Presentation 6

We're on the sixth presentation of something epical. In fact, it dwarfs epics. We have been born into a generation that has been the storm front of a threshold of enormous transformation. Our species has refined itself so that we now inhabit a realm that has already established the new, refined species of man. The last time that this happened was about 50,000 years ago, and concomitant with that, we have established the beginnings of a time form wherein a new civilization, in fact, a refined kind of civilization will increasingly come into play and will come into play for at least 2000 years into the future. The most telling quality for us. Is that in 1949, from White Sands, New Mexico, a two stage rocket, a WAC rocket made in the United States, and a modified V-2 hijacked and rescued from Nazi Germany. When the American troops took over the Peenemünde missile base into a different kind of rocket called then a corporal, that the whack corporal two stage rocket in early 1949 went 250 miles above the Earth into what is today space higher than the current International Space Station is in its orbit. Mysteriously, that program was terminated. The program had a government designation, the MKS 775. It was terminated by the Secretary of Defense, the first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal. Within a very short time. Forrestal, it is said, committed suicide jumping out of the 16th floor window of the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. And all of the UFO sites in the world now are featuring stories about Forrestal's suicide not being a suicide, but was a planned assassination because he was a part of the original cover up of UFOs, the majestic 12. And he had become alarmed at the direction that was being taken of beginning to back engineer captured UFOs and to back engineered captured UFO occupants in a completely secret secret government, even from those that were empowered to keep track of it. Because the first president whose responsibility it was, was Harry Truman. And he was taught not able technically, nor in terms of political savvy, to ride herd on something so enormous and on concerted individuals in a power group so adept. The difficulty is that the next president was very capable. General Dwight Eisenhower was the commander in chief of all the Allied troops in World War Two. He was a strategic mastermind, and he would not be put off and demanded to be shown what is going on and what the scale is. And in 1954, he was taken to Edwards Air Force Base in the upper Mojave Desert here in California, and a meeting was arranged with interstellar civilization representatives, and the so-called majestic 12 became reformulated as the Committee of the majority. It has become apparent by 2009 that not only are we not alone in the universe, the estimates now are that if we just use a statistical sampling, our galaxy alone would contain minimally 361. Why they got one. 361 interstellar civilizations. And on the high end, it could run as high as many thousands. Apparently, in the development of what we used to think of as the universe. But now more properly harkening back to the Greek term used initially by Pythagoras in the cosmos. The standard candle are galaxies, and that there are billions of galaxies. And each of these have trillions of stars, and each of those have the capacity to have planets, multiple planets. So that it is the height of imbecility not to understand that we are in a threshold of maturing to a point of interest, which has been achieved, apparently since time immemorial, in the cosmos, but that our particular case is of interest. If you look at some of the early photos from the Wako-pro looking down on the earth from 250 miles up in 1949, you can see the kind of global spread, the kind of planetary vista that is familiar now from the International Space Station. If you go further, if you go to the moon, as the Apollo astronauts did towards the end of their program, you can see the Earth rise over the moon as if it were the moon rising over the Earth only four times its size and dimension. And we have talked about how in 1966, when the Whole Earth Catalog was first published in San Francisco by the Potrero Foundation, Potrero Hill is in the San Francisco area. The cover of it was the Earth from space, and the caption was we cannot put it together, it is together. And the comment instantly was that there were no colored shapes of nations on the globe, just the swirl of the clouds, the prominence of the oceans giving a blue cast with the land green and brown. If you go further away, not very far in terms of the star system and negligible in terms of the galaxy, and. Almost unnoticeable in the cosmos. If you go to Mars and look back, the Earth is a blue star. It is a sapphire blue star, somewhat brighter than Mars is as a cinnamon saffron star. As bright as Venus. If you go further out, the Earth always remains a star, but diminishes. And the last photograph. The family portrait of the star system. Our star system from Voyager two. Reversing its angle of its cameras in the 1990s, took a family portrait of our star system for the first time. The sun and the eight stars of all the planets, and the little tiny star of Pluto that is now a Kuiper Belt object. And the Earth from there is a very minuscule pinpoint sapphire dot, not a dot, but too small to be a dot, just a spark. Our relationality to reality has a scalar. Now, that is in evidence that could only have occurred to the greatest of intuitive yogis in the not so distant past. The quality of appreciation is that our responses, not just to this challenge or series of challenges, but to something which includes the challenges and the response, which is called an encounter. That this encounter is not just an event, but is a layered series that looks to us as if it were layered, but looked upon from a perspective of not just years, but even just centuries. It looks like an explosion, a creative explosion. And from the standpoint of terms of millennia. It looks like what Jesus once talked about as the twinkle in the eye, as quick as a twinkle in the eye, I shall be there. We shall all be changed. We will no longer be limited to the world of man, but we will have matured so that we are at home in God's realm, in the heavens, in heaven itself. We have achieved already this threshold, and what we are presenting here is how the backlog of insights through our long 50,000 year history as Homo sapiens sapiens increasingly became condensed and intensified about 350 years ago. The most convenient person to provide dates and circumstances. Sir Isaac Newton, who was born in 1642 and lived till 1727, and it is Newton's Principia mathematica and his opticks that give a watershed that something new has come into play in such a way that one of the great appreciator critics of that age named Marjorie Nicholson, wrote two beautiful books on the effect on literature in Europe, and especially in England because of the Newtonian revolution. One of them is Newton Demands the muse. She must hear us anew, and the other is called the breaking of the circle. That the circle of convenient geometric abstractions was over, that there was a dynamic now that was spiraling in such a way that there was a spectrum of light, a spectrum of energy that was yet to be found out, yet to be determined. 21 years before Newton died, Benjamin Franklin was born. And Franklin, within just 20 years of Newton's death, uh, of discovered electricity. Discovered how to pull lightning from the storm clouds down the wires of a kite. In through the bottom of the sill of his window. In his study in Philadelphia, and put the energy into a series of Leyden jars made in Leiden, Netherlands, which could store this lightning energy, this electricity, and by having a series of six by seven batteries, one could for the first time with this egg crate of Leyden jars have the world's first battery. One could save the energy named by him electricity, by making sure that the positive and negative poles named by him, and all of the other vocabulary already named by him, and by 1751 all of his letters on his researches were published in London by his one of his great friends from 1687, when Newton first published the Principia mathematica to 1751, is only 64 years. It was a massive beginning of a kind of a transformation of civilization that we have seen before. In fact, we have seen with the periodicity. When we go back, we find that there are cycles of time that help us to keep track of the way in which the phenomena that blossom as existential forms in space are also underwritten by a time dimension, so that time becomes the signature of the way in which those forms will occur, that they will not occur statically, but they will occur in a frequency of the energy that has been synched into polarity so that they exist, but they do not exist statically, they exist vibrationally, and that one can learn finally how to calibrate the frequency of matter so that one can understand then, how to tune one's capacity through instrumentation to use that energy, and to begin to experiment with it. A little man named Michael Faraday, whose first job was to sweep out a building in London where Sir Humphry Davy was doing experiments with mechanics and chemistry and magnetism. And it was little Michael Faraday who patiently like Franklin and like Newton worked out in the basement of this building, the way in which one could come to understand that electricity and magnetism were the same frequency. That the frequency of the two together made an electromagnetic spectrum. And that while the electro spectrum is very large in the frequency, the magneto is quite small. It was some time later that James Clerk Maxwell discovered a way to mathematize what Faraday had understood from what Franklin had developed, from what Newton had started. And Maxwell's Great treatise, two big volumes on the theory of electromagnetic energy, Showed that they solve in a pair of ways. Not only is there an electromagnetic spectrum, but there is mathematically a magnetoelectric spectrum. But that both those have their polar polarized polarities and that while matter that comes into existence in the electromagnetic spectrum can be of two kinds, it can be matter. It can be anti-matter. The magneto electric is much higher frequency. We now know it is about 20 billion times the frequency. And that if there were a existential matter made out of Magnetoelectric spectrum, it would be so incredibly refined and powerful that a magnetoelectric being could walk through the universe and walk in between the spaces of the atoms interior. We'd never have to bump into the nucleus or the electrons, and literally would be like a ghost spirit being. And by moving 20 billion times, the pace could take one step and go through the entirety of the cosmos. We live at a time where star Wisdom Man has to recalibrate himself, and if it takes alphabetical steps to do so, We have already taken a great many of those steps, and that when many of us were born in the late 30s, early 40s, some in the early 50s, already there was a realization that one had moved already several generations before, beyond the Newtonian into the Einstein universe, into, in fact, not only the Einstein universe, but the quantum universe. And by the late 30s, early 40s, the ability to make atomic fission had become a reality. And the visioning capacity of star wisdom man Homo sapien stellaris had already put these prophetic visions out to such an extent that it is called now, in literary retrospect, the golden age of science fiction. And as many of those individuals that we're now taking a look at creativity clusters, they're become special groups of talented people who come together and who together make a pattern of events that they weave their work together, their energies together, and one suddenly has a threshold of something which is dimensional and the source of that dimensional threshold is that consciousness is a fifth dimension. That just as time as the first dimension blossoms the three dimensions of space from its very vibratory motion, as soon as there is a movement of a. Not a dimension. The original geometric phrase for it was from Euclid 2300 years ago in Alexandria. He was an inheritor by that time of 200 years, of almost 250 years of Pythagorean excellence. The original beginning of Euclid's 13 books on geometry. The original sentence, translated accurately from the Greek, is that a point is a locus of no dimension, and when it moves, it begins to describe a line. That a line is not drawn between two points. It is the movement of a locus of no dimension. That locus of no dimension has no dimension because space has not yet blossomed from time. But as soon as the locus of no dimension moves, the line occurs and is the beginning that the first dimension now has a spatiality. It's in space, and that that space generates almost instantly, not quite, but almost instantly a plane, and that that plane is capable in its two dimensionality to fold. And because it can fold, it makes a three dimensionality. A three dimensional space. And so Euclid, not wanting to frighten young men who would come and pay to learn this, did not call it locus of no dimension mathematics. He called it plain geometry, so that the attention right away would leap over the mystical and get to the beginning of the obvious, so that one could then begin to teach them, because they were not available in depth and refinement for the mystic under field, And that under field is nature. Nature is a field. And nature, when it has expressiveness in terms of time, begins a signature by which existence can then blossom into its three dimensional space and encompass within that space the dimension of time, so that one now speaks and can speak of a four dimensional continuum of space time, and that the key to understanding the glyphs of a geometric city. One can begin with the plain and cut out of the plain circles and triangles, squares, rectangles, parallelograms, and eventually come to understand that there are such things as aspects of a square. Aspects of a triangle which are the angles, and especially one of the most interesting of all the angles is where two lines are perpendicular from a common point, so that the angle then is existentially capable of generating mystery in terms of a plane of expressibility in terms of a geometric city. And if you make those lines such that they are linked together by a third line, you will have a triangle called the Pythagorean triangle. And as long as you maintain the perpendicular 90 degree angle, however long those lines are, the third line will be exactly proportionally that long. It's called the hypotenuse, and the relationship will always be three, four, five. The beginning point of the angle will be one. The two lines will be two. The third line creates then the 345 ratio thing. But the true beginning of that is not on the plane. It's not in the lines. It's not at the angle. The true beginning of that is the zero dimension of the locus of no dimension, which is capable of movement capable then of generating time, which capable of blossoming space capable of a great deal of appreciation. Exactly. At the time that Euclid was going through his ability to express all of this 2300 years ago. In India. There was a crisscrossing of talent coming from the West all the way to India, coming all the way from Alexandria and beyond, into Western Europe, into India. Because India at that time was a masterfully united in what was called the Ashokan empire, and Ashoka, as the Emperor of India, sent emissaries to Alexandria to represent India, and the yogis in Greek were called Gymnosophists. Gymnosophist. They were gymnasium sophists. They were capable of using their body in a yoga that would make a kind of a calibration of the chakras, so that India had developed a kind of a geometry of the body which then indexed and scaled all of the major positions of the body as asanas. And we're able to give a rather complete scalar of what this was much in the way that Pythagorean Greek understanding became Euclidean geometry in India by that time, the ability to go back to a contemporary of Pythagoras, the Buddha, the historical Buddha, was developed to the point to where one could understand it. Ashoka was the first Buddhist emperor of India. He ruled for about 50 years. They understood by that time that there is a way in which to calibrate the yoga spectrum of asanas to raise them to a higher level, and that the higher level was able to be expressed like plain geometry in something a little simpler to begin with, and that was to alert the young students to the fact that their psycho physical shape was augmented not only by a fifth dimension of consciousness, but that there was a six dimensional form that emerges accurately out of that five dimensional transform continuum, and that that sixth dimensional form was the Sanskrit word was Purusha. It means a spiritual being, the spiritual person. The form of the spiritual person emerges out of a five dimensional continuum as a sixth dimensional quality that is different from, but related to, the individuality and the referent to it, which is the physical existence. And that in between the individuality in thought, the sense that I am I, which is an identification, and the confirmation of it, is that that identification is based on a 1 to 1 referentiality that the I, the individual in the structure of thought, is equivalent to the existence of this body in four dimensional time space. So that the individuality is also a four dimensional form. And that they have a referential equivalency that the I of individuality is this body, but that the Purusha, the spirit person, is distinctly different because it can transform the individuality and can transform the body. That the third form is not just body, mind and spirit, but that spirit is able to modify to transform both the mind and the body, and by being able to transform the mind and the body, all of a sudden one has the understanding that the cycle, the circle, the integral that led to everything being arranged in terms of an understander in the mind, the eye now has to pay attention to the fact that there is not only a reference back to physicality to Existentiality, but there is a reference forward to the Purusha, to the spiritual person. And so when the age old Indian epic of the Mahabharata that had been passed on orally for almost 3000 years came into this realm, it was written down for the first time. And the writer was a great sage named Vyasa. The Sanskrit origin of that name is very much like Vayu, which means wind. The spirit writer magnificent. And the Mahabharata is a very interesting thing. The great translation by C Rajagopalachari. The Mahabharata was published first edition 1951, 3000 copies. It was the beginning of a book university in Bombay, now called Mumbai, and this was the first of Bhavan's Book University and this book University eventually published. Pitirim Sorokin, Reconstruction of humanity as one of its earliest books because India understood by this time, by the early 1950s, this volume was published in originally in 1950 8th October 1958, exactly one year after October 1957, which was when Sputnik went up and Sputnik alerted the entire world to the fact that the space age is here in the sense that man can leave the Earth. Not only can a rocket leave the Earth, but man can leave the Earth. It takes about nine months to publish a book, and The Reconstruction of Humanity, written by Sorokin, is a reprint of his original book, The Reconstruction of Humanity, and it was published in 1948. Beacon Press in Boston. We're going to take a little break and come back. What I'm doing is weaving for us, for our attentiveness, not for an argument, and not just a lecture, but weaving a presentation that we are being surfed along a tremendous tidal wave of newness, which is our own capacities, raised almost to infinity. It is not only a responsibility to do so, it is a privilege to be able to participate with all who can appreciate it. Because the last time that this happened was 2000 years ago, with the advent of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, who were so potent in their transforms that they refined Buddhism so that one didn't focus on the Buddha, who became a locus of no dimension. Anatta. Anicca. There is no I at all. It will vanish with a powerful yoga, but will reappear on what the historical Buddha called the other shore, and when it reappears on the other shore. The emphasis is not on the point of no dimension, but upon the plane now raised to multidimensional levels. And so the emphasis is on the Bodhisattva. The transformation of the Buddha to the Bodhisattva 500 years later comes from the messenger from Alexandria and Jerusalem and Ephesus and Athens sent to India by Jesus. And that was the apostle Thomas. Who was buried outside of a city used to be called Madras. Now is called Chennai. And Chennai is so huge that Saint Thomas Hill is in one of the inner suburbs of Madras, of Chennai. We're going to take a break and then we'll come back. Let's come back to Sorokin's reconstruction of humanity, 1948. Just to recap about Sorokin, he was born in 1889. He was born in the far north of Russia of a mother who was of a Finnish background. They're called the Komi Komi people, and a Russian father who was a repairer of church icons and who when died when Petrum was three years old, the father became increasingly alcoholic and abusive. And finally, at the age of ten, Petrum, with his 14 year old older brother, left and never saw the father again and went to work. But because of his great genius, he literally. Put himself in Saint Petersburg and became extremely important right about the time of the Russian revolutions, and became the personal secretary to Kerensky and was deeply suspected by Lenin of being a danger and was imprisoned a couple of times. And finally Lenin decided to help, and in the cell were being held hundreds of men, and they were so desperate not to suffer the tensions of interminable detainment leading to deaths anyway. They sought to find ways to commit suicide. When someone would come down with typhoid fever, they would put them on their own bodies, hoping to become infected to die earlier. Two friends of Sorokin's from his university days made a special appeal to Lenin by saying he's a good example of the wishy washy intellectual who should be let go and banished because they're not worth killing, they're ineffectual. And so he was banned. He was first taken in by President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who made arrangements for him to go to the United States to Minneapolis University of Minnesota, where he was noticed for his incredible genius and became the founder of the sociology department of Harvard University, where he was the rest of his life. Here, from the reconstruction of just a few sentences to give you the poignancy of one of the founders of the science of sociology. The first mortal blow was dealt to it by its own agents, capitalists and large scale entrepreneurs, for it was the captains of industry who launched the economy of big corporations, trusts and cartels. The economy split the very cornerstone of capitalism that of private property. Its full fledged form. Private property means the right of possession, use, management and disposal of the property in question, and also the duty to bear the risk of its mismanagement. The economy of corporations shattered this in every corporation. Those who own it, its thousands of shareholders and bondholders neither use its property nor manage nor dispose of it. On the other hand, those who manage and dispose of it, the board of directors and the officials do not own even a significant portion of its property. And skipping over a paragraph or so, it was precisely the pioneers of corporate economy the Rothschilds and Rhodes's, the Rockefellers and Carnegies, and not the Communists or Socialists who dealt the mortal blow to the full blooded capitalism of the 19th century. With the establishment and rapid growth of big corporations at the end of the 19th century, they invalidated private property, shattered authentic capitalism, crushed thousands of small, truly capitalistic enterprises, and inaugurated the fatal decline of capitalist economy. Such things do not endear you to the power structure of corporate things. And in 1944 he was removed as the chairman, even though he was the founder of the Department of Sociology of Harvard. And Talcott Parsons was chosen because he was a yes man for the power structure that wanted control of things. But Sorokin refused to leave. And in fact, he got a patron, Eli Lilly of the Lilly Pharmaceuticals. And Lilly established a center of creative altruism at Harvard. And so Sorokin could be just another ordinary professor of sociology, but also the head and director of the creative altruistic, uh, center at Harvard. And from this standpoint, Sorokin began to publish a number of books. One of the most powerful of those books came out in 1950, a seminal year dedicated to Eli Lilly social philosophies in an Age of crisis, and in it, he reviews all of the major theories and theorists of cultures and civilizations, and he finds most of them lacking. He put out his own deep consideration, not from the standpoint of philosophy or anthropology or even history, but from the stance of sociology. That sociology, then, is a very powerful discipline, a science. Its study focuses on the society. Are, he writes, in this way. In 1950, an individual or group can possess a given cultural phenomenon in its ideological form only. For instance, an individual or group may well know the ideology that is, the totality of meanings, values, and norms of Communism or Buddhism. Meanings without either practicing it or objectifying it through a set of material objects and vehicles such as Buddhas, a Buddhist temple with its ritual objects, or a communist club with its pictures of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, and hundreds of other material vehicles of communism. Christians who ideologically profess the sermon on the Mount but do not at all realize it in their behavior or in their material culture, are only ideological Christians. With respect to the culture enunciated by the sermon on the Mount, it remains a pure ideology with them and does not penetrate deeper into their behavior and material culture. The same is true of any cultural phenomenon that functions only on an ideological level, without influencing the behavior with the material culture of individuals and groups. He eventually came to understand that there really is a polarity, a bifurcation, sociologically speaking, of cultures. One kind of culture relates to the materiality, the behavior. And because of that relation, he called them sensate cultures. The other relates to the refinement and integral ideological basis. And he called those, uh, ideational cultures, and that these two kinds of cultures have a distinct polarity between them, so that there is this constant tug between the two kinds, and that a sensate culture will come to a dead end when it trashes art. That the trigger of its end can always be identified. He used the phrase one time in a conclusion, he said, you can tell when Western civilization, as a sensate based viability ended, is when you will find Rembrandts on beer cans. But then you get into the seesaw where the next step is the overhyping of the ideological side, ignoring the material, the behavior which then must be reprimanded and commandeered. You cannot leave the material value and wealth in the hands of those who are not integrated into your ideology, and you cannot let their actions, their behaviors, be unchecked without an enforcement of codes, laws, rules. And so in the seesaw of this kind of polarity, that mankind has been bounced like in a bad game, constantly flailing to find some way to be not just integrated in themselves, but to find ways to differentiate their capacities so that they can grow. And one of the difficulties is that that third way, not limited to a sensate, not limited to an ideological culture that does to have a third way. But the third way is perilous because it involves bringing into play an infinite field. And that we are not used to operating within an infinite field. And so there never has been a civilization operating within an infinite field. We are. Many decades beyond what was able to be expressed in the 1940s, brought in the 1950s to an incredible honing, and in the 1960s, um radiantly presented at the time. We talked last week of Alfred Kroeber, one of the founders of anthropology, and he died in 1960. Sorokin died in 1968. And a number of other individuals that we're looking at and talking about, my own work began in 1958. And resulted in the Learning civilization. After working on it for 42 years on the level of a university professor, and also as an educator on a practical level of seeing what would work in 1970 when I went to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. To design a whole interdisciplinary program. It was to be of 16 courses, eventually all woven together as a creative program. The first three courses that were designed were symbols, World Mythology, and Parallel Lives. The Parallel Lives was taken from the classic great Greek figure Plutarch, who lived in the first century AD into the second century. He was born about 55 and lived to 125 AD. He was Greek, but he lived at a time when the Roman Empire was the power structure, not only the power structure, but was the society of the world at the time its only competitor was Han dynasty China. The Roman Empire spread in such a way that it had tentacles and feelers all the way from Ireland to beyond Ceylon, into what is today Indochina, and contacts with the Han dynasty over Central Asia. Plutarch was a genius, and he saw that the only way to bring a recalibration into this new Caesarian power structure, the Roman Empire, was to use a complementarity to it, a setting up a comparison which would not alienate the power structure, but in fact would seemingly encourage them because they were as great as the great forbearers before them, the Greeks. And so in the parallel lives he would take a great Greek and pair that man with a great Roman trooper, Alexander the Great, with Julius Caesar. And in this way to be able to illustrate through dozens of parallel lives something that could not be done, ostensibly to deliver a transformation on every level into the Roman Empire, into the Roman imperium, so that they would begin then to understand that they were in a Greco Roman civilization, not a Roman Empire. We're fortunate in having not only all of the parallel lives saved from antiquity. You can buy them from Harvard University Press and about 1215 volumes, but you can also buy 16 volumes of the collected essays of Plutarch, the Moralia. And one of the most poignant. Is entitled Why the Ancient Oracles Don't Work Anymore, and the most poignant little vignette in that essay is that a Greek sea captain and his crew passing a famous headland of south Italy, not far from where the early Pythagorean communities of 500 BC were. Did the old traditional thing and yelled out, but not in praise of the gods, but yelled out that the ancient gods are dead and that everyone on the ship heard a great sigh of remorse from the barren landscape, from the headland, from the mountains, that the old gods were dead. We live in a time where the old gods are dead. Does not mean that God is dead. The famous saying is that Nietzsche said God is dead and scrawled on the wall underneath it. Many graffiti artists saying Nietzsche is dead. Dash God. It is a time form phenomenon. In fact, it is a time form phenomenon. But it is a conscious noumenon. That phenomena require a cycle that blossoms out of nature because of a time signature. Initial trigger, and make the shapes of existence in space so that they are space time existential. But if one looks at it in terms of a mathematic, they are time bound that their true shape is not that they are spatially shaped, but that they are time bound. And so the development of someone like a Sir Isaac Newton, thousands of years later, understood that there is such a thing that in between the zero point of no dimension and the one which is an existential, factual, physical integral that there is an infinity of in-betweens, and that one can have an infinity of movement from the zero to the one, which is an infinitesimal calculus, or one can reverse that and have the infinitesimal calculus going from one back to zero, in which case one has an integral calculus and then one has differential calculus. One can have even semi differential equations, or one can have integral equations, and that is the reversibility and give and take of Newton's calculus. That is extremely important. But he didn't call it calculus immediately. He said in Principia mathematica, he called these fluxions. They're the flux, which can be not only infinite, but any point in that infinite can be determined accuracy with a great accuracy. And the way to do this is here in this mathematical tome, runs through many hundreds of pages. The final best translation of it was done just about five, six, seven years ago, published by the University of California Press. The translation by I.B. Cohen I.B. Cohen was the founder of History of Science department at Harvard, and a great scholar of Newton, and a great scholar of Benjamin Franklin and one of the fine figures of the 20th century. What is important is that in order to characterize the actuality of something includes more than just pointing at it or referring to it, or putting it into a simple arithmetical quality of identity that there is the need to characterize it in its complete spectrum, its complete cycle of occurrence, and that by doing this, then one comes to understand that the functions of the processes are part of the cycle of the stages of its actuality, and that only by taking all of this together in a spectrum cycle does one come to appreciate that by having further dimensions, one now has to have the reverberations of that cycle, and that those reverberations are the extra dimensions of consciousness of a Purusha, a spirit person who is conscious using that five dimensional, now transformative continuum, and that by doing so, they generate another dimension out of the field of vision, out of the prism of person. And that further dimension is the dimension of its actual history in the ecology of consciousness, and that by doing so, one gains an incredible facility, one gains the ability to do an analytic. That one never had before in terms of the actuality, the precision, the infinite precision. And to be able to understand through an analysis the science, the scientific form, which is now an eight dimensional form, and that the cosmos is an eight dimensional form because of its four dimensions of space time and its four dimensions of the ecology of consciousness, they not only make an eight an octave, an ogdoad, but by coming together they generate a complementarity which is like a ninth, but that that ninth has its own kind of hyperspace. It has its own, quote, hyper three dimensional spatiality, so that one has not only eight dimensions, but one has a ninth of three further dimensions. One has an 11 dimension reality, which is what string theory is about. Once the complementarity is characterized, appreciated and analyzed so that the complementarity occurs, one now for the first time is able to say, this is real, that the reality was not seeable before, not understandable before, but only in a fictive way that did not occur to anyone. That it was a fiction, that it was not possible because from a four dimensional integral that was completed and its referentiality had all of its identifications Confirmable how how could there be something else? And yet there is always something else, and that the universe itself, as a phenomenon, as it expands to where does it expand? Where do those billions of galaxies go in their expansion? Because that expansion was not space. It was not even in time. So if there's a hyper spatiality outside of time and the ancient wisdom word for that was eternity, that the universe expands into eternity. And as it does so, the more consciousness that there is in terms of reality, the more that eternity enters into the play of the complementarity, so that phenomenality refines and numen, reality refines, and that together one slowly raises the temperature of actuality into the warmth of reality. One of the great figures to work on this in terms of a vision was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A recent book on him is called The Skull, and the Jesuit just published Teilhard de Chardin Evolution and the search for Peking Man. Uh, the tires in France are an ancient, uh. Minor royalty. And when he was, uh, born, there was a incredible sense that he was a very special child. And we've talked a little bit about him. Um, he died in 1955. And a few years later appeared in English, a translation of one of his last great books called The Phenomenon of Man, because he had spent all of his professional scientific life as a paleontologist. But he had also been a visionary priest involved finally in World War One. And he found himself in a portion of the great. Trench that scarred Europe for hundreds and hundreds of miles. For the length of the Great War. And after a severe bombardment, there were only two soldiers left alive. And they asked ask pure terror to say a mass for them before they died. And he had nothing to offer for the mass, until it occurred to him that he would offer the entire world. And so he did a mass for these two soldiers involving the entirety of the world. And when word got out about this extraordinary event, because they lived, he was exiled as a dangerous man, a good Jesuit, well trained, a fine priest, a good scientist. We will send him where he can do no harm. He was sent to China to work on rocks and bones. Is a peculiar aspect. But someone who has prismatically personal is actually has more dimensions than those who send you, who are only individuals in four dimensions a six dimensional person will always be at least two orders above two entire evolutionary orders, above the simple, egotistical individuality as an identity in a structure of thought which is static, does not have its ecology of consciousness at all, does not have any way of understanding. It has no way to be real. It has only the pseudo confirmation of identifications in terms of its own ism and isms. But when the spiritual person. Now participates in the flow, the flow of history, a kaleidoscopic consciousness occurs. And not only is there a sense that time now is a continuum within the field of nature. It is a super continuum within the field of consciousness, and that when you put the field of consciousness and the field of nature into an interface exchange, now you have something that is tremendously potent because the responsive form to that combined field is the cosmos itself. The gate by which that recognition now is done is not the individual in the structure of self-identifying. Thought, is not the body in its physicality as a phenomenon, but the gate, the portal is through that spirit person, through their person, and they know because the light that comes through them illuminates a spectrum of possibility, like phenomenal light will have a spectrum of the rainbow, the spectrum of possibility coming from the cosmos itself shows the divine capability of transform possibilities. And so one becomes familiar with what the phrase in science fiction was. Finally, in the late 1950s, uh, Groff Conklin, who did a lot of the early, um, collections of science fiction stories and things as anthologies, uh, labeled one of his anthologies All Possible Worlds. Now, all possible worlds are not only within a purview, but are creatively participatory. One can not only just do this, one can help to create this. De Chardin. Teilhard de Chardin came up with a vision that the entirety of mankind seems to be branching out, only to crust together into an incredible, like a bud which can open and flower. And that the flowering was the tip of the bud right at the point to where it comes together. It matures to open that this omega point from an alpha point has a definite time signature to it, and that mankind has crusted in such a way that now the bud is beginning to take shape as a blood, a bud. That man is poised for the first time not only to recognize that this is so, but to recognize the recognizer of one that this is promised. To be a true gift. And so the encounter becomes one of a great divine mystery, which is also, at the same time, precisely scientific. It is not only scientific, it is artistic. It yields itself to an analysis, but it also enjoys itself in continuing critiques. One of the fine things about art is that the more that one really critiques a work of art, the more one can appreciate it. That this is the way of science. Also, the more one applies an analytic, the more one appreciates that this analytic is enormously precise. It doesn't end the analysis, but it furthers it and furthers it in such a way that one discovers like a work of art, a great work of art can be appreciated indefinitely. There are no limits to the appreciation. Of a symphony by Beethoven. Of a play by Shakespeare. And the same in a science. There is no way that one can come to some finality of a conclusion in terms of an analytic. In microbiology. In quantum physics. In mathematics. There have been more monographs in the last ten years on mathematics than in all the history of the world before that. It is a burgeoning not just because it's a science, but it also is an art that one can appreciate the art of it, and one can analytically apply the science of it. So that in between the arts and the sciences is this kaleidoscopic flow of history. And that history generates civilization not as a form, but as a kaleidoscopic process in the ecology of consciousness, so that most of the previous understandings trying to make an entity out of civilizations, trying to make a phenomenon out of them are misplaced, as if they were a projection of an egotistical identification. Which is false not because the identification is false, but because identification itself is only apparent and extraordinarily limited in its dimensionality, simply doesn't have enough dimensions to be real. So that the ancient way of expressing this in Pythagorean terms 2500 years ago, was someone raising the caduceus of Hermes with one hand, and reaching down with the other hand to pull another man out of the hole that he's standing in. Come out. Let's learn more next week.