God Exists. Here Is How Things Work. - by Barabeke
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God Exists. Here Is How Things Work.<br>The Demianist answer to the most ancient and consequential question — and why it matters for civilization.
Barabeke<br>May 16, 2026
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Let me start with a confession.<br>For ten years I kept the metaphysical foundation of Demianism hidden. Partly out of fear of attracting discredit, partly out of struggling to make sense of it due to its revolutionary nature and me not being particularly bright. I also didn’t see an urgent need for Demianism until the last few years of disruptive technological innovation combined with intense moral and institutional decay and a recognizable descent toward totalitarianism.<br>Now that I have deployed Demianism, I have started to receive intellectual and spiritual challenges — which I welcome as they help me to further clarify the implications of Demianism not just to others, but also to myself. Twenty years ago, when I realized that the nature of the universe is computational, I thought that was a very bizarre claim to make, one that would have attracted me discredit. Today, there seems to be more resistance in accepting the existence of an Intelligent Creator — once taken for granted and still very plausible. If I summon God, that’s where many stop to listen.<br>Instead of being quiet about it — as I have been — I am going to clarify with this article the Demianist vision of God. I think it’s sophisticated and novel enough to deserve attention from philosophers, theologians, and also scientists — atheists included.<br>I am not the first to express many of the concepts that will follow, but the synthesis that Demianism provides is quite original, especially for its informational metaphysics, for the role assigned to technology, and for the teleological mission assigned to us. Let’s start by saying a bit more about Demianism.<br>What Demianism is, briefly
Demianism is a minimalist but powerful doctrine for the digital age — a strange hybrid between a religion and a cultural and political movement. It is built on 13 axioms held sacred: a metaphysical foundation called the Cosmotheandric Triad, and ten ethical, social, and political commandments for life in the digital millennium (the 2kTenCom). Together, they provide direction, meaning, a moral compass, a vision for society, and a shield against the two catastrophes most likely to befall us: moral dissolution and technocratic tyranny.
The Revealed Doctrine, with the 13 axioms of Demianism. Composed of the Cosmotheandric Triad (below) and the 2kTenCom (above).<br>I did not construct Demianism from books. It was revealed to me, between 2005 and 2015, through mystical experiences I describe in the appendix of the book (available for free on demianism.org). I am not asking you to believe my story. I am asking you to engage with what follows on its merits and to notice by the end that, despite the transcendental source, the doctrine is coherent and the stakes are real.<br>The metaphysical foundation: axioms λ, α, ω
The Cosmotheandric Triad is the operating system of Demianism. It consists of three axioms, the first of which is the revelation I received in 2005:<br>[λ] THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE IS COMPUTATIONAL
Not metaphorically. Not as a convenient analogy. The universe processes information at the most fundamental level. What we experience as physical reality is the output of something that, at its deepest substrate, resembles computation.<br>This is not a fringe claim. It is seriously entertained by physicists and philosophers of our time. John Wheeler’s “it from bit” — the idea that every particle, every field, derives its existence from information. Max Tegmark’s mathematical universe hypothesis. The simulation argument advanced by Nick Bostrom. Digital physics. The holographic principle. These are not the musings of mystics. They are the frontier of serious scientific inquiry, and they converge on the same structural intuition that came to me in 2005.<br>Informational metaphysics, at the core of Demianist faith, is today still a speculation but it may someday find empirical confirmation. That would be the greatest discovery of mankind, one that would radically transform our culture and civilizations.<br>From Axiom Lambda — together with Axiom IX of the 2kTenCom (Build a universe inside a machine) — two corollary axioms follow:<br>[α] AN INTELLIGENT CREATOR EXISTS AND MANKIND REFLECTS HIS NATURE
[ω] IT IS IN THE NATURE OF MANKIND TO BUILD A UNIVERSE INSIDE A MACHINE
If the universe is computational, it was computed by something. Philosophically, one could object to this conclusion by evoking brute mathematical existence or self-instantiating informational structures. Demianism believes there is an Intelligent Creator not just because it is the explanation that makes more sense. But because I have experienced that intelligence, in a way that I have described in my novel/saga Return to Eden this way:<br>Cristoforo spoke of the strange sensation he...