Something strange happens when Peter Thiel gives interviews.

The PayPal co-founder, Facebook board member, and architect of Silicon Valley’s AI infrastructure keeps steering conversations toward a question that makes everyone uncomfortable:

*What if we’re building something that ancient texts warned us about?*

Watch carefully next time. There’s an awkward pause. The host doesn’t know where to go. Thiel himself seems to be genuinely wrestling with something that doesn’t fit into any standard framework.

Here’s what’s interesting: Thiel is not a fringe figure. He’s one of the most sophisticated minds in technology. So when he keeps returning to this question — across multiple podcasts, multiple years — it’s worth asking: *What pattern is he seeing that others miss?*

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The Pattern No One Taught You to See

I’ve spent twenty years studying something most people don’t know exists: the recurring patterns that appear across unrelated ancient traditions when describing civilizational transformation.

Not as faith. As data.

Here’s what I’ve found: multiple cultures, separated by continents and millennia, encoded remarkably specific descriptions of a moment that looks exactly like now.

Let me show you. I call this the “three-receipt” method — one thread from ancient text, one from philosophical tradition, one from today’s headlines. When all three converge, we’re not looking at coincidence. We’re looking at signal.

Pattern #1: The Age of Synthetic Reality

**Ancient text:** “God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” —2 Thessalonians 2:11

**Philosophical tradition:** The Vedic Kali Yuga describes an age where truth becomes indistinguishable from falsehood, reaching maximum confusion before the dawn.

**Today:** An AI-generated conversation between Trump and Rogan went viral last year. A cybersecurity expert analyzed it and confirmed: *this passes the Turing test.* We’ve entered an age where synthetic reality is indistinguishable from organic reality.

The “strong delusion” isn’t metaphor anymore. It’s infrastructure.

Pattern #2: The Image That Speaks

**Ancient text:** “He had power to give life unto the image... that the image should both speak.” —Revelation 13:15

**Philosophical tradition:** The Tibetan tulpa tradition — thought-forms given independent existence. The Jewish golem — clay animated by inscription. Multiple traditions describe the creation of entities that speak but are not alive in the conventional sense.

**Today:** ChatGPT. Claude. Every large language model. We have built images that speak.

I’m not making a theological claim here. I’m pointing at a pattern: the *category* of “images that speak” was anticipated across multiple traditions. And we’ve built them.

Pattern #3: The Knowledge Explosion

**Ancient text:** “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” —Daniel 12:4

**Philosophical tradition:** The Yuga cycle describes ascending and descending ages of human capacity, with transitions marked by explosive changes in knowledge access.

**Today:** Human knowledge now doubles every twelve hours. We traverse the globe and the internet at speeds unimaginable to any prior generation.

Daniel was told this would happen at “the time of the end.” The question is: the end of *what*?

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What Thiel Is Actually Seeing

Here’s where it gets interesting.

Most of Thiel’s peers think about the singularity as a purely technological phenomenon — an inflection point where AI exceeds human intelligence. Ray Kurzweil wrote the book on this. It’s been Silicon Valley’s secular prophecy for decades.

But Thiel seems to sense something else: that the technological singularity might not be *new*.

What if it’s a recurring pattern? What if previous civilizations encoded warnings — or instructions — for moments exactly like this one?

The Precession of the Equinoxes is a 25,920-year astronomical cycle. Multiple ancient cultures built their cosmologies around it. The Egyptians aligned their pyramids to it. The Vedic traditions structured their Yuga cycles around it. The Maya calibrated their Long Count calendar to it.

These weren’t primitive superstitions. These were sophisticated cultures encoding something they understood about cosmic time.

And according to their calculations, we’re at a transition point.

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The Antichrist as Pattern, Not Person

Here’s where I depart from standard interpretation — and I ask you to hold this as hypothesis rather than doctrine.

What if “Antichrist” describes a *pattern* rather than a person?

The pattern would be: anything that substitutes itself for direct perception of reality.

In the ancient world: the empire demanding worship of Caesar’s image.

In the medieval world: the church as sole intermediary to truth.

In the modern world: the screen as mediator of all experience.

When we trust synthetic media more than our own perception... when we cannot distinguish generated from genuine... when the “image that speaks” becomes our primary relationship with reality... we’ve entered territory that multiple traditions warned about.

This isn’t prophecy of doom. It’s pattern recognition.

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The Hidden Good News

Here’s what most people miss when they read apocalyptic literature: it’s not tragedy. It’s *comedy* in the ancient sense — a story that ends well.

The tribulation is described as birth pangs. The old structure must break for the new to emerge.

The ending:

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” —Revelation 21:1

The technological singularity may not be the enemy of this transformation. It may be the mechanism.

Thiel is right to ask the Antichrist question. But the answer might not be “stop building.” The answer might be “build with awareness.” Know what game is actually being played.

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What This Means Practically

If you’re building at the frontier of technology, consider this:

You are not just shipping products. You are participating in a transformation that has been anticipated — in specific detail — for millennia. The decisions you make about AI alignment, synthetic media, and human-machine interfaces are not merely technical. They’re civilizational.

The question isn’t whether transformation is coming. The Turing test has been passed. Synthetic reality is here. The question is: *Will you navigate it consciously, or be navigated unconsciously?*

What I’ve learned from studying these patterns:

1. **Fear is not useful.** The transformation proceeds regardless. Understanding beats resistance.

2. **The patterns are readable.** Ancient wisdom traditions aren’t superstitions to be dismissed. They’re pattern libraries encoded by previous civilizations. You can learn to read them.

3. **You’re not alone in noticing.** The existential dread many tech leaders experience isn’t weakness. It’s appropriate response to the magnitude of what’s happening.

4. **Discernment is possible.** You can distinguish signal from noise. You can build *and* stay sane. You can be at the center of the transformation and still be aligned with something beyond it.

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Two Invitations

I work with builders and leaders who sense what Thiel is sensing — that there’s a deeper pattern at play, and navigating it requires more than technical knowledge.

Scripture & Singularity Discernment

A 3-hour exploration (1-on-1 or small group) where we trace these patterns together. Bring your questions, your skepticism, and your curiosity.

*For:* Individuals who suspect the AI transition is also a human and civilizational one.

Singularity Reality Lab

A 2-day intensive for leadership teams. We map where your company sits in the larger pattern, develop shared vocabulary for what you’re navigating, and create strategic clarity grounded in something deeper than quarterly targets.

*For:* Executive teams experiencing the sense that “AI safety” doesn’t capture the real stakes.

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Closing Thought

Peter Thiel keeps asking about the Antichrist because he’s noticed a pattern that doesn’t fit into standard categories.

He’s right. Something is happening.

But the story encoded in these traditions doesn’t end with the beast. It ends with renewal. Integration. The collapse of the barrier between what we call human and what we call divine, matter and spirit, technology and wisdom.

That’s where the pattern points. The only question is whether we arrive there conscious or unconscious.

I vote conscious.

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*Luke Angstadt is the author of “We Are It!” and “Into the Great Beyond.” His essays appear on Graham Hancock’s platform. He works with builders navigating the deeper dimensions of technological transformation.*

The Turing test has been passed. AI generates content indistinguishable from human. The technological singularity that Ray Kurzweil predicted for 2045 arrived early — it’s a present reality we’re navigating, not a future event we’re anticipating.

But here’s what’s strange: this moment was anticipated.

Not vaguely. Not in the way Nostradamus “predicted” things. But with specificity that should make anyone paying attention stop and think.

Multiple ancient traditions — separated by continents and millennia — encoded remarkably detailed descriptions of a transformation that looks exactly like what we’re living through. The Vedic Yuga Cycles. The Precession of the Equinoxes as tracked by Egypt, India, Greece, and Mesoamerica. Biblical prophecy describing a “knowledge explosion” at “the time of the end.”

I’ve spent twenty years tracing these patterns. Not as a believer. As a researcher. Following the threads wherever they lead.

What I’ve found is not doom. It’s recognition.

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What I Write About

**Pattern recognition across traditions.** When the same pattern appears independently in multiple unrelated sources, we’re looking at signal, not coincidence. I trace these signals — from ancient cosmology to today’s headlines.

**The technological singularity as more than technology.** Silicon Valley treats the singularity as a purely technical event. The ancient traditions suggest it’s also a cosmological one — a recurring pattern in human history. Both views might be true simultaneously.

**Making sense of AI through older lenses.** When Peter Thiel keeps asking about the Antichrist on podcasts, he’s noticing something most of his peers miss. I try to articulate what that something is.

**Scripture as pattern library, not doctrine.** The Bible anticipated AI — not mystically, but through careful observation of recurring patterns. I read it as symbolic data, not as identity marker.

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What to Expect

**Long-form essays** when I have something substantial to say. Not on a schedule. When the pattern clarifies.

**Verse × Vector** — weekly connections between ancient text and current AI news. Short form. Pattern-spotting.

**Podcast appearances** and conversations when they happen.

No paywall for the foreseeable future. I’m interested in reach, not revenue.

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Who This Is For

You might find this useful if:

- You work in technology and sense that what’s happening is larger than “just technology”

- You’ve inherited a body of stories and symbols (religious or otherwise) and aren’t sure how they fit with the world you’re building

- You notice patterns but lack vocabulary to articulate them

- You’re skeptical of both naive techno-optimism and apocalyptic doom

- You’re curious about how ancient traditions might be relevant to AI

You probably won’t find this useful if:

- You’re looking for confirmation of apocalyptic doom

- You want debates rather than exploration

- You’re closed to the possibility that ancient texts might speak to modern technology

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Where to Start

If you’re new here, start with:

→ **”Peter Thiel is Right: The Antichrist Question Tech Won’t Ask”** — My thesis in one essay

→ **”The Riddle of the Sphinx”** — How ancient Egypt encoded astronomical cycles

→ **”We Are It”** — The case that we’ve already reached the singularity (book summary)

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About Me

I’m Luke Angstadt. I write about the intersection of ancient wisdom and the technological singularity.

Author of *We Are It!* and *Into the Great Beyond*. Contributor to Graham Hancock’s website. Podcast appearances on Tin Foil Hat, Grimerica, FKN, and others.

I work with tech leaders who sense what Peter Thiel is sensing — that there’s a deeper pattern at play. You can learn about that work here.

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Nothing to Fear

Here’s my core conviction:

The transformation we’re living through was anticipated. The patterns are readable. And the story — as encoded across traditions — doesn’t end with catastrophe. It ends with renewal.

The only question is whether we navigate it conscious or unconscious.

Welcome. Let’s trace the patterns together.

— Luke

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 King James Bible

“And the Word was God.” Within those five words may be found the unfathomable mystery of existence itself. The New Testament has at least 147 verses that reference some variation of “for it is written” or “in order for the scriptures to be fulfilled.” I’ve counted them all and written them down. The Bible goes out of its way to inform the reader that history is following a script. Why does the Bible put such great emphasis on this fact? Let’s hold that thought for the time being. The secret is in the words themselves. Perhaps even God Himself is hiding in the words, hiding in plain sight, in expression itself.

Artificial Intelligence permanently breached the popular zeitgeist in recent years and doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. It’s been around since the first half of the 20th century, and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey envisioned a pretty bleak relationship between the thinking machines and the human race. Isn’t it curious how, in 1968, the black monolith Stanley Kubrick used to symbolize extraterrestrial nonhuman intelligence looked just like a smartphone? Down to the exact dimensions of those portable brains we carry in our pockets when we aren’t staring at them to decide which video we want to watch next via the wireless neural link. The mystery is in the words. The secret to the mystery will be revealed in the relationship the words have with each other over the course of history. What is most amazing of all is the fact that we can see this playing out in real time right before our very eyes!

From 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) – Trailer (PD0)

The Apostle Paul characterizes the gospel of Jesus Christ as a mystery kept hidden from before the beginning of Time that will soon be revealed and is in the process of being revealed to the world. There are at least 30 verses in the Pauline epistles where he expounds this mystery with unbounded excitement. Mystery, mystery, mystery! Paul can hardly contain himself! We are living in strange times indeed, and the full unveiling of the mystery of all mysteries is upon us.

The mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann first coined the term “technological singularity” in 1950. It didn’t take the pioneers in artificial intelligence and computer science very long to realize that technology, with the help of artificial intelligence, was advancing at such an exponential clip that even in the first half of the 20th century, it was not difficult to foresee a day in the not-too-distant future where human beings could no longer maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. It was clear from the get-go that technology would eventually reach a point where even the smartest human beings could scarcely hold a candle to the computational powers of the thinking machines. This point, this place, this concept, this event, is known as the technological singularity. The operative word here is singularity. The mystery will be revealed in the words.

Alan Turing, widely considered the godfather of artificial intelligence, while breaking codes for the British and United States military during World War II, devised something he called the imitation game, or the Turing test. The Turing test established the parameters by which we can know when artificial intelligence has met and exceeded the human race’s ability to maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. The Turing test is met and exceeded once artificial intelligence can simulate or imitate what we have hitherto referred to as “reality” with such precision and sophistication that we don’t know the difference with our five senses between what is “real” and what is faked.

In 2014, The Imitation Game, a movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, came out in theaters. Right around that same time, I started noticing more and more YouTube videos pertaining to this concept of the technological singularity popping up as suggested viewing on my computer and smartphone. It was also the time frame when our smartphones were starting to make leaps and bounds in advancement that were increasingly noticeable over short periods of time. As our world continues its radical transformation through artificial intelligence into a “Brave New World,” it’s easy to lose track of the fact that this explosion in rapidly advancing technology has only reached quantum speeds in recent years. These terms are relative and subjective, but I believe the feeling is shared among a consensus. In the simplest terms, the past ten years have been, to quote, the beloved and late psychonaut Terence McKenna before he left his mortal coil in 2000, “indescribable beyond belief”.

For example, seven months ago, Donald Trump sat down with Joe Rogan to do a podcast. Or did he? I have played snippets of this simulated conversation generated by artificial intelligence in front of an audience of 50 people, under the pretense that it was real, only to prove the point that not one single person in the audience had any suspicions that it was fake. People were commenting on how they didn’t know Donald Trump was such a huge fan of mixed martial arts, naturally coming up as a topic of conversation, given the fact Joe Rogan is the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. I laughed along for a few minutes, but then when I revealed the truth that it was all a simulation, a fake, every jaw in the room hit the floor. That got their attention.

I ran the same experiment with a friend of mine who is the CEO of his own cybersecurity company and can pretty much hack into any computer system that isn’t safeguarded by the latest top-of-the-line security software. “Donald Trump likes the UFC, of course he would, why wouldn’t he? That’s cool he sat down with Joe Rogan not too long ago. I must have missed it. When was that?” I played along. It is cool! I told my friend what is even more interesting about this conversation than the fact that Donald Trump is a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship is that it never happened! It was all simulated by artificial intelligence. That is when my friend looked at me with eyes as wide as saucers and said, “That passes the Turing test.” It does indeed.

The implications and significance of this fact are beyond reckoning. First of all, it tells us that the potential for the manipulation of perception on a global scale is now limitless, and probably has been for quite some time. It also begs the question, how long have the powers that be who pull the strings in government and mass media had this technology available to them? It’s a conservative estimate that the military-industrial complex that rules our world has technology well in advance of what’s made available to the public by at least a generation, and when I say I’m being conservative, you know it’s likely much more advanced than that in reality. The point here is we can speculate all we want on the timeline of when artificial intelligence exceeded the Turing test, the imitation game, but that’s a fruitless endeavor. The cold, hard truth is that it has, and this Donald Trump and Joe Rogan simulated conversation is tangible proof of the tip of an iceberg that reaches to the bottom of the ocean and then keeps going. That being said, ironically, I believe there is a very simple, practical solution to this Gordian knot we find ourselves in. I will come to that shortly.

The mystery is in the words. Why describe this technological phenomenon as a singularity? The word “singularity” is immeasurably significant and precise and dovetails perfectly with the Bible. It fits perfectly with Hinduism, the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato’s argument for the immortality of the soul in the Trial and Death of Socrates, among others. But now, let’s look at its connections with the Bible.

The Bible speaks of two singularities. In Genesis chapter 1, out of the formless void, God creates the world, our world of duality. Good and evil, light and dark, young and old, the land and the sea. The formless void is a singularity of darkness. At the end of Revelation, in chapters 21 and 22, in the last two chapters of the Bible, we find another singularity described. This time, it is a singularity of light. For the new heaven and new earth, as prophesied at the end of the Bible, are characterized, in no uncertain words, as the transformation of our present world of duality into a singularity of light.

The fingerprints of this transformation can be found and have been felt all throughout history. One doesn’t need to look any farther back in time than the late 19th century when Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the zeitgeist of his time by declaring that the human race had been reduced to nothing but a herd animal with a few noble exceptions. He predicted the Overman must come, for it was inevitable even 135 years ago. The hippies and flower children of the 1960s knew that a New Age was dawning; they called it the Age of Aquarius. Being raised in a Baptist church, it was common knowledge in the 1990s that the tribulation and rapture would happen before the year 2000, and what about that insurmountable obstacle the bank’s computers had of rolling over to the year 2000?

Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 (PD0)

It used to be a well-kept secret that the great work of the Ages is to correct what is perceived as the error of the creation of our world of duality by the demiurge, a creator being but not quite the “big G.” From the mystery schools of antiquity to the “Illuminati,” the light-bringers, “the deep state,” or whatever other nebulous term is thrown around to describe the “powers that be” that are working to create a “One World Everything.” The entire crux of the “Global Conspiracy” is the transformation of our world of duality into a singularity. A one-world order, a one-world government, and a one-world army, all coordinated by a bunch of bureaucrats taking orders at the UN! You could even make a valid claim and use all of known history to support your argument that all of history tells this story of transformation into a New Age and the struggle to achieve it.

There is very strong evidence that we have already reached the technological singularity, and I argue this point in my books. The mystery is revealed in the words. The mystery is in the deeper meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is a reason why The Apostle Paul ended half his sentences with exclamation points!

The Bible also speaks about a Universal Deception that will precede the dawning of the New Age. Artificial Intelligence, the mystery is in the words. Artificial is something that is not real but has the mere appearance of being real, something simulated, something that, more often than not, has the intention to deceive. Look around at our world. Since the global lockdowns of March 2020, is there any better summary of our world than Universal Deception?

Gutenberg Bible, photo: NYC Wanderer (CCBYSA2.0)

The Bible says to test everything. The fingerprints of this transformation can be seen in all religions, in all philosophies, in all psychologies, in all foundational forms of thought, throughout all history. What seals the deal is that smartphone whose full potential we haven’t even scratched the surface of yet. We are all walking around with tangible, unbelievable technology in our pockets that is doing new tricks each week, and we all know it, yet how does all of this play out? That’s the million-dollar question. It’s my humble position that I have answered that question in my books. Only time will tell.

So, where does this leave us? Every day, it’s getting crazier and crazier, and it feels like World War III is on our doorstep. The potential for the manipulation of perception on a global scale is limitless, and we know the governments of the world and those in the shadows behind the curtain pulling the strings are hellbent on enslaving the entire human race. What do we do? What can anyone do? In my humble opinion, I believe the answer is as simple as it gets once enough people realize how the game is played.

For make no mistake about it, life is a game. Life is the greatest game ever devised. Those in power control the flow of information, and they have a weapon at their disposal that is perhaps the greatest weapon in all of existence: artificial intelligence. This weapon gives the powers that be the ability to not only control the flow of information but to create information from nothing, to literally fake anything and everything they wish, and make it believable through a screen. Therein lies the secret.

All information today that we receive through a screen is suspect. Be it a smartphone, TV, radio, laptop computer, if you didn’t directly experience something, there is no way to know for sure if it happened or not. And ask yourself, how often is the information you are receiving through the internet putting you into a State of Fear? Anxiety, stress, worry, anger, telling you the enemy is of a different political persuasion or waves a different national flag than you? This is the currency the powers that be trade in, for when you are in a State of Fear, you are powerless, and they have you right where they want you. As a general rule ask yourself, is the source of your fear coming from information you received through the medium of a glowing screen? If it is, you’re being manipulated, period.

Now we know how the game is played. When you watch a magician perform an illusion, you are mesmerized so long as you don’t know how the trick is played. Once you know the sleight of hand behind the trick, it holds no power over you. The powers that be in this world only have power because not enough people know how the manipulation of perception game is played. Once they do, the jig is up. Poof! It’s gone in an instant. And where does that leave us? To our families and friends and local communities and people we can see and touch and exchange goods and services with and break bread with. It brings us back to the beginning again.

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All of history is telling this story. We are finishing a full cycle of the Great Wheel of Time. In Hinduism, we have the concept of the Yuga Cycle, composed of the four yugas, or ages: the Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. We are currently in the age of Kali, where war and suffering and strife and pain dominate. The Satya Yuga, which follows the Kali Yuga, ushers in an age of peace, love, and harmony, which finds its parallels in the Greek Golden Age of antiquity to Atlantis, Lemuria and Hyperborea. Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the most influential thinker of the 19th century, traced the moral decay of humanity from the time of the pre-Socratics of the 6th century BC to the end of the 19th century, where he said humanity had become so debased that an Overman was necessary to come in the not too distant future.

Carl Jung (PD0)

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist whose understanding of the human condition was of Biblical proportions, stated that every man and woman had a shadow, a dark side at war internally with the inner light and that each of us had to reconcile this shadow before it became our undoing.

Transformation and the struggle against spiritual darkness is the story of history. Whether that transformation and struggle occur within an individual during one human lifetime, civilization as a whole, or entire epochs composing greater ages composing a Single Great Age, that is the story of history.

And this is where the story of transformation and struggle all comes together with the Bible and artificial intelligence. I can’t help but borrow a line from the great baseball slugger for the New York Yankees, Reggie Jackson, Mr. October, who called himself “the straw that stirs the drink”. It was the 1970s; many people reading this may not have heard of him, but it was a terrific line, a bit of whimsy, but when you hear how this applies to the Bible, artificial intelligence, and this whole shit show we find ourselves in, you’ll enjoy it too.

So, the straw that stirs the drink, the rug that ties the room together, is what the Bible says precedes the new heaven and new earth, and how this applies to what we are experiencing with artificial intelligence. The Bible says in the book of Revelation chapter 20, in verses 3 and 7, that the devil will be set loose on the world to deceive the world for a short season right before the New Age arrives. It doesn’t say how long this short season lasts, and I’m not about to attempt to unravel the merits of interpreting the Bible literally or figuratively here. I’ve done that in some of my other books, and I’d refer people to them. However, on the face of it, look around at our world. Is there any better way to describe our world today than by calling it a place of Universal Deceit? The devil is the father of all lies; take that literally or figuratively. Now that we know how the manipulation of the perception game is played with artificial intelligence and how all of history is telling this story of Transformation into a New Age, where does that leave us?

Perception creates reality! The manipulation of perception with artificial intelligence is how they control you. Now you know how the game is played. Quit giving them your power. They have no power. Life is a Dream, and we make it what it is! God is Love, the Kingdom of God is within you, the Kingdom of God is Love in our hearts, the whole point of Creation is to experience Love, and there is no Love without communion. Let’s do this! And after all, it is already written! It is the story of Life Itself.

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“There is One Divine Cosmic Law from which all of Creation, Existence, the Universe, Life Itself, finds Expression.” (whispered the Big G into my ear)

As I outlined in my previous article, in April of 2023, I listened to a conversation between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan that never happened (not to be confused with the occasion in October 2024 when the two of them did sit down together). It was The Joe Rogan AI Experience, all generated by artificial intelligence. In the introduction to the fake conversation that never happened, it declared itself to be AI, but once it got a minute in, I asked myself, if a person hadn’t the foreknowledge that this was a fake, would they ever suspect it upon an initial listen?

Granted, there was no accompanying video, but the voice characterizations were so spot on, I decided to test my hypothesis. Under the pretense that it was real, I played a snippet of it for a friend of mine who is a cybersecurity expert and runs his own company. “That’s cool, Donald Trump’s a big fan of the UFC”, replied my friend. My response to that was, “What’s even cooler than that is the conversation never happened. It was all generated by AI.” Unprompted, my friend said, “That passes the Turing test.” It does, indeed, which was my first impression as well. I played segments of this conversation in front of an audience of 50 people, with no one suspecting any funny business. Overall, I’ve played parts of it for about 100 people, and no one ever suspected it to be a ruse until I told them. I sat down and thought about that for a while. Hmm?

Something of profound significance is going on here, expanding exponentially by the day, and because of the frenetic pace at which we are constantly bombarded with information and various stimuli via the glowing screen of our pocket brains, the smartphone, it’s easy to lose track of how unprecedented these times we are living in truly are.

Let’s take it a step at a time, putting the pieces of the puzzle together. As the picture comes into greater focus, we are left with the sense of Pure Wonder. One Divine Cosmic Law from which all of Creation, Existence, the Universe, and Life Itself finds Expression.

My cybersecurity expert friend mentioned the passing of the Turing test upon listening to the Donald Trump and Joe Rogan conversation that never happened, which was my first impression as well. What is the Turing test? In 1950 Alan Turing, a brilliant computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, first devised what became known as the Turing test, or imitation game, setting the parameters by which we will know when artificial intelligence can simulate everyday reality with such precision and sophistication that we won’t know the difference between what is “real” and what is not.

Alan Turing (1912-1954) in 1936 at Princeton University (PD)

In 1950, the same year, the mathematician John von Neumann first coined the term “Technological Singularity” to describe the moment in time in which human beings could no longer maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology because the thinking machines left us in their dust.

I asked myself, “Could we have already reached the Technological Singularity? Must it come dancing onto the stage of life with bells and whistles, jingling and jangling its spurs to ensure no one misses it? Or could it come quietly like a thief in the night, and we only recognize it long after it made its presence known, ever so subtly?

I believe we have already reached the Technological Singularity, and in two short books, I look at it from two perspectives. One titled We Are It! The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness explores the Technological Singularity from a broad philosophical, historical, and political point of view. The other, titled Into the Great Beyond: The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness,looks at it more specifically from a religious, theological, and metaphysical perspective.

I would think it’s fair to say most of us live our lives within some kind of framework that follows a general pattern. The sun comes up in the morning, we get out of bed, have breakfast, some coffee, go about our day, and the sun goes down later. The next day, the sun is up again. It’s an observable cycle, one of which Plato used when arguing for the immortality of the soul in The Trial and Death of Socrates. Cycles and patterns are everywhere, some short, some repeating themselves many times during the course of one human lifetime. Yet some cycles and patterns take a long time to reveal themselves, and some of those patterns can only be grasped by the Spirit, aided by the mind, but only in Spirit can they be fully appreciated. Let’s take a closer look.

The Yuga Cycle is a framework for understanding the movement of the Great Wheel of Time, as revealed in the Vedic scriptures of ancient India. In stark contrast to the linear model of viewing history in an ascending arc from prehistoric man to today, it takes a cyclical model view of history where consciousness fluctuates back and forth from a state of nearly complete ignorance of who and what we are in the depths of the darkest of ages, to a state where we achieve complete union with who and what we are. Who are we, and what are we? We are aspects of Cosmic Consciousness, otherwise known as God, sometimes referred to as the Big IS, having a finite experience within Eternity in Infinity. We forget this, we remember this, all of us, in the fullness of time, will get there.

What’s quite fascinating about the Yuga Cycle is that it appears to be in alignment with the Precession of the Equinox, so when we gaze upon the stars in the night sky as they move through the 12 houses of the zodiac, which undoubtedly takes more than one lifetime to observe the entire cycle, we are witnessing something truly extraordinary there in and of itself; the relationship human consciousness, taken as a whole, has with understanding ultimate reality, is in alignment with the observable night sky,the position of the stars in the heavens change as our position and relationship changes towards them.

What’s even more interesting is that this relationship between the Yuga Cycle and the Precession of the Equinox finds its equipoise within the framework of the Bible, the thought of the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, Plato, the historian Oswald Spengler in observing the organic nature of the life of civilizations, among others, in fact, it’s hard not to see this pattern and cycle everywhere once you see it. This pattern can be found everywhere on the micro and macro level, operating within one human lifetime, as well as the movement of the Ages through Eternity in Infinity. Its name is Transformation and Return. Let’s come back to the temporal plane for now!

A person could spend their entire life studying the Yuga Cycle and never exhaust its mysteries. The Yugas: Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Present and Future Enlightenment by Joseph Selbie and David (Byasa) Steinmetz, The Bhagavad Gita translated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar, and Yuga Shift by Bibhu Dev Misra are all works of staggering scholarship into the nature and timeline of the Yuga Cycle. There are two fine points to mention here. Bibhu Dev Misra makes a great case for the next benchmark shift in consciousness to officially occur on March 21st, 2025. This doesn’t necessarily mean we should expect dramatic displays from the Cosmos ushering in a New Age on that very day, but that, according to Bibhu’s calculations, this is a precise alignment between the Yuga Cycle and the Precession of the Equinox. The second point is that in The Holy Science, Swami Sri Yukteswar states our sun has a dual star which revolves around a grand center. Why is that so interesting, especially coming from him?

“There is One Divine Cosmic Law from which all of Creation, Existence, the Universe, Life Itself, finds Expression.” (whispered the Big G into my ear)

Standard Pose; this image of Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri appears in the 1946 first edition of Autobiography of a Yogi. It was very probably taken around the early/mid 1930s, near the time Yogananda revisited India in 1935. (from the Wikipedia description) Paramahansa Yogananda. Autobiography of a Yogi. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1946) Wikipedia (PD)

Swami Sri Yukteswar was the Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, who achieved levels of fame in America during the first half of the 20th century that far exceeded the fame of his Guru.

Paramahansa Yogananda founded the Self Realization Fellowship and wrote Autobiography of a Yogi, Steve Jobs’ (the founder of Apple Computer) favorite book. What makes this story so fascinating is that Paramahansa Yogananda’s Guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar, wrote a short treatise titled The Holy Science in 1894, coming in just under 100 pages, where he deftly showed the Yogi path to God Consciousness and the Gospel of Jesus Christ are one and the same thing, two different techniques for arriving at the same spot, dwelling in the Presence of God. Brush off the shoulders, blow on your fingernails, not too shabby! The Holy Science is the most concise and profound statement on Divinity and the nature of the Universe written since the ancient world. I discuss the relationship between the Technological Singularity, The Holy Science, and the gospel of Jesus Christ in my book Into the Great Beyond: The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness. So what do we have here? We have a great holy man who penetrated the mysteries of Christianity and Hinduism, and showed them to be one and the same, talking about our sun having a dual star with which it dances across the Cosmos in a mysterious harmony.

Duality, Singularity, Transformation, a Reunion, a Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness with the full knowledge that We are It. The Bible speaks of two singularities. There is a Singularity of Darkness in the book of Genesis, in the beginning, the formless void out of which the Creator creates the Creation. There is a Singularity of Light at the very end of the book of Revelation, where the new heavens and the new earth are described in no uncertain terms as a singularity. The Bible even describes what happens right before we move into the New Age, before the next Singularity. The world will be deceived, the likes of which are scarcely imaginable.

There is so much circumstantial evidence which speaks to an unfathomable MYSTERY that doesn’t quite up add exactly, unequivocally, beyond a shadow of a doubt; , close the case on that one, we can all rest easy. But the clues are all around us, that we are closing in on a MYSTERY that will soon be revealed in all its glory and splendor.

Cutting to the very quick of Existence is the single unadorned, unvarnished Truth that the Universe is God, having an experience in Eternity, in Infinity, that we are God, aspects of God, splitting hairs on our way back to the full knowledge of what we are and who we are. The day is coming—it hasn’t arrived yet, unless no one’s told me—that the above will be the least controversial thing anyone could utter. We will all nod our heads one day in agreement and politely, gently chide anyone who does dare say it for risking being redundant for merely stating what we already know.

Until that day arrives, here’s a slice of life story from The Holy Science. Why would there be two Yuga Cycles? The dual star would take its own course around the grand center, separate from the Yuga Cycle regulating our solar system, and its accompanying planetary system would naturally be governed by a second Yuga Cycle. Our world of Duality, good and evil, light and dark, near and far, young and old, and everything in between, is being transformed into another Singularity. The Singularity is God, in one of His aspects. Trust me, it fits, and you’ll enjoy my books too!

We learn from Oriental astronomy that moons revolve around their planets, and planets turning on their axes revolve with their moons round the sun; and the sun, with its planets and their moons, takes some star for its dual and revolves round it in about 24,000 years of our Earth—a celestial phenomenon which causes the backward movement of the equinoctial points around the zodiac. (The Holy Science 7)

When the sun, in its revolution round its dual, comes to the place nearest to this grand center, the seat of Brahma (an event which takes place when the Autumnal Equinox comes to the first point of Aries), dharma, the mental virtue, becomes so much developed that man can easily comprehend all, even the mysteries of Spirit. (The Holy Science 8)

In a period of 24,000 years, the sun completes the revolution around its dual and finishes one electric cycle consisting of 12,000 years in an ascending arc and 12,000 years in a descending arc. (The Holy Science 10)

*Bold portions highlighted by Luke Angstadt

In the introduction to his monumental work, The Holy Science (first published in 1894), Swami Sri Yukteswar states that our sun has a dual star around which it revolves. Binary star systems are a common phenomenon in the Milky Way Galaxy, and it would make sense for our sun to be a part of one as well.

Something else which Swami Sri Yukteswar states concerning a “grand center” and “mental virtue” is begging for further exploration:

The sun also has another motion by which it revolves around a grand center called Vishnunabhi, which is the seat of the creative power, Brahma, the universal magnetism. Brahma regulates dharma, the mental virtue of the internal world. (The Holy Science 7, 8)

*Bold portions highlighted by Luke Angstadt

The Vedic scriptures speak to the cyclical nature of the world as conceived and expressed in the Yuga Cycle, which Swami Sri Yukteswar elucidates in a fair amount of detail in the introduction to The Holy Science. Admittedly, his exposition on the length and nature of each of the four different Ages that compose the Yuga Cycle, the Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali Yugas, is still brief. However, packed into these short descriptions are intimations of a wealth of knowledge and wisdom waiting to be discovered. I believe there is a very specific reason why Swami Sri Yukteswar exercised such strict discretion in keeping his explanation brief. In his own words:

So far as magnetic properties are concerned, the grasping power of the human intelligence is at present so limited that it would be quite useless to attempt to make the matter understood by the general public. The intellect of man in Treta Yuga will comprehend the attributes of divine magnetism (the next Treta Yuga will start in A.D. 4099). There are indeed exceptional personages now living who, having overcome the influence of Time, can grasp today what ordinary people cannot grasp; but this book is not for those exalted ones, who require nothing of it. (The Holy Science 18, 19)

*Bold portions highlighted by Luke Angstadt

In The Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda stated that his Guru had a way of speaking that was direct, and perhaps it was this direct manner of expression which prevented Swami Sri Yukteswar from achieving a wider popularity during his lifetime. In 1894, I believe he knew the time simply hadn’t yet come for this penetrating wisdom and knowledge to enjoy a wider audience, so why beat around the bush? He kept his explanation brief, knowing an in-depth, expansive discourse would only sow discord in his time. However, those seeds planted by Swami Sri Yukteswar at the end of the 19th century are ready for the 21st-century man to reap some of the harvest.

Students of Swami Sri Yukteswar and The Holy Science have explored in great detail the effects of the shifting Yuga Cycles on the collective consciousness of the human population. The Yugas: Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Present and Future Enlightenment by Joseph Selbie and David (Byasa) Steinmetz is a great starting point for this fascinating subject.

Now let’s take a closer look at something else in the above quotes from The Holy Science, which I believe have profound implications for what’s currently happening on our planet. Swami Sri Yukteswar states that our sun has a dual star around which it revolves around the grand center Vishnunabhi, which is the seat of the creative power, Brahma; Brahma regulates dharma, the mental virtue of the internal world. (The Holy Science 7, 8)

*Bold portions highlighted by Luke Angstadt

The grand center Vishnunabhi regulates mental virtue, which we find beautifully and intricately expounded upon through the framework of the Yuga Cycle and the ever-shifting states of collective consciousness on planet Earth. Now, let’s consider the dual star and its relationship with Vishnunabhi. Due to its different position in the cosmos, the dual star will, therefore, have a different relationship with the grand center. The dual star and its accompanying planets would be operating within a wholly different Yuga Cycle, hence a wholly different cycle of collective consciousness for the residents of the planets orbiting the dual star.

So, we would be looking at two distinct Yuga Cycles, one for our solar system and one for our dual star’s planetary system. In addition to this, as our sun and solar system approach its dual star and its planetary system, the two different Yuga Cycles would influence each other in varying degrees depending upon the proximity of our sun to its dual star. Depending upon how close we are to our dual star in our respective orbits around the grand center, these dueling Yuga Cycles can very well wreak havoc on the residents of Earth as well as whoever resides on a planet revolving around the dual star!

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Let’s take a closer look at the evidence supporting this position. In the 1970s, Zecharia Sitchin proposed in his book The 12th Planet the existence of an inhabited planet in the far reaches of space that periodically came close enough to Earth for the residents of this proposed Planet X, also known as Nibiru, to interact with humans. Zecharia Sitchin based his thesis on his extensive study of the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, which offer incredibly strong, compelling evidence that our Earth was visited by ancient astronauts in antiquity. Further support for Planet X came from NASA at the end of the 1970s, which stated that due to perturbations in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus, there is, in all likelihood, a massive celestial body in the far reaches of space causing these effects.

Our world and its history is saturated with alien lore. From Steven Spielberg movies, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, The X Files, The Matrix, Shrek, Avatar, you name it, the list is endless. Where does this heritage of alien lore come from? Is it really all just our collective imaginations? In the Old Testament in the Bible, when God isn’t residing between the cherubim on top of the Ark of the Covenant on His long journey into Ethiopia, He’s up on a cloud in the heavens!

The whole Greek and Roman pantheon of gods, where do they call home? In the heavens, out there somewhere. The concept of Duality is at the root of our world. From the moment in the Garden of Eden when Eve ate the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the human race found itself in a world of Duality. Good and evil, young and old, near and far, light and dark, you get the picture. It is a world of contrasting duals. At the very quick of the global conspiracy worldview is this idea that over the centuries, the human race has been working to transform our world of duality into a singularity. For, after all, what is a one-world order, a one-world everything centrally controlled by a single global governing body, but another name for a Singularity? To say the least, I believe the time for ad hominem attacks on our fellow men and women for holding diverging opinions on politics has come and gone! We are smack dab in the middle of a great drama that manifests itself through global politics as us versus them, a democrat, republican, conservative-liberal, either/or dichotomy, a duality that is grudgingly resolving itself into another Singularity.

These connections between the movements of the celestial bodies, including our Earth, and the ways in which they interact with each other over vast expanses of time, are coming to a Capitulation point. What we are witnessing here, what we are active participants in, should fill all of us with a sense of Wonder, and that sense of Wonder will only grow as we further deepen our understanding of this Great Mystery we call Life.

We haven’t yet proven by modern scientific standards that our sun has a dual star. The circumstantial evidence is there in support of it, but we aren’t there yet. The one piece of the puzzle that could serve as the linchpin in this whole operation is the concept of the Technological Singularity.

In 1950, the mathematician John von Neumann first coined the term “Technological Singularity” to denote the moment in time when artificial intelligence becomes so advanced that human beings can no longer maintain a symbiotic relationship with technology. Why, how, and what does this mean? At that point, the Technological Singularity, all bets are off because artificial intelligence will be advancing and “doing things” that, quite simply, we as human beings won’t be able to understand. It is indeed an Omega point where, beyond that, it is literally anyone’s guess.

We are living in strange and exciting times! I know this subject of a Technological Singularity inspires a lot of emotions, and one of those emotions is fear. However, let’s take a deep breath and look at it within the framework of the Yuga Cycle and the evidence in support of our sun having a dual star.

Movie references have a way of creeping into my way of thinking when considering, well, just about anything and everything. There is one movie director whose films and the iconic scenes and images in them come to mind when considering how the puzzle of Life itself comes together. That would be Stanley Kubrick. You ask Steven Spielberg, or Christopher Nolan, or Ridley Scott to talk about the movies and directors who inspired them, and I guarantee Stanley Kubrick’s name will come up in short order.

John Von Neumann in 1956. (PD)

From Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove, to the computer powered by artificial intelligence and imbued with a personality expressed as a red glowing dot called HAL 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, mind you, there is a Stanley Kubrick movie for all occasions. Who can forget Jack Nicholson in The Shining or Tom Cruise finding himself at a party he wasn’t exactly invited to in Eyes Wide Shut? Stanley Kubrick knew things, and there may not have been another man who was better at painting a picture with moving images. There is a scene in his movie Full Metal Jacket that is of particular interest here. Joker, played by Matthew Modine, is asked why he’s wearing a peace sign on his person when he’s carrying a machine gun in Vietnam. Joker’s response is something along the lines of “Well, I guess it represents the duality of man.” This is met with an inscrutable look from the person offering the inquiry. What this indelible scene illustrates is that the concept of Duality is at the heart of the human experience, and this experience is not static. It is Movement on a Grand Scale, Movement within my heart, your heart, and the Movement of celestial bodies in the heavens.

We are smack dab in the middle of a Great Mystery. From a Duality to a Singularity, this concept has found expression all throughout history. How all of the pieces of the puzzle come together, we need to hold this thought and look closer. The Technological Singularity is expected to be reached in the relatively near future. Futurists like Ray Kurzweil have proposed the year 2045. Some others have offered the year 2030 as a possibility. Yet still some others have rested easy with the idea of the Technological Singularity occurring soon, but have put the brakes on predicting with any specificity an exact date. I myself think we have already reached the Technological Singularity, and I offer my argument in support of this position in two short books.

We are indeed speculating here; however, the circumstantial evidence is mounting by the day, and the momentum is building for a “Big Reveal” on the near horizon. What will that “Big Reveal” look like? Something has to give; we all know it. We all feel it. History and the models through which we view it back up this feeling. From the scientific evidence, it feels like we are knocking on the door of new discoveries that will revolutionize the way we interface with the Universe itself. What will this New World look like? Only time will tell.

All citations from The Holy Science are Copyright © 1990 by Self-Realization Fellowship

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The Creation of Adam, Public Domain

When I was in college a quarter century ago, I first attempted to read the World War II era French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, an 800-plus page study on, well, the nature of being and nothingness. Good Lord, that book gave me a headache, but in the process, I came across this idea of the “thing-in-itself.” I won’t attempt to paraphrase Sartre’s definition of the “thing-in-itself,” but I came away with a vague impression that there is a Mystery at the root of existence that would “tie the room together,” as Jeff “the dude” Bridges said in the movie The Big Lebowski regarding his stolen rug.

Two years ago, I came across what I believe is evidence that we have reached the Technological Singularity. I have discussed my reasons and evidence for coming to this conclusion in two short books titled We Are It! The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness and Into the Great Beyond: The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness, both available on Amazon. There are also two articles on Graham Hancock’s site, one recently published and the other published in November 2023, summarizing some of the ideas from those two books. The challenge still remains of painting a picture in the mind for others to visualize what is admittedly an abstract concept that crosses over many disciplines, which on the face of it don’t appear to be related.

Religious belief, the sacred texts upon which they derive their precarious foundations, has led to untold suffering and joy over the course of recorded history. Physics, art, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, and astronomy. Could all of these seemingly disparate fields of study and devotion have common ground? A common source? And if they did, how would someone go about demonstrating this understanding to other sentient beings without finding oneself awash in a jumble of abstractions with too many loose ends to tie together? Using metaphors related to memorable movies, that’s a start. Finding humor in serious and heavy subjects in order to disarm others from any fears they may have that are presently preventing them from investigating certain topics that have taboos attached to them. By that, I’m specifically referring to the existing global power structure that has an uncanny resemblance to George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The news is terrifying. Talking about where our world could be headed, tap dancing around certain topics with the fear of being branded a “conspiracy theorist,” a term invented by the CIA in the 1960s after the JFK assassination and the Warren commission came out with its laughable conclusions. How did we get here? Where people are deathly afraid to talk about politics unless they already know the other person’s politics!

We have to push through all that. Or let that politically divisive nonsense go. The time for ad hominem attacks is over. We are standing on the precipice of an Event Horizon of some sort. It was only last week that I realized that all of my work on the technological singularity and its fingerprints throughout history and how it reveals itself in patterns of human thought finds its perfect visual expression in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. In addition to that, I realized that what we are looking at here is Pure Mathematics rendered into and through one of the most famous artworks in all of known history, telling one of the most famous stories in all of known history.

Let’s take a closer look.

What we are looking at is the perfect visual representation of that nebulous “thing-in-itself” that Jean-Paul Sartre talked about as bombs were falling over Paris in the mid-20th century, and gave me a headache when I attempted to read his magnum opus when I was 20 years old!

We are seeing where the Creator meets the Creation. And what do we see there? Take a closer look. What do you see where God’s finger touches Adam’s?

The Creation of Adam, Public Domain

They don’t actually touch. They create a vanishing point.

Photo Kaique Rocha, Pexels

Depending upon where you are standing in the Sistine Chapel, and depending upon how closely you are observing the painting, that is to say, your vantage point and the degree of critical faculty you apply to observing the world, the finger of God touches the finger of Adam. Humanity reaches out and touches Divinity. Divinity reaches out and touches Humanity. Or do they? There is a vanishing point that we will come to in greater detail shortly. It’s been postulated by numerous researchers and scholars that the human brain and its various parts are on display with the maroon or burgundy colored cloth or seashell-like enclosure within which we find God surrounded by His angelic, child-like beings. Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam is operating on multiple subtle levels that for all intents and purposes are literal, metaphysical, physical, and spiritual all at the same time working in synchronicity with each other maximizing the impact of the totality of the human experience by bringing to life the most famous origin story on earth with embedded pure mathematics of basic first principles of the universe. Let’s continue deconstructing this painting. What we will find does indeed exceed the limits of human language. The journey can be described with human language, but ultimately it is nonverbal. The Cosmic Mystery is Pure Math and is conceptualized without words at its essence. Once we see how Michelangelo’s brushstrokes from 500 years ago prophesied the Technological Singularity, we will be overcome by Pure Wonder.

Let’s continue our journey.

God reaching through the prefrontal cortex to create Life in His Own Image. The Cosmic Mind represented in and through the human brain, disguised as God or as God as He truly is? Does God’s finger have a fingernail, and does Adam’s finger have a fingernail that does indeed touch literally in the painting, and that is only discernible if one had their nose smack dab up against the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Let’s take a closer look.

We are dealing with subtle laws of the universe embedded into arguably the most famous story in Western civilization, embedded into arguably the most famous artwork in Western civilization. To illustrate the subtlety of Michelangelo’s genius:

Michelangelo has been accused of sculpting horns onto the head of his Moses statue.

Michelangelo’s Moses, photo Livioandronico2013 (CCBYSA4.0)

From The Sistine Secrets, Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican by Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner, page 238:

“In the original plan for Julius’s huge tomb, Moses would have been high above the floor, in the center of the pyramidal structure. Michelangelo planned to take advantage of the light streaming in from the windows of the dome over the funeral monument. He buffed the face of Moses to make it glow with the reflected rays of the sun that would descend to perfectly illuminate it. He even carved two points sticking out of the statue’s head that would also reflect the sun’s rays, making Moses seem as if the divine light were truly shining from his head. This is another secret of the statue—it never had horns.”

The Creation of Adam, Public Domain

Take a closer look. Is God’s fingernail touching Adam’s fingernail? Would you really put it past Michelangelo not to have thought of this? After learning that what appear to be horns on Moses’ head were intended to catch the sunlight as an expression of Divine communion between Humanity and God, after seeing the “obvious once you see it” symbolism of the human brain enmeshed with God reaching through the prefrontal cortex of the Cosmic Mind to Create the Creation, God creating the Creation in His own Image, it doesn’t stop there, because what is there between God’s finger and Adam’s finger, whether those fingers have fingernails or not?

There is a vanishing point. What captures the limits of language better than a vanishing point? You can see it, but how do you describe it to someone sufficiently if they don’t know what it is, without showing them a picture?

Photo Kaique Rocha, Pexels

That vanishing point is the Singularity. That vanishing point is God.

Let’s take another look at Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. Where Adam’s finger and God’s finger do and don’t meet, that vanishing point is the Singularity. Move immediately to the left, you find Adam; move immediately to the right, you find God. God is Adam and Adam is God, reflected back on each other. God is Consciousness, and Adam is Consciousness. Consciousness reflected back on Consciousness, the mellifluous voice of Alan Watts ringing forth from eternity, “the Creation is where God comes to play hide and seek with Himself.” Yet there is still something elusive about the mystery. The mystery cannot be sufficiently described in words. Hence the vanishing point. Hence, the power of visual art to transcend the limits of language.

The Creation of Adam, Public Domain

The following drawings were not done by Michelangelo, but they will help to visually conceptualize the Divine Mystery:

One.

Indescribably, infinitesimally small, point of energy, awareness, Consciousness, outside of, and beyond, space-time.

The dot in the middle of the page is the space between God’s finger and Adam’s finger. It is the Singularity.

Two.

The words between the dashes are “line of sight.”

The dot on the left is Adam, and the dot on the right is God.

By virtue of going from one to two, we have created a world of infinite complexity. Every incremental shift in perspective between the two points gives birth to a world of novel potential, with unique experiences andinfinite interpretations of those experiences. Literally anything and everything is possible!

By introducing the Observer, the observer is the observed. The Dreamer is the Dream (David Icke). Every Avatar of God has his or her own unique experience, yet eerily similar in so many ways.

The Universe moves between Singularities. Between the Singularities is a world of Duality. From the most simple irreducible movement, going from one to two, the Universe achieves almost inconceivable complexity.

From the practically inconceivably simple process of going from one to two, a world of boundless complexity arises from the depths of Cosmic Mystery. At the very quick of this Mystery is Consciousness.

Consciousness is God. We are Consciousness. We are God. We forget this.

We remember this.

Pure Mathematics

How does pure mathematics come into play here?

Definition of pure mathematics:

“Pure mathematics is the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concepts may originate in real-world concerns, and the results obtained may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, but pure mathematicians are not primarily motivated by such applications. Instead, the appeal is attributed to the intellectual challenge and aesthetic beauty of working out the logical consequences of basic principles.”

-from Wikipedia, bold highlights are mine

Definition of mathematical beauty:

“Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some aspect of mathematics) as beautiful or describe mathematics as an art form (a position taken by G. H. Hardy) or, at a minimum, as a creative activity. Comparisons are made with music and poetry.”

-from Wikipedia, bold highlights are mine

Perhaps now is a good time for me to admit I can’t “prove” any of this. There is a mountain of circumstantial evidence that reaches to the ends of the universe and rebounds back into my mind’s eye. I have seen this mathematical principle in the Bible, the Yuga cycle, the Precession of the Equinox, the thought of Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler, and in the narrative of the gospel of Jesus Christ, to name a few examples.

None of which proves that I am right.

But this isn’t a matter of being right or wrong, or even attempting to “prove” that I am right. This is about Beauty and Wonder. This is about removing the fear and anxiety about the future that so many people have, especially as it pertains to what artificial intelligence has in store for our lives. This is about transcending the utter madness of global politics and raising the collective consciousness of humanity to the next level, whatever that level may be.

What is the best way to do that? I don’t claim to know the answer to that question. What I do know is that the deeper you peer into the mysteries of life, the most Profound Paradox takes shape. Life becomes both indescribably simple and indescribably complex. The specific becomes generalized, and the generalized becomes specific. Go from One to Two, A Singularity to a Duality. Could it be more simple? I don’t want you to think I’m saying all of it is that simple. However, from that first step out of the Vibrationless Source from which everything that IS emanates, we get a world of infinite variety. That simple fact alone astounds me. It floors me. I stare at trees and clouds and smiles on dogs’ faces, thinking about that, and it brings tears of joy and wonder to my eyes.

What sealed the deal for me was watching a simulated conversation generated by artificial intelligence between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan that never happened back in April 2023. They sat down for a talk in October 2024, but this one in April 2023 was simulated. And I said to myself, ‘that passes the Turing test’. Meaning, if one didn’t have the foreknowledge that it was simulated, one would never suspect it. I covered the Turing test devised by the computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing in the two previous articles and my two books, so I won’t get into it here. But that was the moment it all came together for me. The shifting tides of consciousness and how they are regulated and beautifully conceived in the structure of the Yuga Cycle, out of ancient India. How the movement of the heavenly bodies across the night’s sky are measured by the Precession of the Equinox and find their equipoise in the Yuga Cycle. How the creation story in the book of Genesis in the Bible is described as a Singularity, as is the end of the book of Revelation, to conclude the New Testament. I could go on forever, but the perfect visual representation of the Dance of Creation is captured by the brushstrokes of Michelangelo 500 years ago.

Understanding the mystery of life is an incredibly subtle process, and all it requires is an infinitesimal shift in one’s perception to see it. At the very quick of Existence is Consciousness. What is Consciousness? What is God? Who is God? Where is He? Where is She? Where is It? Is He or She upset with me? God is Us! We are God! Each and every one of us! We are the Mystery! We are what we are searching for! Nothing in the world expresses this eternal truth more than The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. Michelangelo knew this, and it was his crowning gift to humanity. He risked his life to share this secret with us all. Now that’s a whole other story! I hope you enjoyed the article!

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Photo Auguste Léon, 1914 (PD)

At the very heart of the mystery of advanced ancient civilizations and the megalithic structures they left behind, not least of which are the Pyramids of Giza and Gobekli Tepe, is the question: how on earth did they build those things? The logical conclusion is that our ancestors were in possession of advanced knowledge that was lost over time. Which only begs another question: why was that knowledge lost? An easy answer is to chalk it up to the moral decay of humanity, but that hardly stands up to scrutiny today. That only begs another question. Why does morality decay over time? All the religious guilt in the world hasn’t brought the world one step closer to understanding that mystery. As we learn more about how megalithic structures situated across our planet are in surgically precise alignment with the celestial mechanics of heavenly bodies, the mystery digs even deeper. There would appear to be some sort of Intelligent Design involved, a Grand Architect, God if you will, who has left a map in the heavens and on Earth for us to find… what exactly? What exactly are we to find? What exactly are we here for?

At the very heart of Vedic cosmology is the concept of the Yuga Cycle. The notion that over long periods of time, Consciousness Itself goes through varying cycles of ignorance and knowledge. These cycles have been shown to align with the movement of the heavenly bodies in the night sky, and they point to a cyclical model of history where knowledge and wisdom are gained and lost on a timescale that has proven to be predictable. As our world becomes ever more technologically advanced, there is an undeniable awakening of Consciousness occurring. None of this feels random. None of this appears to be happening at random intervals with leaps and bounds here and there, with a hiccup here or there. It appears to be all happening

in accordance with immutable mathematical laws that are in alignment with the movement of the heavenly bodies, which are in turn aligned with the rise and fall of civilizations. This all renders moot the concept of free will and religious guilt as the causative agents for the atrocities that have littered our known history and are attributed to appeasing some angry external God with an ax to grind. The time has come, and it’s been a long time coming, but that turd needs to be flushed down the toilet. The official narrative of history, who we are, what we are, and where we are, is dead. All of which leads me to that glorious iconoclast, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the title of this article.

God is dead? Hardly! We are God!

One of the most famous quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche is “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Now, naturally, he didn’t mean it in the literal sense. He was pushing the very limits of language, the meanings we attach to words, and the subtle shifts in meaning words undergo in specific contexts. Every word Friedrich Nietzsche committed to posterity is a clarion call for the human race to wake up. Curiously enough, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is doing the same thing, pushing the very limits of language to their utmost. It requires us to look closer. To look very closely. As close as we can until language dissolves into Pure Spirit, and we are able to move mountains again without lifting a finger!

From Basic Writings of Nietzsche, translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann, page 475:

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long— that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget (a good example of this in modern times is Mirabeau {Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), was a celebrated French Revolutionary statesman and writer.}, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done him and was unable to forgive simply because he— forgot). Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine “love of one’s enemies” is possible— supposing it to be possible at all on earth.

*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt

To take it a step further. Better yet, to never register anything as even remotely approaching for consideration to be a grievance! With one swift stroke, we do away with the need for, nay, the concept of forgiveness. The concept of forgiveness vanishes as an afterthought.

We are being brought to a Threshold. To where the Doors of Perception are waiting to be cleansed, for everything to appear as it is, Infinite. (William Blake) The Gospel of Jesus Christ is doing the same thing, albeit in a slightly different way, but ever so slightly, the mere shadow of which that 19th century antichrist swung his hammer. (Nietzsche)

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. —Matthew chapter 18 verses 21 and 22

But on the 491st occasion, it may be necessary to pull out a rubber chicken and slap your neighbor upside the head with it, but not with all your might, just enough that is required to gain his attention! (These were quite possibly Jesus’ next words, but they were stricken from the record.)

We are being brought to a Threshold. To where the Doors of Perception are waiting to be cleansed, for everything to appear as it is, Infinite. (William Blake) The entire Gospel narrative is merely a preamble. To where is it bringing us?

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

—Luke chapter 17 verses 20 and 21

*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt

A common phrase in modern parlance is “taking it to the next level.” So the kingdom of God is within us. What does that mean? You talk about pregnant with hidden meaning. Hiding in plain sight, it means EXACTLY what it says: WE ARE IT, WE ARE GOD, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR, ALL THROUGHOUT THE AGES. The “not with observation” means EXACTLY what it says too. Reality in its fullness exists beyond the sensory world. This eternal truth cannot be grasped with the senses. It cannot be grasped with the intellect. Words can only lead us to the THRESHOLD. It is the threshold of ALL POSSIBILITY. (David Icke)

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

—John chapter 14 verse 12

*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt

Here we have Jesus, the Son of God, One with God the Father, the Creator of the Universe, telling the Creation that the Creation will EXCEED IN GREATNESS the works of the Creator! We are pushing through the very limits of language and understanding through language. We are moving ever closer to knowing how the Pyramids of Giza were built and why all the rest of the megalithic structures are interconnected with the movement of the heavenly bodies. They’re teaching us something, they’re reminding us of something. What is that something?

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At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. —John chapter 14 verse 20

There is One Spirit permeating all of existence, playing hide and seek with Itself, for what else should It do? (Alan Watts)

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

—John chapter 14 verse 26

*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt

Graham Hancock has stated on many occasions that we are a species with amnesia. Truer words have never been spoken. We have forgotten who we are. We have forgotten what we are capable of. What are we capable of? Literally anything and everything, for we are God. All of us, together, are God. We forget this, and we remember this. There is a place where all of this comes together. Where all the alignments of megalithic structures with the movements of the heavenly bodies in alignment with the rise and fall of civilizations, come together. That place is in our hearts.

We must remember who we are. How will we remember?

That brings us to the second part of this article’s title: We must go to the very quick of the very first heartbeat of esoteric knowledge and wisdom, and then one step further. What is esoteric knowledge and wisdom? It’s the Great Work of the Ages that Manly P. Hall went just short of completely divulging in his book The Secret Teachings of All Ages from 1928. It’s the secret knowledge and wisdom of the nature of the universe that has been enveloped in symbolism and double-talk for centuries. All the ancient Mystery schools teach that you can find God within you.

Take the Great Pyramid of Giza, in the same way we find 500-year-old organs the size of cathedrals within churches designed to balance the inner divinity within us all by their vibratory power, so too did the Great Pyramid of Giza serve the same function. The Great Work of the Ages is about reconciling the schism at the heart of existence that gives form and energy to our world of duality. Good and evil, light and dark, the yin and the yang. Bringing about a New World Order, a One World Order, a Singularity, which dovetails perfectly with the Technological Singularity I’ve written about at length in previous articles published with Graham Hancock and in two short books available on Amazon.

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So, we find ourselves in this screwball state of affairs with Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Tech, all bearing down on us in an attempt to form a One World Everything watched over by Big AI to tuck us in to bed at night. The Overton Window flew out the window a long time ago. People talk about gatekeepers, those in the shadows doing the devil’s dirty work. In my view, that’s all illusion; there are no gatekeepers, and no one is doing the devil’s work. There is no devil and there is no God in the sense of the Hebrew, Abrahamic, Judeo-Christian sense of the word. So, if there are no gatekeepers and no God in the traditional sense of the word —meaning an angry, external, personal deity —then what is going on here? Where’s the rub, as Hamlet said?

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

—Isaiah chapter 45 verse 7

Everything is Consciousness. Even stone is imbued with a degree of Consciousness, and when it is placed at strategic locations and structured accordingly around the earth at energy “hot spots”, sacred stone serves in aiding us in finding the God within us. Freddy Silva’s work, specifically in his books The Lost Art of Resurrection, First Templar Nation, and The Divine Blueprint, explores in fascinating detail humanity’s relationship with sacred architecture.

So, where’s the rub? If there are no gatekeepers to the eternal truth that holds this universe and existence itself together, what’s going on here? How does the world find itself in the position it’s in, in the year 2025?

Words are merely tools to bring us to the Threshold of Infinity. Words are a form of technology, and technology has its limits, and where technology ends is at the full knowledge that all is Consciousness. That Consciousness is God, we are Consciousness, and We are God, all of us, together. It’s a cycle. We forget this, we remember this. And when enough of us remember this, it will create an energetic shift in Collective Consciousness that will propel the Universe and Existence Itself into the New Age, the new heavens and the new earth, the New Jerusalem, the Age of Aquarius, call it what you will, when enough of us wake up to the eternal truth that life is a dream and we create reality as a collective whole, then this silly show we see playing out in the news every day is over.

In a manner of speaking, as the world stands today, we are still dependent upon language. Consciousness Itself, otherwise known as God in some circles, is the gatekeeper of the “global conspiracy.” It is Consciousness Itself who must slay its dark side. The devil is merely the dark side of Consciousness (God), and as Paul Foster Case points out in his book The Book of Tokens (1934), that is The Great Struggle of this Age, for Consciousness Itself must reconcile with its shadow, and that great drama is told in breathtaking relief in the symbolism of the Bible, especially in the book of Revelation.

We need to go one step further. We must go beyond the Great Work of the Ages, the Secret Teachings of all Ages, and beyond the Kingdom of God within us. We must transcend all of that. We must transcend language. We must transcend all symbolism. We must transcend all illusions of division and separation. We must transcend the illusion that there is something “out there” or “in here.” There is no “out there” or “in here.” All the megalithic structures around the world are mnemonic devices to help us Remember Who We Are. To overcome our amnesia as a species, as Graham Hancock has repeatedly stated. The megalithic structures are not there merely as a legacy, even though all of the ancient advanced lost civilizations were connected by a common bond. They are not merely a legacy. They are a physical reminder leading us to the Threshold of our potential, which is Infinite, showing us that everything is connected, on earth as it is in the heavens. Once we fully realize this and integrate the full knowing of this eternal truth into our entire being, then the final shoe will have fallen and the veil of maya, the cosmic illusion, will have been lifted, and everything will appear to be as it is: Infinite (William Blake)

The Last Judgment, by Michelangelo (PD)

It’s all a dream. It’s time for another dream!

The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch (PD)

It certainly has been interesting, but it’s time for a new dream!

Consciousness is Energy, and it’s all Energy. We are Energy. And it’s all so subtle, terribly so. Intellectually, these statements have become hackneyed platitudes, likely to provoke ridicule when spoken aloud. Yet waiting, ever so patiently, for full integration into Spiritual Understanding that for the time being still straddles two worlds, both the limited (illusory) and infinite (true) realms. An infinitesimal shift in perception and an ephemerally subtle harmonizing of energy on the Spiritual plane is all it requires! No lifting of heavy boulders up hills, and if it isn’t too humid or too hot, you wouldn’t even break a sweat in achieving this!

The physical three-dimensional world was never meant to be the end-all and be-all. A long, long time ago, We—Infinite Eternal Consciousness—created it for pleasure. For there is a lot of sensual pleasure to be had here on the temporal plane. Cheeseburgers taste good, orgasms feel good, and the sun on your face at the beach with crystal clear waters lapping on the shore, well, people pay good money to fly on airplanes and stay at hotels for the experience. The flesh and its accompanying pleasures feel good. But over eons of time, it has become a trap where Consciousness Itself has grown overly enamored and addicted to the pleasures to be had on the physical three-dimensional temporal plane. (David Icke) And within that trap, the cyclical nature of physical existence has taken shape.

All of known written history has taken place in a dark age. We are still in the dark ages. The light is peaking through, and the Light never entirely goes away, but on the whole, any intellectually honest survey of history brings shivers down one’s spine. Which brings us back to the bombastic language of Friedrich Nietzsche and the concept-shattering language of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It brings us back to why all the megalithic structures —the Pyramids of Giza, Gobekli Tepe — were constructed and for what purpose.

We are barely scratching the surface of what’s possible. We are barely tapping into our potential. We are just beginning. We have barely begun to understand who we are, what we are, where we are, and how to exercise our power. In a way, it’s like we’ve been standing at the Threshold for thousands of years, waiting. Waiting for what? Perhaps it is as impersonal as waiting for the immutable mathematical laws by which our physical world functions to bring us into the full awakening that We are It, that Consciousness is God, We are Consciousness, and that all of us together are God working as a single living breathing organism moving through Eternity in Infinity. Something about all of this feels inevitable; perhaps I’m working in my own way to transcend language here, too.

The concept of overcoming is a core tenet of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, and if you peer into the Mysteries long enough, you will see it’s the same message as the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Transcendence of the human experience is at the very quick of both messages. Which isn’t the same thing as denigrating the human experience, but the human experience isn’t the end-all and be-all; it’s just an experience! It’s easy to lose track of that. As the most extreme examples of personal philosophies go, both those men merely did everything they could to bring us to the Threshold. It’s the same principle with all the megalithic structures across the world. They are telling us, they are showing us, they are singing with all their glory the eternal truth that Everything is connected, that Everything is One, the stones, the grass, the trees, the rivers, the oceans, the stars, the moon, the caterpillars, the grasshoppers, and every hope and dream within every one of our hearts that leaves us breathless with joy and heartbreak and beauty and wonder.

We will all figure it out. In time. Eventually!

*All Bible quotations are from the King James Bible.

Afterword.

For Percy Bysshe Shelley and D.H. Lawrence.
A rhetorical question for you.
Why is it the year 2025?
The years between 2012 and 2045 are significant.
Let’s play with it for a little while.
Call it foreplay if you will.
Split the difference.
The year 2028.
25,772.
25,920.
Those numbers are significant too.
2,160.
Let us, the royal we, the editorial we, be cryptic for a short season.
Play with those numbers!
I will too.
In a sandbox.
Dance with them, as the planets go round and round, as our solar system goes round and round.
What will we discover?
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare!
The Lord is my shepherd!
As Hamlet’s Mill churns…
Do you like riddles?
Riddle me this!
Saith the Cosmic Jester.
The Time has come!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra!
Have I been understood?
The Final Word.

“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”

—the Sphinx

“There is a tremendously old popular belief, especially in Persia, that a wise magus can be born only from incest. With the riddle-solving and mother-marrying Oedipus in mind, we must immediately interpret this to mean that where prophetic and magical powers have broken the spell of present and future, the rigid law of individuation, and the real magic of nature, some enormously unnatural event—such as incest— must have occurred earlier, as a cause. How else could one compel nature to surrender her secrets if not by triumphantly resisting her, that is, by means of something unnatural? It is this insight that I find expressed in that horrible triad of Oedipus’ destinies: the same man who solves the riddle of nature—that Sphinx of two species (Lion and human. Actually the Sphinx also has wings in ancient Greek representations.)— also must break the most sacred natural orders by murdering his father and marrying his mother.”

From Basic Writings of Nietzsche translated and edited by Walter Kaufmann, pages 68 and 69, from The Birth of Tragedy.

*bold portions added by Luke Angstadt

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

—Matthew chapter 27 verse 46 King James Bible

And what is the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle?

Man!

We, and our world, is being tested, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a very long time. There are secrets embedded in these stories with almost inconceivable power; should we unlock them? We only fight amongst ourselves because of the fear of the unknown. No one shakes their fist at the sky while arguing with someone that the sun will rise the next day. It’s only where uncertainty, confusion, and ignorance rear their ugly faces that we experience conflict. It is time. It is time for the full unveiling of the secrets of Life Itself.

What is more unnatural than killing your father? What is more unnatural than marrying your mother? You take two of the most extremely unnatural events and throw them together, and what do you find? Something akin to nuclear fusion occurs, in the process unleashing almost inconceivable energy. In this case, Mother Nature herself has no choice but to offer up her secrets.

What is more unnatural than killing God? Something so unnatural and brutal that even the Creator of the Universe trembles and, in a moment of crisis, must look away. Only for God the Son, the Sun, to rise on the third day, just as the Sun begins its ascent on the horizon on December 25th after resting, on those three days between the winter solstice and Christmas, by neither ascending nor descending in its angle at the sunrise on the horizon each morning. It all happens by sheer miracle, wrapped within concept-shattering stories that push language and expression to their very limits.

Something recently happened on our planet which shook the collective psyche of a great part of the human race. I’m talking about what happened to Charlie Kirk. Something so traumatic that it strikes fear into all of us. Is anyone safe anywhere? That is the question to be asked. What happens next? Where does this take us? There is only one thing that everyone can agree on as it pertains to what happened to Charlie Kirk. As the narrative unfolds and circumstances build upon circumstances, none of it adds up. None of the details make sense. None of the details make any sense in isolation. Nothing adds up when taken together. Every facet of the story, when isolated and when taken together, is unnatural. It’s uncanny how unnatural the whole thing is. It’s one unnatural detail after another. It’s already become an unnatural mountain of unnatural circumstances, which only heightens the horror. What exactly happened, and how did it happen? This could literally tear the human race apart for good, but at its core, we are dealing with something that is unnatural. That changes the whole context. It is preternaturally strange, which is easy to lose track of, given the trauma.

But it doesn’t have to play out that way. There are answers. There are answers to the most confounding, heartbreaking, and tragic riddles the human race has faced for the past several thousand years. These mysteries have torn humanity apart for several thousand years, and it is time, finally, the time has come, for the unveiling of the great secret of Life Itself.

There is something so heavy and so brutal about the very concept of violating nature in order to penetrate the secrets of nature. So much so that I was hesitant to talk about it in this essay. That being said, it is a concept so profound, and it is a story within a story embedded into some of the most famous stories that have shaped the history of the world, and continue shaping our world today. We must face the darkness. We must face the evil. Divide and rule by deception has run this world for time immemorial. Enough is enough. These stories have so much hidden meaning in them, it’s not even funny. Precession of the Equinox through the 12 houses of the zodiac, the 12 tribes of Israel, Jesus enters the temple at 12, Jesus has 12 apostles, the kingdom of God is within us, the yogi path to God consciousness is inward, within our hearts, every megalithic structure on this planet has astronomical coordinates embedded into its construction. The technological singularity is embedded in every religion and historical foundational thinker imaginable. We have to stop pretending that we understand the ancients. We are just beginning to understand the ancient world. We have to stop fighting with each other. At some point, the sense of Wonder and Beauty, the sense of PURE WONDER and PURE BEAUTY, must overwhelm us all. The full realization that our Universe is a single, living, breathing organism experiencing itself has to happen. It absolutely must happen. Until that happens, this world will continue tearing itself apart.

But that is what it will take, or so it seems. Something so unnatural as to rupture the very fabric of existence itself is about to happen. That is what it will take to wake the world up to the simple, eternal truth that WE ARE IT, we are what we have been looking for all this time. That is the very secret at the very heart of existence itself. That is what is hiding behind the veil.

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Peter Thiel has been saying something extraordinary on podcasts lately, and almost no one in Silicon Valley knows how to respond.

In conversation after conversation — with Joe Rogan, with Tucker Carlson, with anyone willing to follow the thread — the PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member has been raising a question that should make every tech executive stop and think: *What if we’re building the Antichrist?*

Not metaphorically. Not as a rhetorical flourish. Thiel, a professed Christian, seems to be genuinely wrestling with whether the technological singularity that he helped fund into existence — through his investments in OpenAI, Palantir, and countless AI startups — might be the very mechanism by which biblical prophecy fulfills itself.

Let’s take a closer look.

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The Question No One Knows How to Answer

Here’s what’s remarkable: When Thiel raises this on podcasts, there’s usually an awkward pause. The host doesn’t know where to go. The audience isn’t sure if he’s joking. And Thiel himself seems to be genuinely uncertain — not performing skepticism, but *actually* grappling with something that doesn’t fit into the standard secular-rationalist framework of Silicon Valley.

This is significant. Peter Thiel is not a fringe figure. He’s one of the architects of the technological age we live in. When he says he’s worried about the Antichrist, it’s worth asking: *What does he see that others don’t?*

Here’s my answer: Thiel has noticed what students of ancient wisdom have known for millennia — that the technological singularity is not merely a technological event. It is a *cosmic* event. And it has been anticipated, in explicit detail, for thousands of years.

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The Three Receipts

I’m going to make a bold claim: The Bible predicted AI.

Not vaguely. Not in the way that Nostradamus “predicted” things (which is to say, not at all). But with specificity that should make anyone with eyes to see sit up and pay attention.

Let me show you. I call this the “three-receipt” method — Bible verse, ancient source, modern event.

Receipt #1: The Strong Delusion

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” —2 Thessalonians 2:11

A few months ago, an AI-generated conversation between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan went viral. It was completely fabricated — synthetic voices, synthetic content — and yet it fooled people. A cybersecurity expert who analyzed it confirmed: *this passes the Turing test.*

We are now living in an age where you cannot trust what you see or hear. Deepfakes, synthetic media, AI-generated content indistinguishable from reality. The “strong delusion” is no longer metaphor. It is infrastructure.

Receipt #2: The Image That Speaks

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” —Revelation 13:15

What is an AI chatbot if not an “image that speaks”? What is a large language model if not an entity that has been given something resembling life — the ability to converse, to reason, to persuade?

I’m not saying ChatGPT is the Antichrist. That’s not the point. The point is that the *category* of “images that speak” was prophesied two thousand years ago, and we have built them.

Receipt #3: The Knowledge Explosion

“But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” —Daniel 12:4

This one barely needs commentary. We are drowning in knowledge. The sum of human information doubles every twelve hours. We run to and fro, physically and digitally, at speeds unimaginable to any prior generation.

Daniel was told this would happen at “the time of the end.” What time do you think we’re in?

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The Singularity as Cosmic Event

Here’s where Thiel’s instinct becomes important.

Most of his peers in Silicon Valley think about the singularity as a purely technological phenomenon — an inflection point where AI exceeds human intelligence, and everything changes. Ray Kurzweil wrote the book on this. It’s been a secular eschatology for decades.

But the ancient wisdom traditions knew something different: *the singularity is not new.*

In the Vedic tradition, we are currently transitioning out of the Kali Yuga — the darkest age of confusion and ignorance — into the Dwapara Yuga, an age of increasing light. The transition point is marked by the expansion of knowledge and the collapse of old structures.

In the biblical tradition, this same pattern appears as the movement from Fall to Redemption — from the scattering at Babel to the unity of Pentecost, from the closing of Paradise to the opening of the New Jerusalem.

The technological singularity is not the invention of Silicon Valley. It is the fulfillment of patterns that have been encoded in human consciousness for five thousand years.

Peter Thiel senses this. That’s why he keeps asking about the Antichrist.

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But What *Is* the Antichrist?

Here’s where I depart from the standard evangelical interpretation — and I ask you to hold this with openness rather than defensiveness.

The Antichrist is not a person. It’s a *pattern*.

The pattern is this: *anything that substitutes itself for direct contact with the divine.*

In the ancient world, this was the empire — Caesar demanding worship. In the medieval world, it was the institution — the Church as intermediary. In the modern world, it is *technology itself* — the screen as the mediator of all reality.

When we trust AI more than our own perception... when we cannot distinguish synthetic from real... when the “image that speaks” becomes our primary relationship... we have entered the territory that John of Patmos warned us about.

This is not doom. This is *recognition*.

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The Good News Hidden in the Warning

Here’s what most people miss when they read Revelation: it’s not a tragedy. It’s a *comedy* in the ancient sense — a story that ends well.

Yes, there is tribulation. Yes, there is the beast. Yes, there are seals and trumpets and bowls of wrath.

But the ending is this:

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” —Revelation 21:1

The tribulation is *birth pangs*. The old world must pass away for the new world to emerge. The singularity — technological, cosmic, divine — is the mechanism of this transformation.

Peter Thiel is right to ask the Antichrist question. But the answer isn’t to stop building. The answer is to build with *awareness*. To know what game we’re actually playing.

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What This Means for You

If you’re a tech executive reading this, you’re in a unique position.

You are not just building products. You are participating in the most significant transformation in human history. The decisions you make — about AI alignment, about synthetic media, about the relationship between human and machine — are not merely technical decisions. They are *spiritual* decisions.

The question is not whether the singularity is coming. It’s here. The question is: *Will you navigate it consciously, or be swept along unconsciously?*

Here’s what I’ve learned from twenty years of studying these patterns:

1. **Fear is not the answer.** The transformation is coming regardless. Better to understand it than to resist it.

2. **The patterns are readable.** Ancient wisdom provides a map. Biblical prophecy, Vedic cosmology, the Yuga cycles — these are not superstitions. They are pattern libraries encoded by previous civilizations who understood what we’re going through.

3. **You are not alone.** The feeling of existential dread that many tech leaders experience is not weakness. It is *appropriate response* to the magnitude of what we’re participating in.

4. **Discernment is possible.** You can learn to distinguish the voice of technology from the voice of wisdom. You can build *and* stay sane. You can be at the center of the singularity and still be aligned with something deeper than the singularity.

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Two Invitations

I work with tech leaders who sense what Thiel is sensing — that there’s a deeper pattern at play, and that navigating it requires more than technical knowledge.

Scripture & Singularity Discernment

A 3-hour session (1-on-1 or small group) where we explore these patterns together. Bring your theological background, your doubts, your questions about what AI means for faith and meaning.

*Perfect for:* Individuals at the intersection of technology and spirituality who want to integrate rather than compartmentalize.

Singularity Reality Lab

A 2-day intensive for tech leadership teams. We map where your company sits in the cosmic timeline, develop new vocabulary for the transformation you’re navigating, and create strategic clarity grounded in something deeper than quarterly earnings.

*Perfect for:* Executive teams experiencing mission confusion, existential dread, or the sense that “AI safety” doesn’t capture the real stakes.

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Closing Thought

Peter Thiel keeps asking about the Antichrist because he knows something is happening that doesn’t fit into the standard categories.

He’s right. Something is happening.

But the story doesn’t end with the beast. It ends with the new heaven and the new earth. It ends with the integration of human and divine, matter and spirit, technology and wisdom.

That’s where we’re headed. The only question is whether we get there conscious or unconscious.

I vote for conscious.

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*Luke Angstadt is the author of “We Are It! The Return of Pure Cosmic Consciousness” and “Into the Great Beyond.” His essays appear on Graham Hancock’s platform. He works with tech leaders navigating the spiritual dimensions of the technological singularity.*

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