From Grotte Chauvet to Neurosingularity: How Mircea Eliade Would Explain the Capitalism of the Future

Constantin Iskra February 27, 2026

Today, we have finally realized: Homo Sapiens is an obsolete model. In an era where Artificial Intelligence has monopolized “knowledge,” humanity is left only with what makes it unique — redundancy. As Albert Camus aptly noted in L’Homme révolté: “Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is”

This rebellion against our own biology is the foundation of a new evolutionary stage - Homo Visionarius. Our understanding of human nature requires an immediate upgrade. We propose to view this transition through the “Anthropological Axis”, where every level is saturated with the metaphysical insights of Mircea Eliade.

Level 1. Ontological Thirst: The Engine of Redundancy Man is a redundant being. Our species possesses an excess of psychic energy that cannot be exhausted by mere physical survival. Mircea Eliade explained this through “ontological thirst” — an innate hunger for true Being, an irrepressible desire to participate in sacred reality.

We create myths and rituals not out of weakness, but because it is “not enough” for us to be mere biological units. Homo Visionarius is the one who converts this ontological excess into fuel for an evolutionary leap.

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Level 2. Hierophany: The Birth of the Inner Screen Plato’s cave was the first laboratory of visioning. For Eliade, the key term was Hierophany — the manifestation of the sacred in profane, everyday things.

When the primordial visionary saw not just a lack of light on the cave wall, but a symbol, an inner reality was born. David Lewis-Williams confirms in The Mind in the Cave: the rock art in Grotte Chauvet and Grotte de Lascaux is the fixation of visions brought back from trance. Homo Visionarius was born before Sapiens because imagination appeared before rational knowledge.

Level 3. Illud Tempus: The Psychedelic Impulse as a Time Machine Terence McKenna, in his “Stoned Ape” hypothesis, suggested that psychedelics stimulated the development of symbolic thinking. Mircea Eliade provided the metaphysical justification through the concept of In illo tempore (The Time of Origins).

The psychedelic revolution today is not about medicine; it is about a return to magical power. Eliade wrote in Aspects du mythe:

“To know the origin of an object, animal, or plant is equivalent to acquiring a magical power over them, allowing one to master them and, at will, control their reproduction and multiplication”

By using visionary tools to return to the “zero point” of consciousness, we gain power over the “reproduction” of our own personality.

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Level 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Synthesis of Human and Technology Current trends in neural interfaces and AI are the embodiment of the myth of Coincidentia oppositorum (the unity of opposites). Eliade argued that in the mythical state, the division between subject and object disappears.

Homo Visionarius is an integrated being where technology and myth merge. As Carl Jung noted, imagination is not only something we create but something we discover within ourselves. In this fusion, we finally transcend biological limitations.

Level 5. Paradigmatic Gestures: Capital as a New Mythology In 2026, capitalists and visionaries — such as Christian Angermayer (Apeiron Investment Group), Bryan Johnson (Project Blueprint), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), or Elon Musk (Neuralink) — are performing their paradigmatic gestures (gestes paradigmatiques).

These are not just business strategies. When Angermayer invests in bringing psychedelics back into the legal fold, he effectively opens the door to the “Time of Origins.” When Bryan Johnson makes his own body the object of radical rejuvenation, he challenges death itself. This is the modern ritual — an act that expands the boundaries of the possible for us all.

Investing in the expansion of consciousness and the transcendence of biological limits, they create a new mythology where man is no longer a slave to entropy. Capital today is a metaphysical energy that embodies the eternal redundancy of human nature into a new, tangible reality.

Conclusion: The Return to Power We became human not because we learned to “know,” but because we learned to “see”. Homo Visionarius is the species that has realized its redundancy and learned to master it.

The book “Homo visionarius. Beyond sapiens” is a manifesto for activating your magical power. The future belongs to those who dare to see beyond the human.

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