This post is a continuation of The truth about technocracy.
In recent years, techno-socialism has increasingly been considered as an answer to “sustainable development”, enabled by AI and automation. This is yet another iteration of spiritual materialism, which attempts to circumvent the necessity of spiritual processes being applied to economic matters.
The economic question lies at the heart of the separation of religion and science, as it can never be resolved without the re-unification of these two principles into one overall knowledge — the same knowledge found in the ancient mystery tradition.
The conflict between religion and science, under which art also suffers, is always in evidence when the level of culture declines. [1]
Without the insight that can come from the spiritual world, policy makers can only resort to dilettantism.
Many policies can be proposed regarding the economic problem — which is in essence, seeking the most efficient management of resources — but the correct answer will always be averted.
There is no perfection in this world but only imperfection. Thus, it is impossible to speak at all of an absolutely complete solution of the social problem. [2]
What is today called socialism exists only as an abortive and impossible experiment…What it sets out to achieve, can only be achieved through living activity; the pillar of strength is not enough. [3]
Until the gap between the spiritual world and the physical world has been bridged, humanity has little recourse in understanding the driving factors of global conflict.
The desire for peace and good-will is axiomatic, but how precisely can it be agreed upon what everyone is rightfully owed? How does each nation determine its own security?
For years the peace groups in the world have been occupied in spreading the idea of peace, piling up mailing-lists of people who endorsed the idea of peace…
The fact that war is largely incidental to rotten economic conditions led to little real activity to put these conditions right…All conditions that might incite to war were present everywhere even while the cry was going up "let there be peace on earth." [4]
The present knowledge of humanity is not sufficient to pierce the underlying foundation of human activity — the heart of a global economy that is complex and ever-changing, which then appears disordered and unsustainable.
Nor can the old rule-based system that has operated contractually, like any static form, rise to the present-day need.
In a recent speech, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney declared the end of the rules-based order. Yet, U.S. unilateralism began accelerating in the 1980s, and much of the West complied so long as it remained beneficial. Today, that alignment no longer holds. [5]
This issue has been identified, but the answer has been misidentified, and severely so.
A nexus of supercomputers, AI, and the “internet of things” has been sought as the formula for creating an economic system that is “dynamic”, calculations adjustments in real-time.
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This picture of society is an entirely materialistic translation of what spiritualized human activity looks like i.e. spiritual materialism.
The power to cohere many individual parts into an intelligent whole is inherently spiritual, a process by which all the individual parts communicate with each other, like the cells in one’s body.
This fundamentally describes the process of life, and it will never be possible to outsource it to technology. We are led to the conclusion that human activity — in other words, the economy — should function as a living organism, just as all other kingdoms of life do in Nature.
Materialistic natural science is based entirely on the method of analysis, of splitting apart...Can another force or energy be found in nature which does not carry the tendency to atomise and analyse, but which builds up and synthesises?
Would we be able to discover those constructive forces that make things live and grow?...This force must carry within it the impulse of life, of the organic, just as the so-called physical energies carry within them the tendency to division and separation. [6]
The global energy crisis precipitated by this war has exposed the inherent vulnerability in humanity’s reliance on purely material means to power its activity, and the greatest irony is that this also exposes the nonviability of a sustainability strategy reliant on AI and data centers.
What is called the life force is the real “alternative energy” humanity can utilize — a necessary step in human evolution, but the impetus to recognize this did not exist until now.
This force exists at the periphery of the physical plane, between it and the spiritual plane, known in the esoteric tradition as the etheric plane. It surrounds our planet and is contiguous with other etheric bodies in the cosmos, which forms the unified etheric field.
Such a force really exists, but it is still undiscovered. It is what is generally called the ether, the force that makes things grow and lives, for example, as the seed force in the seed. Before you can work with this force, you have to prove its presence. Just as we have reagents in chemistry, you have to find a reagent for this etheric force.
It is also called etheric image power, because it creates the form, the shape, the structure of a living, growing thing. You could try crystallisation processes to which an organic substrate is added. It will then be possible to develop machines that respond to and are driven by this force. [6]
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We have reached the point where a contraction of the world economy is inevitable, because modern life built upon materialism, was unsustainable in every way.
Purely mineral forces have been exhausted, and have been since the end of the 19th century. This correction is taking place through “a terrible process which we call War.”
But another materialistic process in place of the old one cannot solve the sustainability question — that is the folly of the technocratic view. Only the living, synthesizing forces of the plant kingdom can carry humanity onwards.
People choose to believe that things will continue in the same way. No, they will not. If life continues without the stimuli that come from the spiritual world…everything will lead to decadence, to barbarism, to the fall of civilisation. [7]
Humanity has only just begun to harness the forces of nature. This will change completely in the near future and into the next millennia. People will extract the forces in flowing water and make them useful to themselves; they will capture the powerful forces contained in the sun's rays using powerful mirrors and learn to use them..
The most wonderful machines will be devised by humans to put all these unleashed forces at the service of humanity. Indeed, they will gain control over the magnetic force of the entire Earth
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1. GA 109, Budapest, 12 June 1909: Rosicrucian Esotericism 10. On Karma, Reincarnation and Initiation https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA109/English/AP1978/19090612p01.html
2. GA 186, Dornach, 1 December 1918: The Challenge of the Times 3. The Mechanistic, Eugenic and Hygienic Aspects of the Future https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/AP1941/19181201p01.html
3. GA 93, Berlin, 2 January 1906: The Temple Legend III 20. The Royal Art in a New Form https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19060102p01.html
4. The Unfinished Autobiography Chapter VI - Part 1 https://www.lucistrust.org/online_books/the_unfinished_autobiography_obooks/chapter_vi_part1
5. "From the U.S.-Led Rules-Based Order to Multipolar International Law" https://www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/from-the-us-led-rules-based-order-to-multipolar-international-law
6. https://en.anthro.wiki/Mechanistic_occultism
7. GA 202, Dornach, 26 December 1920: The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia, Lecture IV https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201226p01.html
8. GA 266/I, Munich, 10 or 11 November 1905: Esoteric Lessons https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA266I/English/SOL2024/19051110e02.html