The HyperHuman
by Armageddon
Conspiracy
"The
HyperHuman is a being of supreme creativity, intelligence and spirit. HyperHumans turn
their backs forever on the trivia that consumes contemporary humanity. More and
more, today's world resembles a global shopping mall. Is that the purpose of
life – to shop?"
Meritocracy
Meritocracy
is a system of governance which resembles the voting process of democracy, but
without the automatic right to vote. Both the politicians and the voters must
be capable of proving their merit, through relevant academic qualifications and
work experience. To assure that everyone gets an equal chance to prove their
merit, high quality education must be free to all.
In a
meritocratic society every effort is taken to prevent nepotism, cronyism,
sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination. Natural talent, not
privilege, determines a child's course in life.
Meritocracy
favours community, autonomy, application of psychology, and scientific /
technological advancement.
The Five Meritocratic Principles
NO NEPOTISM
1) It's not
who your parents are, it's who you are.
NO CRONYISM
2) It's not
what others can do for you, it's what you can do.
NO
DISCRIMINATION
3) Sex,
race, religion, age, background are irrelevant. Talent is everything.
EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES
4) You start
from the same point as everyone else, and you go as far as your talents take
you.
REWARDING
MERIT
5) The
highest rewards for the highest achievers.
HyperHumanity
We aspire
towards a future condition known as "HyperHumanity", populated by
HyperHumans (abbreviated as HHs or H2s). The underlying notion is that as human
beings manifest more and more of their inner divinity – as they evolve towards
gods – there will be an inevitable, radical and irreversible transformation in
human society.
HyperHumans
will view current humanity as we view cavemen.
The
HyperHuman is a being of supreme creativity, intelligence and spirit. H2s turn
their backs forever on the trivia that consumes contemporary humanity. More and
more, today's world resembles a global shopping mall. Is that the purpose of
life – to shop? Is "retail therapy" the height of human aspiration?
Did we evolve from the primordial slime for no other reason than to buy
"stuff"? Walk through the main street of any town or city and you
will see a shrine to consumerism. So, who can deny that contemporary culture
has defined the meaning of life as shopping? If it had defined it as human excellence,
main streets would look entirely different. But excellence requires effort on
the part of people. Shopping requires only money. Shopping has become so
successful because it follows the path of least resistance. You shuffle around
from shop to shop like the undead; you exercise your precious "freedom and
choice" by going to this shop rather than that shop, by buying this object
rather than that one. You fetishise the objects you buy. They are your brand.
Your identity is invested in them. If you have purchased "well", you
feel happy. You use your iPhone to tell your friends about your new objects.
You go on Facebook to post pictures of your objects and to chat about them.
If you
define yourselves by objects then you yourself become an object. If your
mentality is attuned to buying then you yourself can be bought.
In the Sex
and the City movie, the protagonists enter a gargantuan walk-in wardrobe, and
practically faint. It is as though they have entered the sanctum sanctorum, the
holy of holies, and with their weary, mortal eyes beheld God in all his glory.
Women in the cinema audience whoop, shriek and weep tears of joy and envy. They
are on the point of multiple orgasm.
Wardrobes
have become tabernacles. Shopping malls are our new cathedrals. Money is the
Holy Spirit. Sales assistants are priests. Tannoy announcements are the voice
of the Oracle. Objects are the sacred host containing the flesh and blood of
God.
Life =
Shopping. Is that the divine equation? Is that the great secret of human
existence? Is that why the gods breathed life into the ancient clay? Is that
why Prometheus stole the sacred fire? All so that we could push around shopping
trolleys and have coffee at Starbucks?
Have we all
gone insane?
What kind of
humanity is this? This can't be the real thing. These "humans" are
simulacra. The real humanity is somewhere else. Isn't it time to find our
missing selves?
This website
moves forward on several tracks: religion, philosophy, culture, science,
mathematics, history and psychology. We make no apologies for that. There is a
concept known as "Renaissance Man", exemplified most particularly by
Leonardo da Vinci. Renaissance Man is skilled at everything, interested in
everything, buzzing with energy and creativity in all fields. His mind is
exploding with ideas. He crackles with potential and possibility. He is
practically electric. If you touched him you would receive a shock. He almost
glows. Now imagine Renaissance Man magnified a thousand-fold. That is what a
HyperHuman will be like.
We want to
attract the attention and support of the Renaissance Men and Women of today. We
don't want any shoppers. People write to us to say our articles on religions
and politics bore them. Why don't we stick to esoteric matters, they say, or
philosophy and science? Why don't we "focus" our message? They thus
prove that they are not our kind of people. We don't need or want such people.
They can be of no use to our agenda.
Humanity
cannot be transformed in any meaningful way on a laborious person-by-person
basis. To transform humanity, society itself must be transformed. To transform
society requires political transformation.
Political,
social and psychological thinking has always been critical to us. Any group
that seeks to bring about meaningful change must have a sophisticated and
integrated understanding of humanity. As for the human spirit, it must be
cultivated to its maximum, and that can only happen in a religious context.
Meritocracy is our political
platform. Illumination is
our religious platform. R
>= 0 is our scientific and philosophical platform. We are advocates of a
New World Order. We endorse a New Psychology – we want
psychology to be at the heart of education, society, economics and the family.
We advocate new community-based ways of living. The "nuclear family"
in its little, square, anti-social, box-houses is only one way of living. It
should never have been allowed to become the fundamental, de facto building
block of society. People deserve a choice. Family is fine for some people;
others require community i.e. to live in supportive groups with people with
whom they have no family ties. Failed families are a catastrophe for all
concerned – who picks up the pieces if there is no alternative to the family
model?
We
particularly advocate that people should have the opportunity to live in
calibrated communities of people of similar psychological type – people who are
on your wavelength and with whom you are likely to become lifelong friends and
allies.
People need
effective support networks. For many people, family has failed to provide such
networks, so they live in various states of isolation, fragmentation and
alienation. When the family "grid" fails you, you have a real problem
in a family-based society. Single-parent families struggle in a society based
on two-parent families. People who move around a lot may lose touch with their
old networks and find it difficult to establish new ones. Highly intelligent
and creative people may struggle to find like-minded people in a dumbed-down
culture. Radicals may struggle to find other radicals. The exceptional can't
fit into a mould suitable for the average. Nietzsche wanted to live in a small
commune of geniuses, but society doesn't provide communes for the
extraordinary. All of these problems can be avoided with a modicum of thought
and a move away from a society based on the monolithic model of the family. The
family is a one-size-fits-all concept, but the world is much more complex than
that. For some, the family is the greatest thing imaginable, for others it has
proved a curse. Shouldn't a sensible society provide alternatives?
Having good
friends around you, people you understand and trust, is vital to your personal
well being and a well-functioning society. Psychological profiling can match
you up with friends for life, and also allow you to understand why you are not
on the same wavelength as various others with whom you come into contact. Many
conflicts are caused by nothing more than misunderstandings based on how people
of different psychological types view the same data. Thinkers, sensers,
intuitives and feelers all have a different way of "seeing" the data.
Often, they can't comprehend how someone could possibly have viewed a shared
event so completely differently. We all lack empathy and sympathy with those
who are psychologically different from us. It's no one's fault. No one is more
"right" than any other. But we need to find a way to get round the
problem because it is a huge problem. Psychology offers the answer. Psychology
needs to become embedded in every aspect of life, especially in the workplace
and in politics.
The Old
World Order are strong supporters of isolated family units that operate
according to ruthless self interest, that are in fierce competition with each
other over scarce resources such as the best schools, houses and jobs. Divide
and rule. It's easy to control families, much harder to control communities.
The Old World Order have no interest in using psychology to improve society,
just to manipulate it.
We seek
transformation on all fronts. We seek a revaluation of all values, to borrow
Nietzsche's immortal phrase. Family values, religious values, social values,
educational values and political values all need to be revalued.
At the heart
of all of the different strands of our movement is a single, unifying idea –
the dialectic. We wish to place the dialectic at the centre of human existence.
Everything should be ceaselessly evolving onwards and upwards, guided by the
dialectic.
The
dialectic harnesses the triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in a
systematic, scientific manner based on evidence and reason. Psychologically, the
dialectic is a tool for exploring the shadow, and resolving all of the issues
that hold us back from becoming our higher selves. We become better, superior,
higher, by resolving the contradictions that surround us and inhabit us – the
resistances, the hurdles, the setbacks, the roadblocks, the objections, the
inner demons, the puzzles, the riddles of our lives. Every institution, every
organization, every business, every activity, every endeavour, and, most of
all, every person, should experience continuous dialectical improvement.
In a
practical sense, the dialectic involves embedding "Devil's Advocates"
throughout society. Historically, the Devil's Advocate was a learned person
appointed by the Catholic Church to oppose a proposition to make someone a saint.
He had to build a case for why sainthood should not be conferred. To overcome
his strenuous counter-arguments, evidence for sainthood had to be extremely
persuasive. Only the strongest candidates would survive the scrutiny of the
Devil's Advocate. Now the term is applied to anyone who opposes an argument in
order to expose any flaws it may contain. The better the Devil's Advocate (the
antithesis), the better the thesis has to be to defeat it.
Every
institution that produces a "thesis" (which could be anything: a
song, a shoe, a law, a service, a meal, a method of banking, a psychological
innovation…whatever) should be matched with a Devil's Advocate institution that
seeks to find faults with it, and to suggest refinements, improvements or
completely new ideas. These should, in turn, be matched with a third set of
institutions known by the term of Tertium Quid (Latin for "third
something"). These correspond to the synthesis phase of the dialectic.
Their function is to look at what has been produced by the thesis and the
antithesis phases and to create a third thing, a better thing, a higher thing
(the synthesis), from the two inputs, which then becomes the new thesis (as a
prototype). This is then returned to the thesis phase, where the prototype is
refined and resubmitted to the antithesis phase, and so on, until the original
thesis has arrived at its omega point of completion. In this way, everything
can be scientifically, systematically, and continuously improved.
We are
organized along these lines. Those who are involved with the thesis are called
"Visionaries" (since they have the original creative vision), those
with the antithesis phase as the Devil's Advocates, and those with the
synthesis phase as Synthesizers (alternatively as Harmonizers).
The Visionaries
tend to be INTJ types ("masterminds"), the Devil's Advocates
INTP
("scientists"), and the Synthesizers are feeling and sensing types,
both introvert and extravert.
The 3-person
cell that is responsible for this site comprises one INTJ, one INTP and one INFJ.
This website is by no means dialectically perfect, but if it were refined and
improved several times over, it would be as perfect as we could make it. The
more complex something is, the more iterations it requires, and the more people
should be involved. But, in principle, everything in the world can be handled
in exactly the same way – medicine, education, politics, government, law,
banking, economics, sport, entertainment, science, anything at all.
Isn't it
time for a Scientific Society - for the world to have the scientific method and
dialectic at its heart, guiding everything it does, purposely helping it to
evolve towards perfection? Can any democrat honestly answer what the objective
of democracy is? Where is it leading us? No country on earth has ever stated its
objective.
Well, we
have no hesitation in stating ours. The purpose of our society is to create a
community of gods. We aim to perfect every aspect of human existence through
scientific, philosophical and psychological means. The scientific method, the Evolutionary
Principle, and the psychological principle of Maximum Self-Actualization, are
the mechanisms to drive us to perfection. These are all elements of the
dialectic.
What does
democracy offer? Greater consumer choice. Big deal. How can that satisfy the
greatest aspirations of the human race? That's why democracy is destined to be
superseded.
Democracy -
so-called "people power" - reaches its end when people are given a
vote and shops. What kind of objective is that? Is that it? Is that all? Is
that the great vision of "freedom and democracy" for which people
gave their lives? Get real.
We want to
replace the global shopping mall with a global paradigm for pursuing
ever-higher levels of human excellence. The "scientific method" is
almost synonymous with the dialectic. Hypotheses are proposed and then tested
in the real world. If they fail hopelessly, they are discarded. If they are
reasonably successful, they are refined and improved then tested again.
Eventually, after many iterations, they will reach their Omega Point of
perfection where they are in complete accord with all experimental data and it
is impossible to refine and improve them any further. Politics, religion,
psychology, the family, institutions, companies, products, and individuals –
they can all be radically improved.
Why assume
that religions such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism are the last word in
religion? Clearly they're not since they have all been a dismal failure. But no
Christian, Muslim or Jew will ever accept that everything they believe should
be tested and, if necessary, rejected. They regard their holy books as
infallible, eternal, unchallengeable and perfect, as the unchanging Word of
God. Hence religious extremism, fanaticism and hatred of anyone who disagrees
with them, is built into these Satanic religions. Holy wars are the inevitable
consequence of Holy books. That's why Satan authored them. What better way to
create conflict and division?
Democracy
believes it is in no need of reform. Constitutions are never updated. Parliaments
are never changed in the institutional sense. Why not? Is the 21st century the
same as the 18th? Then surely there should be a new constitution to reflect new
times? It makes no difference if you change the personnel in Congress and the
White House because all politicians are a reflection of the prevailing
"system". If you want real change, you don't put a different guy in
the White House, you replace the White House and Congress with new institutions
i.e. you change the system.
Is
capitalism perfect? Are corporations perfect? Are consumer products perfect?
Are services perfect? Are families perfect? Are individuals perfect? If not
then where are the explicit dialectical mechanisms to ensure that our society
is always getting better? Are institutions in the business of hiring extremely
critical people who want to highlight all of the flaws that need to be
addressed, or do they just want cheerleaders who never argue, never complain
and never challenge the powers-that-be? Rebels, whistleblowers, revolutionaries
and radicals are all vital for the dialectic and should all be embraced rather
than rejected.
In ultra
capitalism, everything is left to the mystical "market" – almost a
religious concept – to sort out. But a market is not a designed, intelligent,
purposeful, teleological process, transparent to all. Instead, a market is a
shady entity, massively susceptible to corruption and manipulation by cartels,
to "insider knowledge". The Old World Order love markets because they
know how to control them for their own selfish purposes, except when the market
suddenly falls apart because of unresolved contradictions that have been
allowed to build, and Boom dramatically turns to Bust.
The
intelligent dialectic can and must replace the dumb market.
The whole
world should be an arena dedicated to putting forward "theses" of
suggested improvements, "antitheses" to oppose and test the theses,
and syntheses to take forward the best of the theses and the antitheses, thus
creating new higher theses, from which we can begin all over again, rising
higher each time round, until, at last, we can go no higher.
Is that not
our real purpose – to go as high as we can, to conquer the highest peaks, to
stand with the gods on the summit of Olympus, breathing the rarefied air of
divinity? Do you achieve that in a shopping mall?
We are
advocates of continual progress, change and evolution. All of us are
works-in-progress. We are all unfinished. There should be no sacrosanct ideas
beyond challenge, no taboos that cannot be broken, no commandments set in
unbreakable stone, no holy texts with changeless words written in fire.
Dogmatism is all about establishing laws that are never allowed to be called
into question. We reject all dogmas. There are no sacred cows. Everything must
justify itself dialectically or be swept aside as irrelevant.
What are the
alternatives? To be a Muslim suicide bomber on a martyrdom operation? To be a
zombie capitalist consumerist listening to muzak and giving money to the
"Man" – the greedy, selfish capitalist super billionaire? To be a Jew
permanently waiting for the Messiah who never comes? To be a Christian waiting
to be "Raptured"? To be stuck on Facebook forever, posting pictures
of yourself getting older and older, sadder and sadder, reflecting your increasingly
wasted life? To watch Reality TV wannabes for the rest of your life? To worship
sporting stars from your armchair until Doom's Day? Is this all that humanity
is capable of?
Control is
all about inflexible rules. You MUST obey. In a dialectical society, there are
no such rules, so control is transferred from the rules to the people, as it
should be. When it comes to rules, cui bono? Always those who set the rules;
never those who are subjected to them. The dialectic smashes all of the old
systems of control. It smashes the power of the established elites that live by
the old rules. The dialectic permits the intelligent revaluation of all values.
It analyzes every institution on earth, and provides a mechanism for bringing
it to evolutionary, dialectical perfection.
Pho', the
Phocilitator, quotes an unknown author who said, "If you're not giving the
world the best you have, what world are you saving it for?"
That's what
it's all about - everyone giving their best and becoming the best they can
possibly be. All the institutions of the world should be geared up for that
purpose - maximizing human potential, actualizing all of our greatest
possibilities.
Capitalism,
the dismal, sterile, idiotic, spiritually dead, imagination-free, prevailing
ideology of the Western World sets as its highest goal the consumption of junk
in order to enrich the elite who control the manufacture of the junk. The Old
World Order have no interest in maximizing your potential, only their own.
Capitalism is happy to take the worst from you providing it makes someone a fat
buck. Capitalism is about driving people towards imperfection, where they are
totally dependent on consumer items to give them fake confidence – the
"beauty" industry being the most insidious example. It is really the
"ugly" industry, its purpose being to make everyone feel inadequate.
We can't let
them hold us back any longer. It's time to sweep them aside. We are a new,
superior thesis; a higher stage of evolution. Our sights are set on the stars
and the furthest celestial planes, not on shopping malls. We want to hear the
Music of the Spheres, not the muzak of the mall.
The Old
World Order preach the gospel of self-interest. We preach the gospel of
enlightened self-interest i.e. the best possible world is not one where you are
a king with unlimited power and the rest of humanity are on their faces in
front of you as subjects barely recognizable as human beings (the OWO
"vision"), but one where everyone is a god, everyone is performing at
their optimal level, at their very best, and, collectively, they are producing
paradise on earth. It's impossible for a handful of people to build Golgonooza,
the wondrous City of Imagination. It needs everyone, bringing their own unique
gifts. All of us are improved by the quality of the people with whom we
interact. If they are people of excellence then we will be too. If they are
scum, they will drag us down into the sewers with them. So we have to use our
intelligence, imagination and psychology to raise people up, not to cast them
down.
Their fate
is my fate. My quality is defined by their quality. Therefore it is in my
interest to help them as much as I can, and to ask them to help me as much as
they can. Together, we rise. Apart, we fall. The OWO's agenda is to make us all
fall, while they remain insulated in their high tower of privilege. How much
longer will we tolerate being their slaves?
In the short
term, only a certain type of person can help. Only those who have the
"vision thing", the courage to lead from the front, an unquenchable
inner drive, those who bring out the best in themselves and in others. If we
can bring all such people together under a single banner then we are
unstoppable. We will seize the future and never let go.
Where are
the people's champions, the great tribunes like the heroic Gracchus brothers?
Where are the brave Knights of the Round Table determined to bring down the
OWO's pyramid? They are out there. It's time to fulfil their calling, their
destiny. The dialectic seeks out those imbued with the spirit of the age.
*****
Are you for
the future of against it? Do you believe that the human race is perfect? If you
don't, then where is your system for bringing about perfection? Do you think
democracy is the answer? Capitalism? Christianity? Are they as good as it gets?
Are they our limit, as far as we can go? Can our imaginations and creativity
produce nothing better? Will they be around a million years from now? The truth
is they have all had their day and they have all failed. They are dinosaurs
heading for deserved extinction.
Only we have
a system designed to perfect the human race – the universal dialectic. A
process of higher and higher accomplishment, until humanity's Omega Point has
been attained and we are a community of gods. HyperHumanity, Omega Humanity,
Humanity becoming God. Isn't that our sacred quest?
Nietzsche
said that if humanity continued on its present trajectory, it would give rise
to the "Last Man":
Alas! The
time is coming when man will give birth to no more stars. Alas! The time of the
most contemptible man is coming, the man who can no longer despise himself.
Behold! I
shall show you the Last Man.
‘What is
love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?’ thus asks the Last
Man and blinks.
The earth
has become small, and upon it hops the Last Man, who makes everything small.
His race is as inexterminable as the flea; the Last Man lives longest.
‘We have
discovered happiness,’ say the Last Men and blink.
Nietzsche
obviously foresaw the rise of Shopping Mall Man.
We have to
find the antidote to the Last Men.
HyperHumanity,
Omega Humanity, Ultimate Humanity, Divine Humanity is the answer. The dialectic
is the process. Ours is the path leading to perfection. Any other route is a
road to nowhere.
Humanity's
true nature craves that we should go on the ultimate spiritual journey, not
that we should go shopping.
That is our
vision. We have the plan. We have the mechanism. That is why our triumph is
inevitable. Eventually, all of the most talented, creative, smart and visionary
people in the world will come over to our side. And then we cannot be defeated.
Our victory is assured because, deep down, everyone is dissatisfied, restless,
and unfulfilled. When they are presented with the opportunity to have
meaningful lives, they will seize it.
Join our
movement, our dialectical adventure, our mission to release humanity's inner
divinity. Make your own unique dialectical contribution. It's time for the
spiritual renaissance of the human race. We want to illuminate the cosmos with
the light of humanity's glittering, glinting, shimmering divine sparks of every
conceivable bright colour.
We are
marching towards perfection. Reject the past. Reject the Old World Order, the
old religions, the old politics, the old rules of society. It's time to begin
again. Now, finally, we understand the way forward – as a dialectical
progression towards the Omega Point of Omega Humanity.
The time has
come to revalue all values.
The 'God of Being' and the 'God of Becoming'
Atheists
reject the type of God worshipped by Christians, Muslims and Jews: the God of
Being.
They are right to do so. He is an anti-God, a false God, a God of delusion and
lies. This God is no God at all. He is Satan pretending to be God. There is
only one True God – the God of Becoming.
Many
atheists consider Darwin's theory of evolution the proof that God does not
exist. On the contrary, it is the basis of God's existence.
Modern
science has led to a complete loss of a religious sensibility in the world.
Religious statements increasingly sound crazy and ridiculous. The irony is that
religion is ultimately scientific. There is no contradiction between science
and religion. It is not religion that is abolished by science but atheism.
God Not Only Exists, He Is Inevitable
Many people
are baffled by the difference between the God of Being and the God of Becoming, but the difference
could not be starker. The first is impossible and the second certain. Why do so
many billions believe in the impossible? First, it suits the agenda of their
controllers. Second, slaves want to be controlled because it means that they do
not have to take personal responsibility for their own lives. People are
passive in relation of the God of Being. Their only task is to submit to him
and worship him. Look at a religion like Islam - the very word means
"submission". But the God of Becoming has no interest in those who
submit. He wants only those who take an active and proactive role in life.
Those who submit are damned.
Believers in
a God of Being are making the claim that God existed prior to the universe,
that he has always existed and that he created the universe out of nothing. The
definition of this God means that no one can ask who or what made God, how he
came into being, where he came from, what substance he's made of, how he
developed intelligence, why he felt the need to create the world. If he is a
spiritual being, why did he create matter? If he created all things, why did he
create evil? The advocates of this God want to shut down debate, but despite
their efforts the awkward questions have never gone away. They can never be
credibly answered because there is no such entity as the God of Being. For
millennia, billions of people have worshipped a non-existent divinity, a God who
cannot have the qualities claimed for him. That is humanity's supreme tragedy.
The God of
Becoming is entirely different from the God of Being. He did not precede the
universe. The universe precedes all things. The universe has no beginning and
no end. God did have a beginning. He did not create the universe. The universe
created him. His consciousness, his intelligence, his power: they are all
products of evolution. He is the ultimate evolution of which the universe is
capable. Any atheist who accepts Darwin's theory of evolution can accept the
existence of the God of Becoming because God is nothing other than the final
outcome of that process. He is underpinned by science, not faith. The tragedy
of atheists is that they have been so disgusted by the absurdity of the God of
Being that they have turned their backs on all notions of the divine. Although
the God of Being is impossible, that does not mean there is no God.
What are the
prerequisites of God? Surpassing intelligence? Awesome power? Ability to
control the physical world around him? Ability to transcend death? Ability to
engage in astonishing acts of cosmic creativity? The God of Becoming has all of
these traits.
Some people
might refer to the Illuminati's God of Becoming as merely some sort of
super-being or super-intelligence rather than a true God. Yet the God of
Becoming is the supreme expression of the potential of existence. Nothing can
transcend him except through an act of his own will. Surely the universe's
evolutionary summit in terms of consciousness, intelligence and power is the
only acceptable definition of God? God is that which cannot be surpassed except
by his own choice, and the only entity that could theoretically surpass him is
a community of others exactly like him.
The God of
Becoming is the one in whose image we are ultimately made. We creatures of
evolution are on the same evolutionary trajectory as God himself, but at a much
earlier point. That is why it can truly be said that we have the capacity to
become divine.
Imagine the
earth of billions of years ago: a storm-tossed, primordial chemical soup rent
by livid lightning strikes; vast sulphurous clouds, erupting volcanoes,
frothing seas; endless tumult and chaos. Look at our planet now. Billions,
perhaps trillions, of living forms populate earth's flourishing biosphere.
There are
six and half billion intelligent human beings. If humans originated from the
chemical soup then it means that implicit all along within that soup were
Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Nietzsche, Goethe, Hegel, Michelangelo,
Shakespeare, Byron, Washington, Weishaupt, Napoleon, Caesar, all the great
scientists, artists, geniuses and leaders of history. If these astonishing
figures were latent within the chemical soup of earth, what was latent within
the chemical soup of the entire universe, the stardust of eternity, the
shimmering, perpetual light of the cosmos?
Look at how
much knowledge humanity has acquired in the last 2,000 years. The rate has
actually been accelerating. The last 100 years have been the most productive of
all. Look at what the last few decades have delivered when personal computers
and the internet became available. The amount of knowledge at humanity's
disposal is simply staggering. Imagine humanity a 1,000 years from now. What
about a billion years? Humanity already has god-like powers in relation to
other species on this planet. In many billion of years is it not possible that
humans might have evolved into actual gods? If that is possible for humans then
what makes us think that it has not already happened for an entity or entities
that came into existence long before we did?
What is the
maximum potential latent within the universe? What is the fullest expression of
the possibilities inherent in the universe?
God.
God does not
make the universe, he emerges as its inevitable culmination, its dialectical
end-point. God evolves. He is a creature of evolution, not of Being. There is
every reason why an atheist should reject a God of Being, but none why he
should reject a God of Becoming.
Humanity is,
currently, the highest expression of earth's potential. Perhaps a greater expression
will be found in the future. Dinosaurs dominated earth for many millions of
years. Now they are extinct. Neanderthal Man is also extinct. Humans can be
classified as the "fifth ape".
Will there
be a sixth? Will humanity become extinct and be replaced by a higher form? Time
will tell. If we don't realise who we are and what we are capable of, we will
certainly be replaced. That is the law of evolution.
The universe
can carry out similar exercises to what has happened on earth, but on a much
vaster scale. The universe has astonishing potential, all the potential in
existence. Given an eternity, it wasn't just possible that the universe would
find its maximum expression but certain. The God of Becoming is that optimal
expression. He is as astounding as the God of Being, yet, unlike that false
God, he truly exists.
There is no
reason why anyone who believes in Darwin's theory of evolution by natural
selection should not extend exactly the same rationale to the universe as a
whole. Existence maximises itself, and God is its maximum expression. God is
the final product of evolution, of the dialectic, of natural selection, of
logical necessity.
Aristotle
used the word "entelechy" to describe something having its end within
itself, something striving to fully actualise its inner potential. The universe
demonstrates entelechy. God is the supreme actualisation of existence, the
ultimate entelechy.
Hans Driesch
used "entelechy" to describe a life force that, in organic systems,
governs the attainment of their inherent goals. He conceived of this force as
psychoid ("mind-like"): non-spatial and qualitative rather than
spatial and quantitative. Henri Bergson in his book "Creative
Evolution" proposed a vital force that animates life and fundamentally
connects mind and body. Julian Huxley said, "Evolution is nothing but
matter become conscious of itself."
These ideas
might be classed as versions of vitalism, the doctrine that the functions of a
living organism are ultimately due to a principle distinct from biochemical reactions.
Such thinking points to a level beyond Darwinian natural selection. If a force
were operating below the level of genes it would be masked and hence not
amenable to study (like the "hidden variables" that some claim exist
in the quantum realm).
C. Lloyd
Morgan spoke of "emergent evolution". This is the hypothesis that
phenomena such as life and consciousness can emerge suddenly from unpredictable
rearrangements of entities whose properties would not seem to suggest that they
could give rise to such radical transformations (e.g. how can life and mind
emerge from particular arrangements of atoms - genes - but not from other
arrangements of those same atoms?).
Evolution
often seems to proceed by way of abrupt, discontinuous jumps (the punctuated
equilibrium theory of evolution) rather than a smooth, gradual process of
natural selection. Many fossil records of transitional forms (e.g. between
reptiles and mammals) that would be predicted by Darwin's theory have never
been found or simply do not exist, while others exist that would not seem to be
consistent with Darwin's theory e.g. there are fossils that demonstrate the
coexistence of species where it would have been anticipated that one species
ought to have preceded the other rather than occurring at the same time. These
anomalies might point to the influence of hidden variables as yet unexplored by
biological science.
The universe
is teleological: it has a purpose. That purpose is to reach its summit, the
perfect manifestation of what was buried as gold within its limitlessly fertile
soil. Alchemy was never anything other than the search for how gold - the
divine - appeared from the dirt (matter), and how we ourselves can find the
divine buried within us.
Many
evolutionists deny teleology. They say existence has no purpose. But in terms
of an infinite and eternal system (the universe), with infinite levels of
natural selection being performed within it, the inevitable result must be the
highest perfection of which the universe is capable. If it is not forbidden, it
is compulsory.
Imagine a
process of blind, purposeless evolution taking place, of the type advocated by
someone like Richard Dawkins. According to Dawkins, humanity itself is merely a
chance product of that random striving. But humanity is conscious, intelligent
and purposeful, so even those who agree with Dawkins are faced with the blunt
fact that from a blind, purposeless process, a sighted, purposeful species has
arisen. This species can not only disturb the biosphere (via global warming,
nuclear holocaust, weather manipulation etc), it can actually change its own
biological destiny via genetic engineering.
Would you
prefer the meaning of life to lie in Dawkins' "selfish genes" or in a
divinity that has evolved far beyond the level of genes?
If every
secret of genetics yields to science then, in principle, humans could
perpetually cure themselves of all diseases and live forever. They could
convert themselves into super-beings with enormously enhanced abilities. They
could become bionic: part human, part machine. They could start to wield the
power of gods, shaping nature, including their own human nature. In other
words, even Dawkins' blind version of evolution gives rises in the end to the
existence of purpose. Once sufficient purpose and intelligence have evolved,
the age of blind, purposeless striving is at an end.
Evolution
will, via natural selection, keep generating new life forms, and if those new
life forms have no intelligence and no purpose then natural selection will
simply keep creating more and different life forms and keep going until highly
intelligent life forms evolve. Once these life forms exist they will then
assume control of evolution, just as we have.
There are
hundreds of millions of people alive today who would be dead if it were not for
modern medicine, science and technology. There are humans alive now who began
their existence as eggs fertilised in test tubes. In a few decades, clones will
be commonplace. Arguably, there is no natural selection going on anymore. There
is only unnatural selection. Humans shape evolution: evolution no longer shapes
humans.
And if
that's true of us, why shouldn't it be true of other intelligent creatures?
Eons ago, intelligence and purpose appeared in the universe - in the shape of the
God of Becoming - and from that moment the universe became explicitly
teleological. Insofar as it was inevitable that natural selection would one day
give rise to intelligent, conscious entities and that those entities would then
replace blind, purposeless natural selection with direction, control and
purpose then it might be concluded that teleology was always latent within
Darwinian evolution by natural selection.
Teleology is
at the core of the universe. In truth, the universe has always had a purpose,
and that purpose was to create the maximum degree of intelligence,
self-awareness and freedom. The God of Becoming possesses those qualities. From
the outset, the God of Becoming was implicit in the universe, its highest
potential waiting to be released, the cosmic entelechy.
The
dialectic, entelechy, teleology and evolution by natural selection are all
finally the same. They reach their fruition in the God of Becoming. As soon as
an atheist perceives this one, single truth, he can acknowledge the God of Becoming
without signing up to any of the impossible nonsense preached by the false
prophets of the non-existent God of Being. Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed -
what did they ever preach but incredible lies and fantasies?
The God of
Being is dead. We have entered the age of the God of Becoming.
Entelechy -
something having its end within itself and striving to actualise that end
(Aristotle.)
The
Dialectic - the movement via the constant iteration of the fundamental triad of
thesis, antithesis and synthesis towards the Absolute, the end of history
(Hegel.)
Natural
selection - the process of competitively generating entities that are
increasingly better adapted to their environment (Darwin.) No scientist ever
mentions it, but the implied end of natural selection is an entity that is
perfectly adapted to its environment, fully controls it and has mastered all of
its competition.
Teleology -
the idea that purpose is present in nature. Nature has a specific end that it
is endeavouring to achieve. It is not blind, purposeless and meaningless.
Illumination brings
entelechy, the dialectic, natural selection and teleology together. The God of
Becoming is their mutual end-point.
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