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What is the sense and significance of life
on Earth, and human life in particular? *

Sense and Significance

Gurdjieff's question (aka the meaning of life) has a large number of proposed answers from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds, and has produced much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history (to no avail).
The Simple answer: Evolving from Unconscious Procreation to Conscious Procreation.


  A Parasitic System  
Excerpt: Parasitic System  

Homeostatic Equilibrium: Cybernetics and the New World Order      [LINK]



The phrases “this intelligence” and “that which orchestrates our perception of this reality” are used early and often throughout this post. There are no shortage of theories out there regarding who or what this entity is, so please insert your own views on this point whenever you see these phrases. My only intent is to acknowledge that whatever it is, it obviously exists.

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In other words it is the virus of civilization that is spreading across the Earth, perpetuating a chronic and otherwise unnatural state of dis-ease within the perception of the beings interacting with it.

  • When faced with the preceding incontrovertible truth, many occult apologists will appeal to a more nuanced version of the projection blame game, namely the “hidden in plain sight” version.
  • According to this logic the intelligence orchestrating our perception of this reality does not actually hide anything that it is doing from us, so if the information is freely available and apathetic humans choose not alter their behavior in response to it, then they are indeed to blame for their own suffering, or so this line of reasoning goes.
  • While this intelligence should be congratulated for a clever advertising campaign, this argument is just more purposely disingenous obfuscation in the context of a parasitic system that does everything it possibly can to distort the ability of its hosts to recognize truth.

To illustrate this point, take for example the theoretical life path of a being born amnesiatic within the confines of this system.

  • Totally defenseless during its 9 months in the womb, the being absorbs – emotionally, energetically, and physically – everything that its likewise amnesiatic mother absorbs and carries any resulting pre-existing trauma with it into this reality.
  • The being is born within the sterile and traumatic environment of a hospital, quickly taken away from the mother within hours of its birth.
  • The being is issued a birth certificate imprinted with the “sole” of its feet so that it may abdicate its true purpose in order to conduct itself in artificial commerce when it reaches the appropriate age.
  • The being is dosed with toxic vaccines laced with myriad destructive substances and diseases. If the being is a boy, skin from its penis is cut off in a barbaric and traumatic ritual.
  • The being is fed a plethora of toxic foods and beverages that slowly erode its natural born resonance with the Earth.
  • Depending on circumstances dictated by the economic position of its parents within this system of artificial scarcity, the being may or may not have access to the resources it requires and suffers accordingly, a cycle of poverty which often repeats itself generationally.
  • Likewise given the purposeful destruction of the family unit the being may or may not have its two parents living in the same residence.
  • In lieu of competent parental guidance the being is slowly exposed to the destructive impact of the television, ruining its reasoning capabilities over time.
  • The being is indoctrinated with some form of religion, thus ensuring that it will never be capable of understanding the correct way to percieve this reality.
  • The being is eventually sent to school where it becomes indoctrinated with literally nothing that is true, setting it up for a lifetime of manipulation by the media.

The being eventually obtains a cell phone and a computer, plugging itself into the electronic grid and further disconnecting it from the resonance of life.

  • The being discovers pornography and its inherent perversion, losing all ability to truly connect with the opposite sex as naturally intended.
  • Like all those who came before it, the being starts to self-medicate accumulated trauma with various freely-available toxic substances that further disconnect it from life.
  • Regardless of the length of time spent in school, the being eventually acquires a slave job within this slave system because all beings have to accumulate the magick talisman known as money in order to live as a part of it.
  • The being spends a lifetime solely focused on accumulating enough of these pieces of paper in a manner commensurate with its responsibilities, and the being is so run down as result that it rarely has the energy to pursue any sort of worthwhile endeavor, if at this point it were even capable of determining anything worthwhile beyond the subconscious vamparism cloaked within the energetic rituals known as professional sports, media, and hollywood.
  • If the being ever does follow its muffled intuition and investigate anything worthwhile, there is already a gatekeeping network in place designed to discredit the legitimacy of “conspiracy theories”, promptly leading the being to fake truths or outright jolting the being back into the consensus norm.
  • Due to a lifetime of exposure to a toxic environment and allopathic medical system, the being eventually develops a multitude of chronic illnesses, often resulting in bankruptcy and early death. As the cycle of disconnection is passed from one generation to the next, more often than not at the end of its life the being is eventually discarded into a nursing home by its children.
  • The being’s physical body dies, and this intelligence uses all of the accumulated trauma against the being in order to make it feel responsible for the trail of associated regrets and beliefs, thus convincing the being to reincarnate and navigate its way through this maze of insanity all over again.

More specifically, now take for example the daily routine of the being trapped within this system of civilization.

  • First, since this intelligence has managed to artificially structuralize the natural daily cycle of sunrise/sunset into artificial mathematical units called seconds, minutes, and hours, the being is unnaturally jarred out of its sleep by an alarm clock (and incidentally the beings entire existence is governed by the fabricated construct of mechanical time and its artificial subsidiary, the calender).
  • The being then rushes to get ready for work, takes a shower in toxic water, and gets dressed in its appropriate societal uniform (a uniform which likewise characterizes its entire existence, and ironically enough the men with the most important jobs wear a symbolic noose around their necks).
  • The being then probably ingests some form of the neurotoxin caffeine, most likely in the form of the especially toxic drug known as coffee, thereafter probably making the mistake of breaking its fast with some toxic “food” at some point in the morning.
  • The being puts its shoes on and gets in its car, a vehicle powered by a “fossil fuel” which it is forced to buy at any price.
  • The being travels through the artificially zoned concrete jungles with the other primates, governed by a street light system which intentionally produces traffic jams to stress out the travelers.
  • When the being completes its mind-numbing work it travels home in the same fashion, by design at no point touching the grass or dirt with its bare feet to discharge accumulated toxic energies and bring it into equilibrium with the Earth’s resonance.
  • Instead the being goes right back into its box, takes its shoes off, and finds some artificial outlet to escape the drudgery of its daily routine before it starts all over again, distractions which there are certainly no shortage of: from booze, marijuana, sex, drugs, and food to movies, television, news, books, video games, and the internet.

Obviously the preceding analysis could have gone on for much longer and included many more horrific details, however I think the point regarding the hidden in plain sight narrative has been sufficiently made.

  • It is disingenuous at best and criminal at worst to suggest that any being somehow deserves this purposeful assault on its existence, and it is the height of absurdity to thereafter imply – in the context of an all-out and relatively covert war on their awareness – that the host beings themselves are somehow responsible for the depraved state of their existence, when by design they were never intended to be capable of discovering what had been hidden in plain sight in the first place.
  • Worse yet, after many hard lessons, any sufficiently aware being will eventually come to the inescapable conclusion that the “secret truths” of the occult were just another layer of bullshit festering in this rotten onion known as civilization, pre-planned to be released by this intelligence during a certain window of mechanical time as a part of its larger agenda.

How we got here is somewhat open to debate, however the situation humanity now finds itself in has become more obvious — a parasitic system that does everything it possibly can to distort the ability of its hosts to recognize truth.

In simplist terms, life is a system of biological machines consciously engineered to counteract entropy by generating negative entropy. Life in particular, and matter in general, are derivatives of consciousness, which is embeded in both. On earth, the intelligence of reciprocal maintenance has been coopted (for thousands of years) by various individuals and groups of individuals into what is now known as corporate globalism.

last update on 24 Jan 2019
  Gurdjieff's lifelong question  

Gurdjieff never gave a simple answer to that simple question!

Gurdjieff's defenders typically claim that Gurdjieff's question is not a simple question, and claim that Beelzebub's Tales provides Gurdjieff's answer to this non-simple question.

This assumes that:
     ■ It's not a simple question.
     ■ A simple answer does not exist.

What if both asumptions are incorrect?
     ■ And it is a simple question.
     ■ With a simple answer.

  What is Life?  
meaning of life

One way to define life rigorously is in terms of specific, enumerated traits, which are as follows:
     ■ Growth
     ■ Feeding and metabolism
     ■ Motility (physical movement)
     ■ Responsiveness to environmental stimuli
     ■ Reproduction with adaptation.

Reproduction is probably the most frequently cited "essential" defining characteristic of living systems.
     – Robert Freitas, Xenology, chapter 6.2.1

  Transformers and/or Food  
transforming energies

Like all organic life on Earth, human beings are apparatuses for transforming energies which are required for some other purpose. However, as a more complicated type of transforming apparatus than plants or animals, human beings possess some choice regarding how to supply the energies required by their existence.

They can transform energy consciously or unconsciously, in greater or lesser quantities, and of varying qualities, thereby influencing the purpose and outcome of their deaths.

Humans are a dynamo for transforming energies.

  • We were created to be a bridge for spiritualizing life on earth.
  • The earth needs the energies that only man can provide.
  Gurdjieff's Creation Story  
gurdjieffs creation story

Each organism constitutes a thermodynamic system and its survival depends on keeping one's own entropy lower than that of the environment — each organism feeds on negative entropy and excretes positive entropy.

No organism can be beneficial for the environment by its survival. Vegetation on Earth is exceptional because its openness to the sun helps the Earth. Still, in a larger scale, our sun is constantly dissipating its energy through its radiation, thereby increasing the entropy of the entire universe.

Exactly at this point, we must remember a grim fact about living organisms that I mentioned earlier: no organism can be beneficial for the universe by its survival.

  • So we are confronted with this paradox: the eventual goal of all those evolutionary processes cannot be the creation of life because life kills the universe.
  • This forces us to see life and consciousness as interdependent partners with opposing purposes and our presence as the reconciling ground for the two opposing principles.
  Time and Initiative  

Creation is enacted by a unique alteration in the two prime laws, especially in the law of process.

  • Before creation, they operate on a closed and isolated system. The hermetically sealed design Gurdjieff calls Autoegocrat.
  • The redesigned system (Trogoautoegocrat) is governed by laws of interdependence, reciprocity, and exchange.
  • Since the motive for redesign … is to counteract entropic effects of anarchical time, the world leaps into being for the sake of coping with the Heropass, Time, the Destroyer.
  Unconscious vs. Conscious Procreation  
unconscious procreation for dummies

Unconscious procreation — a noun phrase that is virtually unused in the English language. (see: Google search) It is probably by definition a pleonasm (redundant phase).

Why is there no distinction made or no alternative word (or phrase) available to differentiate the process of procreating by the only conscious living being (Man) as opposed to all other forms of (non-conscious / unconscious / instinctive) living organisms?

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