THE DOUBLE TERROR OF THE SITUATION

Referring to the story from Beelzebub’s Tales entitled “The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of ‘The Terror of the Situation'” we present its continuation, unfolding in our own times. This text is a record of our investigation, which revealed the causes of “living in sleep” and the sources of these hypnotic states.

The text also explains why the path of self-knowledge — or the possibility of disconnecting from the hypnotic state of the masses — was never easy, is becoming increasingly difficult today, and may in the future become altogether unreachable.

“Everything that lives on Earth — people, animals, plants — is food for the Moon… All movements, actions and manifestations of people, animals and plants depend upon the Moon and are controlled by it… The mechanical part of our life depends upon the Moon, is subject to the Moon. If we develop consciousness and will within ourselves and subordinate our mechanical life and all our mechanical manifestations to them, we shall escape from the power of the Moon.” ~ G. I. Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff claims that it is the Moon that exercises mechanical control over all organic life on Earth, though he also presents a less mild stance toward it:

“The Moon is a great enemy of man. We serve the Moon.” ~ Gurdjieff

This is why the Fourth Way teaching and the Zeronautics based upon it both emphasize the necessity of separating oneself from the Moon’s influence and escaping this control — in order to move from mechanical life toward “true life.”

The Terror of Lunar Technology

In computer technology there are many threads connecting these devices to the Moon and to the hypnotic states within human beings that Gurdjieff wrote about.

Silicon. First, computer technology is based on silicon, which also plays a very important bio-informational role in the human organism — as Professor Sedlak wrote in detail. In many of his works, silicon appears as the building block of the original and primary form of life on Earth. Silicon governs aging processes, cellular transformations, and quantum states of consciousness — which is why the influence of silicon-based computers on human beings runs so deep.

Cold Light. Another thread is the so-called “cold light” of the Moon, flowing to us from our screens, against which many of the world’s traditions and religions have long warned. The Bhagavad Gita describes two paths along which souls travel after physical death: one is the path of the Sun, known also as the bright path, and the other is the path of the Moon, known as the dark path. Buddhism too cautions against cold light, which draws people into an eternal sleep.

Gurdjieff goes so far as to claim that man is food for the Moon — and these myths and beliefs correlate to some degree with his assertion. He also states that “we are like the sheep of the Moon, which it shears, feeds, tends and preserves for its own purposes.”

The Evolution of the Moon. In the cosmological scheme proposed by Gurdjieff, the Earth is like a mother to the Moon, which is still an embryo — in the sense that it cannot yet “breathe” on its own, sustain an atmosphere, or live independently. One day the Earth will evolve into a Sun-like being, while the Moon will transform into a second Earth.

The Moon is thus a being whose purpose is growth and evolution. And our times confirm this — the expansion of lunar technology and its influence is a fact, and it is happening at the expense of human beings, as several further threads below make clear.

“In order to awaken, one must first of all realize that one is in a state of sleep. In order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in a state of sleep or hypnosis. It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source that induces the hypnosis.” ~ Gurdjieff

Hypnosis. The Lunar Sleep.

The use of smartphones — and other sources of “cold light” — manifests in states resembling hypnosis. In both cases, whether “surfing the web” or lying on a hypnotherapist’s couch, a person loses their sense of identity and time, responding to stimuli automatically. They become an automaton, susceptible to suggestion and to the programming of attitudes, goals, value systems without values, and so on.

Communication within the lunar sleep. A study was conducted to examine whether a relationship exists between smartphone addiction and increased susceptibility to hypnotic suggestion. A positive correlation was observed between hypnotic susceptibility and smartphone addiction. The study demonstrated that the more you use the internet — especially through a smartphone, but also through other silicon machines — the greater your susceptibility to hypnosis.

Social media as a source of lunar hypnosis:

Trance — people spend hours in the aimless scrolling of social media, switching off from the external world. It may seem like mere wasted time, but this trance-like mode of thinking can lead to a state in which we become pliable and easily susceptible to new ideas and beliefs — both good and bad.

Absence — the internet can be an escape from the external world; it can also cause anxiety and reduce productivity.

Stupefaction — social media is flooded with such a vast quantity of information that we tend to absorb it all without pausing to process any of it. Due to this constant influx of beliefs, ideas and news, many of us simply accept false information as true and worthy of attention.

Morbid unreality — science has identified a clear link between anxiety and depression and the use of social media.

False Identity — these platforms allow people to project an unrealistic and fabricated version of themselves — a pure illusion, which consumers publish on social media.

Lunar Laws

The internet proves to be the next stage in the Moon’s expansion, binding people to its hypnotic states for virtually the entire day.

The Double Terror of the Situation is a doubling of mechanical laws. In Gurdjieff’s cosmology, along the Ray of Creation and its successive segments, the number of mechanical laws governing each level of reality doubles. In this description, the Earth is governed by 48 laws, and the Moon by 96 — twice as many.

And already we can see that the lunar “reality of the internet” is transforming our lives, increasing the number of mechanical laws in force on Earth.

These are lunar laws, operating in the domain of restricting the will, controlling people, and surveilling them on a scale never seen before.

The appearance of these laws is both indirect and direct evidence of the Moon’s expansion — not least through the development of artificial intelligence technology, which has become the Moon’s new viceroy on Earth.

The effect of lunar laws is a deepening hypnotic state, a life of powerlessness and the impossibility of change.

“Souls which go to the Moon, possessing perhaps even a certain amount of consciousness and memory, find themselves there under the influence of ninety-six laws, that is to say, in the conditions of mineral life; in other words, in conditions from which there is no escape except through the general evolution of enormously long planetary cycles. The Moon is at the ‘end,’ at the very end of the world; it is the ‘outer darkness’ of Christian doctrine, ‘where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'” ~ From In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky

Through silicon technology, the sleeping world of the Moon is already present on Earth in the form of the alternative reality of the internet. A third of the world’s population now lives inside smartphones, bearing all the consequences of that condition — from apathy to depression, from identity crisis to inner emptiness, filled with terabytes of information that generate a new state of perception aptly named the mind’s rubbish heap.

Whoever accepts this “normality,” unwilling to see the scale of this madness and its consequences, is already a mineral and silicon being, subject to the 96 mechanical laws of the lunar waking dream.

“Cold Light” from screens induces a hypnotic state.

Screens are ubiquitous in the daily lives of most people, from morning to night and through the night. But why do we remain glued to them around the clock? Can we speak of a kind of hypnosis?

First, we should examine what place screens actually occupy in our lives. According to Nielsen research, Americans spend approximately 11 hours a day in front of electronic media — smartphones, computers, video games and other devices. This means that people spend more than half of their waking state in lunar sleep. Horror. On average, a family owns around 6.1 screens in the home. So yes, technology is truly integrated into our lives. It is hard for us to imagine life without these things. But why?

There are many different “rational” explanations that seem to account for everything — and in doing so deepen the sleep of abnormal normality. First, technology is essential in our society; it is our way of communicating, and if we look away we might miss something important, so we had better stay connected. Second, everyone uses it. And third, lunar technology promotes itself through itself, transforming people into will-less automatons of information consumption.

All well and good — but must we really check our phones a hundred times a day? Of course not. We do it automatically and reflexively, in hypnosis. Sometimes we even feel our phone vibrating in our pocket, when it is only our imagination.

Horror — even the mere glow of our phone screen draws us toward it the way light draws moths.

This is partly the result of FOMO syndrome — Fear of Missing Out. It refers to information addiction and the irrational fear of losing contact with social events, experiences and interactions — much like the hunger of a heroin or alcohol addict, that same fear of losing access to the substance.

As a result, we check our notifications every ten minutes, often without even being aware of it. Many people do not even recognize their own problem — and this is precisely the terror of the situation. Even so, this still does not fully explain why we are so addicted. One might think: “You know, it is just a way to stop thinking about stressful things — after a full day of work, watching television or surfing the internet is relaxing, that is why I do it.”

But the reason runs far deeper, reaching down into organic and biochemical cellular activity. Just like drugs, love and sugar, social media delivers dopamine to our brains, activating the reward system every time we receive a notification.

Moreover, everything on social media is designed to keep us in this hypnotic state of captivity. Moving from one link to the next, scrolling endlessly — all of this has a hypnotic effect on the brain. And this causes us to stop thinking independently, to live like automatons. In this way we can become trapped in social media for many hours without even noticing it.

“The manifestations of this harmful property are especially intensified when people of the kind described are gathered together in large numbers during events such as wars, revolutions, civil wars and so forth. During these kinds of events, there manifests itself with particular vividness a state which they themselves are also sometimes able to notice, and to whose influence, with rare exceptions, they all succumb — a state called ‘mass hypnosis.’ The essence of this state is that ordinary people — whose thinking is already weak and becomes still weaker during such periods — are driven by the harmful fabrications of some madman, and, becoming in the full sense of the word slaves of these fabrications, begin to manifest themselves in a completely automatic manner.” ~ Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson

Terror — but what exactly is hypnosis?

The hypnotic state is called a modified state of consciousness. It means that the person experiencing it has a different way of perceiving themselves, their surroundings, their feelings and their identity. People experience this every day — in the car, at work, in the shower.

And this is exactly what screens do. When we watch television or scroll through the internet, we switch off our intellectual center. It acts like an anaesthetic to which one can quickly become addicted. It systematically cuts people off from logical thinking, while the constant flow of images suppresses inner reflection in favor of uncritical consumption of hypnotic advertising and propaganda messages.

People with “glassy eyes” lose the ability to read with comprehension — which is why every text on this site is worth reading three times.

But how exactly do screens hypnotize us?

There are several keys to being hypnotized. First, the subject’s attention must be fully directed, so that the person is not thinking about anything else. This is what media does — it saturates minds with an ocean of data, subordinated to advertising, propaganda, or other ends.

The second key is bringing the person into a state in which they no longer need to think independently — in fact, they cannot, because they are driven by so-called personalized content: the timeline, the photo carousel, the auto-play video.

The next key to the gates of our mind is the creation of an “anchor” that draws people back again and again to this hypnotic state. That anchor is the notification — vibrating with the sweet taste of dopamine.

We can relate screen addiction to the hypnotic state because it cuts off logical thinking and thereby induces a kind of unconscious condition in which the only stimulation comes from the screen rather than from reality. This is therefore further evidence of the modified state of consciousness that arises during the use of this technology.

The Nature of Lunar Influence

People are governed by false lunar imaginings in the energy of the negative. These are thoughts such as: “I can’t do this, I’m not good at it,” “life is against me,” “what will others think of me?,” “this exhausts me, I’ve had enough,” “I won’t manage,” “I don’t have time,” “I’m afraid,” “this isn’t for me.”

But equally: “wow, I’m so good at this,” “now I’ll show them,” “everything revolves around me,” “no one can match me,” “I owe nothing to anyone,” “I’ll tell them the truth!” or “who do you think you are?!” Likewise the popular expressions “I’m done with this” or “there’s none of that left in me” simply mean that someone really is not done, and that it is still very much in them. These are merely further mental gestures of repression, designed to protect the structure of the “lunar self” by invoking pale substitutes for inner peace, the sense of mastery over oneself, awakening, happiness, and so on.

Most of these things sound as if they are running on a tape — automatically, beyond our will. And it is precisely this kind of thought that demands the most careful examination, in order to see its fully mechanical, lunar and hypnotic character.

Summarizing our investigation into the Moon

Social media delivers dopamine to the brain, activating the reward system and making it difficult to stop using it.

The continuous stream of information from screens can lead users into a hypnotic state similar to a modified state of consciousness.

This hypnotic state is characterized by a reduced capacity for critical thinking and reflection, making users more susceptible to manipulation.

Constant notifications from screens serve as an anchor, drawing users back into the hypnotic state and making it difficult to disconnect.

The Moon exerts a controlling influence over human life — silicon technology, particularly computers and smartphones, affects human beings at the electromagnetic and cellular level.

Excessive use of technology, particularly smartphones, can lead to a hypnotic state of “lunar sleep.”

Studies have shown a correlation between smartphone addiction and increased susceptibility to hypnotic states.

Social media is a source of hypnosis, and the internet is an extension of the Moon’s influence.

The widespread use of technology has brought about the “Double Terror of the Situation,” in which the number of mechanical laws governing reality has increased, leading to a loss of will and self-control.

Gurdjieff clearly recognized the hypnotic influence of media information on human beings — even in his time, when it amounted only to newspapers, radio, cinema and television. Even then, however, he advised his students to cut themselves off from the hypnotic noise conditioning mechanical thinking and automatic association for three months before beginning the Work.

Although in these times disconnecting from all of this is far more difficult than it was a hundred years ago, it remains possible — in small steps. Additional guidance and inspiration can be found in the chapter No 26 “The Legominism Concerning the Deliberations of the Very Saintly Ashiata Shiemash Under the Title of ‘The Terror of the Situation'” in Gurdjieff’s Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson.

Conclusion — the less lunar technology in your life, the greater your chances of emerging from the hypnotic state that prevents self-knowledge and evolution toward the Bright Sun of Consciousness.

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THE DOUBLE TERROR OF THE SITUATION