WEBVTT 00:30.700 --> 00:37.100 together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together, together. 00:40.560 --> 00:49.260 A retreat from the brink of a historical apocalypse created by overpopulation and resource abuse 00:49.260 --> 00:55.960 and untrammeled militarism and dominator politics. 00:55.960 --> 00:58.760 I mean, everybody knows there's something wrong with the world. 00:58.760 --> 01:07.160 And if you read left-wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians, 01:07.160 --> 01:11.660 they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. 01:11.660 --> 01:18.060 But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question, what needs to be done? 01:18.060 --> 01:28.060 We need to get our act together and solve a number of major problems that face this planet and our species. 01:28.060 --> 01:28.660 It seems as though... 01:28.660 --> 01:32.160 what we call biology, culture, humanness... 01:32.160 --> 01:40.760 is something which is climbing rung by rung, step by step toward higher dimensions. 01:40.760 --> 01:45.560 And it will use protoplasm as its vehicle when that will serve. 01:45.560 --> 01:51.760 It will use silicon-based organization for its vehicle when that serves. 01:51.760 --> 01:57.960 And it will... if it can exist out of nature, out of silicon, out of water... 01:57.960 --> 01:58.560 ...we can do this. 01:58.560 --> 02:05.360 outer body it will probably do that too it's like the ascent of spirit it's almost like the 02:05.360 --> 02:15.180 the western myth it's as though spirit fell deep into matter limitation and chaos 02:16.060 --> 02:24.860 and somehow is slowly making a return to its higher and to the source of itself which it has 02:24.860 --> 02:32.940 been so long severed from and longs to return to with such incredible urgency that it you know 02:32.940 --> 02:39.820 evolves life on planets and technologies inside cultures as mere stepping stones to its return 02:39.820 --> 02:45.980 to the contemplation of its self-image is this religion is this science fiction 02:47.020 --> 02:53.980 what is this well who knows you know and where was it written adamantine that we should know 02:54.940 --> 03:02.140 it's a mystery we are caught and caught you know inside a mystery veiled in an enigma 03:02.140 --> 03:12.260 locked inside a riddle so what you do is you look for unsolved problems that this new approach 03:12.260 --> 03:20.420 might shed light on and the number of unsolved problems is not great at this point maybe a dozen 03:20.420 --> 03:26.100 or so and i could think of five of them but one of them is uh 03:26.980 --> 03:27.140 the 03:27.140 --> 03:35.220 origin of consciousness you know what happened here i mean this planet had been producing 03:35.220 --> 03:42.180 chipmunks and birds of paradise and ant colonies cheerfully for hundreds of millions of years 03:42.900 --> 03:49.620 without this left-wing swerve into tool building cognitive systems 03:49.620 --> 03:56.980 energy release and so forth and so on what happened why did the natural order 03:56.980 --> 04:08.180 admit of a creature as bizarre and as at apparent cross-purposes as our dear selves i mean this 04:08.180 --> 04:14.260 is really the question of philosophy what is our place in the natural order of things you know 04:15.220 --> 04:26.820 fallen angel risen demon prodigal scion of the elect or existential monster roving a land uh 04:27.140 --> 04:34.020 landscape of conferred meaning who are we this is the question and so it becomes a question of 04:34.020 --> 04:44.260 why did consciousness emerge and where and when and how so uh here's my version of this and i'll 04:44.260 --> 04:51.540 sort of tell it as a story we could say if we were mathematicians that a sand dune is a lower 04:51.540 --> 04:56.820 dimensional slice of wind that seems intuitive 04:57.380 --> 05:03.940 true right okay so now with all this talk of wind and sand dunes well in hand 05:05.540 --> 05:15.380 imagine the following not sand dunes but all biology what is biology made of 05:16.180 --> 05:26.660 it's made out of genes so imagine the genes like grains of sand they are biological grains of sand a 05:26.660 --> 05:36.500 range in an environment of some sort a jungle a desert a coral reef and now imagine time 05:37.700 --> 05:48.020 as though it were wind and the time moves the genes around the genes are moved like grains 05:48.020 --> 05:56.420 of sand by the wind the genes are moved by the pressure of time well then take away the 05:57.220 --> 06:05.940 uh the winds of time and let's look at an organism a person a rhinoceros and anything 06:06.740 --> 06:14.980 we can say then that this organism is a lower dimensional slice of time in the same way that 06:14.980 --> 06:24.180 the dune is a lower dimensional description of wind an organism is a lower dimensional description 06:24.180 --> 06:26.260 of the phenomenon we call time 06:26.980 --> 06:34.500 and in fact the mushroom said this to me once it said it said what you call man we call 06:34.500 --> 06:41.810 time speaks english too but you don't see dmt 06:43.730 --> 07:01.380 too you see i am nobody and so uh it is therefore not so surprising that time which is something we generate 07:02.260 --> 07:09.300 it's not there in some physical sense it's something made by bodies by metabolism 07:10.820 --> 07:21.940 and so it has the structure that it has because the dna has over billions of years arranged itself 07:21.940 --> 07:30.980 to reflect the modalities of the medium in which it finds itself is that not seemingly obvious 07:31.940 --> 07:40.260 so so time as we experience it is really the time of our own genetic material and our genetic 07:40.260 --> 07:49.780 materials time model is faithful to the facts of nature because our genetic material was shaped 07:50.420 --> 08:00.500 by the architectonic the dynamic of nature so it isn't that we are decoding an occult chinese oracle 08:00.500 --> 08:05.860 and we're not going to go into that detail it is not that we're going to go into that detail 08:05.860 --> 08:13.540 but we are making a physical oracle to suggest a revision of physical laws it's that uh pictorially 08:13.540 --> 08:19.300 or how do i want to say it's symbolically embedded in this chinese oracle is the same 08:19.300 --> 08:26.820 structure that is symbolically embedded in our in our own genetic structure it's just that from the 08:26.820 --> 08:30.500 yi qing it is more easy for us to extract it it's as though it's a rosetta stone into allowing us to 08:30.500 --> 08:38.240 decipher not the dynamics of the I Ching but the dynamics of human organism and 08:38.240 --> 08:45.440 experience as it is modulated by the structure of our own DNA and so in a 08:45.440 --> 08:54.540 sense DNA is almost you could say a kind of hyper intelligent being or community 08:54.540 --> 08:59.320 in which we are embedded with the illusion of our individual consciousness 08:59.320 --> 09:05.660 but that what history is is a kind of morphogenetic unfolding not of the 09:05.660 --> 09:11.020 individual through embryo Genesis and maturity and 09:11.020 --> 09:21.120 shooting through time that is under the control of something beyond the reach of 09:21.120 --> 09:31.730 rational inspection and the ego as a species in net过程 09:31.730 --> 09:36.810 how did you create a law? 09:36.810 --> 09:43.250 things come into existence and how do they maintain themselves and how do they disappear 09:43.250 --> 09:50.930 and what is the unfolding of the world as we experience it. 09:50.930 --> 09:57.630 My approach to all this had just simply been to take a what can you show me approach. 09:57.630 --> 10:05.630 Whether I'm dealing with a yogin or a roshi or a rishi or a geishi or a bhikshu or a bhikshuni 10:05.630 --> 10:16.860 or any one of these folks, I just say save the crap for the troops, what's the whammy. 10:16.860 --> 10:21.880 And if they tell me well you have to sweep up around the ashram here for 15 years and 10:21.880 --> 10:28.200 attend to Babaji, I just say hey I'm out of here, I don't have that kind of time, I don't 10:28.200 --> 10:31.820 have that kind of faith in other people. 10:31.820 --> 10:36.860 I think I mentioned the mushroom told me once, it said for one human being, 10:36.860 --> 10:44.120 to seek enlightenment from another is as ludicrous as a grain of sand on the beach seeking 10:44.120 --> 10:48.800 enlightenment from one of its neighboring grains of sand. 10:48.800 --> 10:51.880 We're all alike, don't you get it? 10:51.880 --> 10:56.360 Sai Baba has nothing inside him that you don't have inside of him. 10:56.360 --> 11:02.720 Neither does George Bush or Nelson Mandela or de Klerk. 11:02.720 --> 11:03.720 It's so similar. 11:03.720 --> 11:04.720 It's so similar. 11:04.720 --> 11:05.720 It's the human being. 11:05.720 --> 11:06.720 It's the human being. 11:06.860 --> 11:11.810 It's the human being. 11:11.810 --> 11:12.810 It's… 11:12.810 --> 11:19.810 They're together.