Presentation Q2-3
Presented on: Saturday, April 18, 2015
Presented by: Roger Weir
The Future and The New Past
Presentation 16 of 52
Presentation 2-3
Presented by Roger Weir
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Transcript:
Let's come to the 16th presentation in this year of preparation. 2015 prepares for 2016 for sure. And we're looking at a world which has gone unsane. There is hardly any area that one can find that is not push comes to shove for a telephone book of reasons. It's always like this.
In civilization, unlike in nature, there are three kinds of time. A triple time signature. Cultures do not have it. Cultures not only fit into nature, they weave within nature. But civilizations have a metronome that complexifies the dynamic energy of time. And for this, the very simple reason is that time is the first dimension. Dimensionality emerges with time as energy. And because time is then established energetically instantly occurs, and instantly space blossoms out in three dimensions.
So that in civilization the metronome of the triple time form signature is a written language that is conscious. Not simple recording of signs for this or that. Those are the other. But a written language, which we would say is the beginnings of being discursive. And that that occurred about 4350 B.C. and it occurred in at least a pair of places. It occurred in the Mid-East, in the northern part of the Mid-East. And it occurred in Central Asia in the farther west area of Central Asia. Around what is today, Samarkand. And the other occurred around where in Turkey there is an ancient site of cattle **inaudible word**. And, uh, that was already considered to be a city 6500 B.C. but had a cultural tapestry of its organization because cultures can grow to be quite complex actually, but they are not civilization yet until a written language occurs. When that occurs, it establishes what we have been talking about for a number of years.
This is the eighth year since the 2007 conclusion of the Learning Civilization two-year program. And the first year after that was paired phase transforms in which for the first time, time forms of civilization was broken as a critical appreciation of the structure of civilization. Not plural. Civilization is complex enough that it has variants. What is limiting to it is, uh, the space dimensions, and a civilization is usually limited for some while to that body, planet, or a fertile moon where the life forms have matured to having an entity variant that is able to have a culture and then eventually to have some kind of a written language.
One of the peculiar, mysterious, outstanding issues that was ever brought to me to deal with was a series of symbols that were remembered by the son and the grandsons of Jesse Marcel from a part of the UFO wreckage at Roswell, New Mexico, 1947. And those symbols had never been understood. In fact, the extant occurrence of them was highly limited, quite secretive. And yet those symbols, though, they were very advanced. We're discursive and one could, I could, eventually come to read them and to understand.
This quality of a triple time form has an initial reference wave that prepares for the energy to accumulate and reach an apex, a crest, and that crest plunges back into the invisible horizon of the energy of time as a dimension. Because time as a dimension of energy has its movement, its linearity, its forwardness, its integral, like an electric circuit that generates a magnetic field that, in its true complexity, is a double chiral of magnetic fields. But because of the quality of space time in most of the universe, it is right-handed pretty generally, whereas the left-handed is a little esoteric. That right handedness leaves in presentation the thumb on the left in paradox. So that the ancient greeting was the raising of that hand and then discursively the pushing forward of the middle finger slightly. The hand in itself is a quality of presence. The slight moving of the middle finger forward is that of teaching presence. And so there is a quality to the chirality, the magnetic complement, of the electromagnetic energy. And that in its full chiral, it becomes dominant. So that is Magneto Electric. About a billion times the amperage, the oomph of the electromagnetic spectrum.
That reference wave will accumulate and have a carrier wave. Which is the main wave. It's the tsunami of civilized time forms. And it has a direct referencing to that reference wave, which happens to be about 350 years before. So that the first carrier wave in civilization was about 4000 B.C. Was unheard of. Was not even able to be heard of. And participated in, in presence by very, very few people who were literate. Who were able to communicate to those few others so that for the very first time, one began to have a population of community of those realizing and recognizing that something new is happening. To put it in very simple terms, they began to realize that they were different. They were a different species even from what they had been. From what others were. And what distinguished them is that they realized that they were no longer woven into nature alone. That the written language had distinguished them so that they were literally sore thumbs. They were starting to really stand out. And so, Adam and Eve, in that first carrier wave 4000 B.C., could not stay in the Garden of Eden. They weren't thrown out, they matured out. It changes the entire Tander of civilization to understand that.
And then those few that understood, we're like a third wave to that reference wave and that carrier wave that in their energy secret frequency signature looks like that kind of a parallel and one of the ancient hunter wisdom sayings was it is like we go together like hawks hunting. They hunt in pairs, the male and female.
That third wave are pilot waves who do not have an atrophy of their energy. Do not have an atrophy of their time signature. And the first person to understand what a pilot wave was, was one of the geniuses at the beginning of the Quantum era, Louis de Broglie. **inaudible word or two** au français. Who actually he and his brother Maurice, were sons of royalty. They were Princes in France. That area of France that they were from.
And it was 1927 when he first, at one of the Solvay, uh, conferences in Belgium held by Ernst Solvay financing, getting together of all the top physicists and, uh, mathematicians, and that European centered part of the world to have a conference every three years where what is happening? Where are we? What, what have we done? Because they were now standing out like sore thumbs. They were almost a different species. They began to understand, we not only don't belong, we do belong in a deeper nature, but we don't belong in the societies of the world that have manufactured their world. It just isn't true. And here's the math. And now here's the physics. And it was limited to just a few handfuls of people. Handfuls plural. And that's the way that the 20th century began to experience a crisis in civilization that is still ongoing. In fact, is in it's what used to be called death throes.
But what dies is a time form whose time has run out. So that's why there are new iterations of a time form. That's why there are new reference waves. There are new carrier waves. There are new pilot wave persons prismatically coming along. And it is the privilege and responsibility of communities of pilot wave men and women to bring those boys and girls, those babes along so that they can understand that they're going to have to be the shepherds.
The second carrier wave was 2000 B.C., and it was what in World War Two, people used to call a doozy. It dwarfed the 4000 B.C. carrier wave because the accumulation after 2000 years of civilization was really getting sophisticated, but the presence was getting very powerful so that it was more and more difficult. The, it wasn't just that the one stood out like a sore thumb. One started to become quite suspicious to those who hadn't even made the first carrier wave adjustment and now here's another. These people are not only gone, they're far gone.
A pair of men with the women that they lived with, and the feminine wisdom that they began to learn from began to understand that, um, we too, have to move from where we were. One of the first of that pair was, uh, Abraham. He had been born in southern, uh, Mesopotamia. What is today Iraq. In fact, what is today almost, um, in Kuwait. In Ur. It's such an early city just called Ur, **inaudible few words**. Larissa. Guttural because Sumerian was kind of a guttural. It wasn't until you got to Akkadian that you began to get the flow of a beautiful language because the appreciation of the feminine beauty of language by which written and read wisdom could be conveyed, had become apparent. The great carrier of that was Sargon of Akkad, who raised a daughter to be the genius that she was. The first named author in World Civilization history.
The other person. Because Abraham had to follow his father, Terah. They moved from Ur to Harran in what is today southern Turkey. Actually, Turkey is administering it. Its ancient Kurdistan. Near to the great ancient city of the Kurds is Diyarbakir. My best friend in Calgary, Alberta was a Kurd from Diyarbakir and he's the one that did all the work of engineering work to figure out how to get the oil out of the tar sands of Alberta. One guy did that. Another good friend of ours, David Nicholson, was the man who was the head creative person of TransCanada that started building the roads to the Arctic Circle 800 miles every year. When the tundra thaws, the road goes. You have to rebuild it every year. That's what the pipeline is. Keystone. There were literally a pair of men that founded that.
From Harran, Abraham had a deepened vision. Not just the vision of his father, that we have to we have to move from Ur to Harran. But Abraham had a vision that he had to go to a promised land. And just exactly what it was, he didn't know, but he knew that it was that way. And if you go that way in those days from Harran, it is going to the Southwest. The very first place that he felt secure after years. He was 75 when he started out for that, the quest for the Promised Land.
He realized that he and his wife, Sarah, after she had a pair of sons, finally. After ten sons by other women. Sarah's sister Leah, and their handmaidens and a third wife that is only mentioned once in Genesis Keturah, who had four or six sons. Six sons. And then Hagar had Ishmael. When the old Abraham realized that he and Sarah at last, we're going to have to die they needed a burial place. And he was very honored by that time. And he asked to buy a cave. The Cave of Machpelah. And to have that as a barrier in place and that he was going to pay in silver. And he was told, we all by the people of substance who own the lands around it that of course, you can have this. No, I will buy it. I will pay for it. And he and Sarah were buried there. And their son, Isaac, and his wife Rebecca, buried there and so forth. It's still there. It's in what is today called Hebron.
The other person also born about the same time as Abraham. Also, at 75 got a Promised Land vision that had been building all his life. He had moved from that **inaudible word** region of Central Asia. His name was Zarathustra. In ancient Avestan, Zara?utra. Utra is the ancient Akkadian Avestan name for camels. Zara means good at. He was a good with. Good at. It was good with camels. Meaning that his family ran huge caravans. And by that time the beginning of the introduction of the horse was beginning to change everything because camels cannot pull wheeled vehicles very well, but horses can. And so, the invention of taming horses and of chariots was there in that ancient Avestan language area. They were the beginnings of that, and, uh, they were very good at it very early on. They ran caravans all the way that Central Asia went. Even over the Hindu Kush mountains into the Gobi Desert regions beyond.
And their people carried the dynastic superiority into that area of Western China and founded the beginnings of the first dynasty in China. The Chinese always like to call it the Xia, is a ghostly, um, mythic dynasty. Now the first dynasty is the Shang, because that's when we really, we got military might and everything. This Shang inherited, the Xia. And the Xia were famous because they introduced chariots to China and all kinds of Central Asian plants. Like peach trees etc. And they introduced Jade for the first time. One of their roots went through ancient Khotan. Khotan. And, uh, that's where black jade and white jade come from. Black jade is the spinach green jade, and the white chain is a luminescent mutton jade. Really moon like.
But Zarathustra moved from there because he married into, he married a princess. He married into a Royal Kingdom. And their center was in Kabul. Where Kabul is today. And he wrote The Gathas at about age 75. Which is interesting because one has, I made a translation, took about ten years of work, from The Acadian. He wrote it so that there were lines that paired and then paired and then expanded by increments of one.
And by the time of this particular section of the Yasna of the first Gotha, one reads,
then yours is Aramaiti. And Aramaiti was a spirit helper of love. She was the way in which the whole spectrum and varieties of love allowed for a presence, exchange and interchange as love brought beauty into life. His feminine helper. And in fact, there were three feminine helpers and there were three masculine helpers. And these six helping spirits in Avestan they were called Amesha Spenta. They were the, the helpers. And those helpers had a pivotal axial pole where the celestial radiance was feminine, Mazda. And the masculine application of it was like a shepherd, Ahura.
And this is Yasna 31, yasht. They don't call them verses in Avestan. Yasht nine. "Then yours is Aramaiti. Yours world building Hurrad also." Hurrad the spirit of being able to build lives stably and to have that woven into the dynamic so that the very language that one uses has that veracity. That Hurrad. "Yours, world building Hurrad also. Your spirit Mazda Ahura bestowing the given path. Shepherd led where never had any other shepherd gone." To boldly go where no man has gone before 4000 years ago.
And following it 3110, "Between these two, then she by choice seals our shepherd. Ahura as truth. As ever, pure open mind. Never a non-shepherd deceit. Mazda remembers differentials".
That open mind was the subject of a great conference around the challenge of an open world, as essays dedicated to Niels Bohr. And this is the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen University originally, and a bust of Bohr. And it was the follow up conference to the challenge of nuclear armaments. This was 1985 for the centenary of the birth of Niels Bohr. And this was a few years later by 1989. Actually, the conference was held in a year earlier. And Bohr was the shepherd of the open mind being the tuning quality of the way in which life can go now. The way in which love can have its stability now because the closed mind of assumptive worlds had dissolved. Had evaporated permanently. Only for those who were regressive, who wanted to live in the past.
And it became apparent after de Broglie's pilot wave community began to recognize that what they were doing had been done at periods in civilization before them, and that we were facing a new carrier wave. That the reference wave was already there, and time was ticking because the ten-year wave was identified about 1650. The reference wave. And that 1650 reference wave again had a pair. Pair of persons. Were born just before and who matured about the same time after and who developed the mathematization of language to be able to describe the infinitesimal movement from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0, which meant that one could now have an infinitesimal calculus. Sir Isaac Newton and G.W., uh, Leibniz. That one could begin to compute to calculate the laws of the universe.
And Newton's Principia Mathematica is for all time the classic like Zarathusta's Gathas are that second carrier wave classic in writing. Oddly enough, the first really competent, capable English translation, uh, Newton wrote it in Latin. This is 17th century, 1687, he wrote it in Latin. Had to be translated. And most of the translations were inept. They did not understand. The first real translation of Newton was, uh, by Voltaire's Lady, Madame Chatelet in France. That's why French mathematics in her time and right after left into prominence. Almost all the great early mathematical developments come from the French. Fourier, Lagrange and on and on. We still use that math.
The first really competent, capable English translation was made by a man and a woman. I.B. Cohen was the founder of the History of Science Department at Harvard. And his lady friend who helped make the translation really elegant. That was 1999. It wasn't until the dawn of the 21st century that we could read Newton in English with a capability of a differential consciousness and a kaleidoscopic consciousness that showed us we have already had the carrier wave. It's unmistakable. You can't miss it. The crest of a tsunami leaves a distinctive signature, and that signature generally is a rim of wreckage.
Let's take a break and then we'll come back.
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Let's come back. Let's come back to a series of waves. If you've ever experienced a tsunami, you know that it comes in various waves. And it's about the fifth wave that packs the oomph. The big Alaskan earthquake in 1964 created a minor tsunami, so called. And in San Francisco, we stood up on the bluffs, Sutter's bluffs over the great highway playland at the beach and watched the first waves come in. Spaced about 20 some minutes or so. And they were big waves. But when the tsunami itself reached its accumulated crest, it washed over the entire beach. It washed over the Great Highway. It sloshed into playland at the beach and, uh, was on its way inland. And it was apparent this is the whole coast from Alaska on down to Mexico experiencing just what we were seeing. And there are tsunamis that inundate whole areas. Devastatingly so. Time forms are that way.
A carrier wave accumulates all of the potential that is there in a reference wave into its actualization. It is the very pulse of something which is the end of the old, the beginning of the new in a continuity. The first carrier wave. The second carrier wave. The third carrier wave. Hit a large swath of civilization. It hit from India all the way to across what is today, the Mid East and North Africa, all the way to the Gibraltar Straits. That third carrier wave had a focus in Egypt, in Alexandria with epicenter. And bears a date which when can rightfully characterize as 0 B.C. Time ran out.
What is mysterious is that with our fourth carrier wave there's almost no comprehension whatsoever about civilization. Almost nothing.
One of the peculiarities about this time forms of civilization, though it's a 2000-year period because it is an energy frequency. Because it has that S-wave signature. The reference wave has that as well. The midpoint is a pivot. And the mid-point, the pivot for both a carrier wave and a reference wave are their millennia. Their thousand years. The proverbial thousand years. It's everywhere in civilization. The two greatest poets in the Tang Dynasty, Li Po and Du Fu, living at a time of the 650 A.D. millennia of a carrier wave that began in 350 B.C. and peaked then in the carrier wave millennium of 1000 A.D. That's 650 A.D. reference wave was the apex of the power of the Tang Dynasty, and the two greatest poets Du Fu and Li Po were together, along with almost everyone else, completely swept up in the wreckage that came with that carrier wave that took a while to work its way. And when it did, it was devastating to China.
China's population in the Tang Dynasty was about 50-51 million people. One third of the population was killed within a few years. It was a massacre, a butchering on a scale that is almost never been seen. It has a curious, scholarly, polite designation, the An Lushan rebellion. And the two greatest poets were seized and exiled. Their lives were spared, but they were exiled, which is what dynastic power usually does when it changes hands. At least there's a little recognition that, well, we'll save them, but we're going to just pocket them someplace where they cannot have any influence ever again. Li Po was banished to the southern limits and beyond of the Tang Dynasty, down into what is today actually still part of China, around Kunming in Yunnan. And Du Fu banished to the farthest north and to those regions that today are Manchuria, named for the Manchu the last dynasty, the Chen where the Manchu is. Anyway, it's up around where Shenyang is now.
And Du Fu had two of the greatest poems. They both have the same title. Meng libel (sp?). Meng, Meng is a dream or dreaming of Li Po. And one of them poignantly says,
You who have 1000-year name treated like refuse to be carted away and thrown away. I saw you in my dream. And the sudden waking in the middle of the night, seeing the moonlight reflected from some water outside on the rafters of my exile's hut. I wondered if you are seeing the same moonlight wherever it is that you are.
It is a quality of immense poignancy. It can be pathos, tragically, but it can be a determination in a very high dharma way. And the ancient Sanskrit word for that is v?rya, virile. A phrase from Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage. Rage against the dying of the light."
One of the most powerful books by Norman Cohn. Norman Cohn burst upon the academic world with a blockbuster in the early 1950's, 52-53. It was called In Pursuit of the Millennium, where he was the first one to really take the bull by the horns and ride it until it was tamed. And In Pursuit of the Millennium written about the time that the intensity of the Korean War had become almost a nightmare. Not just a war between North and South Korea. Not just a war between the Communists and the Republic. But because China had entered into the scene with unlimited soldiers, unlimited. More than a million were sent. And behind them were countless other millions.
One of the classic films of the Korean War is called All the Young Men. It pairs two actors. One who is the heroic star in Hollywood who had played tremendous roles and was about to play his leading heroic role in Shane. And this film was just at the time when that was going to mature. It was Alan Ladd, who is the old World War Two sergeant, trustworthy, brave. The men respect him. And the platoon leader of this platoon that gets caught. The leader has been killed. They've been cut off by the surging of these infiltrating troops. And they're trying to get through this narrow valley to get out, to get back to lines that are somewhat secure. And they discover that this monastery still has the few women and the few children in it, and they have to pause to take them out. One man makes it possible for them to pause and do this. And that is the other actor, the young actor coming in. His name was Sidney Poitier. It's his first really great starring movie. It wasn't about black and white. It's about the courage of life in the face of the duty to survive. We survive to win, whereas that duty is dwarfed by the humanity, it is only worth living if we are human. Our humaneness. And the bone of contention there is that it was Sidney Poitier that was appointed by the dying lieutenant to be in charge of the platoon, not the old Alan Ladd. There's a poignant film. Starring an all-star cast of people. The great comedian Mort Sahl is one of the soldiers still cracking Mort Sahl jokes for a while in the film. Ingmar Johansson, the boxing champion of the world from Sweden, another one of the soldiers and so forth and so forth. An incredible film.
Norman Cohen's Pursuit of the Millennium came out exactly at that time, making it clear that millennia are catastrophic if they are teamed with the reference wave millennia. A carrier wave millennia being understood as having all of that tsunami amperage because their reference wave is the reference wave millennia. So that, yeah, there's going to be a carrier wave millennium in 1000 A.D. there was a reference wave millennium in 650 A.D. It shook the Tang Dynasty, China's greatest dynasty, leaving still the imprint that's there now in dynastic China. It's not communist China. It's not red China. It's Chinese China. Because the Tang extended itself all the way across the Gobi Desert into the Hindu Kush Mountains. And all the way south through Indochina and established what is still called the South China Sea. It's theirs. At the very same time, Islam is founded by Muhammad. The very same time one finds in India a dynastic change that signaled to almost the incredible nightmare realization that everything is on shaky ground here and huge changes are coming, which they did.
Everywhere that one looks in the world. The pinnacle of Mayan civilization hit a brick wall. They were villagers ever since. The Highland Mayans still dream ancient Mayan dreams. There have been books written on it. A friend of mine, a filmmaker from Chile, Rolando Klein, made a film called Chac, c-h-a-c. Chac the rain God, not the Aztec rain God, the Mayan God. That you need to bring rain to nourish the land. And when there's a drought, this sometimes takes a great sacrifice. It takes a shaman. And Rolando's Chac was not allowed to be shown in the United States because it was really it was devastating. So, I showed it at the Philosophic Research Society. Brought Rolando, and he brought one of the star Mayans who came dressed in a suit. And there you could see his features. And his features had the traces of not only the Indians of the ancient Americas, but Chinese features. Because there had been Chinese sailing adventurers in the four hundreds A.D. all the way down the California coast. All the way down the Central American coast. Into Mayan territory. Why do you think there are these Chinese type pyramids there? They're not Egyptian pyramids. They're Chinese. A Chinese anchor was found in San Diego Bay that was made in the area of China that's not far from Fujian. An old book, more than 100 years old, is published on it. I have a copy. Hardly anybody has ever heard of it because things are erased, because they are not known and don't need to be known, don't want to be known. And all of those have a confluence together.
Norman Cohn lived to be 93. And he followed it up finally in 1993, 40 years after, In Pursuit of the Millennium. Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith. That was about the millennium of a reference wave though he didn't know at the time. No one did. This is about the millennium that is really a carrier wave.
If one looks at 0 B.C. back 2000 years, one comes indeed back to 2000 B.C. And yes, you can prorate that and go back to 4000 B.C. as we were saying at the beginning. And if you look forward, it comes to 2000 A.D. It's not quite exact. It's about nine years after. It's nine years before, actually. To be precise. And we can now we can be precise. We can because we have an analytic. Without which we are not going to be able to master the reference wave. The digitizing of written language. The mathematization of written linguistic expression. Yes, anyone a schoolchild can write E equals MC squared. What does it mean? Oh, yeah. Energy is mass times, the speed of light squared. Squared? Mass? Light speed? Well, yeah, sure. It's acceleration. It has to be accelerating. That's why it's dynamic. Oh, dynamics. You mean like hydro dynamics and neuronal dynamics? Yeah. It's a time energy indexing. It's the dimension that emerges first. Here. There. Everywhere. But especially in attenuated when there is a pause that can refresh, but it can also be a last gulp. And this is one of the qualities that comes out.
And one of the difficulties that Cohen found, the response to Cosmos Chaos and the World to Come impelled him finally to do a second edition, and he had to add to it. He said the critiques have mounted up that I've, like, shortchanged everybody and. "It has often been objective and continues to be objective right down to the present day." This edition is 2001. 2001. It came out just before 9/11. It's the date of the Space Odyssey 2001. "That in antiquity Jews cannot have known much about Zoroastrianism as the Avesta was not written down before the sixth century A.D.", etc., etc., etc.
None of them have ever translated Zarathustra's Gathas into a 21st century English Poetic because Zarathustra, Zarathustra is really one of the world's great poets. My level of **inaudible word or two**.
Before Norman Cohen one of the great experts on Zarathustra was Laurence H. Mills. Mills College in Oakland is named after. I once rented a little cottage on the other side of the freeway. It leads up to the Warren Freeway. And Mills is on one side. You can go in an underpass, and you would come up to my little cottage. Where once I entertained my Chinese major mentor, Kyushu, and his wife, who was French, and the San Francisco Council of India and Raghunath brought his wife to. And I was there with my wife at the time. Three different cultures talking together on very high Dharma.
This is 1906, published by the Open Court Publishing in Chicago, Zarathustra, and the Greeks: A Discourse on the Relation Existing between the Ameshaspentas and the Logos of the Greek Philosophical Writers. For the most part, delivered as university lectures. Part one Zarathustra Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel.
Two different ways of looking not at a blackbird, but at something which is almost unbelievable is the ignorance that passes as not opinion, but as scholarship, is unbelievable. Vacuous is a polite term. To not understand who we are ensemble. Where we have come from. Where we are going. The continuity of time as a dynamic and all that that is really cosmic. It authors the universe, in the sense of emergence. Without time you have exactly, precisely nothing. You can get there from here.
One of the most profound conferences was held by Steven C. Rockefeller and Daniel S. Lopez Junior. It was called The Christ and the Bodhisattva. Held in 1985. Held at a little college, Middlebury College. About 7000 people in the North central part of Vermont. Rockefeller, a fourth generation Rockefeller son. Second eldest son of Nelson Rockefeller, who refused to be a Rockefeller. Became small town college professor. Very, very, very capable. And, um, he eventually published in 1991 a 700-page biography with all the details of John Dewey, for instance. Because the big city by Middlebury is Burlington, which is where John Dewey was born and grew up, he also lived to be 93 and lived into 1952. He was born before the Civil War. Understood almost everything that was going on. Understood Chicago very well, very early on. At the University of Chicago.
He and one of his daughters, Evelyn Dewey, when she was brilliant, early twenties. In 1902, they published Schools of Tomorrow. And it was about the founding in Chicago of what then became the fertile seed of progressive education. You have to assume that boys and girls coming in are not coming in as blank tablets. They have an incredible inheritance that only needs nourishment, which includes love. It includes community. It includes real learning. And part of the tabs of beginnings of that were in experiments in Europe. Like Pestalozzi and many others. Pestalozzi founded, he said, we need a, we need a beginning year of transition mother play for the children to move from the home to the school. And we're going to not call this a grade. We're going to call this kindergarten.
And at the time that Dewey was there, one of the most powerful architectural compositional seer voices was Louis Sullivan. His
he was the mentor for Frank Lloyd Wright. And Louis Sullivan wrote a series of talks that he gave all over Chicago and Saint Louis and many other places. And it's a collective title with Kindergarten Chats. We are all in a kindergarten when it comes to learning the great arts in a really great way. We, we, we have to move from where we thought we were at home to the school of learning to where we really mature.
At the same time, the open court publishing was doing these kinds of things, DT Suzuki he had been brought from Japan and employed as a translator for that whole school. And his first translation was to make a translation from the Chinese to the English vocabulary of the Tao Te Ching. And then it was translated into English from that. But if you read DT Suzuki's way of making the translation that each Chinese character is a word in all of its protein-ness. So that when you look at a poem of Du Fu's in Chinese at the epitome of Tang Mandarin Chinese poesies, he has five characters making a line. He has eight lines. He has a 40-character matrix. And if you're able to widen your poetic so that you envision the matrix as a seething dynamic, not a whole, but a differential prism. Every great poem is prismatic. It's a lens by which one can see at any time, any place. That it isn't past, present, and future at all. That's the continuity. That the tensegrity. That structural word that Buckminster Fuller brought into play with geodesics like domes.
I made translations of **inaudible word or two**, both the pair of them from Du Fu's Chinese into English. And I used that same technique when it came to Zarathustra. To The Gathas. Taking every Avesta word, arranging them into the matrices which are always there, and putting the prismatic visioning of the lensing into a scintillating dynamic play and carried it all the way through. Not so that one had a consistency, so that one had a harmonic. Each Yasna, like each poem, has its yasht, its lines arranged so that they increase into a poignancy that deepens. So that the very first the thousands involved will have six lines, six yashts for each section, for each wedge.
But by the time you get to the fourth Gatha in its intensity one has taken this beginning and has condensed it so that it now has almost like a pair of triads functioning as a hexagram, a hexagon, a honeycomb, etc. Snowflake. Because the stability of a hexagonic form is geodesic throughout the universe. In its maintenance of a freshness of variation because of a differential continuity that is infinite. Never will you find two snowflakes alike. Whether it's snowing on Earth or on Saturn's moons. Or wherever you find snowflakes in the universe. They are all different. They're all hexagonal, no doubt. And the first mathematician to understand that was Johann Kepler. He wrote a monograph on the snowflake. He's the one who did the math because he had the evidence in the prismatic quality, the matrix, and he understood the planets orbits are not circles at all. They're ellipses. And because they're elliptical, there is a very interesting kind of cosmic munic
music. It's not at all a target of integrals. It's a differential dance that's almost free form.
We're going to come back because the Christ and the bodhisattva that was presented had three geniuses of the Bodhisattva tradition and three of the Jesus tradition and brought together as six. Among those in the Buddhist tradition, one was Robert A.F. Thurman. One was the Dalai Lama. And one was a friend of Lopez's, Luis Gomez from University of California.
What became apparent in this was that there was something further, like Niels Bohr's great conference celebrating his The Challenge of Nuclear Armaments in 1985 and then coming later in 1989, of the challenge of the open world is The Open Mind. Because for a human being to have an open mind makes them a potential danger to every power structure there is. Because there are no handles on them. You can't bribe them. You can't threaten them. They seem to survive when there's nothing whatsoever.
And Steven C. Rockefeller finally at age 40, went up to Rochester, New York. He was a trustee at the Zen Center up there. And he learned that maybe he'd better get to zero so that he can find his infinitesimal way back to one. And then return back to that zero comfortably. Because you're not dead, nor are you trapped. And you're better than whole.
More next week.
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