Episode 11: The Ahrimanic Influence In the 21st Century According to Rudolf Steiner

Are we living in the age of Ahriman? According to Rudolf Steiner, Ahriman’s influence manifests through materialism, technology, and the denial of spiritual realities. In this video, we explore Steiner’s prophetic insights on Ahriman’s incarnation and contrast them with the ideas of Carl Jung, René Guénon, John Vervaeke, and Robert Powell.

As artificial intelligence, automation, and mass media shape our world, are we at risk of losing spiritual wisdom? Can humanity balance technological advancement with inner growth, or are we falling prey to Ahriman’s mechanistic grip?

Join us as we delve into the cosmic battle between Ahriman and Christ, the meaning crisis of modern life, and how spiritual science can help navigate the challenges of the future.

Topics Covered:
🔹 Rudolf Steiner on Ahriman’s incarnation
🔹 Carl Jung’s thoughts on technology and the psyche
🔹 René Guénon on the spiritual crisis of modernity
🔹 John Vervaeke’s "meaning crisis"
🔹 Robert Powell’s insights on the outer planets

Let’s explore the spiritual and philosophical implications of our rapidly changing world.

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[saeiddavatolhagh]

There is a dialectical opposition between light and darkness, good and evil, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. Zarathustra therefore spoke of three virtues: Good thoughts Good words Good deeds.

[taniamorrison]

Ahriman is here and his initials are BG..good presentation. Looking forward to the next one.

[StopFear]

Videos like this are cheap, low effort content. Using AI voice to dictate a text to us is low effort. At least have more respect for the content and for the viewers by having a real person narrate it.

[StopFear]

So why are we shown a head of a Dummer elf in the thumbnail?

[francisfischer]

Just don't forget that Steiner was a terrible racist. Keep that in mind!

[astrogumbo]

thank yall


WHY YOU THINK THE CHOOS ARE TEACHING TORAH OPENLY NOW

[jonathanwilner]

Real materialism embraces diversity. The underpinnings of the specificity of each instance of existential being is matter according to the physicalist view. In short, it is a special case for Idealism.

The real debate is not between matter and spirit as referred to in this video with its AI voice-over but between a totalistic world view which reduces everything to a single but exclusionary truth versus that which embraces the rich diversity of things. The adversary here is that which holds all things as incompatible to the singularity of this truth. All things are to be devalued in the face of this truth as all things are held as illusory. That which opposes the adversary embraces the richness of all things in their individual instances of existential being.

The question posed in this contest of wills that battle for the human intellect is whether we honor our world which is in reality countless worlds nested within countless worlds or seek to reduce everything to a singular monolithic whole that contains nothing but itself. Do we live in a world of many selves and thus many identities or can we only acknowledge one single self and identity? Do we reside within an open system that embraces everything or a closed system which disallows everything but itself?

Steiner does not pose an alternative; he offers no possibility of aufheben. Without the prospect of aufheben how then can we transcend (transzendenz)?

Also in reply to jenathent4840

My response below keeps on disappearing. Perhaps it is not meant to be but here however I will place it in my original comment:

Ah, but we may choose the one extreme which commands us to build upon reality through the arts. Therein lies the dialectic where transcendence within that which we construct becomes possible. It is not self transcendence as we remain as always as builders but the consequence of the momentum by what we build out from the rudiments of our given reality. The other extreme negates all of this leaving behind its course nothing but rubble. The choice is as always clear. Truth is not to be revered but to be lived and celebrated as our assigned task our aufgaben is that of homo faber (humanity as builder). The world which we build transcends us as it in turn transcends itself.