Our program continues with tape seven Let me explain to you how to read the graph because it's the exact opposite psychologically of a stock market graph I think when you look at a stock market most of us want it to go up not down in this game We want it to go down The novel the higher states of novelty occur as you approach zero So this is the most novel point on the screen. This is the most habit Impacted moment on the screen and what you see is habit and novelty are at war with each other Now here's how I interpret this particular screen and it is a basis for interpreting all the rest This is a turning point after a long period of habit consolidation and Indivisim whatever that means that 4.7 billion years ago Something very novel happened along this descent. I maintain that it's actually the Stabilization of the surface of the earth itself that what we're seeing here is the earth changing into a stable planetary body and then The earliest forms of life the proto life appears right here and undergoes a series then of fluctuations then There is some kind of a problem Some impediment to what would otherwise be the rather straight shot toward novelty by this spike here well Evolutionary biologists say that in the early history of the earth There was a crisis having to do with the production of oxygen as a waste gas life arose in a non reducing atmosphere the first pollution crisis in the history of the earth was pollution by oxygen and organisms had to develop complex membranes and mechanisms for dealing with this and that's what happened along here and Once that was achieved then the pace of novelty quickened and the descent Continued and we our entire civilization in fact You know the last billion years as a matter of fact is Lost down here in this stochastic Fluctuation near the zero point in other words relative to these places in the wave We're so near the maximum of novelty that it's practically punching in through the walls and in fact human civilization Correctly mirrors that I mean where you would expect to find a civilization on this graph is somewhere down in here Well now if everything is working, right? Ninety let's yeah 98.8% is the today the target date of today now what I'm going to do is there's a zoom function here, and we're going to start flying toward the present and Every time a screen changes We're going to see half as much time on the screen. We have six billion years up We'll go to three then one and a half then point seven five and so forth This seems to be an excellent computer with a fast chip, so What do we see the right hand yeah, yeah, yeah, and we're gonna and if we're gonna get greater and greater detail and Your attitude toward this should be I'm Asserting that this is true You have a notion of where the high points in the evolutionary and human history have occurred You should be asking yourself whether this fits your intuition now obviously It's pretty vague stuff when we're looking at six billion years but on the other hand we can take this thing down to three days if necessary and We know where the great changes have come in the last thousand years. It's not that ambiguous So let's test the zoom function Zoom it asks me yes, I reply seek minimum it asks me no I reply Approach factor it asks me And I'm going to tell it to in order to have the screen each time it would accept any number But two seems rational for demonstration purposes No it's gonna slice the time it's gonna slice it each time and rescale You would presume so The middle of the novel The Big Bang would be no the Big Bang would be very high because There's no life. There's no atomic systems. There's no molecules. It's a very low complexity situation at the birth of the universe Yeah, no yes, that's right the Big Bang is somewhere up here up here Okay now before I do this let me locate escape, okay This is such a pleasure to do it with fast machines Okay, there's three billion see how detail is coming up as time is lost And if anybody wants me to stop it at any point I will Here's 750 million years this is virtually the entire history of life on earth And in fact of higher life. I'm sorry you know organisms not not Multicellular life this is the history of multicellular life and what you see is there was a steep descent into novelty until about 300 million years ago, and then there were a series of oscillations close to zero until About 65 million years ago, and then there's a sudden plunge deeper into novelty immediately preceding the Concrescence which occurs on at dawn Greenwich mean time December 22nd 2012 one thing about this theory It's not vague And it noticed that it doesn't hedge on predictions either it fills every screen is full of predictions - Approach factor yeah, okay, we've got 750 million years on the screen 375 million years on the screen now. I want to talk about this for a minute Now this is a screen full of dramatic predictions. These are tremendously punctuated and temporally defined plunges into novelty and We don't have tremendous paleontological records for what's going on 275 million years ago, but from studying these low points and talking to Geochronologists about them I've decided that these are Planetesimal impacts on the earth now you know that the last one was 65 million years ago. That's this one Right there, but there were others there was one This one 220 million years ago Oh asteroid strikes on the earth oh Well there was a little tiny one in Arizona those happen all the time in cosmic terms Every hundred thousand years or so, but this thing that happened 65 million years ago was a planet shatter and They are rare. They're rare okay, so so I'm suggesting that these are asteroid impacts Which then evolution has to restart? Reclaim its territory, and then there is something else happening. They may not all be asteroid impacts They could be you know enormous episodes of volcanism on the earth such as the Deccan traps in India or something like that Now let's start the thing again What we're looking at now 375 seek minimum no approach factor to go for it That's a hundred and eighty seven million years there's the impact 65 million years ago Now let's look at this. This is the last 93 million years oh Yes, it looks like the thing we started out with somebody's paying attention right on yes, yes See what happens is a fractal is a nested data set and Every time you pass through a whole number the pattern repeats This sets up a very interesting Set of circumstances inside the wave which is that we can talk about temporal resonance We can talk about how the Third Reich is a resonance of Ancient Egypt we can talk about Saddam Hussein as a resonance of Muhammad because when we look at the way these things are lined up historically we see that directly above Saddam Hussein and in a relationship of parallelism is the career of the Prophet and so What is being suggested here is that every day every moment is in fact an interference pattern? Created by other times and places This is not this is a fairly challenging and peculiar idea Not something the linear Western mind would have ever come up with so for instance if you should find yourself Having lunch in a place called Hadrian's hamburger stand This has something to do with the Emperor Hadrian and his four-year military Campaign in Scotland is a direct causal influence on your being at Hadrian's Hamburger stand for lunch I like to say Rome falls nine times an hour and you have to be Perceptive you have to be paying attention to the ebb and flow of your own inner Thoughts, but if you are you feel the fall of Rome you also feel the age of exploration of the birth of Buddha The the fall of Carthage it all happens nine times an hour it also happens twice a day and once a year Yeah Sometimes yeah, it is very similar (inaudible) That's right (inaudible) Yeah, there's we've never tried to do it scientifically you know where you would actually keep track but major Astrological conjunctions are often reflected in major Progressions into novelty No because I'm not smart enough to do that That's right, I think God has chosen you for this work (laughter) (inaudible) (inaudible) (inaudible) (inaudible) (laughter) Well Ronald Reagan was His historical antecedents were the last six Roman Emperors before the fall of Rome in 475 and Bush's antecedent is (inaudible) (laughter) No, I think I think I think Bush gets to be Justinian you remember somebody said history always occurs twice first as tragedy then as farce That person had a good intuitive So now let's go into this a little more how much time do you have on 93 million years, okay, so here's the Here's the asteroid impact and and dead on I mean 65 million years Is right there to the degree that we can date these two events. It's a winner. It's a bullseye and You know it was a huge setback for organic life as I said this morning nothing larger than a chicken survived it the mammals began their radiation and and These are you know just different vicissitudes I'm not sure what to make of this spike here, but I haven't really spent a lot of time on that period from 40 to 36 million years ago somebody else may have a notion as to what this represents Which it was Evolutionary biologists say you know that forms quickly reoccupied all the niches and remember if this hadn't happened We wouldn't be the planetary rulers that we are we'd still be Little furry creatures trying to steal eggs out of the nests of the saurian Masters who ruled the planet big why? Because all the dinosaurs were killed in this impact and that allowed these little eggs stealing rodent like furry creatures to undergo an explosive evolutionary Radiation leading directly to our own vast superiority over the rest of nature Yeah, yeah, no yeah, oh That's a whole different scale you see the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago The ice ages are a phenomenon of the last 5 million years and we'll see the ice ages But not there right now those ice ages are down in here Somewhere lost in the detail let's go back to our zoom Oh, yeah, we'll get there Don't worry no we don't want to seek the minimum the approach factor should be to Okay 93 million years on the screen 46 million years on the screen 23 million 11 million 5 million 5 million years on the screen now here are your ice ages here. They are you see? when the ice is in place species are bottled up and Gene transfer is impeded this constitutes a non novel Situation then when the ice melts these gene pools Re-encounter each other and you get proliferation of form we're getting excellent agreement here This is the melting of the last glacier Maybe Yeah, I think it's actually over here still lost in detail, but these are you know however Evolution is described as punctuated how it isn't that evolution proceeds smoothly, but there will be a climax Stasis and then suddenly many new species well these are the punctuated Evolution this is actually a picture of punctuated evolution and the high numbers of species are down in these troughs And the low numbers of species are on these ascents close to the changeover points so Again the paleontological data isn't that clear but at this scale of resolution We're getting good agreement between data and theory Well it's the they are topologically equivalent, but not numerically equivalent Yeah That's right. It's a damped oscillation is really what we're saying Yeah, well, I'm hope you'll be on it by Monday afternoon Okay, let me restart the zoom No, I'm restarting the zoom zoom yeah Okay Yes, these could very well be magnetic reversals yeah, they very well could be magnetic reversals and I Well what we're looking at is I'm suggesting their ice ages It was suggested that their geomagnetic reversals geomagnetic reversals and ice ages may even have links to each other Do we see anything that might indicate the increase in human construct range? Well we see that over here a steep descent into novelty going deeper than we've ever gone Before and that would probably indicate that an animal or an organ is appeared of a density of Complexity greater than anything which preceded it so I would say yes Well let me start the zoom and we'll get over in here on a big scale and then you can see Okay, we're going to go from five million Down to two million now, let's discuss this Because this is the domain in which we evolved From our story is on screen at this point It said that The 100,000 years ago at the Colossus cave river mouth in South Africa there were Homo sapiens Indistinguishable from the people sitting in this room the oldest Homo sapiens skeletons are from there. That's clear over here This is the Pongy de radiation meaning the proliferation of these primate forms and and that's about 1900 a million years ago This this is the whole period in which the primates were Breaking away from the rest of nature and and this is I think probably where the mushrooms Begin to come into the picture and see how the whole system is Propelled into lower levels of novelty than anything which preceded it Higher levels of novelty when the wave moves down novelty is increasing That's one way of saying it or increased density of connection or It means something happening which has never happened before which allows Novelty to build upon itself we talked about this a little bit yesterday about how the early universe was very simple and then came ordinary chemistry and then Organic chemistry and then life and then complex life and then higher animals and then primitive human beings and then language and culture and then computers and particle accelerators and all of this representing steeper and steeper descents into novelty headed toward a confrontation with novelty at infinite density not millennia or millennia in the future But 20 years from now Conserved is the word I use but yes, that's right That's right. Well when we get to the present you'll be able to see you know the past few months the next few months The next few years we approach it this way because I want to convince you that there's something sort of woo-woo about this thing It does seem to have an uncanny predictive ability now the most commonly met Objection to this and it may be forming in your mind is that this guy just doesn't understand patterns and that every Pattern can be used to describe a different pattern, but I resist this because notice that This whole set of correlations is dependent upon this zero date Which we inputted if we shift the zero date then all the other Predictions would be thrown off. Well now naturally if we shift the zero date 50 years It's not going to have a hell of an effect on an event 175 million years ago, but if we move the date 50 years and we look at 1792 you know it's all screwed up You have to be right on the money when you get into the historical data field because the historical data field can vary Over a 24-hour period I mean John F. Kennedy dead John F. Kennedy alive the difference is 10 minutes So it can be very it can be very highly Quantified specific yeah Okay entered That's 2 million and roughly 3 million years on the screen 1 and 1/2 million years on the screen 700,000 let's look at this for a minute This is the last million years and The last hundred thousand years are right there This is the emergence of modern human types, and it sets off the last cascade at least at this scale so all of this is evolutionary advance and Climatological flux and so forth and then from the time the modern human type emerges It's a straight shot down in there (whispering) Now Obviously we all know more about time as we get closer to the present. This is 366,000 years it's a hundred thousand years up there. There's the last two hundred thousand years There's the last hundred thousand years (silence) This is the this is the environment in which we were shaped these are Very pro these are climatological fluctuations here the last this is the last glaciation (audience member screams) Shit to the computer sorry (audience laughter) Is it dying or is it having a good time? (audience laughter) Its I forgot it does that Anyway (audience laughter) What are you doing this evening? (audience laughter) (audience laughter) (audience laughter) You can't (audience laughter) Remember the orgasm in the restaurant when Harry met Sally? Vaguely (audience laughter) Okay The last 91,000 years the glaciers melt here The glacial melt begins around 19,000 years ago And as you see it's just a straight fall from there to the moon flight and to H Ross Perot and to all the rest of it and These are again episodes probably of glaciation or flux in the incidence of incoming cosmic radiation It's hard to say what it is (audience member speaks) Oh, yeah, we can go down we can take it down to very small that I mean understand that the The program does many wonderful things which we're not doing I'm just doing a simple demo, but obviously all this stuff has got to be about something (audience laughter) Now we're getting into the area where people have real data that's 45,000 years 22,000 years on the screen. Let's look at this for a minute This is worth talking about now we now the pressure begins to come on It's all very well to predict the interglacials that may or may not have occurred the predicting assassinations of dynastic families is a little trickier here's the glacial melt begins and Species, this is the descent this is where the mushroom paradise existed in its fullest expression from about 17,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago well now what is this sudden interruption of the descent into novelty here I Maintain based on the archaeological record that it's what is called the Tang point Technocomplex do you all know what that is? It's does anybody know what it is Tang point technocomplex means that before this before this point When an arrowhead is found you find one it means it was lost by somebody who was hunting Around 10,000 BC you begin to find large numbers of arrowheads all in one place without Chipping fragments this was not an arrowhead factory This was the site of a battle between human populations war is Invented here because agriculture is invented here You're looking at the end of the partnership paradise the era of orgy gives way to the era of anxious monogamy warfare agriculture You know ego hood is born now somebody asked about who asked about chatal hill yoke somebody Chattel hill yoke bottom of this stab here the fire that burned through chattel level 5a Occurred in 6500 BC we know this from charcoal dating. It's right there It's on the money see somehow this that the This whole tang point technocomplex bummer was overcome and there was a steep descent into novelty and Chattel hill yoke was the product of that, but then it was destroyed and there was a rebound into chuckle headedness for a while and Then right down here in the bottom of this thing is where the great pyramid is sitting You know the great pyramid was finished in September of 29 70 BC why this should be so controversial I do not understand because there are grains of charcoal between the unmoved Stones that charcoal has not been anywhere since the day that stone was set in place And it's 2790 BC these people who want to push it back and say it's 50,000 years old well the obligation to prove is on them because the carbon radiological data Argues you see there's some tendency in the new age which I don't understand very well That wants to make everything older than it is you know the pyramids are 50,000 years old Atlantis rose and fell a hundred thousand years in that miracle is how new Everything is the pyramids were built day before yesterday Charlemagne was king of France early this morning. It's all very very Recent I mean the emergence of mind out of non mind is an event Practically on top of us now. Let's start it up, and we'll get really down to the Well Yes in a sense because you see what happens is when you it's a built-in Mathematical property of this wave that when you get to the end of a big wave There's when you get to the end on any scale. There's a sudden drop To the next scale and then it goes along to the end and then there's a sudden drop so if what we're saying is that a universe is made like a universe that actually had this structure that I outlined for you of 26 levels where each level was 164 Smaller than the level which preceded it a universe built on that kind of architect onyx Would only be halfway through its life an hour and 35 minutes before the end Do you see how that would work that in the last hour and 35 minutes? It's going to go through as much development as it went through in the previous 72 billion years so yes time is accelerating accelerating into you know we've gone from barely moving to Approaching a staggering speed and I maintain you know that in 2012 the last six days Preceding the approach to concrescence will be the jackpot. I mean the laws of physics will break down Everything will be in a state of visible motile Transformation this isn't happening in the human world it isn't happening in our minds It's a crisis in the strut the structure of physical law Itself and that's why people that's why this theory will be hard to disprove or prove Until so close to the end date that you'll barely have time to make a telephone call to say whether it's true or not Before if it is true your telephone call becomes totally irrelevant Yeah, that's right No, that's right, and if that seems unlikely to you Let's always let's never forget what the orthodox guys are peddling They're peddling the Big Bang theory which says the universe sprang from nothing in a single instance I would prefer what I call the big surprise Cosmology because it seems to me if you have to have a singularity The the least likely place to find the singularity would be in a featureless high vacuum If you want to find a singularity look in a corner of the universe where there are planets stars elements organisms alphabets civilizations Minds in other words look in a complex domain if you want to find a singularity That's where you might have some chance of finding it, but finding it in an unflawed Nothingness is a strange place to look even one of the arguments Maybe being proposed by those on the fringe is that in fact it's it's a very complex universe that's been pushed through a membrane And in the singularity which then creates another entire Well one possibility is that it's a wraparound that we're just not we're not whistling Dixie when we talk about the archaic revival We're actually what history is is a finger reaching for the reset button and when you finally touch it You find yourself at the moment of the Big Bang you know you've actually sent it screaming back to the first moment That's right and every cycle is a holographic description of the cycles that preceded it right so in 1945 when the bomb flickers into existence over Hiroshima This is the resonance of the Big Bang it's being caused by the Big Bang and the entire life of the universe is then somehow reenacted in the remaining 67 years in the same way there remember there was a 4306 year cycle we are reenacting that cycle in in the present 67 year cycle we have reached AD700 right now. I mean if you wonder why things are so benighted It's because we're in the heart of the dark ages you wonder why you can't understand the nature of the collapse of the state vector Well, it's because you have an AD700 intellectual machine looking at it my god the calculus hasn't been invented Algebra hasn't been invented the new world hasn't been discovered these things will all happen ahead of us Right now we are in the heart of the dark ages by the late 90s We'll be closing distance with the Renaissance clearly we have to put up with a bunch of Chrysler Fundamentalism epidemic diseases in general not headedness until we get to that point but then after the turn of the century we can expect the equivalent of the Renaissance the Industrial Reformation the rise of Napoleon the Civil War Adolf Hitler it'll just be coming quick quick quick quick and finally you know you just it just pulls you in and everything happens at once one way of thinking of this is that the entire rest of the future history of the universe is Being compressed into the next 20 years Yeah But in other words the the heat death of the universe is 20 years away essentially is what is being suggested because time is beginning to Accelerate at such a rate that this compression factor is enormous Okay, now. Let me see what have we got we've got 22,000 years on the screen and We talked about it, so let me shift here. Oh no zoom yes set minimum Yes, I I think you know Jeremy Rifkin wrote a book Anybody read it. What was it called? Nobody read it. It was called anyway the premise of the book was that time is accelerating But he thought of it as social time Cultural time I don't I think it's embedded in the fabric of space-time itself Yes, I think in a few you see you can only react to crises that you understand So if I tell you the ozone hole is disappearing you're alarmed if I tell you an asteroid is going to strike the earth You're alarmed, but if I tell you that the earth is about to collide with a hyperdimensional knot in the nexus of space-time You know, but that's what's happening ahead of us is an enormous speed bump we are colliding We're about to collide with something that we can barely Cognize so it's hard to know what to think about it. Yeah You know as a two or three year old The moment as we experienced it seemed to last a longer period of time I mean my god summer is lasted forever one that we don't have that and it's sort of Well, that's what happens over the course of a lifetime. What happens if consciousness consciousness shifts out to infinity What happens to the moment then it becomes vanishingly small or in terms of the frequency it stops it stops Yeah, well see or it stops it's speeding up. In other words the fan is becoming shorter and shorter Say if you take a second the second would become shorter that it means in effect that the whole process is speeding up until it Collapses. Yes, it's possible that dying takes forever You see and And and so, you know you start to die and then you die and die and then you realize you're going to die forever And never approach it because the the seconds become stretched into millions of years It's it's something it's something like that It's about and I think psychedelics are about the fabric of time when you strip away the Hallucinations and the personal reference and the craziness the bare bones of it are it's about time it illuminates What time is? Yeah The highlander they have a term called the quickening and I've noticed a lot of people in the exodus and circles on the exodus feel this sense of quickening time of something approaching them when time is quickening towards that end point and people see more or less on the exodus see a lot more empathy and epistemic towards that Yeah, I mean see part of the problem with perceiving what's going on is that we're like Mayflies or something. I mean we live so briefly that to us it looks like the world is standing still but in fact Staggering amounts of change are going on I mean the automobile is a hundred years old for crying out loud We can't conceive of a reality without the automobile So and just in my lifetime, you know, I've seen immense change So and this is going to accelerate eventually to the point where I believe they'll hold conferences on the acceleration of time and People will boards will be appointed to try and figure out if anything can be done about it and stuff like that I know you have a distaste for quantum physics, but there was a conference apparently last spring in Spain Actually, it was a conference of astrophysics I believe because I heard some reports on a serious topic of discussion was the fact is was the quite Trying to attempt to answer the question does time exist? I mean this was being serious on the agenda at some astrophysics content Yeah time is the great misunderstood or ununderstood quantity in our lives for sure Yep Those orthodox guys and their big bang theory Right. I Don't necessarily reject it. I just think they shouldn't sneer at me When their theory is so cockamamie I mean in other words, I haven't proposed anything weirder than the Big Bang It is saying that a universe can condense itself faster and faster down into a super novel object Sounds to me like a considerably more conservative statement than to say that a universe can spring from nothing For no reason in a single instant They've cornered the market on on the unlikely approach to cosmology To their theory no, but I'm gonna write one Serious debate on a whole topic. I mean there was a book recently published in last year does Did the Big Bang happen it was written by another cosmologist? Well, the Big Bang looked like it was in real trouble as recently as six months ago But the new data from this is it Ogos three or one of these satellites. They finally actually found Irregularities in the microwave background and until they found some irregularities They were in a real mess because they couldn't figure out how you get from the super smooth initial conditions to the clumpy Present situation now this new data appears to have pulled their chestnuts out of the fire But I think the Big Bang may be in need of serious revision I mean you have the inflationary the super inflationary cosmology is an attempt to fix some of those problems But it gets you know, there are problems. Yeah Well, if it's true that this derivation of the teachings of the Bible You would expect small fluctuations in the background radiation because of the fractal nature of what we were talking about That's right Also in the side I mentioned in the Bible Jesus said things would be speeded up What did he say exactly? I can't remember the exact quote but he in effect said that events would be speeded up in the time of the universe Yeah, that's absolutely right if we get a little deeper into this we can even discuss Maybe why he would have said such a thing because I think we can illuminate it here. Let's do a little more We've got 22,000 years on the screen 11,000 years on the screen 5,000 and some this is in a way my favorite screen because this book I want to write I'm going to call history's fractal mountain and there it is folks history's fractal mountain Chattel you yuck is over here in the bottom of this along this descending gradient here like pearls on a string You get the great ancient civilizations Chaldea Babylon and Egypt and This actually the graph actually confirms the intuition of the theosophical Mentality that Egypt did achieve some level of advance That was not surpassed Until late Roman times That there was a tremendous breakthrough on the part of these civilizations this Negative habitual or recidivist upward curve is studded with a whole bunch of Warlike male dominator civilizations the Hittites the Mitanni the Assyrians and up here at the top Mycenaean pirates over whelm the last outpost of the goddess culture on Minoan Crete. This is Homer Right there Homer sings his song and if that that to me fits Because I had a professor who once said to me you want to know where it went wrong I'll tell you where it went wrong when these Greeks pulled their boats up on the shore and stopped being fishermen and started talking philosophy the shit hit the fan and that's Precisely what happened there it is you see this steep steep descent into novelty and then after the fall of Rome Oscillation around the mean where it's sort of up It's sort of down, but there's no real progress until the industrial reformation. I mean in the industrial revolution of the 1740s let make sense because any any kind of attempt to Descend in the novelty or ascend in the novelty look that's oppressed by the emerging church the time That's right. Well of course this isn't Eurocentric it's global Oh, you mean where is the birth of Christ? Roughly it's right here. It's this it's set It's there's a little kind of a choke and then a very steep fall right afterwards That's the birth of Christianity of Roman of the Roman Empire Versus the Republic and so forth sorry the dates here. I mean these are all the BC numbers 36. Yeah They write about in there Yeah, it's sort of Yeah, right about there. Well. Let's see we may get it on the next path Well it wasn't at first it was Physical it was that chem it was that atomic physics gave way to chemistry which gave way to molecular Biology at which gave way to life it keeps moving It keeps being active at the front of the wave But it leaves a residuum behind it of these previously created structures right now The wave is clearly lodged in all in our species while everything else is is Under the aegis of Darwinian mechanics. We're apparently under the aegis of cultural mechanics Yeah, that's right not really being dominant or dictated by human Life, but it just so happens Well How so It keeps Condensing toward it keeps it builds on complexity Wherever there is complexity you will get more Complexity it doesn't build on simplicity It builds on the last most complex Achievement see so intelligence rests on animal organization which rests on Cellular biology which rests on molecular biology which rests on physio You got it, okay? - Another feature that could be clarified by a transformer. Now pretty soon. We're now there is the descent here Let's stop and look The the crucifixion is right there and It's interesting you know Christ was an absolute contemporary of Caesar Augustus So you get this great religious reformer at the same time that you get the great reformer of Roman polity So two of the most important personalities who ever lived are alive at that point That strangely enough does not win the prize See this deep little chip here if we were to blow that up and look at the bottom of that trough There was a moment when you could have had a dinner party when Lao Tzu Confucius Mencius Pythagoras and Ezekiel could have all gotten drunk together Had they been able to find each other right back there in the immediately preceding the Greek Renaissance Now the fall of Rome is in 475 right there, and you see how the time After the fall of Rome is all of a certain general character clear up to 1700 and then certain technologies and Mathematical techniques propel to an even deeper level of novelty now the next screen is the one that I think is probably Where we either win or lose you Look at the overall shape of that way here that there's an overlying principle at work here I mean the birth and death of Christ is practically noise We mean there's a deep strong move into novelty and those That's true No, it's not being driven by these great personalities they are being driven by it I'm sure that if you could have stepped into Christ's mind while he was undergoing the passion The main question he was asking himself was what is going on? You know why do I say what I do? Why do I do what I do I don't seem to be my own person You know I seem to be a puppet of some cosmic force Because he was a puppet of some cosmic force you see the transcendental object at the end of time is like one of those Reflecto balls that hang in discos you know and as it turns and spins it sends off distorted reflections of itself which ricochet into the past and if you are Correctly situated it'll turn you into a Christ or a Buddha or a Lao Tzu if you're not quite Correctly situated it turns you into a modern Blavatsky a maestro in other words second stringers if it's If it's you know if you just get a little of it well Then you're a person with strange insights and great personal charisma and the people around you love you We all are very close to this thing every night when you dream You've come into the presence of the transcendental object at the end of time we are all distorted reflections of the last thing and as we get closer and closer to the eschaton the last thing The distortion begins to leave You say my god. It's like watching a photograph from an sx-70 develop first It's just merc and then you say and then you say oh There's a person there, and it's getting clearer and clearer You know we are actually being pulled into the attractor the veils are being parted The truth is becoming more and more and more eminent and in the final Confrontation with it you know it's the apotheosis It's the apocalypse the apotheosis the apocatastasis a whole bunch of Greek words beginning with a No Okay Well no it picked up the time span that we had see it just accepted the correction. Thank you very much Good thinking now is it all right? Yes Okay, now This is the screen upon which the theory will stand or fall Because this is the screen that is filled with the history that we know we're not talking fossil records or chatal You're you're any of that we're talking very precise dates It's saying that there was a very steep descent into novelty around 948 ad what is this? 1400 years and this first steep descent into novelty is the the intellectual flowering of Islam within the confines of the umayyad and Abbasid caliphate and the invention of algebra an intellectual tool that sets the stage for modern science Essentially this is the birth of modern science and you see how steep sudden and precipitous it was Okay, then you go over to this next one and let me try something here since it's such a fast machine See I'm moving the little pointer and it's telling me exactly what I'm pointing at I haven't done this for you before but this is very good for checking these things To know exactly yes, we're pointing at the exact date and I want to get it over here to the bottom of this sucker 1121 the first crusade the collapse of fortress Europe This is the beginning of the globalization of the European mind We're dead on here Okay. Now the next steep descent into novelty is this one? obviously Let's go over there and see what it is There it is 12 1430. Oh No, 1358 I'm sorry just a minute here. Let me get my ducks in a row Okay, do we all agree? It's pointing at the bottom of the thing. Yeah No, that's the densest point of the novelty And it's 1354. What happened in 1354? That's right one third of the population of Europe is dies in an 18 month period beginning in late 1354 the greatest demographic collapse that Europe has ever experienced. It's an absolute hit dead on now, let's Go over here to this now notice though that the recovery is quick there's a steep descent into novelty and an almost immediate reversion back up to the left the same level of Habit exactly business as usual, but this next one is different It's a steep descent into novelty and then it really stays down For a long time and explores this so let's go over to the turning point Which is up at the top? It's global but having said that you have to notice that The world is now dominated by European values and culture So while we can chart the ebb and flow of the Han dynasty at this point European culture is moving to the fore because European culture is beginning to put its imprint on all of world history This concludes tape 7 our program continues with tape 8 {END} Wait Time : 0.00 sec Model Load: 0.55 sec Decoding : 1.18 sec Transcribe: 3485.60 sec Total Time: 3487.32 sec