In the Age of Kali Yuga, spirituality and morality are diminished to shadows of their former selves. Deception and hypocrisy in the name of religion is the status quo.
Popular Vedic Science
It is estimated the Kali Yuga began some 5,000 years ago and is predicted to end in 2025, to be followed by a centuries long transition period that leads to the Satya Yuga, a new Golden Age.
According to various interpretations of the Hindu scriptures and cosmological texts, the approaching end of the Kali Yuga is often associated with a time of increased fear, apprehension and societal unrest driven by uncertainty and chaos, which characterize the dark age of Kali Yuga.
While excessive or chronic fear can be debilitating, moderate and temporary fear can play a positive and protective role. For example, fear can heighten our senses and increase alertness, thereby improving focus and responsiveness. Fear helps individuals assess risk by nudging them to consider potential negative outcomes. I believe the time is ripe to assess such risks. While some of these risks are existential, forewarned is forearmed.
Trials and tribulations, such as those we endure in this transient age of darkness, ultimately become drivers of evolution in spiritual awareness and human consciousness. At its core, this truism affirms that hardships are not merely inconvenient obstacles to happiness but are transformative experiences that prompt introspection and growth.
Just as physical stressors can strengthen the body, mental and emotional challenges can foster resilience and wisdom. Trials serve as catalysts for spiritual development, encouraging individuals to question, learn and evolve. The navigation of tribulations can lead to a deeper understanding of the self, life and one's place in the world. Trials and tribulations often produce what the Greeks called metanoia, a transformative change of heart and a new worldview.
In the crucible of hardship, individuals often confront their fears, insecurities and attachments. This confrontation can shatter previously held illusions, paving the way for new perspectives and higher levels of consciousness. The process, though difficult, can be a vehicle for shedding old, limiting beliefs and awakening to one's inherent potential and destiny.
Suffering and hardship often cultivate empathy and compassion, the foundational elements of spiritual evolution. Experiencing personal pain can expand our capacity to connect with the suffering of others, thereby fostering unity and interconnectedness, principles endemic to most spiritual traditions.
Challenges confronted by societies and civilizations can lead to cultural, moral and spiritual shifts that redefine shared values and collective identities or refortify existing ones that remain viable.
Our present challenges are characterized by the dwindling of goodness and virtue; the rise of authoritarianism; technological disruptions, notably transhumanism and artificial intelligence; feminization of Western societies,1 and spiritual degeneration, plus other ineluctable trends such as political turbulence that often presage the collapse of civilizations.
Worse yet, the Kali Yuga cycle, which is expected to wind up around 2025, roughly coincides with a slew of other (at least six) recently concluded or soon-to-conclude cycles. These involve the Mayan Calendar’s Great Cycle, the Fourth Turning, Arnold Toynbee’s “Time of Troubles” and Oswald Spengler’s “Winter Season.” The latter two portend the final chapter in the history of Western Civilization, according to their authors.
On the cyclical economic front, the Kondratieff Cycle, invented by Nikolai Kondratieff in 1925, is also concluding it’s “Winter” season.2
The economy [is] in the throes of a debilitating depression that tears the social fabric of society, as the gulf between the dwindling number of “haves” and the expanding number of “have-nots” increases dramatically.
We should mention Earth’s Piscean Age precessional cycle, associated with Christianity and the Biblical Apocalypse, is transitioning to the Aquarian Age. One could reasonably consider this extraordinary denouement of multiple cycles as proffering a period of punctuated disequilibrium.3
There is always, however, a silver lining to paradigmatic change. Kali is a mother goddess in addition to being an avatar of creative destruction in her asura aspect. Kali encompasses both nurturing and fierce aspects, making her a complex and revered figure in Hindu spirituality. In comparative mythology, Both Kali and Christ embody dualities. Kali balances creation and destruction, while Christ bridges humanity and divinity.
Philosophers such as the late Teilhard de Chardin envisaged a huge creative leap in human consciousness and universal spiritual awareness that he (and others) called the Noosphere. Teilhard foresaw an order proceeding from chaos that he called a new "Radial Energy" - spiritual energy that, over time, would become stratified into higher states of conscious awareness.
When we refer to cycles of history, as opposed to linear timelines of history, we implicate a spiritual dynamism driven by energy akin to Teilhard’s ‘radial energy.’ This spiritual component, essential to humanity’s evolution, may explain why Newtonian physicalists, to whom the endless march of time is reducible to a sequential, linear process of cause and effect deterministic events, tend to eschew, even ridicule, cyclic interpretations of time.
Spiritually balanced individuals practice temperance, the noble act of modulating one’s thoughts, actions and emotions. Irrational and biased perspectives fraught with ignorance or irrationality beget fear, stress and anxiety, which are prime drivers of authoritarian control over society.
The ancient Greeks, to whom we often look for ageless wisdom, framed history utilizing three distinct concepts of time.
Aion - In ancient Greek philosophy, aion often refers to an unbounded, infinite duration of time or eternity. It also can represent a complete life cycle, an epoch or an age in the world's existence. In cosmology, Aion has been used to represent the eternal nature of the cosmos. In Greek mythology, Aion is typically depicted as a young man with wings about his temples.
Chronos - Chronos, often personified in myth as the elderly god of time, represents the chronological or sequential aspect of time. It is quantifiable and measurable, similar to how most understand and use time today - hours, minutes and seconds. It's about clock time, calendar time and the objective passage of moments.
Kairos - Kairos refers to an opportune moment or the right time for action. It is less about chronological time and more about the qualitative aspect of time. Kairos is about recognizing the significance of a particular moment and then acting at the right time. It's more subjective and situational compared to Chronos. Kairos was also known as “God’s time.”
Viewing time through the wide-angle lens of Kairos helps to modulate fear and anxiety. Taking the “big picture” into account evinces spiritual and emotional maturity, not to mention higher self-awareness.
If Chronos symbolizes quantity of time, then Kairos is time’s quality. For my part, I believe if we payed more attention to Kairos and less to Chronos, the world would be a better, safer place. The materialistic commoditization of Chronos gives us facile sayings like, “Time waits for no one,” and “Time is money” plus “Time’s a wastin.”
Regarding the West’s precipitous slide into authoritarianism, a question repeatedly I see asked here on Substack is this: “What can we do to halt, slow or reverse this process, which is antithetical to democratic principles and values?”
Well, we could spend more of our time in kairos learning to trust nature’s processes. All phenomena are in the nature of impermanence, particularly political systems. That said, we should persist diligently in our mission as Messengers of Truth to the malinformed masses.
We are the Watchers. Translated from Aramaic, this means “the awake ones.” Let us now assess two existential risks to humanity that some might view as Divine Wrath, others as Creative Destruction.
The Taurids
Of this we may be certain. If implementation of the World Economic Forum’s and United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, as inspired by satanic forces, proceeds as planned, we should expect cosmic intervention. Indeed, we should even pray for it, as the alternative for humanity would be far worse.
The transhumanist believes that human consciousness can be reduced to ones and zeros. It cannot. Personal consciousness is sacrosanct and can be conflated with the eternal human soul. The godless transhumanist fails to appreciate that consciousness is not an emergent property of the human brain. Consciousness, instead, is the non-local and omnipresent “Ground of All Being” - a spiritual truth attributed to theologian Paul Tillich.
He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches. But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field.4
The Taurid meteor stream is a 3-year cyclic event. It is so named because of its proximity to the constellation Taurus. We Earthlings are positioned to pass through this debris stream this year. The stream is made up of the remnants of a giant exploding comet from prehistory, Comet Encke. Several large remnants from the explosion are believed to have collided with Earth 12,800 years ago in an event directly linked to the destruction of civilizations, including Atlantis. We previously detailed this in Our Atlantis Moment article.5
The Southern Taurids will be active from late September to early December (2023) and are predicted by some to peak around Nov. 6th.6
Other trusted sources give a different date for the South Taurids’ peak. The International Meteor Organization (IMO) and the American Meteor Society (AMS) both give the peak night in 2023 as October 13, coincidentally the 106th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal.
I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, I simply regard the timing of these events as conspicuous, as they attend another example of cyclical convergence. However, we should note that a meteoric event need not involve meteors. The conversion to a new spiritual paradigm by millions of matrix-bound souls would be a meteoric event in the archives of metanoia and one that would surely evince divine intervention.
In a recent Substack by Bari Weiss, historian Peter Turchin foresees our society reaching a “breaking point” in 2024.
What precedes actual violence is violent rhetoric. So 2024 is going to be a really high probability break point. Typically periods of heightened instability take many years, somewhere between 10 and 20 years. So what I hope is that in 2035, the headlines would be that we managed to get the worker wages to grow, and the economy is finally growing in a sustainable way. That’s one possible outcome. The other possible outcome is the previous decade was so horrible, everybody became tired of violence, so nobody wants to start violence again.
A robust middle class is perhaps the greatest deterrence to elitist authoritarian rule. Barron’s newspaper notes America’s middle class faces its greatest threat since the 1930s.7
Turchin pursues a different and unique approach to interpreting historical cycles called cliodynamics. The name is taken from Clio, the Greek Muse of History. Turchin’s approach is scientific rather than one employing arguments from analogy with past events. Given the prevalence of polluted historical narratives, a more objective approach to cycle theory is welcomed.
The adherents of cliodynamics treat the historical record just as evolutionary biologists would treat the palaeontological record. Theories are constructed and based on general principles and tested empirically with comprehensive databases. In short, we use the standard scientific method that worked so well in physics, biology and many social sciences.8
Depopulation
Depopulation is a controversial, front-burner topic here on Substack. Recent evidence of genocidal madness has become too great to ignore. Please consider the video below featuring Dr. Denis Rancourt, as well as the Substack by
, also linked below.In Summary
The concept of cycle theory is as ancient as the philosophy of time itself. The idea that societies, like all natural phenomena, undergo cycles of birth, growth, decline and rebirth, has been contemplated and developed by numerous scholars. Central to this idea is the ancient Greek concept of Kyklos, originally espoused by Plato and Aristotle and later expanded upon by Polybius through his theory of Anacyclosis.
Plato and Aristotle, the twin titans of Greek philosophy, were among the earliest thinkers to propose a cyclical view of political regimes. Their concept of Kyklos suggested that governments inevitably cycle through distinct stages: from monarchy to tyranny, from aristocracy to oligarchy and from polity to democracy and then finally to anarchy.
Plato, in his Republic, warned of the decay of ideal forms of government, asserting that even the best-designed systems fall prey to corruption and degeneration over time. Aristotle further developed this cyclical view in his Politics, recognizing the fluid nature of governance and the tendency for each form of government to corrupt into its perverse counterpart, driven largely by human ambition and avarice.
Polybius, a Hellenistic historian, took up this thread of cyclical political change and wove it into the concept of Anacyclosis. He identified a sequence of political evolution starting with monarchy, transitioning through tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and mob-rule, before finally reverting to monarchy once again. This process, Polybius argued, was inevitable; each form of government, once decayed, would naturally give way to the next, in a cycle as predictable as the seasons.
The first of these to come into being is monarchy, its growth being natural and unaided; and next arises kingship derived from monarchy by the aid of art and by the correction of defects. Monarchy first changes into its vicious allied form, tyranny; and next, the abolishment of both gives birth to aristocracy. Aristocracy by its very nature degenerates into oligarchy; and when the commons inflamed by anger take vengeance on this government for its unjust rule, democracy comes into being; and in due course the licence and lawlessness of this form of government produces mob-rule to complete the series.
Polybius' Anacyclosis offered a pessimistic view of political progress, suggesting that any government, regardless of its initial form, would eventually degenerate into a less desirable state. However, he also recognized the interdependence of these forms, as each, in its decay, sowed the seeds of its successor. This was not merely a theory of decline, but a study in political rebirth and transformation.
In essence, cycle theory, as framed by the concepts of Kyklos and Anacyclosis, presents a sobering view of political reality. It contends with the fundamental imperfections of governance and human nature, recognizing the inevitable ebb and flow of societal structures. Nevertheless, it also allows for rejuvenation and rebirth within this cycle, acknowledging that from the ashes of decay the Phoenix of renewal often rises.
Despite its ancient origins, cycle theory continues to resonate in modern political and sociological discourse, offering a timeless perspective on the rise and fall of governments, economies and civilizations.
As the Age of Kali Yuga gives way to the Satya Yuga, it is believed that humanity will gradually move beyond fear and apprehension, evolving into a state of higher consciousness marked by peace, harmony and spiritual wisdom. This transition, while potentially turbulent, ultimately leads to a golden age of human civilization.
* The ghastly creature holding the Wheel of Samsara (reincarnation) in his teeth and hooves is Yama, the wrathful dharmapala, Lord of the Hell Realm in Tibetan cosmology. Yama’s head is that of a bull.
Interpreted psychologically, Hell Beings are recognized by their acute aggression. Fiery Hell Beings are angry and abusive and drive away anyone who would befriend or love them. Icy Hell Beings shove others away with their unfeeling coldness. Then, in the torment of their isolation, their aggression increasingly turns inward and they become self-destructive.9
Let us pray they destroy themselves before they destroy us.
When Kondratieff invented his theory in the 1920s, a human lifespan or saeculum was ~60 years. Historical cycle theorists, such as Neil Howe of The Fourth Turning, now base their forecasts using an 80-year saeculum.
Punctuated disequilibrium describes a period when a relative state of equilibrium is interrupted by unanticipated events.
Daniel 4:14,15. New International Version
Fascinating thoughts. It seems you have repeated the oft-seen mistake of confusing Kali with Kāli. In the Hindu sources, The Kali Yuga is ruled over by the Asura Kali not the the Goddess Kāli. Aside from that small anomaly, thanks for a very interesting and on-point article.