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1 We Are The Gods Now? - Transhumanism And Ahrimanic Reengineering Of The Human Race Overview: * Preface______________________________________________________________________________________2 * Transhumanism On The Move: The Urge To Merge, To Enhance, To Escape Death______________5 * Approaching The Singularity And 2045: A New Era for Humanity______________________________ 7 * Post-Human Faustians, Criticism, Society And Humans Radically Reengineered________________12 * Worst-Case Scenarios - Transhumanism, Fascist Developments, Destruction__________________17 * Ahriman As Transhumanism - Transition And Dangers Of Our Present Time__________________ 25 * Post Scriptum Promethean Ponderings_______________________________________________________31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason I am writing this article is that there is no avoiding these issues and sooner or later most people will be confronted with it much more than now....... - MidKnight, July, 2012 - MidKnight's Ponderings In The Darkest Hour Before Dawn: -------------------------------------------

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We Are The Gods Now? - Transhumanism And Ahrimanic Reengineering Of The Human Race

Overview:

* Preface______________________________________________________________________________________2

* Transhumanism On The Move: The Urge To Merge, To Enhance, To Escape Death______________5

* Approaching The Singularity And 2045: A New Era for Humanity______________________________ 7

* Post-Human Faustians, Criticism, Society And Humans Radically Reengineered________________12

* Worst-Case Scenarios - Transhumanism, Fascist Developments, Destruction__________________17

* Ahriman As Transhumanism - Transition And Dangers Of Our Present Time__________________ 25

* Post Scriptum Promethean Ponderings_______________________________________________________31

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The reason I am writing this article is that there is no avoiding these issues and sooner or later most

people will be confronted with it much more than now.......

- MidKnight, July, 2012

- MidKnight's Ponderings In The Darkest Hour Before Dawn:

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We Are The Gods Now? - Transhumanism And Ahrimanic Reengineering Of The Human Race

Preface

“Lord, the affliction is great..the spirits I have invoked I can no longer banish…”

- Goethe's poem about the Sorcerer's Apprentice

Transhumanism is a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades.

Attention is given to both present technologies, like genetic engineering and information technology, and

anticipated future ones, such as molecular nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. The enhancement-

options that are being discussed include radical extension of human health-span, eradication of disease,

elimination of unnecessary suffering, and augmentation of human intellectual, physical and emotional

capacities. Transhumanists hope we shall eventually manage to become posthumans, beings with vastly

greater capacities than present humans.

- Nick Bostrom, Philosopher

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Ahriman wants knowledge to be devoid of warm human interest and connection, to be stored in

libraries and not to live in human souls. In medicine: materialistic, mechanistic (and atrocious)

experimentalism and treatment, without understanding of the living human individual.

In technics: very refined developments, but directed only at satisfying animal needs, promoting human

immersion in the sense-world to the exclusion of the supersensible. In world-view: Men as animals,

animals (and all living things) as mechanisms, the non-existence of soul and

spirit,and the non-existence of moral reality: amoralism

- Rudolf Steiner's views on Ahrimanic characteristics

God, being the well-documented sadist that he is, no doubt wanted to keep Lucifer around so that he

could punish him and try to get him back under his (God’s) power. Probably what really happened was

that Lucifer came to hate God’s kingdom, his sadism, his demand for slavish conformity and obedience,

his psychotic rage at any display of independent thinking and behavior. Lucifer realized that he could

never fully think for himself and could certainly not act on his independent thinking so long as he was

under God’s control. Therefore he left Heaven, that terrible spiritual-State ruled by the cosmic sadist

Jehovah, and was accompanied by some of the angels who had had enough courage to question God’s

authority and his value-perspective. Lucifer is the embodiment of reason, of intelligence, of critical

thought. He stands against the dogma of God and all other dogmas. He stands for the exploration of

new ideas and new perspectives in the pursuit of truth....No more gods, no more faith, no more timid

holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The

future belongs to posthumanity

- Max More, Prominent Transhumanist

These beings who spend their life by using human beings, in order to be able to be in the sphere where

they want to be. These beings have an extraordinarily high intelligence and a significantly developed

will but no warmth of heart at all. Nothing of what we call the human "Gemut". And we go through life,

my dear friends, in such a way that we have our souls and a Double of this kind, who is much more

clever, very much more clever than we are, who is very intelligent, but has a Mephistophelian

intelligence, and an Ahrimanic intelligence, and also an Ahrimanic will, a very strong will, a will that is

much more akin to the nature forces than is our human will, which is controlled by the mind and the

heart...These beings of high intelligence, but of purely Mephistophelian intelligence, and with a will more

related to nature than can be said of the human will, these beings once decided out of their own will that

they did not want to live in that world in which they were destined to live by the wisdom-filled of the

higher hierarchies. They wanted to conquer the earth; they need bodies, for bodies of their own they do

not have. They use as much of the human bodies as they can use, because the human soul

cannot entirely fill up the human body.

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You see, as the human body develops, these beings are able to enter into it at a definite time before the

human being is born, and below the threshold of our consciousness they accompany us. They cannot

endure one thing in human life, they positively cannot endure it, and that is death. Therefore they must

always leave this human body in which they have established themselves before it succumbs to death.

They continue to have a very great delusion, for they want to be able to remain in human bodies

beyond death. That would be a very great achievement in the kingdom of these beings but that they have

not yet achieved

(my emphasis)

- Rudolf Steiner on the Doppelgänger/the Double See also; END of the Millennium and Beyond, from

the work of Rudolf Steiner Compiled and Edited by Richard Seddon.

From The Sci-Fi film Metropolis 1927 - depicting the ultimate dystopian transhumanist future?

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Transhumanism On The Move: The Urge To Merge, To Enhance, To Escape Death

The implications of transhumanism - taking place right now - are massive and mind-boggling.

Firstly, the waiting period is over; after more than 5 years The Documentary, The Singularity is Near,

A True Story about the Future based on Ray Kurzweil’s NewYork Times bestseller, is finished.

The transhumanist documentary features Ray Kurzweil interacting with a panoply of thinkers

on the impact of exponentially expanding technologies on the nature of human life in the next half

century. The intertwined narrative is a superhero avatar created by Ray. Tony Robbins (who plays

himself) 'discover the true meaning of what it means it be human.'

Coming Summer 2012: The Singularity Is Near Movie Trailer

Go to 720 for HD!

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In Hollywood the flagship director of Blockbuster-breakdown scenarios -Roland Emmerich - is

specifically covering the transhumanists´ 'singularity' concept in an upcoming science-fiction film:

'Director Roland Emmerich - the man behind sci-fi blockbusters like Universal Soldier,

Stargate, Independence Day, and 2012) - is back with a new science-fiction thriller

project. It's titled Singularity'

- blog about the upcoming Hollywood singularity film

'Emmerich and the studio are bringing in futurist and AI specialist Ray Kurzweil to work

with Emmerich. Singularity is a term used by technologists to signify the emergence of

a super-intelligence that would overtake human intelligence.'

- Hollywood reporter

See also this short trailer:

Trailer:Transcendent man

(Documentary from 2009)

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Approaching The Singularity And 2045: A New Era for Humanity

New Must-See 2012 Video Presentation - 2045: A New Era for Humanity

NB! Go to 720 for HD!

From the description of 2045:

February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world

leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development

of humankind.

One of the main goals of the Congress was to construct a global network of scientists to further

research on the development of cybernetic technology, with the ultimate goal of transferring a

human's individual consciousness to an artificial carrier.

2012-2013. The global economic and social crises are exacerbated. The debates on the global

paradigm of future development intensifies. New transhumanist movements and parties emerge.

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Russia 2045 transforms into World 2045. Simultaneously, the 2045.com international social

network for open innovation is expanding. Here anyone interested may propose a project, take

part in working on it, or fund it, or both. In the network, there are scientists, scholars, researchers,

financiers and managers.

2013-2014. New centers working on cybernetic technologies for the development of radical life

extension rise. The 'race for immortality' starts.

2015-2020. The Avatar is created -- A robotic human copy controlled by thought via 'brain-

computer' interface. It becomes as popular as a car.

2020. In Russia and in the world appear -- in testing mode -- several breakthrough projects:

Android robots replace people in manufacturing tasks; android robot servants for every home;

thought-controlled Avatars to provide telepresence in any place of the world and abolish the need

business trips; flying cars; thought driven mobile communications built into the body or sprayed

onto the skin.

2020-2025. An autonomous system providing life support for the brain and allowing it interaction

with the environment is created. The brain is transplanted into an Avatar B. With Avatar B man

receives new, expanded life.

2025. The new generation of Avatars provides complete transmission of sensations from all five

sensory robot organs to the operator.

2030-2035. ReBrain -- The colossal project of brain reverse engineering is implemented. World

science comes very close to understanding the principles of consciousness.

2035. The first successful attempt to transfer one's personality to an alternative carrier. The epoch

of cybernetic immortality begins.

2040-2050. Bodies made of nanorobots that can take any shape arise alongside hologram bodies.

2045-2050. Drastic changes in social structure, and in scientific and technological development.

All the for space expansion are established. For the man of the future, war and violence are

unacceptable. The main priority of his development is spiritual self-improvement.

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See also Infowars critical article about 2045

: United Nations Envisions Transhumanist Future Where Man is Obsolete

Michio Kaku asks: What happens when the machines become smarter than us?"

He then presents his solution: "embrace the singularity, merge with them". That is,

digitize all the information from human brains, upload the information into a

"mother computer" (or mother of all computers?), and create a "vast database of all

human knowledge". Conversely, information could be downloaded into humans for

"instant knowledge". Kaku then concludes,"So when the singularity arrives, we will

be in control. By merging with machines, we will enter a new age of superhuman

existence. In the post-human era, we become homo superior. We become a new

species. We're talking about humanity becoming like the gods.

- We Are The Gods Now?

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Acceleration of Technological Change

The grandiose utterance; 'we are the Gods now' is also identical to what Peter Weyland proclaimed

in Ridley Scott's science-fiction film 'Prometheus' - Weyland is the fictitious character in the film which is

loaded with transhumanist elements.

The TED 2023-scene with Peter Weyland didn't appear in the film - an outtake and perhaps included in

the forthcoming DVD?:

Video Trailer: We Are The Gods Now: 2023 TED Talk (Ridley Scott's Transhumanist Promotion From 'Prometheus')

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A promotional website for 'Prometheus', weyland industries, is revealing the excessive content of

transhumanist ideas and technologies:

WEYLANDINDUSTRIES.COM : PRODUCTS

o DAVID 8

o ELECTRONICS

o ENERGY

o HEALTH

o SECURITY

o TERRAFORMING

o TRANSPORTATION

WEYLANDINDUSTRIES.COM : THE COMPANY

o ABOUT US

o WEYLAND TED TALK

o INVESTOR INFORMATION

o CORPORATE TIMELINE

o PRESS

o CAREERS

PROJECTPROMETHEUS.COM

o DISCOVER NEW WORLDS

o MISSION DATABASE

o TRAINING CENTER

o EMPLOYEE I.D. CREATOR

o CLASSIFIED

o PROJECT GENESIS

o ABOUT THE MISSION

A blogger's perspective:

If one goes to the weyland industries website, one can see it takes itself VERY

seriously and has PR about life extension, employment, resources, and other

Transhumanism PR. Scary. It even says here that, "Weyland Industries

consolidates all products and solutions into seven verticals: health, transportation,

energy, electronics, terraforming, security and cybernetics." Well that sounds just

like our world elite right now. The fictitious corp also has links to the FDA, US

Goverment, and........Olympics!!! As well as defence, security, and arms.

- from Ridley Scott's Predictive Programming: Transhumanist Symbolism

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Post-Human Faustians, Criticism, Society And Humans Radically Reengineered

'You may have a great deal of knowledge and be vastly poor. The poorer you are the greater

the demand for knowledge. You expand your consciousness with great varieties of knowledge,

accumulating experiences and remembrances and yet may be vastly poor. The skilful use of

knowledge may bring you wealth and give you eminence and power but there may still be poverty.

This poverty breeds callousness; you play while the house is burning.The skill of intelligence is to

put knowledge in its right place. Without knowledge it's not possible to live in this technological

and almost mechanical civilization but it will not transform the human being and his society.

Knowledge is not the excellence of intelligence; intelligence can and does use knowledge and thus

transforms man and his society. Intelligence is not the mere cultivation of the intellect and its

integrity. It comes out of the understanding of the whole consciousness of man, yourself and not a

part, a separate segment, of yourself. The study and the understanding of the movement of your

own mind and heart give birth to this intelligence. You are the content of your consciousness; in

knowing yourself you will know the universe. This knowing is beyond the word for the word is not

the thing. The freedom from the known, every minute, is the essence of intelligence. It's this

intelligence that is in operation in the universe if you leave it alone. You are destroying this

sacredness of order through the ignorance of yourself.

This ignorance is not banished by the studies others have made about you or themselves. You

yourself have to study the content of your own consciousness. The studies the others have made

of themselves, and so of you, are the descriptions but not the described. The word is not the

thing.'

- Krishnamurti's Journal

Georg Henrik von Wright in his book, “The Myth of Progress”, ends his first chapter with the archetype of the

Sorcerers apprentice, as an almost defeatist metaphor for the technos-future of western civilization:

“Lord the affliction is great..the spirits I have invoked I can no longer banish…” [Goethe's poem about the

Sorcerers apprentice].

The collective shadowside of Western civilization is arguably faustian, i.e. seeking knowledge for its own sake,

whatever the price, and is fiercely pushing the transhumanist movement forward in the 21st Century in order

to acquire immortality in the flesh, transhuman superpowers, technocratic overlord elitism, merging of human

biology with artificial intelligence and machines, freedom from pain, etc.

Emotional pain will be eradicated in this vision of a brave new hedonistic but soulless society in which

augmented reality and other technologies are implemented. In fact; the technology is already here:

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The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired

Science-fiction is now reality after researchers found a way to delete

painful memories. The concept was explored in the film Eternal Sunshine

Of A Spotless Mind where Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet decide to erase

each other from their memories after a difficult break-up

But how can pain become our schoolmaster, if we only feel the pain and are in no way aware of its beneficent

force. .... we realise that we are experiencing pain, and that this is brought about by the beneficial forces to

counteract our transgressions. This is a force in our subconscious mind acting truly as karmic fulfilment — as

an impulse to fall no more into those deeds, inclinations, and greeds that brought about the illness.

- Rudolf Steiner, lecture

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The Transhumanist movement's goals and its nature should not be underestimated or ignored in its capacity

to radically change the fate of humanity. See this article and this; Mass Media Promoting Transhumanism: the

“Mind-Blowing Benefits of Merging Human Brains and Computers” and this: Transhumanists Vow to Destroy

our Spirit and Nature

"Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of

a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and

detractors from a wide range of perspectives. Transhumanism has been

condemned by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as the world's most dangerous

idea, while one proponent, Ronald Bailey, counters that it is the "movement

that epitomizes the most daring,courageous, imaginative, and idealistic

aspirations of humanity"

- Wikipedia

Hugo de Garis, a professor of computer science in China says that 'These inventions may end up causing the

worst war that humanity has ever had, whereas Peter Diamandis chimes in with an equally radical statement:

'Corporations and governments and societies will be created and destroyed on the back of the technology that

Ray [Kurzweil] describes.' - from the documentary, 'Transcendent Man'

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To give Kurzweil (seen by many as the spearheading techno-priest of transhumanism) due credit; he has done

very good things but technology is not clear-cut but a double-edged sword.

The shadow of transhumanism in the form of narcissism and rage cannot be underestimated either:

Futurological rhetoric and fandoms represent the extreme amplification and reductio

ad absurdum of the body-loathing, narcissistic death-denialism, crass materialism,

complacent consumerism, technocratic elitism, market triumphalism, fraudulent

profit-taking, hyperbolic deception and self-promotion that now utterly suffuses our

public life through the prevalence of advertizing and marketing norms and forms and

of neoliberal global developmentalist narratives and rationalizations. To grasp the

ugliness and absurdity of these extreme forms is to gain insights into the pathology of

many mainstream values and the deception of official elite-incumbent justifications.

Where we have grown accustomed and complacent to these pathologies and

deceptions looking at ourselves from the alienating margins of our own discourse can

help us see ourselves and the urgency of the need to change all the more clearly.

- Ten Reasons to Take Seriously the Transhumanists, Singularitarians, Techno-Immortalists

Criticism of transhumanism - some bullet points:

Infeasibility (Futurehype argument)

Hubris (Playing God argument)

Contempt for the flesh (Fountain of Youth argument)

Trivialization of human identity (Enough argument)

Genetic divide (Gattaca argument)

Threats to morality and democracy (Brave New World argument)

Dehumanization (Frankenstein argument)

Specter of coercive eugenicism (Eugenics Wars argument)

Existential risks (Terminator argument)

- see Wikipedia on Transhumanism; Controversy

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You know, we might think we are going to live in a virtual world and it is just going to be plugged

into everything. But, you know, there is physical reality that supports that virtuality; the energy

comes from some place and they really are still biological beings. Now, some people might think,

well sooner or later the biological reality is superceded. And it could be! But there is still a larger

living universe. Our biology is our biology but you know the earth is the earth and the universe is

the universe and it isn't a machine.'

- Peter Senge

TIME MAGAZINE: 2045 - The Year Man Becomes Immortal

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Worst-Case Scenarios - Transhumanism, Fascist Developments, Destruction

Although most of the planet is blissfully unaware of what is approaching, lulled by promises of a “great big

beautiful tomorrow,” the near transhumanist future will be anything but beautiful. A terrifying future thunders

toward mankind, an impending fate embodied by monstrous combinations of human and animal genetic

materials, of man/machine cyborgs, and of beings not only with increased capacities and extended life-spans,

but also with re-engineered morality void of compassion. What can possibly go wrong?

Though there are many positive aspects of the technological revolution, the transhumanist future specifically,

in certain aspects, is so abhorrent as to almost defy the imagination.

These new beings, and the transhumanists looking forward to their arrival, will not be benevolent.

Just the opposite.

Because the goal of those creating these beings - DARPA-tech infused anti-spiritual materialist

transhumanists - will be that they will replace human beings, that the new race will be posthumans. The word

“posthuman” sounds innocuous enough. Until one realizes that “post” means “after.” As in “the human race is

gone.”

Of course one might argue that this could be a gradual process. This is a tragic assumption, however. In fact,

the process will be rapid, undertaken with surprise attacks. This won't be a process in which one race replaces

another, slowly and peacefully, even if that's the misrepresentation that most people receive. It will be violent,

bloody conflict.

What is planned is a quick change, a coup d'état once an accelerated point of no return has been reached.

When that occurs the autonomy of self-replicating technology will have a huge impact and it will happen

before the singularity is reached.

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The explicit transhumanist goal is to replace mankind. A stratified technocratic brave new world mixed with

1984 in which the uneducated masses have been employed for technocratic utilitarian purposes, excluded and

marginalized, put to the dust bin of obsolete evolution by the techno-priests of the new millenium - while the

top layers will consist of hedonistic death-anxious health freaks, Ayn Rand ultra-libertarian transhumanists,

borderline sociopaths, cryonics and mind uploading enthusiasts, technocratic transhumanist overlords and

singularitarians, etc. ...in an exponentially expanding and unpredictable world of high weirdness X 100000.

The new inheritors who lead this purge will be the stuff of science fiction.

What was once the realm of madmen's imaginations and the stuff of nightmares has now become the unholy

grail that factions of the scientific community are striving for. Mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden

lest “in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and

evil.”

Today there are those reaching for that fruit, working diligently to rebuild mankind into a new image,

changing things at the genetic level, and rearranging the basic makeup into super-beings that will be like

gods when compared to normal individuals.

These Ahrimanically influenced immortalists, singularitarians, geneticists and nano-technologists believe they

can out-do Cosmic intelligence, and see mankind as a “flawed design” that can be reformed into a new,

terrifying image. They have no qualms about doing this. Indeed, they are convinced this is the “next step in

evolution” that must be taken. The Zeitgeist tendency could also be named: The dehumanization of humans

and the humanization of machines - and our culture is now promoting this in media, films, advertising, etc.

Their transformed creations will become a new ruling elite that is superior physically and mentally to normal

individuals. Those forming these transhumans hope to transform themselves as well, and plan to rule

alongside these new gods. (What these misguided scientists don't realize is that many of them will

undoubtedly be viewed as expendable and ultimately will become part of the billions of “normals” who will be

marginalized as the world is transformed into a nightmare ruled by the neo-gods they created.)

Like Pandora who released the scourges and plagues upon mankind, these researchers intent on improving

the human genetic line will soon be witnessing the hybridization of large numbers of people, and a wide array

of unintended consequences as the Faustian price for having aborted all precautionary principles and this will

become obvious - always in retrospective for the proponents.

This future is not something a century away. This Pandora's box is already cracked open; some of the

technology has already escaped - indeed much of it is already being put to use (one of many examples):

The world's first genetically modified humans have been created, it was revealed last night.

The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States

provoked another furious debate about ethics. So far, two of the babies have been tested and have

been found to contain genes from three 'parents'.

- Transhumanism takes leap: 30 GM babies born in US

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The lid to this box is opening ever wider, unleashing more terrors on the unsuspecting. The transformation of

society and humans on a wider scale is only a matter of a decade away if not much sooner:

ENIGMA: What do the self-replicating fibres found in Morgellons patients signify? Why are engineered

materials being found in airborne environmental samples? Why do many qualified people find laboratory-

tested severe bio-synthetic anomalies in regard to chemtrails?:

Video: From Chemtrails to Pseudo-Life: The Dark Agenda of Synthetic Biology

Go directly to the excerpt here for a general overview: MUST_SEE!

'Ahriman guides certain forces in evolution in such a way that they may be of the

greatest possible advantage to him. And evil would result were people to live on in a

state of drowsy unawareness'

- Rudolf Steiner

The foundations for fulfilling this nightmare are already in place politically, and fully entrenched in

government and business. The extreme draconian state apparatus is set up - see the US alone fx.

If we don't know what's going on we are sleeping prey.

NB! Most people assume that things of great importance would come out in the mainstream media in regard

to such such alarmist view as the following, but such assumption is demonstrably empirically false. Also; that

people wouldn't be able to keep a secret - which is another false assumption is empirtically proven false here

fx. - and Scandinavia in general is fantasy land, not representative for the reality of the world that will sooner

or later hit our shores hard also big time.

Also: The media is compromised; old news + Obama is surely a demagogue: "Obama Syndrome": "If you Can

Fake Sincerity You've Got it Made" - und so weiter...All this might sound alienating and foreign to the average

hobbit in Scandinavia but just wait. This is just to give you an overview - it will happen in spite of false alarms,

'crying wolf', information overload, Ipad-porn-pod, and desensitization of most people due to the postponing

of the most delayed severe consequences on 'the ground' so to speak.

In general; we are shaped and molded by media, people, think tanks, ideologies in history that we don't know

about (and their ‛selfevident truths‛ are slime-dripped through our schools and university faculties, etc. )

whose motives are often less than good and whose ideologies we think are 'ours', 'natural', 'the way things

have always been', 'it's in the syllabus so suck it up if you want to pass exam', blabla......and similar decrepit

stuff, thinking we are 'free' and 'informed' - what a monstrous inhumane truman show....

Examples: Top Censored Stories of 2012 by Project Censored - http://www.projectcensored.org/

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Most will live to see this terrifying future, but for the more politically immediate developments; in the current

climate of fascism and breakdown scenarios they may know the sorrow of seeing loved ones herded into

death camps, (FEMA camp staffing contracts (KBR), [can now] be staffed within 72 hours)

Humanity is under siege form many fronts - and the current indicators of fascism are also signs for

transhumanist developments long-term - and they are all draconian. The developments are crazy enough

without transhumanism:

Mike Adams from Natural News ;

..To a great extent, we have already begun to live in the early stages of a

"Hunger Games" society. Those who worship government and believe in total government

power over the People are pushing us in that direction every single day.

• Control over food

• Control over water

• Control over communications

• Control over land

• Control over the media

• Control of technology

• Control of DNA

• Control over life itself

• Staged false flag security events to keep people afraid http://www.naturalnews.com/034325_FBI_entrapment_terror_plots.html

• Janet Napolitano on giant TV screens at Wal-Mart warning everyone to spy on their

neighbors and only trust government http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=5A4B5D4B84344D5D9CBD262A53D8B071

• Armed government raids on farms and food distribution centers

• Corporate control over seeds and all intellectual property

• The push to disarm the People and centralize all weapons in the hands of government

• Mad science genetic engineering of crops and animals

• The total theater of fabricated "humanitarian" causes (Kony 2012) which are really nothing

more than a tactic to get public support for mass murder by governments

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• The total worshipping of sports figures and sports events by the dumbed-down masses

who watch football, basketball and the UFC while having no clue whatsoever that their

government is raping their future and

destroying their liberties.

• The TSA reaching down your pants and calling it "security"

I have added some few other things:

Congress OKs 30,000 flying drones spying on Americans across U.S. cities

Pentagon Prepares Re-Education Camps for Political Activists - May 3rd, 2012 RT

450 Million Hollowpoint bullets, hardened checkpoint booths and radiation pills

Purchases of Portable Barriers: After Huge Ammo Buy, DHS Purchases Bullet Resistant Booths

The Patriot Act which allows unlimited spying on the American people by the government.

NDAA The National Defense Authorization Act with Sections 1021 and 1022 for the military arrests

and indefinite detention of American nationals without any due process of the law:

THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012. Obama Signs the “National Defense Authorization Act "

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

There is no “if” to whether or not these things will be put into motion. They are already unfolding and will

continue to fruition if not stopped immediately:

S.O.S. Alert: Help STOP Out-of-control Science from destroying us all

Is this new race on its way to ruthlessly destroy the men, women, and children who will be seen as outdated

and useless, chaff to be cast to the wind by the new, rightful owners of the Earth, the next step in “human

evolution? Perhaps even most terrifying is the thought that the transhumanist eugenicists will carry out their

well-intentioned slaughter with a “new morality.”

See also this article.

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This mindset will be adopted to transform (in their minds) their actions. They will believe that in through their

murders they are doing a good thing, something that is not only proper but wholesome and necessary. The

slaughter will be undertaken with the lie that it will transform the Earth into a much better place, and that

those who take the place of homo sapiens are doing a needful, moral thing, much as a man might feel after

ripping a weed from his lawn or squashing a cockroach under heel. The scientific-technocratic-industrial-

millitary complex is - intentionally or not - paving the way for the transhumanists and technocrats to invoke

'justifications' for their own proposed new world order and 'solutions' in which transhumanist memes seem

to play a pivotal role.

(NaturalNews) This is, without question, the most important article I've ever

penned: MUST_READ: Natural News: Human race being terminated by 'scientific suicide'

Even the technologies behind our smooth androids and Iphones, food, chemistry, big pharma mafia

medicine, etc. are specialized sub-syllabus in our knowledge-stratified, specialized and

compartmentalized society - hence 95% of people are ignorant and clueless about these parallel

societal expert-levels; they are deep infrastructural behind-the-user-interfaces and even many experts

have no clue what's happening other than their own specialized tunnel vision.

A Depiction Of An Anarchist's Model Of The World - Not Totally Off....Only Ignorants Or Useful Idiots Are Completely Unconscious

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The unconscious 'consumer cows', the so-called sheeple who are able to somewhat retain independent

thinking are progressively waking up due to the internet reformation which is penetrating the shield of state

lies.

‛If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to

believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the

people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress

dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is

the greatest enemy of the State.‛

--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

The quintessential rule still applies: decentralized lines of communication and distribution of information in

the 21th Century through internet have penetrated 'Goebbel's shield' and exposed controlled mainstream

media as manipulative and impotent and it is the major reason - according to many very prolific analysts -

why there are such strong political transnational attempts to limit the internet under various pretexts.

Expect the internet to become restricted within foreseeable future.

But otherwise they can only take the word of mainstream media for granted and while many people are

functioning as indoctrinated useful idiots, happy slaves or sitting ducks (the conformist consumer

unconscious segment), there are many who are awakening progressively from the slumber!

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the

prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming

such opinions

- Einstein

End Run

The process of technology without the light of foresight of love and wisdom is autonomous, unstoppable, and

arguably heading towards the singularity (video-presentation by Ray Kurzweil) if civilization progresses

beyond the anticipated breakdown of current political, economical and environmental structures (or allowed to

develop in spite of widespread societal breakdowns , fx. in isolated protected elite labs).

In both cases, the implications for the human species are staggering, and individuality might just be

eradicated in a collectivist Borg-like brave new world future dystopia, as if the multitude of current and

coming catastrophes weren't enough for humanity to deal with...

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When pondering the acceleration of technology, rapid ongoing consequences of technology in tremendous

strides are being made in countless of fields for better and worse: ' nanotechnology, biotechnology,

information technology and cognitive science (NBIC), and hypothetical future technologies such as simulated

reality, artificial intelligence, superintelligence, mind uploading, chemical brain preservation, and cryonics.

The Transhumanists believe that humans can and should use these technologies to become more than

human.'

'DARPA must have an abundance of transhumanists and singularitarians working for them because

that is a basic tenet of their philosophy; human beings are ‘meat’ or wetware holding intelligence

or ‘consciousness’ that can be measured and ‘downloaded’ into immortal hardware, or another

computational medium.'

- See DARPA and Militaristic Transhumanism - see also: DARPA

The transhumanist movement is clearly extremely funded financially by the financial and military elite, DARPA,

etc. DARPA - the inventor of the internet and high-tech for Pentagon and NSA - is also instrumental in

providing much of the high-tech for the draconian and surreal mindblowing measures going on right now:

14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Soon Be Using To Spy On You

On a brief sidenote - transhumanism and DARPA are also reminiscent of the nature of the Techno-Technos in

the unsurpassed epic SciFi cult comic book series, The Incal

From 'The Incal' - The Techno-Technos and a Technopriest with a hovering shadow egg

As I wrote last year: 'The wet dream of the Technos, The archetype of the sorcerer's apprentice, The Faustian

shadowside-ethos of the european civilization, The Transhumanists on the move in the 21st Century.....as

Rudolf Steiner predicted'

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Ahriman As Transhumanism - Transition And Dangers Of Our Present Time

Martinus, the Danish mystic and visionary, said in one of his last lectures that a great 'Ragnarok' will come

('doomsday'; being a period starting with the great wars in the 20th Century and culminating in events yet to

come) but will eventually result in a culture of building the future anew into a true world culture, a higher true

humanity and a world culture of love.

He said that we are living in a lovely place here in Scandinavia with our good neighbors, one of the best places

in the world, and that the war to come cannot be avoided and we will also be influenced (to a lesser degree

than most other places).

According to Martinus, the war will result in a transition from a culture of revenge and punishment towards a

culture of forgiveness, of love, of true international brotherhood, of Christ consciousness...the beginning of

an enlightened world culture.

It is clear that neither Rudolf Steiner and Martinus would view Transhumanism as the solution to our problems

- on the contrary; it is evident that Transhumanism in many respects very much represents the forces of

Ahriman.

Two extraordinary spiritual visionaries/ seers: Rudolf Steiner (left) and Martinus

Some of the transhumanist technologies can be used benignly but the overall philosophy of immortality fx. is

clearly Ahrimanic, along with other aspects.

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The anthroposophical view is that good is found in the balance between two polar, generally evil influences

on world and human evolution. Two spiritual adversaries endeavour to tempt and corrupt humanity: these are

often described through their mythological embodiments, Lucifer and his counterpart Ahriman, which have

both positive and negative aspects.

Lucifer is the light spirit, which "plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity", but also motivates

creativity and spirituality;

Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "...deny [their] link with divinity and to live entirely

on the material plane", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology.

Both figures exert a negative effect on humanity when their influence becomes misplaced or one-sided, yet

their influences are necessary for human freedom to unfold.

Each human being has the task to find a balance between these opposing influences, and each is helped in

this task by the mediation of the Representative of Humanity, also known as the Christ being, a spiritual entity

who stands between and harmonizes the two extremes.

Rudolf Steiner spoke of Ahriman as an actual, living spiritual entity. This being, he said, works to embed

people firmly into physicality, encouraging dull, materialistic attitudes and a philistine, dry intellect.

Steiner, in rare prophetic occasions, talks about an actual incarnation of Ahriman on the earth and the

potential consequences.

Just as Christ incarnated in a physical body, so would Ahriman incarnate in the Western world - before 'a part'

of the third millennium had passed. Steiner places this incarnation in the context of a 'cosmic triad' - Lucifer,

Christ and Ahriman.

Ahriman will incarnate as a counterpoint to the physical incarnation of Lucifer in the East in the third

millennium BC, with the incarnation of Jesus Christ in Palestine as the balancing point between the two. Over

the period during which Steiner developed anthroposophy - a speaking career that spanned two decades and

more than six thousand lectures - he referred to the idea of Ahriman's incarnation only six times.

The bad news, in one sense, is that Ahriman is coming (or is here), and there is nothing we can do about it.

In addition, collective humanity is helping his incarnation and that of his henchmen.

Steiner predicted that the forces who have inspired Nazism will be at its maximum around the beginning of

21st Century (very evident on multiple parameters) and that Ahriman will do everything in his power to

advance this moment as much as he can. .... 'Whether he will succeed in this will depend on the question

whether there will be enough people who see through his designs!'

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In 1916 Rudolf Steiner said that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil will appear in a form which

at that time [1916] could not yet be described.... some estimates say that the nadir of this battle will fall

around the years 2020 to 2040. National Socialism and Bolshevism will pale in comparison with this.

This is not new information for anthroposophists. On the other hand, there is good news: through human

activity, it is possible to help Ahriman serve humanity.

We do not have to endure him only; we can work to make Ahriman a helper of human beings. Believing that

science will save us from ourselves is equally helpful to him.

Ahriman's incarnation need not be an evil event, as he wishes it to be. This incarnation is necessary in

human and earthly evolution, and it can be turned toward the good, if mankind meets it in the right way:

On the mundane level, we can remedy Ahrimanic tedium in the work-life and the intellectual life, by filling

them with warm, Luciferic enthusiasm, by finding what is interesting in them, by getting ourselves interested

in objective, impersonal facts and processes. On the psychological level, we can remedy Luciferic subjectivity

and fiery emotionalism by observing ourselves coolly, as we would an external natural process...

...The fundamental principle in this, the Consciousness Soul Epoch, is the emergence in the Man of conscious,

individualized, independent thinking

The Borg-like ahrimanic qualities on the left

From 'Christ and Antichrist: Understanding the Events of Our Time and Recognizing Our Tasks'

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The intention of Ahriman, and his hosts, is to freeze the earth into complete rigidity, so that it will not pass

over to next stages, and to make the Man into an entirely earthly being -- unindividualized, unfree, and

divorced from the normal Gods' cosmos.

The essential Ahrimanic tendency is to materialize; to crystallize; to darken; to silence; to bring living, mobile

forces into fixed form -- in other words, to kill that which is living.

This tendency in itself, within proper bounds, is not evil; the dead, material world is necessary for the regular

Gods' plan of human and cosmic development.

The Ahrimanic tendency is evil only when it exceeds proper bounds, when it reaches into what should be alive

- and Ahriman does try to exceed proper bounds.

Again, the basic reality of the world is spiritual beings together with their deeds, but Ahriman promotes the

illusion, the lie, that matter is the basic reality, or the only reality.

Lucifer is too warm, too flighty, too unstable; he inspires human fanaticism, false mysticism, hot-

bloodedness, and the tendency to flee earthly reality for hallucinatory pleasures.

Ahriman is too cold, too hard, too rigid; he tries to make people dry, prosaic, philistine, materialistic in

thought and in deed - and hardens what would be healthily mobile, supple thoughts, feelings, and even

bodies.

Christ, as the Exemplar of the regular Gods, represents the middle way between the too-much and the too-

little, holding the opposites in balance -- and leading Mankind to find the healthy middle way.

The Representative of Humanity: Between Lucifer and Ahriman

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Seen this way, Lucifer and Ahriman are not purely evil; they both bring to human and earthly evolution

forces that are needed for good, healthy development and the fulfillment of the Gods' plans.

Evil results only when events get out of balance and run to extremes.

However, neither do Lucifer and Ahriman simply oppose each other; in a sense, they work together in

opposition to the 'Gods' intent for evolution; they both work to prevent Mankind and the earth from

progressing together to the New Jupiter (next stage in earth evolution, not the physical Jupiter).

Lucifer draws human spirits away from earthly embodiment toward his own psychic-spiritual "planet" of light;

Ahriman pushes the individual human spirit out of the human organism and away from the earth, so that only

a hardened, mechanized, ghostly human organism, devoid of free individuality and living an instinctive-but-

clever animalistic species-life remains on the hardened "cosmic slag" of the earth.

Now, in order that his incarnation may take the most profitable form, it is of the utmost interest to Ahriman

that people should perfect themselves in all our illusory modern science, but without knowing that it is

illusion. Ahriman has the greatest possible interest in instructing men in mathematics, but not in instructing

them that mathematical mechanistic concepts of the universe are merely illusions.

He is intensely interested in bringing men chemistry, physics, biology and so on, as they are

presented today in all their remarkable effects, but he is interested in making men believe that

these are absolute truths, not that they are only points of view, like photographs from one side.

If you photograph a tree from one side, it can be a correct photograph, yet it does not give a

picture of the whole tree. If you photograph it from four sides, you can in any case get an

idea of it. To conceal from mankind that in modern intellectual, rationalistic science with

its supplement of a superstitious empiricism, one is dealing with a great illusion, a

deception - that men should not recognize this is of the greatest possible interest to

Ahriman.

It would be a triumphant experience for him if the scientific superstition which

grips all circles today and by which men even want to organize their social science,

should prevail into the third millennium. He would have the greatest success if he could

then come as a human being into Western civilization and find the scientific superstition.

But I ask you not to draw false conclusions from what I have just said. It would be a false

conclusion to avoid the science of the day; that is the very falsest conclusion which could

be drawn.

We must get to know science; we should get an exact knowledge of all that

comes from this direction - but with the full consciousness that we are receiving an

illusory aspect, an illusion necessary for our education as men. We do not safeguard

ourselves against Ahriman by avoiding modern science, but by learning to know its

character. For modern science gives us an external illusion of the universe, and we need

this illusion.

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Do not imagine that we do not need it. We must only fill it in from quite

another side with actual reality gained through spiritual research, we must rise from the

illusory character to the true reality. You will find reference in many of my lecture courses

to what I am telling you today, and you will see how everywhere it has been

sought to enter fully into the science of our time, but to lift it all to the sphere where one

can see its real value. You cannot wish to get rid of the rainbow because you know it to

be an illusion of light and color! You will not understand it if you do not realize its

illusory character. But it is just the same with all that modern science gives you for your

imagination of the universe, it gives only illusions and that must be recognized. It is by

educating oneself through these illusions that one arrives at the reality.

This, then, represents one of the means used by Ahriman to make his incarnation as

effective as possible - this keeping of man back in scientific superstition.

The second means that he employs is to stir up all the emotions that split men up into

small groups - groups that mutually attack one another. You need only look at all the

conflicting parties that exist today, and if you are unprejudiced you will recognize that

the explanation is not to be found merely in human nature.

If men honestly try to explain this so-called World War through human disharmonies, they will

realize that with what they find in physical humanity they cannot explain it. It is precisely here that

"supersensible" powers, Ahrimanic powers, have been at work. These Ahrimanic powers are working, in fact,

wherever disharmonies arise between groups of men.

- sources; Wikipedia, Martinus lecture (1979), various Rudolf Steiner excerpts and Anthroposophical writings

The Borg represent the best popular illustration I know of Steiner’s

‘Ahriman’: they possess tremendously intensified will; tremendously

intensified thinking of a technological kind – and no Heart.

- from this blog

Conclusion: The technological reengineering on the molecular level of our entire biology, neurology and the

Faustian promise of the complete nullification of emotional pain, disease, and ultimately the cessation of

physical death itself, are perfect hallmarks of Ahrimanic forces in their ambition and aspiration - but it also

means bypassing the cosmic evolutionary processes; free will, karma, disease, death; the processes by which

we learn and grow spiritually and cosmically.. .the cessation of karmic neutralizations of harmful stagnations

to our spiritual growth, the eradication of individuality, etc. While some aspects of transhumanism can

alleviate unnecessary suffering and improve our world tremendously, the shadow ethos is explicitly ahrimanic

- and if carried out with success - equals an irreversible interruption, a path irreversibly severed from the

higher spiritual hierarchies, a magnificent material but lifeless cosmos filled with the greatest accomplishment

beyond imagination which pure almost omnipotent intellect can deliver but with no heart, soul or spirit (not

unlike the postulated characteristics of a certain type of the alien Greys)...or possibility of achieving cosmic

consciousness. In other words; a cosmic tragedy and abomination... viewed with anthroposophical optics....

- Midknight, 21st ofJuly, 2012

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Post Scriptum Promethean Ponderings:

By the way; Prometheus (always a positive archetype for me personally) literally (and ironically) means

'foresight' but when interpreting Prometheus in transhumanist allusions, it might be misleading, since

Prometheus at best is an archetype for progress of individual freedom and autonomy - in Steiner's term; a

positive Luciferian quality.

Nonetheless, the promethean archetype, viewed as the countless of unintended consequences (and also the

possible deliberate consequences by the hands of a so-called Illuminati elite, for a lack of a better word) for

the future of the human race, implies an ambiguous archetype:

"Thus [promethean] fire is a privileged phenomenon that can explain everything.

If everything that changes slowly is explained by life, everything that changes quickly is explained

by fire. Fire is ultralife. Fire is intimate, and it is universal. It lives in our hearts. It lives in the sky.

It reveals depths of substance and offers itself as love. It descends once again into matter and

hides as a latent force, like hatred or vengeance. Among all phenomena, it is really the only one

that can contain two contrary valorizations, good and evil. It shines in Paradise. It burns in Hell. It

is gentleness and torture. It is cooking and apocalypse. . . . It is well-being and respect. It is a

tutelary and a terrible good, good and evil. It can contradict itself; it is, therefore, one of the

principles used to explain universal substance."

- "The Prometheus Syndrome" Bettina L. Knapp. New York, 1979.

The key ultimate question therefore, is not 'either/or' but 'both/and' it seems. Technology in

itself - though some are inherently destructive - is generally neutral. Promethean technology in

the service of Ahrimanic transhumanism seems mind-blowingly fraught with intended

destructive...and non-intended consequences.

Some quoted ponderings on Prometheus and Lucifer:

"Liberty for Milton is not something that starts with man: it starts with God. It is not something

that man naturally wants for himself, but something that God is determined he shall have; man

cannot want it unless he is in a regenerate state, prepared to accept the inner discipline and

responsibility that go with it. Hence, as Milton says, none can love freedom but good men; the

rest want not freedom but licence. When a "licentious" mansays he wants liberty, what he really

wants is mastery, or lust. If he cannot get mastery, he will give the name liberty to greed, to the

querulous desire to be left alone with his pleasanter vices.

If he cannot achieve that, he will identify liberty with its demonic parody, a glad acceptance of

slavery, proceeding from the influence of Moloch and Belial to that of Mammon."

- Northrop Frye. "The Return of Eden." 1965. University of Toronto Press: Toronto. Pg. 85-86.

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"Of the hell of Paradise Lost Professor Wilson Knight has said 'that it is peopled by beings of tragic

wisdom and masterful resolve' in short, by Prometheuses. But precisely because of that, his other

dictum, that in Satan Milton expresses and half-condemns his own impatient demand for a perfect

Christian order, is inadequate. What Milton 'half-condemns' is much more than that. It is

everything Prometheus stands for, in a conception which regards every human assertion and

progress as a trespass, committed under the high patronage of the father of all self-assertion and

hybridic trespass: Lucifer, alias Satan, alias the devil, alias the Prince of this World.

As he is the sole power-carrier in our present universe, every progress and activity is associated

with him and dissociated from God, and is, consequently, in need of salvation.

Here, I think, is the root of of the trouble with Paradise Lost. Milton's treatment of Satan and of the

problem of history and civilization may go against the grain of more modern-minded Christians,

and they would be loath to admit that the late Archbishop's strictures on the poem as a failure,

really imply the relative failure of Christianity.

We have a Zeus-like God, a Son who as yet refuses to wield power, and a humanity which, because

it is created in a Creator-God's own image, is brimful of enterprise and creative energy. In the

prevailing psychic constellation however this energy is 'bedevilled' and sacrificed

to the hubris fear-complex. Lucifer, not being worshiped, is thus condemned, and with him

Prometheus with whom he now is associated."

- R. J. Zwi Werblowsky. “Lucifer and Prometheus: A Study of Milton’s Satan." 1952. Routledge &

Kegan Paul Ltd: London. Pg. 96-97.

"It was basic to his [Robert Lindner's] thinking that all Western society is "neurotic" since Western

man lives only according to taboos, myths, legends -- beliefs without foundation in fact. Yet the

average psychiatrist, Lindner complained, tries to "adjust" his patients to placid acceptance of a

maladjusted society. This procedure has caused many to condemn psychological practice as a

"quack religion." And so it is, according to Lindner, whenever it offers the individual no more than

resubmergence in mass man. If psychological science is sound, then in order to save Western man,

our fundamental behavior and basic beliefs must be made to yield to the efforts of informed

rebels [Prometheans]. It has taken several years for the "informed rebels" to surface and make

their influence felt."

- Israel Regardie

On a final archetypal-psychological note regarding Prometheus:

Richard Tarnas describes his realization that the planet Uranus does not correspond with Ouranos

after all, but with the rebel figure Prometheus.

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Tarnas' intellectual labors and twenty-year collaboration with Stanislav Grof have yielded a

luminous overarching vision of psyche, cosmos, and history scarcely imaginable a generation ago.

This participatory world view has implications in every discipline and not insubstantial possibilities

for personal and planetary healing.

This is truly a promising and exciting direction for the mainstream culture, both unexpected and

inevitable. The fire of the divine has again come to earth.

Tarnas:

Uranus represents the principle of change, of freedom, rebellion, and revolution. It is associated

with unexpected phenomena of all kinds, with sudden surprises and awakenings, with

breakthroughs--intellectual, psychological, spiritual. It governs the sudden breakup of established

structures, and tends to have an exciting and electric quality. It also rules individualism and

originality, invention and technology, creative genius and brilliant mental insight. .. Prometheus,

who stole fire from the heavens in rebellion against the gods to give humankind greater freedom.

The Promethean impulse associated with the planet Uranus represents that part of us that seeks to

go our own way, to choose our own individual path in life. Its influence inclines one to be

changeable, restless, and unpredictable--sometimes irresponsibly so--in a constant quest for

personal freedom and new experience. Uranus also mediates creativity and innovation: in its less

exalted forms it can signify only eccentricity or lawlessness, but in its highest expression it can

indicate real genius, and a capacity for making significant personal or cultural breakthroughs in

the course of one's life.

The Prometheus archetype associated with the planet Uranus correlates with that stage in the

archetypal birth process in which one is suddenly liberated from the constrictions of the birth

canal and experiences sudden freedom, awakening, new life, new identity, a radical expansion of

horizons: Prometheus Unbound.

There is another side to this archetype's energy, however, which can make the experience of

Uranus a very different matter.

When a person has not integrated the Promethean impulse toward creative freedom, autonomous

individualism, and capacity for change, there is a strong tendency to experience this archetype as

something that happens to one from without in upsetting, disruptive ways.

That is, instead of being ourselves a source of change and independence and excitement, we may

tend to have change and unpredictable events thrust upon us, so that we are forced to open up

our life to new horizons and new possibilities.

Uranus thus confronts the Saturnian part of us that wishes to hold on, to maintain the status quo,

to resist change in favor of security, tradition, and the established order.

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The rebel-trickster side of the Prometheus archetype can thus come from within or without, and in

the latter case a person can feel constantly subject to problematic changes that require one to

reorient one's life. Whether these changes are precipitated by other people, by new psychological

or physical conditions, or by external circumstances, their role is to open one's life to something

new. If one is identified excessively with the past, if one tries to hold on to structures that are

outmoded, then one will experience Uranus as a disruptive force that at times can be quite

uncomfortable. But the potential is always there for one to integrate the archetype, and for one to

contact one’s own capacity for freedom and excitement, for openness to the unexpected and the

new.

When any planet is in major aspect to Uranus, that second planetary archetype tends to be

liberated into expression, often in sudden, unusual, or unexpected ways. The second archetype is

given an exciting, creative or innovative stimulation, and can be a source of both freedom and

unanticipated change."