I was reading some American space opera stories, because I’m not dignifying that with the term SciFi. One thing seems to be a constant – “humans” in those stories are in fact a metaphor for Americans, and “aliens” are a metaphor for various non-American human nations of Earth. If you watched enough Star Trek, you’ll know what I mean. Also, how do you know that an American wrote a certain story? Because they implicitly assume that every language is basically English, but spoken with different words, that can be translated 1:1.

The only exception to that nonsense that I can remember was the “Darmok” episode of TNG, where they encounter a civilisation that keeps referencing their myths to explain current experience, for instance “Darmok and Jalad on Tanagra”, or “Shaka, when the walls fell”. Basically, it’s like a reference to “Achilles’ heel”, “opening the Pandora’s box”, or “David and Goliath”. This is actually a great example of why translating things between very different cultures while retaining the nuance of meaning is hard, and in order to understand what a Chinese would mean by “jade mind”, you need to do quite a bit of reading of their mythology and symbolism; also, good luck translating kitsune or qilin.

Basically, in order for an American to truly understand some fundamentally un-American culture, such as Chinese or Indian, they would have to do so much reading and abandoning their own mental position in order to get into another’s skin, that they would stop being Americans, because what seems to define Americans assuming that they are the top of the world and the only valid measurement of value and achievement. And we are talking about understanding merely another human culture, not something profoundly alien, like an octopus that communicates through chromatophores and tentacles, or a dolphin that probably thinks in idiom that would be as foreign to us as phrases such as “bitter anguish” or “sweet recollection” to someone who lacks a sense of taste because they feed on sunlight.

I was asked, many times, why I use sanskrit or Tibetan terms to describe certain states of consciousness or spiritual substances, and the underlying assumption is that those words can be translated to English or Croatian for that matter, and I’m just making it difficult. The thing is, if I’m not translating it, it means that there is no word or phrase of equivalent meaning in the target language, and I’m leaving it in the original because that’s how it works. The people who discover something get to name it. The Americans discovered certain elements such as Americium, Berkelium and Californium, and they got to name them. What are the names of those elements in Chinese? There aren’t any, because they were unknown to the Chinese. Every language has names for copper, tin and iron, though; guess why. So, now that the Americans discovered those elements, everybody in every other culture will use those words to reference them, because that’s how it works. That’s also why there aren’t translations for brahman, kundalini, vajra, mantra, mudra or mandala. It’s not because I’m making it hard for no reason, but for the same reason the Mongols have no word for Einsteinium. Your language has no word for vajra because no member of your culture had enough experience with it to try to conceptualise it; as Wittgenstein would say, if you don’t have a word for it, it is beyond the limits of your world.

Sometimes, in order for you to be able to understand something really alien, you need to leave your own skin and become an alien being with an alien understanding, and leave your words, cognition and feelings behind completely. Then, you will possibly formulate new words for those experiences, and thus make them something within your world, and maybe you’ll abandon words completely. Some things are, in fact, more efficient for conveying emotion or meaning; just listen to cats formulating a long whining tirade of complaint and you’ll see what I mean. So, in order to express emotion, Cat might be more suitable than English, because it expresses emotion directly rather than just map and reference it.

Explanation of real things that are beyond the experience of the audience is a serious problem, and a good example is Pliny the Younger describing the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompei and Herculaneum in 79 AD. He made an incredibly accurate and specific description of the eruption and the ash cloud, and yet it was historically seen as a metaphor of some kind because people in the West didn’t actually experience a pyroclastic eruption of that kind until Mt. Pinatubo, at which point they saw the ash cloud that looked like a pine tree, and said, hey, this looks exactly like Pliny the Younger’s description. Now, that type of volcanism is called a Plinian eruption, in his honour.

That’s another problem in describing things: you can be extremely accurate and specific in your description, but if your audience doesn’t have the experience you can invoke in order to form understanding, they will think you’re using metaphors or just talking about things that aren’t real, like fairies and unicorns. So that’s another very real limit of symbolic communication – it works by referencing another’s experience, and if there isn’t any to reference, you have a problem. Try describing some kind of an exotic fruit such as cherimoya or durian to someone who hasn’t seen and tasted it, and you’ll see the problem. Have them see and taste it and then give them the word for it, and now suddenly you have understanding and communication.

People periodically ask me for a cause of all kinds of terrible things that are taking place on an almost daily basis in the recent years – whether it’s something some global script designed by Satan is targeting them with specifically, or something of a more broad spectrum is at play.

This is my recent answer:

Honestly, on some deeper level, this no longer feels as if anyone is “doing” anything, it looks like some kind of a thermodynamic event, for instance ocean cooling down by evaporating into the atmosphere and making a hurricane.

Basically, the same as the ocean producing a hurricane merely as a consequence of its inability to hold on to the level of energy it has, the global astral field can’t hold on to the level of energy it had while Sanat Kumar was managing the system, and we are facing a spiritual equivalent of a major temperature drop.

Also, I need to add this, because people who aren’t trained physicists tend to have wild misunderstanding of those things.

An energy drop sounds like a low-energy event, but in fact it’s a high-energy event. When an atom drops in energy, it emits a photon, basically produces radiation when you look at it from the outside, and to you it appears like a high-energy event. Ocean dropping in temperature is a hurricane, a very violently high-energy event. Gas that drops in temperature/pressure emits large amounts of heat. Battery going from high energy state to a low energy state is a very energetic event.

Likewise, the global system cooldown, its descent into a lower-energy state, appears extremely violent and energetic – hysteria, violence, wars, genocide and so on. An energy drop usually means a very big “boom”.

I used to think about the causes of the terrible self-destructive world wars, especially the first one, which looked as if the whole civilisation just threw itself into the meat grinder. One explanation was that the balance of power within the civilisation changed from feudalism to capitalism, while political power remained very much feudal, and the whole war thing looks like a social thermodynamic event that destroyed this obsolete system and brought the formal power structures more in line with the actual ones. Also, the whole concept of politics, economy, war, religion and purpose had to be reshuffled to match the industrial, modernist era. The second world war looks pretty much like a continuation of the first one, and ended with the British Empire destroyed and America and Russia assuming the position of first-tier powers. Then those first-tier powers had a battle for primacy, and that one is still ongoing, where the apparent fall and dissolution of the Soviet Union represents merely one phase, and now Russia under Putin is back, and America and the entire West are having what looks very much like the late-Soviet civilisational crisis. The way things look now, USA didn’t really win the cold war; its collapse just lagged somewhat behind that of the Soviet Union.

At the moment, America looks like the last big remainder of the satanic experiment of some kind, of a country without God where people join together in democracy and take charge of their own destiny – essentially, modernism that started with the French revolution. This same experiment had many branches – European secularism, American free market capitalism and a republican constitution, Soviet Union, and the Third Reich. Third Reich is gone, Soviet Union is gone and Russia is trying to find its reason for existence which currently looks like some mixture of tradition and religion, Europe is a decadent cesspool, and America looks like it’s in late stages of turning into a hellhole. The champion of the West against Russia, Ukraine, looks like something between Satanism and Fascism; basically, the most ridiculous chimera of all Modernist and Postmodernist failures patched together as a weapon against Christianity and Reason, a weapon that treats human life as utterly worthless in the name of human rights and humanism, completely in line with the trend that started with the Guillotine orgies of the French Revolution.

As a conclusion, no, Man is not the measure of all things. Also, human life is not the ultimate value. God is the measure of all things, and Man without God is an empty shell devoid of anything worthwhile to live for, and if human life is the ultimate value, then there’s nothing so great that it’s worth living and dying for, making human life ultimately pointless and worthless. This concludes the godless experiment of Satan – in total, absolute failure.