Alternatives
Choosing the God Within
In his memories written and published in the final years of the last millenium, Miguel Serrano writes that he will, to the last of his days, reject the technological way, the technochronic age, being and time under the influence of a soulless archetype, or the PSYCHOTRONIC, in his own words. Implicit is the conscious choice of being true to oneself and a commitment to telling the truth, even in the face of dire consequences, for the Selbst moves through you and this is a Dream of your own making. Survival and Flourishing of the Soul as the Highest Law. {1}
More recently, Cynthia Sue Larson has spoken about the conscious choice not to depend on artificial intelligence for life, for company, for creativity, nor even for convenience. She speaks of the lies that artificial intelligence forward, on purpose or not, carelessly or with ill intent; she speaks of the taking away of agency through the habit of convenience. {2}
The choice of life is the act of directing our attention to what stirrs us outside of compulsion, towards permanence. Even acts born from within can, in the heat of this mode of being, when come into while living in accordance with the laws of the “Age of Information”, result in acts that rob us of our essence,but we can change that.
We can reach for and live with what gives us lasting pleasure, with the care not to overload, not to sink into a mire of abandon, but to make of it a return to the wellspring of consciousness. For what surrounds you is the product of consciousness, or, in the words of a more archaic language, it is God’s creation.
“We are not at all the place of interference of spirit and matter, half-angel and half-animal, but a biopsychic, unitary, non-unified being. We are not an individual by reason of our matter and a person by reason of our spirit, but simply an individual insofar as we are and a person insofar as we know that we are. Rationality is essential to us, and we only become aware of ourselves in our whole being.”
— Jacques de Mahieu, The Nature of Man
A proposition follows here to counteract the onslaught of thin and manipulative content generated by artificial intelligence. Decide, as a gift to the World you desire to inhabit, and to yourself, to go on a spree of creative production in the pure joy of the act itself. Decide now to learn from other humans instead of asking artificial intelligence to solve things for you. Decide to learn another language instead of having the machine translate for you. Decide to walk and ask for directions, decide to listen to yourself and others.
Dedicate yourself, moreover, to the improvement of technique as a way to better manifest the soul. Your soul it is that will tell you what it is you want, what is ugly and to be contemplated with a view to change and make flourish under the blessing of your gaze. Once we thought it was a matter of eradication, of extermination, and we realized that under persecution an idea grows, it fosters, it mutates and gains strength.
So they have done to us since the end of the last Great War on the Soul, when the Last Batallion stood for the materialization of hope for Beauty in respectful diversity. Now, despite the lies and persecution, perhaps even because of it, His spirit has indeed risen from the grave.
Few, like Serrano, have understood that the true and long-lasting triumph would come with the earthly devastation of that last attempt to bring divine order to a sickly world. It was not understood that the sickness had to come to term, like a fever that makes evident the alien presence, giving the body, the Anima Mundi, the chance to grow accustomed to it, to notice it, and finally to overcome it.
Finally, we also come to an understanding that no improvements or solutions come from the outside. None come from implementing “systems”, which give only the illusion of progress, by pushing something out and giving it a sterile, “useful” form. These are useful when things have been brought into existence and what is needed is a mere casting and copying of a form. But new life, in the true sense of things, does not come about this way. Larvic pululation is not more, and only infestation, destruction.
Furthermore, neither “Left” nor “Right” will pull you out of this. It is all a game, a game subject to “economic necessity”, to “political alliances” and “convenience”, and from such things no truth can come, the truth of Soul Action.
“Se ha dicho que la historia que se está haciendo o que se va a hacer no solamente repercute sobre los hechos futuros, sino también sobre los pasados, pues inaugura un nuevo punto de vista que hace cambiar la faz y la perspectiva de los sucesos pretéritos. El presente transforma la historia. Es así como se llega al descubrimiento de que frente al contenido de los problemas sociales y la estructura del estado, los dos enemigos seculares, liberalismo y conservatismo, resultan hermanos siameses. Para ellos el estado era recaudador y alguacil, sin intervención en el libre juego de las fuerzas económicas.”
—Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
One must play in the game of life, such as it is. It is found in the natural arising of actions, in the expression that comes from saying to oneself. To oneself in the other, where nothing can be hidden and noone can hide, where what is said carries meaning, a purpose that is not manipulative for manipulation is not truly possible. Manipulation can only happen in collaboration. It is always self-deceit.
The solution, truth, is not given to you but is yours.
Notes
{1} For a full catalogue of Miguel Serrano’s works in the original Spanish: https://www.miguelserrano.cl/site/
{2] Cynthia Sue Larson’s Substack:
