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The Future and The New Past Presentation 28 of 52 Presentation 3-2 Presented by Roger Weir Saturday, July 11, 2015 Transcript: We come to the 28th presentation in this year of 2015 of preparation. And there is a geometry that has been noticed for quite a number of thousands of years. And the patterns of that geometry became numerical sometime early on in civilization. They were a presage of the way in which written language finally emerged about 6000 years ago, numeracy preceded it by several thousands of years. And so, counting is one of the prides of small children. No matter where they are raised. Whatever language they like to show that they can count. And then they do their ABCs. Or they do their recounting of the way in which pictographs scripts in Arabic or Chinese and so forth, Japanese are written. This is a indication of civilization, of the maturation of culture, which is tens of thousands of years old coming into play so that the communities of human beings were able to go beyond the hunting group or the gathering group. And to begin to sustain a concerted effort to tame the plants, the animals, the minerals, the metals, themselves. And so, cities began to form. And we call it civilization from the Latin Civitas meaning city. So that geometricity in patterning is of the very fabric of the way in which cultures mature into civilization. We use the singular here because there is only one species civilization. Though it has many branches, not so much like a tree, but more like a family lineage, it turns out. One of the peculiar aspects that is a constant, weaving itself with that geometric city, with that patterning, with the order of counting and of alphabets and script sequences and so forth. If you look at Chinese, how it is written follows a certain sequence and pattern. And if you see even today, someone Chinese trying to understand what is being said and what is written, they will trace with their finger how you make that character. Then they say, oh, oh, that's interesting. The geometricity for pattern has interspaced into it other dimensions, in civilization especially. One of them is noticing the coincidences that are significant begin to illuminate what is a pattern that is emerging that hadn't been noticed before. For instance, in these presentations, we've been looking at certain years in the 20th century that there was a sudden rush of discoveries or creations all about the same time, converging. And we saw that 1922, for instance, was an extraordinary year. It was a year where on one side, as we were looking at the atomic structure of the atom was first conceived accurately by Niels Bohr and by Lord Rutherford coming together and understanding the structure, the geometricity of the hydrogen atom about 1922. At the very same time, the unsettling quality of the staid way in which human expression had been challenged for quite a number of decades, suddenly emerged with a complex flow of the stream of consciousness. And you had someone like James Joyce writing the epic of stream of consciousness Ulysses, in 1922 at the same time. Or someone in literature like T.S. Eliot, exactly at the same time, coming to a desperate reach for something outside of the Western crumbling, challenged ruin of the First World War. And he wrote The Wasteland. All in 1922 and many other aspects of it. Some 15 years later, in 1937, as we were pointing out, the maturation of Rutherford's model of the atomic structure coming to right at what turned out to be the last year of his life in 1937, the, The Newer Alchemy. Small little book of a single lecture. That we can actually transmute elements by changing the atomic structure. And we have the method. We have the conception. And it's only a matter of time when we will be able to do this. And in 1937, exactly at that time, the stream of consciousness that had come bubbling up in the early 1920's, especially in one of the great poets who was a friend of T.S. Eliot and of James Joyce, William Yeats. William Butler Yeats redid completely a visionary patterning that had been with him almost all of his mature life and finally published his great book called A Vision. The pattern of what we are and what we do is in phases of the moon. At the same time, it's in phases of symbols, at the very same time. It's in the way in which a poetic has matured to this point. And all of it was due not to some masculine genius conception, but because he had married a genius at vision. And it was his wife who was able to bring her vision and learning into play with an automatic script, it was called at the time. And by collecting the automatic script into whole suitcases of it, Yeats was able to understand that the symbol pattern had a synchronicity because the one who was dictating the automatic script was not a person but was a poetic figure in his early poetry, Michael Roberts. And that she was pulling out of him that prism of creation into the whole patterning that was of great interest to both of them astrology, Hermetic transformation, occult poetics, etc., etc. And all of this as it matured in 1937, was exactly about the time that it was realized that the splitting of the atom would produce immense power. In 15 years from 1937. That next just 15 years, in 1952 in the Western Pacific, an atoll was vaporized by a hydrogen bomb. And Bettini showed that you can not only split the atom and make an atomic bomb. The first couple of atomic bombs were 20,000 tons of TNT. The first hydrogen bomb was a million tons of TNT. And they grew to 50 million tons within a decade. So that there is a catastrophic jumping of capacity that happens with our kind in civilization. And as we have matured to work it in, to deal with it, the catastrophic element has also advanced. So that by 2015 we are awash with trepidation. Not at what is coming so much, but what is actually going on. The insight for this in deep wisdom that is feminine, in high dharma, that is masculine, is to understand in a complementarity what used to be called a synergy in integral language, but in differential consciousness, in kaleidoscopic conscious proliferation, it is a quality of qualities that belongs not to what used to be called thousand years ago in the millennium of a time form. They used to use the Latin term speculum that the really sophisticated understanding of ideas was a speculum, which is Latin for mirror. The mirror of the mind is able to show us the exactness. And when we get the correlations right and their patterning right, this is really what's going on. But in the 1890's leading up to 1922, 1937, 1952 and on from there, the whole mirror of the mind was discredited by a shift in the paradigm, which, instead of being a mirror, a speculum, became a spectrum. That energy occurs in a spectrum, the electromagnetic spectrum. Of which one of the waves is light. Another of the extended waves because that's just visible light in the electromagnetic spectrum, which is huge. Going from ultraviolet to infrared. That on the way down into that infrared one comes across the discover Rankin was credited at first and they were called Rankin Waves in 1895. And quickly, they became x rays. And in between 1937 and 1952, they became understood as gamma rays. These are the highest energy, phenomenal particles in wave. That somehow energy is in the wave and the particle carries the energy, but it carries it in such a way that it is time bound. So that one then measures the universe in terms of E=MC2. Energy equals mass of particle times the speed of light squared because it's in space. And one can then say that such and such a star is light years, so many light years away. New Horizons at Pluto will take so many light hours for signals to come. In this kind of metric calibration of a spectrum the very understanding of consciousness that had become early on a stream of consciousness. The first person to really use that term was the great American philosopher psychologist William James. Whose basic outlook was, and he was famous for that as well, pragmatism. One looks to see what happened exactly. And by seeing what happened exactly and by taking the vision of the understanding of what is going on and why we can refine by the pragmatic experiment the experience refinement in a kind of a theory, a theoria, a contemplation. And that the mind is able to not only understand more refinedly but to mature itself, to having maturer understanding of refinement. And so, it becomes exponential rather than just linear. It has a quality where learning out distances instruction almost the instant that instruction decides what the plan is and what the sequence is, it's out of date. But the lag increases, it seems, until there's a catastrophic crisis. And it happens at certain nodes in the history of civilization. And by beginning to understand what are the energy nodes of time. Because it's the E=MC2, yes, this is the universe as we understood it, as we understand it as we theorize about it. But equal to all of that is the energy of time. So that the then shortcut is to understand what time is. And that proves to be deceptive because it isn't, isness. Particles are isness. The M, the mass. The speed of light is isness. 180,000, 6000 miles per second. The beautiful physicist, A.A. Michelson who discovered that was actually an American who was born in a gold panning camp in the western United States. And he, he, he grew up with gold fever among his parents and their friends and so forth. And he went on to understand that you can find a vision, a theoria, a theory of how to measure the speed of light. And over several decades of configuring and reconfiguring, he began to understand that there is a way to let it occur in a complex way. And the speed of light was determined and confirmed. And so, the pragmatic of experience, modified by experiment, became a confidence in science, in the scientific method. But the difficulty is that a medieval habit of speculum, of there being then this theory is the mirror in our mind. And a kind of an odd regression occurs when you keep looking at the mirror in your mind for the model of what you think is real. And notorious for that is looking at the mirror in your mind to see yourself. So instead of having reality, one has a reflection. Oh, we don't think we reflect. Oh, well, I see. I see myself. I am what I am. Well, it's an identity. It's an identification. And so, identifications and identity become the kind of medieval type metronome of how all of this is then reduced. And that reductiveness occurs in the same way that it's always occurred. Only the energy of time and civilization has accumulated to an immense quality, quantity of isness for real. And so, we are faced by 2015 with an almost impossible situation, as long as we are limited looking at ourselves and at the world through the mirror of identification in our minds. Through a conception of identity, in our minds, which extends to our body. And then the spirit must be something of this body mind. Together it's the glue, maybe. And so, everything becomes an integral dead end. And you can see in 2015, it doesn't take a great genius that anywhere you look on any level, you choose to look. The mirror is cracked. Let's take a break. END OF SIDE ONE Let's come back and build again to our mock 50 stream of consciousness. One of the most poignant aspects of world religion is the way in which the historical Buddha affected a great swath of the Asian world about, by about 500 B.C., he was. He had completely changed, had transformed millennia old civilization in India. And it was devastating to those who prized not only the ancient civilization and its classic written books, texts, sacred scripture. But the social order that had grown up especially after the millennia B.C., after 1000 B.C. After 500 years of that Vedic civilization, the social order had become frozen into a caste system. With Brahmans. With warrior **inaudible word**, with those that are in business and shopkeepers and produce. And then there were the Shudras who did the menial work. And anyone who is not subsumed into this caste system. The Sanskrit for caste is Varna. They were untouchables. They didn't count. Not even for menial labor. They were social junk. If they touched something, it had to be purified. The Buddha punctured the bubble 1000 years after the Vedic scriptures had come in, had come in with the classic of the Varna generating situation called the Rigveda. 1080 hymns, Vedic hymns to the conception of the God Divinity head of the universe. And while the head was supposed to be Indra, the king of the Gods, most of the Rigveda hymns about that divinity are dedicated to Agni, who is the God of fire. And the Agni yoga became the most profound of the transformational ceremonies in India right into towards the end of the 20th century A.D. Some 3500 years after its being instigated, founded, promulgated. And the last time that it was given in a formal, complete way it was miraculously photographed and filmed. And published in two huge volumes by the University of California Press in Berkeley, Agni. And in 1975, when that two-volume set came out, I happen to have very close contacts with the U.C. Press from the 1960's and a pretty good salary as a professor in Canada. And ordered a set immediately. And got one of the sets before it went out of print because all of the sets were snapped up by the great libraries in the world or the great scholars in the world. Fritz Stahl was the author, director, genius. And in the Agony Ceremony, when it is all over, everything in the ceremony, all of the ritual implements are stacked together and burned. An offering to Agni. The fire, Divine fire, as the **inaudible word** transformative energy of the universe of everything, including our kind, including the social order. And this is how it is. The only thing that survives the fire is the ceremonial platform that is made out of special squares of tiled clay that are made special for that ceremony. And to preserve them they're fired in a kiln. And the only thing that survives the catastrophic end fire, because part of the catastrophic understanding is that the world will end in fire because it was built and birthed in fire. And that while Indra may be the king of the Gods, Agni is the energy that really determines how all of this really is. And will come to an end as it had come to a birth. That pattern is recognizable as the mythic horizon. Beginning, middle end. So that a deep stain that was engraved and became an incision that became a scar is a mythic horizon that has a beginning, a middle and an end. Not only the world, but the universe will end in catastrophic fire. The word that we're familiar with is Armageddon. It will end in a fire, which is the very essence of the energy that creates the world. Though it was 3500 years old it has an incredible development of distribution. And there was in the Cold War in the 1950's, increasingly into the 1960's, a supernatural conviction that all of this is going to end in a massive nuclear war. Because what is being built is not an atomic bomb or even, God forbid, a hydrogen bomb raised to 50 million tons of TNT each, but that there are tens of thousands of these on both sides committed to if we can't keep this balance of terror alive, then Agni is going to do his stuff. This is called an apocalypse. Because it's ingrained. Not just in India, but it's ingrained in a peculiar way in civilization. When the Aryans entered into northern India about 1500 B.C. they didn't come from Iran. They came from Central Asia. And they came from a very high level of a kind of civilization from Central Asia, centered around Samarkand, which had huge, vast hundreds and hundreds, thousands of miles of Central Asian steppes. S-t-e-p-p-e-s. Prairies, almost without end. That stretched from a big sea, the Caspian Sea, all the way to huge mountain ranges far, far, far in the East. And the only way into those mountains was through a couple of river systems. One of them was called the Amu Darya, eventually called the Oxus. And it was found that one could have very careful caravan routes that went all the way there following the Amu Darya up into the way in which those mountains had passes and had valleys. And that it was discovered that one could go over one final pass and drop down on the other side of this whole mountain range and enter into a whole new vast area called the Gobi Desert. And that one could find one's way because you were experienced by now to run that caravan route, being familiar now with mountains, both on the Southern mountain rim of the Gobi Desert and on the North mountain rim of the Gobi Desert. And that eventually it would curve because the desert would end where there was a confluence of those caravan routes. That was the beginning of old classical China. And by the same time there had been a backup recursively where it went west and went into what has become today Iran, has become Turkey, the Caspian area between the Caspian and the Black Sea and so forth. And so, one had this enormous expanse. And about 2000 B.C. The sophistication of the people that ran the family, families. But in particular, one family that understood not only how to run these caravans and exchange goods all the way for, who knows, 10,000 miles. One of the royal descendants of that family of great comprehensiveness about all the different cultures and species and so forth. The family was called an ancient Avestic, the Spitama. And the son who was born to them, about 2000 B.C., was the inheritor of the major genius of the caravan routes. And the beast of burden at the time. At that time, about 2000 B.C., was the camel. And so, he was named in Avestan, it means good with camels. Zarathustra. Zarathustra. But he was used to vast distances, and when he fell in love, he fell in love with a princess who didn't live in those normal caravan route extensions but came further south. Her father's kingdom was in what is today Afghanistan. And her father's palace was in what is today, Kabul. And when he got to be 75 years old, Zarathustra wrote down the wisdom accrued and accumulated. Refined. Digested. Proven. Passed on into a new refinement in Kabul. And he called them Gathas. Collections of poet divine visionary penetration and resonance. And they were collected into sets called Gathas, each of these profounds in itself but he arranged it so that there was a masterful Gotha extending to a sub section called Yasna. And that single Yasna of the first Gatha, its name in Avestan Ahuna Vairya, which is not the beginning because high wisdom like Zarathustra in the Gathas is not at all mythic. Is not confined to myth. It's not confined to identity or identification or beginning, middle and end. Its dimensions are spiritual. They're conscious. And that conscious dimension had an initial Yasna Gotha and then it had a collection of Yasnas and a second collection of Yasnas. And then a concluding Gotha, the fourth where one took the links of the first Gathas in that Yasna in hāiti sections, subsections of subsection and was able to show that you could make a complementarity out of pairs of them. And so that final Gotha was the release of what had been the initial entrance into not the beginning, but the entrance into this poetic composition. And that the exit was not an exit that was an end, but an excursion into whatever freedom would bring you to and your capacity to read and to write alphabetically and understand. But like with the historical Buddha, after about 500 years, the social stodginess recursion occurred and those powerful, prideful Aryans invaded northern India through the Khyber Pass. And came into India and it was a civilization that was completely different from the civilization that they understood. They did not understand that it was just as sophisticated as they are. But the peoples looked differently from them. They weren't sort of pale white pinkish. Or even yellowish. They were sort of black and brown and swarthy. So, they were displaced as if they were largely initially untouchables. That civilization had spread from the Mediterranean Sea all the way to the Bay of Bengal through another a different caravan route. That was huge. It was enormous. And had been set up by 2350 B.C. So that by 1500 B.C., it was already almost 1000 years old in terms of its capacities. Its expressive beauty. And oddly enough, almost like a tuned pair that civilization, which had as its founding genius, a North Semitic language man. Who, though he was of royal birth, it was a time of great turmoil and suspicion, and he would have been put to death prematurely. So, the mother put him into a woven basket of reeds sealed with bitumen and put the baby in there and set that little ark of the infant afloat on the Euphrates River. Strategically. So that the baby was found a few miles down the Euphrates by those who kept the royal date palm groves and orchards. For the Sumerian power structure dates are huge. You can make date wine as well. But it was a food supply that was major. The royal date palm in nature only produces a couple of dozen dates, maybe 100 or so. But under cultivation and patience, agronomy, it can produce tens of thousands of dates each tree. The scientific name for the date palm includes the word, Phoenix. That little baby was rescued and brought to the head gardener of the royal date palm orchard farm and was raised there as his adopted son. The myth, the myth is not just mythic but is repeated because there was another baby put a float on the Nile River in a little basket woven by his mother, sealed with bitumen. And that was Moses. Discovered downstream, not too far by the young Princesses of the Pharaoh who were cavorting. And yes, he was adorable. He was adopted. They needed to have a, a woman who was lactating and they found his actual mother to do that. Just like Sargon of Akkad's mother found, was found and tended him to. When Sargon was a young man, he was the most formidable, formidable human being in that entire part of the world. Maybe almost anywhere in the world. And he's the one who stretched out his vision that we're not just about all of these powerful cities in some kind of Sumerian confederation, but we're, we're not Sumerians. We're Semitic. We like caravans. We like to have trade. And we like to expand these trading routes. And the beast of burden at that time for them, not the camel of Central Asia, but was the black-haired donkey. Tough. Wiry. Trail worthy. And with that beast of burden in that caravan route, Sargon extended from the Persian Gulf all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. It's called, used to be called, the Fertile Crescent. But that was only a part of his caravan route because it not only went down to the Persian Gulf but went along the coast all the way to India. And went by shore hugging ships all the way to where the Indus River empties into the Arabian Sea of the Indian Ocean. And the land caravan and the sea caravan discovered that they had a great affinity with the black Indians of the end of civilization. Who were masterful. They didn't have a whole skein of dozens of cities, states, but they had two very powerful cities that were huge. The largest cities in the world at the time, Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. One at the northern reaches where the great rivers come down from the Himalayas and joined the Indus to become a really powerful stream. And one further down where the distribution by caravans was reaching out not only to India but to where Sargon's caravans were coming in. And that great civilization from the island of Cyprus to the civilization of the Indus had their own wisdom, their own written language wisdom. And the written language had a Semitic, a North Semitic pronunciation, grammar and poetic. So, it is very peculiar that in the late 20th century, those who claim to be the inheritors of a superior religion to even that of Zarathustra. Though he's still regarded as very, very important. That the Iranians who honor that particular Aryan quality should be ready to nuclear bomb the descendants of Sargon in Israel. So that it is absolutely peculiar. But when one understands the power of the energy of time forms and civilizations, it is as inevitable a confrontation as the Cold War was. Especially in the 1960's. And for those of us who experienced it, front row seat firsthand. It smells and tastes like an old friend feared. Much like Beowulf who had slain Grendel after 50 years, had to face Grendel mother. Those of us who were…At the time I was a student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. And Madison is not only the university and the state capital, but where the airport is in Madison is right next to a SAC base, Strategic Air Command. And when the Cuban missile crisis came, those of us who really had been involved for several years intensively understood this is not only bad and dangerous, this seems to have the compulsion of inevitability. And we drove out our car was one of a couple, we had six in our car. And we drove out to the big fence that split the Madison Airport from Truax Field, the SAC base. We got there, it was early evening, and the Truax Field Runway, master runway, had every be 52 revving its engines full of enough nuclear weapons to take out huge swaths of anything. All set to go. I decided to go back to the place that I was born in Michigan and got a ticket on a Greyhound bus and rode alone back to have the end of the world where I was born. Got as far as Lansing, Michigan. Where Michigan State is. And news came that hadn't happened and that maybe sometime tonight, maybe sometime in the morning. And I walked around the campus of Michigan State in Lansing that whole night. Realizing I probably won't have time to get back to a little town north of there where I was born. But this will have to do. It didn't happen because of an incredible 13 days that was masterfully visioned by one of the brats in the ruling family, the Kennedys. And the brat was Robert, Robert F. RFK. He saw that it isn't about wiggle room. It's about an energy exchange that is possible if we can do this. And it turned out through an incredible labyrinth filled with dead ends that there was only one way and that was found to not have World War Three then and there. When RFK was assassinated a few years later in 1968 here in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel on the 30th anniversary, I went there with a friend. And it was all fenced off because The Ambassador had been sold. It's going to be torn down. We found that there was a way through a construction corridor and walked around the deserted Ambassador Hotel, walked in and found the kitchen where he had been assassinated. And each of us laid a flower and walked out. And there was we never saw anybody else. Except the ghosts of terror. It feels like that again, except that there is a superhighway leading out now. We are not only survivors. We are harbingers of what is real. More next week. END OF RECORDING