The Age of Deception and the Path Back to the One

The Age of Deception and the Path Back to the One - A long reflection for anyone who feels the world has stopped making sense.

I have never claimed to be a scholar, a theologian, a mystic or a philosopher. I came into all of this the same way many people do, not through libraries or academic credentials but through a gradual uneasiness that my ordinary life could no longer explain. I lived like most people do, I worked hard, raised a family, participated in the world as it presented itself to me and trusted that the institutions around us, no matter how flawed, were more or less pointing us in the right direction. For a long time I believed that the way things were was simply the way things had to be.

But something quiet inside me began to whisper that the world felt scripted, as if entire populations were living inside a theatre production, reciting lines written long before they were even born. Reactions felt predictable, outrage felt choreographed and every crisis unfolded with mathematical precision, generating the same emotional storms in the same proportions. It was as if humanity had been placed inside a vast simulation of belief and behaviour where almost no one noticed the invisible boundaries that shaped everything they thought, felt or feared.

I did not arrive at this conclusion suddenly. It was a slow awakening, the kind that creeps up on you when you finally dare to question the narratives that have been spoon fed to you since childhood. And when the global crisis of recent years came, and the entire world moved in perfect synchrony as if controlled by a single metronome, whatever remained of my old worldview collapsed. It became painfully clear that humanity is not on the verge of a mass awakening and if anything, the opposite was true. Most people were not waking up, they were shutting down and they were retreating deeper into distraction, fear, tribal loyalty and blind trust in whatever authority promised them safety.

This realisation was hard to accept but necessary. It forced me to let go of the old comforting myth that if enough people opened their eyes everything would change. The reality is very different; most will never open their eyes; most will never question; most will never see the bars of the cage they are living in. It will be a small remnant, scattered across the world, who begin to sense that the crisis of our age is not political or social but deeply spiritual and metaphysical and I found myself among them, not because I am special but because the spark inside me refused to die.

As I tried to make sense of this new landscape, I began to see that humanity does not exist in one uniform condition. There are at least four broad types of human consciousness.

• The first and largest group is the ordinary human. Good people, kind people, sincere people, but spiritually asleep. Their lives revolve around habit, their beliefs are inherited rather than examined, they seek comfort and fear loss, they are not malicious and they are simply unaware of the deeper currents that move the world.

• The second group is the spark aware. These are the ones who feel an inner stirring, a sense that something is wrong. They question, they resist propaganda and they suffer because they see what others cannot.

• The third group is the fallen spark. These are the ones who awaken partially but lose their way. They may become cynical, hungry for power or seduced by ideologies that promise freedom while secretly imprisoning them.

• The fourth group is the most uncomfortable to consider. The sparkless. These are beings who lack the inner light that gives compassion, humility and conscience. They can look human, speak like humans and occupy human roles, yet operate with a cold fire that seeks control rather than understanding. They appear everywhere in history and everywhere today and they create and run institutions, empires, media networks, financial systems and ideological movements.

Once you see these conditions clearly, the world begins to make sense in a way that is almost frightening. The Qur'an (not mainstream Islam!) in its majesty, lays out these four conditions of man clearly and concisely. 

At the centre of this drama lies a very old story. A story about a being known in different cultures by different names, but most commonly referred to as Lucifer (Iblis). This is not a caricature with horns, this is a consciousness of pure pride, a being of fire-born (rather than clay-born) who refused to acknowledge the significance of the human spirit. His rebellion was not against the existence of the Creator but against the Creator’s decision to elevate a creature made of clay and infused with the divine breath. He despised humility. He despised surrender. He despised the spark.

Such a being and his progeny are not supernatural monsters but fire based intelligences whose brilliance is unmatched but whose hearts are hollow. They operate through deception, not force, and build systems rather than armies. Their objective is not to destroy humanity physically but to extinguish humanity spiritually, to hollow out the inner world until the spark grows dim. To accomplish this, the system needed mechanisms capable of influencing millions simultaneously. It needed containers for human emotion and attention and it needed thought forms that could grow independently, feeding on fear, outrage, devotion and conflict. These are known as egregores, and once you learn to see them you see them everywhere.

An egregore begins as an idea or identity but becomes a force in its own right. Countries, political factions, religious sects, celebrity cultures, brands, social movements and ideologies all develop egregoric structures. They survive not on logic but on emotional energy. Anger feeds them. Fear feeds them. Devotion feeds them. Outrage feeds them. Even hatred towards them feeds them because all intense emotion becomes nourishment. This is why the system always controls both sides of any major divide. Whether left or right, religious or atheist, patriot or dissident, believer or sceptic, each side is kept in a permanent state of emotional activation and both sides fuel the same invisible machinery.

This is the greatest trick of the modern age. People believe they are thinking for themselves when they are only selecting from a menu of predefined positions. Both sides are cages. Both sides are illusions. Both sides feed the same entity.

The ancient archetypes of Gog and Magog found in the Qur'an and Bibles, describe a civilisation that spreads across the earth not geographically but culturally. They represent a society addicted to consumption, speed, distraction and moral decay. A civilisation where values collapse, identities fracture and the human soul becomes numb. This is not a future prophecy, it is the world we now inhabit and it is the perfect environment for the final architecture of deception.

This architecture, at its most refined level, revolves around a particular ideology that hijacked the name of a people and weaponised their trauma. It is what we now call Zionism, and beyond its political manifestation lies a deeper system sometimes described as the Anti Christ or Dajjalic order. This is not one person but a global operating structure that thrives on surveillance, illusion, technocratic control, financial enslavement, media hypnosis and spiritual inversion. It presents darkness as light, falsehood as truth and bondage as freedom.

But the system could never have succeeded without the fossilisation of religion. What once emerged as sincere paths to the Creator became rigid, ritualistic, politically entangled and spiritually empty. Every religion hardened into an identity. Clergy replaced inner seeking, ritual replaced reflection, institutions replaced sincerity and people defended the logos of their religion rather than the truth it was meant to express.

God does not create religions, God creates human beings with a divine spark and a capacity to recognise the Real. Religion, once corrupted, becomes a distraction that feeds egregores instead of liberating souls.

This brings us to the theatre of control that operates today. The masses believe they are choosing sides but in reality every side is constructed and every narrative is pre-written. The system manipulates atheists and believers, conservatives and liberals, activists and traditionalists, scientists and mystics. People invest their energy into arguments that were designed to capture them and they believe they are resisting the system while unknowingly feeding it.

The most tragic expression of this is the modern zombie. Films portray zombies as undead creatures, but the real zombies are the living masses who walk through life without inner awareness. People who are hypnotised by screens, emotionally entrained by algorithms and spiritually numbed by endless stimulation. Their consciousness becomes hollow, their spark becomes buried, their lives become scripted and they turn into predictable units of economic, political and ideological energy. This is the true zombie apocalypse. It is not a future disaster; it is a present condition.

So where does hope come from. It does not come from activism, podcasts, protests, documentaries, revolutions or ideological crusades. All of these become absorbed into the egregores. Every march, every argument, every campaign becomes food for the system unless it is rooted in sincere spiritual alignment.

The only path out is inward. It is the recognition that nothing in creation deserves your ultimate fear, devotion or identity except the One who made you. Call Him by any name. The Eternal. The Source. The Most High. The Almighty. The Origin. The Real. Names are secondary. Alignment is everything.

This alignment is not achieved through rituals or slogans but through sincerity, humility, compassion, gratitude and inner quiet. It begins by withdrawing your emotional energy from the illusions that seek to drain you. It grows as you detach from arguments designed to provoke you. It strengthens as you observe yourself honestly. It blossoms when you refuse to let outer noise dominate your inner world.

You do not need to awaken the world. You need to awaken yourself. Layer by layer, like peeling an onion, you remove distractions, attachments, fears and false identities. You begin to notice how much of your mental world was implanted. You stop feeding the egregores, you stop participating in the theatre and you stop performing the roles assigned to you. Slowly, the spark brightens.

Evil does not triumph through power. It triumphs through deception, distraction and emotional manipulation. The moment you reclaim your inner life, you sever the system’s most potent weapon. You remember who you are and who you belong to. You return to the One.

We are living in the age of deception but also in the age of return. Those who seek truth sincerely will find it. Those who protect their spark will survive spiritually even if the world around them burns. Liberation is not collective. It is individual. It is personal. It is intimate. It is between you and the One who breathed life into you.

The world may drown in illusion but the path to the Real has never been closer.