from “The Climax of History, the Fifty-six Years of
“Understanding a calendar as the instrument that locks the conditioned programs of a given culture into place,
we can now understand how the unconscious metaprogram
of the macro-organizing principle of the Gregorian calendar cumulatively
recycles all its millennial programs every twenty-eight years. Since its inception in 1582, the Gregorian
calendar has been dragging forward a host of conditioned thought forms and
perceptions, including those inherited from 1,500 years of the Julian calendar
that it had reformed. At points of
dramatic break in the continuity of human consciousness, a new set of cycles is
set to recur. Such was the case in the
year 1945, with the awesome blast of
The technosphere has its
origins with the full capture of the human mental field by the 12:60 frequency in 1618.
From 1618 onward, the noosphere is increasingly obscured by a mental field known as the technospheric sheath.
Slowly but surely, the technospheric sheath replaces civilization. This is first done
by the introduction of mechanistic linear time. It is important to note that the Julian
count, the basis of all modern scientific calculations, is a scale created by
Thomas Scaliger in 1583, twenty-one years after the
1562 Mayan book burning. This linear
time scale, like the Gregorian calendar reform itself, was intended to co-opt
the Mayan thirteen baktun Long Count by setting a
count of days that begins the first of January, 4713 B.C., or some 1,600 years
prior to 13.0.0.0.0, the beginning of the thirteen baktun
count in 3113 B.C. This deliberate
historical act, the Julian count, along with the Gregorian calendar and the
mechanical clock, established the paradigmatic notion of the linearity of time
in the ripening field of scientific thought.
Reflected
in the noosphere, this linear, irreversible time
concept levels and stunts the realization of human mass-consciousness. In fact, during the technospheric
cycle, especially after 1754, the ceiling of human consciousness is maintained by a preoccupation with mechanistic
third-dimensional operations while becoming increasingly alienated from the
organic order of reality. This creates
the 12:60 consciousness constant, a mental ceiling that actually diminishes in
proportion to the increasing rates of multiplication, propagation, and
intrinsic velocity of the machine.
With the actual rise of the Industrial Revolution, dated
in the noosphere to A.D. 1754, the synchronic point
at which mechanization becomes an irreversible factor of the biosphere, the technospheric sheath, henceforth enters into its next
stage, going from a purely mental sheath to the industrial sheath, the prelude
to the proto-technosphere itself. The
industrial sheath spreads throughout the biosphere between 1754 and 1901, the
official beginning of the twentieth century. At this point we
enter the forty-four years of the proto-technosphere,
1901-1945. During this critical stage of
the proto-technosphere, the actions of human
behaviour interacting with machine technology make the expression of true
culture increasingly difficult, if not impossible. Civilization becomes a set of symbols
purveyed through museums, galleries, and theatres, and recorded and reproduced
in ever more advanced technological forms.
But what of culture, which is not the same as
civilization – what becomes of culture?
To begin to answer that question, some further
definitions are in order. The technosphere is defined by and based upon
one key term: technology. According to the common dictionary
definition, which already reflects the mass mind, technology is “the totality
of the means employed to provide objects necessary for human sustenance and
comfort.” Today virtually all the means
employed are themselves mechanical in nature.
In common parlance, therefore, technology refers to the complex
apparatus of mechanization. In fact,
technology is mechanization; it is the ability
to convert human labor into processes carried out
purely by machine-oriented or mechanical means. This is also inclusive of the
entirety of computer technology, which represents the mechanization of the more
purely mental processes of thought and communication.
Mechanization, we must remember, originated in the clock,
in the mechanization of time. It is the mechanization of time that presupposes the tendency
toward mechanization as a state of mind within the noosphere. Since
artificial time is characterized by the illusion of an
inexorable and irreversible linearity, the compulsion toward materialism is
also experienced in the same way, an inexorable motion spearheaded by the
advance of ever more improved machines.
The machines themselves are the products of and means of
industrialization – the technological transformation of raw goods into consumer
goods, a process accounting for much of the free energy introduced into the
biogeochemical combustion of the biosphere…
Globalization represents the absolute triumph of
capitalism as the dominant economic doctrine of the human species in the
biosphere, and the absolute basis of the technosphere
in its final phase of development…
From the point of view of the biosphere, globalization is
the cancer of the human species consuming non-renewable resources
and, through the release of free energy, effecting the
final critical increase in biogeochemical combustion. The planetary instrument for furthering the
entire process and philosophy of globalization is the technosphere. The technosphere may be defined as the entire apparatus of
mechanized technology and its support philosophy (globalization), understood as
an artificial sphere encompassing the globe. As such, the technosphere
is discontinuously interspersed within the biosphere. More precisely, the technosphere
is located physically and mentally between the biosphere and the noosphere, in other words, between the Earth’s vital sphere
and its mental envelope…”