Introduction
This article is another in a series that attempts to describe a spiritual system that goes far beyond the myopia of materialism. Today’s subject is the concept of historical forces.
Theories of history
History is the summary of what happened between human beings along the decades, centuries, and millennia. Is history random? That is to say, is the relationship between human beings mere coincidence, like the interactions of particles at the quantum level? Or are there meta-forces that take inputs and turn them into inevitable historical outputs?
One might logically choose the latter option. Human history is essentially a catalog of conflict and war over thousands of years, combined with intellectual advancement that has made war more and more deadly.
Joshua Horn, from Discerning History, summarizes what he calls the Theories of History:
(1) Random: “One popular idea today is that history is random – that the interaction of billions of humans and their choices with all the other natural factors in the world creates history with no discernible flow or path. This seems to be demonstrated by the fact that history often turns upon the smallest factors.”`
(2) The Great Man Theory: The world is changed by great persons with forceful personalities.
(3) The Great Forces Theory: This is the subject of this essay. “This idea suggests that the important men do not shape the forces and movements in history, but the forces and movements of history create the great men… The Great Forces theory takes many forms. Some say that history is driven by economics, or technology, or the struggle for human rights, or a hundred other factors.”
(4) Divine Providence. This theory suggests that history is controlled by God’s will, or that there is some kind of Divine Plan motivating human activity.
Google AI weighs in
I was curious to see if an AI would even recognize the concept of historical forces. Here is what Google AI said:
“Historical forces are the fundamental factors and powerful influences—like economic shifts, technological innovations, social movements, and political ideologies—that shape and drive change in human societies and the course of history. These forces, which include natural disasters, population shifts, and cultural encounters, are often complex, intertwined, and interact with each other to create long-term patterns, turning points, and continuities in human events.”
This is similar to (3) above. However, natural disasters, population shifts, and “cultural encounters” aren’t causes. Unless you think that the earth is a dead rock where events occur randomly, or that population shifts and cultural encounters “just happen.”
The AI comes closest to the truth, I believe, when it explains Cultural Forces: “The spread of ideas, religions, customs, and artistic developments that shape human thought and interaction.” However, this is a passive definition (“the spread of”)without mention of a cause.
The AI said that
“historical forces explain why events happen by identifying the underlying causes and influences that lead to certain outcomes. These forces rarely operate in isolation; they are deeply interwoven and influence each other, creating a complex web of causation. They contribute to shaping entire epochs, such as the Renaissance, or fundamental shifts in human civilization, like industrialization. While powerful, these forces are also influenced by the decisions of individuals and groups, who can sometimes become pivot points for historical change.”
Except for the last sentence in italics, historical forces are seen by AI as having an existence independent of human thought and action. And even then, it only reluctantly admits that individuals can “sometimes become pivot points for historical change.”
A meta-explanation
If there are historical forces in human history, what is their cause?
Let’s begin by acknowledging that we are discussing human history. Clearly, the cause of human history is human beings.
What is a human being?
The standard definition of a human being is a walking mass of protoplasm that responds to stimuli. Without belaboring the point, which I have made many times before, a human being must have a metaphysical component. Consciousness isn’t meat based, it is an animating principle that activates physical bodies. Obviously, when the animating principle leaves the body it dies and its constituent atoms return to the earth.
This concept is so absurdly simple and obvious, yet it is firmly rejected by science, medicine, politics, and authority figures in other fields.
Meat cannot think and it isn’t self-aware without the animating principle.
I would argue that “historical forces” is a meta-concept. Meta explanations must be used sometimes to explain causes that are beyond the boundaries of permitted thinking. The boundaries of permitted thinking are firmly established by regarding human beings as walking meat.
Within that framework of understanding, the conception that human consciousness has a meta-physical component cannot be accepted or even considered. Therefore, concepts such as “historical forces” – if they exist – can have no real causal explanation and are appropriately vague. That’s because they must avoid acknowledging anything beyond a purely materialist explanation for life.
Question: Could historical forces be generated by human beings in an invisible and self-reflexive manner? To respond properly to this question we must enter the meta realm.
Intellectual History
Intellectual history is the study of ideas and the thinkers who produce them. It defines ideas as the fundamental cause behind human events, and this makes sense.
This concept is expressed admirably by the authors Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot in the preface to their book, The Shape of the New:
“Our principal theme – that ideas have made the world we live in and still direct our conceptions, even our imagining, of it, for better and for ill—has been stated before, though in different form. Our principal effort, then, has been to illustrate and clarify this theme by looking at particular thinkers and their systems of thought. It is absolutely clear that in various ways and at various times these thinkers and their ideas have impacted the great majority of lives from the late 1700s until today and will continue to do so for a long time to come.”
What is an idea? An idea is a thought about something. When an idea gets strong enough it is placed into the physical universe – by publishing it or sending an email about it or giving a lecture about it. A blueprint, for example, represents ideas about how to build a house in physical form. But those ideas were created by the consciousness of a human being. And so they also exist in the Collective Consciousness.
The Human Thought Space (HTS) parallels the physical thought space. Consciousness is not tied exclusively to the physical, so every human being is interfacing with the HTS (and each other).
Group Consciousness and the Human Thought Space
In previous articles it was proposed that the human thought space (HTS) contains the thoughts of every human being in real time. A thought is a tiny packet of subtle energy containing information. The human thought space would then act as an invisible but indirect “guiding hand” for human consciousness.
Consider also the idea that 8 billion physically incarnated souls have their counterpart in the non-physical area, or what has been called the “between lives” area. This means that all 8 billion non-physical personalities (souls) connected with planet earth form a group consciousness.
Even when incarnated on earth, this connection exists, because human consciousness interfaces with the higher realm of the non-physical.
This connection is non-existent for most humans: look at the pathetic state of the world for confirmation of that. For some there may be a slight awareness of it. For outliers in the 3 sigma range and beyond it may be very real indeed.
Obviously, a “ghost” or soul group consciousness can’t have very much effect in the physical universe. Well, not a direct physical effect. It would be like blowing on a mountain to remove the snow.
However, an 8 billion strong group consciousness would be strong in thought. For self-aware persons the collective consciousness could provide an overall direction in the idea space (HTS) for the evolution of consciousness.[1]
The spiritual system is a part of the spiritual battle on earth that has been ongoing for 200,000 years, ever since homo sapiens appeared on the scene. It’s been the struggle of the self-aware for millennia against the low-consciousness deadheads who engage in conflict and war.
Anyone reading this has probably felt the hopelessness of changing the consciousness of humanity. The vast majority, it seems, have little or no understanding of their own spirituality. I’m pretty sure that this understanding is broadly necessary for any permanent positive change to occur in society. Human beings must understand what human consciousness is.
The dark forces are still strong on the planet. Look what happened to Charlie Kirk (video, if you can stand it, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltakvGyzfZs&rco=1 ).
(My browser automatically redirects away from this hyperlink, you have to type this in on YouTube.)
I never followed the guy, but he offered an open mike to anyone who wanted to challenge his beliefs. What he got in return was a bullet in the neck. This is how the dark forces have operated throughout every civilization and group. They know nothing but hatred and the fear that spawns violence.
The self-aware understand that every human being has a higher potential. These people try to discover their own personal Truth. They don’t get taken up in the War of Narratives and the false dichotomy and idiocy of “Left” and “Right.” They have the ability to see through the lies of politicized ScientismTM, “experts,” and “authorities,” which are just vehicles for human suppression.
Fortunately our psychopathic overlords are being forced into the open. Their actions are changing consciousness and forcing people to look within.
Call me crazy, but I believe the “forces of history” are finally working in our favor. Despite the desperate actions of the dark forces with their public executions, there is a growing spiritual recognition on the planet. Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I believe, will accelerate this trend.
Summary
The “forces of history” concept is an attempt to explain the direction of human activity throughout history.
There seems to be an almost independent and un-identifiable influence on history.
Because every human being has a non-physical component (the soul, if you will), human consciousness is an interface between the physical and the non-physical.
This non-physical component forms a group consciousness and acts as an indirect “guiding hand” to those physical humans who are sensitive enough to perceive it. The history of ideas that change the world is influenced indirectly by the group consciousness of humanity and the human thought space.
Certain individuals, such as Harvey (blood circulation) Copernicus (the sun is the center of the solar system, not the earth), Charles Darwin (evolution), Karl Marx (communism), Einstein (relativity), the various (but few) quantum physicists who discovered zero-point energy, and Crick and Watson (DNA) – to name a few – have ideas that change the course of history. But these individuals have been the tiniest subset of the human population. The sensitive ones who can tap into the group consciousness of ideas, both positive and negative.
Every human being is connected to every other human being via the Human Thought Space.
The collection of 8 billion physically incarnated soul personalities is also a group consciousness that is connected by the worldnet messaging system. The physical group consciousness is a sort of subset of the soul group consciousness, for a human being is an incarnated soul personality.
Self-aware persons can, to a greater or lesser degree, become aware of their personal connection to the Group Soul consciousness.
Self-awareness helps a person to counteract the lies and propaganda in the Narrative War, and make some sense of this crazy world.
The dark forces are on the run. In their desperation they resort to intimidation, street violence, and public assassinations. Their time is almost over as their actions continue to wake people up.
[1] For those who don’t believe in anything spiritual, consider the collective consciousness as Peter Russell defined it: a global brain.