My man Formscapes covers a lot of ground in this one hour-long video (which
is actually quite short for this content-creator). In fact, it´s very difficult
to review or even summarize this material! Think Jung, a somewhat idiosyncratic
Christianity, side glances to Rupert Sheldrake, and a whiff of Romantic
primitivism…but no overt references to Whitehead this time.
Life and intelligence are qualitatively different from mere physical
matter, but nevertheless intertwined with it, the cosmos having a dark dimension
marked by death. Somehow, we have to confront this Shadow, integrate it, and
thereby achieve a (non-metaphorical?) redemption in which matter is
spiritualized. One aspect of this is to embrace life even in its present non-redeemed
form. Organisms live in a quasi-conscious balance with each other and the
surrounding environment, the purpose of life hence not being to simply replicate
and devour. Malthusianism and “survival of the fittest” is a projection of
capitalism onto the natural world.
Neo-Darwinism and materialism lead straight to Ray Kurzweil´s trans-humanism
and the glorification of AI and other machines. This is really a bizarre death
cult. Kurzweil´s dream of an artificially recreated version of his father is a demonic
inversion of Christianity: “God may be dead, but we can resurrect Him”.
Formscapes even implies that such an AI may be a literal evil spirit (an “archon”).
In the same way, a zombie is a kind of inversion of a truly resurrected human.
The content-creator speculates about a “fall” of humanity around the
time of the Neolithic revolution, and also associates it with the abandonment
of matriarchal goddess-worship. The nurturing mother becomes the devouring
demon Lilith as humans see themselves as betrayed by the Goddess (representing
Nature or the Earth). This primordial “fall” has affected all humans ever
since. The exact nature of our redemption is never spelled out, but it´s
implied that it might be dealt with more fully in future videos…
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