Presentation 47

We come to the 47th presentation of 2015. And as we've been saying that the Learning Civilization program of 2006 2007 was the culmination of more than 40 years of development, not just theoretical development, but actual teaching. Over all of those decades. And since 2008, I've been doing annual series to give a larger context, a deepening of that learning civilization. Not so much a program, but we would call it today a platform. And that learning civilization platform allows us to have a lot of applications out of it. And the last eight years have been a survey of something that indexes civilization for us. And that is time. Not just calendar or calendars, but time forms. And the refinement of that is actually scientific so that the last eight years will be a context of explorations for the eight phases of the 2627 Learning Civilization platform. It's important for us. By late 2015, almost 2016, to understand and appreciate the need for a differential conscious complement to integral cycles of thought. Just three days ago, one of the great research websites headlined a short article, an in-depth look at the technology behind the chemistry Nobel Prize for 2015, and the prize featured the work of Tomas Lindahl, and he was quite instrumental in the mid 1970s, 1974. He outlined the basic principles of b e r in his 1974 paper. Continued studies led him to reconstitute the entire b e r process, and the B stands for bacterial. Uh, which purify with purified enzymes of both E coli and human cells. What came out of this is succinctly reported in the introduction by Michelle Taylor, editor in chief of this newsletter. Take a deep breath. It may not feel any different to you than the other Approximately 28,000 breaths you will take today and every other day. But there's a strong possibility the oxygen you just breathed in caused a cell in your body to suffer a DNA double strand break. And it may not be that cells only break. In fact, every one of the 70 trillion cells in the human body suffers 1 to 10 DNA breaks on a daily basis. So the problem is, how does nature repair on the level and scale of this kind of damage from just breathing? This is why learning is superior to systems of education and instruction. Because once a system is set up, it refines its systematic quality. But it is not very good at repair. And not only that, not just the oxygen from breath, but a more severe kind of intrusion that happens is from radiation of various frequencies. Not to mention stress. Psychically, psychologically, psycho, physically. And so a learning platform is not only radically different, it is radically differential to an integral, only systematic education or instruction, which means that the language basis of tradition, of custom that gets into gold, into social systems, comes out of the cultural milieu, the background where an oral language, as for a very long time, more than probably 100,000 years, carried the sense of a culture that is able to grow, to develop itself within a natural cycle. One of the characteristics that the Learning Civilization program has is that spoken language speech carries eventually an integrating quality of threads. And those threads are the various myths and the study of those myths, mythology is a study actually in psychology, which is a part of the social integration that is not carried by spoken language, but is carried by written language. A written language is a further development. It is the crown of that whole integral cycle in nature, just as the mythic language of experience with feelings and imagery and discursive traditions and instructive customs is based upon the ritual comportment, the things, the actions, their combinations, And all of this, the ritual is based upon its emergence from nature, and the mythic is must run a parallel with natural cycles, so that one would find that there are seasons, for instance, in nature or cycles, seasons for a sun year, cycles for a lunar month. And that these are the ancient, in fact, archaic origins of calibration for time for calendars and cultures. A civilization is different. It is differential. It has prototypes in very advanced cultures, in intercultural. But civilization itself is based upon the ability to have a written language so that instead of a written form of communication being a selection of signs, one of the earliest signs that there is is marking number and. Numeracy. We know now by the 21st century in the middle of the second decade that numeracy preceded literacy by at least some 5000 years. One of the aspects that was surprising was that in archaeological digs of ancient of archaic sites, never paid any attention to little tiny squibs of clay. They eventually were just called tokens. Those tokens were signs in physical clay, like little Monopoly pieces of numbers, and each one of those would stand for a number. And some what larger would stand for a cluster of such numbers? So that when the origin of a written language, which is not at all based on signs but has for its operative base, symbols and written language with symbols, began to recognize that numeracy is the first indication that one must put into a communication. One of the earliest written languages that we have trace of is cuneiform. In fact, just a couple of years ago, Oxford University Press put out this tome almost a thousand pages. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture, and it has a beautiful selection to our editors, Karen Radner and Eleanor Robson. They're both British. Eleanor is from Cambridge and Karen from University College London. And it has next to its title page, an ancient scribe from early cuneiform writing Sumeria. And he has a cape helmet hood that is of a fish. He has emerged from the sea, which gave us our primal substance and home in all kinds of mythologies. And now he is able to carry a little satchel. And that little purse, that little satchel has the equipment of the styluses that are used to take a hand size, palm size, square of clay. And literally written language began because it fit into the palm of the hand. And if you could read it, you were able to grasp its meaning. It's that simple. It's that primordial. The open hand is a sign that the knowledge is not graspable, but must be saluted. Honored. Praised. This is not only primordial. It is consistent all the way through civilization. So that one finds in cuneiform on those little clay tablets that later on are baked to solidify them. The first inscription is not a symbol but a numeracy sign. And one would take not the front of the stylus to make the cuts of cuneiform, but one would take the blunt in and they came in two sizes. One was a small dot. The other was a larger dot. And those were number indications. All of this began to be codified as a written language. According to the handbook, one can go back as far as about 3500 B.C.. The actual. History of civilizations that we are now beginning to be able to write and not only grasp, but to understand and share. The beginnings go back to about 4350 B.C.. So that it took several hundred years for that most proto primitive way of writing symbols and not just numeracy signs or other natural signs to be able to have a population, at least not very large, probably not more than several score of people or at the most 100 throughout the entire planet at that time. The same kind of origins took place in ancient Egypt, which developed eventually the sophistication of having symbols that were discursive enough to be able to convey a radical difference between grasping what you're supposed to do, what you ought to do, what you are doing, what you have done on a ritual basis. With an experience coming out of that that is passed on in a cultural way and then integrated and brought together in a social system. By the time of about 3000 B.C., there was a huge shift in sophistication in Egypt, the emergence of hieroglyphs. We're not at all sign indicated language of culture, however high, but was in fact the development of civilization well enough that literacy was able to take hold as learning in China the same way. There are indications that about 3000 B.C., the first step, if you will, the first realization of you, if you will, from a kind of a written sign. Numeracy language is the development of the symbols of the three lines, a pair and a third of two kinds of lines, an unbroken line and a line that is interrupted as a hiatus. The. Hiatus line. The yen is an openness to acceptance. The unbroken line is the ability to take that acceptance and grasp it and make it work. One is a time dynamic that is young. The other is a time presence, which is yin. And those two kinds of lines, when put into triads, give one a chance to have not only three lines of either kind, but have a pair of either kind with a third line of its complement, etc. These are the telegrams developed in China as the first symbols about 3000 B.C.. On the basis of at least 1000 years, probably in that time frame back to 4350 B.C., that one could develop the sense that one needed to be able to not only write but be able to read symbols. Reading is the openness to accept it. And writing is the dynamic to inscribe it so that the yen in the yang or the use. For instance, in India, certain glyphs were of animals like the Brahma bull and symbols like a huge yu and some other so called abstract marks mixed together with a wheel with spokes, eight spokes. And that Indus script, those Chinese early glyphs, those Egyptian hieroglyphs, the advances in cuneiform use and complexity all came together. And about 3000 B.C. there was the realization. That tribal cultural forms were not sufficient to carry this learning on with instruction and with education, with custom by tradition. And so there came to be schools of those who were literate, able to write, but equally able to read and to communicate among themselves. And this was not some kind of nefarious secret group. It was de facto because there were so few and there was no way to fake it because you were simply given something in hieroglyphs or something in complex, more complex Chinese characters or something in India script or a composition in cuneiform that went beyond commercial or kingly custom. Could you read it and could you write it? Could you develop it? Could you understand it? Could you grasp the writing of it? Could you open to the reading of it? And that preparation for the reading of it was a recourse back to the earliest appreciation of language. And that was the ability to hear what was being said to you and that you could respond in like kind. And so the ear became the index for the sound, for especially the really emphatic sounds like vowels. They modification of breath like consonants. And then the writing able to come into play finally in a great new maturity. And that maturity was an ability to have an alphabet, not just an alphabet, but to have glyphs that now had markings of sound with the various glyph, visual shapes. And it is this quality that shows learning beginning to give a double transform to human life in civilization. Its field of endeavor. Respected nature but was a complement to nature. And that compliment to nature we colloquially call in our time consciousness, not consciousness as a thing, not an integral, but as a field such that nature is a field. Not at all. A thing precedes existence. Precedes specifically in terms of time and manifests in terms of an indefinite space, which is mysterious. But when conscious it is wholly that time signature became the basis of having a calendar that arranged the natural cycle. Within the field of nature, complemented by the field of consciousness as a transform that led the various rituals, the various mythos threads, the way that those threads are woven into a tapestry and to a weaving that led to the ability to appreciate. And one of the earliest ways of expressing this is the Oren's position of the open palms up shared like this, that it's an openness to the mystery in nature, but it is honoring the holy in consciousness. This is a quality that becomes finally expressed in the refinement of cuneiform by about 2000 years from 4350 B.C., a whole thousand years from 3350 B.C. By 2350 B.C., the development of a written language readable with comprehension reached one of its great reference points. And we can begin to understand that there is such a thing in time. Forms of civilization is not only the time energy frequency, but that that frequency will have its wholeness both in an integral and a differential possibility way that one is dealing here with a very refined realization. But so far one has the visionary recognition and that visionary recognition that there is a whole complementary field to the field of nature. And thus it isn't just ritual that the making, the making in terms of time like rhythm becomes music of images becomes not masks that are ritualistic, but portraits and art. And so the vision and art together as a paired phase transform, give bestow is the best word. Bestow was the word used about 4000 years by one of the earliest of all of the refined uses of recognition in a written language, especially read out loud into its revealing of the holy that is there in a realization, and that the Holy in that realization is another dimension. Like the vision is like a fifth dimension. The art is like a sixth dimension. The seventh dimension is history, which is understanding how all of the natural cycle, getting the transforms of vision and of art release, the realization nation of the fact that there is a history. And that that history is different from simply the ritual, the mythic and the integral, only symbolic. And so history becomes a very strange new seventh dimension that leads finally to the realization that just as there is an aesthetic coming from vision into art, there is an analytic coming from history into science, and that this then gives us a pair of pairs of differential phases which are really dimensions that come into play with the way in which space time as a four dimensional continuum, as a four dimensional field, but that that four dimensional field has as its basic emergence, the first dimension time with three dimensions of space. Once there is time, which is spontaneous in its emergence, and once it has emerged instantly space blossoms out of it, so that the detection of the primordial quality of time as the energy of the first dimension of emergence is not apparent in the natural cycle. That is a differential conscious. Recognition that comes to play kaleidoscopic play in a sense of history for an analytic so that the aesthetic as recognition and the analytic as realization. Characterize a maturity that grows in civilization and has time form signatures. We're going to take a little break and come back to this. One of the earliest quandaries was Do we have the right calendar? The first person to have the power and opportunity to enforce a new calendar was Julius Caesar. And his calendar operated for some while found that in the early six hundreds ad it was off increasingly. And so one of the great corrections to it was to recalibrate the calendar. And one of the great volumes on it is by the venerable Bede The Reckoning of Time, published about 730 A.D.. And when we come back, we'll take a look at this. This is an indication to us that something major has happened in the six hundreds. And we'll see that a reference wave happened about 650 ad that changed the nature of the way in which civilization was unfolding. Let's take a break. Let's come back. We've been developing for the last eight years the theory and practice of time forms and civilization. The earliest calibration that I was able to make of the time. Forms of civilization. Cold cough. Was in 2008. When I was asked to try to do the period years of the learning civilization in one year. Which was not teachable. In that it was too condensed internally and too diffused differentially. So I hit upon an ancient, actually classical Greek technique, and that is to excuse me, go back to pairs. So I paired the phases so that the eight phases became four pairs of phases, and that could be done in one year. That resolution. Excuse me again. Was able to reveal that the energy of time when it's graphed, when it's given a sine wave signature. Will not only have a dynamic, but it will have its own geometry and its own trigonometry. It will have a truss and crests that are paired. There's symmetrical like a sine cosine and that the dynamic can be then graphed. So that one has the ability to take a corner. Of a pair of horizons, one vertical and one sublime. Supine. And take the upper right hand corner and make a graph. And so that the dynamic will record as vectors. And if you're paying attention to symmetry, to paradise, which we must, especially when we're dealing with integral and differential complementarity, the Chinese would call it Tao and take. And just as Tao and Te pair the field and the thing, the power to exist matter, the field of nature matter. And the interface between the two is the emergence of time as energy, so that you can eventually have an Einstein who can write e energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, which gives you the mathematical numeracy if you can understand it, if not simply by grasping it, but by opening oneself to significance. And that opening out of the tight fisted grasp of trying to nail it down. You're not building a coffin, open yourself up. And that appreciation is the field of recognition. It's the field of differential consciousness which has its pair, and its pair is in the analytic of science. That emerges from like a new phase, but also a new dimension. The sea, the speed of light turns out to be. The first particle. That was not an atom. The photon. But the photon. Posited by Einstein in 1923. As the carrier not just of light, but of light as the index of electromagnetic energy. Has a time signature built into it in terms of its space. The C squared is the dynamic of light squared because it then gives you a space and that space related to that time. With those four dimensions do indeed make a universe. But that universe, the more that one is able to stop trying to just grasp it and get instructed in it and give instructions in it to be educated in it, and then to seek to re-educate someone else into it. If you open up. Something else occurs. Concomitant with Einstein working with space time and the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland. A young Niels Bohr was working, left his native Copenhagen to go to England. It was working with. Rutherford and Ernst Rutherford was not a theoretician. He was a master mechanic, if you will. He loved building equipment. He loved tacking things down. And he wanted to tack down the structure of the atom. It was boor who, as a young man, understood intuitively in a visionary way that the atom had to be dynamic in order to sustain its self. It could not be a static structure and that the real first particle had been found by J.J. Thompson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and that was the electron. He wrote about the electron about the same year that H.G. Wells was writing his second novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau after the Time Machine. The year before 1895. Baugh began to understand that there was a complementarity that was necessary, like the way in which a dynamic of electricity will have a chiral magnet magnetic signature going not just in orbit around it, but going into spirals as the dynamic continued, and that the mass that Maxwell Clerk James Clerk Maxwell came up with in the later 1870s, the treatise of electromagnetism, that it applied to the structure. It had to apply to the structure of the atom. And his whole emphasis became illuminated for him. Visionary. Open for him. When he ran across a Chinese symbol of the Tao te. He was so moved by it that later on, when he was granted in Denmark the ability to have a family crest, he put the Taichi symbol onto his family crest. I'll bring a study of Niels Bohr next week that has that family crest on the cover and came up with the idea of complementarity. That paradox, unlike symmetry, which can definitely be in an integral. But paradox is a tune ability. It has to have a complementarity and it can operate. It can be an operator in further dimensions than space time. Its particular operative quality came out in terms of what he began to call and his prize students began to call quantum mechanics. This is a little monograph. Princeton landmarks in physics are Edmonds angular momentum in quantum mechanics, because the rotation magnetically is not just a rotation, but is a paired chiral double rotation. And not only is it chiral paired, but the helical qualities and complementarity. One spiral will move forward, the other spiral will move backward. Turns out the structure of DNA is exactly that. It's only a double helix, but they're not two. Helix is like they're braided together. They're angular. Really momentous, paired. Which allows them then to be spontaneously fertile to engender their own pair. When the two become tuned at a further distance. And so each one. Makes two. And this is how cells grow. This is how cells are structured. This is how life begins to organically have its ability to be fertile. Just like that. The time form reckoning that Bede came to classically. And by the way, it was only in Latin, I guess there never had been an English translation, even though Beard was famous as his great book as the History of the English Church and people published about 731 ad. Penguin Classic Everyman Library, famous for about 4500 years. The first English translation of his reckoning of time was 1999. Published? Yeah, Liverpool University Press. They did a whole series of translated texts for historians. Series is available and their focus was untranslated. Major works from 300 to 800 A.D.. What happens when one takes a look at Beard's calendar is that he realizes that he himself had been born into a fresh time cusp. He was born in 671. And it turns out, actually, that about 650 A.D., there is such an event in time, in time forms of civilization that the term I give to it from physics is that of a reference wave because the stability of the energy will be carried. And that's why it's called a carrier wave. When the tune ability reaches an equilibrium, which is dynamic. And when they reach an equilibrium which is dynamic, that horizon itself is not time, but is purely the field out of which time emerges spontaneously or the field out of which practicality emerges spontaneously and also absorbs spontaneously so that it really advanced. 21st century physics understands that subatomic particles are very fleeting. We began today citing the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry. To Lindahl Tomas Lindahl, who found. That the DNA double helix is extremely fragile. It's constantly and not just constantly. Frequently being broken. The figure that he found, every one of the 70 trillion cells and the human body suffers 1 to 10 DNA breaks on a daily basis. So that there has to be a repair procedure. He Lindahl in 1974 perfected the ability to understand how the helical structure of DNA can be cut and. He utilized a series of experiments. That. In 1974, Continued studies led him to reconstitute the entire VR process with purified enzymes of both E coli bacteria and human cells. And it goes into very technical biochemical knowledge here. What happens is that not only do they break all the time, but they are healed all the time. Actually, the alchemical term is not healed, which would just be restored to what they were. They alchemical term is unhealed, and that is they're restored in a transformational way. And actually not stressed here. But the fact is that all of the activity of double helical DNA surfaces also in the way in which language was replaced, from signs to early glyphs of symbols. And we were talking originally about using the Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture that the palm sized clay tablets by which cuneiform was inscribed, and that the symbol, not just the numerical signs, but the numerical signs were then used as a preface to what the other cuneiform symbols would say about it. The blunt end of the stylus used as a small one to make a time number. And the larger to make a cluster of these numbers so that the numeracy clue precedes on each cuneiform tablet by the hundreds of thousands. But the discursive cognitive form is not arranged in simple lines. In fact, they go up and down, but they go up and down in a special kind of a pattern. And the rotation of that pattern is counterclockwise. It is. It is not the natural clockwise motion, but it's the counter clockwise, the left handed chiral that gives the opportunity for there to be not just an expansion of symbolic meaning, but that the whole time dynamic of that is open to new spontaneity coming into play. And long story very, very short in the structure of DNA. There are elements discovered by Barbara McClintock from which she got finally a Nobel Prize, and she calls them transposons. They're the jokers in the deck. They're the wild cards that allow for spontaneous transforms to happen. One can be glib and dodgy and say there are mutations, but they are not really mutants. They are creative possibilities and that some of those are necessary for the increasing complexity and for the complex involvement of 70 trillion cells per body by the billions. And that's just this planet. How many are there in the universe in star systems? More than the sands of the Ganges. This quality that started to come into play in civilization on our planet. Had not only a carrier wave, but a reference wave for that. And they were related. And the relationship is about 350 years. The reference wave developing several generations for 350 years at 25 years per generation will give you. Four times per century. 12 and one half will give you 14. In 14 generations. A reference wave can have the dynamic of a carrier wave. But the carrier wave is an equanimity in the sine wave of the time frequency, so that when it begins and when it ends, it will have that equanimity with have that carrier wave opportunity for reality. And if we recognize it, we will have learned what time it is. But in between the beginning and the end, the return there is a previous return and that is in the center. In terms of the energy wave of a civilization. The ancient term in Greek was 2000 years between carrier waves. In the middle is a millennium, a 1000 year. And so the mythic almost shibboleths that the integral hangs onto is that the millennium is the arbiter of the way in which large scale versions of time happen because there is a trust and then a return back through the equanimity of the horizon to a crest. And then when it comes from the crest back down, it it is a new carrier wave. But the millennium will have a reference wave itself, just like the Aeon will have a reference wave about 350 years before the millennium will have its reference wave about 350 years before it. And in our time calendar 1000 A.D. is a millennium. And if you're still stuck in millennial thought, which involves apocalypses, you will see the new carrier wave as just another even more powerful millennium. The new millennium. That misidentification. That misidentification. Is sloppy enough to allow for the reference wave of the millennium to be interchangeable with a reference wave of an eon and perhaps a superior to it. Which accounts for a great deal. Of the incredible crashes in civilizations no matter where they occur. Apparently. 658 is the reference wave. And when one looks at 650 AD in terms of 2015, you can understand the crisis of civilization right before us. It's not just global. It has resonances that go out to other star systems as well. Hence the great magnetic draw. This is a very big show. It's very important to all kinds of species. This is the A Yusef Ali translation in 1900 pages of the Koran. The first time that the Koran has been adequately translated into English ever. 1938. It was the publisher was in Lahore, Pakistan, but the actual publishing work was done in South Africa at Durban. The 114 Soros of the Koran are headed by the first shura, and it is usually the tonic tone of the way in which one would be able to read the Quran and not only read it, but to read it out loud, because the whole depth of resonance could not be put on everyone to be literate enough to appreciate the incredible, complex poetic of the Quran. But one can hear it like a really refined music. And the reciting, the reciting, not the reading of the Koran is the major way in which the Koran is appreciated because it's a music. Yeah, if you can read music, you can read the score, but you have to hear it. The first Surah 114 comes because the sayings of Saint Thomas, of the Living Jesus was 114 sayings. So this has a visionary recognition resonance to that. The first surah. It's in Arabic for Fatima for the opening chapter and the seven. Lines into English. Translate. In the name of Allah. Most gracious, most merciful. Praise be to Allah, the cherished and sustainer of the world's most gracious, most merciful. Master of the day of judgment. The do we worship and thine aid we seek. Show us the straight way. The way of those on whom thou hast bestowed thy grace. Thou whose portion is not wrath and who go not astray. The Koran says merciful, most merciful. Who do not go the way of wrath. That's Mohammed. That's the Koran. But those who were not visionary like Muhammad and able to write like the Koran in that high, high, poetic. Who saw instead in an integral only way. We can use this. Muhammad died in 632. And those that came in using. Yes. Established a caliphate. Under a masterful, relentless General Omar. Like Omar Sharif. And Omar set out to quickly. Militarily armed with this is an ideology, not as a vision, not as a poetic. But emphasizing that this is all about the will to victory. Sound familiar? Establishing a caliphate for that. Within a couple of years of Muhammad's death. Not his death, but its way of being expressed as his ascension. His ascension because Jesus did not die. Well, yes, he died and then he was resurrected and then he ascended. A visionary does not die. He ascends because he goes back and joins the great openness. Within ten years of Muhammad's death and ascension in Medina. The Islamic military. Calif. Like a tidal wave. Was able to capture Egypt. And in 642 AD took over what was left of ancient Alexandria, once the visionary capital of the previous carried away. We're going to come back next week and take a look with more carefulness, because the entire first time that there ever was a history of the Arab conquest of Egypt and the last 30 years of the Roman domination. Oxford, 1902. We're talking about the most major things in civilization, and they are hardly ever known, even on academic, especially on academic circles. Which have a tendency not to be chiral but to be orbital. Over and over and over again like a stuck record. It's time to turn off. The stuff stopped. Record player. And opened up to a better music more next week.