Feodor Shkrudnev

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.