Excerpt: "...The world is at war over the raw materials of power, over territory, over who gets to exist on their own terms and who gets absorbed into someone else's project. The question this fortnight poses, with the patient ruthlessness of a planet that has all the time in the cosmos, is whether you know how to let something end so that the arrival, your arrival, means what it was always supposed to mean..."

This is what we're up against now. The theatre of war is theatre. The real war, the one for human consciousness is only brewing, and it's closer, much closer than you think.

The “Blood Moon”, a total lunar eclipse, occurs on March 2–3, 2026. It will be …