Navigating the Eschaton
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The best strategy is a self-fulfilling prophecy
(Repent! The End is at hand! Or so they said..., the prophets of old that is. The complete postmodern prophet will need a bit more sophistication, and perhaps a website. )
Given that our world is not a physical object, it is then a manifestation of spirit, including ours in particular. The state of the human spirit will be manifested in the world. If we want to transform the world we must transform our spirit, our minds. What we truly believe about the future is what will come to pass. The future will be our self-fulfilled prophecy, whether we want it to be or no.
The eschaton is something to be avoided and something to be courted. It is a virtual singularity of human consciousness marking the end of the historical epoch. In itself it is a neutral event, one to be reckoned with. It is a point of leverage for wielding the human spirit.
History has been our long march into the thrall of a 'material' world. What started as an amalgam of tribal dreamtimes has been forged on the template of Gaia, into a rigid, unforgiving reality. The eschaton will be an unravelling of that reality, more of less under our control.
Hopefully our world will unravel from its fringes, leaving an intact inertial center as a source of stability. By fringe, I am refering to the finges of consciousness. Our world making will be carried out in altered states of consciousness, but gradually these altered states will be integrated into what remains of our consensus waking world.
There is a time frame for these events, and if we get too far ahead or behind the invisible time line, there will be correctional forces coming into play from the outside. It would be difficult, but if we were to fall off the track entirely, it would ruin our whole day. We would experience a real singularity of consciousness, rather than just a virtual one. By always maintaining a continuity of consciousness we prevent the destructive discontinuities or singularities from entering directly into the public sphere.
Once we are safely past our close encounter with the eschaton, which might transpire over 'decades' of our present time, we will find that our reality has been made rather more supple by the 'tidal' forces of the eschaton. This will be our new 'dreamtime.' We will be building new realities out of old, using 'technologies' that are infused with our spirit.
These new worlds will never become as rigid as this one has. As our spiritual path accelerates, there will not be time for the structures or vehicles to become fixed, nor will the boundaries ever be clearly defined.
Let it be clear that the metaphors of space and time that are used in describing the world after the eschaton, are only metaphors. History will be a thing of the 'past'!