Mr. Hoffman, I must take the opportunity to say that I am extremely honored and continually humbled that our exchange has managed to provide a foundation by which to further elucidate your keen and discerning insight's. While, at the same time offering a path forward to understanding potential perceptual stumbling blocks that have remained as of yet unconscious in many of us. I am most confident that this track and it's implications will bear even greater fruit still. God bless.
Don't worry, these people WILL drink from their own poison chalice. This imagery is straight out of Revelation 18. It describes these people, mystery or spiritual Babylon reaping what they have sown. Revelation is full of this chalice/cup imagery in relation to THEM. Revelation 18:6 sees them forced to drink from their own poison cup: "Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her" 18:7, "In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow. 18:8, Therefore her plagues will come in a day--death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her. These people are not going to get away with any of this. It is going to be stopped by God himself very soon. THEY believe they are building Satan's New Age but it is only going to result in their own destruction. Tick Tock.......
Your recent substack brought to mind Dostoyevsky. The line, "If there is no truth, everything is permitted," sounds like a variation on Ivan Karamazov's line from "The Brothers Karamazov" that, "If God doesn't exist, everything is permitted." While it isn't clear how much Nietzsche actually read of Dostoyevsky, it seems clear that he seems to have read some of Dostoyevsky's shorter works, like "Notes from Underground," maybe even Crime and Punishment. It's unlikely that he read Brothers K but he was at least familiar with his writings and expressed the highest respect for him. Whatever the origin, I wanted to mention a few things I've come across in writing (trying to write) the book I'm in the process of developing.
Influenced in no small way by your work, I started digging into what I take to be the essence of the drive towards advanced technology and AI in the current age. Put simply, I think the current technocratic paradigm -- whether consciously or unconsciously -- is both Gnostic and alchemical in its orientation. In academia, there are two main schools of thought that support what I call our current tech-gnostic paradigm: the transhumanists and the posthumanists. Setting aside transhumanism for the time being, the posthumanists have been heavily influenced by Donna Haraway's, "A Cyborg Manifesto," written in 1985. Haraway, an avowed socialist and feminist, celebrates technology as a means for disrupting dualities, essentialist metaphysics, and binary thinking. In creating cyborgs and chimeras that merge man and machine, man and animal, new ways of being are created that violate older norms, that are transgressive and (for Haraway) liberating as a result. Her theoretical source for this is Jacques Derrida. Without getting into the arcana of deconstructionism, Derrida targets "logos" and seeks to disturb or disrupt its primary assumption that meaning is stable and immediately accessible to thought in a way that captures essences or objective truth. So, what about Derrida?
Derrida read parts of the Kabbalah and was apparently familiar with certain strands and works of esoterica, using the word "alchemy" here and there to describe the effects of the polyvalence and semantic richness associated with words. Ironically, he knew Moshe Idel and Emmanuel Levinas, the latter a famous student of Heidegger's. In one of Derrida's meetings with Levinas, Levinas once told Derrida that he (Derrida) reminded him of a heretical 16th century rabbi. The feeling is that Levinas had Isaac Luria in mind. Idel himself has suggested that Derrida's famous phrase, "There is nothing outside the text," is a reformulation of a Kabbalistic principle that there is nothing outside of the Torah, articulated by the 14th century Kabbalist Recanati. Sanford Drob has written a book, Kabbalah and Postmodernism, exploring in detail the Kabbalistic nature of Derrida's thought -- even though Derrida himself was not (apparently) a student of the Kabbalah.
Drob has a few articles that link psychology to these esoteric strands as well. This one touches on Jung, as well as the Kabbalah and Gnosticism, the Kabbalah and alchemy:
It seems to me the theoretical basis for a great deal of postmodernism and posthumanism is Derrida's deconstruction and his blatant attack on logos (this takes up the first sections of his magnum opus, "On Grammatology"). His philosophy is, in many respects, antinomian, just like posthumanism and, to a certain extent, transhumanism. The alchemical element seems evident in the breaching of dualisms, the overturning of binary oppositions that promote the merging of Man and Machine, Man and animal, or the research paradigm to transmute the self into code and signal. Derrida may very well be the "accidental alchemist" that has given the academy a weaponized Kabbalistic view of reality without even knowing it. Your mention of Adam Kadmon called to mind these connections, with Derrida sitting at the center of the ideological battles that have raged in the academy over the past three decades.
Regards,
Tim
PS - You might already know this but the moniker "Arch Stanton" is interesting: it's the name of the grave next to the grave marked "Unknown" where the gold is buried in the movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The last scene, the gun battle, is interesting to look at as a sort of medieval morality play where the Good (Eastwood -- "Blondie," the angel) and the Bad (Van Cleef -- "Angel Eyes," the fallen angel, the devil) battle for the soul of the Ugly (Wallach -- fallen man). The "gold" -- alchemy? -- is in the grave where death reigns but resurrection is possible. Wallach must "dig" for it only to be forced to stand on a Cross and face death unless he has faith that Blondie (Eastwood) will "save him" so he can "get the gold." Just a thought --
For those interested; the yt channel "Housatonic Live" does good research and has done a number of exposes on the Simon Pelham Barr family which includes Bill Barr and his great uncle, Alexander Sachs, who was a major player in the Manhattan Project and the FDR administration. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=housatonic+live+simon+pelham+barr
Oh Lord. In April 2020 headlines said the missing Kennedy canoeists were found, I am certain, but now they apparently died. How's that for the Mandela effect hahahaha. Otherwise as a self confessed student of the kabbalah you must know very well the the great white brotherhood and the black brotherhood are mirrors of themselves and only the topshots know its one and the same. The truth came out at covid when the Dalai lama and people like Santana who was a student of manly hall, went all out telling people to take the shots. And even my former school the modern mystery school, which did a number in me and whom my poor subconscious has to continually battle against ... the high ups went running around trying to convince their hapless students to bow down and take the shot ("we follow the laws of man"). So forgetting this and believing there are good occultists somehow, is is very very silly. Kennedy tries genuinely (heart flutter NOT) and yes he has some legal precedents but i dont put any heed into the laws of the pharisees.i wouldn't call the fruit good but rather slow to rot. In my opinion this wretched qabala glyf is very easy to understand because they take satan and turn him into the "feminine pillar" and then they also mirror the whole thing to einsof and the kippoleth. I also think it's becoming trite at this point the endless screeching sbout the dialectic without scholars providing insight into the actions of the sephira and paths because no doubt that's where there must be real insight into revelation of the method and chaos and twylite but not easy, I personally wouldnt want to look at it. Otherwise I can't not mention that the strange man with the unpronoucable name from khazahkstan who was divorced by a sweet baker type DH from Idaho... owned a flat directly across from Pelosis office, something I dug into a few years ago. Your prediction written about here reminded me of my discovery at the time which I put down to some kind of talmudic curse. Also, u should state rhe the bible doesn't seem to want us to use our minds in this way at all and that we are instructed to go our own way until the end and read the beasts as clearly prophecised, which places the blame on us and our gocernments and not all the stringpulling behind the metaphysical scenes by shadow-informed minds, no doubt for good reason. I honestly don't think as many Americans care a hoot about Kennedy and 9/11 as they are supposed to and theres nothing too wrong with them alchemically, they are just living and loving and working and if one day they are hit by a bus or die, then they dont worry about that.
Lastly, and apologies for commenting here but I don't have a Twitter account, but Harrelsons covid quip in the snl clip doing the rounds was the least it of it. The rest of his 2minute act up there was absolutely horrid. What is disgusting person and sad indictment on bottom feeder culture. Good thing I haven't watched any of that standup krap or any movies for 35 years or I wouldn't have noticed what slipped under the radar.
Mr. Hoffman, I must take the opportunity to say that I am extremely honored and continually humbled that our exchange has managed to provide a foundation by which to further elucidate your keen and discerning insight's. While, at the same time offering a path forward to understanding potential perceptual stumbling blocks that have remained as of yet unconscious in many of us. I am most confident that this track and it's implications will bear even greater fruit still. God bless.
Adrian
Don't worry, these people WILL drink from their own poison chalice. This imagery is straight out of Revelation 18. It describes these people, mystery or spiritual Babylon reaping what they have sown. Revelation is full of this chalice/cup imagery in relation to THEM. Revelation 18:6 sees them forced to drink from their own poison cup: "Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her" 18:7, "In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow. 18:8, Therefore her plagues will come in a day--death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her. These people are not going to get away with any of this. It is going to be stopped by God himself very soon. THEY believe they are building Satan's New Age but it is only going to result in their own destruction. Tick Tock.......
Dear Michael,
Your recent substack brought to mind Dostoyevsky. The line, "If there is no truth, everything is permitted," sounds like a variation on Ivan Karamazov's line from "The Brothers Karamazov" that, "If God doesn't exist, everything is permitted." While it isn't clear how much Nietzsche actually read of Dostoyevsky, it seems clear that he seems to have read some of Dostoyevsky's shorter works, like "Notes from Underground," maybe even Crime and Punishment. It's unlikely that he read Brothers K but he was at least familiar with his writings and expressed the highest respect for him. Whatever the origin, I wanted to mention a few things I've come across in writing (trying to write) the book I'm in the process of developing.
Influenced in no small way by your work, I started digging into what I take to be the essence of the drive towards advanced technology and AI in the current age. Put simply, I think the current technocratic paradigm -- whether consciously or unconsciously -- is both Gnostic and alchemical in its orientation. In academia, there are two main schools of thought that support what I call our current tech-gnostic paradigm: the transhumanists and the posthumanists. Setting aside transhumanism for the time being, the posthumanists have been heavily influenced by Donna Haraway's, "A Cyborg Manifesto," written in 1985. Haraway, an avowed socialist and feminist, celebrates technology as a means for disrupting dualities, essentialist metaphysics, and binary thinking. In creating cyborgs and chimeras that merge man and machine, man and animal, new ways of being are created that violate older norms, that are transgressive and (for Haraway) liberating as a result. Her theoretical source for this is Jacques Derrida. Without getting into the arcana of deconstructionism, Derrida targets "logos" and seeks to disturb or disrupt its primary assumption that meaning is stable and immediately accessible to thought in a way that captures essences or objective truth. So, what about Derrida?
Derrida read parts of the Kabbalah and was apparently familiar with certain strands and works of esoterica, using the word "alchemy" here and there to describe the effects of the polyvalence and semantic richness associated with words. Ironically, he knew Moshe Idel and Emmanuel Levinas, the latter a famous student of Heidegger's. In one of Derrida's meetings with Levinas, Levinas once told Derrida that he (Derrida) reminded him of a heretical 16th century rabbi. The feeling is that Levinas had Isaac Luria in mind. Idel himself has suggested that Derrida's famous phrase, "There is nothing outside the text," is a reformulation of a Kabbalistic principle that there is nothing outside of the Torah, articulated by the 14th century Kabbalist Recanati. Sanford Drob has written a book, Kabbalah and Postmodernism, exploring in detail the Kabbalistic nature of Derrida's thought -- even though Derrida himself was not (apparently) a student of the Kabbalah.
Drob has a few articles that link psychology to these esoteric strands as well. This one touches on Jung, as well as the Kabbalah and Gnosticism, the Kabbalah and alchemy:
http://newkabbalah.com/index3.html
It seems to me the theoretical basis for a great deal of postmodernism and posthumanism is Derrida's deconstruction and his blatant attack on logos (this takes up the first sections of his magnum opus, "On Grammatology"). His philosophy is, in many respects, antinomian, just like posthumanism and, to a certain extent, transhumanism. The alchemical element seems evident in the breaching of dualisms, the overturning of binary oppositions that promote the merging of Man and Machine, Man and animal, or the research paradigm to transmute the self into code and signal. Derrida may very well be the "accidental alchemist" that has given the academy a weaponized Kabbalistic view of reality without even knowing it. Your mention of Adam Kadmon called to mind these connections, with Derrida sitting at the center of the ideological battles that have raged in the academy over the past three decades.
Regards,
Tim
PS - You might already know this but the moniker "Arch Stanton" is interesting: it's the name of the grave next to the grave marked "Unknown" where the gold is buried in the movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The last scene, the gun battle, is interesting to look at as a sort of medieval morality play where the Good (Eastwood -- "Blondie," the angel) and the Bad (Van Cleef -- "Angel Eyes," the fallen angel, the devil) battle for the soul of the Ugly (Wallach -- fallen man). The "gold" -- alchemy? -- is in the grave where death reigns but resurrection is possible. Wallach must "dig" for it only to be forced to stand on a Cross and face death unless he has faith that Blondie (Eastwood) will "save him" so he can "get the gold." Just a thought --
For those interested; the yt channel "Housatonic Live" does good research and has done a number of exposes on the Simon Pelham Barr family which includes Bill Barr and his great uncle, Alexander Sachs, who was a major player in the Manhattan Project and the FDR administration. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=housatonic+live+simon+pelham+barr
Oh Lord. In April 2020 headlines said the missing Kennedy canoeists were found, I am certain, but now they apparently died. How's that for the Mandela effect hahahaha. Otherwise as a self confessed student of the kabbalah you must know very well the the great white brotherhood and the black brotherhood are mirrors of themselves and only the topshots know its one and the same. The truth came out at covid when the Dalai lama and people like Santana who was a student of manly hall, went all out telling people to take the shots. And even my former school the modern mystery school, which did a number in me and whom my poor subconscious has to continually battle against ... the high ups went running around trying to convince their hapless students to bow down and take the shot ("we follow the laws of man"). So forgetting this and believing there are good occultists somehow, is is very very silly. Kennedy tries genuinely (heart flutter NOT) and yes he has some legal precedents but i dont put any heed into the laws of the pharisees.i wouldn't call the fruit good but rather slow to rot. In my opinion this wretched qabala glyf is very easy to understand because they take satan and turn him into the "feminine pillar" and then they also mirror the whole thing to einsof and the kippoleth. I also think it's becoming trite at this point the endless screeching sbout the dialectic without scholars providing insight into the actions of the sephira and paths because no doubt that's where there must be real insight into revelation of the method and chaos and twylite but not easy, I personally wouldnt want to look at it. Otherwise I can't not mention that the strange man with the unpronoucable name from khazahkstan who was divorced by a sweet baker type DH from Idaho... owned a flat directly across from Pelosis office, something I dug into a few years ago. Your prediction written about here reminded me of my discovery at the time which I put down to some kind of talmudic curse. Also, u should state rhe the bible doesn't seem to want us to use our minds in this way at all and that we are instructed to go our own way until the end and read the beasts as clearly prophecised, which places the blame on us and our gocernments and not all the stringpulling behind the metaphysical scenes by shadow-informed minds, no doubt for good reason. I honestly don't think as many Americans care a hoot about Kennedy and 9/11 as they are supposed to and theres nothing too wrong with them alchemically, they are just living and loving and working and if one day they are hit by a bus or die, then they dont worry about that.
Lastly, and apologies for commenting here but I don't have a Twitter account, but Harrelsons covid quip in the snl clip doing the rounds was the least it of it. The rest of his 2minute act up there was absolutely horrid. What is disgusting person and sad indictment on bottom feeder culture. Good thing I haven't watched any of that standup krap or any movies for 35 years or I wouldn't have noticed what slipped under the radar.
It was Andrei Dostoevsky who said in his book The Brothers Karamazov, "if there is no God everything is permitted".