represent the epicenter of religious birthing grounds and conflicts between major factions - the blatant Judaism vs. Muslim battle a rather obvious display of “holy war” as each holds firms to its set of beliefs - how much of history has been filled by one group/culture/nation invading, raping, and pillaging another under the pretext of its own self-righteous conquest, relying upon religious doctrine as justification for the slaughter of those who stood in the way of its viral-like intentions for total domination?
We may have grown up indoctrinated into societal constructs which have had us believe war is only occurring when bombs are dropping or someone on television says so; likewise, the priming of religious dogma has lodged expectation into the minds of billions that there is to come an apocalyptic “end times” marked by uber-dramatic “holy wars” indicating [insert whatever storyline they do here]… yet if we zoom out far enough from all the noise of emotionally-charged narratives, belief, and the mass of opinions influenced & swayed by distorted ideas, have these “holy wars” not already been ongoing for thousands of years in some form or another…?
No matter how much fearful interpretations of present events may validate the programmed beliefs that “the end is near,” sitting back and observing for decades reveals a rather striking similarity and common pattern among a variety of circumstances and “prophecies” of “Biblical” catastrophes & monumental events, from Y2K to the infamous “10 days of darkness,” people anticipating chaos on September 23 multiple years in a row, EBS 5G-activated zombiepocaylpse that failed to materialize on October 4, to God only knows how many other dates groups have tripped out over that came & went without nothing happening. And yeah, a few thousand people getting murdered in the Middle East recently might look bad, even with fair reason to compare it to another 9/11 - whether accurate or just an informal guerilla marketing campaign - but is it really that drastically different from the countless war crimes that’ve been going down for centuries both there and across the globe? If select events from WW1 & WW2 were not broadcast as quickly & widely then as they can be now, would the ‘end times believers’ of that day not have arrived at the same conclusions that the ‘end is near’ - or same fractal pattern going further back to different times, societies and wars…? Hell, we can’t even imagine the depravity of atrocities that’ve taken place on the continent of Africa that never made it fully into western awareness, let alone history books, or what prophetic myths of pending apocalypse in cultures there might parallel those told in the Bible & Quran - and how many times their own expectations of of “the end” coming were unmet, with dates perpetually pushed forward, the “evidence” always on the horizon, at the end of a treadmill, outside of reach no matter how close it looks.
Now don’t get me wrong here… none of this is to suggest “it’s all bullshit” or anything of the sort;
While the majority of the world might’ve subscribed to a select few dominant religious cults (pardon the bluntness, and disclaimer below) around for a while and provided the bulk of “end times” rhetoric and fuel for “holy wars,” there have been similar prophecies in a vast spectrum of other cultures & societies going way back as well. For as much as the institutionalization of religions the past few hundred years combined with political intertwinements and a (perhaps parasitic, sociopathic) agenda of manipulation for power & control may have twisted foundational teachings in/of their holy books as weaponry to instil fear and direct flocks according to their will, there is still something in the fundamental cores - as buried & obscured as they may have become - mirroring teaching & prophecies from too many other ancient cultures (some of which lived with a far greater degree of integrity, in harmony with nature and universal principles… *until it was the end of their days, being wiped out the genocidal conquests & holy wars of their times) to simply disregard it all, no matter how much left-brain-dominant critics of religious may under direction of their own beliefs & cognitive biases.
(Note on the “religious cult” wording: this is NOT to imply everything about religion is B.S. or offend any who’ve self-identified based on associations with any organized religion. For as nutty as some fundamentalists will go with any set of ideologies and surrender individual autonomy to cultish collectives - and a dynamic very common when it comes to religion - there is most certainly much good many experience through/with it. The perspective-definition, “cults,” here is to be used for the purpose of contextually narrowing focus to particular aspects & dynamics - perhaps like a mechanic narrowing in on specific components or surgeon refining attention towards precise systems within the whole of a body - and not to negate the vastly larger context or diminish any individual’s personal relationship with any religion or its set of teachings & rituals. No disrespect intended - am sure anyone who’s read this far is an adult who knows what is & isn’t correct for themselves and IF religious, is fully capable of maintain a healthy relationship with it, not having veered too far off into the “cult” extremities; and if the terminology is triggering, might perhaps be something to look at as to why if one’s identity is so intertwined with ideological doctrine that cannot remain confident & certain in oneself in the face of different perspectives shared with disclaimers they are NOT to be taken as any one-size-fits-all Truth.)
Of course, these are matters there might be no easy-accessible answers to - especially in consideration of the fact that the majority of people you could talk to about them would be likely to either dismiss it all as religious quackery or regurgitate dogmatic rhetoric as though they know the “truth” simply because it of collective agreement due to the zillion times its been shouted from rooftops because a book thousands of years old translated (in ways that cannot be completely precise in capturing the original) dozens of times says so. Truth is not truth simply because something is spoken with unwavering conviction, nor does the fact that a cult has had billions of followers give any more validity to its prophetic beliefs than the fringe ones who committed mass suicide because it was said “the end times are near” and they were seizing a window of opportunity to hop a ride on a passing spaceship, riding off on the ascension train to higher realms. It’s probably wise to take opinions swayed by centuries of distorted discourse with a grain of salt, and since the topics are not ones of concrete facts but intangible, vague speculation, it’s safe to say those who’d speak on them with absolute certainty driven by religious fervour are systemically limited in their capacity to offer either unbiased clarity or perspectives outside their own programmed one. Not to say there isn’t value in listening to them for consideration as one of a broader spectrum of perspectives, but that if one has any interest at all in exploring these issues with hope of increasing understanding, * we gotta think outside the box here.*
Though a subject many have devoted their entire lives to exploring and surely countless volumes of discourse exist on in libraries (both hidden and occult), the one fundamental principle to bear in mind at this point: much of these “holy books” are not literal… but metaphoric.
Indeed, tremendous distortion has occurred through countless translations & rewriting of texts such as the Bible - from one language to another, by one political regime or another (and it’s been historically said that the Old Testament was not even actually written until something like a century post-Jesus… gotta question the intelligence of those who’d think there wasn’t even at least a little bit of loss his original messages during that rather large gap of time!). We’ve all heard of the children’s “telephone game” - where kids sitting in a circle pass along a message from one to another, the final result being magnitudes different than the original. Now add in the inherent limitations of even the most highly-skilled translator attempting to transpose ‘spiritual’ discourse and allegorical teachings, topped off with political motivations & organizational agendas. Yeah. Even minus the political interference, if you’d like to get a direct experiential conception of the dynamics of how drastically an individual translator’s ‘style’ can result in immensely varied outcomes, I’d suggest getting ahold of multiple translations of the ancient Chinese Book Of Changes, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and investing the time in observing the massive variances - some blatantly amazing or horrible, others transmitting a tremendous wealth of wisdom *or none at all, each with its unique vibrational footprint more or less capable of unlocking deeper reserves of insight for certain individuals at specific times or not. Apply the same principles discovered back over to the “holy books,” and you’ll probably be light years ahead in consciousness of the masses who’ve simply ate it all up literally at face value. But lest I digress…
Whether a byproduct of multiple translations and/or part originally intended, metaphorical & allegorical by design or coincidental effect of their natural & unnatural evolution, much wisdom is often missed when taking stories literally rather than reading between the lines to what is encoded deeper within.
For the sake of exploration with intent to decode some of these ‘mysteries,’ let’s work from the basis of assumption both the “holy wars” and the “end times” prophecies are not literal; though especially considering parallels with other ancient cultural forewarnings of similar periods (such as those in the Hopi society or the “end of time” in the Mayan calendar system), that the strong continual emphasis on the relevance & importance of how we navigate through ‘these’ periods in the larger cycles of time & evolution is indicative of something critical to learn and integrate in/during our humansoul journeys - both individually & collectively…
Sparing the fear many of these topics have often been approached & propagated with - whether partly institutionally-instilled, a natural consequence of human survival mechanics, or both - what is it our ancestors were trying to impart through their prophecies? Downplaying the dramatic, theatrical “fire & brimstone” frivolities - quite likely a product of amplification & distortion dynamics of already-distorted misconceptions of the original messages - and if we are not to take the countless translations literally, what are the foundational principles encoded within these forewarnings & allegorical tales echoed throughout cultures spread wide across the globe and deep into history?
Whether we are witnessing an escalation of “holy wars” signalling the unfolding of “end times” or not, there is something to taken from the threads of lessons sown through a wide scope of similar prophecies from vastly different sources, as though seeded in a diverse range of spaces such that we not proceed without the fruits they are to bear at the point needed. And perhaps many do ‘get it’ - though communicating it in language that neither resonates with everyone nor clearly articulates the totality of the ‘curriculum.’ (Maybe I’m the late one to the party, just sorta starting to figure out now what’s been apparent to a majority all along, offput by some of the distortions at cost of rejecting the substance.)
Some answers - or at the least, perspectives on potential ones - to come in the next part of this series…
I've seen some stories about that as well. I feel like every time things get unsettled in the middle east people go down that road. I've even seen people talk about how crypto is a sign of the end times and the mark of the beast and all that. My opinion is the same as it would be to a sports team that made it to the playoffs: Even if you haven't, act like you've been there before. All of the hype and drama just makes you look foolish. We've seen this a million times and we will likely see it a million more. You might as well try to guess the price of BTC next year versus trying to guess when the end will come!
“Crypto is a sign of end times…” hahaha.
And I’ve been immersed enough in the spaces to get where people are coming from with the logic of linking it to mandatory CBDCs, implanted chips, etc… but yeah. Major cognitive biases and logical fallacies at play.
Also reminds me of this dude I’ve encountered recently who teaches stuff on trusts - some good info for sure; looks younger than he probably is, puts himself off to be rather prim, proper, professional… yet nearly completely discredits himself when his biases kick in with the statement, “crypto is a psyop” (as though anyone could seriously lump EVERY crypto project in the work into such a single thought-terminating cliche’d category) - in the same argument that crypto could not be used for CBDCs because proof of work requires too much energy. Like seriously, dude claims to be some financial expert making such certain declarations, while clearly not even have done enough BASIC research/education to know that the MAJORITY of blockchains - especially the ones GOVERNMENTS & INSTITUTIONS ARE BUILDING ON/WITH are using different models that use practically zero energy…?? hahahaha.
Gotta take EVERYTHING people say with a grain of salt these days… :-)
You sure do! It's scary. I'm a pretty innocent person, so the idea that I have to doubt everything is kind of hard to swallow. It's where we are though.