Presentation 38

Let's open up and come to our 38th presentation. In this year of preparation for 2016, which will be somewhat ethical. We're looking at the future and the new past as a continuum. Instead of dividing time in terms of an idea of time. With a present moment now and what was is in the past and it's gone. And what isn't yet is in the future. And it's not here yet. So now is where the existential truth is and we can prove it. Here's where we are. All of that is a deception. It's a choreography of. More than just an error. It is a time honored forgiveness. But it takes a double transform. In order to realize that. The first transform is to go from ideation to recognition. And the second transform is to go from recognition to realisation. So that double transform. Begins with a natural cycle. And becomes recognizable. As. A not just a sequence, say, of four Seasons. But one could view the idea of the Four Seasons in a cycle of nature. An annual cycle as an integral. And that one organises the rituals that we do, the phenomena that we do with the mythic horizon of the language that we use to communicate with images and their feeling tones and the arrangements and how all of that comes together and symbols of a structure of our mind. It's a well known cycle and that four season cycle. By the time of the Roman Empire founding some 2000 years ago, it had ballooned up to become a cycle of the ages. These are the seasons of the ages of man in his civilization. And in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Written about. Eight. Add. The very first book is about the Four ages, The Age of Gold, where everything is new and fresh and energized than a silver age. Where there's still creativity, but it's not as original. But nevertheless, it's interesting. Then there's an age of bronze where it has set in and become commonplace, and not many people take an interest in the Golden Age or the Silver Age for that matter, and just make do. And so the Bronze Age devolves to an age of iron, the fourth age, and that is an age of violent polarity confrontation. From factions and groups vying for power. And all of this comes to a what colloquially used to be called a mish mash. Nothing fits. And so an age of iron comes literally to a standstill. But nature has its cycle and the very next sudden. Thing that happens is a birth of a new golden age. All of that is fictitious. But fictitious in an interesting way. Because if one looks at. Not just the Four Seasons or the Four Ages as a cycle. Repeating in a circularity. There are. Men and women who for a long time have recognized. Recognized. That the meaning of this is not in the collecting together the integral ling of the cycle. But that the meaning of it is a different. Quality. And so that different quality is the ability to see beyond the eyes, to see beyond the mind in the sense that, yes, the mind records images of what we see and what we do and so forth. But in dreams and prophecy and so forth, our mind has images that don't come from what we are doing and what we have done. They come perhaps from the future, as in prophecy, they come from something deeper, as in dreams. And if you get caught up in. Dreaming during the daytime in daydreaming. You can miss what's going on. Because the mind is full of those images, of those feeling tones. And that's what is now surfacing as that kind of. Fourth season for force age coming to be and you can prove it to yourself. You can train yourself to be attentive. To what I call not the four ages or the Four Seasons, but the square of attention. And that square of attention is like a frame. Within, which is the picture where everything fits as in the big picture. And that's your reference. Why you're doing such and so now here, this way, etc., etc.. But recognition is not cognition. It's not a part of the integral cycle which cognition is. Cognition is. Wholly dependent. Upon ideation in the mind based upon this integral cycle on integration. Whereas. Dreams, prophecies, visions. Come from. Another phase. Obviously, some other age seems to be out of time. So that with that recognition, it takes a while. Do you understand that what you were looking at is not so much seasons, but phases of a cycle? And so in the quintessential quality of transformation, that fifth dimension of vision, which is the time honored word to use for that. Eventually matures. Through some other phases. Of recognition. And when it reaches what would be the fourth phase of this beyond the four phases of the integral. The recognition has matured to the point of realization that what has really been occurring is that you've been exploring further dimensions. And so going from vision through art. Into history. Emerging as science. And the realization in science is not just looking back, but seeing through vision and the natural cycle with all of its transforms that are now apparent. One can understand, One can see, one can feel, one can. Live with it. That you're working with what is anciently called. The octave. An octet, an OG DOD as some words translate it. And that happened about 5000 years ago. The realization that recognition is a different dimension from cognition in its cycle. And that instead of there being for ages, like four seasons. There are four phases that mature because they are the four dimensions of the natural. Universe. And that the idea. Of. The natural universe is that there is something beyond that in dimensions that are not only recognizable, but they are also real. So one of the great themes. Towards the end of the 20th century. Was. What the phrase the open world conveys. And the open world can also be seen as the open mind. And we talked last presentation about how there was a tremendous development in the 1930s. And beginning in 1932, published by Yale University Press The Open World. Three Lectures on the Metaphysical Implications of Science by Hermann Weyl, one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. And we talked about how he went on from there. From 1932 to being self exiled from 1933, Nazi Germany, etc., etc., came to the United States, the land of the free, the home of the brave, and became the second person. At the Institute for Advanced Studies and Princeton joining the first person there, Albert Einstein, who fled from the same tyranny. Einstein, who was at the top of the pecking order in pre Nazi Germany. He was the famous professor Berlin University. But he was Jewish and he understood. That there's a winnowing going on here which is relentless. It's not based on the open world. It's based on the ideological. Cementing. Of the way things are as we in our now in our present. Can edit the past. To fit and can control what the future will be to also fit. So we have the power to be the arbiters of how things are. The phrase colloquially is you better fess up because this is the way things are. All of that is intimidation. By projection. From deception. In 1989. The second conference was held in Copenhagen. Denmark. The challenge of an Open World. Essays dedicated to Niels Bohr. And this second. Conference. Followed the first, which was held in 1985. Which was a conference on the problem of the challenge of nuclear armaments. But so much had happened in four years from 1985, which was the centenary of the birth of Niels Bohr, and that's why the University of Copenhagen, his home city, had a conference of world. Citizens. But so much had happened. And in 1989. One of the most prominent invitees could not make it there. It was from the ex Soviet Union. Now becoming. A very shaky Soviet Union. It was the man who was the genius behind the Russians catching up and making a hydrogen bomb. Andrei. Sakharov. Sakharov. Here's the message by Sakharov in 1989 and Copenhagen. I regret not being able to attend the second Niels Bohr symposium. The Niels Bohr concept of the Open World has played an important role in the development of my position, and this is one of the reasons I wanted to come to Copenhagen. Furthermore, some good friends of mine are supposed to attend the meeting and I regret missing the opportunity to see them. However, I cannot say it is unfortunate that I cannot come. The circumstances that keep me in Moscow are most important, both for my country, Russia, and for the world and for the fate of the ideal of the open world. Proposed by Baugh. The first elected parliament since 1917 is to convey on the day on the 25th of May. Although I am just one of 2500 deputies, and although the Parliament will certainly face enormous difficulties and problems, both organisational and political, I feel compelled to do my best and to put as much effort as necessary in preparations for the session. I'm sure each. Of you would have done the same in my place. Less than a year and a half later, the Soviet Union fell. In 1991. It fell apart. And Sakharov was there. Because in 1991. Almost unrecognised. The energy. Of what drives. As the frequency. Of the engine of civilization had come to the end of a time form. And when a time form is over, it gives the impression to those who have lived, worked. Thought. Remembered. Everything was in that time form. It seems to them that everything is falling apart has fallen apart. To wrack and ruin. But it takes a while for that to set in. Even though the bell has rung. They don't realize that it was a knockout punch to them. For some while, it takes a number of years. In fact, it takes a couple of decades for it to begin to sink in. And then it sinks in like a penetration of a sea change. Not that a new time form is like a new golden age, though it can seem like that. But it's that the energy has. Come from a sourcing where the recognition and the realization has built up to enrich. The new time form so that those who are. Hoping to. Ready to. Wanting to live. In a better world. In an open world with. An Open Mind title of Robert Oppenheimer's 1955 book. It became apparent and is becoming apparent now. That if one follows the energies of time, forms of civilization. Bringing in the dimensions of recognition and bringing in the dimensions of realization as well. Both those transforms, those double transforms. Which complexity and diversify. That whole integral cycle from nature, ritual myths, symbols that all of it now is available for the open mind to recognize. The true emergent scalar. Of value and of purpose and of meaning. And further, to come to the kaleidoscopic historical. Emergence of a science of science, not just age science. That doesn't look upon the universe, but sees in terms visions and terms. Matures. Recognizably realizable. In terms of. A cosmos, which includes all the hereto too assumed to be hidden invisible capacities. Dimensions. Phases. But that with the open mind and then the open world, the recognition capacity of visioning and the kaleidoscopic historical complexity of possibilities. The realization and the recognition together. Our freshened. And available. For the new. Generations coming into play. In ways that were almost unimaginable to even the most mature persons before. What was science fiction? In the 1930s. With science fiction right up to and including the 1990s. For most people. I know of. Little. Girls who are not yet five. One wants to be a space explorer and the one not quite three showed my wonderful wife drawing and pointed out that these are the robots and these are the aliens. Not Dick and Jane seeing spot run. They have not only come in, but they have become emergent with the energy frequency of a new time form. Everything is fresh. Everything is new. But the only bridging that there is. Is that bridging of an acceptance that every think. All possibilities have changed. Today's Los Angeles Times. Saturday, September 19, 2015. Headlines Pick four Army Head is a first. Eric Fanning. Eric C. Fanning. Is openly gay. And just now. Nominated to be the head of the Army. By the president. Everything is new. Everything is fresh. But what is like the briar patch? The swamp. Is the huge morass. And the thorny complications of what has no capacity to recognize. Much less the further capacity to realize. Except in some kind of closed mind. Fictitious this. Projected out to a world. What's supposedly. Is going to be very rational and cognitively accurate. Et cetera, etc.. When I was at the University of Wisconsin in the late fifties had realized that. That I was prepared for and wanted to be an electrical engineer. I had become astounded by what I had never heard of or didn't know on almost every front. It was the first time I ever heard of Matisse. Butler. Why hasn't anybody ever told me such things? And. I remember. Arguing. One time with someone in Wisconsin, you could drink at 18. So we were in a bar and I was arguing with an agronomist soil engineer. From India. From Nagpur in the middle of India. Of the desert that they can. And he said. You're going to before this night is through. Have a bit of a shock because I'm not going to argue with you. I'm going to fill you in about the Bhagavad Gita. I'm going to recite some things in Sanskrit. I'm going to tell you the rough English translation, and we're going to just you and me walk around the campus. And however far we have to go, however long it takes. Until you begin to understand. That you are in the middle of a stalemate of polarities like two armies who are ready to kill each other, even though their relatives. And I'm going to be like the chariot driver for you, driving you in between those two armies that are going to pause tonight. And you're going to hear what that chariot driver 5000 years ago told the warrior who was all set to be a great warrior, one of the all time champions of killing the others for our side. And I was shocked. I went into catastrophic change, dropped out of engineering. Assumed. A double major philosophy and political science with a minor in history because I was all of a sudden hungry. I have to find out. And the first paper that I did. For a political science course. Which was on the Cold War. Taught by a. Soviet specialist. Johnny Armstrong. And my research was to find out about, since I was supposed to be an electrical engineer, a builder of rockets, and wanting to go into space and design the stuff to find out what had happened to the American rocket program. This was a. Late 1959. And my research turned up because you could still turn things up. At big university libraries like the Land Grant University, like Wisconsin. That. In 1949, in February. A two stage rocket had been sent up from White Sands. Proving grounds. They were not yet missile testing grounds. They were proving grounds for four rockets and a two stage. A w a c a whack. Corporal Two stage rocket was sent up in February of 1949 to an altitude of 250 miles. This is a photograph. In a book published. Originally in 1949 by the University of Chicago Press. This is a photograph of the Earth. In February of 1949 from 250 miles up out, which is farther up and farther out than the space station. And that program. Had the research numbers bureaucratically of the 775 program and had been canceled. A few months after that had happened. Only a couple of years ago. Research. Continuing. Turned up. That indeed, by 1959. All of that research had indeed continued, but not in the public eye. And that there was a detailed. Public hidden programme called Project Horizon about founding a military base on the moon and that it was totally feasible. We have every capability of going there and every possibility of setting it up. And the author of it was a general general who was the commanding officer for Colonel Philip J. Corso, and his book that contains Project Horizon in full in the back is called The Day After Roswell. When we come back from the break, we're going to see that the person in charge of the x 775 program. Was a man named Forrest J. James v Forrestal. James v Forrestal. And he was the war time World War two. Secretary of the Navy. But when? The war secretary changed over to the secretary of Defense in 1947. He became the first secretary of defense. One of the most honored men in US military history. Two years later. He was characterized as having had a mental breakdown and had committed suicide in Washington, D.C. by jumping out of the 16th floor of a hospital holding room. We have a lot to talk about after the break. Let's come back. Let's come back to our square of attention. Our frame of reference. We're living in a new time form of civilization. Whose emergence spark of ignition was 1991. But whose mythic quality of resonance was New Year's Day 2000, the by millennium. And if you count back from 2000 2000 years, you come not so much to one ad, but you come to zero B.C.. Which means. That whatever time we are counting, one goes into negative numbers. 2000 years ago. But to mitigate that one says BC before Christ ad Anno Domini year of his domain of teaching. Or to put it in a common era. For those who want to keep the dating but different designation the C. So it's not BC, it's BCE before the Common era. But there are many dates Chinese years, Jewish years, NGO years, many kinds of dating. But the historical scientific. Prefers this dating. This is a book that was published by the University of Chicago Press. University of Chicago being one of those great universities that was founded not to have a long tradition behind it, but to be a new way of learning like Johns Hopkins University. And these were founded right at the close of the 19th century, the present beginning of the 20th century. This volume was the atmospheres of the earth and the planets. And it came out in 1949. And its author was Gerard Kuiper. Kuiper was a Dutch born astronomer who studied under the very best of the very great astronomers of Europe of his day. And he was born in 1905, so that he matured about the time that the Nazis were taking over Europe. And so he left and came to the United States, came originally, like many of them, to California, but eventually went to a place like Chicago, the University of Chicago, because he was a scientist and an astronomer of the first rank. He studied with people like John worked for whom the Oort Cloud is named and Hertzfeld felt and many other greats. And he was put in charge of the Observatory of the University of Chicago, which was in southern Wisconsin, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, Lake Geneva. And the Yerkes Observatory was and still is, one of the largest reflector telescopes in the world. Quite large. His 1949 book had the frontispiece of that February 1949 photo of the Earth from above the atmosphere, which is why he chose it. It was quite an extraordinary figure. He's the one who had such an acute visual gift. His vision was seven times sharper than ordinary human vision. He could see magnitude 7.5 stars, which is incredible and sharp. So when he used the large Yerkes telescope, he was able to see extraordinarily. And he's the one that discovered the smallest, most interesting little moon of Uranus. Mimas is the one that discovered the second moon of Neptune near it. And we didn't know of other satellites of Neptune until Voyager two went by in 1989. Again, 1989. The dates pile up. This was 1949 that this was published, revised in 1951. But not only late 1951, but already 1952 by the time it came out. It says 1951. But four years later, instead of saying the Earth and Planets. The title of his 1954 book is The Earth as a Planet. He had made a realization shift between 1951, 52 and 1954. It was extraordinary what I write about in my book, Hermetic Americans. He was a hermetic American. Many hermetic Americans are honorary. They were born in other places and have come here. What happened in 1954 is directly traceable back to what happened in 1949 when the rocket to stage that took this photo higher than the space station. That program, the 775, was terminated. Because it was under the aegis of a man who had become the first Secretary of defense, James v Forrestal. First of all. Was raked over the coals in 1949. In February, they were beginning to question the advisability of having him as secretary of Defense because he was not cooperating with the growing power of the National Security Council. And he was stuffed into a hospital as being somebody who was going crazy in late April and was purported to have committed suicide by jumping out of a 16 floor window in May, late May, same year. The diaries of James V Forrestal from 1944 to 1949 have two sections. The first section is Secretary of the Navy, 1944 to 1947 and then first Secretary of Defense, 1947 to 1949. Here's a little bit of blurb from Wikipedia on James V Forrestal. Forrestal was a supporter of naval battle group centered on aircraft carriers. He was the first to really understand strategically that this is the focus of naval power for the foreseeable future, far into the future. In 1954, the world's first super carrier was named the USS Forrestal in his honor. As is the headquarters of the United States Department of Energy. The Forrestal Building is also the namesake of the Forrestal Lecture series of the United States Naval Academy, which brings prominent military and civilian leaders to speak to the brigade of Midshipmen and of the James Forrestal campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. Among other things. He was so trusted by Franklin D Roosevelt as his military advisor, along with George C. Marshall and Tuff. It was an Irish mother and father, immigrant, a tough guy. He went out into the Pacific Ocean field while the Second World War was going on. He was an eyewitness to the Marine Battle of Kwajalein, which a lot of Marines were killed. And he was a personal witness to the greatest battle of World War Two in the Pacific, the Battle of Iwo Jima. Where tens of thousands of Marines were killed in days. First all. His objection to the National Security Council. Was never completely clear. And histories of the United States or of warfare until this volume was published in 2013. I was able just this year to get a hold of a copy published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It's Volume six out of what will eventually be seven of the the papers of George Catlett Marshall. The title page reads Volume six, and the headline is The whole World Hangs in the Balance. The dates of Volume six are the papers of George C Marshall. He was a five star general. He was a general of all of the forces. If you see or rewatch the Great World War two film Patton George C Scott as Patton, Karl Malden as General Bradley, ET cetera, etc.. Patton is relieved of his command by Eisenhower, who is the superior in Europe, but reinstated by General Marshall, who was in charge of the entire armed forces on land and air in World War Two and freed up so that he was able to. As the film shows, just stop the German offensive in 1945 by relieving best stone on Christmas Day of 1944, moved to third Army more than 100 miles in less than two days and fought a pitched battle and beat the Panzer tanks, beat the German offensive and stop them and signaled the end of the Second World War. The whole world hangs in the balance. January 8th, 1947 to September 30th, 1949. From early 1947 to the end of 1949. And just those couple of years, three years, 47, 48, 49, every thing changed. Everything changed. Very early on in Volume six. In fact, out of what is it, 800 pages, almost 800 pages. It's on page 20 at the beginning, February 7th, 1947, a memorandum for the president for FDR by General George Marshall. Confidential. Subject comments of the secretary of State. On draft of Bill to promote the National Security fourth draft January 28th, 1947. Notice, though, that FDR was no longer alive. World War Two had finished. Things were preparing and who had been in charge since Roosevelt's death was Harry Truman. So it's confidential to President Harry Truman. Who is neither a military man nor had the vision of Franklin Roosevelt. For those who don't recognize or don't know, Roosevelt was in the time of World War One, an adjunct to the Secretary of Navy, and like Marshall, was an adjunct to the general of the American Army at the time. John J. Pershing soldiers in the First World War called him Blackjack Pershing because he was a tough guy. Well, it's interesting to see. This is Marshall writing to Truman. About a draft bill. Of primary concern to the Secretary of State and to yourself and to the country. A coordination for national security. The National Security Council that was being set up was being proposed as the fourth draft. Just skip down to a telling paragraph. The council would be composed of the secretary of state, secretary of the Armed Forces, the Secretary of the Army of the Navy of the Air Force, chairman of the National Security Resources Board and other members, as the President might designate from time to time. The draft provides that the function of the Council shall be to integrate our foreign and military policy. The foreign policy of the secretary of State, with the military policy of the heads of the different services and the National Resource Board, National Security Resource Board, so that the intelligence services that were coming in to their real power, the military, which was coming into its real power and the political that was coming into its real power, are going to be represented by a National Security Council. In other words, an oligarchy of power. The draft provides that the function of the Council shall be to integrate our foreign and military policy and to enable the military services and other agencies of the government to cooperate more effectively in matters involving our national security. It is made the duty of the Council, subject to the direction of the President, to consider and establish policies on matters of common interest to the Department of State, the armed forces establishment, the three military departments and the National Resources Board, and to reconcile and coordinate action to be taken in connection therewith. Further subject to the authority of the President is provided that decisions of the Council shall establish the approved policy of the Department and agencies represented by the Council. The head of each Department shall then take action to implement Council decisions in the name of the head of the Department. Under the foregoing provisions, apart from those which have to do with unification of the armed forces, there would be inaugurated a critical departure from the traditional method of formulating and conducting foreign policy. Are you hearing this? The procedure under Section 301 would give predominance in the field of foreign relations to a body composed no less of than six of which at least four would be civilian heads of military establishments. I think it would be unwise to vest such a counsel by statute with broad and detailed powers and responsibilities in this field under proposed statute. It would be the duty of the Council in carrying out the specific obligations imposed upon it and in exercising the authority granted to limit, in effect, this vital responsibility of the President to limit. The authority and the responsibility of the president in favor of the National Security Council. Later on another section of Volume six, the papers of George Catlett Marshall. This section is entitled Into the Fire January 8th to June 30th, 1947. The quotation here at the bottom of this introductory page. Is a letter from Marshall to Lieutenant General Albert C See to Meyer. January 21st, 1947. The quote is this that he chose from his own letter to General Whitmire four into the fire. January to June 1947. The book Peace of Mind, which you have so kindly sent to me, could not have been received at a more propitious moment. For there never was anyone who will be more in need of that greatly to be desired mental state than I. As I stepped from the frying pan into the fire. The frying pan was World War Two. The fire was the Cold War, seemingly. But the heat of the fire. Was to become apparent a week later on the 4th of July 1947, with the double crash of UFOs at Roswell. We're going to come back to this next week, perhaps not as intensely. But it's interesting to note how quickly everything changed and the index of. Gerard Kuipers. The Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets 1949 1951, 52 and 1952 is when the hydrogen bomb was first detonated. A million tons of TNT. And 1954, when Eisenhower had a meeting at Edwards Air Force Base with can we call them envoys from elsewhere. It's important to see the Earth as a planet. When in 1960, just six years later, Kuiper was in charge of this atlas published by the University of Chicago Press. It's the most detailed up to date Lunar Atlas ever made. He was in charge of it. This is the Atlas that the Apollo program used to go to the moon. And there was Kuiper with his incredible acuity of vision, as well as acuity of seeing his differential conscious scalar, his kaleidoscopic historical insight. He picked the landing sites that would be most propitious in terms of sea analogy, the geology of the moon. More next week.