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Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux)

Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux)

Seeing Beyond, a research initiative focused on spiritual science, living cognition, and the threshold experiences of modern life. An initiative grounded in a spiritual-scientific approach to self- and world-observation.

Atlantis, Power, and the Modern Return of Pre-Moral Forces — What is present today is a reconfiguration of Atlantean dynamics in a post-Atlantean form

Spiritual Science

Atlantis, Power, and the Modern Return of Pre-Moral Forces

In Atlantis and Lemuria, Rudolf Steiner describes Atlanteans as fundamentally different in physical, emotional, and cognitive constitution from modern humanity.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Incarnating more fully — The joyful force of bringing something into being.

Incarnating more fully

To incarnate new possibilities is also to incarnate ourselves more completely.

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Capital as Spirit Made Operative — What is needed now is neither hysteria nor resignation, but a widening of cognition

Capital as Spirit Made Operative

The greatest threat of our time is not capital, AI, elites, or markets. It is reductionism

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Why AI Cannot Carry Responsibility — In this sense, capital is the by-product of spirit acting through labor.

Why AI Cannot Carry Responsibility

AI operates entirely within given parameters. It does not choose the ends. It cannot say: this should not be optimized.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Why Optimization Is Not Judgment — In contemporary discourse, governance is increasingly described in terms of optimization.

Why Optimization Is Not Judgment

Threefolding does not oppose technology or capital. It insists on placing each function where it belongs.

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When Language Shifts, Power Has Already Moved — Capital can no longer rely on organic expansion; it must reorganize systems.

When Language Shifts, Power Has Already Moved

Stakeholders replace citizens. Inclusion replaces representation. This model offers legitimacy through participation, consultation, and metrics — rather than through electoral mandate.

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From Government to Governance: Capital at the Executive Threshold — Figures such as Larry Fink have spoken openly about he inability of existing political structures to respond with sufficient speed or coherence.

From Government to Governance: Capital at the Executive Threshold

Executive action migrates elsewhere — into capital, platforms, and systems that operate trans-nationally and post-politically.

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The 8th Sphere vs. Technological Civilization — The defining gesture of the 8th sphere is subtraction from being.

The 8th Sphere vs. Technological Civilization

Technology becomes an Asuric interface only when it fulfills all three of the following conditions

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The Asuric Threshold — Besides Ahrimanic and Luciferic beings there are the Asuras, beings of sensual seduction and hardening, attacking human beingness, and banning it to the 8th Sphere.

The Asuric Threshold

The Asuras do not merely oppose evolution; they seek to harvest fragments of it into a parallel domain

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The age of disembodiment. — Children are naturally "religious" as for them the world has to potential of being wonderful.

Spiritual Science

The age of disembodiment.

The I-organization is the active spiritual principle that unifies and governs the other members of the human being.

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Entering the Etheric — Seemingly a concrete architecture, the Goetheanum's forms express cosmic-etheric forms.

Entering the Etheric

When attention is consciously placed, it can move into the surrounding space. That space is no longer experienced as empty air or void, but as etheric reality.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

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