Rodriel Gabrez wrote: ↑Thu Aug 21, 2025 5:15 pm
You're right - we most definitely need to account for the evolution of consciousness in our reckonings of the future. I'll look forward to learning of this example you mention.
What do people do when they need to solve certain issues that concern larger groups? They arrange a meeting, forum, symposium, summit, and so on. Each individual human being lives in a uniquely aliased perspective of the World flow, which has integrated various life experiences, and certain intuitions have been reached that elucidate these stacked metamorphoses. At the meeting, people symbolically (verbally, graphically, etc.) express certain aspects of their intuition. These symbols are received by others like seeds falling into different kinds of soil, and they evoke corresponding intuitions, agitate sympathetic or antipathetic feelings according to the receiver’s inner constitution. Through iterative exchanges, hopefully, the members develop personal mental images that are elucidated by
common intuition – the solution of the problem. Then these mental images should be allowed to guide the expressions of the will.
Such is the nature of most human exchanges, including Church meetings – whether between Church officials or between them and the flock. Yet, all of this takes place in our familiar sensory-intellectual consciousness. We are grounded in the primary flow of reality – the here and now within which the full spectrum metamorphoses frame by frame. Part of this spectrum feels more intimately related to our inner intents and is experienced as spatiotemporally scaled mental images of past and future movie clips of existence (or their symbolic encodings) overlaid on the more independent part of the flow. Through them, and through the context of sympathies and antipathies (which provide a more irrational and often unexamined pushes and pulls in one or another direction), we strive to shape the stream of the moment-by-moment flow, so as to align with longer-term ideal curvature.
As we progress further, hopefully not in the too distant future, as more souls take on seriously the task of inner development, the necessary meditative life will gradually transform our nightlife. Today, we are active through the day (synonymous with the waking sensory-intellectual consciousness, not necessarily the bright part of the day), and we sleep and possibly dream through the night. In the future, nighttime would be like a continuation of our evening meditation. Souls will continue to be active through (initially at least some parts of) the night.
Let’s try to form a picture of what that conscious nightlife might be like. Actually, we do not have to be far advanced to be able to make a quite clear image of this (even though still in more general lines). The nightlife can be very diverse, but we can see how such ‘meetings’ are part of it. Once again, let’s say that there’s something that needs to be collectively solved. The first difference is that there’s no longer mental imaging that is being encoded and communicated to other souls through the indirection of rippling processes in the physical spectrum. Now our whole phenomenal volume is like a single mental image that panoramically reflects the intuited processes within the soul spectrum. The second difference is that at this meeting, we are also conscious of other kinds of participants. To be sure, such participants are present also at every sensory meeting, but normally they evade our consciousness.
We can only understand these things if we hold fast to the fact that everything is experienced from a
first-person perspective. The go-to metaphor for this inner experience is the video feedback, which symbolically represents the fact that our first-person experiential state is continuously metamorphosing but in such a way that in every new ‘frame’ of existence we can also intuit the stacked effects of past frames.
Let’s say that in our inner volume, after we have loosened from the suction of the sensory spectrum, we gradually attune to our meeting flow. Effectively, just like in sensory life, the question boils down to, “How should the World flow be bent, such that it aligns with such and such ideal curvatures?” Now, however, we no longer feel as if we are sculpting a private representation of the intended movie of becoming, but instead we feel that our inner volume reflects the
actual curvature of the soul streams – the actual streams of destiny.
From within this soul stream, we feel that its contextual aspects are supported by various Intelligences. One of them we may call Archangelic. This general stream is further modulated on a more refined level by Intelligences (Angelic) that are concerned with more concrete ‘bundles’ of human streams or even single streams. Next, we have modulations that emerge from disembodied souls, and then there are also the modulations of the incarnated human beings who are likewise in their nighttime expanded consciousness and attend the meeting.
The critical thing to understand is that we do not see these things as some objective realities. We do not see the modulation streams in the way we see a river with our eyes. We do not see the attending souls as luminous blobs around us. Of course, all of these are valid artistic expressions of this deeper soul life, and they can indeed appear in the Imaginative flow in such a way, but we should always remember that these are not ‘objective’ realities. They are
renditions of intuition, specific to our stacked frames of development. We live in the expanded inner space that reflects in unique ways the way the soul-streams of destiny bend. For example, to know the workings of the Archangelic Intelligence, it is not a matter of seeing it from the side as an objective creature as it works with its subtle hands, but of breathing in and out of the first-person streams. As we breathe (zoom) out of more specific perspectives, it is as if we become more conscious of where these concentrically overlaid first-person streams are
in phase. The rest, in a sense, ‘cancel out.’ What is in phase is not the elemental content (the phenomenal ‘pixels’) – these are highly specific to each perspective and thus largely cancel out when grasped in their overlaid interference. What we align with is the soul life – the general moods, strivings, and so on – the things which indeed
are the shape of the curvature of destiny (at least as far as this soul life is concerned. Obviously, everything is modulated within the even deeper archetypal contextual flows that shape the great epochs, life and the physical flow).
Thus, as we strive to comprehend the workings of the Archangelic Intelligence – which means to align with their intents and the center from within which these intents make coherent sense – we are able to differentiate how the different Intelligences contribute to the total interference. This is also how we recognize the work of our fellow human beings. We know how in ordinary life we can often recognize the imprints of other people. We enter the kitchen, we see the sink full of unwashed dishes, and say, “This can only be the work of Mikey!” Of course, in this case, this is only an intellectual matching, but in the night flow, there are also many other rich features that ‘give away’ the work of other beings. Clearly, this ability for recognition is a matter of individual development. The more interest we have in others, the better we know them, the more we can recognize their specific ‘touch’ within the soul spectrum.
This is the main thing. We do not recognize other beings by seeing their objective countenance but by recognizing their unique contributions to the modulations of the soul flow. This may sound limiting, as if other beings remain remote and ghostly, working from behind some curtains. While this might be the case when our sensitivity is not yet sufficiently developed, later these interactions prove to be far richer and intimate than anything we can experience through the proxy of rippling sensory sensations.
The nature of these ‘meetings’ is such that we do not
pre-think what we would like to modulate over the common soul stream, like we may rehearse our speech before we take our place at the pulpit. Our deeper soul activity is in itself an
immediate modulating push or pull applied in the World flow. As such, it immediately impresses upon other perspectives. Previously, we have compared this with clay work on a pottery wheel, where there are many invisible hands that simultaneously impress shapes, and we recognize the individual beings through their contribution, through their unique ‘touch’ (of course, not by intellectually analyzing and matching the final imprints but by resonating with the specific movements). To make this analogy more correct, we’ll have to imagine that the movements are contextual and governed by Intelligences at different scales. Thus, our meetings in this state consist of gentle pushes and pulls on the common soul stream, where everything runs in a fine balance between activity and receptivity. When we bend the stream in a certain way, it is like we make an offering; it is like we say, “Here’s the way I suggest this flow of destiny should be curved”. Then we immediately become receptive and see how this push will be received. It might be amplified or resisted. If it is resisted, and if we are able to align with the act of resistance, we also have an intuitive glimpse of why it is resisted, why from that perspective our bent in the flow does not make the best possible sense.
Of course, here we have broken down this process in a transaction-like procedure, simply because our intellect can only approach things in such a palpable way. To make it more realistic, we can imagine how these switches between activity and receptivity alternate faster and faster, thus everything takes the form of a
continuous sacred dance. In this way, general flow curvatures are impressed from higher Intelligences, which are in tune with the even more encompassing Divine intentions. As they are experienced through the more differentiated perspectives, each feeds back modulation refinements such that everything can be better aligned with the specifics. This is especially important in the case of humans. Much of the human world, the complicated relations, technologies, and so on, are simply not comprehensible by the higher Intelligences. Thus, it is up to the humans to feed back modulations that
fine-tune the general flow in accordance with the specifics of the entangled human world and the possible ways of its disentanglement. Furthermore, in this way, we ‘translate’ certain Earth-specific problems to more unified soul ‘language’, which can then be acted upon by the higher Intelligences. This is not that different from the way managers summarize certain situations to the CEO, who doesn’t need to comprehend all the minute details, but can nevertheless act upon according to his higher vantage point intuitions.
If we are to avoid fantastic ideas, we shouldn’t imagine that these streams of destiny exist as some metaphysical entities that spread in the past and the future, and thus we somehow modulate this temporal structure. Everything is centered in the here and now. The curvature of destiny is no more miraculous than our overarching intent to go to the bathroom while we walk through the hallway and think of other things. What makes it a curvature is the
persistence of intent through time. In a similar way, the higher Intelligences do not curve the streams of destiny as some objects external to them. Instead, they can be thought of as spiritual beings in states of
unbroken meditation. They are concentrated and maintain the soul-flow curvature through their intents, forming the constellation within which more differentiated soul flows are embedded.
As the human participants turn back toward the sensory spectrum, all these supported soul curvatures remain. From within our waking consciousness, they seem to recede in the background, in the contextual soul flow, within which our daily metamorphoses are unfolding. This, of course, does not mean that there’s only top-down sculpting and that through the day we only witness the playback of the intended flow. Every frame of our daily life is still fully concentric with the here and now, and it continues to feed back on the peripheral flow. Because of the extremely entangled nature of the Earthly world, even intended curvatures might be surprised by convoluted physical effects, and thus, as the physical frames unfold, certain fine-tuning of the soul flow might be needed in response.
If the above-painted Imagination is more or less understood, it should be clear that within this nightlife, we can no longer speak of a Church institution in the ordinary sense. Now we have the true Living Ecclesia – the assembly of spiritual beings. The activity and interaction of these beings is the essence of reality itself. It is not some mental space where beings ponder and model solutions, later to be applied for real – it is the
actual curvature of the World flow that is being actively shaped. This in itself shows that participation in the Ecclesia is not a matter of formal roles, but contributing our most intimate existence to the real-time World flow, as a living fiber of its total stream.
As said, this doesn’t mean that the need for sensory interactions will suddenly disappear. People will have their tasks, and there will still be lambs to be fed and tended after. Religious rituals would still be needed, not only for the lamb but also for the advanced souls who will use them as spiritual technologies (obviously in a far more conscious way, effectively allowing the higher Intelligences to reach deeper into the Earthly matrix). But the main thing is that the formal church hierarchy will gradually lose its role. And most crucially, even the role of a Pope would become obsolete. The reason is that much of what the clergy and its hierarchy are now doing will transfer to the nightlife, where every soul assumes its
natural position within the flow. For the external eye in waking life, it might be mysterious how individual human beings who seem to lack a strict institutional hierarchical organization nevertheless act in musical synchrony.
These things should give us a deeper understanding and some idea of how human life will transform. But I think that even at the level of intellectual common sense, we can see that there’s something fishy with the idea of the Johnian impulse being accommodated by the Peterian Host. Although not an identical situation, we can still gather some intuition if we turn back to history. Imagine what it would be if Paul and Peter had decided that the emerging Christian impulse should be best hosted by Judaism. In a sense, this is so. The Christ impulse blossoms on the rootstock of Judaism. But if we imagine that the blossom should be somehow
retrofitted to make it more compatible with the Old Law, to squeeze it into the Judaic hierarchy and rituals, we’re effectively
mutilating the fresh impulse. Instead, Paul wrote letters to the Hebrews and left them free. Those who continue further do not feel they have abandoned the Law, but instead, fulfilled it. But most critically, Judaism nevertheless remains as a husk that shelters souls that, for certain Karmic reasons, need to unfold there.
Expecting that the blossoming impulse of Christian Initiation should somehow be retrofitted into the RC or any other Church only places serious obstacles. Even if certain part of the Church accommodates the Initiatic impulse, we can be quite confident that there will be a massive
split. This is simply the way things work. Just like the hermit crab needs an empty shell to make its living, so the husk of the Church will continue to be occupied by souls whose activity, however, will be more and more anti-evolutionary. At an age where souls will already be solving many problems in the spiritual nighttime workshops, these Church relics will maintain that the Pope is still the link between Heaven and Earth, and the life of the flock needs to be managed up to the moment of death. The fact that many souls will be living in both worlds will be fought against and accused of witchery, speaking with infernal spirits, and so on. Something which, by the way, has been
already happening ever since Initiatic Science made its open appearance on the World stage.