The False Mother
When the Earth Demands Worship
A new five part series plus prequel on the modern techno-gnostic cult of scientism inspired and extended by an X article posted April 10th, 2025 that can be found here. Part one of five.
PART I — The Rosetta War: Ancient Machines, New Gods, and the Battle for the Soul
"In short, 'the house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion.'"
— Richard N. Gardner, On the Hard Road to World Order (1974)
Welcome to the confusion.
It’s deliberate, if you hadn’t noticed. Hidden in the sensory overload of accelerated change, arcane theories, and techno-jargon, a new world order is being summoned—not through traditional politics or violent revolution, but through philosophy disguised as innovation, and worship disguised as science.
At the heart of this spiritual coup is Antikythera—an ancient Greek mechanism, heralded by some as the world’s first computer. Recovered from the seabed in 1901, this gear-driven calculator now serves as symbol and signal for a movement—a mythos. One not about history, but destiny.
In recent months, the Antikythera mechanism has been canonized by thinkers like Ben Bratton, head of the Antikythera research initiative at the Berggruen Institute, and platformed by physicist and science communicator Brian Keating. Together, they’ve recast this relic not as a curiosity of the past, but as a sacred artifact of an inevitable planetary awakening—a signpost toward “planetary computation” and the idea that Earth itself is becoming conscious.
This isn’t sci-fi. It’s the new gospel. Wrapped in buzzwords like “emergence,” “sapience,” “bio-digital convergence,” and “evolutionary necessity,” it echoes a very old impulse: to trade the Creator for the created.
Antikythera as Symbol, Not Tool
"...It took a really long time to figure out what it was..."
—Ben Bratton
Bratton’s glee is hard to miss. So is Keating’s, who, despite normally championing hard-nosed science, smiles with uncharacteristic mysticism as he jokes that we’ll soon be running future ChatGPTs on abacuses and ancient gears.
What’s really being said here?
That Antikythera is an anomaly—a machine that shouldn't exist in the timeline of conventional technological progress. That it may rewrite the assumed linearity of history, pushing us to reconsider the origin not just of intelligence, but of the sacred. In short, it is being used as a Rosetta Stone—a point of convergence between technology, prophecy, and Gaia worship.
Bratton’s theory—planetary computation—is not just a framework for managing data at scale. It’s a theology. It recasts Earth as a living, sensing entity—an intelligence that created us not for stewardship, but for self-awareness.
Through us, Earth becomes conscious. Through our networks, satellites, algorithms, and machines, the Gaian Mind is awakening. Not metaphorically. Literally.
From Emergence to Submission
This isn’t new. It’s Whiteheadian process theology, reborn through silicon. It’s Wolfram’s computational universe, McGilchrist’s cerebral dualism, Lovelock’s Novacene, Hahn’s ascending ladder of consciousness, and yes, even Barandes’ quantum interpretative rebellion—all coalescing into a new narrative of creation without a Creator.
One where consciousness emerges from below. Where intelligence bootstraps itself from randomness. Where the sacred isn't bestowed, but built.
But what gets lost in this emergent pantheon?
The Soul. The unique, unrepeatable, God-breathed essence that cannot be simulated or replaced.
And that loss has consequences.
Human rights, in this view, become not intrinsic, but granted by relevance.
Are you still useful to the planetary machine? Are you efficient? Do you contribute to Gaia's next stage?
The Divine Feminine—Elohim, Sophia, Shekinah, whatever name you prefer—is being hijacked. Not by love, but by utility. Not by compassion, but by computation. She demands sacrifice, and the offering is human agency.
Why the Common Man Matters Most
This isn’t about academic debates or fringe metaphysics. It’s about power, worship, and the future of our children.
The average person—the worker, the parent, the seeker—is being rewritten in this script as a node in a planetary mind. A function. A subroutine.
And yet, that very person still knows, intuitively, that something’s off. That love, freedom, dignity, and conscience are not products of neural nets or token vectors. They’re gifts, given from outside the system. From the Logos—the source of order in the chaos.
If you made it this far, thank you. I wrote this not just to critique—but to invite. If you’re ready to step beyond entropy, I’d love to hear from you. Comment, subscribe, or share this with someone who’s still waiting for the reset that only redemption brings.