Summary:  an insight into a reality that lies beyond our senses; the war in Ukraine as reactivation of the egregores of past wars (Crimean War: 1853-1856; the war between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia – on Russian-Ukrainian soil –: June 1941-August 1944; the First and Second Chechen Wars: 1994-1996 and 1999-2009) or extreme human suffering (Holodomor: 1932); interview of Mark Stavish by Vanese McNeill; scientia non illicita vel prohibita sed alienissima.


War in Ukraine: ancient egregores inadvertently or purposefully reactivated?

 

Ten days ago I came across a rather esoteric explanation for wars, which is that human conflicts may be started, exacerbated or even reactivated through intense collective human thought-forms which, once created – or even once reactivated –, result in an autonomous psychic entity which in turn influences the group of people responsible for having brought it to ‘life’ – or back to ‘life’. Put very succinctly, this is the definition of an egregore – a word which seems to be derived from the ancient Greek adjective ‘egregoros’, which means ‘awake’ or even ‘attentive’ [although some authors claim that when the word is used as a noun, it means ‘a watchful one’, ‘a watcher’ or ‘a guard to protect people when they sleep’ – ‘egregoros phrourema’].

I can very well understand that this may sound like a load of hogwash or, rather, a load of esoteric mumbo-jumbo to those who believe that there is no other dimension to life than matter, i.e. to those who are of the conviction that there is hardly anything beyond what our five senses can perceive.

For my part, I have come to accept the proposition that there are at least two dimensions to ‘life’ or to what is commonly defined as ‘reality’: the one which our senses allow us to perceive and the one which lies beyond our senses and which the materialists therefore wrongly assume to be inexistent.

Now, ten days ago I listened to the interview an author of a book on egregores had given to an Australian lady on 2nd December 2020, entitled ‘Live with Mark Stavish: Egregores, and their impact on Mass Psychology w/ Vanese (Va Voom) McNeill’[either at https://youtu.be/97UT6CR_KF0 or at https://voxhermes.wordpress.com/2020/12/02/a-wonderful-interview-with-magical-egypt/]. Well, his reference to the war of Crimea (1853-1856) as having served to feed the egregore of empire building for both Great-Britain and France quite logically brought up to my mind an association with the war which unfortunately is still being fought in Ukraine – a country which powers such as the UK, France, the USA and, to a lesser extent, Turkey (and maybe even Israel) are using as a proxy to wage war against Russia.

[Beginning of quote] 19m10s-20m18s into the interview:

I recently watched a documentary – a multi-part documentary – on the Crimean war. And uh it’s just stunning, you know, how people could get enthusiastic to go off – and it was just adventure; they thought they were going to go to adventure – they went to hell. Yet there was war tourism. You had wealthy British aristocrats and middle class folks getting on which was essentially a cruise ship sailing into the Crimea to watch the siege of Sevastopol. I mean, we got to wrap our heads around this. And … and the way … and the way they wrote about it … even the women, the way they wrote about it was – you understand, there’s … there’s other people on the ends of those rockets –, but the egregore of war – the egregore of glory, the egregore of empire – was so strong that they were able to ignore all those things.

22m43s- 24m34s into the interview:

Now, the reason that’s important is because that emotional energy is what feeds the different egregores – and that’s what’s essential. So by keeping the discussion focused on personalities, uh you never really have any discussion whatsoever, you never really focus on what matters, you never solve any problems. And guess what, you down here, at this end, you lose. Whatever’s further up the food chain, in that hierarchy – it wins. And when you’re dealing with political hierarchies like this, it is very difficult for many people to grasp again what may be at the other end of it, what may be motivating it. And I think uh a good example again, going back to the Crimean war – uh I’m sure many of your listeners vaguely remember the term, they probably couldn’t even tell you when it was or who was involved and why it mattered. And yet, you know, and you’re right, so you have uh in 1855-56, a million people dead uh, you know. And you have British and French troops fighting in the Crimea and Turkish against the Russians. And uh why? Well, this set the tone for empire for the, you know, for British empire uh was unchallenged on the seas and the French empire became the focal point of Europe again. So all of these forces are at work and there are forces behind the scenes. And that was all paid for in the blood of about a million people uh plus whatever else that suffered. And it would be nice to say that’s the only example of it. But it happens on lesser scales continually, too. And one of those lesser scales was the incredible emotionalising of the events.

[End of quote]

Given the way this war is unfolding (serious war crimes on the part of some Ukrainian extremists; the massive amount of desolation and destruction brought about, the hunger which is being caused, together with substantial loss of life – civilians and soldiers alike –, the number of powers involved, quasi openly for some, others doing so from the dark), I cannot help but wonder whether some powerful egregores might not have been inadvertently or purposefully reactivated in Ukraine – namely, the egregore of the Crimean War (1853-1856), that of the Holodomor (1932), the egregore of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia during World War II (June 1941-August 1944) and, finally, those of the First and Second Chechen Wars (1994-1996, 1999-2009).

To find out a little more about this subject, I have submitted borrowing requests for two books written by two different French authors and which are kept in the bowels* of Lausanne’s main municipal library – one dating back to the 1930s, the other to the turn of the millennium. So I should be able to find out a little more about egregores during times of war and, hopefully, maybe even write a few lines on this subject in a future entry on this blog.

* In all likelihood, they are kept in the reserve collections of the head municipal library of Lausanne because there are not many readers interested in this subject – scientia non illicita vel prohibita sed alienissima.


Lausanne, the above was published on the twenty-first day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.