Revealing the future through the past

– to change it

Welcome to the Pattern of History website.

As humanity moves its steady pace to world war three very few see it coming – convinced that somehow it will be averted. But they have failed to learn one simple lesson if it is to be prevented, which can be distilled into a simple syllogism, the theme explored in my 2024 e-pamphlet The
Doomsday Syllogism. Every empire/great civilization eventually faces the conflict it is trying to avoid; everyone wants to avoid WWIII; therefore, that is the fate that awaits humanity. Only by accepting that fate, is there any chance of averting it. There is the paradox.

History has a pattern. That pattern foretells the future: denying that pattern will only fulfil it. Humans attribute too much to power. But power is an illusion. And we will only find answers to our problems in its opposite: powerlessness.

In my book, The Pattern of History (2023), I argue that all wars are fought over power. Power, manifested as interest and present in every conflict of history, cuts across all apparently unifying principles: family, kin, nation, religion, ideology, politics – everything. We unite with the enemies of our principles because that is what serves our interests. We turn against our own for the same
reason. The struggle for power is the cause of war. The historical context is explored in Never Forget the Ghosts of History (2016). Read also my free essay: Ideology, Dichotomy and Teleology, which deals more specifically with the philosophical aspect of history. If we cannot see that power is illusion we cannot fully see what’s real – what reality IS. (See Background Reading.)

To understand this, I also place much importance in family history – the ancestors. That link between the centuries with our predecessors weaves together a spiritual unity which crosses time: bringing together that sense of identity and destiny – in the true meaning. I deal with this theme in my
upcoming title, A Brief Ancestral Memoir, which I hope to publish soon.
Some of the material in the website is free to the reader. But my published works have to have a commercial charge – unfortunately. Any assistance from the reader in that regard is gratefully acknowledged.

Thanking you,
Peter McLoughlin