Presentation Q1-3
Presented on: Saturday, January 17, 2015
Presented by: Roger Weir
The Future and The New Past
Presentation 3 of 52
Presentation 1-3
Presented by Roger Weir
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Transcript:
Let's come to the third presentation of 2015. And we're mindful that 2015 is in terms of the time forms of civilization, a crucial preparation year for what 2016 promises to be. The series for 2015 is entitled The Future and the New Past. And it is a poignant title. It's a poignant series.
So many aspects crowd into the particular time at any one time but there are sometimes that are extraordinary. And we live in the most extraordinary time that we have seen as a species. So that the resonances are astounding in their exactness, even though they are not seemingly in any way connected with what we are doing with the presentations that are occurring. And yet the exactness is quite astounding.
Our title, for instance, characterizing the entire year, the future, and the new past, has a resonance in today's Saturday's Los Angeles Times, just received about less than half an hour ago. The Saturday section has a whole food section on days of future repasts. So that you begin to understand that in the sense of parallels, resonances can add up. But in the sense of correspondences, resonances not only add up they multiply. So that there is a quality that is elusive initially until it's characterized. If something adds up, it adds to in the sense that one is doing counting, literally. one, two, three, four, five and so forth. So that this has a cardinal linearity to it that adds up. That way one begins, if we are attentive, to notice the adding up as parallels. But if we take a look at the multiplication, we move, we shift out of a cardinal linearity into an ordinal set by saying we're going to now not look at one, two, three, four, five. We're going to look at the square of one, which is to the square of two, which is four, the square of four, which is eight. And so, one has a cardinal shifted to an ordinal from an additional linearity to a multiplication of correspondences.
And thus, we shift our ground because the cardinal linearity is one in which ritual action and ritual comportment in nature has a linearity. It has an adding up. But if one shifts to correspondences, you shift not only being in nature but of being also in culture. Because the correspondences are phenomenal of culture. And culture generates tradition, uh, custom. Set forms of experience. Not just the family or the clan, but the tribe. And then the tribes with the bands. And then the bands with a whole nation. And out of this comes the social realm where correspondences are always giving us a sense of the multiplication, the multiplicity, which then has to have an ordinal power. And so, the empowering of symbols takes precedence over the linearity of ritual.
And when symbols come into play, you have the closing of a circle. You have the ability then to see that this is a complete. This is a complete form. There's nature within which one has a ritual there. Then develops out of that the ability to have a myth. A mythic horizon, which is the horizon of experience, of correspondences, of multiplication, and the integration of that is in symbols. So that the integral order of the symbolic cycle of nature gives us something that is, um, pretty complete.
Within that, the working quality that comes to make the transition from linearity to the structure, the shape, this is, uh, the realm of symbols. The realm of ideas. The realm of what we would colloquially call the mind of thought. So that the brain integrals and thus controls the way in which the body, the psychophysical relationality, uh, the feelings that come out of the emotions, that come out of the instincts, the responses and all of this, uh, becomes an ensemble. So that ordinality by jumping by powers indicates that the social world arranges itself by power groups.
One of the most poignant books of the 1940's was by a renegade sociologist who pen name was C. Wright Mills. W-r-i-g-h-t. C Wright Mills, uh, was, uh, not just a, uh, university level sociologist, uh, brilliant man. He loved to ride motorcycles. And in this he was very much like the brilliant outlaw of philosophical mathematics, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Uh, one time when Wittgenstein was at Cambridge studying under Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, he got a tremendous insight, an idea, about the nature of the powers, the ordinality of language in logic. And showed up later in the evening at Bertrand Russell's, Lord Russell's palatial digs and, um, the Butler, when informing Lord Russell of who it was outside, who he had let into the parlor, said, throw him out onto his motorcycle and dismissed because this was not eh couture.
C. Wright Mills was the same way. And his first really incredible book was The Power Elite. And the follow up to it as like a sort of a, another series of chapters to it was called White Collar. And it was a critique sociologically of the powers of what then was characterized by the man in the gray flannel suit. This was 1947 when they made a film with Gregory Peck of the man in the gray flannel suit. He is not black or white, he's gray. He is in his group, his corporate group. And they now are dealing not just with powers, but with powers of powers. It isn't just a company or even on the level of a holding company having a whole bunch of companies. Now, the integral was sophisticated twice over that it was a corporation. And that this corporation ran on the power of powers where you had interlocking boards of directors in holding companies. Now you had a master sense of planning that plan for what the boards of directors were going to be like, so that you organize the organizers and then organized what they were going to be organized with as organizers. And so, you had a jump in ordinal control already by the 1940's. And this followed on the heels, not just of World War Two but on the close of World War Two by the atomic bomb.
So that there is an enormous watershed that was noticed at the time. In 1945 it was as if the world, the entire world, the world of society, the world of nature, the world on all possible levels held its breath. We're living at a poignant moment in history when the resonances of that are not only adding and multiplying, they're dimensioning. They're going beyond what is cardinal and what is ordinal into a very high mathematic and this is giving us a complex scalar with which very few people are even able to be familiar with, much less comprehend. And there is no one, no group, no corporation, no world order that can comprehend it. They're having trouble even being familiar with it.
So, who's in charge? And the great issue that has surfaced again and again more prolifically until it is now like a haunting nightmare in the making. Are we being controlled? Yes. On a very super sophisticated level. Who is controlling? Who is doing this? And there is a polarization. One is that there must be aliens who are secretly doing this and obviously then have been doing this. And probably have been doing this not only for a long time, but maybe for who knows when this began. Or second, that no one is in charge. In which case we can make our own rules. We can manufacture something and what we're going to manufacture is a way of manipulating ourselves so that we become more than human. Not alien controlled, but in our own creation control. We are going to take charge of the way in which man mutates. Which becomes eventually indistinguishable from the other alternative that there are aliens manipulating.
And these issues by 2015 have merged in a massive confusion that cannot be separated because they do not separate. To separate them takes a very high differential consciousness, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the limitations of an integral cycle. Of a world order no matter how complex, no matter how complex the complexity.
So, we are in the future and the new passed in 2015 in such a way that there is a characteristic quandary going on. And one can trace that the current intensity of the fever of the world becomes exacerbated to an nth degree. Not just to a super degree, but an nth degree in 1991, which we have been talking about. The massive invasion of Iraq by American military right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. That massive, successful, sudden, within days incursion not only creamed the world's fourth largest army, but shattered it permanently so that the Iraq, the same place of 2015, some 24 years later, is a scene of it being chopped not into just a polarity but into an irresolvable triple. The Kurds, the Islamic State, the Iraq, which itself is still polarized between Sunni and Shiite factions. And so, one has an irresolvable situation, which is like a burner left on. Almost like a Bunsen burner and a labor...laboratory that has all kinds of flammables, inflammables. And that this Bunsen burner is constantly igniting the table, the chairs, the desks, the cabinets, and all of the combustibles are going to make that a massive fireball. That's the situation as of January 2015, the 17th of January. It is not resolvable in an integral way at all. It is not resolvable in terms of power structures, no matter how ingenious, no matter how powerful. There isn't a single corporation that can extend its reach even into low earth orbit, much less. Everything from here to eternity.
What we're looking at here is something which is not only archetypal, but is higher deeper than archetypes, because archetypes are a symbolic integration of a natural cycle that includes rituals, mythic horizons of experience, of images, of language, of structures, of thought, of mind, of thinking, of ideas. And this entire cycle is natural. But what is happening is not unnatural, but supernatural. And supernatural has been manipulated to the extent that now there is a super-duper natural perversion that gains by seeking constantly new ways to become either human plus. We're going to modify ourselves so that we can design ourselves better than nature is designed us. We're going to take over evolution and we're going to do it very quickly because we don't have to fool around. We don't need lots of iterations to do this. We can test it out. We have the computers by which we can do Sims, simulations. And we're doing it now and we're going to do it perfectly, completely, very soon. Maybe this generation. Certainly, by the time this generation gets matured. And we're going to make sure that we don't have to really die physically, psychophysically. We can well, we're working on it. We're going to become immortal, aren't we? Or the alien that, well, they have taken over to such an extent that their whole plan is to experiment with us in connection with them. And so, we're suffering these kinds of sexual mutilations, aggrandizements. And a whole new kind of not just half breed, but multi breed human being is coming up. And that mutation, whether super-duper natural in terms of man or whether incredibly super, super-duper-duper in terms of aliens is indistinguishable.
All of this is sustained by the ultimate dynamic in the universe. And the ultimate dynamic in the universe is time. Time is energy. And it is time as energy, as we have been talking about, presenting is the primordial dimension that comes into play spontaneously from a fertile zero field, which is really nature. It's the DAO. That spontaneously emerges Te. The ability to be, to do, to reproduce, to have phenomenology, to have existence, to have life, to have order, etc., etc. Time.
When the 1990's began to unfold, it began to unfold a scenario of complexity that was out of control. What seemed a simple 1991 move gained a 2001 response that was devastating, 9/11. The attack by those same persons under attack on New York City of taking the Twin Towers down in an apocalypse that looked like a science fiction blockbuster movie. And so, the response, the 1991 incursion of Iraq became super. An incursion not just there to overthrow Hussein, but an incursion that was going to be reinforced. And so, the response was even greater. It was called the Second Gulf War. Which hasn't stopped at all. It's just like a cancer metastasized. So that we face now a metastasized cancer of civilization. And there is no way to ignore the fact that human plus manipulated mutations or alien designed mutations are not at the core of how the symbolic structure of thought conceives is able to conceive. Or the ritual comportment of actions and phenomena existence itself. The existentials, the existential-ers who do the acting. It is not possible to give a separation because the only separation mode that would be effective is differential consciousness, not limited to the integral cycle. So, what we are looking at in the future and the new past is a recalibration of time in civilization.
And until that is initiated, begun, there is no way to learn to exactness, to the specificity that is necessary to make the changes on every level, even into levels of levels, and levels of levels of levels. So that's what we're looking at. How do we begin? We begin by taking ourselves either one way or the other and discovering that both ways have a complementarity to them and that the ways are not linear nor multiple, but that there is something else in play here. Because the powers of multiplication, the adding of linearity are all characteristic of a closed limited cycle. The integral cycle one has to recognize that there is such an addition, such a multiplication, that now operates in a different way completely. The upshot is that symbols become transparent, that the way in which the massive, big picture is manipulated as put into play, that that entire framing, if speeded up, if given a really takeoff speed begins to exceed the capacity of the machinery that shows the frame. It's like film that gets stuck in the way in which the bracket socket used to hold it. You get a stuttering and then you get a burnout and the whole film, uh, stops. Burns out. It's damaged. That's the fear. The fear is if we really do something about it, we are really going to stop the film. Of, of what? Of just society and go back to some barbaric period. There are no dinosaurs anymore. Or, or are there? Is there a Jurassic Park where we could bring them back?
The entire order is in jeopardy as much from a solution as it is from the problem. And so, one is trapped. One is not only handcuffed, one is bracketed, jailed, in such a way that it's an imprisonment. That resignation is the only solution. And that reminds one who goes back to the 1950's when Playboy magazine first began to come out it used to have cartoons by Dan Wilson. They were surreal, macabre. And one of them was a skeleton at behind the wheel in a car with cobwebs, looking at a stop sign and just obeying Stop. And there you are. Most of what has been on the cutting edge of satire, of satirical horror, in the last couple of generations has been of this ilk.
One simple recalibration, the future and the past. What is past is history, right? What is future is ours to plan. So in between the dead history and the promise of the plan, future. The great plan and the crumbly dead dust. The dead and the planner. The planning. The planners. The super planners. The super-duper planners. The alien planners. All of this collapses by a recalibration. The recalibration is to replace in the integral the idea of a present now that the now the present as a point that arbitrates what is past and dead and what is future and plannable no longer holds its polarity structuring capacity. This is very Zen. Is very Sufi. It is downright simple. That we have from as far back as we can discover we have had the capacity to experience, to entertain to recognize that it isn't a present now moment. It isn't a moment. It is a feeling tone that becomes oceanic.
And we in tradition call this presence. So that when presence transforms present, the present moment doesn't just reduce itself further down, it reduces itself to eventually one. Uno. In Sanskrit **inaudible two words**. Oneness. One pointed mind. And when that vanishes, when it winks out, what occurs is precisely zero. When the quanta, however small to the smallest, until it's just the speck of a speck of a speck. When that is absorbed, when that winks out, what occurs is a zero field that has no definition. No limit whatsoever. The Dao. The zero field. Not a zero point. A zero point has already vanished, except in your imagination of trying to project it. Presence, recalibrating the present collapses the polarity of the dead past and the planned future into a continuity, a flow, a dynamic which is not only universal but pre universe.
Let's take a little break and we'll come right back to this.
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Let's come back. And I'm mindful of keeping our expansion freshened. My wonderful wife, Nessa, always reminds me properly to not just go over the same old things, but new. Fresh. This is wise. It is appreciative. And I do appreciate.
When it comes to human **inaudible word** planning is an inferior multiplication. One of the outstanding qualities of DNA in all of the living organisms that we know of is the fact that there is a double helical quality to the structuring, to the planning, if you will. And that this double helical quality factors in the dimension of time so that cycles and circles in time becomes spirals, become helix, and when they are paired, they are paired because there is a magnetic pair. Not a polarity like positive and negative in electromagnetism. Electrons and protons. But there is a magnetic quality that takes precedence over the electric and then the magneto electric there is a chirality. There's an angular momentum in the time signature, in the time dimension, in the energy that primordially emerges. And because time now has emerged and instantly blossoms into the three dimensions, further dimensions of space. And we've talked about this.
Eventually it becomes available historically, personally, in a prismatic way, within vision, that the science will refine and then refine the refining. And one of the great watersheds in this was also at the time of 1991. Which is in terms of time forms of civilization a new carrier wave. A new major time form of civilization that has come into play through long preparation. Through very much longer accumulation of previous time forms of a triple quality.
And in 1990, 1991 there was published A theory of evolution that not just revolutionized the theory of revolution but gave it a recalibration. The theory is, uh, entitled Punctuated Equilibrium. And punctuated equilibrium was the result of two genius friends working with a third. Two men working with a woman. They call themselves, um, in jocular, companionable humor the Three Musketeers. One was Stephen Jay Gould. And the other was, uh, Niles Eldridge. And the third was Elizabeth's Vrba. V-r-b-a.
The first to die was Stephen Jay Gould. And when he died, his surviving two Musketeers published a special issue Macro Evolution Diversity Disparity Contingency Essays in Honor of Stephen Jay Gould. And we use this volume, this book, as one of a pair of books in sets within sets within sets of a program called The Learning Civilization, which we now are going to put out on an app very complex, beautifully designed by Nissa, by my wife.
And in Macro Evolution, what becomes of great moment of great note. Notice the way in which language becomes almost specific right away, that punctuated equilibrium in its theory is that there is a slow evolution that is punctuated by sudden jumps, sudden leaps, sudden speed ups of incredible extra fast time. And this is when mutations occur and when very large mutations occur what comes into play is not only evolution, but extinction.
Niles Eldridge's, uh, book that just came out, uh, at the end of 2014 Extinction and Evolution What Fossils Review...Reveal about the History of Life the Science of the History of Life that we have presented initially as a seed in the first presentation of the future and the new past. And that is in the flow evolution of evolution as a first phase like nature. The second phase, like ritual, like phenomenology. Like the phenomenology of existence and of actions. The next phase, the second phase is one of, um, extinctions that duplicates tend in evolution to be let go. How are they let go? They're not given energy. They're not given the dimension of time so that they wilt with just the spatial dimensions and the whole energy that then not only makes existence possible or phenomenally possible or action possible, withdraws out of necessary circumstance. And, uh, extinction happens. We recognize in science we live at a time when there's an extraordinary extinction.
The issue of Nature and Science, those international science publications. Nature and business now for many, many, many years. I'm going to talk briefly very shortly about Volume 65 of Nature that, uh, came out in 1902 carried an article by H.G. Wells, a young H.G. Wells. It was called The Discovery of the Future. Later, he gave it as a, uh, uh, lecture at the Royal Institution in London. But it first appeared in an issue of Nature. But the issue of Science, the last one of the last 2014 issues was about, um, being able finally to get the genome of birds, not just of some birds, but of the entire species of birds, and entire genus. And so, they were able to take selections. You can follow the first presentation and get the details or get the issue of Science. I'll bring it again next week.
What happens is that selection over all of the different types and styles and groups of birds in terms of evolution taxonomy gave a cross section, gave a whole scalar of the species, and allowed for a master genome of birds to finally be publishable, be determined. It will be refined and filled out. But one of the salient points in that whole issue, which had eight articles about the genome of birds, is that since 1980, 420 billion birds have become dead. Extinct. We're talking about mass extinctions, which are a concomitant of evolution, which is speeded up not only many times, not only multiple times, but beyond ordinal into differential dimensions of time. In that we are faced with this situation currently.
The 1990's tracing back by the century show that the nineties of the past five centuries are protean in the sense that they are a decade, culminating a century. They are a time form within a time form. And that centuries fit within a time form of ten, ten centuries make 1000 years. A millennium. And that it is the millennia which has a kind of a metronome on the rhythm of the way in which the universe worked and sped up in complexity, in ordinality, and then finally took off and entered into the way in which culture took off and went into orbit as civilization. Now you learned to fly, but very quickly learned to fly out of the world into an orbital quality of being able to survey the entire world. And civilization is like being in low earth orbit currently. Its potential, though, its possibilities better is that civilization in terms of orbiting a world is a seed of its, uh, true dimensionality. And its true dimensionality has as many dimensions of consciousness as it does of nature in its cycles. Four to be exact.
And that by having an eight-dimensional civilization, a ninth dimension comes into play, which is not only sophisticated or super sophisticated, but is a recalibration of sophistication at all. That ninth dimension was given a name in the 1920's, the late twenties, by Niels Bohr. He called it complementarity. And later on, we will take a look at Bohr because he is extraordinary. And his complement, his complementarity, in that at the time and ever since and will be, was Albert Einstein. Einstein with his quantum challenging relativity theory, and Bohr with this relativity challenging quantum theory that complementarity and relativity somehow are two hands that are needed together to be able to, as the metaphor would be to take hold of the phenomenality of the life, of the actions of the structure of our culture, become civilization. Of our feelings become art. Of our whole mythos becoming history. Of the symbolic structure of thought becoming scientific. That all of this and can be encapsulated in one of my favorite photographs I'll, uh, bring it in next week of Einstein and Bohr sitting together at home in one of their studies smoking cigars and visioning together in a dialogue which is protean. It's as if it were the dialogue, say, in Plato's dialogues between Phaedrus and Socrates. Where for the first time in a Platonic dialogue, Socrates makes an exception of Phaedrus and takes them not in Athens, where usually the dialogues take place, but outside of the city. Out into the natural bucolic countryside by a little stream under some summer trees. And there they discuss the nature of the spirit of love. We use the Phaedrus along with Macroevolution and maybe several dozens of other examples resonating into several hundreds into the millions that there are. It is this quality of being able to sit together, to comfortably be together, this companionablability, this friendship that is of extraordinary importance in civilization.
One of the origins of this goes back some 4000 years. The first written epochal wisdom series of resonances made into a harmonic that mentions this transcendent quality of friendship is Zarathustra and his Gathas that we have talked about again and again. They are called the noble friends. And they are the ones who are able to hear, as Zarathustra says, the man of light. The person of light by noble friends who can hear. And they are the ones who can come to the men of action. Those who have the ritual symbolic power, carnally and linearity, ordinarily and multiplication and powers of powers in the world. Or in worlds. Human or alien. And it is the companionability of noble friends that is the go between, the interface, the way in which a person of light who has an original visioning gifted to them through the prism of the noble friends, is able to educate, to bring into a super education, an education of education, and then finally the second transform to make education a learning.
It is the learning civilization for which Zarathustra and his contemporary Abraham are one of the earliest carrier waves. And we've talked about how the previous carri...carrier wave of, say, Adam and Eve, or the later character carrier or wave of, um, Jesus and Alexandria and Mary Magdalene or our own time. It is the companionability of various qualities of life on many levels. Not only of race, genders, um, dispositions, etc., and so forth. But, uh, that one can make friends with almost anyone. One of the great protagonist pairs of friends in literary history is Ishmael and Queequeg. A Polynesian prince tattooed with his tomahawk pipe and, uh, the New Englander who just got fed up with being so angry that he constantly wanted to knock the head off of anybody who contradicted him or gave him a problem and then went off on a whaling ship. It's time to put to sea, says Ishmael. And Queequeg the same way he couldn't stay on his particular island kingdom, though he would have been the king. He was Polynesian in the sense that he was made to explore the currents of the Pacific, the world. They became very fast friends.
It is this quality of noble friends that constantly refines itself. And in our time now is a part of the way in which presencing is shared. And it is the carrier wave of shared presence for which all of the learning civilization program is, uh, under the aegis and tutelage and care of the Shared Presence Foundation. It is this quality that shows, clearly, that the time forms not only accumulate, but they accumulate the time signature in civilization so that it not only expands, multiplies, or adds, it adds up, but it also, uh, increases the possibilities of transform.
And we have now an opportunity to not only take evolution and extinction, but to carry it into further phases, as we did, um, in the very first presentation. And that is there are a series of about six phases that can be put together. And this putting them together gives a whole scalar then of how the double helix of DNA when put into a horizon, begins to have a quality of strengthening the time form signature so that it becomes, um, paired and that the inter relationality between them has an ability to take binaries, base pairs, of amino acids, of nucleic acids. Taking the 22 amino acids and putting them into four nucleic acids in a pair of pairs, and that it is the carrier structure for life in the universe. But has this in it, as we have talked at many times, the creative element of what Barbara Mc...uh, Barbara McClintock discovered and called them transposons.
In the nineties of the 1800's, you had all of a sudden, a complete dissolving of the certainty of the world as it was understood, not only in Victorian England but in the whole comportment of the world, that there were very powerful groups of societies, of groups. Of the whole idea of this is a civilization anyone who is not a part of it as barbaric. Or is excluded. And that the middle of the 1990 of the 1890's is the discovery of x-rays. There's a radial, radiation energy which is invisible until you are able to detect it. Of the discovery of the electron that the atom is not the smallest particle at all, but it's made up of smaller particles. And of the publication of a short novel by H.G. Wells, The Time Machine. And we've talked about. This is the first edition. This is how it came out in 1895. On the heels of x-rays and the ability to understand that, um, we have indeed something phenomenal that is happening. The Time Machine. So that Wells in his visionary capacity saw and was able to write that time is the basic dynamic, but that the commandeering of time was falling into the purview of human beings. And if this were so, then human beings are going to be able very soon to commandeer the ability to change what is nature in its limitations into what then would be supernatural, into something that it could be scientifically managed.
And the very next year, his blockbuster novel was The Island of Dr. Moreau. Dr. Moreau, who is taking on his private little island beasts and through operations, through manipulation, through genetics, is able through evolution sped it up, um, to produce beast men. And the problem is, is difficult to have. It's become possible to have beast men. But to have a beast woman is another different quality of problem. Because the beast woman must have the ability to love. The beast men can learn the code, the laws. But they just cluster together. They're a group. To have a beast human creature that loves one needs to have a woman. And that's what The Island of Dr. Moreau is about. It is the way in which the 1890's jumped from x-rays to the electron in one year. From The Time Machine to The Island of Dr. Moreau in one year.
When one goes back to the 1790's, you find a very similar kind of development. You find a speeding up, a punctuated equilibrium. That the nineties are a decade that accentuates the execution of the punctuated equilibria to secure now a new purchase on traction, on applicability, on due ability. In 1790 Benjamin Franklin died at 84. The famous, uh, French portrait sculptor Houdon was doing a portrait of the old distinguished, uh, in his eighties, Benjamin Franklin. He did four versions. One of them is in the Louvre. One of them at Montpellier. The best is in Philadelphia at the Philosophic, uh, uh, Society. Uh, it has in its background a couple of people in Houdon's art studio, his atelier. And the painter has not only put these couple of people looking over his shoulder, but in the background to Franklin being painted, sitting for the sculpture one has Thomas Jefferson very tall, talking with, but looking off into the distance, much like a parallel to Benjamin Franklin, sitting quietly, masterful in his accomplished vision. In the visionary field, in the infinite field of differential consciousness. And Jefferson learning to see in that way and stay there. Having traction in infinity. And he's listening to someone who is back is to the portrait painter who is explaining something or commenting on something, but it is not Jefferson listening to him, he's listening with him, but also envisioning.
Ten years later, Jefferson would be president of the United States. In 1790, he was fed up with politics, not wanting to even be Secretary of State anymore. Finally coming back and agreeing to becoming Vice President under John Adams, who was the Vice President under George Washington. And then winning the 1800 election. Someone perspicacious called it the Second American Revolution, which it was.
Wells towards the end of his life when he was approaching, uh, in his early seventies, in 1937, published in three issues of a popular magazine, installments of a novel, a new novel that was to be called The Star Begotten. The Star Begotten is about the, a biological fantasia. About the jump in the evolutionary quality of mankind due to an alien presence. But not an alien presence that one would immediately recognize as, Oh the aliens. The greys, etc. etc. But the discovery that there was an ambient radiation of colossal energy in the universe called cosmic rays. The development of theories of radiation, uh, came out, uh, already by the early 1900's. The first volume of Lord Rutherford's Radiation came out in 1902. And within a year or two had to have a second edition. And in the mid 1930's, he came out with a final third edition where everything was enlarged and refined. And in 1937, prematurely, Lord Rutherford, um, died. His last book, Towards a Newer Alchemy, was posthumously published.
But H.G. Wells published Star Begotten, a biological Fantasia in 1937. When the paperback came out this, uh, this is an academic reprint of Star Begotten. Uh, Wesleyan University in the East Coast published a whole series of, um, indelible classics of science fiction. And, um, star, Star Begotten is one of them. This is the, um, first UK publication that says in paperback Sphere paperbacks.
But when we come back next week, we'll take a look at the way in which macroevolution with punctuated equilibria begins to have significant indications that evolution has speeded up colossally again with extinctions. But the key to it is that in untangling the double helix, the appearance of the phase of extinctions is the beginning of a massive shifting into high gear of the punctuated equilibria coming into play where some duplications are preserved because there is not a future and the new past, but a continuity to the dynamic of time. To the dimension of reality. And that the reality is that it isn't that the extinctions are speeding up, it's that a selection is going on and the duplications that are left in play are the key to the triggering of the transposons. That one of that pair will be the way in which a mutation of superior qualities will come into play. The other will be given that opportunity to accept that this is the new dynamic and macroevolution in terms of civilization in its time forms is again at one of those crucial phases. Moving on to a complexity of complexity. That the discovery of the future that Wells wrote for an issue of Nature magazine in 1902, February 6th, 1902, Issue Volume. Uh, 65 of Nature. "There are some," he said, "who look at the past. There are very few who look at the future." And they seem to be an incommensurate not just a polarity, but incommensurate. They don't exchange. But it is the future that beckons into possibility. It is the past that preserves the base, which is able to explore the possibilities. And that by collapsing the fiction of a present nowness to bring presence into play, the whole continuity of time space becomes creative in a quintessential way and becomes visionary nature.
More next week.
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