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The Future and The New Past Presentation 25 of 52 Presentation 2-12 Presented by Roger Weir Saturday, June 20, 2015 Transcript: Let's come to the 25th presentation in this year of 2015, a year of preparation for 2016, next year, which is an ethical year. We're looking at the way in which we're bringing a convergence to about the midpoint. The next presentation next Saturday, next Saturday morning will be 26 out of 52. And that will be the edge of what is the fulcrum for a series. A fulcrum, as if it were like a teeter totter board in equilibrium. But the deeper dimension is to call it a pivot. And that the pivot is for its balance, not just in a linear way, but its balance also in the stability of its dynamic. And that its dynamic has a quality of time that is curious in the universe. Time as the first dimension is dynamic itself. That is to say, the energy of movement of change is temporal. And so, time, because it has a rotational quality, that it isn't just a line that can be drawn linearly, but in fact it has a chirality to it and tends to want to circle around and and be circular. But because it is dynamic that circularity moves. And as it goes through its cycle, it moves. And that cycle, instead of being a circle, begins to spiral. And so, the spiraling chirality is the most deeply ingrained of all of the shapes in the universe and has a double rotation. It not only has an angular momentum from a rotation, but it has a pair of them. And these paired angular momenta of the double spiral, double chiral, of time as an energy produces eventually from the integral that is operative in the universe. It tends to want to come back to its circle. Its cycle. Its fullness. Its completeness. And that gives an integral bias to the way in which all of this occurs. And so that integraling wants to have a focus. And in the double spiral, double helix, of organic life coming out of the phenomenon of matter, one finds the double helix of DNA. Which is a very creative kind of double chirality. But in order for that pivot to be stable, it cannot be repetitive exactly. And if it were, it would run down through something called entropy. And so, to refresh it, that double chirality has the ability to have novelty that occurs within it. And we call that in double helix genetics now. In the DNA code there are code segments that can change spontaneously. They're called transposons. And the woman who first found them was Barbara McCulloch...uh, McClintock. Barbara McClintock spent 60 years being a real technological corn mother. Just like ancient corn mothers she tended life in its quintessential quality, which is the ability not only to have the essentials of balance in symmetries, of double chiralities, but to have its refreshment, its renewal. not just in starting the cycle again. Or just in cuing on the spiraling ratchets that this now occurs a little bit up or down or. But that it is fresh it just now came into play. And play is the best word because it shows that there is a creative structure operative in the universe to such an extent that only as we, we have come to understand the wider spectrum of possibility that we have come to appreciate something that was enunciated back in actually the 1930's beautifully by a poet. His name was Wallace Stevens. Who in his quote, real life was the vice president of Hartford Accident and Insurance Company in Connecticut. But also happened to be one of the great poets of that whole era. Beginning in the 1920's and coming to a great blossoming in the 1930's. And finally, a whole orchard of things and the 1940's and 50's. He delivered what was eventually printed as the theory, a theory, of poetry. And what he said among pages and pages of brilliant, scintillating, poetic prose. His spontaneous talking. He said, Paul Clay lived in a universe so vast that straight lines were seen to fall. Meaning that Einstein's visioning that space-time as a four-dimensional continuum curves its forms. That spacetime itself curves. And if it curves one of the odd realizations that comes out of that, it takes a while, but it does come out, is that if it curves, it curves because of gravitation. Because the integral is to pull it together for that cycle. For that circle. For that spiral, those spirals to integrate. To, if there is a little bit of symmetrically that has to be brought together, then it's synthesized. Einstein saw that the synthesis is clarified if one has a different thesis from integral only. That it isn't just a four-dimensional continuum. But if it curves, if that gravitation is so universal, it can curve and keep curving until the curvature of space-time itself curves in upon itself. And the result of that is what we colloquially now, glibly, blithely, call a black hole. What curves is the dynamic of light. That light curves in upon itself in that ultimate curvature of super gravity. And that a black hole is not black so much, that it is vacant in terms of light. In terms of that radiation. And yet what is not interfered with is the immense gravity that accrues. So that the immense gravity in the universe in supermassive black holes shows that one can not only have the curvature of light, but one can have a kind of a thing called gravity lensing from big clusters of galaxies that are fairly close together in terms of galactic space-time. And that the interweaving makes a gravity lens so that light from some really far distant galaxy will come into that gravity, super gravity, prism, and it will have a four-part reflection in terms of a universal scale of light. And that one can then from this planet in this star system, in this pivot of this particular galaxy, one is able to see almost to the ends of when early galactic structures occurred. Almost 14 billion light years away. Light years. Time by light in its movement, which is constant always in this way, but under special circumstances can be slowed. And when it does by not only gravity, so that light bends in clusters of galactic ways, but if you put an ore into water, the ore seems to bend in the water. So that the naivete of thinking and integral only runs into a very magical kind of world. One of the incredible things about Barbara McClintock in finding over 60 years of raising her maize plants in various locations where she was displaced. Largely because women were not allowed to have their own laboratories. Not allowed. And it was only in her lifetime that eventually, over those decades, that the realization that that is ridiculous, that that is an integral only curving of understanding that limits who under what circumstances that can be enumerated has the phenomenal capacity to thus and so do and have and be. And this, of course, is ridiculous. She won the Nobel Prize for her work on genetic transposons. And she by that time had secured since 1942, late 1941, a what became a permanent place for her out on Long Island. And on the Long Island Sound side coast of Long Island. Quite far out, but almost halfway to going on to two thirds of the way where there are bays out of Long Island Sound. One of them was a harbor called Cold Spring Harbor. And the institute funded in Washington, D.C., and also in New York, Andrew Carnegie, had an animal research lab there. And eventually in the 1940's, it changed from just animal research to getting into genetics. And finally, after the discovery of the double helix, it turned into one of the powerhouses of research. Into not just microbiology, not just into the genetic revolution that was happening, but one of the founder visionary insight, pivotal pilot wave persons became the director of it. And that was James D. Watson. D for Dewey. He was named James Dewey Watson. He became the head. And he became the head after in the in the 1950's. And already Barbara McClintock had been there since 1941. An interesting note, one of the most powerful men in the world arranged for her to have unlimited freedom there. In an interview that was supposed to be about 10 minutes so that she could be given the beautiful formal kiss off. The man talked to her for about 5 hours and realized that she was like himself, a rare gem of a human being. And he made arrangements that as long as she wants to stay there, she can stay there. Later on, the animal building from the old days was renamed the McClintock Laboratory of the future genetic research. The man who made that possible was named Vannevar Bush. And Vannevar Bush was one of the most powerful technological czars in the world. He had the ear of Franklin Roosevelt to understand that we are on the cusp of so many changes that are like later the discovery of transposons. We're on the verge of having the structure, which we assumed not only eclipsed but blown out. Catastrophically. And that kind of a concept was understood by someone like Franklin Roosevelt. And understood by someone like Vannevar Bush, because they were of a generation that had seen catastrophe blow up when they were young men. And the world that had its shape that was patiently balanced on all the powers that be through some little, tiny seeming niggly action ignited a spark that set the gun powder keg stacked warehouse field high and World War One, the Great War broke out. And the way that H.G. Wells in his great Outline of History in published in two big volumes. I brought them last week. Almost nine by 12. As big as this page. In 1920. And chapter 40, The International Catastrophe of 1914. And he has on that page a palace of peace in The Hague. That everything was assumed that we've come a long way. Evolution doesn't bother us anymore. And the British Empire phrase of the Victorians. There may have been evolution before and those seas of early days, but we are commanding of the seas, and we have crawled ashore. We're exempt. And they were ignited. And the Great War tore apart everything that they understood had been stable. In 1954, when William Faulkner was accepting his Nobel Prize for Literature, the culminating work of his published in that time 1953-54. It was called A Fable, and it was set in World War One. And in his Nobel Prize speech, Faulkner said, We are under the delusion, like the Victorians, for having crawled ashore from being susceptible to evolution. The Great War has never ended. It has had lulls and then resurgences and then lulls again. And now a resurgence is occurring, which is truly apocalyptic. And by all rights, it should be the end of man. But I refuse, he said, to accept the end of man. Because when the entire surface of the world be leveled of all obstructions and paved and super filling stations available for each individual and his own supercar to pull into and get gassed and fed and sexually attended, all in one little pit stop burst. I refuse to accept that as the future of man. He used a poetic sequence of images, he said, "When the last ding-dong of doom has sounded, there will still be one more voice. The individual human being who is still alive, still talking about how to change this and fix this and make it better." Wells, in his great Outline of History, realized that he had done an epochal work, but that it was not reaching the population that needed to be reached. And so, he did in 1922, A Short History of The World beautifully illustrated in one volume, about 570 pages. And this was 1922. 15 years later in 1937 when Pelican Books, one of the first paperback publishers in the world, put out a cheap edition in a little paper volume in 1936. And Welles looked at it and looked at the fact that there were going to be millions of people reading his Short History of The World, took stock of himself and realized that he had changed so much in those 15 years. Not just changed, but that his perspective had widened and complexified. That he had, even as a young man, written things like The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The First Man in the Moon, When the Sleeper Awakens. Realized we are in a deeper catastrophe than we ever could have imagined. And it is looming because it's just waiting for all those fuses of which there are legion. To have any one of them lit. And what is accumulated and accrued are not solutions, but resolutions that are on the surface of an insubstantial, inadequate understanding of everything of ourselves. Of life. Even of matter. Even of energy. None of it is really understood. They're not conscious of being conscious. And so, he wrote a shattering short science fiction novel called Star Begotten. Published in 1937. We'll come back to this in just a minute or so. That 15 years, 15 years, not even a generation, between 1922 and 1937. Has all of the residuals that the earthquake of the Great War cracked the surface of civilization. Cracked the surface of the way in which one could understand. Or any resolutions that could be tendered towards an understanding and whatever that is. It was mirrored in the sense that in physics in 1922, this little red book was published by Cambridge University Press in England, in the UK, 1922. The Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution, three Essays by Niels Bohr. The essays, the first one was in Danish, which was delivered when World War One broke out. When the Great War broke out in 1940...uh 14. Just before December 20th, 1913. Just after income tax was passed as a law in the United States. And by that time, Bohr had understood that there's something really radical that we must understand about reality and empirical spectral laws, not of looking at something in terms of the light reflected from it. This is what we see. But a deeper seeing. That if you use a prismatic separation of the elements, the rays of light, the photon, the wave of light, just as Newton had done, it will give you a rainbow. But by this time, the rainbow had been advanced by a genius he grew up on in Chicago. The family house was adjacent to the University of Chicago. And he grew up to be George Ellery Hale, and he built the first Helios spectrograph. Designed it himself. Nobody knew how to make it in the United States, and so it was made in Germany. Around the turn of the century. 14 years before the Great War. By 1913, the development of spectrographs, that light has a spectrum and that by this spectrum one can examine the very structure of atomic elements. And that the most simple of the atomic elements by that time it was well understood, is hydrogen. And so, in his lecture, Laws of Temperature, Radiation, The Nuclear Theory of The Atom, Quantum Theory of Spectra, Hydrogen Spectrum, The Pickering lines. Pickering was the great astronomer from Harvard at that time. And then other spectra. And six and a half years later, he delivered the second lecture of the series Spectra of The Elements. In just six and a half years by 1920 Bohr because he was working in tandem with another genius pivot pilot wave person, Lord Rutherford. Yes, at Cambridge and also, in London. But at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge especially. Every element has a spectrum that can be analyzed with the same mathematic. A mathematic of seeing, not just seeing with the eyes and perception, not just seeing with the integral mind in terms of conception, but of seeing the spectrum in terms of something which includes all of the creative jumps that are hidden enfolded in all of this. And in light if you can magically spectrum it out and use a mathematic that has increased its capacity to express how to further refine this one comes upon a massive recalibration. There are constants in the universe. The first one was Max Planck, and he just called, uh gave it the designation in mathematics of an H. There is a quanta of energy and that quanta of energy is universal. And all other calibrations are in terms of how this functions. And so, quantum theory is a theoria, the Greek term for contemplation. If you're able to contemplative bring in another dimension of being able then not only to see the spectrum, because one has had the math to be able to build the instrumentation to do so. One begins to see that all of this is not just woven together, but there is a weaver. There is a loom. But there is the whole mystery involved in how the weaving not only occurs, exists, but comes to life and comes to consciousness. And all of this was available. And so, the third presentation 1921, December...in April. The third paper, The Structure of The Atom, And the Physical and Chemical Properties of The Elements. One had moved to the chemical properties as well as the physical properties. And by 1922, one understood the theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution. And 15 years later, his mentor, Lord Rutherford, published in 1937 The Newer Alchemy. The Newer Alchemy based on the Henry Sedgwick Memorial Lecture delivered at Newnham College, Cambridge, November 1936 published by Cambridge, 1937. The Newer Alchemy. We are going to take a short break and come back to this tremendous transform that happened between 1922 and 1937 and ask what happened in the next 15 years and how long ago was that? Let's take a break. END OF SIDE ONE Let's come back. Let's come back to, we're considering the expansion of seeing. Instead of looking with perception founding conception of a wider spectrum. And the term would be not a range so much as a scalar. One can calibrate a spectrum so that an instrument, a telescope, for instance, can resolve closer and closer visible light. But visible light is a very narrow aperture. Its access to perception is actually in terms of the spectrum of the entire electromagnetic frequency scaler. Quite small. Yes, it is pivotal. But one can build an instrument, let's say a telescope, so that it doesn't focus on visible light, but focuses someplace else in the electromagnetic spectrum. The most interesting parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are the extremities. Ultraviolet, infra-red. And going on so that it becomes extended so that it isn't just visible anymore, but the radiation is that of energy waves that are like radio waves. One can build radio telescopes. One can build infrared telescopes. Ultraviolet telescopes. So that you can have an array. So that what happens, instead of stacking for complexity, you're able to have a calibration that has recalibrated calibration itself. This began to get an immense attraction and traction itself by 1922 and had leapt into an incredible competence that startled by 1937. It isn't just that H.G. Wells moved from of Outline of History in one volume 1922 to Star Begotten in 1937. What is the Star Begotten about? The suspicion arises that the Martians may have returned. This time using cosmic rays to alter human consciousness. The protagonist, Joseph Davis, an author of popular histories, grows fearfully obsessed with rumors of the Martian plan. He considers the possibility that mutation may already have occurred. That his child, his wife, himself may already be Martians. Like moving from The Theory of Atomic Spectra to a Newer Alchemy in literature that 15 years. In 1922, The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot was as Avant Garde as you can get at that time. Yes, Joyce was coming out with Ulysses at that time. E.E. Cummings with Eimi. E-i-m-i, the Greek for I am. But The Wasteland really got through not just to the cognoscenti who could read Ulysses or to those Greenwich Village few who are reading Cummings already. But The Wasteland in 1922, with its five full sections, came to not a dead end, but came to a realization that our perspective, our conception, was so narrow that no wonder it was suicidal. And that whatever realization there might be is outside of any spectrum that we're familiar with. And The Wasteland ends with Sanskrit, Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. It is a phrase in The Upanishads translated, it means thou art that. That all of that led to a wasteland. By 1937, literature on the level of T.S. Eliot or James Joyce. On the level of W.B. Yeats reached Yeats's great culmination in 1937. His version of A Vision, his last great work. He passed on in September of 1939. But by this time 1937, A Vision which he had done a version in 1925, thinking that that was as far as he could go at that time. By the mid 1920's, Yates was clearly one of the great poets of all time. Then he got married. He got married to a beautiful woman who went by the name of George. Georgie. Who was a curious discovery that she had a genius for psychic tuning to amazing spectrums. She was what in ancient times would have been called a seer, a s-e-e-r. A seer. A prophetess. An oracle. She could tune in the psychic waves that were not on the electromagnetic spectrum. She was discovered on their wedding night that she was scribbling down, not making a sketch of Yeats as he at first thought. But she was doing what has was then called, is still called automatic writing. And over the years, Yeats kept collecting George's automatic writings until he had a whole suitcase full of it and it was over spilling into other containers. And he had the poetic genius, the Irish tenacity, the psychic capacity, which was schooled when he was a kid. Not in any normal way. Well, it was totally normal. He had an uncle. A relative of his mother. Their last name was not Yeats, but Pollexfen. And his uncle would sense that little Willie was a very special. So, he would practice telepathy with the kid. They would take long walks. The Pollexfens lived out on Galway Bay in the far west of Ireland. And he would walk on a cliff top ridge, and he would have little Willie walk in the stream bed and they would converse. So, he just developed. He assumed that everyone did this. He didn't realize how incredibly special he was until he was older. He was actually in his late twenties, and he was in London. And he had been told that there was such a powerful woman and she had founded a society called the Theosophical Society. Her name was Madame Blavatsky. She was a Russian. A Russian seer. Who could look at the occult history of mankind and see what was really important and how all of that then makes a whole new understanding. And she had ended up in London in a fairly nice apartment flat. And she had soirees a couple of evenings a week. And a young Willie went to visit her to see if it'd be okay if he came. And she was busy with somebody in the deeper ranges of the apartment, speaking quietly with someone about really occult matters. And he was told that just wait there in the foyer. And as he was standing there, he, unbeknownst to them, was tuning in to what they were thinking. And at the same time, he was looking at German made Swiss cuckoo clock that didn't work. It was broken. It never worked. And as he stood there in that mode, the little door opened in, the cuckoo came out and chimed a time. And Madame paused, infinitely alert. It isn't that it hadn't worked. It was that it couldn't work and did with that young man tending it attentively. And that she picked up that he was tuned to what she was thinking. Because he turned and smiled at her and shrugged. And she said, you can come in at any time, any night, any afternoon. He applied that to his wife's automatic writing for years and years and years. And over the years, from the beginnings of that marriage, he realized that A Vision, which was his occult design of the spectrum picture of psychic understanding of reality, completely changed. And he began to understand that the protagonist in his wife's automatic writings was a figure who wasn't somebody but was a poetic character from his own poetry. They had given him the name back when in the early part of the 20th century Michael Robartes. She was channeling Michael Robartes, who is a poetic fiction. Was psychically real enough to dictate to her all of this, which was not confused at all because Yeats was brilliant enough and tuned enough. Now that she's tuning into Michael Robartes in my poetry, in my poetic, I can read her writing and put it together. And the 1937 A Vision dwarfs the 1925 dwarfs the early Yeats poetry and delivers an incredible realization that here on this planet, it isn't a planet. It's a part of a double planet. The Moon and the Earth. Luna and Terra are a symbiotic double planet. And only from that perspective does one move off the dime of thinking this is all there is. Now you can see the stars and some of those stars are moving because they're planets. They're nearby etc., etc. We are today, late June 2015, ready for new horizons next month to reach a double planet, Pluto, and Charon for the very first time. To show what another double planet in this star system is all about. There are only two. Luna Terra. Terra Luna. And Pluto Charon. Charon Pluto. A pair of binary planets in a star system. And that put Pluto and Charon are not just a double planet. They are one of the largest representatives of tens of thousands of such. And it's called the Kuiper Belt, named for Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch American astronomer. Yes, oddly enough, paradoxically, because the ancient word is...there called Hermetic Circles, he was at the University of Chicago where George Ellery Hale had started. It's named for him. For Kuiper. Kuiper did a four-volume scientific survey of the new newer astronomy in four volumes published Yes, by the University of Chicago Press. On the first volume of the four is The Earth as A Planet. Then it goes to the planets as a family, then it goes to the Sun as a solar system, and then it goes to wider ranges. When Apollo was nearing, finally to get to the moon for real, technically available. Ready to put Apollo something like Apollo 10 in orbit around the moon, not quite landing. One had to have a really close understanding. And so, it was Gerhard Kuiper's, Atlas of the Moon, Big, huge folio tome. I'll bring it next week. A copy. That's how we got there. Because we were able to be very, very precise in the math of how a double planet in this kind of motion swinging around the sun and a star system that was like a whole cluster of star systems, that's a part of moving together through the whole cluster of many star systems in a kind of a spur. It's called the Orion Spur of the Perseus arm. And this is the Galactic Spiral. Now understood not to have two, but they have four arms, but there's a fifth quintessential little spur that we're on called the Orion Spur. And we're about midway between the Perseus arm, which is the major and Sagittarius arm, which is major. And they're major, because in the Ellipse of the Milky Way galaxy, they're at that symmetry, symmetrical polarity. When you draw a diameter through the electromagnetic way in which that spiral shape of the Milky Way is viewed from where we are, we see it as the pivot of the galactic structure in the clear night sky that from Mount Everest you could see it really clearly. And it dips in such a way that it isn't a straight line at all, but it has a sinuous kind of a curving to it. And for the ancient Chinese, that was the dragon. And the coil of the energy wave, frequency of the galactic structure in the night sky that came closest to the Earth was exactly where they named that closest star. We call that star Polaris. It's the unmoving North Pole star. And we know that in terms of magnetism, there is a magnetic North Pole. Oh, yeah, there are South Poles, north and south. It's an axial diameter that has the pivotal double chiral rotational capacity so that in a northern hemisphere, water drains this way and in the southern it drains chirally the other way. It's important to understand that when Yeats finally understood in A Vision that T.S. Eliot learned that his Wasteland had become a period piece. And began setting out immediately to write a new mandala, which eventually became the Four Quartets, which is an amazing yeah, we still call them Quantum Leap over The Wasteland. Like Yeats's, A Vision was a quantum leap over The Wasteland. Like Star Begotten is a quantum leap over the Outline of History. Like A Newer Alchemy by Lord Rutherford is a quantum leap over the earliest published Niels Bohr Theory of Spectra. And Bohr went on. This is Volume 12 of The Collected Works. He died in 1962, an older man. And it took 44 years to complete to get to Volume 12. What is going on that we have to wait almost half a century to have one of the geniuses just have their collected works. There are still no collected works of Benjamin Franklin that are finished. There are no collected works of Thomas Jefferson that are finished. What is going on? We don't even know what the creme de la creme already has achieved. So, when it is said here, there is a recalibration happening. Part of the horrific catastrophe is that as deep as the quantum jump between 1922 and 1937 was, that 15 years. The next 15 years stagger one into imbecility. From 1937 to 1952, you move from the first beginnings of the idea that one can split the atom and release energy. And if you did that on a scale where it proliferated, you could have an atomic bomb. And by 1945, you not only had an atomic bomb, you had a pair of them. And not only that, they were used. The airburst over Nagasaki was 20,000 tons of TNT. In 1952, 15 years after 1937 any we talk at all in the South Pacific was obliterated by the hydrogen bomb. It was a million tons of TNT. By the late 1950's, 50 megaton hydrogen bombs had been tested. Something on that scale would crater Manhattan so that you would have a radioactive atoll with Little Shoals in New Jersey and Connecticut and the farther reaches of Long Island and everything else would be a radioactive lagoon. That was two thirds of a century ago. And you hear glibly Putin saying, we're going to arm 40 more ballistic intercontinental missiles because you pissed me off. Each one of them carrying about five times the load of the largest hydrogen bomb ever exploded. Times 40. And you think that sanity has any kind of calibration in reality? More next week. END OF RECORDING