I am not a christian, take atheism/theism in stride, and think that Christianity fading away is inevitable in the long term. But the condition of secular humanists, a flock tended by the new priest… Source: so what, so can secular humanism…//Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems  … Continue reading so what, so can secular humanism…//Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems  – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Basically, during the Axial Age (800-300 BCE) some break-through thinkers (like Isaiah or Buddha) oriented us toward a “new, transcendent principle (God, Logos, Nirvana) that was the telos of human… Source:  Habermas has totally misunderstood the Axial Age…??? Importance of studying the ‘eonic model’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History

I am a student of science bar none, but I have also learned from the larger sphere of culture and global diversity the limits of science and its failure so far to provide a world view that can stan… Source: science, scientism and the failure of reductionism…//Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience  – 1848+: The … Continue reading science, scientism and the failure of reductionism…//Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience  – 1848+: The End(s) of History 

By comparing white supremacy in the U.S. to the caste system in India, her new book at once illuminates and collapses a complex history. Source: Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker This already classic study is relevant to this blog with its critique of the legacy of caste in India, … Continue reading Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker

update note: The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a complex legacy and isn't supposed to be turned into an instrument of murder by rogue sufis who in fact are incapable of creating texts of any use for a so-called spiritual path. Gold's idiocy would claim that ordinary temporal life is really a bardo, and … Continue reading the gold/gurdjieff ‘sufi’ racket…books of the dead as concealed fascist promo

For centuries jews were falsely accused of murder, sacrifice and all sorts of absurd charges. Now in the twentieth-first century we have EJ Gold, under the cover of sufism, and the crypto-fascist Gurdjieff 'work' actually inventing the game that never existed and (actually also in a tactic taken from the world of Aleister Crowley) indulging … Continue reading Gold/Gurdjieff/(Crowley) and magical murder

The world of sufism is hopelessly confusiong and most disinfo. No serious history of the subject exists, while the Gurdjieff angle in retrospect shows proto-fascist elements emerging in a form never seen in traditional legacies. Who would have thought at Buddhists would seed fascism, or that jewish sufis would indirectly laud genocide. It is a … Continue reading EJ Gold the most sadistic, crypto genocidal fascist of the gurus: in the legacy of Gurdjieff

This rejection of the guru legacy hindu, Buddhist, tibetan, sufis) is a reminder of who you are dealing with: these figures hated democracy, modernity and autonomy of the individual. Fascist was born in the reactionary guru world. After Hitler we get Trump, at first a parody,but already visible as a trojan horse for fascism which … Continue reading Trump, the alt-right, and the hidden guru/gangster/fascist effect

Many readers will reject our brand of explanation here as speculative, and that’s completely OK. Our interpretations however are one thing and the basic eonic effect another. The latter is a … Source:  Archaic Greece to the rescue…//The eonic effect and generated religion…  – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The eonic effect shows the way religions (and secularism, and philosophies, and science…) emerge in the context of ‘eonic transitions’, three times, at least: emergent ‘Isra… Source:  The eonic effect and generated religion… – 1848+: The End(s) of History