Written in the last year, this title is about how the fiction "Nothing" is behind a whole culture of deceit and destruction. It is ego's God: ego believes in Nothing because it wants in-existence.
A few years ago I began, like many others, to experience a dawning, lets say spiritual, realisation:. At the centre was the revelation-experience how the existential fraud Nothing, is controlling society from science (examination of dead material), religion (nothing as God) to economy (money) to art (objects). This Nothing-God iswhat the ancient spiritual philosophers called “the greatest devil of all”.
A few years ago I began, like many others, to experience a dawning, lets say spiritual, realisation:. At the centre was the revelation-experience how the existential fraud Nothing, is controlling society from science (examination of dead material), religion (nothing as God) to economy (money) to art (objects). This Nothing-God iswhat the ancient spiritual philosophers called “the greatest devil of all”.
With understanding Nothing came also a new interpretation of the nature of reality and its utter misrepresentation in contemporary literature, philosophy, cultural criticism - even to some extend in spiritualism not particular restricted to New-Age. Without comparison here a few examples of the same phenomena of awakening of consciousness in an apocalyptic age Eckhardt Tolle's early The Power of Now (1997), Warchowsky's The Matrix trilogy (1999-2004), William Arntz's What The Bleep Do We Know (2004), Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (2006), among many Slavoj Zizek's In Defense of Lost Causes (2008), Dan Brown's (horribly written) The Lost Symbol (2009) among a load of neo-spiritualist literature about the 2012 phenomena. (Greg Bradden, Major Jenkins etc). Though widely different they all attempt to describe central phenomena in rediscovering spirituality in a cosmic perspective.
One realises that the duality Nothing vs truth has controlled common thinking for about 13,000 years. In fact when repeated it inevitably becomes a real comedy. It is really the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes written by my fellow country man H.C. Andersen applied to a wide range of phenomena – in that way he anticipated what was to come profoundly. Take for example how the cultural life encircling the art world and academic philosophy has not only been religious to the point of an obsession – built around a symbolic “sacred” nothing of which everything evolved. This kind of nihilism wasn't removed from religion – it was in fact a much greater, permeating religion than any other historic. And it is quite easy to show, completely derailed from any truth and sense.
This nothing seemed by closer inspection to almost encircle every corner of society apart from the rapidly evolving new spiritual communities flourishing especially online. Nothing was held up as an illusion through a psychology-structuring language with an intimate relationship to ego.
This “religion” is intimate even to science in the form of the historical search for the vacuum or the present pursuit of the understanding of the so called “invisible dark matter” through to the Large Hydron Collider in Basel. To my surprise Western religion and philosophy operated with the idea of the world created out of an obscure nothing, how intimately nothing was coupled with ego and the maintainance of status quo, or driven to its extreme, a suicidal drive.
The book is about how the religion of nothing is structured, written in an accessible way for most readers without an over-ornamentation of literary references in contrast to the modern prose of philosophy which attempts to outdo on the basis of aesthetically pleasing references with out too much real impact.
Intimately connected to the solutions to many of the problems we face in terms of spiritual identity, economic- & environmental crisis and finally divisions among people. The culmination of the non-existence of ego seemed to be the epochal moment of a full evolution of a new cosmic enlightened man.
From the introduction:
Ancient Mayans thought this symbolic nothing to be some kind of God of the underworld - and sacrificed humans to keep him happy. Apparently we are just at the verge of doing this again today on a much greater scale. Our question hence for investigation - how can you fear (a) Nothing?Download "The Unveiling" 1.2 MB
You actually can - though it's something of a contradiction (if there ever was one) and, well, really a bad idea. You can only fear the illusion Nothing: If there isn't anything to produce fear, there is not anything to be afraid of. On the other hand if we really believe in a nothing, or rather include it in meaningful talk, then the thing Nothing really comes with spontaneous fear. A fear with a fundamental belief-system at the base of a culture maintaining a catastrophic course.
Cover art : Cornelius van Haarlem The Fall of Man rendered by R.T.Hansen
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Oil on canvas, 273 x 220 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam





