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The Future and The New Past Presentation 20 of 52 Presentation 2-7 Presented by Roger Weir Saturday, May 16, 2015 Transcript: Let's come to the 20th presentation in this year of preparation, 2015. We're looking at the way in which the larger context of what we are living and living in is a civilization. And that the civilization is a flowering of a fruit, which goes back about 40,000 years. The blossom of which goes back about 200,000 years. And the stem goes back several millions of years, probably seven or 8 million years to a ground rhizome of primates that goes back about 30-40 million years. So that our species about 200,000 years ago came into play in a set of kindred species, and all of them are designated now critically named as hominids. And that this genus of hominids had several varieties. There was a very early Homo habilis, a primate ape, great ape, like chimpanzees or gorillas or orangutans. But one that had learned through a number of transforms that took a couple of million years, about 3 million years to affect. And the hominids had early on learned to utilize tools to extend their expressive influence and eventual shaping and eventually control of their environment, of their relationship to food, to clustering together, to maintaining that, to mating, to developing. And in that hominid early genus, the species of Homo sapiens became wise about being hominids. And almost imperceptibly for about 100-120,000 years they were not particularly distinguishable from other hominids. And in fact, there was a hominid branch, if you like, the Neanderthals, homo Neanderthals, who really were leading the way into a very different scale of brain development and physical robustness. But the Homo sapiens about 70-80,000 years ago began to be more efficient and more developmental to tools, to their environment, to each other, to rearing. And about 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had a refinement of species. And the refinement generally, for want of a better term, simply repeats species of sapiens, Homo sapiens, and you make it Homo sapiens sapiens. So that this refinement was a refinement that we now here for some years have not been identifying but been expressing and presenting as a field of consciousness. A field of consciousness which is pulling a dream world through a symbolic pattern of understanding of integration. So that the dream world becomes through that passage, a visionary dimension. So that the experience, which includes dreams, even animals dream. It's probable that plants dream as well. Having learned to meditate with sequoia trees at 19, I can tell you, you can get into a very deep, broad samadhi with the monks of the Sierra Nevada in their hundreds of foot tall forest. It was in that vision capacity that then became able to extend the creative imagining and the remembering so that they developed what we know recognizes art. And the art from the beginnings of its emergence some 40,000 years ago began to organize itself into complex patterns that followed a ritual comportment of getting things done. And this was a getting things done to be more at home in vision through the patterning of art, which began then to take a wider scope than the patterns of experience. Even with the dreaming that were brought together by a symbolic structure of thought, and it is that art that then had a recursive quality of transforming. Of transforming through the more acclimated, homey, visionary excess scope to refine the symbols and thus to re-integrate, re-integral is a better term experience, including dreams. That there were ways then to take one's self-consciously into situations where the visionary maturity of what would have been a dreaming became accessible because of the interface of a symbolic structure of thought in its integral accepted this new dimension of vision as well as the new dimension of art. And out of this emerged what we can now, and I have for some time. And it's been used for about 350 years, call differential as distinct from integral. Just like the development 350 years ago of calculus, the infinitesimal calculus, can have integral equations. And it can have many more differential equations, even partial differential equations. And something like this is a little difficult to come upon if you're used to being thinking in an integral only cycle. And to think that that completeness of that cycle then is a maturation. It is a maturation that was there before 40,000 years ago, but not since. To illustrate differential, I'm taking a peek into an article that appeared in The Astrophysical Journal. This is the world standard of astronomy, physics, chemistry brought together in astrophysics on a level of scientific acumen that is extremely refined by now. This actually is from Volume 200 of The Astrophysical Journal, and it comes out every two weeks worldwide. So that you have two parts to a volume. There's a second volume I didn't bring it today matching the same size, Volume 200 part two. When it was first founded The Astrophysical Journal was founded in Chicago, and it's still published by University of Chicago Press. And the founder was a young technical genius, George Ellery Hale, whose family house, and yard were had their backyard contiguous to the grounds of the University of Chicago. And his father was concerned with the teaching. And George Ellery Hale was literally raised in the backyard of the University of Chicago. He became interested in telescopes and thus astronomy. In the 1890's, he became interested in seeing that there must be a way not just to look at light, especially starlight. At that time, one didn't know about galaxies yet. That was left for Hubble in another generation or so. But his genius saw that there must be a way to use a differential analytic of starlight, which then would apply also to our star, which is our Sun. The popular name for it has been settled as soul, so that our star system is called the Solar System. Any other star will have its name or number as that system. The Sirius system. The centauri system, etc. So, he wanted to develop an instrument of taking the light from the Sun. The ancient Greek word for a name for the Sun is not soul but Helios. And he wanted to be able to do an analytic on the sunlight that was a huge advance from the analytic that Newton had applied to sunlight. And Newton had used a prism in the late 1600's in a darkened room with just a narrow little slit that led a beam, literally, of sunlight through into the crystal and what would be reflected on the wall would be the rainbow. So that the color spectrum of sunlight, of starlight, was available to meld his Newton's interest in optics with his interest in mathematics. And out of that came the Principia Mathematica, which is how that calculus was born in a very major way. George Elroy Hale saw that there must be a way to refine. That one doesn't just get a spectrum of colors, but one can get a spectrum of elements. Because if you have a technology that has a piece of equipment that is able to take sunlight, starlight, and make a very large spectrum of all of the aspects of that light and all of its fullness, not just visible light, its colors. And so, he made the world's first handmade Helios spectrograph. He had it engineered in Germany because that was the only place that sophisticated, refined engineering could produce a piece of equipment that that refined that early on. And in order to facilitate what was done with the resulting astrophysics totally advanced from astronomy. A complete refinement of physics. A lifting up of chemistry from atomic to molecular to a spectrographic analytic. All of this was available, and the founding of The Astrophysical Journal was out of that milieu. In Volume 200, which is celebratory. Volume 100 was one big, huge volume. I have a copy of that as well. And the first five volumes of Astrophysical Journal are reprinted. And you can find copies of their reprints for under $30, something that. The third article in The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 200 August 15th, 1975, about 40 years ago. The third article is Differential Interstellar Polarization in the region of 6284 Angstroms four-star HD 183143. And it is a article which I have reprinted, the three pages I've given you the table of contents and cover of Astrophysical Journal. If you get the presentation notes. And three pages, the first, the middle and the fifth last page of the article. And this is the telling sentence in the article. Its lead up is, "a piece of high-quality Polaroid mounted between two optical flats were used as the analyzer". So, a differential has a pair. It has a symmetry that is able to show not just a difference, but the full scope of the vision of what that difference is showing consciously about the whole integral cycle of nature into the dimension of vision and refining it by the art of technology. The Greek word for art is technê. Technology is not mechanical it's an art form as well. "It was placed in the telescope beam immediately before the first coup de flat mirror," takes a couple of mirrors also in the telescope. Pairing and symmetries are essential to understand the analytic of the universe, but especially to begin to consciously comprehend the dimensions of a cosmos and thus approach for the very first time a field of the real. The position eliminated the deep polarizing effect of the train of coup de mirrors. The combined coup de mirror system transmission is strongly polarization sensitive, and this is a function of both declination and our angle. And these are two vectors, the declor...declination up in the sky, night sky and the hours of the night of, of the wedges in the analytic. Consequently, and this is it no useful absolute polarization measurement can be made with the system. Only differential variations of the type discussed here can be attempted. And so, you gain by a differential ecology of consciousness further dimensions, which give us not only a visionary access to a field of differential consciousness, but the prismatic refinement of the persons who are able to not only access this field, but each other in communities. In groups. In families, if you like. In pairs, if you like. And what comes out of that is a dimension of history that prepares the kaleidoscopic understanding that allows for science to emerge. A theory, from the Greek theoria, is a contemplative access to vision developed through the prismatic persons or person who is able to bring this fifth dimension into play, into the four dimensions of the integral cycle, and to generate from that either by themselves, not individually, not by themselves, but prismatically through their person. And that those permitted prismatic persons because they share a lot of extra facets to their prismatic personality form superior groups. Superior in the sense that they understand in more variety and differential possibility and depth and expansion of dimensions that working together in groups, at least in pairs, gives you more of an interesting differential spectrum of appreciation and understanding. So that contemporary articles in international planetary science journals like Nature or Science or Icarus, The Journal of Solar System Studies, will have many persons listed as quote authors of this not article but of a letter to the publication, to the journal of research. And it's not unusual to have 20 or 30 people scattered around the world, men and women, who have been working together in a research group. And in the 21st century this is the norm of not Homo sapiens sapiens, but Homo sapiens stellaris. Who have refined yet again because they have added science like art was added 40,000 years ago. They have added science as an expected maturation, not just possibility, but actuality to the functioning of the species. Stellar because its star wisdom literally that one is able to see the beauty of the stars and also the analytic of exactly what the stars are by their light in whatever clusters occur, including now not just a universe, but a cosmos. That is very large-scale structures. One are the largest scale structures that we have currently is more than a billion light years in diameter. It's given the Hawaiian name Laniakea because of and it's a pair of clusters of clusters of galaxies. And discovered by the twin Keck telescopes, ten-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. This quality of a sudden appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens and the sudden, relatively very sudden appearance of Homo sapiens stellaris is now understood to be a most salient aspect of the refined refinement of evolution. And its name is, in theory, the theory of punctuated equilibrium. And the trio of discoverers of punctuated equilibria going back to the 1970's. Two men and a woman, Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge and Elisabeth Vrba, originally from South Africa. And it is something that forms a chapter and a just 2015 released a book. Gould is, has passed on a number of years ago. A commemorative issue of one of the great journals called Macro Evolution was published about 30 years ago. Edited by Niles Eldridge and Elisabeth Vrba, to appreciate their, they used to call themselves The Three Musketeers. The passing of Stephen Jay Gould. And when he passed, he had already finished a 1500-page new theory of evolution published by Harvard. I'll bring a copy next week. Eldridge's 2015 book just released Eternal Ephemera sub entitled Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the 19th Century through Punctuated Equilibrium and Beyond. And what is brought to bear? Eldridge has done about 2530 books, increasingly wider and wider in scope. Able to invite readers to mature with him, with them, with the discovery that evolution is not just Darwinian, especially not reduced to survival of the fittest, but that there is a complexity, very much like the complexity of DNA in its double helix paired again. But there are ways in which a creative imagining is spontaneous in those structures, no matter how extended they are in their traditional passing on of the encoding of the information of the data, something spontaneous is always at play, multiply. And comes into registry very, very quickly in terms of time. Which by this time one goes even beyond primates or even vertebrates which are about 500 million years old into geology, which is billions of years old just in this star system. And there are star systems that are more than 13 billion years old. That astro geology shows that there are, in punctuated equilibria, those punctuated moments of penetration of a spontaneous creative development that is, we used to use the term seminal. That once it takes not just root, but root that develops seed, that can stem blossom and flower and not just recycle, but in a helical way expand. Refine. That a refinement of species is deeply related to the ability to deal with an expanded geography, an expanded environment. And by the time one species gets to be a Homo sapiens stellaris, no matter where in the cosmos, they are aware that the environment is really the cosmos. And that it is more vast than what could be comprehended as vast. We're going to take a little break and then come back. The most vast net encoded that we currently in the early 21st century are working with is the brain. So, a fifth page is added in the notes from an article that appeared in The New Yorker Lighting the Brain. It's about the development of the technology and the technique to be able to follow the complex webs of neural webs by following the neural energy in all of its complexity. And increasingly, neuroscientists believe that the key to understanding how the brain works lies in its overall neural circuitry. And the way that widely separated brain regions communicate through the long-range projects of nerve fibers. In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain. And it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that this inventor Deisseroth innovations promise to be especially helpful. They have helped reveal how little we know about the brain, what a certain researcher coach calls by far the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe. Each generation of neuroscientists turns out more complexity, more hidden layers. Deisseroth told me that he is no closer to understanding the greater mystery of the mind. How a poem or a piece of music can elicit emotions from a mass of neurons and circuits suspended in fats and water. those are all incredibly important questions, he said. It's just too early to ask them. We're looking at going beyond questions that assume that answers are a response to a challenge. That's a polarization. Let's take a little break and we'll come back to a non-polarized presentation. END OF SIDE ONE Let's come back to our second half. And by having two halves, we have a pair that form a continuity with the break. Not a break, but an interface to allow for the first half to have an accumulation time. A respite to let it have its spontaneous distribution of relationalities. And then to re-emerge not just as a second half, but as the other aspect of a pair. It can be initially like a parenthesis, which is parenthetical then. The presentation is parenthetical to your general life. But as you accumulate the parentheses, it becomes an access corridor that shows that they're not all the same, but that they continuously open up. And the more that there's an accumulated penetration, there comes a, not a point but a threshold, where a punctuated equilibria occurs. And this can be done not just in a species over millennia, tens of millennia, millions of millennia, but for a really refined prismatic person species. Not only with the creativity of their art of emergence, but the science emerging from the history of their remembering all of this. So that the beautiful aesthetic has a pair with a resplendent analytic. And rather than being reductive and dry, it is opening and full of possibility increasingly. The phrase used in the science fiction vision early on was all possible worlds. One of the first really emergent anthologies of selected excellent science fiction stories came out in 1946. And that science fiction collection was followed at periods of about every couple of three years. And one of the early collections was All Possible Worlds. One of the possible worlds that now a differential conscious visioning dimension, quintessential to put a thumb to the hand of the four-dimension fingers of the universe now begins to have a cosmic presentational creativeness and remembering-ness. There are thresholds then and really refined structures like civilization, which has not only a field quintessentially of vision, giving emergence to the maturity of a sixth dimensional person, a jewel person, with the ability to have more and more facets and become a scintillating jewel indeed. A jewel person. Whose scalers of history then becomes multiple, complex, and kaleidoscopic eventually. Out of which comes science as the pair to art. Like history is the pair to vision. Like the whole ecology of consciousness is a pair to the integral nature cycle. One of the great thresholds came about 2350 B.C. So poignant that it is one of the great classic early reference wave thresholds. And it seems that about every 1000 years there is a threshold. But every pair of 1000 years there's a significant threshold that is outstanding in the sense that it opens the punctuated equilibrium in civilization. So that now there are any number of better refined, more faceted prismatic persons. More complex groups and communities and families. And being at home in a real cosmos, and not just a world of geology and of tribal kingdoms, of political economy nations or corporations. But to open out truly so that one's backyard home sense becomes the whole star system. And beyond that yard is the interstellar space that is, for the meantime, filled enough to play. In 2350 B.C. was the first time that there was the beginnings of the development of a civilization capacity to link scores and scores of kingdom venues and different languages and different human populations. So that you had a spectrum that was a very large swath of the populated reach of civilization at that time. And one of the swaths was developed by Sargon of Akkad, who founded the Akkad reach of the transform of the Sumerian league of cities. There were 42 that were each had their own temple and their own temple hierarchy, their own God versions. And this then was a Sumeria that was like a patchwork of kingdoms together with several areas that were really stronger than others. And one of the really strong areas was Uruk. U-r-u-k. And Uruk had even the beginnings of its epic of how it became so powerful through a hero named Gilgamesh. But when Akkad through Sargon, opened up a new scalar, having himself crossed a threshold where he was not so much someone who had an identification with a Gilgamesh masculine hero, building a really strong, powerful empire of this kingdom rules all. His influence was the feminine wisdom. And for him, it was not Gilgamesh, but Inanna, who was related to the way in which the Earth wisdom was consonant with the moon. The wisdom of the moon. Of the phases of the moon that were there every month, 12 times a year through all of the four seasons. And that this was a wider scale. It was not just the sun's year of an annual, but it was the set of the moon's phases in its lunar cycle 12 times a year. And so, the twelves became a lunar cycle to go with the annual cycle of the sun. And Sargon, when he had a trio of children, two boys who eventually became inheritors of his position as the chief architect, as it were, for the Akkadian not empire so much, but its stretch of trade which extended from the island of Cyprus and the western Mediterranean all the way to the Indus River Basin in India. 4400 years ago. Already it began. He also had a daughter, and his daughter was a natural genius. The sons became very powerful in their own right. In Sargon masculine versions, but the daughter and a feminine version became the greatest writer in the world up until that time. And one of the greatest writers still. Her name was Enheduanna. The cognate there is Anna. In is the end priestess, the Holy Head Priestess. Not in Uruk but in Ur. And it was in Ur that the Akkadian visionary religious spiritual field of differential consciousness attained the high art through Enheduanna of being able to write artistically The Mythic Cycle of Inanna. And she also at the same time paired it with a set of 42 Temple Hymns. A hymn for each of the 42 temples of the 42 cities of the Sumerian Empire reach. So that she transformed an empire into a set of poetic that was related to a cycle of the mythic that was able to go into the visionary. And this feminine wisdom of being able to take experience of nature and bring it into the same parenthesis as the high poetic of restructuring what an empire is into a literature by a set of hymns. At the very same time that this was happening the development of hieroglyphs in Egypt that had been developing at a very high level from a beginning, about 3000 B.C. By 2350 B.C., the hieroglyphics had become refined enough that they were able to be brought into conjunction like an Enheduanna's Temple Hymns. With that structure of the way in which an empire is reliant upon the shapes, the symbolic shapes of integral. And by that time, the strongest symbolic, symbolic shapes of integrals in Egypt were the pyramids. The very first pyramid was built at the very beginning of the third dynasty, shifting to the fourth dynasty. And the architect for that was Imhotep. And the Pharaoh's name was Djoser. And Djoser had Imhotep who had been the head physician of his court, of himself, of his family. But Imhotep was the universal genius, and he was also a very great architect. His acquaintance with the shaping of all of the various aspects of medicine into an art of medicine. He became the archetype that eventually became the Greek God of medicine, Asclepius. Imhotep was a black African, by the way. As was so Djoser. He built not just a tomb structure called a mastaba, like a big bench of construction within which there was a tomb for the reigning King or Pharaoh. But he mounted six of these mastabas on top of each other, smaller and smaller, and made the beginning of that shape. And what held its stacking was a tensegrity structure that went through not the mud brick Mastaba structure, but because he was the inventor, the developer of the way to hew stone and build with stone. In Mason terms, it's called dressing stone. You can build a perfect cube out of stone. You can build rectangular, three dimensional. And you can build, and you can build very solidly. Dressed stone is very strong. And if built in such a way that there is a tensegrity, the pressure distributes itself equally to the entire shape if the shape has a tensegrity archetypal volume. And the pyramid becomes the architectural tensegrity volume of the triangle, but it can be expanded to be a pyramid also, of a square. And this way Imhotep built not just the step pyramid, but the beginning of the architecture of all pyramids. Which eventually, in the fifth dynasty became immense structures like the three Great Pyramids at Giza. Whereas the original pyramids by Imhotep for Djoser were south of Giza at a very beautiful high ridge over the Nile Green Valley. And its name for that whole ridge is Saqqara. S-a-q-q-a-r-a. And Saqqara was an ancient site where even at the beginnings of dynastic Egypt, though its center was all the way down and Abydos. Abydos is many hundreds of miles down the Nile. When it came time for many of them to be buried, they chose to have their mastabas built along the edge of the ridge in view, not only just of the Nile, Green Nile Valley, but just before it reached. And in the distance, one could see that the Nile there began to branch out and form the Delta. And the Delta had more airable land, livable land, probably equal to all of the banks of the Nile for its entire concourse going all the way back to its origins. The White Nile's origin is Lake Victoria. And the Blue Nile in the mountains of Ethiopia. And so, the Nile Delta became a real sense, the development of the Nile, in the sense that it was like the spinal column of a human being opening up at the medulla into the brain. And so, Saqqara was a front row seat of being able to say for the first time that this is saying that this is a shape of our kind, in our species in the world related to a underworld, another world, that has a threshold of coming back and recycling into this world every day. Like the night giving way to the day. And that that is related also to the starry constellations above us. And so that the stars in an overworld the night or the post life supposedly death, Underworld, netherworld. And another world as being like a reference key to the way in which the world of the horizon was able to recycle itself and come back naturally in a more advanced way of living with a directiveness that is like stellar stars of a pilot wave of star influences. And the first star that was chosen as significant in that new way was the star, we call it the Star Sirius. It's a blue-white giant, about eight light years away. It's actually a binary star. It's a white dwarf companion. The rising of Sirius over the flat horizon of Egypt when it rises, it's a sign that the Nile is going to flood and bring the front defying waters back with all of a suddel...sediment in the sediment refreshing the soil and so forth. So that this pilot wave of Sirius as a messenger from the stars to let us know that this cycle of rebirth extends to life itself. Imhotep designed a master step pyramid for Djoser so that he would have this stable first-time hewn stone temple that would be able to focus the energies of presence from the stars, from the netherworld, from the horizon of this world into that shape. And that pyramid shape then was for the first time matched with hieroglyphs that were put inside the pyramid for the very first time. It was a smaller pyramid than those step pyramid. It's built on the northwest corner. It was the pyramid, it used to be called the pyramid of Unas. And now the pronunciation of the hieroglyphs, his name are pronounced Wenis. And at 2350 B.C., the pyramid of Unas was finished, lined with hieroglyphs through its whole interior structure. So that the holy written language of wisdom of Egypt was engraved in its cycle, in its pattern of rebirth and re-emergence according to the star pilot wave messages and the netherworld entering through and passing through the 12 gates of the netherworld. So that one could then emerge from the 12th and rise with the Aurora Dawn, with Ra, Ray, the Sun. And his daily ambit in tune with the wisdom of the feminine wisdom of the Earth, taking the phases and cycles of the moon like a monthly period of femininity in the very nature of being feminine. And that this was a wisdom of rebirth that was cosmic. All of this is refined in the last of a series of six books published, as we showed last week by Princeton University Press Bollingen Series 40 Part five, The Pyramid of Unas Text with Translation and Commentary. Alexandre Piankoff but his pair in this was a woman. Natacha Rambova turns out to be the name that she is remembered by and functions with. And the two of them together had done a number of the volumes in the series of the Egyptian Religious Texts and Representation. Two of the very powerful ones were Volume one, The Tomb of Ramses the Sixth in two big parts. I'll bring a set next week. And it was published in 1954 by the two of them together. By the way, Piankoff died in July of 1966, and six weeks later Natacha died. They died within six weeks of each other. After working together for decades and decades. And she had gone from being a ballerina through various developments and careers and had become one of the great savants of Egyptology in history. The quality that's there in the pyramid of Unas is tuned like a tuning fork with Sargon and Enheduanna stretching civilizations so that it covered thousands of miles. And kept the commerce of complicated periodic caravans alive for centuries. And that the writings of Enheduanna became the textbooks of boys and girls becoming men and women who could not only write, but who could write literature. Who could write a poetic of language which transcends the ability of neural net designing and experimenting not only to 2015, but indefinitely, because it is not dependent upon neurons. More next week. END OF RECORDING