The possibility of equating truth with unity, using the possible fracture caused by Phyletism as the opposite point from which to start the pendulum swing that would lead to a perennialist form of Ecumenism, is not the only dialectical danger of which there are some signs.

Since the advent of modern mass communication technologies, they have been used predominantly to indoctrinate and steer society in certain specific directions that are not beneficial for the average person.

By uniting the pervasiveness of globalization to the age-old problem (for the rest of us) of the consolidation of power in a few hands passed down from generation to generation, never in human history has the possibility of engaging in widespread worldview manipulation been so achievable.

This is something we can see on a daily basis without the need for deep philosophical discussions, as mass media, governments and supranational entities that nobody voted for routinely engage in creating artificial dialectical battles between all kinds of demographics in order to pit them against each other and weaken any sense of togetherness and cohesion. Rich and poor, old and young, man and woman, vaccinated and unvaccinated and any other imaginable distinction is painted as an opposition.

At the same time, the other horn of the dialectic bombards us with constant messages of equanimity, forced integration or simply a disorderly and homogeneous fusion of sometimes profoundly incompatible ways of life.

Given these clear signs that we are unwilling participants in a dialectical process, and knowing that these processes always end up presenting a solution (Antithesis) to a problem (Thesis) in order to achieve a solution (Synthesis) that starts a new cycle, it may be worth briefly sketching the deeper beliefs of the main modern exponent of dialectical thought: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

But even if it was seen as important, Hegel conceived reason as just a stage through which man can attain his final goal: his perception of self-consciousness as a self-contained existence. “I am I in the sense that the I which is object for me is sole and only object, is all reality and all that is present.”⁵Hegel, G.W.F. (1807). Phenomenology of the Spirit. Dover Publications Inc., p. 273.

It is not altogether strange, therefore, that Hegel viewed the God of Scripture as a “jealous God”, even if he ascribed Him to Judaism, and “as the negation of the Individual.”⁶Hegel, G.W.F. (1901). Philosophy of History. Trans. J. Sibree, P. F. Collier & Son, p. 181.

Hegel was explicit in that, for him, “the State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth”. The reason for this apparently inflated importance is that, through the state as the secular and immanent One, modern and humanistic man has declared his progressive independence from God. He viewed it, then, as another stage of man´s declaration of freedom.

Given what we have seen so far, the historical precedents, the agglutination of all media power in a few hands and the obvious signs that we are currently immersed in a constant dialectical process in which the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other from time to time, to advance along a spiraling path that is always similar but never the same, the idea that this process is not spontaneous but directed is not to be prematurely dismissed.

The history of the twentieth century, as Nietzsche predicted, is that of the advent of Nihilism, the inescapable consequence of a materialistic, mechanistic and reductionist worldview, itself the consequence of turning the scientific method into the ideology of Scientism and of “killing God”.

This worldview was relentlessly transmitted with great confidence by Western media during the second half of the twentieth century, especially in its last decades, in accord with school and university curricula.

The reign of matter, of the Many, in turn created a society of atomized individuals, without any underlying common reality that could unite them.

In recent years, however, the pendulum has swung towards unity, towards the One, and towards a diffuse spirituality.

If promoting the One was the ultimate goal to be achieved by some interested party, from a dialectical point of view the sequence of events could not have been better, since the prior predominance of a materialistic and individualistic worldview (the Many), fostered by an Atheism supported by Scientism, was the necessary pre-requisite.

Suddenly, the music industry abounds with overtly Satanic symbolism, understood as an ideology of selfishness (e.g., LaVeyan Satanism); governments plunder and hinder the lives of their citizens for their own benefit while new senseless and restrictive laws are constantly being passed; the scandals of politicians, monarchies and powerful personalities are aired in the same media that they own through investment funds and that previously concealed them; leading dissident media figures explain that we live caged in a prison world, where the illegitimate masters of us all must, once and for all, be expelled from their position of privilege. The same dissidents who for many years have been allowed to convey their message of rebellion against the supposed masters of the world, with minor legal problems that never prevent them from continuing to transmit their message.

There is a pre-revolutionary spirit in the air, especially since COVID-19, a global event that acted as a catalyst. Calls for revolution and awakening come from different places, some of them unimaginable only a few years before. We are all one, they say. In fact, in the end, we are all God, is repeated as the spiritual mantra of the emerging revolution.

At the same time, metaphysical concepts such as the Multiverse, which, as we have seen in this book, are strictly related to the doctrines of God understood as the Absolute, suddenly acquire a predominant place in all kinds of science fiction, as well as being seriously explored in scientific circles.

Everything, for some time now, has been pointing towards the One. And, if we are not reading the signs incorrectly, a Manichean revolution of Good versus Evil may be brewing in the Western world.

In fact, we are only a major crisis away from being in an optimal position that would allow us to dialectically dispose of both Atheism (and its resulting Nihilism, selfishness and atomization of society) at the same time that we eliminate theistic religions (with their neverending geopolitical problems) adopting, in turn, a spiritual but impersonal panentheistic notion of God.

Dialectics, however, is a flexible tool. Using it, we could even end up rejecting Panentheism in a following cycle of oppositions, thus simultaneously rejecting both the One and the Many as two sides of the same coin. This could lead to favour a non-panentheistic version of Non-Dualism instead, the notion that, as we are now, we are already the One at the same time that we are ourselves (the Many). This would be consistent with some of the negative characterizations of the One as a Hive Mind, which state that since absolute Unity implies non-differentiation, our current existence is preferable.

Regardless of its flexibility, the common denominator in any possible dialectical worldview steering process would be the rejection of the divinity of Jesus Christ, incompatible with any other worldview other than Trinitarian Christianity.

Let us now look briefly at some of the most influential examples of dissident celebrities, their message and the common pattern that they all follow.

In common with all modern anti-establishment figures denouncing the current and future situation, his message contains two parts: an analysis of the problem and the proposed solution. This solution, in turn, always starts from a re-conceptualization of the world in which we live in, eventually leading to a spiritual, though not necessarily religious, worldview. This worldview is, in turn, the dialectical opposite of the dominant Western worldview, and thus viewers are encouraged to abandon their previous selfish notions in order to awaken to the spiritual truth that underlies reality.

The basic template is always a Gnostic narrative: this planet is a prison (Jones is the founder of PrisonPlanet TV), the playground of evil entities that feed on us (Gnostic Archons or rulers in the service of the Demiurge or false God); reality is not what we think it is, being illusory in one way or another; however, humanity has had enough, and has reached a point of spiritual maturity sufficient to awaken to the truth and discover who they truly are (Gnosis) in a spiritual sense; which is the pre-requisite for joining the ranks of the incipient revolution of good against evil and to overthrow our tyrants; the underlying Essence preceding both good and evil is the same; however, evil has illegitimately conspired to use that Essence against what ought to be; there is doom today, and there will be doom tomorrow until we break free.

This overall template Jones fulfills when he states, for example, that “There is a war of good and evil going on, and people are done with globalism”⁸Cheng, Amy. Far right called U.S. ‘Stonehenge’ satanic — and cheered when it blew up. The Washington Post. Retrieved July 7, 2022., that “[…] We are It, we are God” (in Joe Rogan´s show, E1255; emphasis added), or when he participates in movies promoting a New Age worldview such as Waking Life (2001).

David Vaughan Icke, probably the most popular dissident public figure after Alex Jones, has written over twenty books and spoken in more than twenty five countries.⁹Lewis, Tyson E.; Kahn, Richard (2010). Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for a Posthuman Age. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 75.

His message, unsurprisingly, also perfectly conforms to the same Gnostic template just mentioned, as is the case with all mainstream dissident (a contradiction in terms) figures. All of them also follow the same Problem-Reaction-Solution dialectic that they denounce.

The Problem: Prison Planet

• Claim: Icke states that there are inter-dimensional beings (of reptilian nature, using the ancient symbol of the serpent or dragon as evil), the Archons (a Gnostic term) or Anunnaki, which govern our planet in the shadows. Those Archons feed on the “negative energy” resulting from our suffering.¹⁰Ward, James (2014). “Mocked prophet: what is David Icke’s appeal?”. New Humanist.
¹¹Icke, David (1999). The Biggest Secret. Bridge of Love Publications USA.¹²Lynskey, Dorian (2014). “Psycho lizards from Saturn: The godlike genius of David Icke!”.New Statesman.

• Book: Children of the Matrix.

The Reaction: Rebellion against Unjust Rulers.

• Claim: this world´s “elite” share a hybrid genetic line with those entities (playing with the theme of the Nephilim in the apocryphal book of Enoch) and have an agenda to lead mankind towards a tyrannical globalist Unified State.

• Book: Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More.

The Solution: Internal Gnosis as Liberation.

• Claim: the only way to overthrow the Archons is for people to wake up (awakening) to the truth (Gnosis) and fill their hearts with love (the unifying principle [the One], contrary to the atomizing power of selfishness [the Many]).¹³Ward, James (2014). “Mocked prophet: what is David Icke’s appeal?”. New Humanist.

He also asserts a generalist panentheistic worldview when he states, for example, that “We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.”¹⁴Icke, David. And the Truth Shall Set You Free. Truth Seeker, Ch. 19.

• Books: Phantom Self (And How To Find The Real One); The Dream: The Extraordinary Revelation Of Who We Are And Where We Are.

Mark Passio is, compared to the other dissident figures previously mentioned, a relatively recent addition. He is an anarchist, author, filmmaker, content creator and freedom activist. Also a self-confessed ex-satanic priest, an experience which he claimed opened his eyes. He is the founder of WhatOnEarthIsHappening.com and One Great Work Network.

He now teaches metaphysics, Occultism, spirituality, symbology and consciousness studies (with a Kabbalistic-Hermetic emphasis), while he denounces the tyrannical dystopia towards where we are headed. He describes the ruling “elites” as expert psychologists and “black magicians” who illegitimately use their metaphysical knowledge to enslave rather than to liberate.

He is especially known for his courses on Natural Law, which he claims our rulers violate thanks to our involuntary collaboration, and how it is our revolutionary duty to wake up and reclaim our freedom, becoming the “white magicians” that are (dialectically) needed to overthrow them.

His teachings, while presenting the novelty of promoting Anarcho-Capitalism, fit perfectly into the Gnostic narrative, in his case emphasizing the dialectical tension between white and black magicians harnessing the same impersonal Force for opposite ends, just as the Theosophist Alice Bailey did.¹⁵Bailey, Alice A. (1951). A Treatise on White Magic. Lucis Press Ltd.

Conspiracy theorists, once ridiculed, now see how some of their theories have either become true¹⁶Still, William T. (1996). The Money Masters (highly recommended documentary film). or are at least not totally beyond the realm of possibility. Furthermore, the likelihood that we are moving towards a global technological dystopia¹⁷The concept of an “angrier world” was recently popularized by Klaus Schwab, one of those unelected rulers whose words and actions seem to point to a future dystopia (e.g. his books: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “COVID-19: The Great Reset”; “WEF founder: Must prepare for an angrier world“). between the worlds of George Orwell´s 1984 and Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World is becoming increasingly plausible with each passing day.

This has brought many people to a state of mind where they are willing to reevaluate their previous worldview and are open to accepting doctrines that they would not have previously considered.

However, given the two opposite horns present in every dialectical process, there are also legitimate concerns regarding mainstream dissident movements.

The previous examples of global dissident public figures may be some of the currently most influential, but they are only a small sample of the many that, especially after 9/11 and the whole COVID-19 situation, promote a Gnostic / Manichean Light versus Darkness narrative, calling for awakening (Gnosis) and to prepare for a revolution that is both material and spiritual in nature. Many of these leaders, as we have seen, follow the pattern of being ex-members of the groups they denounce, which gives them increased credibility (e.g., both Freixedo and Passio denounced Roman Catholicism and Satanism, respectively, after leaving their order / cult).¹⁸Similar to how the, also ex-Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin created an evolutionary dialectical philosophy close to that of Hegel. Teilhard viewed God (the Omega Point) as the Absolute, his philosophy later becoming one of the main influences of the more “spiritual” branch of Transhumanism.

Groups promoting this worldview can also be found inside religious circles, sometimes linking the new “Great Awakening” to the previous ones in American Protestant history.

The repeated use of the same terminology, concepts and narratives has been notorious enough that it has led some vigilant believers to suspect that there may be some hidden agenda.¹⁹Blanchette, John. E511 Ministries (rumble.com/user/E511Ministries). Accessed 10 December of 2023.

The constant that can always be found in the message put forth by all these dissidents, regardless of their particular idiosyncrasies, is the underlying Gnostic pattern and the dialectical structure of the arguments presented.

In many cases, a panentheist worldview close to Eastern mysticism or Western esotericism is promoted, but even in the case of Christian dissidents, the concept of awakening is prevalent, which is part of “Christian” Gnosticism but has no place in Christianity. At this point, it is worth remembering that Gnosticism was not a mere early Christian heresy but an inversion, abandoning the Tri-Une God in order to go back to the One.

The overall message being transmitted could be summarized as “the battle of the Ones”, or of the real spiritual One (“we are all One”, “there is only One”) against the illegitimate or secular One (the One World Government or New World Order) that only benefits the predatory “elites” and their hungry archontic masters, lower level spiritual entities that feed on instinct and that basically represent our egotism and basest attributes, caring only for themselves (the Many).

Some people think that conspiracies cannot exist in the modern world, and the fact that the most popular dissidents, as we saw before, mix plausible ideas with others that seem too far out there is proof enough of that.

Others, however, offer an alternative interpretation. For some, the mixing of plausible and what are seemingly senseless ideas is an intentional strategy to associate the plausible ones with the feeling of repulsion and incredulity that the wild ones elicit. In this way, people are negatively primed (a psychological term that we can roughly translate as “conditioned”) in order to never believe the true doctrines due to their association with the foolish ones.

But dialectics is a versatile process that can always be given one more twist. It is not difficult to see that, if there is a dialectical process of worldview manipulation going on, it could at least take another turn.

If all mainstream current dissidence were to be exposed as controlled or false opposition, the rejection of their message would imply the automatic acceptance of their negatively primed metaphysical doctrines (e.g., a Gnostic worldview), therefore becoming an indirect way of promoting it.

Not everything is doom and gloom, however, as the good thing about dialectics is that since it operates under a paradigm of paired oppositions predictions can be made, similar to how predicting the next move in a game of chess works. In this way, even if we don’t know the endgame, we may be able to discern if we are living “inside” a dialectical process.

This, in turn, would be a signal not to prepare for worldly Armageddon (even if there is nothing intrinsically wrong with preparing for any eventuality), but to redouble our efforts in working out our own salvation (Philippians, 2:12). If the underlying conflict is a spiritual one, the solution will also be necessarily spiritual, with smaller steps in trying to purify ourselves and live closer to God being more beneficial for us than greater labours focused on fruitless theorizing about a process on which we have no control.

One interesting fact to know, even if we expect to never be able to put this knowledge to good use in our lifetime, is that the different eschatologies (End-of-the-World scenarios) of the major religions are often in conflict with each other. By this we mean, for example, that Judaism does not (currently) have a type of Anti-Christ in its prophecies, a figure that is expected to come before the Messiah (Mashiach) in order to lead mankind astray, while Islam and Christianity do.

Therefore, if there was someone interested in pitting major religions against each other in order to generate a worldwide rejection of their validity as dominant worldviews, be it Dharmic religions against Abrahamic ones, or just every one of them against each other, they could take advantage of the latent conflict present in their eschatological prophecies.

For example, a high-level but not very well-known (because of the prohibition to read the text before being specifically initiated in it) Tibetan Buddhist Tantra, the Kālachakra Tantra (9^th century) contains passages discussing Islam in negative terms and prophesying an explicit all-out war between the Dharma and the Islamic world.

The Kālachakra Tantra refers to Islam as a religion of violence (himsa-dharma) that advocates savage behavior (raudra-karman), and prophesizes that it will be eradicated by “the Chakravartin” (Universal Ruler) once he appears at the end of the age.²⁰Shri Kalachakra I. p. 161.

In John R. Newman´s words, a professor and historian of religions specialized in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism:

“We may summarize the Kalacakra tantra’s perception of Islamic beliefs and practices as follows: from the Buddhist point of view Islam is demonic and perverse, a perfect anti-religion which is the antithesis of Buddhism”.²¹John Newman, “Islam in the Kālacakra Tantra”, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1998.

1. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. Fr. Seraphim Rose.
2. Orthodoxy and the Kingdom of Satan. Fr. Spyridon Bailey.

3. What’s Really Coming and The Coming Pendulum Swing (Video series). John Blanchette.
   Note: Whether or not we agree with all his conclusions, there is no doubt that Blanchette’s extensive video documentation offers an interesting and provocative vision of the growing global politico-spiritual tension and how behind it can be found an obvious polarizing intention that seems to be using a weaponized dialectical process, especially on North American soil.

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2. G.W.F. Hegel, as quoted in: Rushdoony, R.J. (1971). The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy. Chalcedon / Ross House Books, p. 195.
3. Hegel, G.W.F. The Phenomenology of the Spirit. Dover Publications Inc. Preface, Φ 55.
4. Rushdoony, R.J. (1971). The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy. Chalcedon / Ross House Books, p. 196.
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9. Lewis, Tyson E.; Kahn, Richard (2010). Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for a Posthuman Age. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 75.
10. Ward, James (2014). “Mocked prophet: what is David Icke’s appeal?”. New Humanist.
11. Icke, David (1999). The Biggest Secret. Bridge of Love Publications USA.
12. Lynskey, Dorian (2014). “Psycho lizards from Saturn: The godlike genius of David Icke!”.New Statesman.
13. Ward, James (2014). “Mocked prophet: what is David Icke’s appeal?”. New Humanist.
14. Icke, David. And the Truth Shall Set You Free. Truth Seeker, Ch. 19.
15. Bailey, Alice A. (1951). A Treatise on White Magic. Lucis Press Ltd.
16. Still, William T. (1996). The Money Masters (highly recommended documentary film).
17. The concept of an “angrier world” was recently popularized by Klaus Schwab, one of those unelected rulers whose words and actions seem to point to a future dystopia (e.g., his books: “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “COVID-19: The Great Reset”; “WEF founder: Must prepare for an angrier world“).
18. Similar to how the, also ex-Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin created an evolutionary dialectical philosophy close to that of Hegel. Teilhard viewed God (the Omega Point) as the Absolute, his philosophy later becoming one of the main influences of the more “spiritual” branch of Transhumanism.
19. Blanchette, John. E511 Ministries (rumble.com/user/E511Ministries). Accessed 10 December of 2023.
20. Shri Kalachakra I. p. 161.
21. John Newman, “Islam in the Kālacakra Tantra”, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1998.