Greetings ‘Interesting/End Times Friends,’
I hope circumstances find you in a “safe space”-and I mean that in the literal sense. “Is it safe?” was a repeating line in a Hollywood movie. It is also a good question to pose during ‘interesting/end times.’
A couple of notifications before this newsletter’s feature article- “The Technologist & The Shaman.”
I recently spoke with Dr. Kevin Barrett on his informative FFWN (False Flag Weekly News) channel:
Kevin also offers excellent content on Substack.
My recent article, “China’s Techno-Economic Balance and Learning from America’s Mistakes,” which touches on some of this newsletter’s concepts as well as facets of China-US relations, appeared in The Unz Review.
And now for some groovy new data exclusively for Tao is Now subscribers:
The Technologist & The Shaman.
Technology turns on the lights, refrigerates perishables, and allows you to read this.
Technology also made Peak Evil possible via surveillance AI, killer robots, problem-solution bioweapons, and related control grid programs.
Technology is like a hammer. It can help build a house or bash in a skull. Application depends on ownership and control. In the West, a depraved ruling class wields the technology hammer.
Tao seeks balance. In an advanced technological society, this is achieved via the harmonious yin-yang coexistence of 2 archetypes- the technologist and the shaman.
The technologist is a foundational materialist in that he primarily operates in the material or physical world. He processes his immediate environment through his 5 cardinal senses. For deeper exploration, he employs technology, e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, electron microscopes, quantum speed computers.
The technologist’s environmental awareness extends to the limits of his body’s sensory system and his machines. Mechanical measurement and data analysis are part of the scientific method, which provides humanity with many comforts and life-saving benefits.
However, while machines reveal much, they also miss much.
Invisible electromagnetic waves have existed since the beginning, yet weren’t discovered by man until the late 19th century. How many other phenomena lie beyond current human measurement capability? What unknown proximal energy frequencies, dimensions, or beings do we walk past or through every day without ever noticing?
Despite the expansive volume of remaining unknown, scientific advancement has given rise to technological arrogance, leading many to believe that man is above the natural order, when in reality, man was created by nature /Cosmic Intelligence. As the creation, man should become the servant-student-follower of Cosmic Intelligence, not the other way around.
Tao studies and follows the natural order. When science upends or rebels against the natural order, technology becomes evil.
Technological arrogance breeds technocracy, which leads to the blind “trust the science” mantra repeated during the Dr. Anthony Fauci regime.
The technocrat gave us problem-solution bioweapons, lobotomies, and panopticon prison surveillance. His understanding of the “greater good” is warped due to his disconnection from Cosmic Intelligence and the natural order.
The technocrat misuses science in ways that align with his own depravity. He is a pathological aberration of the technologist.
The technologist aligns scientific discovery with the natural order, playing a positive role in humanity’s future.
Across from the technologist, in the opposite quadrant of the yin-yang circle, lives the shaman archetype.
The shaman is a foundational spiritualist in that he primarily operates in the spiritual or metaphysical realm. Rather than relying solely on biological or mechanical sensors, the shaman taps into Cosmic Intelligence through a variety of methodologies, including archetype, symbol, and myth, as well as observation of the natural order, pineal gland / third-eye development, heightened intuition, and altered states of consciousness.
I separate the shaman from "organized religion,” which, through most of history, was run by a priestly class who served the interests of the ruling class. Organized religion crashed in the West when science disproved the literal interpretations of religious myth. The old priestly class was replaced by a technocratic-scientific priesthood.
To survive, literal-interpretive religion has to become authoritarian, as it can’t argue its case in an objective court. Conversely, liberal non-literal organized religion lost connection to Cosmic Intelligence via elimination of archetype, symbol, and myth, making it weak and shallow, and ultimately lifeless. Walk into most any church in Western Europe- beautiful, but just another tourist museum.
For spiritual technology to keep pace with science-based technology, the interpretation of symbols, archetypes, and myths needs to evolve with scientific discovery. That is not to say that the code of the spiritual blueprint changes, but rather the programs that come from that code change or modify to handle shifting environmental conditions.
Reinterpreting codes, symbols, and myths is a component of pro-survival programming. The understanding of a symbol, archetype, or myth needs to correlate to its position in space-time.
Interpretative analysis is a program and program modification is a part of paradigm evolution. Pro-survival spiritual paradigms require reinterpretation of symbol, myth, and archetype, to keep up with material evolution.
While programs change, the code remains constant. The code was the same on the first day as it was on the last. The individual's understanding of code might change, but not the code itself.
The code blueprinted the universe, solar systems, planets, animals, and human beings. The driving mechanism behind the continuous shifting and changing observed within the universe is code. The resultant reactive adaptations, shifts, and morphological changes fall under program.
It comes down to: Run you program, follow your code. That is the natural order. That is Tao.
Whether he rolls a primitive stone wheel or turns on a light switch, the shaman who lives in society depends on the technologist. The technologist’s dependence on the shaman is not as readily apparent in a materialist world; however, remove the shaman from technology and you get dystopian technocracy- and ultimately human extinction.
If humanity intends on making it to Star Trek Kardashev Level II Civilization, the shaman and technologist need to coexist in scientific-spiritual yin-yang harmony.
From a spiritual technology standpoint, Tao makes an excellent operating platform, as it is a universal application. Whether a cross, yin-yang, clover, rose, octagon star, or eagle- all cultural, national, organizational, and religious symbols, archetypes, and myths can plug into the Tao interface that connects to Cosmic Intelligence.
This means all religions and spiritual technologies work with Tao.
It also means that scientific technology works with Tao, as Tao steers technology toward the “greater good,” to borrow from British political economist and philosopher John Stuart Mill.
As an aside, the disadvantage of “greater good” theory falls on the minority to which it is not good nor great. Keeping the coyote out of the sheep pasture benefits the sheep but not the coyote. Win-win transactionalism mends the gap by seeking acceptable solutions for both sheep and coyote.
Over time, win-win practice develops win-win neuroplasticity, leading to win-win social paradigms, e.g., yin-yang high-tech harmony and balance.
As stated in Isaiah 11:6 KJV:
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
Sum-zero game theory, aka “win-lose,” ends in slavery and war. America is a win-lose system, with many losers and few winners. Worse, the US win-lose game is rigged.
Win-win with advanced technology creates post-scarcity civilization. Win-lose with advanced technology creates “apocalypse now.”
Can we not then conclude that techno-spiritual balance tied to win-win transactionalism is the way?
If we reach that conclusion, can we not then say that Tao is the way- or at least a way?
We can say that because Tao literally means “way.” At least in language. Yet, that which is outside the realm of linguistics is also called Tao.
If Tao is the way, then what is not the way?
That which is not Tao.
But isn’t Tao everything?
Yes.
Isn’t Tao also nothing?
Of course.
So which is it?
It’s Tao. Even when it isn’t. It is.
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