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At Zoë conference in Napa Valley 2026, Orthodox priest Rev. Dr. Mark Roosien took the stage for his talk: "The Common Task: Technological Attempts to Raise the Dead" Nikolai Fedorov's (1829 - 1903) "What Was Man Created For? The Philosophy of the Common Task" is the precursor of modern transhumanism. Life extension and longevity science. The space program. Artificial Intelligence. Cosmism. The war on death. All of it is downstream from Fedorov's Supramoralism. As a Christian Orthodox philosopher called the "Socrates of Moscow", his thesis was simple: Humanity must unite science, technology, religion, and labor to conquer death, resurrect the dead, and expand into the cosmos to house the resurrected human family. Not metaphorical resurrection. Literal resurrection. Not "go to Mars" for catchy slogans. Fr. Roosien said that Federov believed we should colonize other planets because if all ancestors are returned to life, Earth is too small, and we need the entire cosmos. Fedorov writes in "What Was Man Created For?": "Supramoralism is the duty to return life to our ancestors; it is the highest universal morality, the morality of rational and sensate beings; on the fulfillment of this duty of resuscitation depends the destiny of the human race. Supramoralism is not only the highest Christian morality, it is Christianity itself It is based on the supreme commandment given before the first Easter and the last commandment given after the Resurrection by the First of the risen, as the necessary condition for continuing the task of resurrection. Supramoralism leads us through the fulfillment of the last commandment ('Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature'), to become perfect like our Father who is in heaven" That is the Common Task. Not wealth. Not power. Not status. Not consumerism. Not political utopia. The shared project of mankind must be Confucian filial piety at cosmic scale. Fedorov calls for "replacing the problem of the universal striving for wealth by the striving for a universal return to life." And Federov says: "owing to our urban way of life, which is extremely artificial and burdensome, the natural task of man, universal resurrection, must seem unnatural. But that does not mean that the task of universal resurrection is in fact unnatural, only that we have ourselves become too unnatural; we have distorted ourselves, our very nature." The average person wants AI to write emails, optimize ads, and police/censor speech. Fedorov wanted AI and Technology to bring about resurrection. Fr. Roosien said St. Paul already gave the target in 1 Corinthians 15:26: "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" Fedorov took St. Paul literally. He did not treat death as a normal part of life. He treated death as the enemy. F. Mark Roossen notes that Fedorov believed all matter was "enchanted." For Fedorov, matter is not dead stuff. It is awaiting transfiguration and resurrection. He saw the Universe, through us, achieving "self-consciousness and self-government in the likeness of God the Creator." That is Theosis in technological form. Not man replacing God. Man becoming what man was created to become: to become gods. This is why Russian Cosmism leads naturally to rocketry. Fr. Roosien notes that Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the father of rocketry, was fascinated with planetary colonization in 1913 and was a Fedorov disciple. Space travel was born from a theological demand: if humanity defeats death and returns the dead, we need the heavens. Fr. Roosien also noted that Lenin's corpse was preserved with the hope that one day he could be brought back to life. That is Fedorov's ghost haunting materialism. Sergei Bulgakov saw the deeper Christian logic: Christ coming to earth merged heaven and earth. The Incarnation is not escape from matter. It is the sanctification of matter. And we must co-die with Christ. Christianity is the defeat of death through death. Fedorov had another important question in "What Was Man Created For?" that should determine what all of humanity should prioritize: "What is more precious -- gold, which is at the source of mutual extermination, or the dust of the fathers, as a means towards the reunification of the sons. What should have priority? The solution to the problem of wealth and poverty or the solution to the problem of life and death? What is more important -- social disasters or common natural disasters? Is wealth a good thing and poverty evil, or is life, eternal life, the true good and death the true evil? What should be our task?" Gold or family. Markets or resurrection. Status games or the Common Task. Today's AI labs, longevity companies, brain-computer interface builders, rocket firms, and transhumanists think they are inventing a new future. But they are mostly resuming an old theological project with better tools: Supramoralism and Theosis. AI, life extension, longevity science, and space colonization are all Fedorov's Common Task resumed. The drive to defeat death is not "tech bro" hype. It is ancient Christianity, Theosis, Imago Dei, and cosmism moving through silicon, rockets, gene editing, robotics, and machine intelligence. The last enemy is still death.

Too many unfinished tasks, too many future simulations, too much internal dialogue, and too much time staring at the same problem feels like fatigue. It comes with brain fog, loss of motivation, and simple tasks begin feeling difficult. Archontic Pressure keeps your mind fragmented and reactive rather than analytical and freely directing its attention. A big to-do list can produce cognitive overload because every unfinished item becomes an open loop competing for attention. You're mentally carrying 20 futures simultaneously rather than inhabiting the present task. The remedy is mostly about reclaiming your attention: 1⃣ Keep writing your backlog, but collapse the big to-do list to just ONE task. Pick something to work on for the next 60 minutes. Everything else temporarily ceases to exist. Any interruption from anyone else gets ignored. 2⃣Take A Walk to change perceptual distance. Get away from the screen. Look at trees, buildings, clouds, the horizon. This counters prolonged visual/attentional fixation. Walking is useful because attention becomes distributed across vision, proprioception, sound, breathing, and movement rather than recursive thought. 3⃣Regarding 2, you have to protect the period of Taking A Walk. No phone, news or merchants of chaos, podcast, social media, email, or Teams/Slack messages. More information can become another form of Archontic Pressure. 4⃣ Sleep and physical recovery matter. You can't ignore physiology. Sleep deprivation will make Archontic Pressure worse. Unfix the attention, return awareness to the material world, and energy often returns.

At Zoë conference 2026 in Napa Valley, @bryan_johnson took the stage for his talk: "Don't Die" One of his insights that he mentions frequently: good sleep produces the willpower to exercise, eat well, learn new skills, perform hard work. But we're willing to die for our jobs, even lose sleep over it. We kill ourselves for power, wealth, and status. Society is centered around being pro-death, not pro-life. His prescription: replace power, wealth, and status with existence. Make spiritual and mental well-being your #1 priority. One metric to track your spiritual/mental well-being: your heart rate. Your BPM allows you to remain a sovereign human being. He also said existence is the highest virtue and that existence doesn't need to be justified. The brain needs a reason, but being alive is the reason. He compared human beings today as Homo erectus compared to AI, and AI is giving birth to superintelligence. Which is true. Now all of this is easy to say when you're Bryan Johnson and able to sell your company Braintree/Venmo to PayPal for $800 million. For everyone else, the job/income has to be a priority. Even when it's killing us. The only real guarantee of survival is abundance, and most people don't have it. But there's a deeper thought pattern beneath Johnson's argument, and it's been documented for decades, since at least 1951: The death of reason precedes an organism's death. Acquiring knowledge doesn't destroy one's will to live, but pain and loss of self-determinism does. When knowledge of the vitality of life declines, consciousness declines with it. Awareness decreases as consciousness decreases; almost a perfect correlation. Therefore, the mind must be in excellent, top condition to guarantee the survival of a man, his family, future generations, his group, and life itself. If a mind becomes dulled, it computes poorly. When an organism reaches half-consciousness, death begins. To rid a society of its death factors, you have to bring people back to full consciousness. Small doses of accumulated pain over a lifetime gradually suppresses an organism towards death. Erase the pain, nullify the losses, and vitality returns. The drive to seek higher levels of survival, that is life itself. Johnson has the money to act on this. Most people don't. They're too numb from the pain of just getting by because chronic economic and psychological stress can reduce people’s capacity to exercise agency, maintain health, and pursue higher-order goals The first step toward not dying is waking up and freeing your mind. And most people are half-conscious: psychologically dulled, distracted, or operating below their full capacity. Most people are living at only a fraction of their potential awareness.