Eike had a great insight on the last open post, that the collective unconscious of the west might be having a mental breakdown (or possibly an astral breakdown) and the notion matches what I see in an intuitive and parsimonious way. I have three questions about the idea.
1) could a catchy collective unconscious be responsible for Oswald Spengler's rise and fall of cultures/civilizations? That is some collection of ideas, narratives, and emotional convictions forms a egregore that is useful and appealing and its adoption by large groups and development forms the basis of a great culture?
2) is it possible that Faustion culture is going have a much greater problem dealing with its own demise than previous cultures because it is predicated on the infinite and the limitless? What I mean is that other great cultures could have become senile and lost their appeal, but their core tenets weren't directly contradicted by empirical evidence, they just becames less useful and less appealing, but Faustian culture is about to have its core tenets directly refuted by exactly the sort of empirical evidence that Faustian culture is supposed to embrace. I imagine that is going to be more mentally and emotionally challenging for people living through it than other great cultures had in their twilight days.
3) is the crud in the astral weather consistent with an egregore that is having a mental/astral breakdown? Further, does that mean we are slated for something even dumber than the Trump/Russiagate, woke hysterics, covid hysterics, Ukraine hysterics?
The oversoul goes insane?
Eike had a great insight on the last open post, that the collective unconscious of the west might be having a mental breakdown (or possibly an astral breakdown) and the notion matches what I see in an intuitive and parsimonious way. I have three questions about the idea.
1) could a catchy collective unconscious be responsible for Oswald Spengler's rise and fall of cultures/civilizations? That is some collection of ideas, narratives, and emotional convictions forms a egregore that is useful and appealing and its adoption by large groups and development forms the basis of a great culture?
2) is it possible that Faustion culture is going have a much greater problem dealing with its own demise than previous cultures because it is predicated on the infinite and the limitless? What I mean is that other great cultures could have become senile and lost their appeal, but their core tenets weren't directly contradicted by empirical evidence, they just becames less useful and less appealing, but Faustian culture is about to have its core tenets directly refuted by exactly the sort of empirical evidence that Faustian culture is supposed to embrace. I imagine that is going to be more mentally and emotionally challenging for people living through it than other great cultures had in their twilight days.
3) is the crud in the astral weather consistent with an egregore that is having a mental/astral breakdown? Further, does that mean we are slated for something even dumber than the Trump/Russiagate, woke hysterics, covid hysterics, Ukraine hysterics?
Thanks,
Tim