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RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 05-31-2021 @Dtris, thanks for bringing those quotes. The view I described, in my understanding, does not contradict any of those three quotes -- but if I have missed something, it would be very good to have that pointed out. Key to understanding my overall angle is that complete unity is, logically, something which must be outside of space and time, since space and time are examples of structures that divide up what's inside them. Everything in space as one thing, is a thing which is not located anywhere in space, and likewise everything in time at once, is not found at any moment in time. And the same for any other dimensions that may be involved in terms of things being spread out in them. Unity basically means either lack of structure or the transcending of structure. So the idea that 7D leads to complete unity at its end is not in conflict with the idea that a creation may fill up infinities of time, space, and other dimensions, so that individual beings come and go "forever" within it. Provided that the process of moving through the densities is distinct from the process of moving through the dimension of linear time, that is. Ra describes linear time durations for many things, while e.g. the Cassiopaeans emphasize that linear time as experienced in 3D doesn't apply beyond 3D, and that time durations as we understand them in 3D are only metaphorical when considering higher densities. Ra's descriptions of time/space alongside space/time and more are suggestive of this, but doesn't make it really clear. The existence of a structuring dimension somewhat like time even in 6D doesn't necessarily mean it's experienced the way it is in 3D, and the differences between 3D and 6D seem to rule out that 6D is anything at all like a human existence. Ra claims 6D is not individual, but that doesn't mean it's full unity either, rather the descriptions seem to leave logical room only for an in-between thing easy to picture abstractly but impossible to imagine concretely. Perhaps the creation can be likened to an inside-out house, which contains everything on the "outer" inside. The "inner" outside, on the other hand, transcends space, time, etc., which are all found on the "outer" inside. It's also like a little garden in which the creator is, surrounded by it all. Except that in terms of the cosmology, "it all" is presumably held in the mind of that creator. The way I put it together with the visual metaphor earlier of a spiraling motion where the center is unity from 7D and the outer edge is 1D, to accommodate endless cycling and octaves, goes with very abstract and not-at-all-possible to concretely imagine ideas which to me seem to unify what's in those three Ra quotes. However, find a single clear-cut logical contradiction and it's demolished. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Dtris - 05-31-2021 Asolsutsesvyl, we are certainly dealing with a complex subject. For your context, Ra states in the first session that they are outside of time as we know it. He also mentions repeatedly that any translations of lower and higher density time is an approximation at best because time functions differently in each density. Ra also outlines that the physical world as we explore thru science, is just one of the worlds of experience which we are tuning into at this moment. The evolution of the creation proceeded before space/time existed and continues in whatever realm that may be. I see the densities being representative of modes of experience the creator has set for each individualized portion of consciousness to explore. If that is the case the seventh density would not have much meaning if it involved the loss of individuation and a return to total unity. I do think it is likely that the limits of language make that description the most accurate way of describing that density to someone in third, who really cannot comprehend that level. Even Ra admits they cannot comprehend the seventh level. My understanding is that the physical universe which we occupy is but a small fraction of the creation which we will end up experiencing as we move thru these densities, to whatever the destination is. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Ralib1 - 06-04-2021 I just wanna add my two cents. Any psychic or medium will tell you to NEVER use a Ouija board. Unlike, Ra’s narrow band transmission. The Oujia board is a open gateway for ANY entity to communicate through without infringing on free will. I immediately felt a negative vibe just from reading the first page. They mentioned they were from nearby Orion and that they were there for “prophecy” and then started giving messages or doom and fear, and natural disasters. If this was an attempt to masquerade as a positive STO being they weren’t very convincing. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 06-07-2021 I'm going to try to reply backwards towards earlier things I haven't replied to yet... (06-04-2021, 01:49 AM)Ralib1 Wrote: I just wanna add my two cents. Any psychic or medium will tell you to NEVER use a Ouija board. Unlike, Ra's narrow band transmission. The Oujia board is a open gateway for ANY entity to communicate through without infringing on free will. I immediately felt a negative vibe just from reading the first page. They mentioned they were from nearby Orion and that they were there for "prophecy" and then started giving messages or doom and fear, and natural disasters. If this was an attempt to masquerade as a positive STO being they weren't very convincing. This is an area where the Cassiopaea main channel, LKJ, has long since written explanations and justifications for why her approach is the best. Generally, she always in one or another way explains why her approach to spiritual and other topics makes the most sense given the superior level of knowledge she has gathered. Of course, "unreasonable" people (including of course myself by her standards) can continue to disagree. It's been time since I read through LKJ's old writing about this, but if I remember correctly, she views the use of a board instead of trance as good because it allows conscious monitoring and feedback. She's described how a board can be used as a self-development tool of sorts, where old thought loops and unconscious baggage is worked through so as to prepare the channel to channel more clearly. However, I think the added "distance" to the source and greater participation of the channel may hide features (the "personality") of what's channeled. In the earliest few years, some sessions were, unlike the rest, direct channeling through LKJ's former associate F., who went into trance and spoke. The information is much the same, except that according to LKJ, there was a condescending and negative non-verbal air about it, which some guests found too repellent. She blamed it all on F., and later channeling after parting with F. also blames F.'s influence for the earliest over-the-top doom and gloom and predictions. But gloomy stuff and predictions, and even LKJ having personal visions of the future she's claimed to be so horrible that she doesn't want to fully describe it for others, continues to recent years. And I think when F. left, the result was basically that it all became molded to fit LKJ's personal agenda, as the lower-level winner of a power struggle below the level of the channeled source. The years with F. have Cassiopaeans that more often disagree with LKJ, and that's also the early times with the most interesting little metaphysical ideas in sessions IMO. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Azarnac - 06-08-2021 (06-07-2021, 06:14 PM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: And I think when F. left, the result was basically that it all became molded to fit LKJ's personal agenda, as the lower-level winner of a power struggle below the level of the channeled source. The years with F. have Cassiopaeans that more often disagree with LKJ, and that's also the early times with the most interesting little metaphysical ideas in sessions IMO. This is likely what happened, judging by what has changed and happened since then. Those who have read the transcripts(in fact, this is how I came across the C's in the first place; some torrent archive contained the pdf that had all sessions from the beginning up until the 2000s) will notice the stark difference between the early and later sessions. There are genuine nuggets in the early sessions, and whatever it was they were talking to, it often disagreed with LKJ and told her to go beyond her anthropomorphic and Christian views. This radically changed in the 2000s and has remained the same since then. Especially since 2018 or so, there is almost no pretension anymore that the "C's" have become the mouthpiece for whatever LKJ needs for her organization(C's asking people to donate more money to LKJ etc.). In the latest session from a week ago or so many people from the FOTCM were invited to attend the session and the Cs were asked what the greatest weakness of the forum community/FOTCM is. They answered that they lacked true co-linearity. I think it likely that this will be interpreted along esoteric lines(think Mouravieff and the exo-, meso-, and esoteric groups and the theoretical idea that people need to align their understanding) but in practice, it might just be that LKJ wants even stronger groupthink among her followers, a true Nazi "Gleichschaltung", as we Germans say. Regarding the Oujia Board, I had, for some time, believed it to be a toy invented in the 20th century. It turns out that some similar looking devices had been in use for centuries before our time. Interestingly, Daoists in China, specifically the Quanzhen movement, used it as part of their practice up until the Qing Dynasty(the last one that ended in 1911) banned their use. Why it was banned I have been unable to ascertain so far. It might be that LKJs use of the Oujia board stems from Christian prejudice towards "demonic" possession and a need for intellectual control. Intuitively speaking, it seems to me that trance possession yields to a more "direct line" than board use. In line with their condescending attitude towards Eastern religions that favor the non-intellectual, the Chateau group seems to like what doesn't change their tight intellectual grip and doesn't veer into other states of consciousness. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Dtris - 06-08-2021 (06-08-2021, 09:14 AM)Azarnac Wrote:(06-07-2021, 06:14 PM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: And I think when F. left, the result was basically that it all became molded to fit LKJ's personal agenda, as the lower-level winner of a power struggle below the level of the channeled source. The years with F. have Cassiopaeans that more often disagree with LKJ, and that's also the early times with the most interesting little metaphysical ideas in sessions IMO. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/chinese-rev 1911 was the year that the Republic of China was founded. At various points thru chinese history they cracked down on traditional Taoist and Buddhist practices. In particulat the communist revolution attempted to secularize society completely. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 06-08-2021 I'll try to explain what's been bothering me for some time with the early Cassiopaean material, including the nuggets of good information, and why I've remained torn and unenthusiastic about those since, even though I think they're worth discussing further. Why are they there, really? In the 2017-11-04 Q'uo session there is related talk about wisdom. It's easy to relate to some questions. What's the heart of spirituality, and the point of a teaching (or the main actual effect of it, which would be known by a supposed advanced higher-density source)? There's a basic clash between the more contemplative and open-hearted seeking philosophies, on the one hand, and the extreme conspiracist worldviews like "the Matrix filled with agents cracking down on all awakened persons" and/or "alien overlords have sent a massive fleet to crush all opposition really soon" etc., on the other hand. Ultimately, I think one of these must be discarded if the other is to continue to be explored in a more developed form. The basic natures are fundamentally different in a way that becomes gradually clearer. What do people make of teachings, depending not only on the nature of the teaching or their own natures but the combination? E.g., there was something heartless about Gurdjieff the manipulative guru who designed the practical teaching to achieve psychological dominance over, and then used, his followers, while a superficially similar, but more nuanced and heartful and mystically inward-seeking teaching, can be found in Boris Mouravieff's books. It's similar with the Cassiopaean and Ra-related teachings, I think, except the order of publication is the opposite. (With the Ra material, the less-publicized and more-heartful version came first. With Mouravieff's Gnosis, it came second, after Gurdjieff's more well-known teaching, after Mouravieff had observed and pieced things together from various sources and rejected Gurdjieff as a black magician with an incomplete approach.) With the Cassiopaeans, the early channeling sometimes is over-the-top alarmistic and pointing towards an almost comically hostile worldview. At other times, it loftily rises above the basic divisive and subtly controlling leanings which LKJ show from early on. In 1996 the C's reject the idea of viewing persons themselves as the "portals of attack" used by higher-density forces to strike at targets through, because that leads to directing negative energy onto the souls of those persons on a false basis. They also noted that if you adopted such a view, then "many could describe" LKJ herself as a portal. In 2002, LKJ however adopted exactly that kind of view on a larger scale and transformed Mouravieff's most divisive idea, that of pre-adamics, into the "organic portals" idea, half of humanity thereafter seen as energy drains and portals of attack used by the forces of "the Matrix". She basically made the worst she could of Mouravieff's message in that way. Maybe the resulting worldview was the last nail in the coffin for the open-heartedness of the Cassiopaean teaching, as the 2003 change observed by Montalk then followed (though he didn't relate those two things this way). But I remain torn on the early Cassiopaean material. There's much in it that I don't think has any real positive use. The "good stuff" continues here and there even today, in a sense, as in what Azarnac noted on how you could view the latest Cassiopaean message in an accurately insightful way. Why? Is it for people to learn from it positively, or is it so that people who want to read something positive into it all easily find all the excuses they need to do so, i.e. bait to swallow? Is it a real mixture of positive and negative sources on display, or is it smoke blown to obscure negativity at a calculated meager cost? I think the worst part of the Cassiopaean teaching, and not only LKJ's layers of elaboration but also the channeling from early on, tends to somewhat shut down or bend out of shape the following (bolded) in a person... Quote:Now, we would begin by suggesting that you consider that there is to wisdom a kind of dual aspect. There is that aspect which is receptive, and with respect to this aspect you are attempting to ascertain truths, shall we say, about your environment, about others within your environment, and about yourself, which can be integrated with other information, other truths, which you have already taken in. In this context, the question before you is simply, "What is the nature of this information I seek to take in? What is the tendency of the information which I seek to take in?" In general, you could say that information which tends to incite fear, information which tends to promote the sense of separation, or information which seems to suggest the possibility for aggrandizing the self, that this information is of a negative tendency or polarity. On the other hand, if you find yourself being confronted with information which suggests joy, which suggests an opening of free possibility, which suggests acceptance of others, and the opportunity to be of help to others, you can be sure that you are confronted with the marks of the positive tendency in creation, or as we have called it, the positive polarity. The twist in teachings like the Cassiopaean, but also others, lead to the sense of possibilities, striving to help, etc., becoming tied to the specific community and claims of the teacher, when the teaching is followed more closely. It can stimulate the positive things mentioned, and more, in a person, but at the same time, also the negative, in a pattern that leads to commitment towards the exploiter and surrounding organization together with isolation from the greater world of spirituality. In addition, there's the possible added danger of a degrading of reasoning, more clear in people who invert their criteria for what's likely to be true and likely to be false, so that any hearsay becomes credible as long as it fits the basic alarmistic pattern which is pre-judged to be "The Truth" and anything from the mainstream (and often elsewhere too) opposing such a message must automatically be an evil deception part of grand doomsday scheming at some level. Quote:Now, on many occasions that which is negative in its innermost tendency will masquerade, so to speak, as positive, and it can lead one astray to take up bits and pieces of information which have a tendency to promote fear or separation, and together with those tendencies, be emotional by-products of them, such as hostility, hate, or distrust. And to suggest that these elements of truth which are present in your every day environment are negative is merely to suggest that there is already a great deal of polarity available to you in implicit suggestion, in propensity, and it does require, on your part, an active process of winnowing in order to sort out that which is negative in its tendency from that which is positive in its potential. If I ask, "If this information is wrong, what is the harm?", the harm is generally much more for the Cassiopaean information and other unverifiable conspiracy-spirituality worldview messages, than it is for the stuff which is said by them to be "dangerous" messages of "passivity" which encourage "navel-gazing", etc. I think a cue should be taken from skeptics about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence when the claims are enormously divisive, and also when getting it wrong simply leads to a long-term situation of useless fear and distrust, as the Cassiopaea community and various other more popular alternatives bring people into regarding "outside" worldviews and those who hold them. When the bad key elements are mixed with good information, as in the very large and intellectually complex synthesis of ideas produced by LKJ, it can take years of digesting it at odds with it (possibly painfully after leaving the fold) before the nature of the different parts of it finally become clearer, in terms of what it does to those who take it seriously. Quote:Oh, my friends, it is so easy to get moved off one's mark, because wisdom, by itself, so very often, is overwhelming in its complexity, and therefore, is able to bear little pieces of negativity, little pieces of a kind of polarized inclination or propensity, that falls beneath the threshold of your attention, and so something taken up in all innocence can be seen later to have contained a tendency so fundamentally opposed to what you would embrace, so fundamentally opposed to what you would desire to manifest, that you are quite moved beyond your center, and find yourself scrambling to make amends for what you have come to think must have been a bad, bad mistake. Dealing with mistakes, or what appear to be mistakes, is part and parcel of the third-density experience, and so a good portion of your effort at seeking will be taken up by a process of review, a process of reassessment, and no single individual has been able to escape completely unscathed from the effect of having catalyst go awry. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Dtris - 06-08-2021 Your description jives with my own experience with the Cass material. I read the first three books which are published from the early material. In general there was some segments I found to be helpful. But even then I noticed that the material seemed to lose much of its useful information in just those three books. I can't imagine trying to sift thru 25 years of channelings to find a few useful nuggets. In those early books LKJ seemed like a person who had no real destination or roadmap. Only later did she decide on her course. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Azarnac - 06-09-2021 (06-08-2021, 04:57 PM)Dtris Wrote: 1911 was the year that the Republic of China was founded. At various points thru chinese history they cracked down on traditional Taoist and Buddhist practices. In particulat the communist revolution attempted to secularize society completely. Apologies for my unclear wording. I meant to say that the usage of Oujia like boards for communication with spirits was forbidden some time during the Qing Dynasty, although it is not clear when exactly it happened. It did happen way before the founding of the Republic of China or the Communist Revolution though. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Sena - 06-17-2021 (02-24-2021, 09:55 PM)zedro Wrote:(02-24-2021, 08:24 PM)Dtris Wrote: You bring up Icke and Wilcock. I think you are making an error in attributing the missteps of these public figures to negative influence. While that is a possibility, it is much more likely that these fellow flawed humans have their own biases and errors which they make. Wilcock personally led me to the Ra material and I have a huge amount of respect for him and his work, even if there are portions I personally disagree with. Zedro, I agree with you about David Wilcock. I won't take any book as Gospel truth, but I find his books interesting, and they are consistent with the Law of One. There does seem to be a group of people who hate Wilcock; their hatred needs to be analyzed. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 10-01-2021 (06-08-2021, 09:14 AM)Azarnac Wrote:(06-07-2021, 06:14 PM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: And I think when F. left, the result was basically that it all became molded to fit LKJ's personal agenda, as the lower-level winner of a power struggle below the level of the channeled source. The years with F. have Cassiopaeans that more often disagree with LKJ, and that's also the early times with the most interesting little metaphysical ideas in sessions IMO. For completeness, if you're still (or for others who are) exploring the line of thought that it started out as something more positive, here's some thoughts I had almost 2 years ago before I gave up on that idea myself, about how things may have changed over time. The years with F. are only a portion of those early transcript years. If there was a negative turning point connected to his departure (as a more unified agenda could then direct things), it would have to have been as early as 1996 or so. By 1997, there's both more sci-fi soup and the whole "truth percentage" thing and more, and it gets worse after that. If there was a positive peak of sorts, I think it could have been as late as 1995 or 1996. Then a decay entered, perhaps like an exponential decay which continued until both quantity and quality of activity fizzled out as the mid-00s approached, and activity then resumed on a new footing after a period of basically nothing. After that shift, you then have the attitude that there's less and less of a difference between LKJ and the C's, year after year, which she has gotten her community to accept and even parrot in order to defend e.g. choices in what the channeling focuses on. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Nikki - 10-03-2021 "The question of what is true is the meat of philosophical enquiry. As far as the Confederation is concerned, there is earthly truth, which is limited and relative, and then there is spiritual truth, which is infinite, mysterious, and full of paradox and mystery, yet is as simple as: all is one, and that one thing is love." p.173 "Voices of the Confederation". This was an interesting read and showed the wonder of all the posters, all love and light. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - meadow-foreigner - 10-12-2021 In addition to the already very insightful posts made so far: The Casiopeans (later self-proclaimed Cassiopaeans, a vital 'detail' that seems to be overlooked and underconsidered) have displayed, several times, a self-interested perspective in their messages. They follow the same pattern that of those of the Bringers of the Dawn book.
In this sense, these sources are both serving their Selves and their agenda. The Casiopeans also contradicted themselves on several occasions throughout the channelings, even considering the contextual meaning. An example: in the earlier contacts, they claimed to be both STS and STO as all are one. Years later, they claimed to be 'STO only', even though their momentum and essence suggests otherwise, on several occasions. Even then, they do present some food for thought, and they seem to be over-invested in the course of events at Earth. It matters little if the content has a religious, or a seemingly neutral glossing, or whatever else. What matters is how the message makes one think and exercise one's mind; instead of choosing to live as a byproduct of dogma. It is a display of maturity to get in touch with different perspectives of the same prism and to figure out the explicit and underlying connections. In that sense, it might do everyone some good to do so. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Diana - 10-13-2021 (10-12-2021, 03:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: Even then, they do present some food for thought, and they seem to be over-invested in the course of events at Earth. Well said. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 10-15-2021 @meadow-foreigner, that reminds me of several things I haven't posted yet. On the "bad future" and sci-fi-like scenarios of that kind, years ago another member of the Cassiopaea forum wrote a short overview bringing together related channeled/"inspired" views on that theme. I'll quote that later, for those curious about the C's and Pleiadians and the related somewhat doom-and-gloom perspective. (10-12-2021, 03:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: It is a display of maturity to get in touch with different perspectives of the same prism and to figure out the explicit and underlying connections. In that sense, it might do everyone some good to do so. Something different that's been on my mind is a theory which makes for an alternative way to try to make sense of the C's and their messages. Is it, at least roughly, some kind of weird mirror image of the truth? It's interesting to look at in that way, so in this post and later I'll explore along that line. LKJ has long championed the view that in the early years, the C's communicated in a code in which they said things about other persons and things instead of the hidden "real" subject, and the "real" message was for LKJ alone to correctly perceive and interpret. (Sometimes, supposedly, they also said the opposite of the truth in a way "obvious" enough that LKJ could later understand it.) How about this? Flipping around the message of the C's, here and there and in various ways, gives a picture much closer to the truth about the C's, LKJ, her community and what it's all about. In fairly few flips, sometimes a stunningly accurate picture could emerge. This is the opposite of LKJ's view, accepted by her community, according to which the propaganda in the world (everything opposing their message) is often exactly the opposite of the truth. There's many places you could begin, but I'll pick something I've already touched on, accuracy and "truth percentages". (07-20-2019, 11:39 PM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: Truth percentages and Bad statistics Here's something else, the C's on the message of the New Testament (from a compilation on the Cassiopaea forum): Quote:941107 Thousand year period is symbolic in the material for an era in 4D, or a metaphysically distinct "age" in the world. Destroyers and light beings? The C's are said to be light beings. 6D STS are supposed to be their opposites and associated with black holes. Moving on... Quote:Q: (L) Are any books of the New Testament written by who they claim to be written by? Now consider the 1997-12-31 session claim that the Cassiopaean material is 71.7% true. That fits a rounded 70%. The opposite would be 28.3% true, a fit for the rounded 30% which is "close" to being truth. Sometimes I think the C's say the truth about their own stuff when giving answers about propaganda and deception in Christianity, the Bible, and more. And they also say Revelations is "corrupted" with messages of doom meant to inspire fear. (Note: I don't make any argument about Christianity etc. here, I leave that at the side. Personally though, I disbelieve both the C's and the Bible.) You could go very far looking for "inversions". There's also a claim in the early Cassiopaean material that both sides have equal higher-density backing, and so there's ultimately supposedly a 6D STO vs. 6D STS thing going on. RE: Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans - Asolsutsesvyl - 10-15-2021 Now, on dystopian sci-fi visions... (10-12-2021, 03:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: There's complexity to it all, and distinctions that come and go, and several types of claims going in several directions, and several sentiments, and elaborations added over time. So it's very open to interpretation, by design. Now for ideas of battles between timelines, thousand-year periods of transition, etc. "Neil" on the Cassiopaea forum wrote a summary in 2016 on the "alien threat" which grouped ideas and claims into 4 different timelines. From here. It's different from my own old thoughts, and complementary to the way in which I've compared the C's and sci-fi, so I think it's well-worth quoting for further discussions here. I added a few {notes} to fill in missing context here. Neil, Cassiopaea Forum Wrote:Bhelmet Wrote:4. The "beginning" of the transition period of 1000 years seems to be crucial to me. If the 4D STS are going to try to control us in 4D and they have hybrid bodies ready, it would seem to me that perhaps the mass destruction and death of the current batch of 3d bodies occurs in 3D and the reincarnation occurs in 4th where 'we' will again face another sales job. "Check these bodies out! You can have the best of both worlds!" Or something like that. I would bet they are thinking that the SAME scam that worked 300,000 years ago will work again. The C's did say that it is important WHEN you choose, and I think that there will be a welcoming committee in 4D all lined up to try to sucker us in again. I think that is a great summary of much of the thinking of the Cassiopaea community. It gives a broader vision connected to ideas of a battle between good and evil, and it's tied to the idea that their community is a unique "lighthouse" showing the way in a world of darkness. Somehow, the general idea goes, a small portion of people -- righteous and good in all the ways which matter -- will make it, and end up together in a bright future, while all the rest -- people unlike them -- will fail and become food for aliens. An alternative idea, a way of looking at it which turns it all on its head, is this: The "tyranny world" in which people are like zombified controlled cyborgs is something that happens inside smaller groups and societies controlled by 4D STS in the shorter-term future, in arrangements which ultimately do not last. Eventually, the future becomes a different, and more positive, future, but in the short term 4D STS wants to establish little "kingdoms" on the planet and squeeze the people who move into them as much as possible. As for the larger world, it's on the whole going to be messy and metaphysically unpolarized (simply generally sloppy and chaotic) for a long time, containing the elements for bursts of both positive and negative activity for a long time. Instead of several conflicting timelines, in each of which world events line up neatly into one particular picture of those described, maybe the future will, for a long time, contain a mixed-up mess, in which different persons go different ways. There could also be crises. But basically, I think the messy world will remain messy for a long time, while visions of more neat futures (both good and bad) will continue to be dreamed about by many. |