Spengler – Decline of the West
Gebser – The ever-present Origin
William Irwin Thompson – The time falling bodies take to light, Coming Into Being, Imaginary Landscape, At the Edge of History
Sloterdijk – Spheres trilogy (Bubbles, Globes, Foam)
Toynbee – a Study of History
Joseph Campbell’s Masks of God
Manly P. Hall – Secret Teachings of all Ages
Michael Topper – Magnum Organum (aswell as Val Valerian’s Matrix 3 and 4)
Levi-Strauss – Mythologiques
Sri Aurobindo – The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, Savitri
Badiou – Being and Event
Zizek – Less Than Nothing, Absolute Recoil, Parallax View, Sublime Object of Ideology
Leroi-Gourhan – Gesture and Speech
Borkenau – End and Beginning
Ken Wilber – Up From Eden, The Atman Project, Sex Ecology Spirituality, The spectrum of consciousness
Auerbach – Mimesis
James Joyce – Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
Ezra Pound – the Cantos
Deleuze – A Thousand Plateaus, Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition
Guattari – Chaosophy, The Machinic Unconscious
Foucault – The Order of Things, Archaeology of Knowledge, History of Sexuality, Madness and Civilization, Birth of the Clinic, Birth of the Prison
Walter Benjamin – The Arcades Project
Clifford Geertz – Interpretation of Cultures
Niklas Luhmann – Social Systems, the Reality of Mass Media, Introduction to Systems Theory, Art as a Social System
Chris Langan – CTMU whitepaper, Metareligion as the Human Singularity
Hofstadter – Godel, Escher, Bach / I am a strange loop / Metamagical Themas
Adorno – Dialectic of Enlightenment
Gregory Bateson – Mind and Nature, Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Hegel – Encyclopediae, the Logic, the Phenomenology
Lacan – Ecrits. all seminars
Heidegger – Being and Time, Basic Essays
McLuhan – Medium is the Massage, Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media
Bernard Stiegler – Technics and Time
Simondon – Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, On the Mode of Technical Objects
Uzdavinys – Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth, Philosophy and Theurgy
Plotinus – Enneads (Proclus, Iamblichus, Syrianus, Damascius)
Nag Hammadi library (the Big 5 of Gnosticism: Lacarriere, Hans Jonas, Kurt Rudolph, Culianu, and Filoramo)

the ur-Symbol (the prime symbol from which all of the civilization manifests outwards from), the space-feeling, death-feeling, soul-feeling, God-idea, atom-feeling, motion-feeling, urban or rural, body politic, body social, world-as-nature or world-as-history (ahistoric or historic mentality), art-feeling, architecture, number-world, star-feeling and more all wielded as a many-faceted cell wielding this singular instrument. media theory as supplementation to metahistory / myth studies with memorization of all central myth and ritual from every culture. french theory mixed with ancient thought. memorization of all art history – painting, sculpture, ritual – in every culture. supplementation comes from reading all of history, all of literature and philosophy, looking at art and experiencing culture – but through this lens – events are always part of a larger unfolding seen through the schizognostic eye. the monomyth is the procession and return to the One. From the alone to the Alone. read all through a gnostic lens – metahistory as the archonic scar of reality, metahistory as how people in history saw themselves in history, spirit unfolding – the creation of Spheres to immunize from the Real: all responses to death, all morphologies of a blossoming Vishnu — a bored Demiurge using civilization itself as a board game on a rainy day. O weep, dance of millennia.

if there is indeed a gnostic thrownness and a Spenglerian Dasein: this opens the door for entire new dimensions of thought hitertho unremarked. the Platonic Idea of a plant mirrored in the waters of history with which we swim: the non-object of the amniotic fluid that builds this simulation before we even begin to interact with it: forming our a priori foundations of the Mind. Spengler unconsciously began to describe the astral garden of the Death-Rose – the Negative Rosarium – where the gnostic is tested by Oblivion’s vitriol. The spine-bearing limbs of these abyssal flowers bind and penetrate the Seeker: winding out of a substrate of annihilation, mechanization, Limitation – the form-problems of our world-image, our death-feeling coalescing with space-feeling: the ur-Symbol of each civilization manifesting in it’s architecture, art, number-world, philosophies, Polis, body social, soul-image and so on and so forth. The development of perspective in painting turns into the dissolving of the figure to the pure background; thus borne the Dutch landscape painting – then the hyperdimensional object of surrealism and cubism all tending towards a higher understanding of the space-feeling of the West; at once Spengler here predicts the moon-landing and the Internet by noting the early intimations of aviation through Da Vinci. The metaphysical residue of our death-feeling in our mathematics, our Art gleaning off our God-idea, the resonant echoes of the soul-image in our atom-idea, motion and force – the colossal dimensionality of the Rose shaping everything: the phenomena of the Self awakening to the Light of Day. Recall that the Rose thrives on bone, blood and ordure – geniuses are the obverse forebrains of civilization – the rest are pulled by the vector of humanity. All nodes on the network of the metahistorical Rose – its blossom and decay.

anatomy of metahistory:

ur-symbol:
morphology:
Kultur / Civilization
philosophy:
art-forms:
God-idea:
myth-forms:
architecture:
number-world:
star-idea:
space-feeling:
death-feeling:
soul-image:
self-feeling:
nature-knowledge (science, atom-idea, motion-idea etc):
urban / rural – conception of the City:
world-as-nature or world-as-history (ahistoric or historic mentality):
destiny / causality (physiognomic or systematic):
body politic:
body social:
esoteric / exoteric dimension:
fear-feeling:
love-feeling:
economy-idea:
media: