[00:00:00 - 00:00:08] I refer not to danger inherent in the jungle or to the inevitable hardships attendant upon travel in remote areas [00:00:08 - 00:00:11] but rather and obviously to the [00:00:11 - 00:00:15] psychological stress inherent in confronting the phenomenon [00:00:15 - 00:00:21] strangely so much a part of oneself and yet vast and other [00:00:21 - 00:00:26] away from the mitigating world of friends and the world that is unaware or [00:00:27 - 00:00:34] skeptical concerning our encounter with the phenomenon and the subsequent understanding which we derived from it [00:00:34 - 00:00:43] My first consideration in this area is to do all in my ability to eliminate the unexpected [00:00:43 - 00:00:49] My brother's crypto schizophrenic reversal is ever in my mind in this regard. I [00:00:49 - 00:00:56] Believe we are dealing with something to which no vagueness or uncertainty of inner dynamics adheres [00:00:57 - 00:01:03] Careful thought and study can eliminate the possibility of the contact phenomena [00:01:03 - 00:01:08] Suddenly turning on us or otherwise behaving unexpectedly [00:01:08 - 00:01:12] The right approach to these things remains elusive [00:01:12 - 00:01:21] Again and again the inner voice of the phenomenon has insisted that since my brother's opus of hypercarbolation [00:01:22 - 00:01:27] Nothing at all remains to be done and that if something is required in the way of activity [00:01:27 - 00:01:34] Then by virtue of the very nature of the contact that something will be exactly what we are doing [00:01:34 - 00:01:42] Evan I lived quietly at La Churrera from August until November of [00:01:42 - 00:01:44] 1971 and [00:01:44 - 00:01:50] During that time I was able to completely indulge my submersion in the interior [00:01:50 - 00:01:52] processes that I was experiencing [00:01:52 - 00:01:59] During the second residency at La Churrera the theme of ukuhei recurred [00:01:59 - 00:02:08] We had made the acquaintance of several of the we Toto people who regularly walk the path near our own hut a few hundred [00:02:08 - 00:02:12] Yards down the same path from where the original experiment took place [00:02:13 - 00:02:21] Among those we Toto who stopped to exchange a word or watch me collecting insects was a sturdy older man [00:02:21 - 00:02:27] Named Demetrius in my excited state of mind the letters D M and T [00:02:27 - 00:02:33] Seem to stand out in his name like a beacon as soon as I could get him alone [00:02:33 - 00:02:36] I haltingly put the question to him [00:02:36 - 00:02:39] ukuhei [00:02:40 - 00:02:43] Ukuhei he was barely able to believe his ears [00:02:43 - 00:02:51] That this strange weak creature like something from another world should directly inquire after a secret tradition [00:02:51 - 00:02:58] Of his people was incredible. I have no idea how many cultural conventions were overlooked [00:02:58 - 00:03:05] But after a bit more conversation or what passes for conversation between people who share no common language [00:03:05 - 00:03:09] I was sure that he would try to help me [00:03:10 - 00:03:13] Days later on my 24th birthday [00:03:13 - 00:03:19] I was brought a tarry goo wrapped in a little leaf packet [00:03:19 - 00:03:25] I was never able personally to obtain a hallucinogenic experience from this material [00:03:25 - 00:03:29] But later analysis by the chemists of the Karolinska Institute [00:03:29 - 00:03:31] Confirmed the presence of dimethyltryptamine [00:03:31 - 00:03:35] Demetrius had been as good as his word [00:03:38 - 00:03:44] By the time that life at Lacherera had actually carried us through November 16th [00:03:44 - 00:03:50] 1971 the date that the chart and the accumulation of coincidences had [00:03:50 - 00:03:53] Generated seemed to indicate as the critical date [00:03:53 - 00:04:01] I had begun to realize that the chart had too many variables to ever function as a predictive map of the future [00:04:01 - 00:04:04] It would be necessary [00:04:04 - 00:04:09] I realized then to somehow quantify the various parameters of the wave [00:04:09 - 00:04:15] So that judgments concerning it could be less subject to personal bias [00:04:15 - 00:04:24] The last piece of writing that I did at Lacherera was done on the morning of the 16th. It was a kind of fable [00:04:24 - 00:04:29] Two old friends [00:04:29 - 00:04:32] Arabian somehow yet more ancient [00:04:32 - 00:04:36] Sit in a palace far older than themselves [00:04:36 - 00:04:43] Set on a mountainside surrounded by vineyards date palms and citrus orchards [00:04:43 - 00:04:48] Insomniac and affable they passed the long starry hours [00:04:48 - 00:04:54] preceding dawn in the smoking of hashish and the propounding of riddles [00:04:54 - 00:04:58] Share my pleasure at this puzzle and its resolution [00:04:59 - 00:05:04] Said the darker to the older and he passed his hand across his companions eyes [00:05:04 - 00:05:11] The older man then stood in the dream and watched the puzzle a world of form and law [00:05:11 - 00:05:16] Interlocking wheels and passion and intellect unfold [00:05:16 - 00:05:19] He passed into its species and empires [00:05:19 - 00:05:23] dynastic families and individual persons of genius [00:05:23 - 00:05:26] philosophers and [00:05:26 - 00:05:32] Dystrophes he felt the texture and tone of all the being in the world his friend had created [00:05:32 - 00:05:36] He sought the secret pattern his friend [00:05:36 - 00:05:42] He knew had surely hidden in his creation for this was a game that they often played [00:05:42 - 00:05:49] Finally in a great despotism in an age of brash science and a bright decadence [00:05:49 - 00:05:54] He saw himself divided into the persons of two brothers [00:05:54 - 00:06:00] Through time through their wanderings and lifetimes which passed before him in a moment [00:06:00 - 00:06:05] He perceived the intricate and pleasing nature of the riddle [00:06:05 - 00:06:12] understanding he dissolved the mists and wheels of the dream fable with a laugh a [00:06:12 - 00:06:17] laugh they shared and then once more they passed their pipe before [00:06:17 - 00:06:25] Strolling into the Azure Garden where dawn would find them among the peacocks beneath the pomegranates and bending acacias [00:06:25 - 00:06:44] The important thing about the second trip to lot your era was that the teaching was more or less [00:06:44 - 00:06:50] Continuous and what it taught after months and months was an idea about time [00:06:50 - 00:06:55] It is an idea which is very concrete it has mathematical rigor [00:06:55 - 00:07:03] The teacher showed me how to do something with the each thing that perhaps no one had ever before known how to do [00:07:03 - 00:07:09] Perhaps the Chinese have knew how to do it once and lost it thousands of years ago [00:07:09 - 00:07:12] It taught me a hyper temporal way of seeing [00:07:13 - 00:07:21] The invisible landscape explained all this it is not something that can be corralled within the confines of a conversation [00:07:21 - 00:07:29] It enables one to have as much of a certain kind of knowledge of the future as it is possible to know [00:07:29 - 00:07:33] The future is not absolutely determined [00:07:33 - 00:07:40] There is not in other words a future to see in which every event is determined [00:07:40 - 00:07:42] That isn't how the universe is put together [00:07:43 - 00:07:50] The future does not have that nature of already completedness, but it is conditioned [00:07:50 - 00:07:57] What had originally gotten me looking at the each thing was the odd way in which my early? [00:07:57 - 00:07:59] simplistic notion of [00:07:59 - 00:08:03] 64-day cycles of some kind of set of influences [00:08:03 - 00:08:08] Worked very well in my own life surrounding the time of the experiment [00:08:09 - 00:08:14] My mother's death was the first of these points in time that I isolated [00:08:14 - 00:08:19] Then I noted that my transformed relationship with ev had begun [00:08:19 - 00:08:26] 64 days after that and the culmination of the experiment at La Churrera had occurred another [00:08:26 - 00:08:28] 64 days later [00:08:28 - 00:08:36] The notion of the hexagram year grew out of the idea of six cycles of 64 days each [00:08:37 - 00:08:42] A year of six parts just as a hexagram has six lines [00:08:42 - 00:08:48] The personal worth of the idea was confirmed for me when I noticed that such a year of [00:08:48 - 00:08:54] 384 days if begun at the time of my mother's death [00:08:54 - 00:08:59] Would end on my own 24th birthday on the 16th of November [00:08:59 - 00:09:02] 1971 I [00:09:02 - 00:09:06] Saw then that there were cycles and cycles of cycles [00:09:06 - 00:09:12] I imagined a 384 day lunar year and then the thing of which it was only a part a [00:09:12 - 00:09:15] cycle of 64 times [00:09:15 - 00:09:18] 384 days and so on [00:09:18 - 00:09:25] The maps that I constructed and the eventual quantification of them that I achieved is told of in the invisible landscape [00:09:25 - 00:09:31] But what was not told there was the way in which these [00:09:31 - 00:09:38] Resonances and my unconscious mind or something in my mind would guide me to discover [00:09:38 - 00:09:40] the properties of the each [00:09:40 - 00:09:47] What to make of the ocean of resonances that the time chart seemed to show [00:09:47 - 00:09:55] connecting every moment of time to every other through a scheme of connection that knew nothing of randomness or [00:09:56 - 00:10:03] neutrality and what to make of the way that the chart and the fact of my discovering it seemed to imply that the time [00:10:03 - 00:10:10] In which we live was the focus of an ages long and terribly important effort [00:10:10 - 00:10:15] These were inflationary images and I recognized them as such [00:10:15 - 00:10:19] But the power and allure of them as a form of private entertainment [00:10:19 - 00:10:22] was frankly irresistible [00:10:25 - 00:10:33] But more important than the central role the chart assigned to the time in which we live and more puzzling than its personal [00:10:33 - 00:10:36] idiosyncratic side was the fact that [00:10:36 - 00:10:39] implicit in the structure of the chart was an [00:10:39 - 00:10:47] end of time or a period when a transition of regime would take place that would transform the [00:10:47 - 00:10:49] modalities of reality completely I [00:10:49 - 00:10:55] Was familiar with the idea of eschatology is in a religious context [00:10:55 - 00:11:03] But it had never before occurred to me that regimes in physics might undergo sudden shifts that would reshuffle [00:11:03 - 00:11:04] natural laws [00:11:04 - 00:11:10] There is nothing against it. Really. It is simply that science in order to function [00:11:10 - 00:11:17] Must assume that physical laws are not context dependent on the time in which they are tested [00:11:17 - 00:11:22] If this were not so the idea of experiment would have no meaning [00:11:23 - 00:11:28] Since experiments performed at different times might then give different results [00:11:28 - 00:11:36] Yet the theory that was nightly invading my dreams during those months and that I was busy [00:11:36 - 00:11:42] Elaborating nearly every waking minute was a theory of unseen parameters operating in time [00:11:42 - 00:11:50] parameters symbolized by the hexagrams of the each chain but parameters that mold the possibilities [00:11:50 - 00:11:58] offered by the laws of physics and chemistry into the actual realized world that is the integration of the [00:11:58 - 00:12:01] potential possibilities into actual events [00:12:01 - 00:12:10] It is possible that in a certain sense all these states of liberation are nothing more than [00:12:10 - 00:12:13] perfect knowledge of the contents of eternity [00:12:15 - 00:12:20] That if one knows what is contained in time from its beginning to its end [00:12:20 - 00:12:24] You are somehow no longer in time [00:12:24 - 00:12:30] Even though you still have a body and still eat and and do what you do [00:12:30 - 00:12:38] You have discovered something which liberates you into a kind of all at once Ness, which is very satisfying [00:12:38 - 00:12:41] there are other [00:12:41 - 00:12:47] Interactions that arise out of the theory that are not touched on in this formulation [00:12:47 - 00:12:54] Times are related to each other things happen for a reason and the reason is not a causal reason [00:12:54 - 00:12:58] It is a reason which in physical terms is a quantum mechanical [00:12:58 - 00:13:00] phenomenon [00:13:00 - 00:13:06] there is a wave which conditions events on all levels and this wave is [00:13:06 - 00:13:12] Expressed throughout the universe on a number of extremely different discrete levels [00:13:12 - 00:13:17] It causes atoms to be atoms and cells to be cells [00:13:17 - 00:13:20] minds to be minds and [00:13:20 - 00:13:25] stars to be stars in a certain sense [00:13:25 - 00:13:31] It is a kind of physics, but it is metaphysics metaphysics with mathematical rigor [00:13:32 - 00:13:39] What I propose is not a belief in the sense of a religious conviction. It is a scientific proposition [00:13:39 - 00:13:46] Anyone is welcome to dismantle it. This is in fact what I have attempted to do [00:13:46 - 00:14:14] (Bell) [00:14:16 - 00:14:19] Years after I left the Amazon I [00:14:19 - 00:14:27] continued to elaborate this theory and to clarify my own understanding of the theory forming enterprise [00:14:27 - 00:14:29] generally I [00:14:29 - 00:14:31] succeeded finally in [00:14:31 - 00:14:33] 1974 in completely [00:14:33 - 00:14:35] Mathematizing the I Ching time graphs [00:14:35 - 00:14:43] This made it possible to greatly refine the ideas of what constituted proof or disconfirmation [00:14:43 - 00:14:45] Of what the theory contended? [00:14:45 - 00:14:54] My conclusion today on these matters is that the theory of the variable and cyclical nature of novelties [00:14:54 - 00:14:57] Ingression into the world is a truly [00:14:57 - 00:15:02] Self-consistent and completely mathematical theory it is true to itself [00:15:02 - 00:15:08] It has not been possible to find a bridge between it and normal physics [00:15:08 - 00:15:13] Such a bridge may be neither possible nor necessary [00:15:13 - 00:15:20] We may find that normal science indicates. What is possible while the time theory I propose [00:15:20 - 00:15:23] offers an explanation for what is [00:15:23 - 00:15:32] It is a theory which seeks to explain how of the things that are possible some events and things [00:15:32 - 00:15:36] undergo the formality of actually occurring [00:15:37 - 00:15:43] Therefore the theory cannot be disproven from without it can only be disproven by being found [00:15:43 - 00:15:46] inconsistent within itself [00:15:46 - 00:15:52] Until the I Ching graph was quantified its way of integrating [00:15:52 - 00:16:00] seemingly meaningless and unrelated factors made it a thing very easy to become psychologically entangled with [00:16:00 - 00:16:08] Even after the 16th of November 71 came and went with very little shift toward the novel either in my life [00:16:08 - 00:16:14] Or in the world I continued to propagate the cycles of the chart forward into the future [00:16:14 - 00:16:23] Looking for a date that seemed to have features related to the chart and thus that would be a good candidate for the emergence [00:16:23 - 00:16:25] of a special event [00:16:25 - 00:16:29] Here is a part of my story that I find most puzzling [00:16:30 - 00:16:32] after the [00:16:32 - 00:16:35] disconfirmation of November 1971 I [00:16:35 - 00:16:38] looked at other future dates on which the [00:16:38 - 00:16:45] 384 day cycles would end if I continued to assume that the 16th of November [00:16:45 - 00:16:49] 71 was the end of one such cycle [00:16:49 - 00:16:56] That meant that the next ending date of the 384 day cycle would be the 4th of December in [00:16:56 - 00:16:59] 1972 I [00:16:59 - 00:17:00] consulted several [00:17:00 - 00:17:02] astronomical tables, but the date seemed [00:17:02 - 00:17:11] Unpromising the closing date of the next 384 day cycles was immediately more interesting as it fell on the [00:17:11 - 00:17:13] 22nd of December [00:17:13 - 00:17:16] 1973 I [00:17:16 - 00:17:19] Noticed this was the winter solstice here was a clue [00:17:19 - 00:17:26] The winter solstice is traditionally the time of the rebirth of the Savior Messiah [00:17:27 - 00:17:32] It is a time of pause when there is a shifting of the cosmic machinery [00:17:32 - 00:17:37] It is also the time of the transition of the Sun from Sagittarius to Capricorn [00:17:37 - 00:17:46] I put no particular stock in astrology, but noted that Dennis is a Sagittarius and Ev a Capricorn I [00:17:46 - 00:17:50] Consulted my star maps and added another coincidence [00:17:51 - 00:17:57] That where the ecliptic crosses the cusp of Sagittarius and Capricorn at 23 degrees [00:17:57 - 00:18:05] Sagittarius is the very spot to within one or two degrees where the galactic center is presently located [00:18:05 - 00:18:08] Over [00:18:08 - 00:18:14] 26,000 years the galactic center like all points on the ecliptic slowly moves through the signs [00:18:15 - 00:18:21] But now it is on the cusp of Sagittarius and Capricorn on the winter solstice day [00:18:21 - 00:18:27] This seemed an unusual number of coincidences and so I pressed my search [00:18:27 - 00:18:31] consultation with the almanac of the Naval Observatory [00:18:31 - 00:18:35] Brought a real surprise on the very day that I was searching [00:18:35 - 00:18:44] 22 December 1973 a total annual or eclipse of the Sun would occur and the path of [00:18:44 - 00:18:50] Totality would sweep directly across Lacher era and the Amazon Basin. I was dumbfounded [00:18:50 - 00:18:54] I felt like a person in an eerie novel [00:18:54 - 00:18:58] This string of clues was actually real. I [00:18:58 - 00:19:03] Researched the eclipse to determine where exactly it would achieve totality [00:19:03 - 00:19:12] This would occur I learned nearly directly over the city of Belem in Brazil in the Delta of the Amazon River [00:19:13 - 00:19:21] This last fact carried me out of the realm of astronomical coincidence and back to the motifs of the trances at Lacher era [00:19:21 - 00:19:25] Belem means Bethlehem in Portuguese [00:19:25 - 00:19:31] My perception sensitive to any messianic possibility seized on this [00:19:31 - 00:19:36] Belem is Bethlehem. It lies at the Delta of the Amazon [00:19:36 - 00:19:40] Delta the symbol for change in time [00:19:40 - 00:19:46] Delta enjoys and among graffiti artists throughout history represents the vagina [00:19:46 - 00:19:50] Dennis was born in Delta, Colorado [00:19:50 - 00:19:57] Was it possible that all of our experiences could have been a premonition of an event at a time and place? [00:19:57 - 00:20:00] two years hence in Brazil [00:20:00 - 00:20:03] Was this why? [00:20:03 - 00:20:09] absurdly at the conclusion of the experiment at Lacher era the strains of a little town of [00:20:10 - 00:20:12] Bethlehem had come [00:20:12 - 00:20:14] Echoing through my head [00:20:14 - 00:20:18] By late spring of 1972. I knew everything that I have just mentioned [00:20:18 - 00:20:23] Why did the chart point to the 22nd of December? [00:20:23 - 00:20:29] 1973 and why was there such a stream of coincidences pointing to that time? [00:20:29 - 00:20:35] Had I known of the impending eclipse on some unconscious level had I known it would achieve? [00:20:36 - 00:20:44] mortality over billion why did the dates important to my life line up with that date according to the chart I had learned to [00:20:44 - 00:20:48] construct in the wake of the UFO encounter at Lacher era I [00:20:48 - 00:20:57] Did not imagine that it was impossible that I had somehow known these things and manipulated my conscious self to imagine [00:20:57 - 00:20:58] that it was [00:20:58 - 00:21:00] discovering these things [00:21:00 - 00:21:04] But in the early spring of 1973 an event occurred [00:21:04 - 00:21:09] Which is the perfect proof that something larger than my unconscious? [00:21:09 - 00:21:15] Seemingly larger even than the total collective consciousness of the human race was at work [00:21:15 - 00:21:19] This was the discovery of the comet Kohoutek [00:21:19 - 00:21:22] Supposed to be the largest comet in human history [00:21:22 - 00:21:26] Supposed to dwarf even Halley's comet [00:21:26 - 00:21:32] Brightest comet ever headed toward earth was the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle [00:21:32 - 00:21:36] And as I scanned the article I actually let out a shout [00:21:36 - 00:21:42] the comet would make its nearest approach to the Sun on the 23rd of December a [00:21:42 - 00:21:48] non-periodic comet unknown to anyone on earth until early March of [00:21:48 - 00:21:53] 1973 was hurtling toward a rendezvous with the Sun [00:21:53 - 00:21:59] Within a hundred hours of the solstice and the eclipse over the Amazon. It was a large [00:22:00 - 00:22:06] Coincidence if we define that as a coincidence that deeply impresses its observer [00:22:06 - 00:22:12] It is not diminished by the fact that Kohoutek really never lived up to expectations [00:22:12 - 00:22:19] for the expectations alone were to become a wave of fringe millenarianism and [00:22:19 - 00:22:27] Apocalyptic restlessness that would die only as the comet itself returned to the darkness out of which it had emerged [00:22:27 - 00:22:34] Did anything happen in Belem on the day of the eclipse? I do not know I was not there [00:22:34 - 00:22:42] but I do know that the compression of events that occurred around that date and the way in which the charts revealed in the [00:22:42 - 00:22:46] UFO encounter predicted this was uncanny [00:22:46 - 00:22:49] It was not long after that [00:22:49 - 00:22:52] December that I realized [00:22:52 - 00:23:00] how to completely quantify the time graph and was thus led to an understanding of the way that the cycles operate [00:23:00 - 00:23:06] So that I saw the immense difficulties involved in predicting a con crescent [00:23:06 - 00:23:08] That was my last attempt [00:23:08 - 00:23:16] Since then I have been content to understand the theory but have abandoned serious efforts to apply it [00:23:16 - 00:23:19] specifically to predicting the course of human events [00:23:19 - 00:23:27] I do not personally doubt that the charts can and do chart the course of future novelty [00:23:27 - 00:23:34] but years of working with them leads to abandonment of the distinction between past and future and [00:23:34 - 00:23:37] preference for a kind of whole system [00:23:37 - 00:23:44] understanding that revels in the complete pattern with less stress on specific prediction [00:23:45 - 00:23:53] Was the above series of events the first intimation that I had ever had that something of importance was connected with a [00:23:53 - 00:23:56] specific date in time and the city of Belem [00:23:56 - 00:24:03] Strangely, no it was not in the spring of 1970. I was in Taipei Taiwan [00:24:03 - 00:24:10] Adjusting to city life after a long butterfly connecting ramble through the outback of Indonesia [00:24:10 - 00:24:18] I was killing time awaiting a traveling companion who I had last seen in Bali several months before I [00:24:18 - 00:24:21] Had a very peculiar dream [00:24:21 - 00:24:23] Which occurred though? [00:24:23 - 00:24:30] I did not know it on the very day that my father and Dennis were told that my mother was dying of cancer [00:24:30 - 00:24:34] That was something I would not learn until nearly a week later [00:24:34 - 00:24:38] My journal records the following dream [00:24:39 - 00:24:41] 24 May 1970 [00:24:41 - 00:24:45] X and I were walking up a gentle grassy slope [00:24:45 - 00:24:52] Below us on all sides the valleys were filled with studying white clouds tops brilliantly [00:24:52 - 00:24:55] reflecting the Sun back into the deathless azure [00:24:55 - 00:25:03] Ahead of us the steeply rolling hills ascended many miles away as I remarked [00:25:03 - 00:25:05] into the main range of the Rockies [00:25:06 - 00:25:10] We were in dream geography somewhere in western, Colorado [00:25:10 - 00:25:16] Where I was born and lived until I was 16 as we continued upward [00:25:16 - 00:25:21] Here be an Indonesian acquaintance came to meet us [00:25:21 - 00:25:24] wearing white tennis shorts and [00:25:24 - 00:25:27] drew our attention to several small [00:25:27 - 00:25:35] meteorological balloons whose dangling nylon cords had fouled in nearby wind bent trees and [00:25:35 - 00:25:37] To our left upon a crest [00:25:37 - 00:25:40] deeply dimpled [00:25:40 - 00:25:44] Blazing white and perhaps 30 feet high was a large balloon [00:25:44 - 00:25:52] Perhaps three-quarters filled with gas the ropes and closing the gas bag cut deeply into it [00:25:52 - 00:26:00] Sectioning it as though it were a great bleached orange as we gazed hair be depressed a lever that had appeared from somewhere [00:26:00 - 00:26:02] and the apparatus rose [00:26:03 - 00:26:09] Simultaneously with my query would not the wind whipping over the hill cause it to falter [00:26:09 - 00:26:16] It's quite bulk rushed over us perhaps only 20 feet above our heads and then passing higher [00:26:16 - 00:26:19] It met the wind and the fate I had anticipated [00:26:19 - 00:26:22] Turning on its side it gently came to earth [00:26:22 - 00:26:28] We ran toward it and other people the impression was of children [00:26:28 - 00:26:34] Appeared from the opposite direction also running toward the rippling white of the now deflated machine [00:26:34 - 00:26:37] Amid our laughing [00:26:37 - 00:26:43] Examination of the balloon we were invited into B's house now visible as a sprawling [00:26:43 - 00:26:49] Ranch style house nearby a house not unlike the house in which I spent my childhood [00:26:49 - 00:26:52] As we entered the house [00:26:52 - 00:26:59] I paused to examine a large map of the Amazon Delta on the wall published [00:26:59 - 00:27:04] The legend informed me to commemorate a conference of a French archaeological [00:27:04 - 00:27:09] Society which convened on a small island there in 1948 [00:27:09 - 00:27:17] When I rejoined X she informed me that the children of B had told her that one of the densest [00:27:17 - 00:27:20] rainforests in the world was nearby I [00:27:21 - 00:27:27] Familiar as only a native can be with Colorado geography was incredulous [00:27:27 - 00:27:32] I returned to the bookcase under the map and taking out a large atlas [00:27:32 - 00:27:36] sought the rainfall and forest map of Colorado [00:27:36 - 00:27:39] opening instead upon a psalm [00:27:39 - 00:27:44] Not without first rejecting a topological rendering of Bengal [00:27:44 - 00:27:49] I heard myself say that shallom are with the logical jumping off place [00:27:50 - 00:27:52] then all faded [00:27:52 - 00:27:54] You [00:27:54 - 00:27:56] You [00:27:56 - 00:27:58] You [00:27:58 - 00:28:00] You [00:28:00 - 00:28:02] You [00:28:02 - 00:28:04] You [00:28:04 - 00:28:06] You [00:28:06 - 00:28:08] You [00:28:08 - 00:28:10] You [00:28:10 - 00:28:12] You [00:28:12 - 00:28:14] You [00:28:41 - 00:28:45] Chapter 17 say what does it mean a [00:28:45 - 00:28:51] world construct is a way of seeing a way of seeing is a set of [00:28:51 - 00:28:55] concepts which when they exist in one's mind [00:28:55 - 00:28:58] Reconstruct all of one's inputs to make it different [00:28:58 - 00:29:04] To assimilate the theory that was forced upon us is to see the world differently [00:29:04 - 00:29:10] My approach has been to grant the possibility that the theory is true [00:29:10 - 00:29:12] Since it hasn't been disproven [00:29:12 - 00:29:19] It may be possible to disprove it if it is not then I must believe it [00:29:19 - 00:29:19] it. 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