Presentation 10

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The Future and The New Past
Presentation 10 of 52

Presentation 1-10
Presented by Roger Weir
Saturday, March 7, 2015

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Let's come to the 10th presentation of 2015. 2015 being a year of preparation for a very big threshold of 2016. And ten being a way to count a 10th of 100, 1% of a thousand and so forth.

Our 21st century referent for our time period, our age, is the emergence, the birth to some, but the emergence of modern science. And the characteristic quality that scalers modern science is the ability to have mathematics on a scale of calculus which emerged in the 17th century. And those who emerged it first, a pair, Newton, and Leibnitz independently from different sources. The emergence was one that those who designed it were born around 1650. Newton 1642. Leibnitz a little bit later. It is at that time that in China the dynastic hold of the great brilliant Ming Dynasty had passed to the last dynasty of China, seemingly, the Qing or the Manchus. And this led to initially a very long reigns of the Manchu Emperors, they Qing Emperors, a couple of them for about almost 60 years.

And it's reminiscent in a way of the time some millennia before. The time of Moses when his contemporary, when he was born and developed was really Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, who moved their capital to Amarna and built a brand-new city. And it is the new capital cities, that's one of the themes of presentation ten. It did not last. And the replacement was a rush, a sudden rush, to efface the Heretic Pharaoh and his wife and to reestablish the old dynastic power. And like the Qing you had rulers like Ramesses II who ruled for two thirds of a century, almost 67 years. This quality of the power to reassert a dynasty in China and in Egypt, as we're speaking now, also applies to ancient Sumer.
And we live in a time where dynastic China was reasserted with the founding of the People's Republic. It didn't seem like it at the time. But in 1949, when 5 million men armed, battle harted…hardened under Mao Zedong surrounded the southern city of Canton. And it surrendered. It is a very big city and was then one of the biggest in China, Chinese history. Surrendered without firing a shot in protest. The establishment of the People's Republic of China was seemingly, on the surface, an echo of the establishment of the Republic of China under Sun Yat-sen, whose Republic of China had replaced the Qing Dynasty, had replaced dynastic China, seemingly.

And the Republic of China was based upon the United States. Based upon several Chinese first-rate thinkers, many of them who had studied with John Dewey at Columbia or were influenced by him. And his especial writing on the philosophic depth of the pragmatism of American democracy and the need to have a new education. A, Dewey and his daughter, uh Evelyn, published in 1902, um, Schools of the Future. And, uh, he's the author of Progressive Education. We must start with the, uh young. before grade one even. We must start with the idea of the kindergarten. The preschool age brought together to acclimate them to getting along together before they start learning together, doing their education. But the progressive education of John Dewey being very influential and republic China, the Republic of China was taken in a new version by Mao Zedong, and it was taken to heart that you begin the inculcation of the people to the new way of being pragmatic, of being active in the world together. And a great deal of his emphasis was on the Russian experience, which at that time in 1949, had moved to a scary parity with the United States by developing the atomic bomb.

So that the American hegemony of being the exclusive atomic power in the world, which was established only in 1945 by 1949, was already compromised. In the sense that there were now two, which was essentially an opposition. And one of the great realizations of that coming opposition was one of the last meetings that the great American President, Franklin Roosevelt, was able to do in his fourth stint as president of the United States. Unprecedented. Not only a third, but a fourth. He was quite ill. Dying, in fact. And one of the great photographs of history of the planet was taken with the ill and yet courageous Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, in the center, and on one side, Winston Churchill, and on the other side, Joseph Stalin. And the photo was taken at Yalta, which is in the Crimea, which was in Ukraine, which was taken away recently. Just a year ago by Russia to reestablish it as a part of not only Mother Russia, but of a Eurasian Russia. Very much like the Soviet Union. And having great affinity with China. And we see today, this very day and yet tomorrow, etc., a combine of power of a new dynastic China and a new union of Eurasian Russia together allied with a resurgence Iran to make a stable triumvirate. All you need are three legs, and you can have a stool. You can have a throne to perch on and to say what is what. In terms of the globe. Like the recent move by China in its new dynastic form of asserting just now that there should be a new global currency that is stable because it will be stable on the basis not of debt and billing, but on the basis of savings and investment. And that the dollar should be replaced, we call it in currency, the yuan, the Chinese quote dollar. But the Chinese call it the renminbi. And renminbi means the People's Republic ability to have power. The capacity to do, to orchestrate action. Ren, people, uh, the Chinese pictographs for it is very much like a sea star. Umm men the people organize together for their own benefit and action. And bee, uh bee is one of the ancient city symbols of China. It's a circular piece of jade with a hole in it. It is a symbol of, of heaven, that this power is heaven bestowed on these men. And the emphasis is on men. If one has that People's Republic power for your money endorsed by heaven itself, you have the way in which history has unfolded successfully for thousands of years, and it should still work because mainly on the level in which it works has not changed much except of going through cycles. And the cycle always returns to this form of power. This form of money, economic capacity, ability to assume the ownership of action possibilities.

And what is interesting is that the Chinese referent and the Western science referent both coincide with a very powerful quality of the decline of Islam. Which is peculiar because that particular reference wave of 1650. Of Newton and Leibnitz. Of mathematics. Of science, modern science. Goes back 1000 years before 1650 goes back to 650. Because what we have been studying, inquiring about, clarifying, is that we are not in a stew of cultures. Which the word global assumes, has an overview. And nations which are the focus of the various cultures in China, a major culture being the **inaudible word**. But in places like, uh, many of the European countries, more and more it's diverse, many different cultures. And in the United States, it is all the cultures of the world. A friend of mine, uh, surveyed the languages of Los Angeles in the 1950's a even vote, and found that there were 200 different languages spoken in metropolitan Los Angeles.

It's not an America with a K like Franz Kafka's Amerika. The, the power controlling, but it is the new world that welcomes to the shores, plural, all who come to join together to build this, uh, community of mankind. I call it Hermetic America. Going back not to the Constitution in George Washington but going back to Benjamin Franklin and the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson. Which is a new world outlook that takes every advantage of the mathematic language that allowed for modern science to develop over the last 300 plus years, 350 years, and become capable of something so refined that the latest issue of one of the great international journals of science, it's called Science. It is on a par with Nature. So that Nature and Science are the journals for contemporary science that are not global but planetary.

Here in this latest issue, current issue of Science, the cover is locked in. Here is a curled-up virus. It is the virus for Ebola in a characteristic curl that all exemplars of Ebola virus have this shape. It has a cocoon within a cell in which it develops and exits this cell of its gestation to infect other cells by a channel that leads in and out of cells. And those channels are called ion channels, ionic channels. And they are largely, um, atoms of elements like sodium and calcium, magnesium, potassium. They are the portals by which energy exchanges between cells. The technique now by the third month of 2015 is we are able to block the ion channel that the Ebola virus has so it cannot escape the cell it has infected and gestated in. It stops the spread of Ebola by stopping it from escaping and letting natural cell death end it.

We have a tremendous advance in modern science, and all of it is being on one hand commandeered by the new dynasty of China in a very interesting way. One of the most poignant articles in this issue of Science is entitled in red Solar Cells. The solar energy cells, and that the technology for solar energy cells is the same technology that one uses for several other things like lasers. And also, the ability to have, their conclusion here of the whole article,
The demonstrated high carrier mobility carrier lifetime and diffusion length of these elements described above point to several new directions for the application of these kinds of materials in printable electronics, lasers, and solar cells. The excellent overlap that is used for this construction, this control, this manufacture of these kinds of solar cells, like the way in which one can understand how cells work on the micro energetic level and be able to control how they work or do not work, or how they transform their working. The overlap of the spectra of this particular modem of operation with the spectrum of the single crystal allow photon recycling in thick crystals by reabsorbing the emission.
So that what happens here is that the experiment quality of modern science by the 21st century can refine itself not only to controlling the iron gates, as they're called in microbiology, of cellular activity and all contents of the cell that exchange energy like invading viruses, etc.

What's interesting is that the article is entitled Electron hyphen Hole. Electrons have holes.
"Electron hole, diffusion lengths of 170 nanometers in solution grown," And then they give the chemical form of ch3Nh3pbi3. PBI is LED. Uh, Ch and NH are, uh, organic, uh, molecules. So that one has a crystal of or…organic led molecule that is able to function in a crystalline structure to make an efficiency of solar cells, an efficiency of later…lasers and efficiency of printed electronics that just now is surfacing.

Who are the writers of this article in Science? Now, there are six men. Five of them are Chinese. The one who isn't Chinese is Pat Hedrick Mulligan, Irish. The five Chinese do not teach or research in China. They both teach and research, all of them in the United States. Uh, three of them are Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska. That's in Lincoln, Nebraska. And the others are Nuclear Engineering Program, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University, which Ohio State is in Columbus, Ohio. A large, large, very large city in Ohio.

One of the qualities of Hermetic America is that it is refined science, refined mathematics, refined engineering. Not just on a global level, but on a planetary level that is so refined that it is but a cultural expression of an even wider civilization. And that even wider civilization is the entire star system. So that by this beginning of the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, we are refined enough. The we being a Hermetic America, not some culture, not some empire, not some dynasty.

At the same time that this issue of Science came out yesterday, a Hermetic America exploration vehicle called Dawn achieved orbit around the largest asteroid, Ceres. After having orbited for 14 months around the second largest asteroid, Vesta, and then shifted its orbit in the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter, really far away. And we'll be there for about 14 months orbiting Ceres. And bringing us then understanding the real sailors that are operative in the asteroid belt. And at the very same time passing long ago through that level of the asteroid belt, long ago past Jupiter. Long ago past Saturn. Long ago past Uranus. Long ago past Neptune, and approaching within a couple of months, Pluto and its moon, Charon, which are not planets, but are like Ceres and Vesta two of the largest related dwarf planet and planetesimal in something that is larger than the asteroid belt, but very akin to it and that is the Kuiper Belt. So, you have in this star system four rocky planets, then the asteroid belt, four large giant gaseous planets with all of their moons and then the Kuiper Belt. So that you have a setup of the star system that by the middle of 2015 will be completely scientifically available for inquiry on a star system level, star system wisdom. And it is Hermetic America that has pioneered all of this.

Our logo for 2015 as the lecture, the presentation series, The Future and the New Past has Pluto has the probe that couldn't go to Pluto, Voyager Two. Because when it got to Neptune, it was about as far as it could go at the time and not selectively be recalibrated to orbit Pluto, which at that time was very close to the orbit of Neptune, but very far on the other side of the orbital, uh, concourse of the star system. And since has joined Voyager One in heading towards interstellar space, Voyager One entered interstellar space about 2012 August. And Voyager Two in a couple, uh, of half a dozen years or so will also enter interstellar space.

We actually live at the cusp of a time form that has utilized not only the reference wave of 1650 in all of its developments since to our carrier wave, which in our lifetimes has occurred. Uh, the focal of that was 1991. But what is poignant about this is not only is there a competition of reference waves, but that they anchor of the competition of reference waves goes back 1000 years before then to a reference wave, not of a major carrier wave, but of a pivot between major carrier waves the millennium. So that about 650 A.D. you have a millennial reference wave. And that's the apex of dynastic China with the founding of the Tang Dynasty. It is also the founding apex of Islam through Muhammad and The Quran.

And that first generation that took that ball and not only ran but scored with it under the Umayyad Dynasty. Omar, uh, better spelling and pronunciation is Umar the first. When Muhammad had his ascension, uh, in 632 by our dating A.D., within ten years of that, the Umayyad Dynasty had conquered not only all of the area that was contiguous with Muhammad's life but had actually taken over a great deal of North Africa, uh, especially the great world city of Alexandria.

So that Islam and China are tuned together to the reference wave of millennium. And it is that millennium that saw the Crusades of the West trying to reclaim on the basis of its biblical heritage, Jerusalem and, um, the Holy Land. Ostensibly from Arab from Islamic control, but also to assert the West in terms of the Far East, including China, especially. Because the Jesuits through largely Portuguese and some Spanish, some Dutch, went to China. And it is there that they began to try to influence the incoming Ching dynasty. And eventually in Chinese terms, over the years they did in China what the British Empire did in India. They sought to take over and to force that China must cede to the European powers, treaty ports that were like ionic gates to the cellular structure of Chinese economy. And people's lives through which they could import whatever they wished and export, whatever they would take. And all of this, this this entire confused scheme is unsolvable in the labs in which it says.

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And we're take a look at competing waves of civilization. They are not competing with themselves. That particular cycling and its conscious ecology are at last understandable. And in that understanding, there's always a patchwork. And that patchwork to some looks like a tarnish. And yet to others is an indication of mutation that leads to a refinement.

One of the really incredibly wise Hermetic American scientists was a woman. Many of them are. Uh, Barbara McClintock. This is a biography of hers, uh, A feeling for the Organism, The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. She was born in 1902 and lived until 1992. She was 90 years old before she passed on. She spent the last 50 years of her life researching at the Cold Springs Harbor laboratory on Long Island. Near access to a little cove, a bay of Long Island sound. And across that sound is Connecticut. And, uh, she was born in Connecticut and raised largely there. Just a long boat ride from where she spent the last 50 years of her life.

The way that she got there in 1941 was rather interesting. Topped only, by the way, in which she returned there for the rest of her life in 1942. It is a super story. She was not allowed because she was a woman to be a professor in a university, especially in science. It was not only unheard of, it was forbidden. She got her PhD from Cornell in 1927. She could not, not be hired as a professor. Especially in her field of botany. Especially in that subfield of studying cytogenetics. And she had been introduced to it at Cornell by a group of guys, scientists. Some young and a couple of older professors whose, um, chosen vehicle was, um, corn. Maize. Sometimes called Indian corn. And she spent the rest of her life, more or less, inquiring into how is the genetic structure and eventually what is happening with the DNA structure, the double helix, the RNA, the DNA in its structure in which obviously something was making mutations happen. And occasionally those mutations were quite interesting because they were very odd.

The biographer, uh, Evelyn Fox. Keller. I think she may still be alive in her late seventies, writes in the chapter on transposition. Transposition because it is McClintock's Nobel Prize winning discovery that there are jumping genes. There are genes in chromosomes that jump the places that where they were in in their code. They jump out of their code all by their lonesome. And jump back in in a different place. It produces mutations. "When scientists set out to understand a new principle of order." Any order. World order. Cosmic order. Any order. One of the first things they do is look for events that disturb that order. Almost invariably it is the exception that they discover the rules" In the exception, they discover the rules.
As McClintock continued to study these stable patterns of instability, she found cases that were exceptions within the exception. It's like entering the silence within silence within a patrois of sound. I was very private, very contemplative. Transcendent, two dimensions that are hyper, not just super. Not just big. Not just giant. Para. Occasional sectors of variegated tissue show a rate of mutation different from that of the plant as a whole. Each of these distinct sectors presumably arose from an individual cell. And a number of cases, in a number of cases, they seem to arise in pairs.
Why? Because symmetry is part of the structure by which a universe emerges from its space-time continuum. Because time itself as a first dimension is the energy by which the phenomenal dimensions of space occur, instantly, out of the spontaneity of time.

"So that each of these distinct sectors presumably arose from an individual cell. And in a number of cases, they seem to arise in pairs. She sensed that here was the clue she needed and immediately dropped everything else," in quotation marks, to pursue it. "The description of this discovery is presented in sober language in the annual report, she wrote the next winter for the Carnegie Institution." Because it was the Carnegie Institution that ran the animal lab and plant labs at Cold Spring Harbor. And the Carnegie Institution is named for Andrew Carnegie. It's in Washington, D.C. And the head of the Carnegie Institution was also on the National Security Council. He's the one that first brought her in 1941 to Cold Spring Harbor for a matter of months. And she left and then was invited to come back and asked to be permanent and she said, well, I'll see. In bringing her back, the director had to go to his superior. And his superior was the head, not only of the National Security Council and the Carnegie Institute in Washington C…D.C., but he was the head of the K 12 appointed to be those investigating the alien UFO phenomenon by Truman himself secretly to operate as a hyper governmental agency, dealing with star system civilizations beyond our own.

She went to meet Vannevar Bush, who immediately had a rapport with young Barbara McClintock. And he immediately said, you belong wherever you want to be, and you can be at Cold Spring Harbor Labs long as you like. You'll be given not only your own labs, but you will be able to teach, to write on every level that is even beyond what those of a professor in a university would have. And she was there for half a century. She was especially happy when James D. Watson became the head of the Cold Spring Harbors lab because it brought the double Helix Discoverer into proximity with the discoverer of transposons, Barbara McClintock.

But this is the way that mutations of mutations are the way in which a hyper refinement takes place within cells, within species, within life, of every kind throughout the universe. Including whatever aliens there are in whatever star system or galactic system or whatever dimensions. This is how phenomenology works not only to sustain itself but can only sustain itself by having an ongoing transposon dance where they are free to choose when they go and when they come back. And where they're going to be. Who they're going to be dancing with. It's called life. And that freedom is called love.

It is a interesting thing that the Carnegie Institution also, among the many other things that it funded, it funded the development of the largest telescope in the world that was ever built at the time, during the First World War. And that was the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson, above Pasadena. Above our metro LA. And there is a photo of the three who got together to make that Mount Wilson hundred-inch Hooker telescope.

In the middle is the genius behind large telescopes being able to be used not only to look through, but to be able to look at the whole spectrum of seeing, not just visible light that one looks through us…utilizing, but that one is able to bring in a transformative absorption, the whole spectrum of light. The spectrograph. And the discover of that was also an American, George Ellery Hale. Who grew up in Chicago. His father was a professor. And their backyard was contiguous with the grounds that began the University of Chicago. And so, George Ellery Hale grew up as a boy, understanding that he loved telescopes, and he was very fond of the University of Chicago that let him play. And then when he was older, let him play technically. He was a technical genius as well as a great visionary. A real Hermetic American.

He got interested in. How is it that you are able to look at the sun? You can't look at the son without going blind. But you can invite through an aperture, through sunlight, to project an image of the sun on paper, as it were, on a screen, as it were. If you had an instrument that was able to utilize the telescope and utilize the reception of light to be the full spectrum and not just a visible light. An entire rainbow of Newtons prismatic seeing. If you can't see rainbows, how are you going to be able to look at even the star system, much less the cosmos? And in order to get to the cosmos, you have to have another transform, you have to have a not just a super site, you have to have a hyper site. You have to be able to see through space-time to reality. George Ellery Hale built the first spectrograph, and it couldn't be used in Chicago by that time because the metro Chicago was too large, too much light. So, they built an observatory in southern Wisconsin on what's called Lake Geneva. And that telescope area served very much until they realized that they needed to have something better and that's where Mount Wilson came in.

Only the difficulty with George Ellery Hale in that photo and on one side was Andrew Carnegie, and on the other side was John Muir. Because the understanding was, we have to go to a place where this man says, give me men to match my mountains. John Muir, the Scotsman, who was not only transformed, but his transformation was transformed by the Sierra Nevada mountains. Who learned that there is something totally beyond his limits of body, which is his mind. And then totally beyond his mind, which is his psychophysical extension of the body. And that further beyond was a surprise to him.

He was, had climbed down from half dome to take a look at his beloved Yosemite Valley, and he was enjoying the view and the transcendental mystique. And, uh, in a Muir sort of a way just appreciating the, uh, verve of life. And he finally noticed that it was very late afternoon and he better get back up to the safety of the top of half dome. And he struggled and struggled, and he realized that he had been out there too long, and he was too far down. He wasn't going to be able to make it back. Not a rock-climbing feat, but he was at the ends of his physical strength. He didn't have the strength anymore. He didn't have the idea that he had something else at all. And so, he relaxed, turned to die where he was at least seeing Yosemite Valley. And without thinking about it, without realizing it physically, he climbed the best…rest of the way up and was all right. And he then became real. Like George Roy Hill had become real in building the Mount Wilson Telescope, the 100 inch. And Andrew Carnegie happy beside himself because he had taken all of his money and invested it again in something really worthwhile. What are you going to do with money unless something worthwhile on that scale?
Towards the, what became the end of his life, George Elroy Hale did a Hermetic America, saying he went from super to hyper. He designed a 200-inch telescope because Mount Wilson Sky was polluted by metro LA. Even by that time in the 1930's, late 1930s. And so, he designed a 200-inch telescope to be built on another mountain Mount Palomar, San Diego County. And this is the handout given for the consecration opening of Mount Palomar in, uh, June 3rd, 1948. The Mount Polymer 200 inch was so huge that the floor within which it was set sat about 400 people in chairs. And the telescope was so huge that at its apex, which was huge, thrusting out of its open aperture, was a little cage in the exact center of that telescope which had a reflecting mirror like a small telescope about the size of Sir Isaac Newton's homemade telescope back then. And the observer sits in the pupil of the 200-inch big eye in order to see into the cosmos.

And the person who saw best was Edwin Hubble, and he was Man of the Year for Time Magazine. What's the date of this? Uh, oh, it is February 9th, 1948, again. Because his work was that not Palomar wasn't built yet, but at Mount Wilson he discovered galaxies that the nebula are not clouds in the Milky Way, but there are other galaxies outside of the Milky Way.

In the dedication I have put in your illustrations for, uh, the notes every presentation note set. The dedication, um, page is here, and with it is the following conclusion of the dedication page. And it reads here, um, "The Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology," which ran Mt. Wilson, like they run the JPL, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and they were involved in setting up Mt. Palomar. "The Board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology, while they may not be holy and humble, men of heart," in quotes, feel genuine humility at the presence of so great a gift has been made by the Rockefeller boards. Because the funders of this where the Rockefeller Foundation.
And further down it says,
Maintain for the benefit of science in the spirit in which it has been given, it is appropriate that the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Raymond Fosdick, should open the ceremony for it is the foundation and the other Rockefeller boards that have made the observatory possible. Just 20 years ago, the International Education Board pledged $6 million to the California Institute for the Construction of the Observatory.

We're talking not only about 1948, but we're talking about 1928. Six million dollars.

And then further on, Fosdick, uh, did a short article included in the dedication booklet. And, uh, it's entitled The Challenge of Knowledge. And it begins,
105 years ago, John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, then 77 years of age, journeyed from his home in Massachusetts to Cincinnati Ohio, to lay the cornerstone of the Astronomical Observatory in Cincinnati. It was a long and fatiguing trip by stagecoach, by canal, boat, by steamboat, and part of the way by the newly invented railroad train. Much of Mr. Adams dedicated dedicatory address concerned the neglect of astronomy in the United States. We have been, he said, so absorbed in the toil of converting the wilderness into a garden that we have been indifferent to the sciences, and particularly to the science of astronomy. To our generation 100 years later the significance of this address lies perhaps not so much in what he said, although his comment is historically illuminated, as in what he failed to say. And what he failed to say was that what nobody could have foreseen a century ago. Because in 1843 there was no evidence that the time might come when the lag between advancing knowledge and social control would threaten the existence of society itself.
Because 1948 was also the year that George Orwell published 1984.

And it was also the year that the cover of the issue of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. Uh, this is the March 1948 issue, Jack Williamson's Concluding and Searching Mind and the Editorial by John W. Campbell Junior Stable Ones Too.
During the war, the pressure of time forced the development of not one but four different methods of preparing fissionable materials for atomic bombs. One, the one of greatest significance is the atomic pile and transmutation to produce plutonium 239.

Notice that trans uranium elements are made by controlled mutation. Called in scientific history Alchemy. U239 is plutonium. It is a deadly poison. Its radioactivity is catastrophic. A single speck will kill you horribly quickly. The trans natural, the nature plus in its initial appearance can be the most deadly poison because it is not at all a part of the natural cycle and a very great circumspect of wisdom is to carry your inquiry especially in the arts and sciences.

So that vision and history, which are the very dynamic energies that make them possible in consciousness, are handled in such a way that one addresses oneself in all humility to a recognition, not a cognition, to an understanding, that you are transcending your transposing the very code that makes phenomena in space-time happen universally. It takes not just a circumspection, but a circumspection within a circumspection to realize this. And so real learning is different from instruction. Like transposons are quite different in their mutation within the mutation of code.

All of this serves for us now in 2015 to understand. And for those who get the presentation notes, I have included the entire, um, essay by John W. Campbell Jr and the first paragraphs of Jack Williamson's And Searching Mind, which was a, um sequel to the first half, and it was entitled With Folded Hands.

A early 17th century engraved classic of the Alchemist in his laboratory showed his apparatus in one part of the lab and in another part of the lab was a prayer tent, and the tent had the stripes recognizable as the stripes of an Arabian desert tent for prayer. Because alchemy that came down in the early 1600's, the engraving was made while Shakespeare was still alive and before he had written Hamlet, 1602. Heinrich Khunrath was the, uh, maker, the alchemist in charge of that. That Islamic prayer tent went with the modern European scientific transformational inquiry science naturally, consciously.

And beyond it was a third, that kind of a mysterious quality that after all one is entering into a future which is going to be not just different, but extraordinarily different from what has obtained traditionally and all around you normally. And that the future, by its very nature, if you cling to that present tradition, it will electrocute you because the future will seem alien. And the past will seem dismissible. And the present will be your empowerment to become a true believer in that what you are doing is the only thing that counts, and they better count with us.
More next week.

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