Feodor Shkrudnev

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.

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.

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.

Every generation feels like it lives in a special time. Ours really does. But not because it has become smarter, but because it has finally been “allowed to know” a little more about what has been done to it for the last 18,000 years. And if someone still has the Brain in working condition, someone WILL HAVE TO USE it as intended: not to reproduce the programs, but to understand them. So that, perhaps for the first time in our entire history, Man becomes something more than just an executor in someone else’s system.

Some dream of salvation, others of silence in their heads. The first receive religion, the second religion in convenient packaging: ready-made answers, sanctioned emotions, and a strict taboo on thought. Thinking is dangerous, understanding is harmful, doubting is criminal. Better to be like a dried roach: no pain, no anxiety, no doubts — pure, spiritually purified emptiness. Yet alas, civilizations are not eternal. Along with them collapse the formats of faith, their priests, and even the configurations of "eternal truths" are collapsing. Those who yesterday called themselves “servants of God” today suddenly turn into clients of spiritual markets. And everything would be fine, if not for one thing: DEATH HAS NOT BEEN CANCELED.

Is it possible to derive the meaning of life? Yes, it is, but only on one condition: if we proceed from the worldview in which being is thought of as the Single Whole. However, it is precisely here that we encounter a boundary as thin as the razor blade and as insurmountable as the abyss itself. Cognition ,by its very nature, is division. In order to understand something, it is necessary to isolate it from its context, to define its boundaries, to separate it from the rest. Only then can the mind “process” the object: to evaluate its properties, to measure, to classify, to organize. This is the way thinking works. This is the way something is born and we CALL IT UNDERSTANDING. But this mechanism does not work with the Whole.

"Someday the will of the Russian people for divine perfection, for godlikeness will overcome the heavy gravity that returns us to the world of shadows and to disorders. Through the efforts of the creative people, Russia will attain that kind of resurrection, after which there comes immortality. This is what we talked about with President Putin in his Kremlin office. And in this office I heard the word "immortality" from him. It is the most Russian, most beautiful word, put into Russian lips by God Almighty himself." (Alexander Prokhanov)

If you ask Man whether he wants to die on his own free will or on someone else's will, hardly anyone in their right mind will choose the latter. Even those who believe in the afterlife and hope to find themselves in the promised paradise will agree: it is better to go there when you yourself have decided that the path has been completed, but not when someone or something - chance, illness, fate or another person - decide for you. Until that hour, the NATURAL CHOICE is life - purposeful, clear, fulfilled. Sometimes people, tired or falling into some philosophical exaltation, drop phrases about their readiness to die not of their own free will.

Every genuine evolution is of destructive character. Not because it is basically aggressive, but because the new cannot be born in the womb of the old without tearing it apart. Just as capitalism could not grow out of the depths of the feudal system, so the idea of defeating death CANNOT take root within the framework of the existing world order. The systems that have reached the limit of their maturity become not the bearers of the future, but its MAIN OBSTACLE. In order to create something qualitatively new, the old must be dismantled to the ground, and not only as infrastructure or institution, but as logic, value, the very FOUNDATION OF THINKING. The construction of the future does not begin with building of the walls - it begins with clearing out the area from the dead weight of the past. For any attempt to fit a new idea into the old frames WILL NOT BRING us to either any renewal or breakthrough - it will only result in another modification of the old, an upgrade, and mimicry.

The modern era is not merely a moment in time — it is the point of total human saturation. Everything that has accumulated over the last 18,000 years in the human mode of being under external control — distorted forms of thought, perverted mechanisms of social organization, excessive passions, and parasitic structures — has now reached a critical density. This density is not physical, rather it is energetic-informational. It represents that very RESIDUAL LAYER, molded from functions which people performed not as individuals, but as operational elements within someone else's control system. Long epochs of interventional oversight shaped the human not toward unfolding and development, rather toward optimal suitability — suitability for the execution of imposed and thus deeply alien meanings.

Nowadays, modern Man lives in the time of extreme technology and information saturation - and at the same time - in the state of deep internal disorientation. He is surrounded with explanations, but does not understand the point of them; he is able to measure, but is not able to distinguish; he knows how the world works, but has lost the understanding of why he is in this world.

We are used to thinking that we live in the present — a narrow strip of time dividing the past from the future. However, the present is not a fleeting moment; it is a permeable fabric woven with the shadows of what has been and the projections of what may come. It is not confined to a frame, nor does it end with perception. The present is open: it flows through us, opening passageways to what has not yet happened, and to what has NOT GONE.

"Only a handful of thinking people need the truth, and the crowd must just "obey", but what to believe in - this is no longer of great importance. The main thing is that people obey. And what is presented to them in this case - this is actually secondary. The truth is dangerous. The world has always been based on lies... The main thing is that this lie is interesting enough for a “short-sighted minds” to follow it... And if in this case you begin to prove to the crowd the real truth, disproving their "faith" in God knows what, you will be torn to pieces by this same crowd". This was said in the middle of the sixteenth century. Is it acceptable now, in our time? The reader will answer this question on his own.

The beginning of the third millennium has raised questions before the civilization, the answers to which will determine the future of the Individual and Society. The landmarks of freedom, equality and fraternity, which once inspired the movement towards social justice, have now given rise to the other side - the post-industrial era of MASSIVE FLIGHT from responsibility.

If our achievements in science are not that great, then our understanding of science itself - its nature, its limits and meaning - is EVEN LESS. We are used to working in a narrow field of science and almost NEVER CONSIDER knowledge AS A WHOLE. We do not ask questions - we answer those already formulated. We DO NOT DESIGN - we implement. Nowadays we are builders, but NOT ARCHITECTS.

I have a dream. If I indulge in it dreaming on the sofa WITHOUT TAKING ANY STEPS to implement it - it is an idle fancy. Thomas More outlined his vision of an ideal society in the novel "Utopia", without saying a word about the way he was going to build this society. This means that Thomas More outlined NOT AN IDEA, but a fantasy, which is no different from Manilov's fantasies. He could imagine improvements, but all this remained just empty words and sweet dreams that do not come true.

All people, at different periods of their existence, aim at different goals. For some of them, the peak of their dreams is the conquest of space, for others — the conquest of power, while some crave fame and wealth. There are those who prefer SIMPLE PLEASURES of life, such as food, rest and love, enjoying the moments without deep thought and experiencing pleasures that are not available to those inclined to intellectual hobbies. A person on the path to his dream derives joy from both the process itself and the results achieved.

I wrote this article at the beginning of 2016. But in the events happening today, in my opinion, what was stated then is more relevant now. And so it should be. Then, we did NOT QUITE correctly understand the processes that were gaining strength and that brought us to the present times, having made us exactly what WE ARE now. I will add to what was written from the position of today, in my opinion, what is relevant today and explains a lot.

Nowadays we live in the society that has neither purpose, nor idea. And without them, any society is NOT JUST dying, it is becoming demoralized. I am sure that in such a situation, the best minds should focus not on discussing the ongoing, but on the reason that generates these events. If it drips from the ceiling, you have to fight with the hole in the roof, not with the puddle on the floor. Naturally, everyone will answer all the life questions put to him in one way or another. Whether he comprehends it or not is the second question. The main thing is that he will definitely live his life in one direction or another. If he chooses the direction himself, he is a Person.

Planes are crashing... People are dying... All platforms are trumpeting about odiousness and heroism in various conjectures and interpretations. The “mighty of this world” speak out, with their explanations aggravating the confusion in understanding the ongoing, but for some reason no one asks the question - why is this happening? What is the basis of all this? Why do people behave the way they do and not otherwise and do not even think about it? There are many who have VERY CONTRADICTORY feelings, most often critical, and they have more than enough reasons, but there is NO EXPLANATION why exactly this way and not otherwise, not superficial explanations, but those based on one’s own knowledge, which is impossible without the true information.

Facts cannot be trusted because it is unknown whether they are facts or not.

I am not hinting that they have become banal and that they are what is called "fake news," because this is known to many people. But this applies not only to "fake news" information from the mass media, it applies to everything in general, as it is drawn from vast repositories of information in the clouds of the Internet. Today, the network stores all sorts of information – what is true as well as what was made up two minutes ago, and in a tricky way. And what was true yesterday is rejected today, but NO ONE bothered to publish this refutation, i.e., to tell everyone – "... there have been discoveries that reveal that a chair is no longer a chair, but a watermelon."

Every person, being only a part of the objective reality, has only his own personal characteristics, which is called "subjectivism". In the public life of people, it is the subjectivity of researchers, scientists, and developers that is the source of new knowledge and skills in culture. But it is also the main source of errors arising from various limitations and insufficiencies of the subject. If someone expresses an opinion that DOES NOT COINCIDE with the generally accepted, dominant one, then quite often he is criticized with the words: “Well... That is only your opinion...” However, in the vast majority, those who criticize others for having their own opinion prefer NOT TO THINK about the meaning of this opinion and how appropriately and proportionately the objective course of life events is expressed in it, and what specifically the subjective opinion is wrong about.

The time of the reflection has come. Painful reflection –whether I live right or wrong, and, in general,  why I live, love, work, suffer, worry ...What is all this for? What is happening and how to accept all this? The results of the events happened recently will excite society for a long time to come. Before our eyes, records were set for “changing shoes” by many media and bloggers who carried information to us, convincing us of its reliability. Moreover, all this happened with no any sense. The assessment of the events is fleeting and hasty at all levels for the sake of some certain moments of today, and NOT the SITUATION as the whole.

At the beginning of research (learning), a person always faces the question: - What is the goal that I want to achieve? When the goal is determined, you have to decide which way you are to choose and what should be taken with you, what kind of difficulties can be encountered, and what languages you will have to use. But along with simple and easy to understand questions, there might arise questions that NEVER CROSSED YOUR MIND.

In our time, full of daily changing events, people make a lot of attempts to present a civilization picture of modern Russia. But, in general, such initiatives DO NOT HAVE a true systemic judgment, but more often represent a generally recognized conjunctural stencil, as a kind of paradigm that has been forced to absorb the WHOLE COMPLEX of “natural historical” circumstances that fit in people, which require a targeted mandatory orientation towards the search for enemies and the guilty, and not the OBJECTIVE POINT in the ongoing before our eyes.

In something you like, you exaggerate the pros and downplay the cons. And, on the contrary, you exaggerate the cons and downplay the pluses if you do not like something.

It is impossible to convince a person of what he SUBCONSCIOUSLY DENIES. This applies even to science. As Max Planck said, science develops from funeral to funeral. The bearers of the old do not give way to the new, not because they see some faults, but because they do not like it.

For more than thirty years, we have been creating certain societies, focusing on certain ideas that provoke more and more amazement over the years. But after all, no one removes them from the agenda. The idea of rebuilding the world seems to most people to be an EMPTY FANTASY, not because they consider the goal unworthy or see logical errors, but because the scale confuses them. So an ant — it will take the matter seriously only within the framework of its anthill. It WILL NOT COME UP with the idea of activities outside its home. The same way people evaluate the ongoing today with domestic, commercial ... maximum — political benefits (which is the same commerce).

Our consciousness creates the world. The old consciousness lives in the old world. The new consciousness manifests a new world. It is an axiom.

It seems to me wrong to consider any questions of our life, of our existence as such outside of the current events. For some reason, all comparisons are lame, but this does not mean that we do not compare anything or all the comparisons are meaningless.