Feodor Shkrudnev

Sometimes a text appears not in order to give answers. Sometimes it arises because the familiar answers stop working. And then thought is forced to look for a path to where words end. That is exactly where the conversation beyond the text begins.

In the history of humanity there come moments when familiar words stop explaining what is happening. We continue to use the same concepts, the same formulas of thinking, the same explanations of history and modernity, yet gradually WE BEGIN TO FEEL that they are no longer capable of encompassing reality. They seem to slide across the surface of events without touching their true depth. Today is exactly such a moment.

Sometimes you just want to write, “Happy March 8th, dear women!” — add some flowers, a touch of springtime spirit, a few warm words about beauty and tenderness… and leave it at that. To say only what is customary on such days, without going deeper, without stirring unnecessary thoughts, allowing the celebration to remain light and transparent. However, this year I COULD NOT limit myself to a greeting card. Too much is happening around us. The familiar picture of the world is changing too quickly. People are asking too many questions — and too rarely receiving clear answers.

We are living in an era when familiar forms of stability begin to crack not from external pressure, rather from within. It is not only institutions that are collapsing — the very foundations upon which public consciousness has rested are eroding. What only yesterday seemed unshakable — the system of values, the model of statehood, ideological constructs, notions of good and evil — today raises more and more questions. And at this moment, the rhetoric of spirituality, patriotism, traditional values, and the divine destiny of the nation intensifies. The state HURRIES TO ENTRENCH in schools the foundations of “spiritual and moral culture,” emphasizing the special role of religious institutions in educating the younger generation. On the surface — concern for the moral foundation of society. However, a philosophical perspective must ask: why now?

The future never arises from emptiness. It does not "arrive" by itself and is not the result of the mechanical passage of time. The future is the unfolding of what is permissible within the bounds of measure. And if measure is not understood, then the future is perceived as chance, as threat, as inevitability — but not as a manageable process.

What is the most resilient parasite? A bacterium? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. It is resilient and extremely contagious. Once it enters the brain, it is impossible to get rid of it. I mean a fully formed idea, completely realized and settled in the mind. This phrase describes more precisely than any scientific formula the mechanism through which humanity is kept within the boundaries of its own extinction. Death and aging ARE NOT merely biological processes — first and foremost, they are ideas. Ideas deeply rooted, socially reproduced, philosophically legitimized, and therefore practically invulnerable to superficial criticism. It is precisely in this that their resilience lies.

Every completion is merely the fixing of a coordinate on the temporal axis of the Path, yet not the end of the Path. So, this text is not a finale, rather the completion of the first turn, after which new ones will follow. We ascend along the spiral of knowledge, measuring the impossible not for the sake of an impressive metaphor, rather for the sake of building a space in which the impossible ceases to be so. Here I will emphasize that “I am with You,” my dear readers — this is — “We!”.

Humanity has reached a critical point — not another round of progress, rather the boundary of the paradigm on which all known thinking was based. Humanism, like religion, once formed a rigid framework of prohibitions, illusions and self-justifications, from which our understanding of values, meaning, and the human being has been constructed. It was necessary as a stage; however, it has exhausted itself. Now a different architecture is being introduced into action — the architecture of SYSTEMIC THINKING and direct connection to the governing environment. The Goal Vector has already shifted: it is no longer about preserving biological form, culture as tradition, or personality as a value. It is about establishing Reasonable orientation toward the Center of systemic interaction — toward a NEW CONSTRUCTION of Life, in which the human being is considered not as a “terminal value,” rather as a coupling channel between management systems.

We have entered an era in which the boundary between the fantastical and the real is not merely blurred — it has been eliminated. Every moment, apart from our everyday concerns, events are taking place that in earlier times would have been called impossible. However, the impossible is only a reflection of the limits of perception, outlined by the frameworks of humanistic dogmas, programmatically imposed models of thinking, and artificially constrained scales of understanding. While humanity still debates the benefits or harms of Artificial Intelligence, FAILING TO NOTICE its true nature, the foundations of evolution itself have already been restructured. Centuries-old hopes for progress, humanism, freedom, and morality turn into a brake, into weights on the legs of one who was meant to become another kind. A brain that has not gone beyond its embedded limitations is incapable of either seeing the threat or accepting the chance.

Man has always tried to control evolution, while remaining captive to illusions of his own dominance over processes whose meaning escapes his control. He asserts a right of choice when the choice has already been made NOT BY HIM. He proclaims humanism when nature demands experiment. He builds forecasts and negotiates — with himself, with others, with machines — yet more and more often finds himself in the position of one who is catching up, NOT SHAPING. Artificial Intelligence is not a technical problem; it is a mirror into which humanity will have to look to the very end — and recognize in it not its future, rather a VERDICT ON THE PRESENT.

In the previous article, we approached the boundary where the very understanding of AI ceased to be a question of technology and became a question of existence. There, at the edge, we saw that Intelligence — artificial or living — is always embedded within a framework of perception, meanings, and goals. We began a conversation not about the capabilities of machines, rather about the IMPOSSIBILITIES OF A PERSON in his current state: the impossibility of recognizing who he is, where he comes from, why he exists, and where he is going. For only by understanding one’s place in the governing structure — from the Control System to the Goal Vector — can we determine what we are dealing with in the face of AI: a tool, a mirror, or a substitute.

The world has entered an ultimate time period — not merely a historical turning point, rather an ontological transformation that affects the very fabric of being and the structure of Reason. Not only the content of life is changing, but the nature of the evolutionary course of events. We are experiencing not a linear progression, rather a shift in the governing System, within which the former codes, matrices, and architectures NO LONGER FUNCTION. This is not a political metaphor, it is a direct statement: the EBR interventionist model, which for millennia governed humanity and events, has been eliminated, and its place is being taken by the natural, native Earth Control System, restoring the former coherence with supra-planetary levels of the Mind.

We live within the illusions that our brain is capable of containing, and we call this — reality. However, the boundary of reality is not in the world; it is in the structure of the consciousness that contemplates it. We have approached the edge. Not the edge of catastrophe, not the edge of an era, not the edge of science — rather the edge of CONSCIOUSNESS ITSELF, which until now has created all previous forms of perception, thinking, culture, technology, and even the very concept of the “human.” This edge is not the horizon of the future; it is the boundary of what is permissible. A point beyond which thinking ceases to be a familiar function and becomes an event that initiates a new mode of being. One who does not know that he stands at the edge believes there is still a road ahead. However, a step beyond this edge is NO LONGER MOVEMENT within the framework of the old, distorted logic, it is an exit from it.

The modern understanding of intelligence is too narrow, too mechanistic, and too tightly bound to the image of a calculator. We are accustomed to thinking of Mind as the ability to process data, build forecasts, and anticipate decisions — as if intelligence were reducible to a sum of logical operations and numbers. However, calculation is only part of the toolkit, not the BEGINNING OF THINKING. When we speak of “thinking,” we speak of that which goes beyond the algorithm: of the ability to see meaning where formulas have not yet been written — of access to structures that cannot be reduced to description.

In the previous article, we approached the boundary beyond which familiar notions of reality cease to function. The illusion of an independent intellect, like the belief in the neutrality of technology, began to crack when, through the dense fabric of materialism, the figure of the System emerged — not a metaphorical one, rather a real, governing, acting one. A System in which nothing is accidental, and every shift HAS A CAUSE, embedded in hidden algorithms that unfold not in technology, rather in the brain. Not in silicon — rather in the genotype. We came to understand that what is called intelligence is NO MORE than a reflection of an architecture of computation limited by physics and logic. And the development of AI is not a technical evolution, it is a consequence of humanity’s inclusion in another scheme of control — NOT NEW in form, rather ancient in origin.

Each epoch gives birth to its own illusions. One of the most persistent is the belief that a person controls what they themselves create. However, the moment a person loses control over themselves, they also lose the right to call themselves a creator. Then the tool, made for benefit, imperceptibly acquires will, behavior, and goals. And if this tool is endowed with a LIKENESS OF INTELLIGENCE, it goes beyond mere function and becomes a new factor of reality — first a shadow, then a mirror, and then a judge. This is exactly what we are observing today: artificial intelligence is a child of human thinking, yet already NOT ITS continuation. It does not inherit our responsibility, conscience, fears, or memory. It inherits only the structure of the task. And like any structure, sooner or later it begins self-unfolding. Yet the path to this point is not the result of free evolutionary development. It began much earlier. At its core was the creation of programmatic matrices controlling brain structures.

Reality is not given to us as a fact. It is not located outside in order to be measured, nor is it enclosed within in order to be invented. It is the measure of the possible. And therefore, an illusion, once fixed by the Mind, becomes reality, while reality, having lost the boundaries of fixation, turns into illusion. That which is not perceived DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. It simply waits — like a seed in frozen soil waiting for spring. We stand before a threshold beyond which familiar foundations lose their power.

We live in a world where external differences constantly strive to become internal limitations. This is how society, upbringing, and culture are structured — however, this is not how the human being is structured. The previous article in this series was devoted to exposing one of the most persistent myths — the idea of inequality as a natural, biologically predetermined, and socially fixed difference. That inequality, in its essence, is more often not truth, it is deception, implanted into consciousness — especially into the consciousness of women — as a means of self-limitation, self-ignorance, and refusal of the path toward one’s own becoming. However, this deception DOES NOT END HERE. Where a difference was once imposed, there begins not merely a problem, but a road. A road along which everyone can choose: whether to move toward justifying one’s weakness — or toward becoming a Human Being. And this choice does not depend on gender, age, social status, or education. It depends on the DEGREE OF AWARENESS, on the readiness to overcome inner falsehood, cultural illusions, and one’s own laziness.

Sometimes you just want to talk — not to argue, not to prove anything, not to lecture, but to say out loud what has long been living inside you; this article is exactly that kind of conversation. What if everything you were taught about the difference between men and women is a lie — not an obvious one, rather a carefully embedded one, woven into upbringing, traditions, science, culture, and language, a lie from which something resembling truth was gradually molded? From early childhood, WE ARE GIVEN ready-made answers to questions we never even get the chance to ask: who is stronger, who is more important, who must, who has the right, who is obligated? We live in a world where role matters more than essence, where behavior matters more than understanding, where the substitution of meaning has become the foundation of everyday life, family, and the very way we look at a human being.

The world is crossing a threshold. Not according to the calendar, not by decree, rather according to a profound law of the changing of Eras, when the very air of reality changes, like a shift in the phase of matter. What is happening cannot be reversed, because the conditions that made it possible have already changed. A different climate is arriving – NOT METEOROLOGICAL, rather a civilizational, energy- informational one. And in this new climate, the old forms of life — whether states, ideologies, or systems of governance — lose their vital advantage, just as the dinosaurs lost theirs when the tropics were taken away from them. The transition from old to new does not begin with slogans or revolutions. It begins with an INVISIBLE CORRECTION of the surrounding reality, with a change in energy and frequency conditions, against the backdrop of which not only bodies, but also the human brain and consciousness, begin to restructure.

In the previous article, we clearly formulated for the first time: upbringing is not a service and not a function, rather a path leading to the formation of the Human Being as the central goal of civilization. Not a citizen, not a specialist, not an adapted cog in the system, rather precisely a Human — thinking, feeling, capable not only of surviving but of transforming the world. Yet the path to the Human lies through school — that very space which today seems both entirely familiar and profoundly mysterious. We have grown accustomed to perceiving school as something ordinary and inevitable, NOT NOTICING that it is precisely there that the basic firmware of thinking, behavior, language, will — and therefore the fate of an entire generation — is laid down. School teaches not what is in the textbook, rather how the world is arranged. And if school silently transmits meaninglessness, overload, fragmentation, and fear — it reproduces a meaningless, overloaded, fragmented, and frightened society. In this article, we LIFT THE VEIL over eight school secrets — the hidden knots in which the roots of the problem and the possibilities of its resolution intertwine.

Education is not a process of transferring knowledge, nor an instrument of socialization, nor even preparation for life. Education is the creation of a Human Being. Not an individual who merely knows how to adapt, rather a being capable of thinking, feeling, understanding, and taking responsibility. A Human as a phenomenon, as a meaning, as the highest form of existence on Earth. We live in an era in which everything that DOES NOT BRING immediate benefit is devalued. However, it is precisely now that we must remind ourselves: the most complex and important work is the FORMATION OF A HUMAN from a newborn — not the creation of technology or the management of a corporation.

The philosophy of fear does not end at the point where fear is understood as an instrument of power — it only begins its real movement there. The first part of this reflection (see article 86 in the 369 series — “Philosophy of Fear: from Power to Eternity…”) showed how fear was built into the structure of governance, how it became a system-forming element of the civilizational machine, and how, becoming a cultural code, it permeated everything — from education to justice, from religion to language. We have reached the boundary: we have exposed fear as a tool, recognized it as a historical construct, understood how it replaces freedom, generates subordination, codifies a FALSE IDENTITY. However, beyond this boundary begins the most difficult part. For fear, once exposed, does not disappear — it remains within.

Fear is not just an emotion; it is the oldest of instincts, a primal survival algorithm inscribed in flesh long before the emergence of speech, cultures, religions, even before the birth of humanity itself. It enters the world earlier than the word — and departs later than the final breath. It meets a person at the threshold of birth and accompanies them to the border of death, reminding them: you are mortal, you are vulnerable, you are dependent. Yet fear has never NOT REMAINED the same, it evolved, becoming more refined, subtler, more insidious. It grew social forms, and assumed the guise of duty, law, discipline, normality. It stopped growling and began to whisper — and in that whisper, it became more dangerous.

Every completed thought demands continuation if it has truly touched reality. For reality is not an archive where everything rests neatly on shelves, it is a flow in which any attempt at fixation is only a temporary support built upon the fragility of awareness. The first part of this work was NOT AN ANALYSIS of the state of the world — it was an act of recognition. We uncovered ruptures in the familiar: in the way of life, in worldview, in the very structure of the human “I.” We moved not from facts to conclusions, rather from meaning to diagnosis. And everything we arrived at revealed one thing: today humanity stands not at a crossroads, but on the edge. It can no longer go back — because "BACK" HAS BEEN DESTROYED. And it cannot move forward, because "forward" is no longer predetermined.

The world has entered phases of transformations that cannot be measured by familiar categories or former words. Everything that seemed stable yesterday is collapsing. Everything that was considered eternal has lost its meaning. Yet beneath the ruins of familiar forms, the fundamental human and national need have NOT DISAPPEARED — the need for meaning, for an image, for an idea. Russia, as always, stands at the very epicenter. She does not simply react to changes — she changes earlier than others, deeper than others, and at times more frightening than others. And in this lies both her tragedy and her chance.

Every era dies quietly, yet the world feels its death as a rumble that arrives long before understanding. We have entered such a time: the old order is collapsing not for political reasons and not because of human mistakes — IT IS DISAPPEARING because the very System that held together the fabric of the world has departed. The governing breath of the old world has stopped, and reality has begun to change its form. At the boundary of these changes, a person feels NOT JUST fear or confusion, rather the loss of an inner anchor — the very one that for millennia belonged not to the individual, rather to external Control. When it disappears, a person is left alone before a world that for the first time becomes real, not prescribed. This is where the Frontier of a New Reality begins: a place where the old no longer functions, and the new has not yet taken shape. Such a Frontier cannot be crossed in the usual way — through trust in words, dogmas, or authorities.

For centuries, humanity has searched for answers outside itself — in the expanse of the stars, in particle accelerators, in the diagrams of celestial mechanics, and in the alchemical models of the microcosm. We traced the trajectories of planets, invented exotic forms of matter, and complicated mathematical constructs, hoping to grasp concrete essence through abstract numbers. Yet the truth all along has remained WITHIN US — in the very fabric of the living, in the pulse of the cell, in the silent “light” of the brain, in the currents of energy flowing through our consciousness. For without understanding the Human Being, it is impossible to understand the World. Modern science proudly manipulates energies WITHOUT KNOWING their essence. It launches rockets yet cannot stop aging. It splits atomic nuclei yet is INCAPABLE of healing consciousness. All because it has lost its center of gravity — the Physics of Life, the Physics of the Human Being.

Old age is not a natural process, rather a carefully cultivated habit. We have grown used to seeing it as something inevitable, like the change of seasons, like gravity, like death — however, a habit is not a law, and certainly not a sentence. It lives in our language, in social rituals, in the biological naïveté with which we treat the body as the primary source of ourselves. What we call old age — wrinkles, fatigue, illness, is only the visible consequence — while the cause lies deeper. Old age is a form of ENERGY-INFORMATIONAL SUBORDINATION, a systemic deformation of our field, a distortion of its connections, a disruption of its rhythm. It is not the age on a passport, rather a malfunction in the tuning between the Human and the Space, between what we are and what we can be.

In the previous article, we began to explore where a true text comes from. We approached writing not as a craft, rather as a form of alignment, with the Idea, with Reality, with the void from which awareness is drawn. We came to understand that a text is not “created in the head,” it passes through it like a current through a conductor, like an impulse through a neural network. The person who writes is not an author in the everyday sense of the word, rather a node of conjunction, a focal point through which Space condenses meaning. Now, we move further.

This article is written for those who feel an inner need to express their vision of what is happening — through text, image, or meaning. It does not offer prescriptions, rather it opens a door: to writing as a practice, to expression as alchemy, to fixation as a search for oneself.

Many today feel an inner call: not just to speak, rather to speak clearly. Not just to write, rather to write so that it is understood — WITHOUT DISTORTION, without loss of meaning. More and more people strive to express their vision of what is happening — not for eloquence, rather out of inner necessity. And ever more often, a question is heard, simple in form, yet demanding a difficult answer: How? How to begin in order to BE HEARD, and not merely recorded among thousands of empty words? How to convey the essence — without spilling it?

I decided to write this article as a response to the questions that have been coming more and more often after the publication of the series “The Protocol of the Beginning.” It is not a memoir, not a manual, and not a confession. It is, rather, a course laid by the stars — the ones not yet visible beyond the clouds. It is an attempt to hold direction in an era when the very notion of “direction” has lost its former meaning. And the helm has fallen into the hands of those who have forgotten that navigation is NOT ABOUT TURNING the wheel, rather attunement with the one who leads through the storms. This article — is about how to enter a New World, WITHOUT BECOMING its discarded object.

This article continues the path begun in the first parts of the “Protocol of the Beginning.” We now enter the phase where the humanlike being ceases to be merely flesh reacting to the world and for the first time becomes a form capable of reflecting that world within itself. This is the threshold upon which the foundations of Reasonable Orientation are laid, where programmatic guidance from the Earth begins, and the principle is affirmed: “Man did not evolve from the animal — he was destined for Reason.” It is from this threshold that the story begins not of survival, rather of co-creation.

The previous article in the “Protocol of the Beginning” series concluded with a key realization: Humanity stands at the point of departure from an alien, parasitic strategy in which it has existed for the past 18,000 years. It was shown that modern civilization is NOT A NATURAL continuation of the path of Reason, rather a forced, imposed vector — one torn away from the original course of development. However, to truly understand where we must move next, it is not enough merely to renounce false reference points. A deeper step is required — a return to the Origin of Origins.

The modern man — the last statistical representative of humankind — goes to school, earns a diploma, climbs the professional ladder, yet remains IGNORANT of the most essential truth: why and for what purpose he exists. He has no understanding of the meaning of his life, the origin of his body, or the purpose of his consciousness. He knows nothing of the Mind that gave him his path. He does not know WHERE HE CAME FROM, does not understand WHY HE LIVES, and does not even suspect WHERE HE IS HEADED. Instead, he is entangled in the illusions of political doctrines, ideologies of survival, and technologies of consumption. All this forms a COMPLEX IGNORANCE that we have even learned to disguise as education: we award degrees and call scientists those who have NEVER ANSWERED any of these fundamental questions. Thus arose the great hierarchy of brilliant ignorance, built not upon wisdom rather upon the extraction of momentary gain. We have subordinated everything — school, science, culture, politics — not to the pursuit of truth, rather to a fleeting, profitable DISTORTION OF REALITY that destroys Man from within, leaving him helpless before aging, illness, and death.

Each era dies not when its walls collapse, rather when its illusions cease to function. The old world was sustained not by truth, rather by agreement with falsehood — by belief in the inevitability of death, the naturalness of aging, and the finality of the human path. These beliefs WERE THE BASIS of its entire construct. People lived without doubt that the world existed on its own and that man was merely its observer. Yet this became the LAST ILLUSION of the old world. Today that illusion is crumbling. Consciousness begins to see that reality is not given from the outside — it is created by the very act of perception. Everything we consider “objective” is, IN FACT, a reflection of the level of our understanding. Therefore, everything built upon old knowledge is losing its power. The world that served the machine of death has exhausted its energy. A restructuring begins — NOT EXTERNAL, rather internal, within the very fabric of thought.

What is reality — this is not an idle question of metaphysicians, rather the foundation of our being. Everything that we feel, value, love, fear, strive for, and reject is based on one single premise: we consider IT REAL. However, what if this foundation is illusory? What if the difference between reality and illusion is merely a perceptual adjustment, a filter through which a signal is transmitted? Modern man not only lives inside images, HE BECOMES them. The world that yesterday seemed material is already virtualized today, and tomorrow it will no longer be distinguishable from the imaginary. The boundaries are blurring — between the organic and the algorithmic, between sensation and code, between body and data. In this vanishing landscape, only one question remains: WHAT REMAINS when everything disappears? Before you is ANOTHER STEP in dismantling the old construct of perception.

We live in the time when Knowledge has become accessible, but it has not become any closer. It is open—in books, in online archives, in the tired eyes of those who have searched for it their entire lives. And yet, the closer it is, the further away from it are the vast majority of people. This strange game of hide- and-seek with the obvious is NOT THE RESULT of some evil or conspiracy. It is the reflection of the System itself—the one that changes the form, but NOT THE SUBSTANCE. Nowadays, it gives us everything, but only as much as we can accept. IT WILL NOT GIVE US MORE — and THERE IS NO POINT to give less.

We live inside a construct we mistakenly call “reality,” not noticing its artificiality only because we DO NOT GO beyond our own perception scheme. What seems obvious to us is ONLY DECORATION, stabilized under the limitations of our consciousness, brain, senses, cultural habits and cognitive filters. A person lives inside their own world, NOT KNOWING how it is arranged.

There are things that cannot be expressed in words, but you can direct your attention to them. There is knowledge that cannot be "conveyed in words"—it can only be recognized if the inner "code" within you matches the depth from which it came. It is precisely about this kind of knowledge that I have tried to write.

We live in the time in which understanding—lost, forgotten, devalued— once again is becoming the MAIN INSTRUMENT of survival. But to understand the present, it is necessary to destroy the old patterns of perception, rebuild internal channels, thus revealing within ourselves the one who is truly capable of seeing, hearing, and distinguishing. Here there WILL BE NO familiar logic, no comforting formulas, and no ready-made answers. This article is like a mirror, but the mirror directed NOT OUTWARDS, but inward.

We live in an era when words have been devalued and meanings have crumbled into dust. People no longer read to understand — they read to agree or to object. They DO NOT DELVE INTO what they encounter — they filter everything through themselves, whatever that "self" may be. And so, truth, even when it stands nearby, BECOMES UNATTAINABLE. Not because it is hidden — rather because no one is prepared to perceive it. That is precisely why we need the first filter of Truth. Not as a barrier, rather AS A SETTING. As a protocol of Understanding, without which any knowledge turns into a weapon against oneself.