The Emotosphere
My friends,
I hope you're well. :)
Tomorrow’s events:
Leisure as the Basis for the Coming Renaissance w/ Johannes Niederhauser. April 23rd @ 10:00 PM ET. RSVP here.
Human Systems: Live Action Redesign w/ Anne-Lorraine Selke. April 23rd @ 12:00 PM ET. Learn more. RSVP here.
Reform of Government Institutions w/ Samo Burja. April 23rd @ 4:00 PM ET. Learn more. RSVP here.
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April 22, 2020
It is time to be a sober-minded Stoic, engage in some prudence, and process what is happening. I will be sounding much more normal now. Being at the knife's edge is a dangerous game, but it is really fun to play. And do not worry, I am pretty confident that there will still be fire coming out of my fingertips.
I have been experiencing many synchronicities, associated with archetypal patterns. On Monday, it all came online in a very intense way. I like Fuller’s interpretation—I cannot remember his exact words, but it is something along the lines of penetrative archetypal patterns were happening to me. When archetypal symbolism and patterns emerge, the trick is to receive the transformational effects, but avoid egoic attachment to them.
When these things have been occuring, time has been passing really slowly, and I have been really present. And yeah, I feel as if I have been plugged into some kind of primordial language, which the daemon seems to be a part of. And the daemon seems to be leading me to demons. Maybe the Christian grammar has come online because there is no better language for it. Yet.
I am reminded of my sessions with Peterson, which were held in his office at the University of Toronto. He had one whole bookshelf on evil: books full of atrocities, serial killers, and demons. Reflecting on my conversations with him now, and on some of the things he alluded to, I get the sense he was tapped into this primordial language, and felt the presence of the devil and his minions. This is why, I imagine, there was a holy gravitas about him, which made him so different from the Intellectual Yet Idiots of the Blue Church intelligentsia.
I feel called here to speak directly to more secular types, and find language that might fit their schema. What is a demon in the secular sense? I think there is something missing in the geosphere to biosphere to noosphere evolution proposed by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and that is the emotosphere.
I am proposing this term to take into consideration the collective realm of emotionality, which I see between the biosphere and noosphere. The biosphere has genes, and the noosphere has memes, I imagine the emotosphere has an equivalent, but my coinage game cringes at the word 'eemes,' so let us ask the collective intelligence to come up with a better one!
Maybe angels and demons, that make up this primordial language, reside in the emotosphere. Could a demon be highly condensed negative emotions, which get transferred from one person to the next? Just as you can pass on the feeling of kind warmth by showing a genuine smile, you can pass on demonic energy through negative experiences as well.
I imagine the liminal war will be very different from Culture War 2.0. The latter was held in the realm of the noosphere, and this one will take place in the realm of the emotosphere. We cannot be disembodied consumers of memes here, projecting the disowned parts of ourselves into each tweet. No, we are all going to be involved in the liminal war. As Zak Stein said, a war has broken out between heaven and hell. What side will you be on? If you are reading these pieces, you already know.
Maybe I needed to put myself at the knife’s edge of sanity on Monday and invoke all those archetypal patterns in order to believe. Believe in what? In beauty. I believe beauty exists, even if it currently does not. Life can be beautiful if you believe it is. But my sense is that I am meant to struggle with this belief, and fall into denial, from time to time.
My sense is that The Stoa can help steal the culture, lovingly, by encouraging everyone to listen to the daemon, and start giving their gift to the world, while speaking the truth with a pure heart. I intend to elaborate on this during tonight's session, called Emancipate the Daemon.
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