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τάξεις of the  Sublime that Reopen Meaning  After t 𝑠  Anthropological Collapse Douglas Blake Olds October 23, 2025 When metaphysics is stripped away , meaning collapses. Despair sets in. Nihilism opens its existential wound : The secularized human ego mistakes pleasure for meaning and contextless information for understanding—forgetting that true understanding requires wholes: what Leibniz called monads , integrated totalities of soul and body, existing within and yearning toward the One . Without this developing coherence—without the soul sensing its course with Oneness, emanation, or divine intention—anxiety and fragmentation adumbrate and collapse into entropic stasis, degrading. In stasis mistaken for immersive metaphysics--monastica arrival--modern persons regress toward sterile theorizing, unable to flow against entropy by bringing forth light or fulfilling potential. One can have everything and yet starve for significance, gnawing only on their parts, ...

  The Collapse of Historicism and the Apocatastatic Opening of, to, and by Humanity: Vindicating Herder After the Epochal Demise of Simulated Ends Rev. Dr. , retd, Douglas Blake Olds October 25, 2025 [DRAFT]: Abstract (Shortened Version) This treatise announces the Christian eschaton and its apocatastatic throughput for the covenant remnant. It argues that the modern epistemological collapse—exacerbated by AI-driven simulation and technocratic reductionism—can be traced to a profound metaphysical deficiency: the rejection of Johann Gottfried Herder’s ethical historicism. Against the dominant legacies of Kant, Hegel, and Popper, the text vindicates Herder’s theology-inflected metaphysics of conation, voice, and participatory perception as a corrective to Enlightenment rationalism and its Gnostic heirs. Through a Shema-Christological framework, the treatise critiques AI’s necromantic logic and ontological fraudulence, contrasting it with a covenantal poetics of repair. By retrieving...

 T EATHERS LEFT FLOATING AT THE COLLAPSE: Twenty Recent Poems   Douglas Blake Olds, Summer/Fall 2025 [ following my 2025 anthology,   The Inexhaustible Always in the Exhausted Speaks : A Sensorium of Brokenness and Delight. ] Dr. Jubal's Early Halloween  Epigraph: From the Apocatastatic Café Pumpkin Speaks with Knife Bro : Post Singularity infrastructure. You will see it soon. Pops : Not me. You will feel it soon—black-holed. T oo soon for your ilk… but not mine. (October 22, 2025) I. •      Diagnosing and Prophetic Unmasking  Genocidaire high rise gaze The equinox is poised now for charlie church, its trussed intoning afternoon casketing the sun, a day of its titration for some an endless night winter. All these omens of Jonah-cored sky and go(u)red calendar: auburn head rising past umbrellas  where the eulogy can no more suspend like m(ar)ooned legacies but must roar! What can I do? Phone a friend? B...