So this is a Sat-sang, which means that I want to focus on Sat (on the Real), because why focus on anything that isn’t real? Although that’s all people do all day—they prefer their fictional narratives to the Real. So we have to have special gatherings in which we honor the Real—we give a token gesture: “Ah, yes, God, I remember. Now let me go back to my worries, counting my money, and trying to improve my situation and stop being lonely, etc., right?”. Why is it that the Real is so unattractive and fiction so much more preferable to the soul?
Well, you know, it’s the same with Shiva, frankly, because we’re all fractals of Shiva. In fact, I think He’s actually rather low-class. I mean, if you look at where we are in the timeline of the drama right now, you’d have to say this is the moment of the “Shootout at the O.K. Corral.” (Does everyone know that? I had to grow up with Wild West movies, so I probably saw three or four versions of that gunfight.) But that’s where the power blocs have ended up. You know, in a gunfight—before the showdown—you walk toward the other side with a very intimidating walk, and then there’s a moment or two when you’re standing with your hands shivering with anticipation. There might be a little talk, maybe a last-minute negotiation (“Let’s go to the saloon first and have a drink and then come back and do . . .”). No, talk ends very quickly, and then it’s time to reach for your gun, right?
We’re at the moment now when the talk is done, and each side has walked into its position with its bluff and its bravado and its red lines and its “Oh, yeah, try to knock this chip off my shoulder.” All of it has now reached the point where each empire—and we are dealing with empires here, not just one—we’re dealing with the moment when the archetype of the empire concludes, OK? The empire strikes back, but the empire strikes back at itself and destroys itself, right? So if we wanted to name them, there are probably too many to list: the British Empire is very well known; the French—Napoleon is made fun of all the time; the Third or Fourth Reich (whichever we’re on)—this is quite well known, and the Germanic kingdoms long ago, not to mention the Nordic runes. And what about the empires of the Americas? And let’s not forget the Ottoman Empire (versus the Kingdom of Judea in this case). And what about the very ancient Iranian (maybe Sassanian) Empire. And the Han dynasty is alive and well. And all of these empires are fighting a war.
It’s not just the residue of some neo-colonialism—this goes back a long way. In fact, we’re talking really about another sedimentary layer of empire that goes back to prehistoric times and that is in play (alive and well) at a subtle level in this unfoldment—or even, we could say, at a manifest but hidden level. All of that is detail, but the real point is that every empire is ancient. It’s what they used to call “long in the tooth.” None of the empires actually have the strength to win a combat—none of them do—and they know it because their internal structures are crumbling. They are not healthy at a psychological level or even at a somatic level, thanks to all the poisoning of the environment and the genetic modifications, etc. The empires are exhausted in terms of will, intelligence, and capacity to attune to the Dao—to earn the Mandate of Heaven. It’s lost for all of them.
So it’s the moment when you either surrender or you go for broke, right? It’s one or the other. You can’t half-shoot in the O.K. Corral. I can’t scare you into thinking I’m going to reach—no, as soon as I make that first move, the other guy is going to. You can’t have any indecision and you can’t bluff it. It’s a moment of truth, but not a comfortable truth. There’s no way to back down; an empire cannot back down; it withers away. No empire has ever backed down—they’ve gone down, but they’ve gone down fighting and usually taken down many others. So we’re seeing now the ultimate take-down and Mutually Assured Destruction, as they say (M.A.D)—it’s a MAD house.
Because the empire is long in the tooth, the tooth has cavities. The only interesting thing about the unreal world at that geopolitical level is that, because the manifestation is structured fractally, there’s a self-similarity going on in the kingdom of every ego. The ego is its own empire with its internal slaves, its internal bosses and mafiosi, its internal Epstein Islands, and its internal—you know, whatever it is that’s your jouissance. So the ego has similar cavities, and here’s what I wrote to signify that.
The “C” of “CAVITIES” is complexity, and we know that when a system becomes too complex, it crashes very easily. But the other aspect that I think is more dominant at the moment, when you have an extremely complex system, is that any move you make in that system is going to have unintended consequences. Although each empire believes it is a separate system, all the systems are interwoven because nonduality is the truth. The black hats and the white hats are interchangeable because they’re just mutual projection (each side thinks the other is wearing the black hat, right?). It’s not like there’s an objective reality here, but the complexity is always going to produce consequences in areas that could not have been foreseen by the strategists working at a particular level. An economic move of imposing a tariff, let’s say, can have the effect of an asymmetric response that cuts off your access to rare earths, right? So this chess game that’s being played out is having consequences that are affecting the functionality of the complexity of the system.
I guess I’ll write them all down at once so you’re not left in suspense: “Complexity, Animosity, Vulnerability, Incompetence, Turpitude, Indecision (or Indecisiveness), Emergence (meaning emergent properties), and Seismic pressures.” So the second problem then is that the ego is based on animosity, and its animosity has no limits. It’s not simply, you know, that the West hates the Russians and vice versa perhaps, or the Arabs hate the Jews and vice versa, or whatever. It’s not simply that animosity. It’s an animosity that hits at every level of envy within each bureaucracy, each state, each corporation, each institution, etc. And because of animosity, of course, there can’t be trust; so the system already malfunctions for that reason.
Third is that vulnerabilityof the system. Because it has become so dependent on globalism, mass production, the need for highly-educated capable employees, etc., it can be very easily harmed when conditions affect any of those factors. The vulnerability to unintended consequences (for example, a run on the U.S. bond market) will have immediate effects on the whole functioning of the empire.
Then you have incompetence, because the system has deliberately created an incompetent population to protect itself from people who can think too clearly and thus would not fall for the mind control. So they dumbed down the educational system (you know, this was planned decades and decades ago). And the creation and unfoldment of the internet and Hollywood productions, etc. produce exactly the kind of paranoid, psychopathic, and psychotic elements that you want to keep your society docile. But then, unfortunately, you pay the price of a loss of competence.
Then, of course, you’re dealing with moral turpitude—with the very easy seduction of people by bribery and the use of honey-pot tricks and cocaine tricks and whatever other jouissance they need to be able to control and blackmail people to keep them reliable, etc. But those same people will betray the empire at the drop of a hat. So you get intelligence leaks and assassinations and all kinds of phenomena.
Then you deal with indecision—and this may be the most important one, actually—especially if we consider the fractal of the human ego. The ego can never be accurately decisive; it’s always either a step behind or it moves too soon; it’s never in the Kairos moment. There’s a moment that’s the precise moment for an action, and that window of opportunity does not last very long. If you end up too late at the level of an empire, you lose the war or you have maybe millions more casualties than you might have had otherwise. Indecisiveness is based on paranoid fears and the need to calculate “Should I or shouldn’t I?” And in that moment of trying to figure it out, the moment is lost. So at the ego level you can never master that capacity to act when it’s of the essence.
Then, of course, every situation has emergent properties. Those emergent properties could be known at a higher level than the ego, but the ego itself can never know those properties in advance. It’s always going to be taken by surprise and therefore has to factor in indeterminacy. But a lot of it is not really indeterminate; it’s just not knowable unless you’re in a teleological, precognitive vibrational frequency.
Then seismic pressures, by which I mean both the actual seismic instability of the earth (which I think everyone can perceive is on the increase and is not random; it’s not an accident—everything is alive, and Nature is very much a player in this game) and also the seismic pressures of the buildup of fury in a population that politicians cannot resist because they’ll be overthrown, they’ll be assassinated, they’ll be removed. They have to accede to that wave of power that makes demands that can’t be resisted without lethal consequences. So those seismic pressures that are coming from subconscious levels and from levels of fragments of dissociated consciousness will have an influence that is incalculable and that is increasing as we approach the Omega Point, when everything has to be settled—all karma, right?
So now, understand that these processes are going on internally inside every character. Let’s put it this way. They’re not going on inside the one playing the character, but they are going on inside the character. So everything about your destiny will depend upon your recognition that you are not the character you are playing. Everything will depend on that.
