01-17-2020, 02:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2020, 03:05 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-17-2020, 12:55 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote: The basic polarity of the current 4T is populist-elitist, with nationalism as a secondary dimension of populism. The elites are well travelled, while those who cannot afford to travel are more parochial.
The next saeculum? Whoever wins the 4T becomes the establishment during the 1T. The polarity during the latter part of the saeculum will be those who will support the Neo-Missionary awakening versus those who will despise it. I see several possibilities:
- hedonism vs re-establishing classical moral virtues on the basis of Extropianism
- Earth worship vs space colonisation
- biological conservatism vs transhumanism
Ah, I don't think so! The next awakening will fulfill the previous one, according to the cosmic schedule. The previous awakening came right on the cosmic schedule, and speeded up the turnings, when Uranus aligned with Pluto from 1963-1969. That brought the 2T after only 18 years. The next 2T will come right on schedule too, when Uranus opposes Pluto from about 2045-2049. I expect it will also cut off the 1T to make it only 18 years, since the 4T will end in about 2029.
The next awakening will fulfill the previous one.
That means it will center on earth worship, and bring us home from space colonization.
That means it will resist turning us into machines, and affirm our biological, organic heritage.
That means it will re-establish hedonism, but also classical moral virtues which cannot possibly be based on Extropianism, as far as I can tell, because character and personality are the outcome of spiritual practice and not the outcome of technological manipulation. Although technical aids of various kinds (including psychedelics) can help, and research into such psychedelics and new age methods are once again part of the frontier of psychological and scientific knowledge, as is knowledge of life after death and between lives. Another question is just what survival of life beyond Earth and the millions or 1 billion years we may still have here will consist of. It may not be about colonizing space, but instead learning to travel between dimensions and ascend to spiritual dimensions as described in the Celestine Prophecy, a huge bestseller in the 1990s, and as demonstrated 2000 years ago by Jesus.
That means it will further the new age ethos and worldviews, which mean a departure from the outdated physicalism and enlightenment rationalism as a primary and limiting basis for understanding, and while not rejecting them will be making them subordinate to spiritualism again as during the sixties/seventies awakening. Psychic and spiritual worlds will be further opened to us. This new worldview has been evolving through science, philosophy and spiritual awakenings for decades now, and was a major part of the sixties awakening, which will be fulfilled and expanded in the 2040s awakening. The general trend of culture is to develop new worldviews and reject gradually the dominance of outdated ones. Hence culture will not fully return to rationalism, physicalism and tech obsession, as these are now outdated.
Prophets, not civics, will power the youthful influences in the next 2T, so the civic technological obsession typical of millennials will not be the thrust of the next awakening, and it never is. No, young prophets will be powered by a spiritual awakening, as they always are, and as they were as well during the Social Gospel Awakening (I avoid labeling awakenings by the name of the prophet generation; even though prophets provide an important element, more than one generation contributes to awakenings. S&H have given appropriate names to these turnings). Prophets will not be physicalists who reject spiritual, esoteric, occult and psychic awareness, or call it superstition, but will expand this awareness, as will be sorely needed after the current physicalist regression powered by civic millennials and nomad Xers.
The more "appollonian" nature of the alpha-wave prophet generation will be evident in the 2050s in their strong interest in literature, ideas and in communications and networking, as the air-sign emphasis of the 21st century unfolds.
Even so, many millennials are now themselves rejecting narrow physicalism and are becoming more interested in spiritual and esoteric new-age pursuits these days, to the point that the 2020s will have awakening elements to them as well as the dominant civic concerns of a typical 4T.
As for space colonization, there is no viable place to colonize on any scale today, and there won't be-- until we break the light barrier, which will likely require ET help. As of now, mainstream culture has no evidence or contact with ETs, and this knowledge and contact, if it be such, is now confined to new age, pop, sci-fi and alternative cultures. The next Awakening may well further this knowledge of ETs, and possibly expand the knowledge of quantum entanglement and transference, which may be the beginning of breaking the light barrier.
No such expansion into space is viable until we learn to get along with all people, all life and all inorganic beings here on this sacred and alive Earth. We will not be allowed to export destructive and manipulative culture to other planets. That will be prohibited by the galactic federation, and by our own laws when the time comes.