The Anthropos Template
"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”
-Sir James Jeans
Nestled within a layer of paint coating the top floor of all that has ever been, inside that last four minutes before midnight is where the human story resides --- The Anthropos Template. Although tiny within the context of the Cosmic Shabang, this small chapter in the Grand Narrative can be magnified to reveal distinct features.
The "What is History" Interlude
Humans and the objects they leave in the psyche and environment make up the identity of what history is. This identity gets made whenever subjective interpretations of current experiences or subjective re-interpretations of past experiences become recorded. This process has been taking place all over Spaceship Gaia since at least the Symbolic Revolution of 50,000 BCE. Reality impressions have been plucked from life and compressed into containers (art, song, text, ritual etc.) that are handed down to the unborn. Alfred Korzybski calls this process "time-binding".
To totality of containers integrated together would create a "complete history". This narrative would have to weave together every single person's impression of all events viewed from all angles and expressed in all ways -- resembling an alive and eternally growing hologram. Since this seems highly unlikely, most history is, perforce, incomplete.
A compelling reason to string together a historical narrative is to sketch out recurring archetypes in the collective mind that will provide motivation for navigating where we want to go.
Contextual Scratchings
Deep in the recesses of time, The Anthropos Template first scratches itself into the software of life here on Spaceship Gaia. Since then a few distinct phases of being have popped up, co-mingled, and disappeared like the eternal saki of Omar Khayyam's verse.
In A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber outlines four stages of human evolution.
To totality of containers integrated together would create a "complete history". This narrative would have to weave together every single person's impression of all events viewed from all angles and expressed in all ways -- resembling an alive and eternally growing hologram. Since this seems highly unlikely, most history is, perforce, incomplete.
A compelling reason to string together a historical narrative is to sketch out recurring archetypes in the collective mind that will provide motivation for navigating where we want to go.
Deep in the recesses of time, The Anthropos Template first scratches itself into the software of life here on Spaceship Gaia. Since then a few distinct phases of being have popped up, co-mingled, and disappeared like the eternal saki of Omar Khayyam's verse.
In A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber outlines four stages of human evolution.
Each is composed of an interior collective dimension which becomes the software organizing the inner creative forms of people (belief systems, taboo's, world-orientation etc.) and an exterior collective dimension which becomes the hardware organizing the outer creative forms of people (social stratification, artwork, architecture etc.).
Foragers: Pre-agricultural people with an archaic interior collective dimension emerging around 1,000,000 to 400,000 BCE. Living within an alive biosphere where spirits imbue all life-forms, these small bands of people gather and hunt to provide all they need.
Horticulturalists: Agricultural people with a magical interior collective dimension emerging during the start of the Agricultural Revolution of 10,000 BCE. Living within a matrifocal culture and a biosphere that requires appeasement of spirits, these tribal villages plant and tend fields to provide all they need.
Horticulturalists: Agricultural people with a magical interior collective dimension emerging during the start of the Agricultural Revolution of 10,000 BCE. Living within a matrifocal culture and a biosphere that requires appeasement of spirits, these tribal villages plant and tend fields to provide all they need.
Agrarians: Post-Agriculture people with a mythical interior collective dimension emerging around 4,000 to 2,000 BCE. Living within a male-dominated culture that begins splitting from the matrix of nature, these early-state communities rely on plowing/planting fields and controlling animals to provide all they need.
Industrialists: Post-Agricultural people’s with a rational interior collective dimension emerging during the Enlightenment period of the 18th century. Living within a dominator culture split from the matrix of nature, these industrialized nations rely on mechanical agriculture and wage slavery to provide all they need.
To put it simply, the Unarmored Matrist says “Yes!” to this life-force and the Armored Patrist says “No!”.
Prior to 4,000 BCE Unarmored Matrist cultures in the lush North African and Asian landscapes live a mostly egalitarian existence with deep reverence for Mother Goddess figures --- they embrace Orgone Energy. In Europe, uncovered sites at Crete, Jericho, and Catal Huyuk reveal cultures that were highly developed, non-violent, and linked the sexes in harmony rather than stratified them in disharmony.
This was the age of the Magna Mater Annointers who confer power unto certain males in rituals of sexual union called hieros gamos. They were, perforce, more powerful because it was from these sacred prostitutes that men would gain a position of importance within the culture. However, this powerful ritual soon changes when Patriarchal Annointers delete the role of sacred prostitutes and, through force, deem themselves the new priest-kings. And --- for fear of the stick --- they all Hail.
This code is forced into the minds and bodies of the newly born --- often through violent child-rearing means. An so it goes for thousands and thousands of years, resulting in the continual development of Technologies of Destruction (warfare implements, fortifications etc.) to the detriment of Technologies of Production (naturalistic art, festivals, writings etc.; what Bucky Fuller calls "livingry") -- a trend we still suffer from!
One of these authoritarian Father God's brought into prominence on the coattails of the Patrist shift is Yahweh (..."the writer bows in reverence but holds tightly to his wallet"...). This sexually-jealous, insecure male operating upon base mammalian fears institutes a program that makes women possessions with limited freedom, bans sexual spontaneity, and encourages violence against lifestyles and ideologies outside his narrow scope ("whoring after foreign gods"). With Holy Books and Violence (and "Holy Violence"), a series of authoritarian social taboos work to control people's minds.
To get away with such an anti-life narrative, the feminine principle of creation had to be removed --- the Queen of Heaven exits stage left and any protesting spectator is dragged outside and beaten. Her importance as a producer of life-forms and selfless giver of the autopoetic wisdom necessary for organic self-growth is simply swept under the rug as Father God Yahweh becomes the sole creator --- thus recanting the basic biological fact that "guys don't have wombs!".
In the Gnostic Mythos, Sophia the creative feminine dreams the world into existence but becomes overwhelmed by the profusion of new life-forms. A Christic Intercession occurs in which a male figure aids in her creation by organizing the burgeoning forms and helping direct their future evolution. The teleology of The Anthropos Template, in this view, is to find our creative niche and co-create forms within Sophia's dreaming of the world.
This dynamic radically shifts as Father God's start demanding total control, thus giving a major boost to the Archontic Program. The Archons are a cosmic and psychic force of inorganic origin that mimics autopoesis, or self-generative creativity, by relying on imitation and abstraction (aka Authoritative Holy Books) to distance us from direct experience with Sophia's Dreaming in order to install a sort of spiritual-control system that causes humans to deviate from our creative niche.
The Mountaintop-Moses approach of "I figured all the hard shit out, no need to worry just follow me" becomes ingrained into the cult of On-High Moralists who specialize in rewarding and punishing people according to the dictates of an unearthly apocalyptic Male God...in many ways this behavior resembles modern corporate governments.
But it's done out of LOVE!
Ah yes, I must have forgot...
This perverse form of "love" shows up in the psychological literature as abuse bonding. It occurs whenever playing the Victim-Perpetrator game, with rules that go as such: inflicting abuse = righteous activity backed with divine decree because suffering abuse = redemption. These fallacious mandates justify the horrors of colonization and the ad baculum spread of monotheism around the globe.
A thousand years before the supposed birth of the most respected carpenter in history, inhabitants of Middle Eastern deserts inscribe their version of Father God into the psycho-historical narrative of our species --- in comes Yahweh.
This cultural instance of a Patrist Archetype takes the form of an Extraterrestrial Male with the psychological make-up of an anal-moralistic paranoid who assumes The Apocalypse Is Always Near. This intuition cause Him to send down a Son (created without a female) to rally an uptight conservative culture of "the chosen few" to apply Law and Justice to the sin and degradation of the "shitty unchosen" --- mostly people outside their group, however "sinful urges" lurking within the mind and skin of the chosen few requires constant surveillance and vigilance.
As the years stroll along, Yahweh morphs into the Judeo-Christian Redeemer we all know, the one who bills Himself as the only form of salvation when adhering to the tenets of a superhuman-perfectionist-impossible-to-attain ethic fails. Needless to say, this game leads to a tide of unnecessary suffering amongst people and communities due to its impractical and life-denying nature.
To broaden their audience appeal and assuage the resentment of more egalitarian communities, the Patrist mindset welcomes the rise of Yeshua around 4 BCE. He is a hybrid figure expressing reverence for earlier unarmored matrist cultures and pagan philosophies (appealing to love and community) yet doing so to ease the resistance felt toward the rising elite class of authoritarian patrists. Even if the mythico-historical figure himself didn't intend this, later theologians used his teachings as a means toward this end. Most famous is the case of Saint Augustine, the theologian who formulates the doctrine of Original Sin. Based upon a fearful reaction to the spontaneous sexual nature epitomized in the Garden of Eve before exile, this meme ascribes an innate evil within every human that can only be overcome through adherence to Church Dogma.
Perfect fodder for a control-wary elite!
The essence of the Patrist Doctrine is so anti-life and constricting that many groups spanning the disparate eons of time and space have shown solidarity in their refusal to be confined to it. Almost all have been vehemently opposed by those in power --- just ask Hypatia! In the 5th century CE, this highly intelligent pagan woman educator and theurgic ("god-working") master was overtaken by a mob of fanatical Christians, stripped of her clothes, and beaten to death. Driven by a historical geist much vaster than their individual ego's, by killing Hypatia this mob embodies a narrative that suppresses the role of women, the importance of the natural world, and the legitimacy of deeply personal non-ordinary states of consciousness --- all so Church Dogma could seed itself far and wide.
Casualties and hardship has always plagued those who resist the Authoritarian Patrist mentality because any uncontrollable group is highly threatening to control freaks. Despite the (often violent) consequences of asserting self-autonomy, a few communities understood the fallibility of this ethic as it was arising and chose consciously rejected it --- most famously the Gnostics of the Hellenistic Period (320 BCE to 30 CE). Rule by distant authorities who claim land belongs to people contradicts the Gnostic ethic of authority arising from deep gnosis within a context of people belonging to the land, so they disregard it and continue forming gylanic, multiracial, and romantic communities without theocratic coercion.
The Unarmored Matrist's "Yes!" to life is so natural to human nature that it doesn't simply die off because a bunch of paranoid control freaks want it to. The Gnostics are but one example of a multi-generational affinity group known as The Free-Spirit Movement. People as distant as the Cathars of 11th century France, the Romantics of 18th century England, the Hippies of 20th century United States, and poets and artists of all times express solidarity in their embrace of the femininity and natural sexuality characteristic of pre-Patrist days. Through lifestyle expressions, the Free-Spirit Movement has sought to undermine the confining grip of authoritarianism by embodying and re-animating the ethic of Unarmored Matrists.
The battle between Authoritarian Dogmatist's that command "No! No! No!" and Free-Spiritists that demand "Yes! Yes! Yes!" is a repeating archetypal struggle waged throughout the theater of history. We are the directors, performers, and audience, so lets make this production celebrate life!
Industrialists: Post-Agricultural people’s with a rational interior collective dimension emerging during the Enlightenment period of the 18th century. Living within a dominator culture split from the matrix of nature, these industrialized nations rely on mechanical agriculture and wage slavery to provide all they need.
Currently a new phase seems to be wrapping its internal and external dimensions around us. Wilber sees the emergence of an informational society that is planetary in scope, echoing Teilhard de Chardin’s notion of the Noosphere and The Omega Point.
I Dub Thee...
As horticultural villages morph into Agrarian states, a major transition in the human psyche occurs. Earlier pre-patriarchal societies with egalitarian ethics become patriarchal societies with dominator ethics.
Saharasian author James Demeo writes of a conflict between two polarized world-orientations, the Unarmored Matrists versus the Armored Patrists. The twentieth century thinker Wilhelm Reich described how an individual's relation with Orgone Energy --- an erotic life-force that organizes micro- and macro- cosmic forms --- determines the nature of an individual's character armor (neuro-muscular rigidity or ease).
To put it simply, the Unarmored Matrist says “Yes!” to this life-force and the Armored Patrist says “No!”.
Prior to 4,000 BCE Unarmored Matrist cultures in the lush North African and Asian landscapes live a mostly egalitarian existence with deep reverence for Mother Goddess figures --- they embrace Orgone Energy. In Europe, uncovered sites at Crete, Jericho, and Catal Huyuk reveal cultures that were highly developed, non-violent, and linked the sexes in harmony rather than stratified them in disharmony.
This was the age of the Magna Mater Annointers who confer power unto certain males in rituals of sexual union called hieros gamos. They were, perforce, more powerful because it was from these sacred prostitutes that men would gain a position of importance within the culture. However, this powerful ritual soon changes when Patriarchal Annointers delete the role of sacred prostitutes and, through force, deem themselves the new priest-kings. And --- for fear of the stick --- they all Hail.
Don't Leave Me Dry
Due to climactic forces, the process of desertification begins. As the previously fertile lands become dry and lifeless, so does the psychology and emotional life of its human inhabitants. After 4,000 BCE, the Armored Patrist mentality inscribes itself into the psycho-historical drama, carrying its hierarchy obsession and love of authoritarian Father God's with it. During this time Kurgan and Aryan nomads roam about Europe and the Middle East forcibly imposing their domination based social code.
This code is forced into the minds and bodies of the newly born --- often through violent child-rearing means. An so it goes for thousands and thousands of years, resulting in the continual development of Technologies of Destruction (warfare implements, fortifications etc.) to the detriment of Technologies of Production (naturalistic art, festivals, writings etc.; what Bucky Fuller calls "livingry") -- a trend we still suffer from!
Excuse The Erection, But What's All The Kerfuffle About!
One of these authoritarian Father God's brought into prominence on the coattails of the Patrist shift is Yahweh (..."the writer bows in reverence but holds tightly to his wallet"...). This sexually-jealous, insecure male operating upon base mammalian fears institutes a program that makes women possessions with limited freedom, bans sexual spontaneity, and encourages violence against lifestyles and ideologies outside his narrow scope ("whoring after foreign gods"). With Holy Books and Violence (and "Holy Violence"), a series of authoritarian social taboos work to control people's minds.
To get away with such an anti-life narrative, the feminine principle of creation had to be removed --- the Queen of Heaven exits stage left and any protesting spectator is dragged outside and beaten. Her importance as a producer of life-forms and selfless giver of the autopoetic wisdom necessary for organic self-growth is simply swept under the rug as Father God Yahweh becomes the sole creator --- thus recanting the basic biological fact that "guys don't have wombs!".
In the Gnostic Mythos, Sophia the creative feminine dreams the world into existence but becomes overwhelmed by the profusion of new life-forms. A Christic Intercession occurs in which a male figure aids in her creation by organizing the burgeoning forms and helping direct their future evolution. The teleology of The Anthropos Template, in this view, is to find our creative niche and co-create forms within Sophia's dreaming of the world.
This dynamic radically shifts as Father God's start demanding total control, thus giving a major boost to the Archontic Program. The Archons are a cosmic and psychic force of inorganic origin that mimics autopoesis, or self-generative creativity, by relying on imitation and abstraction (aka Authoritative Holy Books) to distance us from direct experience with Sophia's Dreaming in order to install a sort of spiritual-control system that causes humans to deviate from our creative niche.
The Mountaintop-Moses approach of "I figured all the hard shit out, no need to worry just follow me" becomes ingrained into the cult of On-High Moralists who specialize in rewarding and punishing people according to the dictates of an unearthly apocalyptic Male God...in many ways this behavior resembles modern corporate governments.
But it's done out of LOVE!
Ah yes, I must have forgot...
This perverse form of "love" shows up in the psychological literature as abuse bonding. It occurs whenever playing the Victim-Perpetrator game, with rules that go as such: inflicting abuse = righteous activity backed with divine decree because suffering abuse = redemption. These fallacious mandates justify the horrors of colonization and the ad baculum spread of monotheism around the globe.
Come On Down
A thousand years before the supposed birth of the most respected carpenter in history, inhabitants of Middle Eastern deserts inscribe their version of Father God into the psycho-historical narrative of our species --- in comes Yahweh.
This cultural instance of a Patrist Archetype takes the form of an Extraterrestrial Male with the psychological make-up of an anal-moralistic paranoid who assumes The Apocalypse Is Always Near. This intuition cause Him to send down a Son (created without a female) to rally an uptight conservative culture of "the chosen few" to apply Law and Justice to the sin and degradation of the "shitty unchosen" --- mostly people outside their group, however "sinful urges" lurking within the mind and skin of the chosen few requires constant surveillance and vigilance.
As the years stroll along, Yahweh morphs into the Judeo-Christian Redeemer we all know, the one who bills Himself as the only form of salvation when adhering to the tenets of a superhuman-perfectionist-impossible-to-attain ethic fails. Needless to say, this game leads to a tide of unnecessary suffering amongst people and communities due to its impractical and life-denying nature.
To broaden their audience appeal and assuage the resentment of more egalitarian communities, the Patrist mindset welcomes the rise of Yeshua around 4 BCE. He is a hybrid figure expressing reverence for earlier unarmored matrist cultures and pagan philosophies (appealing to love and community) yet doing so to ease the resistance felt toward the rising elite class of authoritarian patrists. Even if the mythico-historical figure himself didn't intend this, later theologians used his teachings as a means toward this end. Most famous is the case of Saint Augustine, the theologian who formulates the doctrine of Original Sin. Based upon a fearful reaction to the spontaneous sexual nature epitomized in the Garden of Eve before exile, this meme ascribes an innate evil within every human that can only be overcome through adherence to Church Dogma.
Perfect fodder for a control-wary elite!
Resistance
The essence of the Patrist Doctrine is so anti-life and constricting that many groups spanning the disparate eons of time and space have shown solidarity in their refusal to be confined to it. Almost all have been vehemently opposed by those in power --- just ask Hypatia! In the 5th century CE, this highly intelligent pagan woman educator and theurgic ("god-working") master was overtaken by a mob of fanatical Christians, stripped of her clothes, and beaten to death. Driven by a historical geist much vaster than their individual ego's, by killing Hypatia this mob embodies a narrative that suppresses the role of women, the importance of the natural world, and the legitimacy of deeply personal non-ordinary states of consciousness --- all so Church Dogma could seed itself far and wide.
Casualties and hardship has always plagued those who resist the Authoritarian Patrist mentality because any uncontrollable group is highly threatening to control freaks. Despite the (often violent) consequences of asserting self-autonomy, a few communities understood the fallibility of this ethic as it was arising and chose consciously rejected it --- most famously the Gnostics of the Hellenistic Period (320 BCE to 30 CE). Rule by distant authorities who claim land belongs to people contradicts the Gnostic ethic of authority arising from deep gnosis within a context of people belonging to the land, so they disregard it and continue forming gylanic, multiracial, and romantic communities without theocratic coercion.
The Unarmored Matrist's "Yes!" to life is so natural to human nature that it doesn't simply die off because a bunch of paranoid control freaks want it to. The Gnostics are but one example of a multi-generational affinity group known as The Free-Spirit Movement. People as distant as the Cathars of 11th century France, the Romantics of 18th century England, the Hippies of 20th century United States, and poets and artists of all times express solidarity in their embrace of the femininity and natural sexuality characteristic of pre-Patrist days. Through lifestyle expressions, the Free-Spirit Movement has sought to undermine the confining grip of authoritarianism by embodying and re-animating the ethic of Unarmored Matrists.
The battle between Authoritarian Dogmatist's that command "No! No! No!" and Free-Spiritists that demand "Yes! Yes! Yes!" is a repeating archetypal struggle waged throughout the theater of history. We are the directors, performers, and audience, so lets make this production celebrate life!
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