Stellar Civilization
Presented on: Thursday, September 29, 1994
Presented by: Roger Weir
This is the fourth lecture and a
commemoration for me.
And the commemoration is for the death of my
daughter. Last year at this time. The
circumstances made it so that the day of
death could not be determined. And so I've
taken the whole month of September to make
this commemoration. I have.
Indicated before that I had not intended to
lecture on some of these subjects for quite a
long time, if ever.
And tonight is the case in point. I have for
30 years looked at the background of mankind
at the past.
Looked at the origins and roots of things.
But tonight, I'm going to talk about the
future. In the spirit of this commemoration,
I would like to invite my daughter to spirit
to be here. And as I mentioned before, if any
of you have beloved ones that you would like
to.
Remember and share and bring them forth. This
would be a good occasion to do that. We have
that capacity and we can do that. This is a
time in which we can do that.
Generally when people talk about the future,
they talk about the distant future. Thousands
of years, Star Wars, Star Trek. I'm going to
talk about the next 200 years. About the 21st
and the 22nd century. Those two centuries
constitute.
A new beginning for mankind. And though it
will not begin exactly with the millennium.
There will eventually come with that first
generation who mature in the 21st century. A
new sense. A new sense of what?
Gestalt. Delineate in terms of dynamic
meaning.
New capacities.
We already are.
Seeing the developments. The convergences.
Science, religion.
Art. Humanity.
Coming to a crossroads, coming to an
interface. And the pace is accelerating.
Every change of millennium has this pattern.
A thousand years ago, the year 1000 produced
millennial fever in many places of Europe in
the Middle East.
And when? Nothing. A special happened.
The Crusades were thought up to make
something millennial happen. 2000 years ago.
There was no sense of a millennium. Zero B.C.
or one ad was not a date that was marked on
the calendar. And yet in that generation.
There were apocalyptic writings, prophetic
writings.
Religious developments. And even the
greatest.
Poet of that age, Virgil.
Working on the commissioned epic to. Solidify
the Roman Empire for Augustus Caesar working
on the Aeneid. Took time out to write. One of
the most peculiar and most prophetic poems
ever written. It's called a messianic blog.
And it predicts the birth of a baby under a
star who would create a new world religion.
And Virgil wrote this. Somewhere about a.
20 B.C..
3000 years ago, there was also a millennial
change, a tremendous development.
Most of.
What we know as Europe was in the dark age at
that time. But in places of the world.
Where 1000 B.C.
was observable in some kind of recorded way.
Like India, tremendous developments happened.
And 4000 years ago that millennial
development was enormous.
2000 B.C.
is one of the great changes in world history.
And so there has been an
intelligent remembering, a lineage
assessment.
Of human life and circumstances of time and
development, of movements, of dynamics that
happen over long durations of time and
history has been understood to have its
cycles. For instance, 2000 years ago.
In the early first century of that new
millennium.
The greatest poet after Virgil. Ovid. Began
his great epic, The Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses the changes the transformations
which characterise a turn of time and he.
Wrote at the very beginning of the
metamorphoses that time has patterns which we
can call ages, and that those ages, when
human experience is wide enough to recognize.
Form over hundreds of years.
Often wrote that every 500 years there seems
to be a new phase of humanity. And that every
2000 years, every four times 500 phases, some
great new cycle comes
freshly into play, as if the world were born
again, as if time were renewed, and in fact,
all the mythic cycles.
Four cycles of myths are called mythologies,
and all mythologies have as a central
concern, as a purpose for their dynamic, as a
direction for their meaning is the renewal of
time. And the general consensus of
intelligent on this planet among human beings
is that time is a form.
Perhaps eternity is quite extraordinarily
different. But time is a form. The great
assessment of the old Plato near the end of
his life in the Thomas. He said that time is
the moving image of eternity. That eternity
has its absolute.
Reality beyond our ability.
But when its image moves, we discern that as
time.
As the ongoing course of events.
And that our lives, our bodies, our psyches,
our careers, our families, our heritages.
Are woven into.
The movement of the images of time. And so
from Plato, from Virgil, from Ovid, from the
whole classical world, the idea came.
That every 2000 years was a new cycle, that a
complete new mythology would have to come out
of this. We use.
A term in English now called Eon. Sometimes
it spelled e0m.
Sometimes a e on.
But the Greek spelling was a i on.
A on. In modern cosmology today, an iron is a
billion years.
Our moon and our planet were made about 4.6
billion years ago, about four and one half
eons ago.
But in. Time.
Moving on the level at which we exist. We
exist at a higher energy level.
Then geomorphology processes.
Those original chemical geomorphology
processes may take a billion years, but for
our speed of entity, 2000 years is an iron.
And so we live at a very peculiar time. This
whole year has been a peculiar year.
Anyone that you would talk to on any level of
life in any place.
Has incurred.
Surprise drama.
Tragedy difficulty.
Out of step feelings.
And next year it will continue and the year
after that. In his old age.
Carl Jung carrying Tae Desjardins phenomenon
of man under his arm and spark steaming from
his pipe. And at 86, he was complaining that
he was seeing that in 50 years the world was
going to be exposed to an apocalyptic psychic
catastrophe.
This was 1961, and he saw that the year 2011.
She was like a psychic wall, a brick wall
against which man, if he does not transform,
he will crash.
If we do not change, we will run into that
wall. And already.
These manifestations are here. And the more
sensitive men and women of our planet are
already feeling that peculiar, eerie quality.
That something enormous has changed. The way
in which one apocalypse, one Hellenistic
Jewish apocalypse placed it 2000 years ago.
It's as if the gods who controlled the world
had their power stolen from them. And instead
of there being a kind of a divine order.
There is only the sense. Of a waffling
quality of instability.
Which deepens and permeates. This lecture
talks about.
The kind of pattern which is possible over
the next 200 years.
And the language I'm going to use belongs in
the year 2011. It belongs at a time when this
kind of speaking this kind of envisioning.
Will be necessary and needed, like air or
food. There are times when human beings need
vision.
It's a little early. And that day has not yet
dawned. And for many of us, we're content to.
Continue to snooze.
In the dark hours thinking it's still regular
night, but indeed everything has changed.
One of the qualities. That the new iron has
in it is a shared quality.
For the last 2000 years, the archetype of the
deep self has been the person.
The person in a kind of an odd, protean way.
I've called it the mysterious person. The
basic pattern is that.
The person, the inner person.
Is the integrative focus.
Or that on a deeper, more mystical level that
the integration of all meaning into our deep
self. Comes to some vanishing point.
Of mystery, and it resurges back out,
unbidden, unqualified as a differential
process of life giving vision.
And that the person is the clearest shape.
It's like a gravity lens and this
differential energy that comes out of the
mystery of the soul and that somehow the
person in the soul are related together. Much
like a hidden source of energy.
And a lens which is able to focus in mid-air
and carry that differential energy into a
pattern. Personal way.
And that the largest focus of that personal
energy was what was called the cosmos. And
for 2000 years, this archetypal model has
worked, has sustained psyches.
Has held together cultures, has even made a
civilization that has several varieties that
worked up until our own lifetimes, but no
longer. One of the changes that is here
is that the person is now understood not to
be an ultimate expression of the differential
possibilities of vision. But that human
beings when it comes to
the mysteries of expressing the person.
Come in pairs.
And we're not talking about couples
necessarily. We're talking about preparedness
in the sense of inter penetrative sharing.
Perhaps the best way to envision this.
Was to look at the old cosmology that saw the
sun as the center around which everything
revolved. All the planets in perfect circles.
And when it was understood that this
model was mathematically untenable.
That observation experience experiment in its
more careful, attentive modes showed that
this was not the case. And the first mind to
grasp.
That fundamental quality of what this meant
and expressed it.
Was a man named Kepler who wrote a book
called The New Astronomy and published it in
1609. Just a year before the first really
powerful Rosicrucian manifestos changed the
whole occult flavour of the 17th century and
of the world.
Kepler said.
It's not that there is a single center, but
that there are a pair of centers and that all
the movements of planets are ellipses.
Around a pair of centers. And it wasn't until
the 20th century that. This insight was
finely honed and understood that it isn't
that there are two centers, but that there is
a mysterious very center that does not exist
at all.
Nothing occupies it, but it is the interface
median between two points and the two points
are the sun and whatever planet you have.
The Earth does not revolve around the sun.
The Sun and the earth revolved together. And
though the earth is much smaller in mass, it
moves much farther.
But the sun also moves in response to the
Earth. There's a dough that goes on. There's
a dance. And in the new icon, this will be
understood.
This would be understood that between two
human beings is a possibility of sharing a
very center.
And so the new form of wisdom teaching will
not be by the girl. That age is ended. And
one way to tell the false teachers is that
they will try to appear individually. Never
again. Not on this planet.
That age is gone.
The only way that a single guru could handle.
The labyrinthine complexity that's necessary
would be to go into a super yoga state in
which one does not speak. And so the future
is one of shared presence teachers.
Because human beings who from the get go
learn to enter penetrate with at least some
one else, learn the most fundamental
dynamics, not to say mechanics of being human
in a vastly wide differential universe.
For we live now more and more not in an
integration mode.
Not in a mode where the tribe is important,
not in a mode where experience has to be
brought to some individual focus, but more
and more in a differential way.
In which there are mysteries and only by a
shared presence.
Q Will we be able to understand intelligently
what there is that is real for us.
And a whole different basis of community will
come out of this. Instead of a community
based upon the strong individual.
Or they voting by these individuals against
these individuals into factions based on
party entirely new dynamics and Newcastle's
will come out. But in order to lift
this quality of vision, this differential
movement, in order to lift it.
Out of the realm of its seed quality.
A new civilization is going to be necessary.
For there is no culture, there is no
civilization now that can do it. Because in a
very peculiar way, staying on this planet
alone. Was fortifying the archetype of the
single person.
Of the individual. The future belongs to an
interplanetary a multiple planetary
sense. Of where our backyard is.
Of where it is that our home can be. And the.
Only differential form that holds its shape
in a multiple planetary venue is an entire
star system.
And so our sense of being will move from a
planet to a star system.
From a one place.
To a broad gestalt.
The form of the collection of all those
places that share the same very center, that
share that same presence within a form.
And one of the qualities that will inhabit
this new icon, this new stellar civilization.
There will be an acceptance and a rejection
at the same time of the way in which power is
handled. The old way that power was handled
was by punishment, by conflict, by massing
power to control and to punish infractions of
that control.
The policeman.
He was or the soldier.
Was the fundamental enforcer of the
individual sense of power.
And that is on its way out rapidly.
In a way, Gandhi was the first prophet of
this new order.
This new quality rather than punishment.
Education, rather than.
Having conflict as the ultimate drawing of
the line.
The getting real point. The modifying by
learning will become the prototype.
The correcting constantly, not only in
mid-course, but all along the course.
In 25 years if we do not have.
10% of the population of soldiers in this
world dedicated to a
helping reeducation program.
We will have an apocalyptic war. It's as
simple as the statement that William James
delivered in 1910, already 100 years before
our projected line at Stanford University,
the old William James, in a beautiful lecture
that we once reprinted in Berkeley and the
beginnings of the Vietnam conflict in 1967.
William James said, If we want peace, we will
have to work for it and we will only have
peace when we work as hard for peace as we do
for war. Because what becomes real is what we
work for. If we put our energies into it, if
we organize ourselves and bring our
dedication to bear, we will have that for we
are free.
Walt Whitman and his Democratic vistas after
Lincoln had been assassinated and there was
no new vision.
Whitman wrote rewrote the American vision and
published it as Democratic vistas.
And he began it by saying, There are two.
Principles which the universe seems to
respect everywhere at all times. And that is.
Variability and freedom.
And so the new civilization will need to
incorporate everywhere in its structure, in
its directive.
Its purposes and its intent, variability and
freedom.
The styling of certain principles as being
right and punishing those who do not live up
to those requirements.
Is finished.
It's gone.
And to insist upon them. Is to bring
ourselves to live within a fever. One of the
deep qualities.
Of a civilization is that it must transcend.
Culture. A culture holds.
It has its binding quality.
By a traditional quality of experience, a
lineage, a tradition, and a culture is a
tradition. And all through human life,
cultures have been nests for us which have
been good traditions have been sustaining.
But what they sustain essentially is
experience which has learned from the past
and shapes the present in terms of the past.
And that goes directly against variability
and freedom. If we are going to have a life
which is real in a universe which is
mysteriously loves variability and freedom,
we must make a transformation.
We must change out of a culture which is
based on tradition, to a civilization which
is able to have gestalt of many cultures
living together.
It doesn't call for stamping out any culture
whatsoever. But of allowing each and every
culture to understand that outside the
confines of this city block, outside the
confines of this geographic territory,
outside the confines of this religious
tradition. Is a larger vision which is
inhabited by people who have also.
Their same right to live, to exist.
And so a civilization is always transcendent
to a culture. But being transcendent to it. A
civilization is always based on vision. It is
not.
To be taken in a.
Reductive way, without vision, the people
perish. There are many cultures, there are
many tribes that have survived because in
experience, vision is always inward.
A religion is a binding religion in a
tradition because it sustains a people to see
inward. And the inward looking is always an
integration. It's always an integral mode.
But that integral mode is distinctly
different in the way in which energy is
handled and which form is engendered in which
consciousness is able to proceed.
It is radically different from a differential
mode. A differential mode loves variability
and freedom and openness.
And there's nothing contradictory about it at
all. The entire development some 300 years
ago of mathematics took a tremendous jump,
not just the leg up.
But a pole vault over a stymying quality of
mind that had kept.
Man at a certain level.
And 300 years ago, two individuals almost at
the same time, pole, vaulted into a whole new
realm. And they discovered that there is a
universal language that characterizes all
movement accurately, and that is the
universal language of calculus of higher
mathematics, which deals with movement and
relationality.
Infinitesimally small and infinitesimally
large.
One of those individuals, Sir Isaac Newton.
Used a kind of a notation based on geometry
that used dots on paper so that one could see
what he called fluctuations.
And his computation of calculus.
He was very clumsy.
And because it referred to geometry, it had a
traditional security. And the English people
took this for their new norm.
And English mathematics all through the 1700s
suffered from this. Whereas on the continent,
the other pole vaulter was a man named
Leibniz, and instead of taking geometry as
his basis, he took trigonometry.
He took a whole different dynamic.
And his notation is the notation of calculus
that we use today. And only when the English
gave up on the dot makers, around 1800 did
English mathematics again come.
To the kind of eminence that it has in the
world today. There are very few mathematical
cosmologists who are of the level of Stephen
Hawking and Roland Penrose. Roger Penrose.
But that would never have happened had they
have kept to Newton's notation of calculus so
you can have the right thing. But it
expressed in the wrong way.
The right thing doesn't work. What is the
right thing?
The right thing is to see that a
transformation.
Has a fundamental quality. It comes out of
integration and goes into a differential
mode. It comes out of tradition.
And makes a transformation into freedom and.
Variability. William James last book was
called The Pluralistic Universe.
That, oddly enough.
When one looks very deeply at the logic of
this universe, one realm of reality doesn't
work. Even today's newspaper today, September
29, 1994.
Shows the latest cosmological computations.
That the universe cannot be more than 7 to 14
billion years old. And yet there are stars 16
billion years old. And one has the
mathematical conundrum for the first time
today that there are objects older than the
mathematics of the universe. How can anything
be older than the universe? And when the
mathematicians at Harvard and Indiana
University were asked this, they said, it is
a mystery to us, too. We don't understand it
either. We know the mathematics, but what it
means, we don't know. Except that the
mysteriousness of the universe must be taken
into consideration. And indeed, the universe
is mysterious.
We are of that essential reality.
We are also mysterious.
We cannot be corked and kept on a shelf.
We must live.
In a differential mode in order to be the
quality of personal illness, which we
recognize as a habitable dimension of our
personality.
And the cosmos in some odd way, welcomes us,
sings our song when we're in that mode.
As Joseph Campbell remarked once. There is a
mysterious world beyond symbols.
Where. All of a sudden a door will open where
there was no door before, and that door will
open only then and there, and only for you.
And you must go through it or stay where you
are. An Alice in Wonderland.
A kind of looking glass quality.
Whatever is real, whatever Mother Nature
really is hashing up and serving, it includes
variability and freedom, a pluralistic
universe. Of at least ten dimensions.
And many capacities, many vectors hardly
glimpse.
And so the new upon that new stellar
civilization will have all the way through
its operative quality.
The transformative educational renewal
qualities and processes everywhere along the
way. Education is too important to stuff it
in simply the young.
To misquote Clemenceau. Education is a life
long process when one lives as a
multidimensional personal with others of that
same quality and a cosmos that appreciates
freedom and variability.
And so that star civilization will need to be
established in such a way that the population
of people inhabiting it will be able to
inhabit it expressively and wholeheartedly.
If one looks at the science fiction movies of
the last ten or 15 years, they all paint a
depressive picture, a deconstructionist
paradise.
The grim qualities of a Darth Vader.
Or Los Angeles of the Blade Runner, or many
other examples. The capacity of a traditional
mind facing this new aeon cannot see anything
promising in it whatsoever.
And sees only that the mirroring back
indications are those of destruction, of
defeat, of death.
Of dismemberment. And the feelings that well
up.
In us, in our society, in our culture.
Are feelings of this disenchantment, of this
anger, of this disappointment.
All of this.
All of this is an artifact of a mis
perception.
The transformational quality that is there in
the mystery of reality is indeed a very
center around which all of us do together.
Revolve. And part of the new ad will be pairs
of teachers to help us get acquainted with
ongoing education, life long transformation
of building a quality of flexibility
that leads us to be appreciative of the
unknown.
Instead of being threatened by what we do not
know that we receive that as a call, as an
invitation. And we are being invited.
And that invitation needs a gracious
exception. An acceptance.
A gracious acceptance.
Even the Freudian slips are old fashioned.
You see. When we come back from a break.
We'll take about a ten minute break. I want
to talk about how this star civilization
needs to be set up in the next 200 years.
Because each new icon has a generative phase
which must be taken,
must be lived, must be developed, or that
energy atrophies and pulls in a truly
evolutionary way. Around the year 1000, no
one progressed whatsoever.
And if you look at the state of the
apocalyptic European mind.
When they did nothing in the year 1000.
Over the next 200 years, they forced the
Crusades upon another part of the world. We
do not need atomic powered crusades in the
21st and 22nd century.
That will be a very short crusade. One of the
wise things that all Bertrand Russell when he
was 97 said.
He said, the only thing that bothers me is
that man has never made a weapon he hasn't
used. He will have to learn to be a different
kind of man in order to survive now.
It's not only the old adage that those who do
not remember the past are condemned to repeat
it. But even deeper.
Those who cannot envision the reality will
never experience the future. Let's take a
break here and we'll come back. The quality
that we're
talking about is one of transformation, one
of changing.
This is very difficult. When you're moving
from an integral to a differential
mode. The patient.
Qualities that are indispensable earlier in
integration and later in differentiation do
not work. So that one of the perils of
transformation is that the
values and pacing.
The process.
The strategies.
That worked before and will work again. Do
not now. Work.
So that transformation is peculiar. It's odd,
it's difficult.
It is perilous.
It's like a logic where the middle is
excluded all the time. So that
there are many wisdom stories. About the
humor.
It's actually humorous. Men and women have
lived with this.
For thousands of years and all kinds of
languages and ways. And I've come to
understand there is a humorous element.
Perilous?
Yes. Difficult?
Certainly. But also humorous.
In this logic of the excluded middle.
What's really important to keep a sense of is
that you will not be able to know when the
transformation happens. One of its.
Requirements is that you be unknowing when it
happens.
It's like being a child in the America of
several generations ago that Santa Claus is
not going to come if you stay awake. You have
to go to sleep. And if you go to sleep, there
will be presence in the morning.
So that there's a kind of a Chinese puzzle,
there's a bind. The more serious you are, the
less likely you are to relinquish any kind of
quality of control.
And if you're too nonchalant about it, you
won't have the right energy level to make
that transformation effective. So you're
damned if you do and you're damned if you
don't. And that that paradox increases and
increases.
And one of the qualities of a transforming
consciousness is that one gets a sense of
irony. The first thing that comes up is you
begin to feel ironical, especially about
yourself. Then, you know, it's time that the
process is is begun.
And one of the most. Perilous qualities is to
know how to accept.
Not to let it go.
Not to be open to it.
That takes almost a superhuman yogi to do
that. But to accept.
To realize that the final, final stage, the
last step of an integration is acceptance.
You have to accept it. Meaning is only true
if it's accepted.
If there's no acceptance, then that high
powered integration becomes more and more
problematical. And the irony deepens into
paradox, and the paradox deepens into
impossibility. And one sees more and more
clearly that it's not going to work.
The seeing that it's not going to work is an
artifact of non acceptance. And so there are
wisdom stories from every people on this
planet in the past about how someone was
tricked into becoming a better person.
By. Being selfless in a crucial moment.
To be self-possessed at a crucial moment of
transformation makes a not out of what should
be a bow. Because in the differential
process, it's like opening presents.
You want to untie all those bows. And so
someone that is wise about this doesn't tie
knots on things in the integration process,
but ties, bows because you're going to reopen
those. And so you integrate in such a way as
to set it up so that the transformation will
allow you then.
To find those presents in the morning.
Now, when it comes to a change of an alien, a
whole civilization has to do this. A whole
civilization has to be consciously humorous
and wise and humane together that we're going
to take the values we want.
The purposes that we deem worthwhile.
Whatever it is on whatever level.
But tie them with bows. Because we're going
to give them to our future selves.
And then come to that transformational point
together. Where we're no longer integrating.
We're no longer tying bows. But we take the
time out.
To be with the unknown for a while.
Sometimes it's an hour. Sometimes it's a
year. Sometimes it's a while.
There have in the past been communities of
men and women who together have done this.
But there's never been a civilization that
has done this. No civilization has survived
this. When AJ Toynbee was studying history as
a phenomenon, he spent a whole life
doing it. And he wrote a Big 12 volume study
of history.
He delineated 28 civilizations and 27 of them
were dead.
And the only one that was still alive was
facing a crisis. And this was done about 25,
30 years ago.
Try and vs. Try and be was a very tall, quiet
British gentleman scholar with
pale blue eyes, paler blue than Paul Newman's
eyes. I used to have this wonderful quality
of pausing and and asking anybody who was
nearby.
Whether they thought what he had just said
was right or not. He used to chum around with
his wife, who was just the most mediocre,
ordinary dressed woman you could ever
imagine, of print dress and the little purse
and the little hat on. And he just adored her
because she was always tuned in to sharing
with him whatever was going on.
And when one time in San Francisco, he was
making a series for KQED. Even on camera.
I looked over to her and he said, Do you
think that's right? You said something very
powerful about challenge and response and
about how if this civilization cannot meet
the challenge in the next two generations.
The response will be failure.
Not that we're going to limp through. We're
not going to make it. The old Toynbee, like
the old Bertrand Russell, understood a lot
about larger structures and patterns. And
anyone who has looked at this with any kind
of care and concern has seen that there is no
way out. We need together to learn.
To really make presence of those values and
qualities and purposes that we prize and then
together set ourselves for a time of
unknowing.
And if we do, we'll come through that night.
And we can reopen all of those qualities,
those values and those purposes again in a
new way, in a new day.
One of the qualities of acceptance.
He was classically.
Shown about 600 years ago in a little
Upanishad written in English.
Most of the Upanishads were written in
Sanskrit in India a long time ago. This was
an English Upanishad written in the 14th
century, written in the English Midlands.
It's called The Cloud of Unknowing. And
appropriately, it's by Anonymous. We don't
know. And the author of The Cloud of
Unknowing says that as one gets acquainted
with entering into an knowingness.
One of the most unsettling realizations is
that not only is the future unknown, but when
you enter into that unknowing, the past also
suddenly becomes unknown that the cloud of
unknowing is not only above you, but is now
also below you. And you are suspended in a
grey, unknowing knowingness. This is what is
needed, what is necessary.
It is dynamically the universal structure of
transformation. There needs to be a fallow
period where no one's pushing anymore.
No one's pulling anymore. No one's shoving.
No one's expecting. No one's not expecting.
When the classic educator known to history as
the Buddha was speaking after 45 years of
speaking in public to tens of thousands of
people, he was pretty smooth. And he used to
hold up a hand.
Turn it. Put it down and put it back, showing
that there are four ways as a quaternary
always to the mind's conception.
There's always a square. There's always a
forward and a reverse.
And an obverse and a contra positive.
All logic that works on a true false choice
mode must exhibit this
quality and property. The period of
unknowing, logically, is to learn to live
with diagonals and that the diagonals come in
pairs. So that X literally marks the spot of
a logical transformation. One of the few
early logicians to really understand.
This was American named Charles Sanders
Peirce, who wrote a book called Values and a
Universe of Chance. It's this odd quality
that a transformation
requires. An extended vacation.
From wanting.
From kneading.
From expecting.
There needs to be an extended open ended
vacation from those concerns. From all
concerns. In individual transformation.
Sometimes it.
Passes in what seems to be such fleeting
moments as to be almost out of time that
picoseconds or nanoseconds would be too long
to even measure. One can get very good at
accepting. But the dimension of consciousness
that comes with the act of acceptance is
absorption. Absorption.
And this stellar civilization. Is so
monumentally, radically new and different
that without this transformation, without the
acceptance and the absorption and the
vacation from wanting and needing and pushing
and pulling. The reality of that
new civilization is going to be like a stone
wall. We will hit it.
There is no way to stop that kind of
movement. There's no place to veer off to.
But it's like an old magician's tale. If you
slow down and match your speed with the wall,
you'll just brush it. You don't have to
crash. And if you just brush it, a door will
open where you didn't think there was one and
you can go through.
Before this generation is out. This will be
their.
This quality.
Of differential, this quality of freedom and
variation, this quality of inhabiting a whole
star system.
When we look at our star system, what are we
talking about? Let's look at something in a.
Practical. Almost a physical way.
A quarter of a century ago when the first
human beings went to the moon. 12 men stepped
on the moon. If you look at the tapes, if you
read the books about them, if you read their
statements, almost none of them were really
there. They were there physically, but
mentally and psychologically and emotionally.
They were with Mission Control and Houston.
And those few instances where one of the
astronauts on the moon would wake up from
this programmed military control.
Very peculiar events would happen.
One of them had a dream that they were riding
and the moon buggy and they had gone so far
out from the ship. They were worried about
whether they're going to get back. And way
out there on the edge, they saw another moon
buggy coming towards them. And when it got
there to where they were, it was themselves.
Driving to meet themselves. The universe is
mysterious. She is gorgeous.
But she loves the spirit of romance and she
can't stand bores who will not change, who
will not transform. And like Lent, sometimes
she just picks and flicks and that's it.
But for those that can go with her, she is a
loving queen.
An elegant lady, and she welcomes us to life.
Not only the moon.
But this quality of shrewdness makes it
apparent that in the New Aeon, preparedness
is going to be a quality of the structure.
Preparedness.
Instead of there being a moon base, there
needs to be at least a pair. When we send.
Some kind of a base to the inner planet
Mercury. We need to send a pair.
Not just want. We found out just this month
that there is permanent ice on mercury.
We thought it was so hot. I mean, lead melts
and mercury. 900 degrees Fahrenheit is
nothing on mercury. But because of its
motion.
Keeping one face and one position so constant
over.
At times there's frozen water on mercury at
the poles could send a pair of bases to the
poles of mercury. Study the sun, but also
study the way in which we can become human
beings on mercury.
Venus, it's almost impossible to send
anything to the surface. The longest lasting
machine lasted two and one half minutes.
Before the sulfuric acid rains and the
pressure and the heat just simply collapsed
and dissolve the machinery. So we'll probably
need a pair of space stations around Venus.
And so the presence of new varieties of men
and women. In their paired shirt ness.
Making the presence throughout the star
system.
Fortunately, Mars has two little moons.
Phobos and Deimos. Five and ten miles in
diameter. A pair of stations.
Out of the 30 or 40,000 asteroids.
There are a couple that really recommend
themselves series. And Vesta.
Both of them occupy very close to what is the
plane of the ecliptic throughout the star
system. If one looks at our star system from
the outside, the planets and all the matter
in it are flatter than a sheet of paper. And
these asteroids, Ceres and
Vesta, two of the most largest of the
asteroids in between Mars and Jupiter, they
straddle this plane of the ecliptic, would be
a chance to be off a planet. And yet still
have a ground base and to be able to
experience the sheet of the star system. Not
just to go there to mine for or for God's
sake, but to experience the freedom and
variety of being human.
On the plane of the ecliptic. Off a planet.
We need to know what we're like in those
modes. We need to know what it's like for
human beings to become so acclimated to
living on some of the moons of Jupiter that
they consider that home. That Ganymede and
Europa would be wonderful adventures.
Europa is an ocean of water sealed by a thin
shell of rock.
And it's quite possible there's life on
Europa in that ocean of water. H. Two o.
Because the rock shell for billions of years
is prevented. Radiation. That would kill
life. And so inside one of the moons of
Jupiter, that could certainly be life. It
would make a hell of a goldfish bowl.
Ganymede is so large, it's larger than
mercury. It would be an interesting place to
be.
There are pair of moons that recommend
themselves at Saturn. Titan, which is the
largest moon in the whole star system, is so
large that it has an atmosphere. We cannot
see underneath the haze. And there certainly
will be forms of organic life on Titan. We
need to encounter that. But more important,
we need to encounter the freedom and
variability of ourselves in the mode of
encountering that. We need to know those
dimensions of our humanity.
If we don't go to Mercury at Venus.
To the moon and Mars, the asteroids, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Charon and
beyond. If we don't go, it's like closing
off.
The possibility of man's energy going in a
differential mode. And if you close it off,
the universal principle is that integration
moves to an ultimate vanishing point and we
will vanish.
It's the universal process of integration.
It's what happens. When
gravity collapses and condenses.
It eventually, beyond even a neutron star
becomes a black hole. We cannot fear the
psychological black hole that's there in
transformation. It's an old story.
One of the best versions of treating that
fear of the inner black hole, that there's
some dimensionless abyss within us into which
we will surely fall.
If we don't cling and hold on and keep
control, we're going to fall in.
The best story ever written about it was by
the old Leo Tolstoy.
Not the brash military Bond villain Tolstoy
of War and Peace.
Not the complicated, sociologically alerted
Tolstoy of Anna Karenina, but the old
Tolstoy, the man who had been crushed and
broken. He was assigned as a census taker in
the slums of Moscow. And seeing that horror
of human life week after week, month after
month, broke him.
You said in his diaries he had to hide every
gun and every sword in the house because he
wanted to do away with himself. It was too
despicable. But it came through it.
And in 1896, he wrote a short story about it
called The Death of Ivan Elledge. About the
old, wealthy, powerful judge had always
judged men who always been successful, well
paid, social position.
But now he was old and he was facing his
death.
And then the story, Ivan, begins to realize
that he will never leave his house again.
He's going to die there. And a little later,
he'll never leave this bedroom again. He's
going to die there. And when he's confined to
his bed, he realizes he will never rise from
that bed again. The specter of this black
hole into which he is being forced to fall.
How evil must life be to do this?
And a little grandchild comes in. Now holds
his hand.
There's Grandpa. I love you. I'm going to
always remember you and keep you in my
memory. And Ivan in his acceptance.
Absorbed by the love of that child.
Sees the black hole vanish and a realm of
light open.
For. That's what happens. We don't have to
perish.
But we will be crushed if we don't transform.
One of the eerie requirements probably late
in the 22nd century, is that inhabiting the
star system means the entire star system. And
our star system, like all planetary star
systems, evolved out of a peculiar kind of
whirling, gaseous, dynamic quality, out of
which gravity condense the various bodies.
And when. Certain bodies reached an
incandescent level.
In the early solar system, there were two
suns. Jupiter was a very low key sun.
Its surface was about 10 million degrees.
But when it cooled, it became planetary
again. But those stars, when they burst into
they kick into high gear. When they stop just
burning hydrogen, they start to burn in a
fusion way. Helium, they kick into high gear
and the solar wind blows the hell out of all
the dust and the systems like a vacuum that
cleans it out. But that dust and debris does
not escape the gravity of the star. And it
coagulate. It lumps together. And at the
farthest edges of the star's gravity, there
collects a shell 360 degrees.
A shell of debris.
The first mathematician to understand this
was a Dutchman named ert o.
R t. And he named it the Oort Cloud.
And that about one light year from our star.
Is this tremendous shell of debris, the Oort
Cloud. The place where Halley's Comet goes
out to and many other cometary bodies. And to
inhabit the entire star system.
We're going to need not only men and women
and communities on every planet and all the
moon systems, but they're going to have to be
some very rarified men and women a couple of
hundred years from now. Who will go and
station themselves and pivot their lives out
there on the bleak vastness of the Oort
cloud. To hold human waystation places at the
very edge of the star system.
Because that experience being free and of
that variety is the necessary step to going
to other stars.
Because there is a quality of energy.
Of life consciousness that will not release a
child until they're grown.
And our humanity will have to inhabit the
entire star system. And then we will be free
to go further.
Into a vast universe, an incredible universe.
The nearest star system. 300 years from now
that our descendants will go to has three
sons. That revolve in a very complicated way
the Centurion Star system.
And so their first trait, their first package
that they'll open will be a star system with
multiple suns.
Strange qualities of life.
Wild kinds of freedom.
Unbelievable variabilities. What Mother
Nature requires of us is that we be real.
She's very practical. And if we are not.
Ready to live in reality than we will perish
in fantasy. And the neurotic fantasies.
Of a planet bound humanity.
With nuclear and genetic.
Controls that are now available. Well, very
rapidly being uninhabitable place.
Even now, many of the values that we would
sustain and wish to see kept are being
leached in eroded even as we set. The reverse
is not more control, more punishment, more
soldiers, more weapons.
But to undergo that community of acceptance
that always is a prelude to life.
This was the way the great teaching of
Hellenistic Judaism, the last time this
millennium changed. It's the teaching today.
It's a quality that the community,
those men and women who together understand
that their gestalt is of a wholeness of life,
transcendent of any particular culture, any
particular tradition.
Saving all those by letting an umbrella of a
larger quality happen.
That was the vision of the United States.
That was the vision of a hermetic America.
Thomas Jefferson, musing one time to his
daughter, Patsy. They were riding out near
the Natural Arch Rock Bridge.
The man who was traveling with them overheard
him say to her. In the past, there have been
men and women who gained freedom in their
lives. But what I would like to see is,
Jefferson said. As a whole government
dedicated and committed to freeing millions
of men and women and turning them loose in a
world that has no restrictions on them other
than their own integrity. And within a year
of that, Jefferson made it possible.
He simply took two thirds of the continent
away from the most powerful military man in
the world at that time, Napoleon. The
Louisiana Purchase was made from Napoleon
against his will.
Jefferson, being a practical man, sent James
Monroe over.
With a few facts.
Jefferson said to Napoleon, I've taken a
liberty of a survey. You have about 15,000
French men able to bear arms on the North
American continent.
I am sending 25,000 arms, very capable men,
through the Cumberland Gap every month. I'm
sure we can come to terms. Napoleon thought
that he would use the French garrisons on
Hague. To crowbar Jefferson, but Jefferson
had already prepared for that.
A man named Jesselyn took care of the
Napoleonic vision that it was going to be
easy. To use Haiti as some kind of a club,
some kind of a crowbar to change Jefferson's
mind. Jefferson had learned that quality
which made the America that was the wonder of
the world, the umbrella, a civilization
devoted to the freedom and variability of men
and women. That this is a place where they
can be.
Little wonder is it that the only human
beings who have ever been to a body other
than this planet have been Americans. In this
quality.
Of the future of that stellar civilization.
One of the most important places on Earth is
Los Angeles.
This is the last place on the surface of this
planet.
That that vision of that America can be.
But it cannot remain here. It cannot stay
here. And we can't.
Important to the Philippines or to China or
some other place? Well, what's left is there
to be no more. It's like a quality that when
it has reached its fullness, it takes off.
It goes up.
It's almost little short of miraculous that
the military place for sending satellites
into orbit is Vandenberg Air Force Base, one
of the most Western points on the United
States. It is a quality of the
transformation.
Part of the irony of the times.
That when there is a transformation of
Vandenberg into a humane launching site for
men and women to begin to inhabit the planets
and moons.
And terminal moraine of this star system will
know that we're on our way. Now, this is the
last of four lectures that I began. And I
began it with Jesus of Alexandria, because
that 2000 years ago was the pivot upon which
a new civilization was spinning
itself out. And we saw in that first lecture
that almost immediately the compromises on
that new civilization were almost terminal.
Because the existing over arching.
Power was the Roman Empire at the time. And
the Roman Empire sought to put a kind of a
covering like Europa's rock covering over its
inner ocean.
But when it began to crack, the Roman Empire
made.
A little variation, not a transformation, but
a little variation. It decided to co-opt
that. Power.
For. They saw the development as a power,
something that one could work into one's
plans and infect men and women with the
desire to control and have power.
Have authority.
So that's the last 2000 years. We only listen
to those men and women who have power and
authority because they control what's real.
Money and armies and power and all of that is
an illusion.
It's a misconception. That is paper thin.
It's brittle. Any child.
Understanding. The transformational
acceptance and absorption of love can put
their hand through that any day. And when we
hold that child's hand and put ours through,
we lose that fear, which is the ultimate
stick and crowbar at the back of all that
authority and power and weapons.
That we're going to vanish and not be here.
Oblivion. Because truly the only oblivion
that there is the only dust there is. Is not
to transform and grow.
And be real with Mother Nature and her wild
skirts of freedom and variability.
There's much that could be said, but I think
that I would like to leave it there and thank
you for helping me to commemorate the death
of my daughter and the remembrance that she
will come again. Thank you very much.