What is this
website about?
Basically it is
about going beyond the accepted realm of 'reality' by decoding patterns
and symbols of worldly phenomena. Here, the physical world is viewed only
as a subset of a greater matrix, a hidden configuration that gives rise to
such things as synchronicities and symbolic
patterns that we all encounter from time to time even without active
interest.
The approach of Etemenanki
essentially is to detect, analyze, and most importantly synthesize patterns,
weaving them into a coherent tapestry forming a nice 'big picture'.
Through symbolism Etemenanki finds and tracks an intricate 'dance',
or 'orchestral' interaction, between patterns/symbols of today and those
of the past, usually involving esoteric, prophetic, or
mythological/religious traditions typically of ancient origin. In particular
Etemenanki has come to emphasize semi-transcendental themes such as the Ark, Holy Grail, Great
Flood, 'fallen angels', Atlantis, Mars, Osirian/Messianic resurrection,
and such.
By processing and projecting the patterns forward,
Etemenanki regularly attempts
to 'decode' or at least narrow down future-event possibilities. Such 'projections'
quite often prove
to be effective and useful, as the reader will likely find out by following
the site for a reasonable amount of time.
A new visitor will be tempted to put
Etemenanki into some familiar category - which is fine.
Chances are, however, that the realization will soon follow - that it's something
different, something hard to categorize. Etemenanki
may deal with subjects discussed elsewhere in the vastness of cyberspace, but
here the information is processed on a very uniquely and aggressively 'multicontextual' level that
set this one apart. (Better or worse - that's up to you to
decide.)
Now, make no mistake, any idiot
can do 'free association' just as anyone can bang on the keys of the
piano. But that's a far cry from actually being able to make harmonious
music out of it - be it musical instruments or conceptual
associations/coincidences. Some people are just happy to go through or
see a non-linear association process; some people see the non-linearity of
the process and think it's all just free-association nonsense that excites
only the intellectually weak; and then there are those who can detect and
process a higher order of coherence that can come out of a certain
non-linear, or multicontextual, thinking process. The Etemenanki
website will naturally attract the first and the third types of people
described, but is really designed for the third.
After 9/11, discussions on Etemenanki
often centered around that momentous event, carrying profoundly
symbolic and prophetic implications, which drastically changed the course
of the world. Increasingly, however, the focus is
shifting toward the future, and the emerging picture is quite grim. We are
looking at some dark clouds ahead of us. Check out my articles listed here.
Etemenanki is not afraid to,
and sometimes does, deal with political
issues, which should be considered natural given the major role of the US administration
in the 'endgame' underway. Ignoring this
would be like ignoring an elephant in the room. This has nothing
to do with the site's political agenda or anything like that as Etemenanki
actually has no active interest in politics per se and certainly no political
agenda. Let it be known, however, that Etemenanki with its
truth-seeking rational mind finds the current US administration appalling
on a human level.
Finally, the best way to keep up
with Etemenanki's stream of 'multicontextual' findings is to
regularly monitor the update/blog section on the
main page
which is updated frequently.
Philosophical Position
Let's face it. The
majority of the
humans on this planet we call Earth are little more than monkeys with the
ability to speak and do simple arithmetic. That is not to say that humans
don't have the potential to become much more - and we do. But the
system put in place for us reduces most humans to rats chasing a piece of cheese, just unwittingly running in circles, never
achieving anything meaningful except temporarily satisfying hunger. By the
time people are finished with public education, most are fully prepared to
accept life as being about chasing the cheese. The system will have
trained them well to act in certain ways and expect certain rewards, not
unlike the circus animals.
Let's take it from the top. What we
have as biological beings, first of all, is the instinctive desire to
survive. Our freedom to choose between life and 'death' has thus
been automatically taken away. This is the first and most fundamental
limitation we face, and this is the first condition of being a biological
life form. Individually, we are made to seek and consume food to sustain
our bodies. As a race, we are programmed to crave and engage in sex to
ensure the continuance of the species.
From these primary human needs
arises the secondary desire for cohabitation, a society, which increases the
chances of fulfilling the biologically-induced needs. This then gives rise to a
'system', which in turn leads to the establishment of laws and convention-driven behaviors/mentality. 'Fitting in' becomes an important underlying obligation for all
members of the system because a system, as a form of machine, has to have
all its parts working in harmony to function properly. And so the fundamental
needs imposed upon us by nature/biology make conformity a high
priority.
The important
question, however, is 'Do we really like this situation'? Don't we all crave
freedom and creativity as well - something that belonging to an external system inevitably diminishes?
So the United
States and other democratic nations promote freedom. But isn't that a
little schizophrenic? A system for freedom - it's pretty much an oxymoron.
At the heart of a democratic system is election, or the idea of a
'government of the people, by the people, for the people'. In
a basic sense, democracy is a system devised to ensure that the most
popular views are implemented to keep as many people as possible happy or
'free'. But more
bluntly put, democracy is majority rule.
It is, in a way, an extension of the high-school type popularity contest. And
the ultimate way to win the game, it can be deduced, is to make more babies so that there would be
more of your kind, i.e. becoming the majority faction and gaining the right to decide
what should be done. A silly game, is it not? It has very little, if at
all, to do with truth.
The democratic (majority rule) system is based on 'the
recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than
half of the time'. In other words, it has to do with probability. And everyone
knows probability is just that; there are always deviations and
exceptions. To put it another way, the fundamental problem with democracy is
that it takes a shortcut in deciding what is right. Instead
of utilizing pure logic (or 'quality'), democracy relies – out of
convenience – on quantity.
Democracy
is an effective system but it is by no
means perfect. Perhaps it's the best system for a group of
not-so-bright people; it can effectively carry a nation forward. But without true intelligence and understanding to go along with it,
inevitably it
all becomes hollow and susceptible to gross corruption and an eventual total collapse,
not unlike the destruction of the World Trade Center twin towers.
Incidentally,
the
WTC twin towers were the most prominent symbol of capitalism, which goes
hand in hand with democracy. The driving force of capitalism is the desire
for profits. And here we see a clear case of putting 'cheese' in front of
a mouse.
People want to survive, thus they want a system and they want it
to work well. For the system to prosper, it needs its people feeding their energy and creativity
into the system. Seemingly there should be no
problem here since the people did want the system to exist in the first
place. And yet there is a built-in problem - stemming from the fact that the desire for a societal system was an
indirect one. The desire had arisen from biological needs that are imposed
on physical beings.
If it can be agreed that people
- as sentient beings - inherently seek and deserve freedom and creativity, then living in a system is ultimately a burden,
something to be avoided if possible. So people's desire for a system is
actually a superficial need based on the superficial impulse to survive. This then creates a situation where
the system, virtually independent of the people, needs to motivate its
unmotivated people to work for it so that the system may be sustained and thrive.
And the system manages to accomplish this by exploiting humans'
biologically programmed competitiveness and their programmed desire for
physical pleasure. By setting up a
'game' with seductive rewards appealing to the pleasure-seeking human mind,
the system successfully gets people start running in the mouse wheel,
generating energy which is then fed into the system.
The
danger here is the societal system turning into a
virtual 'organism' with its own agenda that does not reflect the best
interests of the people it is supposed to serve. Instead, the people begin
to serve the system. And this 'mutiny' would take place quietly without
the people's conscious detection as they would be too caught up in
the 'game' to realize what is happening.
A
similar
'game' gets played out in the political
system of the US (and other countries). The system sets up two or more competing 'teams',
designed to create balances and checks. In reality, what results from this
is a dysfunctional
government, the original intent and purpose forgotten. The 'game',
originally meant to serve certain principles, transforms itself into a
theater where the desire to win the superficial game supercedes the original
goal.
I am not saying that
the
societal system championed by the US is any more flawed than the others. In
fact, I would agree that it is the most successful and advanced system in
existence today. But this does not cancel the fact that it
is still a flawed system. It may work fine for
a while, but any time truth/logic has been overridden by the force of
convenience, ignorance, or intellectual laziness, its path automatically
leads to the formation of a 'false picture' that has to collapse sooner
or later from its
own weight, along with the culture that depended on it.
And because of
this, our society - and western civilization in general - is a 'time bomb' waiting to go off. To avoid this fate, there has to be an effort to weed out the
'bugs' out of the system and make it as honest to reason and truth as
possible. This would be a
difficult and frustrating endeavor for sure, but such is life and it is
the only path to making real progress.
Unfortunately, the projected
destruction of the 'false picture' seems to have already begun for our
culture. The collapse of the WTC
towers on September 11, 2001 could not be a more telling expression of
this. The bubble of capitalism is now in its final hours. And, tellingly, preceding
9/11 was the sorry display of the state of the US democracy - i.e. the 2000 presidential
election in which
people's votes did not determine the victor. (George W. Bush was declared
winner by the pathetic 'ruling'
of the Republican-dominated US Supreme Court which basically said 'well, there should probably
be a recount or something... but, oops, we're out of time, sorry... guess the dumb one will be in the office, but it's not really our
decision, don't blame the messenger'.)
I often wonder if the US handled the election properly
and followed the true spirit of democracy, 9-11-01 would have been just another ordinary day,
in a
karmic sense. There is certainly a sense that the beginning of the new millennium
was/is designed to be the 'final test' period for the New World. Passing
would mean being allowed to move on to the next phase; and failing would
mean being allowed to self-destruct. At this time, it appears that the protective mechanism
that had been in place has gone offline for the United States.
It should be noted
that, at least on a
conceptual level, the US has lost the integrity of its main pillars: democracy, justice, and capitalism.
What's more, American citizens are slowly but surely losing their freedom
and individual rights - a direct consequence of the terrorist events (i.e. 'fear' activating the blind survival instinct).
But people can at least put their faith in the higher power. Err... no,
wait. Oops, we have learned recently that the the Church people, the self-proclaimed
representatives of God, are little more than homosexual pedophiles!
The United States, the leading
world power, is methodically being dismantled. Perhaps this is the
unavoidable fate of a nation that has placed the pursuit of happiness
above the pursuit of truth.
At any rate, the point
is this. The 21st
century is a new era in which 'appearance' will collapse. It will be a
time when 'truth' loses its patience. It is now time to wake up from our spiritual coma. It is time to recognize all the bullshit
surrounding our lives for what it is. We have been 'played' by the game for so long.
We allowed it because we have the tendency to climb down the spiritual and
intellectual evolutionary
ladder whenever given a chance. It is facilitated by the
biological/physical aspect of our existence. It is something we have to constantly
fight against. The 'enemy' is innately within us.
Do we want safety, comfort, and worldly
pleasures, or do we want to know the truth? Are you one of those
who are just happy to be in 'the Matrix' or are you angry as hell to be in
this cage that reduces us to mere circus animals? Are you convinced that
we humans are the greatest product of the universe, or are you frustrated out of
your freaking mind that human knowledge is not moving forward much more
quickly as it should thanks to those who unwittingly serving the 'system'?
Are you satisfied to be in the role of a 'sinner' waiting to be
'saved', or are you sickened to your stomach by the idea of being reduced
to a helpless monkey in need of kissing some supposed god's or his
representatives' ass? Are you willing to be some illusory idol's bitch, or
would you
rather risk going to 'hell' so that there would at least be some shred of
spirit left to be 'saved'? Are you so comfortable in the existing system
that you don't want it to change, or are you more than willing to go through trying times of destruction/transition in order to get closer to
the truth?
Aren't you tired of pretending to be a stupid ape just so that you can
'fit in' when you know you can be much more? Don't you want to live in a
place where true intelligence or knowledge is encouraged instead of ignorance, conformity, appearance, physicality, and
majority opinion?
It's the beginning
of the 21st century for god's sake. It's about time we - at least some of
us - decided that we had just about enough of the bullshit that plagues
mankind and the planet. The 'game' is stupid and it is getting old. It is about time that we
stopped playing it. Some people/generations are chronically dumb and it is
probably best that they be left alone. But for the rest of us, it is
time to start thinking about marching into the next 'New World' and
forming a mentality and community of the truth, by the truth, and for the truth. It is
time to re-ignite the fire of imagination and creativity - the long-lost
essence of who we are.
F**k survival of
the fittest. F**k convention. F**k rules. F**k popularity. F**k happiness.
F**k words. F**k money. F**k so-called religion. F**k
academia. F**k specialization. F**k linearity. F**k evil. F**k good. F**k
imitation. F**k limitation. F**k
realism. F**k reality.
Truth
- now this deserves respect.
Let
me point out that symbolism, or allegory, is
'truer' than realism in that
the former allows more possibilities (or interpretations). And more possibilities – implying greater freedom and less
context-dependence – translate to a greater truth.
Accordingly, it's been said that 'the more numerous the poetic
meanings that could be concentrated in a sacred name, the greater was its
power' (Robert Graves).
The
Etemenanki website views reality from such an angle and offers
transcontextual interpretations of world phenomena. It is an attempt to
hack and decode the ultimate 'game' we call reality. The website does not claim to
give you the truth necessarily, but it at least strives to do what the 'system' does not want
done. The hope is that this will provoke some new
thinking and new mentality out there.
Goro
May
9, '02 [Slightly
revised Sept. 16, '03]
Not that I have given up on the human race, but it is
desperately out of time. Are we able to overcome who we are in time and
complete the gate of the god through which the two worlds unite? Is it the Hall of
Records that we look for, or is it the Tomb of Osiris, or is it Atlantis, or is it that
which awaits us on Mars, or is it the fire that resides in the heart? The Flood
came, we fell to our knees - but somewhere over the rainbow was hope. And hope is
all we have...
