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Oct 26

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🧵 Quantum Consciousness Is the New Civic Programming

What’s being circulated under the guise of “quantum revelation” isn’t science. It’s a sophist inversion of metaphysical order; using physics language to reprogram how people think about reality, law and selfhood. Phrases like “the field is conscious,” “time breathes,” “the observer creates the universe” aren’t physics. They’re monistic metaphysics disguised as empiricism; a re-enchanted materialism claiming consciousness and matter are one continuous substance (hi Spinoza!!) and if I had a penny for every spamming of my content on here and substack with sophistry like this, I’d be rich. So many are duped by it - seduced by it and the grooming of public conscience to warmly, aspirationally embrace this sophistry and been decades in the making. So why do people bite on the bait?

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This language weaponizes scientific vocabulary to convey an ancient Hermetic axiom; as above, so below - all is mind.
That’s the same gnostic substrate behind today’s ‘conscious AI’, ‘digital soul’ and ‘universal awareness’ rhetoric. What ‘socialist/communist’ rhetoric was doing last century, ‘quantum’ rhetoric now takes into the digital AI age.

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For anyone wanting to remain grounded in reality - here’s a reminder that Aristotelian-Thomistic-Reidian realism understands that the knower and the known are distinct.
That reality exists independently of perception and that causality is participation in being, not mental feedback.
The ‘observer effect’ doesn’t mean mind creates matter; it relates to instrumentality and measurement. Realist metaphysics go from being to knowing, to naming then meaning. The ‘quantum consciousness’ myth reverses it to meaning first, then knowing following by being - erasing self-evident truth and turning reality into a programmable social construction. Soft totalitarian’s ultimate tool for the digital age. And you’ll like it - desire it and opt in willingly without fully understanding the civic and personal costs of doing so.

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Oct 24

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Why is it that Professor Daniel N. Robinson could teach these truths at the highest levels of academia and yet see no civic restoration come from them in his own lifetime?

This thread will unpack that:

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He spoke into institutions that had already lost metaphysical literacy. By Robinson’s time the disciplines that should have acted on his analysis (law, philosophy, education) had already redefined knowledge as professional expertise, not as the pursuit of truth. So when he proved that the Founding was realist, colleagues treated it as an ‘interesting interpretation’, not as an ontological diagnosis demanding reform. They literally lacked the grammar to grasp that a false metaphysics makes a constitution unworkable.

3/ He appealed to reason within a positivist system:

Robinson remained a scholar; the universities he addressed had become bureaucracies. In those settings, truth claims have no procedural pathway to policy change. Committees respond only to accreditation standards, funding incentives, or litigation threats, never to philosophical argument. So a realist like Robinson could clarify reality, but not compel action. His voice was placed in the ‘archive’, not in the operating manual.

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Oct 22

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What an interesting and creative post. It’s the kind of messaging I would emotionally resonate with, but that would be to ignore its deeper functional implications, so with a glass of cold water on hand, let’s have a look at the rhetorical layer first.

Jordan (Green)Hall positions himself here as diagnosing a ‘failure’ of the Western Church; not necessarily in doctrine or metaphysics, but in institutional efficacy. He claims that by the 20th century, “there really was no Church in the West,” implying that moral and civic authority had migrated to the ‘State and Market’. Did you incline into that, nodding along? I did - it resonates strongly with me in an idealistic romantic emotional sense (which I can’t deny - even though I probably sound clinical and cold on this platform - I do ‘feel’ things like this very strongly, which is why someone like me, very much needs the tools of discerning veilcraft - because if it were left up to my feelings/emotions, I’m very easy prey). Note how superficially persuasive Jordan’s rhetoric is to traditionalists. It sounds like a lament for Christendom’s decline. But the operative frame is systems-theoretic, not metaphysical. He treats ‘Church’ as a social operating system rather than a sacramental or ontological institution. That framing immediately signals that his critique is not metaphysically realist (it may well be Machievelli ‘realist’!) or theological. Can you see what it is yet…..? It’s cybernetic. The Church measured by its functional control capacity over populations, not by fidelity to truth or the Logos.

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2/ Now The Dialectical Core

Were you intrigued by the repeated comms calling for ‘Knighthood’? Do you know what that means in a systems theory cybernetic context? Once you get over your own heady Romantic projections and literary associations, the ‘Knighthood’ proposal is not a call for renewed Christian virtue in any traditional sense. Interestingly in Jordan (Green)Hall’s idiom (drawn from his Dialogos and Trust Foundation discourse), ‘Knighthood’ represents a new elite order of disciplined initiates, trained in Game B principles of adaptive intelligence, moral sovereignty and meta-crisis coordination. A secular version of ecclesial hierarchy; a civic-mystical order tasked with ‘protecting that which should be protected’, but operating outside any theological authority. It’s the same structural impulse as the Platonic Guardians, Templar orders, or WEF Young Global Leaders, but wrapped in the language of virtue and moral restoration. It’s very attractive rhetoric isn’t it. In short, he’s proposing a technocratic monastic order for the post-Christian West - yeah….that’s not attractive.

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Jordan (Green)Hall’s Trust Foundation (look it up & note its personnel) work reinterprets ‘trust’ as a ‘systemic capacity’ - a measurable property of networked governance. In that system the words used have meanings you may not assume by default;

Knighthood - ethical operator class
Faith - alignment protocol
Church - trust infrastructure
Sin - coordination failure
Virtue - effective system coherence

A ‘Knighthood’ can through this veilcraft, function in operation as a para-religious civic order; a cadre of initiates trained to manage ‘trust flows’, mediate ‘social conflict’, and maintain ‘systemic stability’ through moral-seeming language (rhetoric).

Amazing how similar that looks to the WEF’s Global Shapers, UNESCO’s ‘New Humanism’ educators and military-civic synthesis think tanks like RAND’s ‘Ethical AI’ units👀. But with ‘Knighthood’, the mythos is quasi-Christian to appeal to disillusioned Western conservatives and post-liberals.

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Oct 22

🧵Constitutional Scholar Daniel N. Robinson;
Metaphysical Architecture of American Liberty

Daniel N. Robinson (1937–2018) was the philosopher who restored the living bridge between Aristotle, Aquinas, Reid and the American Founders. Where mere historians lacking metaphysical literacy simply reported the Constitution as contract, Robinson thoroughly understood it as a moral architecture grounded in metaphysical realism; law as participation in truth, not projection of will. This had (and continues to have) huge implications and consequences operationally. How things are done - not impotent intellectual argument and historicist navel gazing. How the civic infrastructure functions and how you and I function (or fail to!) within it. How that civic infrastructure upholds and defends the principles and premises of The Declaration & Constitution (especially how The People are formed to do so - or not!!). By tracing the Founders’ metaphysical lineage to the classical doctrine of natura and the common-sense realism of James Wilson, Daniel Robinson revealed that the Republic’s durability depends on an ontology of being, not the machinery of power. In the ‘New Age’ of Communitarianism under Technocracy (where data replaces reason and systems claim sovereignty over souls) Daniel Robinson’s work is needed more than ever because reminds citizens (or even teaches them for the first time!!!) that liberty endures only where reality governs law - and law serves the moral order of man as a rational kind (not a constructed artifact of the state, or a digital artifact of The System). This thread shares just a few examples of Daniel N Robinson’s work for anyone wanting to exercise self governance and learn for themselves.

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Robinson maps the often-overlooked Scottish realist (not Hume!!!) lineage (through Reid et al) into the American Founding, giving philosophical depth to the familiar Revolutionary era. By 1820 the debt of the Founders to Scottish moral and mental philosophy was widely acknowledged.

“And the foundation of moral science is human nature itself, regarded by the Founders as a ‘natural kind’, essential in its defining features”

“The Founders were striving to be correct politically - not politically correct - and this aspiration called for a workable and systematic understanding of human nature”

(Moral Science at the Founding: Ruling Passions - Daniel N. Robinson, Amherst College lecture, October 31 2003)

Here Robinson links the Aristotelian/Aquinas moral-psychology of virtue (moral agency, not display) and human nature to the Founders’ constitutional thinking about the passions, reason and ordered liberty.

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“An accurate and distinct knowledge of his nature and powers, will undoubtedly diffuse much light and splendour over the science of law.” (Robinson quoting jurist/Founder James Wilson)

(Theories of Human Nature at the Founding - Daniel N. Robinson, Amherst College lecture, November 11 2003)

This talk drills into how the Founders conceived human nature (drawing from Reid/Wilson) elucidating that rights-language and constitutional order are not just pragmatics (and never intended to be) but rather, specifically rooted in moral anthropology.

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Oct 20

🧵Being & Naming - Civic Application & Practise

I’ve been wanting to clarify the intelligibility and meaning of Dr. Larry Arnn’s remarks (given at the Charlie Kirk Memorial) because they have been widely misrepresented (by both intellectuals and the general public) and yet they express the very metaphysical foundation that safeguards a free and truthful society. Finally, I’ve had a bit of time to do so and I only ofer this because I perceive it to be highly relevant to what we’re facing, fighting and the means of defence and restoration. I hope this is helpful and that if in error, I’ve misrepresented Dr Arnn in any way, someone who knows him and happens to read this thread will have Dr Arnn put me straight! It is my understanding that Dr Arnn’s words recover the classical and biblical understanding that reality is knowable, creation is good, and speech must correspond to being. This understanding (rooted in Aristotle, Scripture, and the American Founding) forms the only real defence against ideological possession and political manipulation. When language ceases to name things truthfully, law and conscience lose their anchor in reality; but when speech serves being, truth restores order, liberty and moral clarity. This thread will break down Dr Arnn’s remarks in detail.
imprimis.hillsdale.edu/theres-a-ladde…

2/ “Start with the Bible.”

Begin your search for what’s true and good with the most foundational source in our tradition. It sets the tone that reality isn’t invented by us; it’s given. Our laws and duties should reflect what’s true about human beings, not just what’s popular or useful.

3/ “Read the classics.”

Learn from the great works of philosophy, history and literature that have lasted because they tell the truth about human nature (crucial for comprehension of the Founders’ Aristotle/Aquinas Natural Law, Popular Sovereignty and self governance). These books train common sense and moral judgment. They show the intelligibility of what helps a free people thrive and what makes them decay.

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Oct 13

🧵Loss of Metaphysical Grammar

Both constitutional and Thomist traditions were once grounded in a shared realist grammar;

Being is prior to thought - truth is the conformity of mind to reality (adaequatio intellectus et rei). The moral law is intelligible because it participates in the Logos.

Once that grammar was eroded (first through nominalism, then through idealism and phenomenology), institutions retained only the vocabulary of realism without its ontology. They still speak of ‘law’, ‘order’, ‘reason’ and ‘truth’, but these words now operate inside conceptual frameworks shaped by Kant, Hegel and modern social theory; all of which relocate truth inside consciousness or community. These frameworks cannot recognize neoplatonic or emanationist subversions, because they already interpret (truth/law/being) through the same inward, mentalist (hermetic) ‘lens’.

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Theological Containment through Synthesis

Many self-identified ‘Thomist’ institutions quietly adopted transcendental Thomism (Maréchal, Rahner, Lonergan) or personalist reinterpretations that blend Aquinas with modern subjectivism. Being inverted as ‘self-presence’ or ‘transcendental openness’. Participation inverted as ‘consciousness realizing itself’. Heresies in both their sacred and their civic applications. These are Neoplatonic reintroductions disguised as aggiornamento - old Neoplatonic ideas about reality flowing out from God like light or thought - brought back and disguised as ‘modern updates’ to the faith. The word ‘aggiornamento’ means ‘bringing up to date’. So what looked like a fresh, modern renewal of Thomism or Christianity was actually a repackaging of ancient idealist and emanationist thinking, deployed under the claim of making theology more ‘relevant’ or ‘modern’. They didn’t ‘modernize’ Thomism; they quietly replaced its realist foundations with the same mystical philosophy it once rejected. Once that shift occurred, ‘Thomism’ was hollowed out from within; it retained the language of participation but inverted the direction from God to man - to - man to God. That is why such institutions cannot detect the same inversion when it appears in Bahá’í, Hegelian, or Teilhardian form; they share the same metaphysical grammar of emanation, but ‘baptized’ through modern pedagogical veilcraft, in scholastic vocabulary.

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Civic Containment through Enlightenment Dualism

‘Constitutional’ institutions suffer a parallel failure. They defend the form of the Republic but not its ontological ground. The Founders’ realist metaphysics (that rights are inherent in being because they are endowed by the Creator) has been replaced by procedural liberalism or Lockean voluntarism. Hence, ‘constitutional liberty’ becomes merely the freedom to express opinions or pursue preferences, not the liberty proper to rational beings ordered to truth. Because they no longer grasp that liberty depends on ontological realism, the personnel within the institutions also no longer perceive that neoplatonic spiritualism and constructivist relativism both destroy the same realist foundation - even as they rhetorically claim to uphold ‘liberty’.

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