The book will be available by the end of October on Amazon. I will do another post when it comes out with purchase info.
The general public is being reduced to a state where people not only are unable to find about the truth but also become unable to search for the truth because they are satisfied with deception and trickery that have determined their convictions, satisfied with a fictitious reality created by design through the abuse of language.
—Josef Pieper
Vision will blind. Severance ties. Median am I. True are all lies.
—Meshuggah
There is a broad spectrum, as broad as the distance between heaven and hell, describing the level of awareness of people as to what is truly happening now in the world today, and why. The awareness abyss between those who know the truth and those who don’t is a result of many things, including bad education and formation, a culture of lies, and the effect of the innumerable choices for or against reality people have made in their lives, from the moment they became responsible for their choices, at the dawning of the age of reason, to the present moment. But the main reason for where people stand today vis-à-vis reality is the state of their souls vis-à-vis God. If I know and love God as a saint does, I will be aware of reality as it is; if I know and love God as a demon does, I will not be. Douglas Haugen knows this, and that is why he wrote this book. It is a book designed to raise the level of awareness of its readers. And it is designed very effectively.
Let me try to describe the awareness of someone on the lower side of the spectrum. There are myriad varieties of these people, depending on accidents of education, culture, socio-economic status, belief system, and political leanings, but at core the lack of awareness and alienation from reality is the same for all of them, and for the same reasons. I don’t pretend to be at the highest level of awareness, but as Plato teaches us, it is true that when we leave one cave, we do know that we’ve left it, even if there are many more to discover and escape from.
The low-level-awareness person thinks that there actually was a global pandemic, and that it is, for all intents and purposes, over, as Biden has told him, thanks to the Vaccine, the wise leadership of people like Tedros and Biden and Fauci and Gates, the heroic efforts of the best and brightest scientists and doctors, and the sacrifices and cooperation of the many good, responsible, loving citizens throughout the world—and it would have been over a long time ago if it weren’t for Trump and the small number of his selfish, irresponsible, and disobedient followers, who, like spoiled children, wouldn’t lockdown and mask-up and get the shot, and who believed in and promoted conspiracy theories that endangered public health and led to many deaths that could have been avoided. Biden said that they are an imminent and grave threat to our democracy, and he told the truth.
She thinks that Ukraine and the entire world is defending its freedom from Russian aggression (and as I write this, she thinks that an innocent Israel, “the only democracy on the Middle East,” was the victim of an “unprovoked” and “surprise” attack on October 6, 2023, by antisemitic terrorists from Gaza) led by an insane new Hitler, and opposed by a courageous hero and new leader of the free world. She thinks Ukraine is winning and will win, thanks to American assistance, just like in World War II when America rescued the Jews and the entire world from Hitler. He thinks that once Ukraine is liberated and Russia justly punished and chastised into submission (like Germany was), we can get back to the real and most formidable evil the world is facing, climate change. He is ready for all the sacrifices our leaders will ask us to do, and the final unification of and disappearance of divisive, racist, and outdated nations into a global government, and just like with the pandemic, we will vanquish this great evil our unenlightened predecessors bequeathed to us, the final obstacle preventing us from establishing a new world order of peace and prosperity and happiness for all. Oh, and the high gas and food prices? That will go away soon, she assures us, as soon as the MAGA people are eradicated, Putin is assassinated, and everyone gets their eighth booster. Sit tight and be patient and get used to less white privilege. Bugs aren’t that bad. Less calories.
She sees the recent overturning of Roe vs. Wade as only a temporary setback in the ongoing and inexorable struggle for individual freedom, whose victory is assured and imminent, as witnessed by the exponential increase in freedom over the last decade, with the right to gender-reassignment surgery for children being only the latest triumph among many more to come. She awaits eagerly the new technological advances that will, like contraception and abortion pills, mRNA vaccines, and the Metaverse, enable humans to further evolve into full adulthood and take control over that evolution, so that the last vestiges of our imprisoning givenness can be sloughed off and we can finally become the kind of beings that we for way too long have projected onto gods and God due to the ignorance, self-hatred, and cowardice of our religious forebears. She likes what sees in Pope Francis, and especially Synod of Synodality that just began in October of this year, because he is taking the Catholic Church in the right direction, although it has a lot of catching up to do.
Why these views? The answer can be found in Dr. Haugen’s book, in exhaustive detail and with penetrating analysis. The short answer, as Haugen tells us, is the Simulacrum. His description:
In hyperreality, the concept of “information” becomes detached from its connection to actual events or facts. Instead, it becomes a generator of plausible worlds, where the medium itself shapes the perception of reality. The order of reality is inverted, as reality becomes subordinate to and influenced by the fantasy created through image-commodities. These image-commodities, rather than facts or truth, become the primary reference point around whichreality must conform. This dynamic perpetuates a form of idolatry, as the simulated world of the metaverse takes precedence over the genuine experience of reality.
The long answer, for which you will have to read the book, explains how this simulacrum was created, how so many fell for it, who did it, and why. You won’t hear much talk of “the Freemasons” and the “Globalists” and “secularizing activists” and the “left” in this book, because although such is the talk of high consciousness, relatively speaking, it is not nearly high enough. Haugen goes much higher. And he does so not only regarding the forbidden-to-mention culprits of the present incarnations of evil, but about their ideological genealogy.
The simulacrum permits only the lowest level and most realityaverse awareness of what is happening socially, culturally, and politically, but its shabby counterfeit of historical, metaphysical, and moral reality is even lower. The following is one version of the Simulacrum’s historical narrative, translated into the highfalutin English of the typical idiotic academic:
Only in secular modernity did man finally achieved his liberation from oppression and ignorance, from superstition, magic, tyranny, and priestcraft, from the dark forces of religious power, fanatical belief, and sectarianism. Man achieved this liberation primarily through the secularization of reason, morality and society, which included the separation of religion from the political order, the church from the state. Ever-increasing religious and ideological pluralism ensued as soon as men of good will were permitted to exercise freely their reason and act on their consciences. It is certainly the case that when Christendom was finally broken up in the wake of the Reformation, religiously intolerant, confessional, monarchical states emerged, but these evolved quite quickly, historically speaking, into the secular, tolerant, pluralistic, democratic states we have today. The rise of secular society after the sixteenth and seventeenth-century wars of religion was rendered possible only by the removal of religion from all positions of political significance and power. Good-willed, reasonable people were ready and willing to accept the desacralization of the state after decades of incessant bloodshed over religion. Sequestered, depoliticized, and privatized, religion and the sacred would now no longer cause war, divisiveness, and oppression, and the newly liberated, autonomous, politically secular individual could finally thrive. In the religiously tolerant, secular, pluralistic liberal democracy governed by the rights of men, not God, the sacred would still have a place and a capacity to exert influence over politics, but now it would have to coexist with the many competing sacreds residing in the same city, proliferating and dwelling together in peace precisely because none are permitted to obtain societal, cultural, and political power, let alone a monopoly on power. In short, secular modernity was born when the archaic, violence-inducing sacred lost its public, political hegemony and influence, being relegated to the sub-political, private sphere of men’s fancies and hearts. What took its place in the public square is what should have always been there in the first place, the right of individuals to self-determination, to freedom of thought, action, speech, and religion. In modernity man had the courage and intelligence to attempt, for the first time in human history, to construct a political order not based upon the religious, the sacred. While not denying the right of every citizen to believe in a sacred, superhuman, cosmic, divine, transcendent power as the true ground of man’s existence, both personal and social, the theoreticians of the modern paradigm, people such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Madison, decided that secular values and rights, codified in a social contract, would replace any supposed power or will higher than man. And we are so thankful they did.
Add to this that “matter is all there is”—well, except for my Mind, which is free and limitless, though determined by economics—but I’m free! And truth is the opinion of the powerful, which is oppressive and untrue, unless I’m in power, or perhaps it’s the opinion of the marginalized. And all opinions are equal, except those that aren’t, like Science and Critical Race Theory. And as for morality—it’s relative, period. Except for racism and sexism and homophobia, which are absolute evils. And MAGA is evil. But good and evil are the labels of the intolerant, or the rationalizations of class consciousness, but vaccines are absolutely good and people should be forced to get them, and Putin is evil. And we today in the 21st century aremorally superior to everyone who lived before us, except that we’re all equal. And abortion is good, so it should be imposed on everyone, but morality is relative. Freedom is the Good, and the Good is Freedom—except for the freedom to try to make something other than freedom the Good, which must be stopped, by force if need be.
Spiritually, the Simulacrum allows us to believe in love, or power, or both, or nothing. The diversity of religions is willed by God, it tells us, except for those religions that claim to be the true religion, which God, who probably doesn’t exist because we are God, hates. Jesus was a nice man and a good moral teacher, but some of his disciples were antisemitic, such as St. John and St. Paul. Crusades. Inquisition. Nazism. Trump. We know this now, and have sought or demanded forgiveness and groveling, and that’s why we love Pope Francis. The universal religion of love is sweeping across the planet, as we await its definitive spokesperson. It is already showing itself, as evidenced by divinely inspired masterpieces of art like this one:
The lockdowns were the first fruits of the New Spirit, bringing us all together in sacrificial love and Science. And the Vaccine is our new sacrament:
The moral, metaphysical, and spiritual beliefs of the low-level awareness mandated by the Simulacrum are, in a word, incoherent, a mishmash of relativism, absolutism, particularism, universalism, self-righteousness and self-deprecation, individualism and collectivism, nihilism and crusaderism, materialism and idealism, atheism and idolatry. They indicate the lowest level possible of spiritual awareness because it, in spite of the illusion of diversity, they all reject the law of non-contradiction, which is the first principle without which truth-knowing and truth-telling are impossible. It would evince a higher level of metaphysical awareness to be a full-fledged materialist or atheist or nihilist, for at least there would be an implicit recognition of the possibility of truth, even if the truth claim itself is self-contradictory and false. But this eclectic spirituality rooted in a chaotic moral and metaphysical soup is the very nadir of human consciousness, and is the perfect breeding ground for global totalitarianism and the Antichrist who will soon embody it, literally. All this Haugen explains in his book, which is a tour de force on the historical and ideological genealogy and metaphysical and theological nature of the diabolical Simulacrum (the thought of Schindler, Taylor, Girard, Negri, Voegelin, Baudrillard, and many more are examined) but doing what no Catholic academic authors dare to do for fear of reprisals and cancellation, namely, name names.
If the reader desires to understand the deeper reasons for the forced covering of faces and injections into bodies, the placing of the entire world under house arrest, the censoring of all speech not in line with arbitrary “expert” claims, the requiring of papers to merely exist in society, the greatest wealth transfer in history to the richest elites on the planet, and a NATO war of aggression against a nuclear power, on the one hand, and the genital mutilation and sexualization of children, the goodness of murdering babies, sodomy, and cannibalism (coming soon), and the replacement of popular entertainment with satanic occult rituals, on the other, he needs to read In Pursuit of the Metaverse. The Simulacrum promises power to its adherents, for it is predicted above all on the rejection of any authority above man’s will, either his individual or collective will. And since the collective will always trumps the individual one due to the dynamic of sheer power, which is all that is left when there is nothing above the human will; since the most powerful and ruthless elites always dominate the collective will; and since Satan always dominates the most powerful and ruthless, the will of Satan will be done on earth as it is in Hell when the conditions are ripest for his enthronement, and those conditions exist perfectly among the lowest-level awareness people, the saints of the Simulacrum, and to only a slightly lesser extent among those of higher-level awareness, which, apart from the very highest, is still very, very low—and still under the spell of the Simulacrum. It is only those with the very highest-level awareness who stand in the way of the Antichrist at this time, and Haugen’s aim is to help us to achieve this level of awareness.
What does such an awareness look like? Haugen presents it clearly and accurately. There is no institution that is attacked more frequently, ferociously, and insidiously than the Catholic Church, for the Masters of the Simulacrum aim to counterfeit it and nothing else, both from without and within, both by intimidation and persecution, seduction and infiltration. Therefore, just read the Catechism of the Catholic Church for an infallible description of the highest level of awareness in terms of moral, metaphysical, and spiritual truth. For a more detailed account of metaphysical awareness in terms of the broad history of philosophy, I would recommend E. Michael Jones’ Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality. But to understand how this ideological history led to the creation of the Simulacrum and paved the way for the imminent reign of Antichrist, In Pursuit of the Metaverse is the gold standard.
In terms of historical narrative, the highest level of awareness can thus be found by rejecting any political history that denigrates the Catholic Church and rejects its true reality as the Mystical Body of Christ, and that doesn’t see the Incarnation as the center of human history. This is essential thesis of the book. Haugen tells us that the City of God is founded on a love of God that leads its citizens to contempt for themselves, counting all earthly things as worthless. Augustine argues that the temporal ought to be ordered to the eternal (Civ. Dei XIX,17), but that this ordering will never be achieved entirely harmoniously till the second coming of the Lord. For, there is a second city here on earth in addition to the city of God— the civitas terrena, the earthly city. This city is founded on a love of self to the contempt of God (Civ. Dei XIV,28). And these two cities are in conflict. The earthly city is always opposed to true religion, as Haugen shows, and justice consists in giving each his own, thus no society is just that does not give God the worship due to Him.
The following narrative of liberal democracy and the so-called Enlightenment is the high-awareness counterpoint to the low-awareness narrative described above, based upon the fact that anyone holding anything like this narrative would be immediately fired from any mainstream academic or government position. The incredible evil we have witnessed and suffered over the past two years amounts to the greatest crime against humanity ever committed. The plandemic was an all-out assault on every human being on the planet. Though its most obvious effects were economic and political, at its core it was a spiritual and psychological-terror operation knowingly and deliberately orchestrated by a small global elite of unspeakably evil and psychopathic people. It was executed by a larger group of lower-tier cooperators ignorant of the master plan but vicious enough to use their power and influence to inflict untold harm on those in their charge. And it was enabled by the masses of idolatrous, fearful, alienated, rootless, selfish, and cowardly men, the rotten fruit of a godless and decadent liberalism, a liberalism that encourages children to mutilate their bodies, allows mothers to murder their babies, and celebrates when men penetrate the rectums of other men. In Pursuit of the Metaverse explains, at the deepest level, why all this happened, and how we can ensure, by unmasking both the Simulacrum and its creators, that nothing like it ever happens again.
In the end, we are each responsible for our level of awareness, and God created us to aspire to the highest level possible, the intimate awareness of Him. We can only become aware of our unawareness by His grace, and we need His minute-by-minute help to ascend to higher and higher levels, lest we fall backwards into our own darkness and blindness. Let us practice the presence of God always so that we become more and more aware of His indescribable love for us and share this awareness with all whom we meet. Reading this book will help you in this practice.
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