Transcend or Die: The Origins of Totalitarian Evolutionary Transhumanism

It is therefore our “cosmic duty” to participate in the “Techniques of Spiritual Development” that have been judged by the Central Academic Council to be effective for collective transcendence.

So the Cambridge philosopher, the paranormal researcher, the former UNESCO director-general, and the rebellious Jesuit have something in common: they want to control not only the political and cultural life of the material world, but also extend their power to control the invisible realm of the spirit and the mind, the afterlife, and the material and spiritual future of the Earth itself. Their ambitions are truly limitless.

The end of evil?

Teilhard felt that he alone among humanity had seen the Truth, but his belief in the collective consciousness of humanity was such that he believed that once this “fusion of love of God and faith in the world” was ignited in one person's mind, “sooner or later a chain reaction would occur” and nothing could stop the Truth from spreading through the universal mind and “setting everything ablaze.”

But where does this “truth” come from?

It's interesting that he chose to add to the stories he told in his earlier works. The spiritual power of matter In one of his last books, The core of matterIt appears to be a dramatization of a mystical experience in which a man walking through the desert is attacked by a being. The creature, called “the Thing,” then enters the man's soul and infuses it with the sap of all living things, regenerating “every weakened fiber of his being.” The young man feels the exultation of no longer being himself, but at the same time the oppression of a superhuman danger; the force is “vague and murky, the fused essence of all evil and all good.”

“You called me, and here I am,” the being declares. This call apparently arose from the young man's desire to confront “reality in its full and wild form.” The creature claims that it too was waiting for him to be “sanctified,” and goes on to describe the results of their union.

(…) Now I depend on your life or your death (…) No one who has seen me can ever forget me; either he will perish with me, or he will save himself with me.

Teilhard clearly believed that he represented a mature humanity, capable of bearing the burden of “reality” – the pure, raw force of evolution – with which humanity will rise and fall depending on its cooperation.

But there is another interpretation: once humanity has summoned and deified what it believes to be an evolutionary force, it resides within us, and we share its fate. Deprived of Christian salvation, we are forced into a never-ending (and ultimately futile) quest for immortality to avoid the horrors of the Last Judgment, when both that force (we might call it the “beast”) and its collective human race will be punished.

Finally, it must be noted that the triumvirate of Myers, Huxley, and Teilhard represents a strange development in the Western world mind. It was a remarkable extension of Enlightenment arrogance from the visible to the invisible realm, both now combined with the evolutionary inevitability of transhumanism. At this point, it doesn’t really matter whether human evolution is seen as a benevolent pantheistic force propelling us towards a glorious destination, or as the fruit of a more mundane unfolding of matter obeying various natural laws. What matters is that the triumvirate places humanity firmly within nature, removing all hints that we might have been created in the image and likeness of a transcendent God. This reduces us to entirely material beings with no spiritual privileges, but effectively elevates the evolution of human consciousness to the level of the gods.

The deification of material processes and the belief in spontaneous spiritual evolution are traps for ants. A broad church of evolutionary humanism can accommodate atheists, agnostics, utopian scientists, New Agers, practitioners of Eastern religions, occultists, and misinformed Christians.

Through widespread use of technologies of the self – psychedelics, meditation, television, endless browsing, gaming, etc. – people are increasingly identifying with the images, memes and themes of the Global Brain at the expense of the real world. They are completely open to any influence that actually exists in the spiritual metaverse. But why worry? Evil no longer exists.

Myers, Huxley and Teilhard are evolving with us from “the other side of the brink” and can only assume that they are content with the way things are going. The previously undisciplined consciousness of humanity is being shaped. In fact, the “evolving” consciousness of Western people is now almost terminally passive and defenseless, credulous and skeptical at the same time. It is being emptied, so that “things” can better penetrate this malleable collective soul.

We watch idly as global architects build a global Internet of Bodies and Things with ubiquitous sensor networks. What are they doing? Most people don’t even bother to ask. Most people don’t listen to the few voices crying out in the wilderness: “They are building a comprehensive digital surveillance network to study your emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and connections to learn how to engineer the final convergence.” This setup is, in effect, preparing us for an invasion of cosmic body snatchers. If we are not very careful, we are doomed to the same fate.