CO=ALL

Mikhail Zaborov

CO = ALL

בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH

This first line of the Bible is the key to all knowledge: first heaven, then earth - space is the beginning of everything, the laws of space are the basis of earthly laws, space systems embody the most general laws of all systems.

CASSANDRA COMPLEX

“What is the agent selling?” That’s what I called my story, published once in my book “The Cassandra Complex,” I’ll tell you only the essence. This is a story about a real incident. Somehow, by chance, I found myself in a trading establishment, when a tall, pleasant-looking man entered the misrad (office) and began to say goodbye to the employees, shook hands with everyone, said something, was very polite with everyone, and also shook hands with me, a stranger. When he left, I asked:

- What, is he leaving somewhere?

- No, he was fired.

- For what?

— He is an agent for the sale of electrical goods, he sells little skhura (products).

And I knew a little about another similar agent selling electrical goods - a simple guy, as I was told, doesn’t play nice with clients, is even rude, shouts at his wholesale customers like lackeys and sells excellently. This is where this main question arose: what does the agent sell? After all, they both sell the same thing, why do they buy a lot from one and not enough from the other? And I had to make a radical conclusion: a successful agent sells not only a product, but in addition himself, his power of suggestion, his will, persistence, pressure, I even used a rude word, he sells, as an addition to his product, his invisible bio-spiritual power - “human flesh”.

What is this inexplicable human value - bio-spiritual humanity?

This is a dead-end question. To answer would be to define the soul, and the soul is divine. Ivan Pavlov tried to define the psyche in earthly terms and chose for this two concepts “mobility and strength” of mental processes. So, a successful charismatic agent, he of course has high mobility and strength of neuropsychic processes, mobility is savvy, and strength is strength, together they, through a certain biofield, influence others and constitute the power of suggestion. It is this power of suggestion that determines our daily lives, and it also makes history.

An agent sells or does not sell electrical goods depending on his charisma or lack thereof - this is everyday life. In everyday life, the power of suggestion manifests itself hourly, every minute: in the company of friends, one is, in the terminology of Jacob Moreno, a “star”, he attracts people to himself, another we will call a satellite, he is near the star, the third a little further away is also a satellite, and so on, as in space. In last place, or rather without a place at all, is the outsider - the outcast, not accepted in society. Moreover, this rejection is not due to any guilt, but for purely psychophysiological reasons. All these are different manifestations of the CO principle: either co-thinking, co-feeling, co-action, or not very much, or vice versa, but the criterion is CO.

The mechanisms of contact or non-contact are very difficult to understand. It can be assumed that the outcast has, or may have, high mobility of mental processes, but not their strength. However, perhaps Carl Jung’s scheme is more appropriate here, who divided people into introverts (personality directed inward) and extroverts (directed outward). Introversion is apparently associated with some kind of internal conflict that attracts a person’s attention, and this, to some extent, reduces his external activity. But internal conflict forces the same person to intense thought, which can be expressed in the production of original ideas.

Each person has internal and external activity, but in different proportions, and it can be argued that talent, genius may lack external activity, contact, charisma, but the internal tension of thought is always high, and in this sense it can be said that a genius is predominantly an introvert.

There are, of course, geniuses like Picasso in art or Edison in technology, who are brilliant both in creativity and in business, but perhaps the opposite is more typical: such geniuses as Modigliani, or Gauguin, or Van Gogh were rejected during their lifetime, and like that bad agent, they were “dismissed” from the artistic elite, until a true extroverted agent came and “promoted” these geniuses, raising them to unattainable heights.

This promotion is problematic in its own way, somewhat cynical and immoral: during his lifetime there was nothing to him, and then, as it were, some kind of exhumation and consumption of the corpse of a genius, his blood and flesh, his humanity - his spiritual human value. It is stolen by buyers, turned into a commodity, alienated from itself when a painting bought for millions is hidden in the collector’s vaults, where no one sees it, and it is stored like bonds are stored. It seems to me that Van Gogh in the next world suffers from this theft, the consumption of his blood and flesh. They raise the artist from too low to too high, again removing him from the ordinary viewer; apparently the introverted artist is doomed to loneliness both in his obscurity and in the sky-high heights.

Here the division of functions became sharply clear: the introverted genius concentrated in himself and his extroverted agent - this is, if not a mandatory, then a typical division. A genius prophesies, but they don’t believe him - the Cassandra complex. (Cassandra is a mythical prophetess whose prophecies were true, but due to God's curse no one believed her)

The Cassandra complex is, to one degree or another, characteristic of a self-absorbed creator, which is why the latter needs an agent, the prophet needs apostles, and this can be traced in history.

Prophet Moses could not speak, but his elder brother Aaron spoke well for him.

The great prophet Buddha, an introvert, preached withdrawal into oneself, renunciation of desires, and this is the main connection of a person with the world. Despite his royal origins, he did not achieve widespread recognition during his lifetime until 200 years later when a brilliant preacher, the powerful King Ashoka, came and turned Buddhism into a religion.

Confucius, a contemporary of Buddha, who also created moral and ethical teachings, during his lifetime he suffered with a handful of disciples, and five hundred or more years later he was deified.

To kill and then to deify is the oldest tradition of humanity; it originates in the ritual of sacrifice, when the victim is not only eaten, but also sanctified. Only winners in the struggle of life live on earth, and in order to assert themselves as winners, peoples make sacrifices - a ritual hunt for human flesh.

The most widespread religion in the world, Christianity, is based on a very peculiar sacrifice. Christ is in many ways close to Buddha, he preaches not strength, but humility: “turn the other cheek,” “to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” he preaches for a relatively narrow circle of those who believe in him, and since Judaism in Judaism was too strong, Christ dies. And here sacrifice appears in some completely incomprehensible light. After all, God the father knew what he was sending his son to do, why does the world need this atoning sacrifice, and why does the suffering of the innocent atone for the guilt of the world? It turns out that God the Father sacrifices his son to himself? And what sins does Christ atone for? We remember that original sin is sex, but why is it a sin? According to Freud, sex is sinful because sons encroach on the sexual power of the father. So this is some variation of the conflict between Zeus and Kronos, in which, however, the father wins? But heavenly sex in Judaism, then in Christianity, is completely excluded, because there is only one God and, according to our layout, he embodies not the principle of sexual polarization, but the principle of gravity - the center of gravity of the world, and gravity is same-sex-asexual. There are more questions than answers, what is the essence of this sacrifice?

But the apostles of Christ show remarkable activity and turn their sermons outward, to the pagans. Missionary work, prohibited in Judaism, will ensure Christianity's victorious march and spread throughout the centuries - again this is a combination of the relative introversion of the prophet and the brilliant extraversion of the apostles and preachers.

They say that the brain of Neanderthals was more developed than that of Homosapians, but their language, a means of communication, lagged behind in its development. The “communists” - homosapians - won. But the contradiction between intraverts and extroverts, between the individual and the crowd has not disappeared, it is permanent and tragic. This contradiction characterizes this contradiction very unflatteringly

Huberman:

I came to the sad conclusion

from observations over many years:

all the bastards are inclined to unite,

but all the decent ones are not.

And today this contradiction has acquired apocalyptic proportions - the attack of the “communist crowds” of Africa, Asia, Latin America on the only abode of intelligence - white civilization.

They say about charismatics: “such a person can sell snow to Eskimos and sand to Bedouins, but an anti-charismatic person cannot sell a full-fledged product, they don’t believe him.

“Give me the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs.”

“The more monstrously you lie, the sooner they will believe you. Ordinary people are more likely to believe big lies than small ones.” These are the pearls of Goebbels, who finally made a herd of pigs from the most cultured German people, and he proved how much stronger suggestion is than truth. But for this you need to be an evil genius in intoxicating the crowd, and of course you need the crowd itself.

On the other side there is an anti-charismatic who will tell the truth - they will not believe him - the Cassandra complex. The power of suggestion on a personal level is achieved through words and actions, but it is still based on the power of the nervous processes of the charismatic, transmitted through bio magnetism, the biofield.

Strict science does not recognize biofields, but who gave a scientific explanation for those well-known “tricks” when a mentalist bends spoons, forks, or glass vessels with his gaze. Is there a special scientific fanaticism here that does not recognize the obvious because it does not fit into ready-made scientific concepts? I believe in bio magnetism-biofields and believe that they are connected with cosmic fields. “I believe that when we think, the universe listens to us...” says mentalist Lior Suchard, whom I was lucky enough to meet once.

But I personally observe biofields in everyday life; the same words spoken by the strong and the weak produce completely different effects. The hypnotist will tell the person to sleep and he will fall into a hypnotic sleep, but the same word spoken in the opposite direction has no effect. There is nothing special in the voice of a hypnotist - there is a magnetism-field at work here.

Ordinary contacts between people also cannot be explained without the participation of biofields: one is attracted to one, not to another, the third repels, why? Love contacts are built in the same way: I like this one very much, I don’t like the other one very much, I don’t like the third one at all, and appearance plays a role only at the beginning, the main thing is internal attraction or repulsion, and this is biomagnetism. A man is attracted to femininity, a woman is attracted to masculinity, but the masculine and feminine principles are combined in each person in very different proportions, and the fields change accordingly, so human contacts are very selective.

However, there are people who can communicate with everyone, and there are those who do not communicate with anyone. These latter are anti-charismatics, cassandras (I turn this name into a common noun), they have a certain negative field, they attract “slings and arrows of furious fate.” Biologically, this is understandable: in nature there is love and admiration for the harmony and strength of man and animal, but to the same extent there is hatred for the weak, the biologically unsuccessful. This biological hatred is usually hidden for ethical reasons in everyday life, but it manifests itself openly and in many ways in sex, such as homophobia, etc. A person’s lack of contact is also a weakness and it attracts hostility and sadism.

But if you believe in individual biofields, then, apparently, you should also believe in collective fields, although here I would not be talking about biofields, but about psychofields.

All rulers strictly monitor the mood of the people, invest enormous efforts and resources in education, propaganda and agitation, the goal of which is law-abidingness and reverence for authority. The mood of the masses is a reality that cannot be ignored. We can say that rulers are more or less striving for expansion and, accordingly, incite the people to patriotism and the consciousness of their superiority, thus creating socio-psychic fields.

Every tribe in Africa considers itself superior to all other peoples. One can imagine a map of socio-fields that more or less corresponds to the borders of states, but with significant adjustments for diffusion, for example, of the Islamic ethnic group towards the West and vice versa, etc. The author of these lines cannot draw such a map; geographers of the future will do this; I will limit myself to the Jewish question.

Anti-Semitism, as we know, began in the pagan world, in Ancient Egypt and in Ancient Greece and Rome.

“The negative attitude towards Jews developed long before the crucifixion of Christ. The Greeks and Romans hated the Jews with equal fervor. And who will be happy with such a neighborhood? Jews lived in closed communities that observed strange, obscure laws. They adhered to a strict diet, in particular, did not eat pork and shellfish, and on Saturdays they hid behind the walls of their mysterious synagogues. The Jews showed extreme intolerance in matters of faith: they refused even to formally kneel before local or imperial Roman deities. And since in the minds of ancient society religion was closely intertwined with politics, accusations of disloyalty to the people who sheltered them and to Caesar himself were regularly brought against the Jews.” Henry W. Morton.

I take seriously the biblical story about the arrival of aliens who loved earthly women and they gave birth to them. Apparently they created the Jewish tribe - this can explain the alienation of the Jews and their heavenly god from other peoples and other gods who have always lived on earth, at most climbed Mount Olympus. Alien origin can also explain the high intelligence of Jews; maybe genetics will someday figure this out?

The pagans, who had gods of mountains, rivers, seas... the god of heaven and monotheism were incomprehensible - this made its first and heavy contribution to the creation of the image of the Jew as a stranger, a suspicious, dangerous, hostile person. And this image has not changed over the centuries. It only varied due to circumstances. This is the image of an outsider, creating a negative psychofield that attracts all kinds of suspicions and accusations. This image turned out to be stronger than any arguments, because society is not capable of perceiving rational arguments; it is subject only to myths and socio-psychological fields.

At some point, the rejected Jewish God began to be stolen from the Jews, first by Christians, then by Muslims, and the Jews themselves were brutally persecuted. The situation of the Jews worsened. This is because every religion is simply obliged to present itself as the only true one, otherwise it will not be a religion. Accordingly, other religions are humiliated, and first of all the original religion - the paternal one, according to the principle of the Oedipus complex.

Christianity reveres the Old Testament and at the same time cruelly persecutes the Jews. But the most fatal role was played by the fact that the Jews, considering themselves the chosen people, were reluctant to accept strangers-goyim-proselytes into their ranks, and did not conduct active missionary work. This is while Christians from the very beginning carried out such activities very persistently, not disdaining the use of force. As a result, Christianity, having forgotten the notorious commandment “turn the other cheek,” became a religion not of meekness, but of strength, and became widespread. Moreover, Islam did not rely on preaching, but mainly on the sword, overwhelmed by the idea of ​​world domination. Thus, in the power religious field of monotheism, a power hole was formed, and in it Judaism and Jews. The image of the Jew as an outcast took root and became stronger. And the force pit operates on the principle of a black hole: the more bodies fall into it, the more powerful its attraction.

When a person is accused of something, rightly or wrongly, then such an accusation makes other accusations against him likely - a harmful magnet. This is anti-Semitism, which intensifies itself. Jews are accused of everything that you can think of, the most vile, so that the worst enemies of the Jews, such as Nazism and ISIS, are declared to be agents of the Jews themselves.

When heretics, witches, or “enemies of the people” were persecuted, even the most absurd accusations turned out to be fatal. An image of an enemy is created, and any madness in relation to him becomes the norm, because the masses do not perceive rational ideas, only myths are the “normal madness” of mass psychology.

Religion is a myth, canonized and stable, and in this mythological and psychic field, Judaism, which abandoned missionary work, and with it the Jews found themselves in the position of outcasts, a weak minority and a convenient target for persecution. The Jews gave the world an unprecedented number of geniuses, whom we schematically classified as introverts, but the extroverted function of religious propaganda turned out to be weak and losing. This is despite the fact that Jews occupy a significant place in the media. But Jewish media workers speak neither on behalf of Jews nor in the name of Jews (often even against them), they are engaged in current work, the affairs of the country, the world, and therefore they cannot compensate for the religious introversion of Judaism.

And now, a tiny Jewish country, which, after a monstrous Holocaust, is trying to defend its piece of land against enemies, such as Hamas, which does not hide its plans for the complete destruction of all residents of the Jewish state, young and old, the Jewish country enjoys neither sympathy nor support. The UN, not noticing the nightmares perpetrated by Islamic terrorists, is churning out resolutions only against Israel.

In the “apostolic”, that is, in the propaganda struggle, Israel is losing. Therefore, Jewry can be given a general diagnosis, albeit of non-Jewish origin - the “Cassandra complex.”

HUNTING FOR HUMAN

So we focused on identifying two types of human bio-psychic constitution, essentially we are talking about biological strength and weakness, and the strong one usually has a strong suggestive ability (to sell sand to the Bedouin), while the weak one does not have it and cannot convey his truth to others. This division of ours is arbitrary, because millions of variations are possible here. And if it were only about selling sand to the Bedouins, then all right! But things are much more serious.

Nabokov has a novel “Invitation to Execution.” A man is “invited” to execution and is kept in prison because he is not transparent, that is, he does not think like everyone else, he is not primitive enough. His name is Cincinat, but according to our layout he is Cassander and there is no time for sand and electrical appliances.

At all times, strong people were in power, and when exceptions occurred, the mistake was quickly corrected either by people (Peter 3, Paul 1) or by nature (Fedor Ioanovich). But during the Inquisition, who found himself in the role of the righteous, who was the heretic? The one who is suggestively stronger is right, there are no objective criteria.

Therefore, the image of Nabokov’s Cincinat is a collective one, the Cincinatas-Cassandras, the anti-charismatics, of course, were the human beings that were roasted on the fires of the Inquisition, and Calvin even preferred to roast them on raw wood, so that the victim would suffer longer to the greatest pleasure of the sadist.

Why Calvin, the Aztecs who lived overseas, who did not know about the existence of Europe, did exactly the same thing, but en masse, burned adults and children over low heat, enjoying their torment, what an abyss of sadism is found in human souls! At the same time, they constantly fought with other tribes precisely for the purpose of capturing and sacrificing captives.

Didn’t the Germans who captured the Romans in the Teutoburg Forest sacrifice them to their gods? All over the world, independently of each other, sacrifice was thought of as a gift to the gods, that is, to all peoples their gods were seen as necrophiliacs and sadists, and this, of course, was attributing to the gods the own bloodthirstiness of the sacrificers.

All life is a struggle for existence, in which the winner enjoys, and the loser suffers and dies. Sadism is a force majeure in life’s struggle, when the torment of the vanquished and the pleasure of the winner become an end in itself and move from the practical to the purely psychological. A sadist torturing a victim has no practical goals, but what are there?

Here we get to the very essence of the CO principle, although this CO in this case sounds blasphemous, because feeling is working AGAINST here. But it is important for us to identify the principle: a person is forcibly forced to experience strong feelings-suffering, with the sole purpose: the strong feeling of the sufferer is inductively (according to the principle of mental infection) transmitted to the sadist, changing the sign from minus to plus, the more the victim suffers, the more the sadist enjoys. Moreover, unlike ritual sadism, the individual sadist does not have a god, this is very important to note. A natural sadist, achieving limitless power over the victim, thereby rises limitlessly himself, that is, he himself turns into an evil god, such as those sadistic gods to whom sacrifices are made! This is the principle: inquisitors of all stripes, supposedly exalting God, exalt and deify themselves, because they say everything and do everything in the name of God. This is where it is clear that cannibalism attributed to the gods is not carnivory - it is spirit-eating, spirit-phagy. The person we are hunting for is the soul, or rather even a feeling, we cut out the flame of a strong feeling from the soul and it is transmitted to us in a negative or positive form - this is still the same CO with a positive or negative sign.

We take sadism as an example, because this is the most arrogant, rude, obvious example of when a person is forced to experience a strong feeling of suffering for the sole purpose of mental infection - induction. The principle of SO, which manifests itself crudely and perversely in sadism, is of course not limited to sadism; after all, we also cannot laugh alone. Leo Tolstoy believed that the principle of mental infection is the principle of the operation of art in general. In various forms, the principle of CO covers the entire spiritual life of man and society - this is a topic for endless research.

Sadism has sexual roots, which are obscured in monotheism and to which we should return. Lacan states that “desire is (always) the desire of the Other,” which implies the logic of Newtonian physics: a body tends towards another body in a straight line. But this is not always the case, or is not always the case. According to Einstein, a body tends to a body along a geodesic field, that is, along a curve. In general, I consider physical forces not only and not so much as physical forces, but as metaphysical, super-material, principles of the organization of systems, and this seemingly non-scientific statement is proven very simply: the universal principles of the organization of systems operate not only in physical, but also in non-physical systems, systems, which we consider the psyche and society. I take 4 such organizational principles:

1. The principle of gravity - total attraction, dominates in space, the psyche, and society. 2. The principle of polarization dominates in the physical and biological micro world (here these are gender relations). 3. The principle of induction - a field that can attract and repel only charged particles, but can also create parallel processes such as radio transmission: music sounding in the hall is transmitted thousands of miles to our smartphone (parallelism) - this is our CO, which manifests itself in a very, very diverse way in the mental and cultural spheres! These universal principles of system organization depend and do not depend on the material substrate.

4. It is also necessary to mention the principle that I called “penetration-degeneration” (sperm-egg, etc.)

And in his Newtonian approach, Lacan does not notice the elephant called CO, which, as they say, is everything. Desire as attraction to another? But what about, for example, narcissism, when desire is directed towards oneself? However, a narcissist may desire someone else, but telesex (exhibitionism-voyeurism) with which life in the ocean began, radically changes our idea of ​​sexual contacts. The exhibitionist does not at all desire the one in front of whom he is exhibiting, she is only a psychosexual inducer, a stimulant, the parallels do not intersect here. This is a very complex process, read the article “The Look and the Fig Leaf” for more details https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSsrM600dGxm-tX5wm9OYGtuOj6qskI9/view?usp=sharing

It’s the same with a voyeur: he spies a sexual scene without at all wanting to master either her or him, but with a purely inductive, psychically contagious purpose and self-satisfies. Where is the desire of the other? Not attraction, but parallelism! And the most normal desire, if understood well, will appear as the unity of CO with attraction, penetration and ascension. But it all begins with CO, and it ends with him, because lovers feel CO, live with CO, act with CO...

Co is an existential principle: when a baby of an animal or a human is born, it acquires its first life skills from CO - imitation of adults. All our communication is CO with positive, negative, or intermediate signs, but CO is everything because we have taken it as a criterion.

Art is a continuous process: in the soul of an artist, a composer, a certain mental process occurs: inspiration-feeling-imagination... in the most complex way this is transmitted to the viewer-listener = parallelism. A drama is presented in the theater, and with the help of electromagnetic induction the performance is transmitted to our television - parallelism. Through TV we “consume” the spirit of artists - newfound humanity! But not only the artist induces the viewer, the viewer, his experiences induce the artist and realizes him, because without the viewer art and its creator lose meaning (see “The Look and the Fig Leaf”)

We have talked about the gross manifestations of sacrifice, but there are others. Very sophisticated. The Christian myth is not only incomprehensible to me, Luther said that a good Christian must tear out reason from himself in order to believe. But it is one thing to understand, another thing to empathize with the sacrifice of Christ; great art was created on this empathy: Raphael’s Madonna, Leonardo’s Last Supper, Michelangelo’s Pieta and much, much more, and this art is deeply humanistic.

And take Van Gogh's sacrifice, it inspired generations of artists. After joyful impressionism, conflict, spiritual breakdown, tragedy burst into art, which is latently felt even in Van Gogh’s joyful works. What is this? Christ and Van Gogh are very distant figures, but strangely enough they are connected and can explain each other.

Christian theology reaches a dead end when trying to understand Christ as a victim of violence - this cannot be with God. The idea of ​​Christ is self-sacrifice and this is completely, completely different. It is possible to understand the origin of the idea in Judea, enslaved and tormented by the Romans, powerless to change anything, but the idea goes far beyond the specific historical situation and reaches, overtakes, covers the same Rome, and then its barbarian destroyers and conquerors. The idea of ​​self-sacrifice in many ways created the highest and most humane culture of mankind - European culture.

Art can help in understanding the phenomenon. We need to look closely at the unity and difference of religion and art. On the one hand, art and religion are one, because a myth, a cult, a ritual is a work of art, with the only difference being that we are obliged to believe the myth, and when Socrates allowed himself to doubt, he was sentenced to death by the rational, democratic Greeks, to say nothing of darker times.

And yet, even within religion, art had its own specific aesthetic function. The goal of religion is to subordinate people to its dogmas, and the artistic component of the cult is aesthetics, beauty - this can be said to be religion in itself, beauty is not subordinate to dogmas - communion with beauty is also worship of a god, but another - the god of the harmony of good. An example is the golden calf around which people danced, and strict monotheism came with a sword. Art is humane in nature.

But why do we watch tragedies in the theater? This is a question about the very essence of art. After all, a murder is being played out on stage, the death of a hero with whom we sympathize, and for some reason we experience aesthetic pleasure, the so-called catharsis - spiritual relief? What is this, sadism again? No, here everything changes to its opposite. Neither Sophocles nor Shakespeare are inquisitors or sadists. Art is a humanistic version of spiritophagy; it came out of a religious cult, where spiritophagy was rude and cruel and sadistic, and transferred it to the level of a game, to the level of aesthetic pleasure. Already at the “auto-da-fé” the viewer experienced catharsis, for he experienced torture and death, not his own, but that of others, while being safe. But at an auto-da-fé festival, the spectator still feels like a potential victim, and he is a slave to his fear, while in the theater the spectator is a free and sovereign master. In theatrical tragedy, SO returns to its humane meaning - empathy, sympathy, and therefore the viewer joins the high experience. Also, self-sacrifice, in contrast to violent murder, is caused not by sadism, but by humanism, and such is the effect on the viewer.

The artist creates for the viewer while idealizing and even deifying the viewer. Therefore, the viewer's sympathy for the unjust victim of fate - the hero of the tragedy is tantamount to God's forgiveness, the triumph of justice.

Renaissance art uses Christian sacrificial subjects, but it is essentially already secular. In the future, the liberation of art from religion only intensifies. But it turns out that without sacrifice it is impossible, art becomes shallow, emasculated: Baroque, Rococo. And then art creates a sacrificial idea within itself. Already romantics feel like victims of inert reality and strive for distant lands. Byron leaves prosperous England - goes to warring Greece and dies in the struggle of the Greeks for liberation from the Turks. Delacroix also runs to the east, but fortunately mainly in the space of the canvas. Vereshchagin, Roerich...

Further, the idea of ​​self-sacrifice will be picked up and developed by modernism

The idea of ​​self-sacrifice is strong in Van Gogh, and not only because he was a priest in the Borinage. Just like Christ, the artist absorbs the sorrow of the world, he is always on the edge of the abyss and only next to it do harmony and beauty acquire true greatness. Beauty, which does not contain the universal abyss of chalk, turns into beauty. Picasso said something similar. Compared to Van Gogh, Picasso is theatrical, where Van Gogh suffers, Picasso plays tragedy on stage. But the universal abyss still fits in his canvases, as if in the gaps between the parts of a torn, dismembered object-figure. In art, as I said, everything changes, Picasso quite sadistically tortures his object, but there is also self-torture, since the object in the picture is the artist himself - masochism. Sadomasochistic feelings are transmitted to the viewer. But all together it is a lightning rod, an escape, a catharsis.

All modernism, right down to pop art, is obsessed with the idea of ​​self-destruction, self-denial, deconstruction, the idea of ​​sacrifice!

And the final, completely different figure of modernism is Jackson Pollock, and yet his insane death is essentially suicide - “the last Van Gogh of modernism!”

Thus, sacrifice and self-sacrifice, despite all the similarities, have a completely different meaning; it is based on a different basis. The death of Christ in myth is violent only because violence is a tradition of sacrifice understood by the people. But since this violence is conceived from above, its essence is self-sacrifice. Christ does not atone for the sins of the world - this is impossible, but he absorbs, embodies earthly suffering and offers himself, his prayer to God. And God, sending his son to suffer, thereby says: this is all I can do, a world of complete harmony is impossible. This is exactly what modernism says.

If our CO is parallelism, then it must be said that in nature parallels do not behave quite according to Euclid, and our CO is much, much more complex, in inanimate and living nature, it combines parallelism, attraction and the principle of penetration, which we just mentioned - this is a special topic.

Sensation! There is no movement in space! How so? There is only co-movement! If we take the fastest cosmic body and somehow remove the rest, the movement will disappear, and not only because there is no longer a reference point, but because all cosmic movement is caused by the interaction of bodies. In cosmic and microcosmic co-movement there is, as has been said, the principle of parallelism and the principle of attraction and the principle of penetration.

The planets move around the sun almost parallel - they do not intersect. But this parallelism is based on attraction and repulsion.

The situation is similar in biology: “bereshit” was telesex at a distance, like fish in water. But on earth, first telesex: he sees her, she sees him, sympathy, empathy, love arises in them - this is still “parallel”. But the attraction has not gone away and the couple unites.

And connection is interpenetration. Physically, only he penetrates into her, spiritually - this is precisely interpenetration, and the meaning of interpenetration is that his soul finds its abode in her soul, her soul in his soul, and it is in this mutual spiritual abode that self-realization of souls occurs, for outside the soul the soul does not live. And that’s not all, I believe that the soul is part of the world soul, and self-realization in another soul, souls is a kind of ascension to the world soul.

Almost the same thing happens on the physical plane: self-realization of each other in each other is the acquisition of “humanity” in the most positive, life-giving sense, here the highest divine unity of souls and bodies is achieved, and as the embodiment of this unity a new person is born.

So we are all looking for the physical and spiritual humanity, alas, not always with good intentions, but both the sadist and the humanist realize themselves in the human soul according to the principle

SO!