Russian Cosmism against Transhumanism

The Vertical Path

Speculum Orientis on Heidegger’s Enframing, the collapse into the horizontal plane, and the Eurasian path toward the transfiguration of the cosmos.

The greatest illusion of the modern mind is to believe in indefinite progress, which is merely a dispersion of energy across the horizontal plane.

— Nikolai Fedorov

If horizontal “progress” disperses our energy…