The Dark Lord of the Virtual World

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How can we prepare for the incarnation of Ahriman? It is an important topic for the world—one that I first became occupied with back in 1997. Steiner advised his listeners that it would be “of the very greatest importance that we should approach the coming incarnation of Ahriman with full consciousness of this event.” But how can we bring the world to consciousness of this? I would like to examine four “horcruxes”—four examples of these late-historical Ahrimanic forms: 1) Virtual reality, 2) the Psy-op, 3) Finance, and 4) Artificial Intelligence. I suppose I could restate this list as 1) Fake reality, 2) Fake information, 3) Fake money and 4) Fake consciousness.

Speaker: Eric Cunningham

Eric Cunningham is a Professor of History at Gonzaga University. A specialist in modern Japanese intellectual history, he received an MA in modern Japanese literature from the University of Oregon in 1999, and a PhD in History from the same institution in 2004. Cunningham’s research interests include Japanese intellectual history, Zen Buddhism, Catholicism, Anthroposophy, the history of consciousness, and postmodernism. He is the author of Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton, (Academica Press, 2007), and Zen Past and Present (Association for American Studies, 2011), and The Luciferic Verses: The Daodejing and the Esoteric Roots of Chinese History (Lindisfarne Books 2023). Prof. Cunningham lectures and writes on a wide range of topics, including Japanese history, film, and spirituality in the age of digital information.