WEBVTT 00:11.570 --> 00:47.820 the same don't push us too far meanwhile back at the ranch it's total chaos and what governments do 00:47.820 --> 00:56.860 is manage chaos by telling everybody it's okay watch tv here we spent 500 million dollars to 00:56.860 --> 01:03.340 make a movie for you about flying saucers now watch it now talk about it now think about it 01:03.340 --> 01:12.540 leave us alone you know people are being drugged entertained lied to delayed deferred misdirected 01:12.540 --> 01:23.340 propagandized used abused but nobody has a clue as to where we're going meanwhile there's this inner 01:23.340 --> 01:31.580 dynamic to things guys with ponytails just keep inventing weird stuff and handing it out on the 01:31.580 --> 01:33.020 internet and 01:33.340 --> 01:41.020 do other guys and women keep making strange substances and peddling them in remote parts 01:41.020 --> 01:48.860 of the world and people keep making strange music and dancing and subverting subverting subverting 01:59.460 --> 02:07.780 and this is this is where the dynamic will come from anybody who says they have a plan at this 02:07.780 --> 02:12.900 point is just standing in the way the plan will emerge 02:13.140 --> 02:24.860 of the youth culture out of the dynamic of the situation the aboriginal lifestyle there are so 02:24.860 --> 02:33.980 many of them i'm now realizing i mean in each place i go there's always the other people over 02:33.980 --> 02:39.820 the hill and say well are you going to go see the bushman or would you be seeing the zuni while 02:39.820 --> 02:46.940 you're here or are you going to go to the mixtec villages or would you be going to see the hawaiian 02:46.940 --> 02:55.180 encampment or would you go out to see the ball village or would you go to see the prunpo they're 02:55.180 --> 03:00.780 everywhere these people i mean there's a lot of breast beating about extermination because 03:00.780 --> 03:09.340 we certainly push their numbers back but they watch every gathering from the periphery and 03:09.900 --> 03:17.260 what they're waiting for i think is for the prodigal tribes to drop the pretense of history 03:17.980 --> 03:25.340 and to bring the fruits of the hunt the hunt of history which was a hunt for 03:25.340 --> 03:32.220 energy and the secrets of matter and take it back and lay it not at the feet of the scientist 03:32.220 --> 03:36.300 the manager or the industrialist but at the feet of the shaman 03:41.360 --> 03:49.280 jelly because the shaman's concern is the care of the community not the making of money or the 03:49.280 --> 03:56.960 promoting of a given class or something like that but the care of the community and we have immense 03:58.320 --> 04:12.480 power we human beings have immense power and immense goodness in us but standing between us and 04:14.000 --> 04:20.080 is the trauma of the historical experience and what to overcome that 04:21.280 --> 04:28.240 we are simply going to have to change our minds it's the hardest thing to change 04:28.800 --> 04:37.280 to change minds and you can do it sometimes with rational argument on some small area 04:37.280 --> 04:42.560 like if i spend nine hours maybe i can convince you to switch your medical plan or something 04:43.280 --> 04:47.840 but that's not what we're talking about we're talking about changing our attitude toward what 04:47.840 --> 04:54.000 it is to be a human being on this planet and the only thing i've seen that works fast enough 04:54.640 --> 04:58.320 because if we had a thousand years you know we could hold weekends and 04:59.200 --> 05:04.240 do things and slowly slowly slowly but we don't have that kind of time 05:04.960 --> 05:11.520 so what works is chemical intervention shamanic intervention aboriginal 05:13.120 --> 05:15.040 on modern pathology 05:21.840 --> 05:30.560 the modern mind has served its purpose as a raft it has carried us across the wide swift running 05:30.560 --> 05:52.060 river of history and uh and now it should be abandoned it's become toxic it doesn't serve anymore 05:53.260 --> 05:58.460 we're going out to the natural world we're going to be abandoned in a moment 05:59.020 --> 06:02.780 we should try and move towards the actual world we should push from the past 06:03.340 --> 06:08.940 from the present and change the future and change the future in the near future 06:09.100 --> 06:14.940 the future is long gone we can start again a new generation and see where we go 06:15.580 --> 06:21.180 in some way i'm much more aware that we're going to be under vorstellen by a nation 06:21.180 --> 06:30.260 a retreat from the brink of a historical apocalypse created by overpopulation and 06:30.260 --> 06:40.920 resource abuse and untrammeled militarism and dominator politics and the the the thing that 06:40.920 --> 06:49.220 is critical here and why all governments are nervous in the presence of it is the psychedelic 06:49.220 --> 06:56.700 experience in the in the environment of youth culture and technology it just is it's a dagger 06:56.700 --> 07:09.260 pointed at the heart of the old discredited and defunct cultural style you know seeking through 07:09.260 --> 07:17.780 the human world for wisdom if you must do that then logic would dictate that you confine yourself 07:17.780 --> 07:18.960 to dead people 07:19.220 --> 07:27.380 because there have been so many more so you know long before you get to shri bhagavan rajneesh 07:28.260 --> 07:34.100 how about five years with plato uh or platinus or 07:35.940 --> 07:41.300 newton or you know there have been some good people who have undergone the formality of no 07:41.300 --> 07:48.020 longer existing uh but they're they still have left their books around and they're usually 07:48.020 --> 07:49.060 better companies 07:49.220 --> 07:58.500 than some in the flesh bd-eyed character who has the latest gospel out of beverly hills to share 07:58.500 --> 08:03.420 with you 08:06.460 --> 08:13.100 this is what coffee does to me you see the afternoon it's you get a different creature 08:13.740 --> 08:16.940 here you get an air clawing table coming 08:16.940 --> 08:17.500 poland 08:17.500 --> 08:37.460 is 08:37.460 --> 08:44.840 that's why psychedelics are somehow I think a kind of inoculation against 08:44.840 --> 08:53.180 paranoia paranoia is a failure to perceive the pattern and instead then to 08:53.180 --> 08:59.740 impute to guess the pattern say well I guess the Pope must be running things or 08:59.740 --> 09:05.380 I guess it's the CIA doing it or something it means in the absence of 09:05.380 --> 09:15.200 understanding you falter and then of an error of thought there may be evil in 09:15.200 --> 09:23.140 the universe but what a rough row it has to hoe you know I wouldn't bet on it 09:23.140 --> 09:28.940 that's for sure because the appetite of the universe is for connectivity novelty 09:28.940 --> 09:35.220 light meaning identity and I do think that 09:35.380 --> 09:42.500 it's that optimism is going to be necessary to create a better world that 09:42.500 --> 09:48.660 you know you can't you pessimists cannot make a better world Marxists were 09:48.660 --> 09:54.220 pessimists fascists were pessimists and they what they created was nightmarish 09:54.220 --> 10:01.920 so in but then safe say well but we need realists to create a better world well 10:01.920 --> 10:05.360 but realists in the modern form tend to 10:05.360 --> 10:13.160 be rather down because they're they're factoid freeze if I believe if my if I 10:13.160 --> 10:20.580 believe this world were controlled by governments religions bankers and large 10:20.580 --> 10:27.080 companies I would be freaked out indeed you know but I don't think it's 10:27.080 --> 10:33.860 controlled by any of those those groups are all reacting you know they would 10:33.860 --> 10:35.340 love to control the 10:35.340 --> 10:39.340 Of course they would, but, my God, it's so complicated. 10:39.340 --> 10:42.340 It just keeps slipping through their fingers. 10:42.340 --> 10:47.340 Right before here, I was in London and staying in Westminster, 10:47.340 --> 10:52.340 which is the government part of London where all the big ministries are, 10:52.340 --> 10:55.340 and at night I would have to walk from the ICA, 10:55.340 --> 10:58.340 about a 20-minute walk back to my hotel, 10:58.340 --> 11:03.340 through the darkened streets of Whitehall and Westminster. 11:03.340 --> 11:08.340 And in those huge ministry buildings, after 1 o'clock in the morning, 11:08.340 --> 11:13.340 there are so many lights on, so many lights are burning 11:13.340 --> 11:18.340 in the chancelleries and ministries of the governments of this planet. 11:18.340 --> 11:21.340 And you know why? Because it's getting out of control. 11:21.340 --> 11:24.340 It's slipping from their grip. They have worries. 11:24.340 --> 11:28.340 They're poring over maps. They're looking at computer projections, 11:28.340 --> 11:32.340 saying, you know, what the hell are we going to do? 11:32.340 --> 11:33.340 Uh... 11:33.340 --> 11:37.340 So they're not gaily conspiring to run the world. 11:37.340 --> 11:40.340 They're frantically planning to try and hold on 11:40.340 --> 11:45.340 to their own pathetic bit of turf before it's wrest from their grip. 11:45.340 --> 11:47.340 Let's take a break.