Core Reading
The class ends where Jiang says every road leads: Jerusalem. But the first move is methodological, not prophetic. A theory is useful when it connects the past, explains the present, and predicts the future Source trail 0:001:282:40 so we come to the end of the course and all roads lead to jerusalem so um we're gonna take everything we've learned so far and combine it into a narrative about today and the future so the grand thesis of this class is...and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall take place in the future so first of all we need to make sure that should develop... ; if events later fit the theory, that still does not prove causation. This caveat matters because the lecture is one long act of controlled danger Source trail 1:282:4021:0433:35 and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall take place in the future so first of all we need to make sure that should develop...the world works a story about how we got to where we are and again this is speculation some will call this conspiracy theory and this is just meant to be a fighting class so take what i say with a grain of salt okay ask... . It builds a conspiracy model and keeps warning the listener not to mistake the model for certainty. The model itself is that secret power needs an end-time script. Eschatology is not just belief about heaven Source trail 7:228:38 In other words, for power, they're willing to sell their souls. All right? Okay. So when you have different secret societies together, a major problem that you have is coordination. And the idea here is you have differe...They sometimes change and the details will be different. But, so I'm going to present to you more or less a general understanding of eschatology. Okay? So let's start with the easiest, which is the Jewish eschatology. W... . It is the operating system that lets leaders, generations, and rival societies coordinate around the same destination.
00:00-09:44
Truth Becomes A Prediction Test
The final lecture begins by defining truth as narrative power, then turns eschatology into the coordination mechanism of secret societies.
The opening does not ask the listener to believe first. It asks the listener to test a narrative. Can it arrange past events into a coherent story? Can it explain the present without leaving the central facts as noise? Can it predict the future? That is why the lecture can move through wild material while still keeping a method in view: prediction is not proof Lens point atlas-relation Prediction becomes a truth test only after the lens names the register: poetic truth contains time, historical models earn confidence through past-present-future coherence, strategic prediction can alter the game, and successful forecasts still do not prove causation. Source trail 1:28 and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall take place in the future so first of all we need to make sure that should develop... , correlation is not causation, but a model can still orient attention Source trail 0:001:282:40 so we come to the end of the course and all roads lead to jerusalem so um we're gonna take everything we've learned so far and combine it into a narrative about today and the future so the grand thesis of this class is...and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall take place in the future so first of all we need to make sure that should develop... .
The first historical machinery is Jacob Frank, Rothschild, Adam Weishaupt, the Illuminati, and Freemasonry. Jiang repeatedly marks the connection as theory rather than evidence. Its function is to introduce the alliance of six societies and the recruiting paradox of secrecy: a secret society still needs publicity Source trail 5:086:19 And so this is the framework that controls the world. The Illuminati was able to penetrate the Freemasons, so now you have an alliance of the Jesuits, the Jews, the 17 Frankists, the Catholics, and the Freemasons. So th...Okay? So it's free publicity if you read in the newspaper that there's a secret organization that's trying to conquer the world and which the authorities don't like. Then a lot of people will be like, how do I join this... , myth, ambition, and middle management Source trail 6:19 Okay? So it's free publicity if you read in the newspaper that there's a secret organization that's trying to conquer the world and which the authorities don't like. Then a lot of people will be like, how do I join this... .
Then comes the key abstraction. Different groups can have different leaders, doctrines, and generations, but they can still coordinate if they share an end. Eschatology, from eschaton, becomes a practical technology: an understanding of how the world ends Source trail 7:22 In other words, for power, they're willing to sell their souls. All right? Okay. So when you have different secret societies together, a major problem that you have is coordination. And the idea here is you have differe... , how paradise comes to earth, and what sacrifices are permitted along the way Source trail 7:228:38 In other words, for power, they're willing to sell their souls. All right? Okay. So when you have different secret societies together, a major problem that you have is coordination. And the idea here is you have differe...They sometimes change and the details will be different. But, so I'm going to present to you more or less a general understanding of eschatology. Okay? So let's start with the easiest, which is the Jewish eschatology. W... .
09:45-21:10
Every Script Points To Jerusalem
Jewish, Frankist, Christian Zionist, and Freemason eschatologies become overlapping roads to the same headquarters.
The Jewish script, as Jiang reconstructs it, moves from diaspora to Messiah, return to Israel, rebuilt Solomon’s Temple, Gog and Magog, divine rescue, and a Messianic Age where Israel becomes monarchy, dominant nation, light of nations, and light of the world Source trail 9:45 There will be something called the War of Gog and Magog. Where basically the entire world unites against Israel, okay? And the War of Gog and Magog will be led by the Antichrist, the anti -messiah, the false prophet. We... . The details matter because they supply the template other groups can hijack or reinterpret.
The Frankist change is acceleration. Do not wait for God; bring the age by sinning, defying Satan, increasing chaos, revealing the world’s evil, and forcing intervention. Christian Zionism then turns the same Jewish victory into the Antichrist system: Mark of the Beast, digital ID, AI surveillance, rebellion, Gog and Magog, second coming, and rapture. Catastrophe is not a side effect. It is the script. Source trail 12:1313:2615:44 Because by sinning, what you're doing is you are defying Satan. It's Satan who created this world. And by sinning, you're defying his laws, you're defying his authority, and this will create more chaos, and you will rev...The Jews will establish their messianic age. But this is really the Antichrist system, okay? Okay? So the Antichrist, who is the Jewish Messiah, will establish a world government that will dominate the world. And he wil...
The Freemason script converts Enlightenment into godhood. God created the universe and left; now humans use reason, science, and free will to become gods. Jiang reduces that to a checklist: warp reality, kill a king, create life Source trail 16:4618:0219:02 a script, which is a plan that these societies must implement in order to achieve heaven on earth. The last people I want to talk about are the Freemasons. Okay? The Freemasons believe that they are, sorry, the Freemaso...And we've been able to do that because of something called the nuclear bomb. Right? So we've achieved that. So in other words, the nuclear bomb was a Freemason project to achieve Godhood. But not only that, after we, af... . The nuclear bomb warps matter; JFK becomes the killed king; AI is the unfinished creation of life.
The 33rd parallel gives the lecture its ritual map: Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dallas, and finally Jerusalem Source trail 19:38 Let's look at a map. This is the equator. 33 degrees north of the equator are four places. Okay? Now, 33 degrees is very important in Freemasonry. There are 33 degrees in Scottish Freemasonry. It's a very secret number.... . Again Jiang says the claim is speculative and just for fun, but inside the model the geometry closes the circle. Solomon’s Temple becomes the center Source trail 21:04 Again, this is just a conspiracy theory. Don't believe it. This is just for fun. Okay? But if it happens like this, then that's incorrect. Interesting. Okay? But that is the grand plan, to create a world government in J... of a future AI world government. All roads lead to Jerusalem because Jerusalem is where the scripts overlap.
21:10-38:29
AI Is The Empire Form
Pax Judaica is defined as global AI surveillance, then projected into war, finance, migration, civil conflict, and a student challenge about ChatGPT.
The contemporary tests follow. Why the war on terror? Why Iran? Why Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, European immigration, and anti-Semitism after October 7? Jiang’s answer is not that each event proves the theory. It is that the theory makes them legible as pressure Source trail 22:0425:3226:43 Yes, I understand that America was attacked on 9 -11. I understand that. But why did they have to go attack Libya and Iraq? And all these other places that had nothing to do with Al -Qaeda? Okay? And the answer is they'...Okay? So, I'm not saying this is true, but I'm saying that if the goal is Pax Judica, it does help us connect the dots. It helps explain why things are happening the way they are. Okay? Also, the last thing is anti -Sem... toward a Jerusalem-centered order: remove regional obstacles, destabilize rival societies, and force Jews back to Israel Source trail 25:3226:43 Okay? So, I'm not saying this is true, but I'm saying that if the goal is Pax Judica, it does help us connect the dots. It helps explain why things are happening the way they are. Okay? Also, the last thing is anti -Sem...That's very important for this plan to work out. Okay? It's key. And that's why you are seeing so much anti -Semitism around the world today. Okay? And the last thing, of course, and this is something we'll discuss. Is... .
AI is where the model becomes concrete. Consumer AI, by itself, looks like a dead end: images, homework cheating, novelty. But an AI surveillance state has a business model Source trail 23:1524:19 All right? The third thing is Silicon Valley and AI. So right now, you have AI, ChatGPT, which doesn't really do anything. Okay? It makes cool images on your computer and helps you cheat in school. Okay? That's about it...So what is surveillance state? Very easy. You guys, we have it in China, okay? It's digital ID and digital currency. And the idea is that everything you buy, everything you do will be tracked. And so they can create a p... . Digital ID and digital currency track everything; profiles tell the government who you are, how you behave, what you think; the system can also manipulate behavior. In this lecture, Pax Judaica is a global AI surveillance system Source trail 24:19 So what is surveillance state? Very easy. You guys, we have it in China, okay? It's digital ID and digital currency. And the idea is that everything you buy, everything you do will be tracked. And so they can create a p... .
The future forecast is deliberately bleak: Europe against Russia and itself; America against itself and Venezuela; conflict around China, Japan, India, and Iran; America damaging Iran but losing strategically; U.S. assets moving to Israel; technology companies, banks, weapons, intelligence, and trade relocating around the new center. Israel profits while the world burns Source trail 31:1832:22 But this is important because if America loses this war, it's forced out of the Middle East. And once it's forced out of the Middle East, all its military assets goes to Israel, which creates the Pax Judaica. Does that...If you're Russia, you need to trade your resources, right? Oil, energy, and grain. Okay? So Russia controls a third of the world's carbohydrates. Guess what, guys? Israel controls Africa. So what will happen is that Rus... .
The one in-room student challenge is clarifying. If AI will be created in Jerusalem, what about ChatGPT in Silicon Valley? Jiang’s answer is that ChatGPT is not AI. It is an LLM. Source trail 34:34 Okay. ChatGPT is not AI. It's an LLM, okay? Like, artificial intelligence is a thinking, conscious, sentient force that's like God. So they're trying to create God in Jerusalem, okay? Out of someone's temple. Does that... Real AI, in this vocabulary, would be a thinking, conscious, sentient force like God. That distinction is essential: the lecture is not about better chatbots. It is about artificial godhood as a political-religious project Source trail 34:3416:4619:02 Okay. ChatGPT is not AI. It's an LLM, okay? Like, artificial intelligence is a thinking, conscious, sentient force that's like God. So they're trying to create God in Jerusalem, okay? Out of someone's temple. Does that...a script, which is a plan that these societies must implement in order to achieve heaven on earth. The last people I want to talk about are the Freemasons. Okay? The Freemasons believe that they are, sorry, the Freemaso... .
38:29-73:03
Newton, Science, And The Forbidden Identity Story
The source roots the plan in Newtonian prophecy, a materialist science project, and a controversial Khazar account of Jewish identity.
The lecture then corrects a possible misreading: Pax Judaica is not simply the Greater Israel map or Jewish rule Source trail 35:4236:33 They're like, we don't want that. Okay? But explain two things to me. First of all, why is the greater Israel map on a sharon of an IDF soldier? Okay? These are soldiers, Israeli soldiers, and they wear the insignia of...and they will use it as a headquarters for their global conspiracy, and they will profit from chaos and conflict around the world because they think that this is the culmination of the prophecy, but it doesn't necessari... . It is, in Jiang’s terms, an alliance of transnational capital, multinationals, intelligence agencies, and secret societies headquartered in Jerusalem. That distinction is crucial. The argument targets a power system that uses Israel Source trail 35:4236:33 They're like, we don't want that. Okay? But explain two things to me. First of all, why is the greater Israel map on a sharon of an IDF soldier? Okay? These are soldiers, Israeli soldiers, and they wear the insignia of...and they will use it as a headquarters for their global conspiracy, and they will profit from chaos and conflict around the world because they think that this is the culmination of the prophecy, but it doesn't necessari... ; it does not collapse Jews into that system.
Isaac Newton becomes the strange ancestor of the plan. The familiar Newton of calculus and mechanics is treated as a side project Source trail 36:33 and they will use it as a headquarters for their global conspiracy, and they will profit from chaos and conflict around the world because they think that this is the culmination of the prophecy, but it doesn't necessari... ; the real Newton reads Daniel and Revelation, finds a Bible code, and gives Freemasonry a plan for forcing the Second Coming Source trail 38:2939:31 Gog and Magog, when Gog and Magog will come invade Israel, but God will come and defend Israel and he will destroy Gog and Magog. And if you read the Bible, we're not talking about the Bible, but it's really violent lan...You have to have the Jewish diaspora return to Israel, and that means you promote prosperity, but you also have to promote a Jewish conspiracy. So while you're letting the Jews get rich in the West, you're also promotin... . America, with founding Freemasons, inherits that project.
Science and philosophy are then read as worldview management. Locke, Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, and Darwin are not just thinkers; they form a materialist slope away from God, truth, consciousness, imagination, and love Source trail 41:2544:30 promote a certain understanding of the world that is materialistic and which will build the foundation for the Second Coming, okay? So John Locke said, private property is what's important. David Hume, philosophy is poi...It doesn't study consciousness, which is the number one problem in the world, right? Wouldn't it be nice to know how we think, okay? Wouldn't it be nice to know how I come up with the ideas I do in class and teach it to... . The money goes to particle physics, outer space, AI, and colliders, while the questions Jiang cares about most Source trail 44:30 It doesn't study consciousness, which is the number one problem in the world, right? Wouldn't it be nice to know how we think, okay? Wouldn't it be nice to know how I come up with the ideas I do in class and teach it to... are treated as unserious.
The Khazar section is the most ethnically volatile material and has to stay in its source frame. Jiang cites Arthur Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe to argue that many European Jews descend culturally from Khazar converts rather than ancient Israelites. The interpretive point he extracts is larger than genetics: people are products of culture more than blood Source trail 59:241:00:35 Ethnically, the Semitic tribes on the waters of the Jordan and the Turko -Kazar tribes on the Volga were of course miles apart but they had at least two important formative factors in common each lived at a focal juncti...but they share some of their culture and that's who we ultimately are we're a product of culture as opposed to genes, okay? These are Karaites in the basically Ukraine, okay? and as you can see they're Jews and they pra... . That claim then feeds his critique of territorial legitimacy and his insistence that Jewish identity is not reducible to ancestry Source trail 56:041:00:351:01:45 Okay, so it doesn't make sense. So Jews are being persecuted in Europe all the time. They have no place to go except Khazaria, which is now the Jewish homeland. And the Jews know about Khazaria because they're traders,...but they share some of their culture and that's who we ultimately are we're a product of culture as opposed to genes, okay? These are Karaites in the basically Ukraine, okay? and as you can see they're Jews and they pra... .
73:03-90:54
Silicon Valley Is The Public Face
Military-funded technology, tech founders, data centers, Neuralink, and transhumanism become the practical infrastructure of the surveillance future.
The modern-event loop returns through ISIS, Libya, European migration, October 7, anti-Semitism, red heifers, and Solomon’s Temple. The point is not that the public story vanishes; it is that the public story becomes one layer of a hidden timetable Source trail 1:03:551:06:091:07:17 ISIS, guys ISIS is, you know, these fanatical Muslims and they hate Israel but they never attacked Israel Okay? They've never ever in their history attacked Israel That's why they're probably controlled by the Mossad Ok...tax protection This is October 7th When Hamas went and killed a lot of Israels Israelis And this of course led to What's happening in Gaza today Okay? And what's happening in Gaza today Led to all these protests For Pal... . By the time the lecture reaches Silicon Valley, the question is no longer who writes software. It is who owns the infrastructure that will make the world legible to power.
Jiang’s Silicon Valley story is a laundering story. The American military funds the underlying technology; Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs make it lovable; Google builds a toll booth on publicly funded infrastructure; Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, and Musk become poster boys. If the military sold you the computer, you would see the spy machine. If Steve Jobs sells it, you see a visionary Source trail 1:09:14 And Hewlett -Packard said to him, no, keep it for yourself. That's really strange, guys. What corporation is so generous? Why would they do that? Well, there are three good reasons, okay? The first reason is that if the... .
Transhumanism ties the tech story back to Jacob Frank. Matter matters; suffering is rejected; death is Satan’s law to be defied. For the wealthy, the future is longevity Source trail 1:16:001:16:58 I don't want that crap. I want to enjoy my life, okay? And the third thing is, this world cannot have been created by God. It was created by Satan. Because why would God allow us to die? Therefore, we must defy Satan by...You have gene therapy. You have blood transfusion. You have replacement bodies, okay? You will be 20 years old forever. You have great sex. You'll live forever, okay? If you are a billionaire. Everyone else, uh -oh, uh... , health, beauty, replacement bodies, stem cells, gene therapy, blood, sex, and youth. For everyone else, it is cyborg specialization Source trail 1:16:581:17:54 You have gene therapy. You have blood transfusion. You have replacement bodies, okay? You will be 20 years old forever. You have great sex. You'll live forever, okay? If you are a billionaire. Everyone else, uh -oh, uh...That's what AI is for. You have an AI girlfriend and boyfriend, and you know what? Most people would prefer an AI boyfriend and girlfriend, okay? Okay? And then, it'll be an individual matrix where you live in your own... , implanted chips, mood control, digital ID, digital currency, and AI companions.
The control surface is bigger than surveillance. It includes AI data centers, weapons, private security, bioweapons, psychological warfare, intelligence, financing, trade access, and elite transhumanism. Jiang even leaves room for a final interruption from outside the human plan: magnetic pole excursion, mini ice age, divine intervention not according to the Bible. The world government may be total, but it is not necessarily stable Source trail 1:18:53 Bioweapons and biowarfare. Psychological and information warfare. Israel's really good at that. Intelligence, espionage, and sabotage. Mosad is the world's best intelligence agency. Financing, okay? So if you're gonna g... .
90:54-97:11
The Counterweight Is Memory, Sacrifice, And The Book
The Substack questions pull the lecture away from forecast into Jewish resistance, long-term rebuilding, collapse as rebirth, self-reinvention, and Jiang’s writerly vocation.
Daniel’s question matters because it comes from a Jew in Israel who opposes Zionism and fears both diaspora anti-Semitism and a technocratic ghetto inside Israel. Jiang answers by drawing a line the public read must keep: Pax Judaica is not about Jews Source trail 1:21:38 Okay, so thank you, Daniel, for your comment. Listen, I think Pastor Jacob is not about the Jews. It's about these evil people who want to control the world, and they want to use Jews and Israel as a tool to do so. And... . It is about evil people using Jews and Israel as tools. He then makes the counterclaim that Jews may be among the strongest resistors Source trail 1:21:38 Okay, so thank you, Daniel, for your comment. Listen, I think Pastor Jacob is not about the Jews. It's about these evil people who want to control the world, and they want to use Jews and Israel as a tool to do so. And... because of a tradition of fighting for justice and humanity.
The answer turns apocalyptic without becoming passive. Evil must triumph so good may rise; total darkness lets the light shine; hope must end so people can become hope themselves Source trail 1:22:44 The first is that evil must triumph. So that good may rise. There must be total darkness for the light to shine. And all hope must end so that we can become hope ourselves, okay? So please remember that there's a bright... . Against a project planned for centuries, the response cannot be outrage for a week. It has to be long-term sacrifice, learning, belief in humanity, and imagination after empire Source trail 1:25:141:26:05 It becomes obvious. It becomes narrow -minded. It becomes insular, okay? And so Pax Judaea will fall. We don't know how long Pax Judaea will last. It may not even last that long, okay? Maybe 10 years, 20 years, who know...-term project. Frank has spent a lot of time conceptualizing how to conquer the world. We have to imagine how we can rebuild the world together. All right. This is from. .
Collapse is then folded into creativity. Societies rise and fall so new societies can rise; parents must die so children can be independent Source trail 1:26:57 Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton is definitely my favorite poet. Then you have John Keats. William Shakespeare is also really... ; the Bronze Age collapse leads to Israel, Greece, and Persia. Death and war are terrible, but Jiang refuses to make them only negative. In his cycle, destruction can mean rebirth, stagnation can lead to creativity, and death can lead to life Source trail 1:27:58 It led to the Greeks. It led to the rise of Persia. And these three different civilizations were pairs of tremendous creativity in the human experience. And it seems as though we've come to the end of a cycle, okay? So... .
The closing questions become autobiographical. Jiang’s spiritual epiphany is not a single event; it is self-reflection, self-doubt, self-hatred when needed, and reinvention. He is not moved by online fame so much as the questions: am I improving, am I creative, am I contributing Source trail 1:29:501:30:41 For example, I did stand -up comedy for a time. I did skydiving. I did parkour. So I am constantly in the process of self -exploration, self -reflection, and self -reinvention, which is what leads to creativity. Okay. S...Am I being creative? Am I contributing to the progress of humanity? Is that, or is that, are you making that animate me? I love Dante, by the way. Dante, everyone should read Dante. And next semester I'm teaching on gre... to human progress? Even Zionism’s victory is read through sacrifice and fertility; when it becomes empire, he predicts, it will fall quickly because many Jews and Israelis do not want empire.
The last word is not the conspiracy but the book. A subscriber suggests using AI to turn transcripts into a manuscript. Jiang refuses the shortcut. He will write a book, but the book has to be meditated, discussed, experimented with, walked around, and made worthy of standing for a hundred years. Books are alive like people Source trail 1:35:39 So I will write a book. I am very efficient. When I set a goal, I go and do it. But I want to write the best book possible. for everyone I see my I see myself first and foremost as a writer most people see me as a teach... ; reading is entering the author’s soul. That is why he thinks he can read Jacob Frank. The final self-image is not teacher-as-influencer but writer-as-soul-reader Source trail 1:35:391:36:27 So I will write a book. I am very efficient. When I set a goal, I go and do it. But I want to write the best book possible. for everyone I see my I see myself first and foremost as a writer most people see me as a teach...so much when I read Jacob Frank I'm like I I understand how he thinks okay I'm not judging him okay he's an evil guy I'm not judging him okay but I know how he thinks I know how he feels I know what he's doing what he's... .
Questions
You said that AI, like, they will, like God, create lives and create AI at Jerusalem. But I think, like, ChatGPT, they already create AI in Silicon Valley.
Jiang answers that ChatGPT is not what he means by AI. Source trail 34:1934:34 You said that AI, like, they will, like God, create lives and create AI at Jerusalem. But I think, like, ChatGPT, they already create AI in Silicon Valley.Okay. ChatGPT is not AI. It's an LLM, okay? Like, artificial intelligence is a thinking, conscious, sentient force that's like God. So they're trying to create God in Jerusalem, okay? Out of someone's temple. Does that... It is an LLM; the AI in his model is a conscious, sentient, godlike force to be created in Jerusalem.
Would you advise younger Jews, both in Israel and outside it, to live in Israel, given rising anti-Semitism and the danger of a technocratic surveillance ghetto?
Jiang does not give a relocation instruction. Source trail 1:20:161:21:171:21:381:22:44 Mr. Jiang, I am an avid viewer of all your videos, okay? I love your lectures on YouTube and your content on sub -stack, and I want to say a huge thank you for the incredibly important content you are sharing with human...I'm sure that many sane Jews who simply want to live in peace regardless of religion or race follow your wonderful work and would like to know what you think is the right course of action for us. I don't know whether th... He says Pax Judaica is not about Jews but about evil people using Jews and Israel, and he expects Jews themselves to play an important role in resisting it.
What are humanity’s possible counters to transnational capitalism or Frankism, and how long would it take to undo it?
Jiang says the counter must be long-term: calm, sacrifice, learning, belief in humanity, and imagination after Pax Judaica. Source trail 1:23:341:24:121:25:141:26:05 I first want to thank whatever gave you the courage to continue past tribulations, maybe Mrs. Jiang, and continuing to teach. Your will and dedication to learning and teaching is monumental compared to the attention spa...Okay, so you're absolutely right, okay? So again, thank you for this question, okay? The Francists have spent centuries preparing for today, and that's why they win, because they're willing to think long term. They're w... It cannot be defeated in a day, ten years, or even a hundred years.
Do Gnostic teachings or the monad have the potential to become a major religion, and do societies mature through collapse the way people mature through trauma?
Jiang answers mainly through the collapse question: societies rise and fall so creativity can happen; destruction and death are terrible but can lead to rebirth and new civilizations. Source trail 1:26:191:26:571:27:58 You speak a lot about the monad and Gnostic teachings. Do you see this as a possible emerging major religion? Can it be? It seems like this massive expansion, like the Bronze Age, Muslim conquest, and implosions like th...Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton is definitely my favorite poet. Then you have John Keats. William Shakespeare is also really...
Was there a moment in life where you had your spiritual epiphany?
Jiang says there was not one moment. Source trail 1:28:411:28:551:29:501:30:41 Professor, you have a remarkable way of synthesizing the best parts of spiritual practice while mitigating the worst parts, dogma, lack of critical thinking, and self -reflection. Was there a moment in life where you ha...Okay. So I think that my superpower has always been my capacity for self -reflection. Ever since I was young, I've been able to stare in the mirror and look at who I am and say, this is who I am. This is what I like abo... His superpower has always been self-reflection, self-exploration, self-doubt, and self-reinvention.
Do you think there is any possibility to change or stop what is currently happening, or has Zionism embedded into many aspects of society?
Jiang says Zionism has won because believers are energetic, organized, sacrificial, and fertile, but he predicts it will fall quickly once it becomes empire because many Jews and Israelis do not want empire. Source trail 1:30:581:31:241:32:20 Hi, professor. I've always loved history and it's been a blessing finding your teachings. I wish I had a class like this in school. Growing up with a Zionist mother, from that perspective, I thought what she spoke of wo...Okay, Zionism has won out because the people who believe in Zionism are the ones who are willing to make the most sacrifices, the ones who are the most energetic, who are willing to work together to achieve this vision....
What is your favorite food, and what can we expect between semesters and over the break?
Jiang says his favorite food is Japanese, especially sashimi, and that after a two-week break he will teach Game Theory, Geopolitics, and Great Books. Source trail 1:32:551:33:03 What is your favorite food? And what can we expect, or not, between semesters and over the break time? Thank you for all the great lectures this semester.Okay, my favorite food is Japanese. I love sashimi. But I also just love food in general. I'm Cantonese, so I just love eating in general. They say that Cantonese people live to eat. Okay? And that's certainly true for...