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Today we have something very extraordinary. I am really thrilled that we have Danny Sheehan

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with us today. Danny is like a mentor and a teacher to so many of us, certainly me,

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when he refers to international or domestic policy, constitutional law, world affairs,

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international relations, but certainly also the esoteric and the mystery schools,

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and even UFOs. So you kind of get an all-around variety of wisdom here on a

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multitude of different levels. Of course he has been involved in cases like

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Iran-Contra and the Pentagon Papers and his credentials speak so much, but I'm

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not going to waste any time. Please give a very warm and wonderful welcome for our

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good friend, Mr. Daniel Sheehan. Thank you. Will this echo or I turn it off or

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something? Anyway, here we go. Put that over there. Great. Thank you, you guys. Thank

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you. What I want to talk about this afternoon is the fact that, you know,

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other than this huge bruja going on and this major confrontation that's going on

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around the country right now with everybody sort of, you know, retreating to

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their respective corners and getting ready to have a major food fight. Other than

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that going on, the two of the major movements going on in the world right now, one of them, of course, as you know, is the major movement to try to slow

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and stop and reverse global climate change. This is bearing down on everyone now that

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it's the scientists have been trying to tell people about this for some two, three decades now.

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But now people are starting to notice it with, you know, half of Northern California burning to the ground and

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massive tornadoes coming in floods and wiping out entire cities like New Orleans and etc.

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So people are now sort of grokking the fact that the consequences of global climate change are upon us now.

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And so there's a major movement that's been going on to try to come to grips with the kind of the fundamental causes of this

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and not just address the symptoms. And so that there's this whole movement for a Green New Deal,

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a major fundamental reorientation of our economy and our way of living that is going to try to roll back

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the consequences of relying upon fossil fuels, of gasoline and coal and natural gas, etc., and

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others of the fossil fuels. And so that's a major movement. But there's also at the same time going on

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a second major movement, which is this movement for the establishment of a new paradigm, a new worldview.

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I touched upon it just briefly this afternoon at noontime on the panel because they asked me,

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you know, to talk about what the kind of the major messages I would have for people.

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And of course, I was addressing the issue of global climate change. And but I also talked about this

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dynamic going on of the new paradigm. And what what this is at base is is an effort on the part of the

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intellectual, spiritual, philosophical community to attempt to integrate into all of the various fields of

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human knowledge. The insights that have actually been come to way back at the beginning of the 20th

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century, back between actually in 1923 and 1926. There were a whole series of major scientific discoveries

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that were made by Louis de Broglie, Max Planck, Neil Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, and Werner Heisenberg and others

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that you've heard about that really so dramatically countered the fundamental assumptions of the

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materialist worldview that had arisen at the at the end of the Enlightenment, that this up until the

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Enlightenment is sort of understood to have gone on some some right around the beginning of 1700 to 1789,

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that entire period of the 18th century, during which there was an effort to dispel the kind of

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superstitious worldviews that had had governed during the medieval period. It was superstition and and,

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you know, dunking witches, you know, to see if they floated or didn't, you know, to, you know,

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this whole thing that was going on, there was an attempt to kind of get that behind us. And with the the

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scientific discoveries that were going on, the age of reason came upon us through the Enlightenment.

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And what happened is there was a major encyclopedia that was actually written at the at the end of the

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of the the period of the Enlightenment period. There was 28 volumes were written that were explaining this

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entire new worldview of the natural sciences, that everything was reduced to scientific materialism,

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and that rational inquiry through science and linear the application of linear thought and mathematical

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certainty could actually determine all of the reality in the in the universe, that they postulated that

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everything in the universe was made up of material matter, that was either either mass or energy,

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the two of them, and that the entire universe was made up of these little individual units of matter,

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whether they were mass or energy. But if one could determine how they sort of bang together like little

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billiard balls, one could predict how they were going to bounce off each other. And you could determine

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from determining the weight and the velocity of a particular unit of matter, and its encounter with

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another one, you could determine what the if you knew the angle of impact what where it was going. And so that there

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was this this this hallelujah chorus went up for the human family, that that we had finally discovered

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how to determine the future in reality, if and you could get control over it. Very importantly, it

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postulated, as I said first, that the universe was made up of these little tiny billiard balls,

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that we could we could predict what was going to happen with them, and that this enabled us to not

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only predict it, but to control it by intervening physically into the material universe. If we could

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insert ourselves into the interplay between these little billiard balls that made up all of material

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reality, we could actually impact and control reality itself. Not coincidentally, empowering ourselves

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as a species to to to basically gain control over nature and the material realm of reality to our own

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benefit. Not coincidentally, as it turns out, that was what the whole purpose was, is to get control of

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nature, get control of reality, and and remold it, repath it, pathway it from its logical encounters with

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each other at random, but to get them in control for our own material benefit. But as I said that this

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this set of discoveries that took place were had to had to cope with the the undertaking at the end of the

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the the period of enlightenment, there was this period of all of these people, Rousseau and Voltaire and

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about 12 people all came together, big philosophers and theologians and scientists, and they all prepared

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this big 28-volume encyclopedia that basically applied this theory of scientific, logical, positivist

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materialism, materialism. They applied it to every field, not just physics, but in philosophy, and in

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religion, and in linguistics, and in etymology, the evolution of our of our species. They engaged in this

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whole process of gaining control of how people thought in the world, in western civilization.

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And that had this major effect, so that when the discoveries got made between 1923 and 1926,

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in the beginning of the 20th century, that really, as I said, knocked into a complete cocked hat

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all of these fundamental assumptions about materialism. The worldview didn't change. The scientific

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scientific community stayed locked in to this scientific, logical, positivist, radical materialist

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worldview, because our entire sense of power and control over our environment was so essential to

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our species that we wouldn't let go of it. And so that these discoveries that got made between 1923 and 1926,

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even though the scientific community started making these all available to everybody,

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there was a deep resistance to it. And so what were the, what were these, this handful of discoveries

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that were made between 1923 and 1926 that so fundamentally challenged the fundamental assumptions

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of this, this worldview? And that was this. What they discovered is, is that these little billiard balls,

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that they all had presumed under the materialist worldview were these ultimately solid little units of

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matter that would bang together and we could predict how they were going to interact. What they discovered

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is that those could be, in fact, broken up. You could break up those atoms in that they would actually

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break up into protons and neutrons and electrons. And you could actually break them up further. And you

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could break up the proton. You could, you could break that up into smaller electrons. You could break them up

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further into photons, in neutrinos, in quarks, in leptons, in muons, in skeptons, in squarks. And they kept on going.

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They, they kept on being able to, to discover that you could break these things up into smaller and smaller and smaller

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entities of matter. But the most important thing they discovered is that you would ultimately come to a point where

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when you broke up the most, the smallest possible unit of matter, that it would disappear.

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That it would actually become non materially manifest. Uh, and it would, uh, all that was there was what they call an

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inchoate quantum field. Uh, inchoate meaning that it's non-manifest. Uh, it's there, uh, in potential, but it's not there

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in any kind of material manifestation. And, and what they would, they discovered is that, however, if you observe one of these

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inchoate quantum fields that it would flash back up into material existence and it would, it would

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materialize either as a wave of energy and then pop back out of material manifestation. Uh, and then it

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would then pop into material manifestation again, either as another, a wave of energy again, or as an

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incipient, uh, particle of mass. Uh, so you got this mass or energy manifestation, uh, in the material realm

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of an otherwise inchoate quantum field. So that, so this was, this was a complete astonishment, uh, to the

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materialist world saying, wait a second, you have actually undermined the most fundamental premise of

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materialism that there aren't these, uh, predictable little billiard balls, uh, that we can figure out

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how they're bumping into each other. And so we can intervene physically and get control over the

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environment. So what, what they discovered, however, is that these, these inchoate quantum fields, when they

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would flash into material manifestation, either as a wave of energy or as a, uh, basically a Higgs boson,

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an incipient particle of mass, that what they, they were, were figuring this out in the big,

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the big problem number two that they discovered is that they didn't materially manifest as either a

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wave of energy or a particle of mass in any type of predictable pattern. There was no predictability

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about this. Now this is quite disquieting for people that are trying to get control, uh, over this

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process. And, and, and so what they discovered is that the, the, this random manifestation into the

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material realm, either as a wave of energy or a particle of mass, uh, which they were totally

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unable to predict what they discovered thirdly. And most importantly is that if in fact a human being

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directed her or his intention to the inchoate quantum field,

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it would actually manifest as what was intended, not to a completely predictable level, but to a

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statistically significant degree, which was all that was necessary to really freak them out.

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Because what this did is it completely, uh, contravened one of the most fundamental assumptions

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of the materialist worldview. And that was that somehow the material world existed out there,

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you know, outside of our eyeballs, outside of our intention, outside of our perspective,

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there was this objective material world in universe that existed in which we could then relate to in

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this dialectical dynamic of us being outside of it and separate and apart from it. And we could then relate

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relate to it and, and, and that our intellect was the means by which we did this. And, and the, uh, the Latin root

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for the intellect is intellectus, which means the ability to distinguish the difference between.

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And so that our, our application of our intellect was rooted in the necessity of being able to have these

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separate entities of little billiard balls that we could then apply our intellect, the ability to

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distinguish the difference between them and make these computations as to how they were going to

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inter, interact with each other. So now all of a sudden you, first of all, dropped right off the cliff

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of having these billiard balls disappear entirely out of material manifestation. And then you had even

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this more troublesome reality that somehow our direct human intention actually had a direct effect upon

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the actual form in which matter would manifest itself either as a wave of energy or a particle of mass.

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Uh, and so that these things actually, uh, scared, uh, all the materialists to begin with. They said,

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wait a second, we're losing control here. We're, we're, we're not in control of what's going on. And as they

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continued to do their experiments, what they discovered is that if you, you had, uh, one of the, either a wave

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of energy or a particle of mass, uh, if you, if you accelerated two of these away from each other,

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traveling at this virtually the speed of light, what they discovered that if you applied force to one

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of them, as they were accelerating away from each other, and you applied force to one of them, the other

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one would move. Because in, and even though they were traveling at the speed of light and they were a

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distance away from each other, it would happen absolutely instantaneously. And so what that meant was that

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somehow there was having an effect at a distance that occurred faster than the speed of light. And they

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were convinced that nothing could happen of the materialists. Nothing could happen faster than the speed of light.

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And yet here was this direct evidence that it could. Uh, and, and so, uh, and what they, what they

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discovered, they were, they were actually able to compute this and they discovered that every single

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integer of matter, whether it's energy or mass, every single integer of matter in the entire universe

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was attracted to and bonded with and entangled with every other one, everywhere in the universe.

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That the degree of attraction between them was simply inversely proportional to the square of the

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distance between them. Now, this is a lot of extraordinarily intellectual work that's being

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done here to try to understand, uh, how the bottom was dropping out of, uh, the materialist, uh, worldview.

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However, the adherence to the material worldview, uh, even though it was now scientifically

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outmoded all of its fundamental presumptions, uh, that they clung to the materialist worldview

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because via this encyclopedia that had been prepared at the end of the 18th century,

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that they had thoroughly thought out all of the implications of materialism for all of the other

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fields of human knowledge, philosophy and theology and, and, uh, and, uh, literature and everything

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else. Uh, and so that they, they clung to this for, for two reasons. One is you probably are all

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familiar with Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn wrote this famous, uh, article in 1962 called the structure of

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scientific, uh, revolutions. And he said that, that with, with all the, the bragging that, uh, scientists

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do about how objective they are and how committed they are to staying open-minded in, in concluding things

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about science, they discovered that, that, uh, when scientists take a position on something,

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even though they profess to be doing experiments and looking for hypothetical changes in that,

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that they don't change. And that the only way to bring about a major revolution in scientific thinking

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was not to convince the scientists that they were wrong, but you had to wait for them to die.

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Really. And so that, so that the scientific revolutions happened by a whole generation of scientists

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dying. Uh, and then the new, the new insights that have come about will come to pass. So theoretically,

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what should have happened is when all of the radical materialist scientists started dying off,

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then the new quantum insights ought to have come into place. But they weren't, uh, because,

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because of this, this work that had been done and this set of encyclopedias, this encyclopedia,

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these 28 volumes, this is the thing that isn't really that well known about, but it was, it was

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prepared between 1751 and 1772. It's called the encyclopedia of, uh, the systematic encyclopedia of

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science and, and art. Uh, and it was edited by, by Diderot. Uh, and I said, Rousseau was involved,

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Voltaire was inside involved, Montesquieu was involved, uh, and they all wrote in these various

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areas of theology and economics and science and philosophy. And so that, that even though people

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don't think about it, about the fact that all of these other fields of human knowledge are really

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derivative of the fundamental assumptions about the, the universe, the actual physical functioning

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of the universe. Uh, and so that no one, uh, no one wanted to let go of this. And the fact is,

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even to this day, no one has compiled an alternative encyclopedia, you know, of, of really trying to,

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to counter the effect of this original set of, uh, set of writings that were done, uh, way back,

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uh, ended in 1772. So this, this is a task that needs to really be undertaken. If in fact, there's

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going to be a full throated effort to re-conceive of, uh, reality, uh, in light of these discoveries.

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Now, all, all, all of these, all of these areas I point out that were influenced by the scientific,

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logical, positivist worldview that need to be revisited and looked at include, as I said,

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theology and philosophy and cosmology and, uh, in all of these. So you, you, you, you, you might ask

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it, you know, that, uh, why, why am I singling out some of these areas of human knowledge as most

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important? This is the, the second part of what I want to talk about tonight. And this is that, uh,

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and it, this all becomes real, all of this is going to be relating to how this new worldview,

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this new quantum worldview once is thoroughly fleshed out, uh, and, and expanded into dealing

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with all the areas other than simply physics, but philosophy and theology and, and economics and

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other things that the reason, the reason that's so important is because, uh, what, what I discovered,

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when it's, you probably know, I, I practice law all the time. Uh, and back in 1973, 72 and 73,

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we were doing the Watergate burglary case that, uh, I was in the, the Boston law firm of attorney,

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F. Lee Bailey. Uh, we, our office was representing James McCord, who was the, uh, former CIA wiretapping

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specialist that was caught in the, the Democratic National Committee with the other Watergate burglars.

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Um, and he's the one that, uh, ended up writing the letter to judge Sirica blowing the whistle on the

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plumbers unit and Richard Nixon that led to his, the articles of impeachment, uh, against Richard

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Nixon that caused him to resign. But, uh, I was, I got brought over by Bailey to work on, on that case,

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uh, from the Cahill firm on wall street where I had come, I was the co-founding editor of the

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Harvard civil rights law review. Uh, and they'd gone directly from there to, we initiated the case

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at the law review at Harvard to establish the right of journalists to protect their confidential news

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sources. That's where that came from was from our work at the law review. Uh, and so I got recruited

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by the law firm that represented NBC news, uh, down on wall street to come to their firm to do that case

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with them and had then done the Pentagon papers case because the New York Times brought the Pentagon

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papers to us when, when their law firm Lord Day and Lord threatened to turn them into the FBI

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if they didn't give them back. So, uh, I ended up being the one that, that the Jim Goodell called,

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who was the general counsel for the New York Times because I had done the amicus briefs through the

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New York Times on the right of journalists to protect their confidential news sources.

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We were doing that at the same time we were representing NBC. That was actually the principal,

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uh, client, this guy, uh, John Pappas, one of their reporters. So the bottom line is I was

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definitely Bailey's office and, uh, and Bailey, uh, during the course of our working on the, the, uh,

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the Watergate burglary case, you know, I, he and I had a number of fairly intense conversations,

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uh, about what we thought ought to be done. Uh, and I actually, some of you have heard this story

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before, uh, in what we were working on the case in all the way up into May of 1973, right? This

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happened, remember, on the night of June 17th of 1972. And so that we were working on that case all

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the way up into the spring of 1973. And in May of 1973, the occupation at Wounded Knee occurred, uh,

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out in South Dakota. And I got called by a classmate of mine and a good friend of mine from Harvard Law

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School who was the head of the Rocky Mountain region for ACLU National. And so he asked me to come out

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to help on the Wounded Knee case. So I went out to do that. Uh, and when I came back to the office,

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to Lee Bailey's office, uh, Lee called me and he said, Dan, I understand that you were out at, uh,

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the Wounded Knee occupation. I said, yes, yes, I was. He said, come on,

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come on over to come down to my office and let's talk about this. So I go down to the office and

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sit down and he said to me, he said, uh, which side were you on? I said, well, actually I said,

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what we were working on is trying to get, you know, medical supplies and food and water and stuff to

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the people inside the occupation, you know, that had all these snipers lying around, FBI snipers and

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DEA snipers that were trying to pick off people who were the native people that were occupying this little

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village. And, and he said, uh, you weren't on the side of the FBI. And I said, no, no. Uh, and he

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said, well, what the hell good does that do us? He said, you know, if, if you'd been on the side of

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the FBI and the justice department, at least, you know, we would have generated some goodwill for the

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office and you could have gone to the justice department to intervene, to get a better deal,

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for example, for like Michael Angelo, one of the mafia people that we represent.

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So I was going, uh, wait a second. Uh, let's have a discussion about here, what, what I'm doing

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here and what you're doing here. So I started having this discussion with him and he started

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saying things like, Hey, look, it's not up to me to decide whether the clients are guilty or not.

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You know, all I do is do the, everything I can do to get them acquitted. Uh, and it's up to the other

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side to get him convicted if they want to do that. And he was, he was actually, you know, avoiding any

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responsibility whatsoever for dealing with the truth, uh, or justice or anything like that.

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And so I was having this rather intense conversation with him about a different view that I had.

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Uh, and anyway, so that I was, I was staying at his townhouse on, on Beacon Hill. He was newly

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married and he was living out outside of Boston. So I was staying at his townhouse on Beacon Hill.

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And that following Sunday morning, that was a Friday afternoon. We had that big discussion.

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So Sunday morning, I go to church at St. Cecilia's and I go to church and I'm coming back from church

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and I stopped into this bookstore. I'm kind of rummaging around in the bookstore and I find a

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copy of this new book that's come out called A Theory of Justice, uh, by John Rawls. John Rawls was the

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chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University at the time. So I looked at it and I

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started looking through this thing and he was, he was, um, uh, writing a major treatise, his major treatise

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on justice. Uh, and he thought that he was going to try to figure out what the essential aspects of

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justice were in Western civilization. Uh, and he thought that in a democracy, uh, when a, a society

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is confronted with a public policy problem, you know, whether it's, whether you're going to support

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abortion, whether you're going to support first strike nuclear weapons, whether you're going to

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support capital punishment, whatever the public policy issue was that, that, uh, that he suspected that

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in a democratic society that what would happen is that they, the, the government would end up

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choosing the option to address each one of those issues that generated the greatest good for the

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greatest number. The classic utilitarian majoritarian, uh, mode of ethical reasoning. But it turns out

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he discovered in doing his work that that, that wasn't what happened. That there was this other factor

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that was going on in Western civilization. He said that there are people who assert that all men are

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created equal, they're endowed with their creator with certain unable rights. And they start listing

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all these rights, free speech, freedom of religion, you know, freedom of the press. They start elucidating

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these other positions, equal treatment, despite your race, you know, everything. Uh, and, and he said that

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this group of people in Western civilization, he referred to as the intuitionists. Uh, and so I said,

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oh, wow. I said, look at, that must be the story here. You know, here's Lee Bailey, a strict utilitarian.

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What's in it for us? You know, how are you going to do something that benefits us? And here I am

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with these citing these other kind of abstract philosophical principles. Uh, and so I said,

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I better get the book and read it. So I got a copy, brought it home and read it. And then I called

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over to John Rawls office at the office, at school. I'd gone to Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

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And, uh, and so I, I called him up and, uh, called the secretary and said, you know, I'd like to

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have a meeting with professor Rawls to talk about his new book. You know, basically she was saying,

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yeah, you and a whole bunch of other people, you know, but I said, so I started waving my school

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tie through the phone going, I went to college and the law school, you know, I was the founder

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of the law review, you know, all this stuff. And so she finally says, okay, well, let me, let me talk

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to him. So he says, he agrees Wednesday. I can come over to see him like at two o'clock and he'll give

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me 15 minutes. So I go over there and I sit down and start talking with him and talk about the fact that

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I'd done the Pentagon Papers case for the New York Times. I did the case that established Roy of

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Journalist for Tech Conference and news sources, you know, that I was doing, working on the Watergate

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burglary case. And he's going, his eyes are kind of getting big like saucers. And he said, you know,

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holy mackerel. He said, you know, I didn't think that people that were involved in that kind of

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practical work in the law really cared about these kind of more abstract concepts that have to do with

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justice and, and, you know, intuitionists and all that. So we went from 15 minutes to an hour to two

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hours and he kept canceling other, other meetings that he had. So he ended up asking me to come back

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to Harvard to do a PhD in comparative social ethics, comparing and contrasting the mode of ethical

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reasoning of majoritarian utilitarianism versus intuitionism. And so I kept asking him, I said, well,

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what's going on with these intuitionists anyhow? He said, I don't know. I don't know what's going

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on there. I just know they say these things. They kind of state these kind of cryptic philosophical

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things. It's not clear where they're coming from. And so I said, well, I guess I better come back

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to the school and see if we can help figure this out. So I come back. So I leave Bailey's office

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and I enroll in September of 73 to go back to, back to Harvard university, do my master's degree

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and then PhD. And, uh, I figured I was going to end up in the philosophy department, right under John

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Rawls. Well, it turns out they assigned me to have my thesis advisor for my master's thesis be, uh,

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Dr. Ralph Potter, who teaches comparative social ethics. And he's over at the Harvard Divinity School.

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So I get assigned to the Divinity School. So I said, it's okay with me. Uh, you know,

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they used to say that. And when I was at the law school, I would ask certain questions during the

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law school class. And they would say, uh, Mr. Sheehan, if you're going to ask questions like that,

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why don't you go over to the Divinity School? And so lo and behold, here I was, there I was at the

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Divinity School, kind of the indirect route, but there I was. And I discovered something that is

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extraordinarily important for us to talk about here today. And that is this, is that, uh, Dr.

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Ralph Potter started explaining to us that there have been lots, huge studies done at Harvard

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University and other places around the world. And what they came to discover is that whenever

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our human family is confronted by any major public policy issue, that what happens is our human family

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divides into factions. Uh, and that these factions take a completely different position as to what

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ought to be done to respond to this particular public policy issue. Uh, and Dr. Talcott Parsons,

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who was the founder of the department of sociology at Harvard, uh, university spent years sending his

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master's students and PhD students out around the world and interviewing everybody and trying to get

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them to tell what their position was on some of these issues, whether it's nuclear first strike,

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abortion, you know, capital punishment, you know, uh, you know, racial justice, you know, affirmative

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action, whatever the issues were. And what he discovered is that the, uh, the human family,

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we tend to break ourselves into, he thought five different groupings and they, they never did find

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a whiteboard for me here. And I'm completely inept in all this technology. So I'll have to explain it

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to you kind of visually what, what, what, what Ralph, what, what, uh, Talcott Parsons discovered,

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he discovered that these, uh, groupings that we, we break into naturally as human beings,

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that, uh, there, there is a position on the extreme right that he called right systematists.

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They think systematically and that they come up with this position, which he put at the

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end of this spectrum and way over on the other side, he had this group called left systematists

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and immediately inside on this spectrum that he had designed this sociological bar graph,

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he had another group that was, uh, he said that were, were left marginalists and right marginalists

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just inside that. And then a group called middle marginalists to no one's surprise. Uh, it was the

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middle marginalists. And so he just laid these people out and he said, you go around interviewing

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people and, uh, and, and what, what he discovered, this must be Talcott Parsons right now. He thinks I

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don't have it right. Uh, no, it's, it's not him. Some guy from prison. Oh gee. Uh, anyway, uh, so, so,

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so, so the, so the, so the bottom line is that, so he, he came up, he came up with these five different

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factions that, that the, that our human family tends to break into. And so what I did is I started

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looking at these and, uh, and I, I came up, I was doing my master's thesis on this and rather than

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what they want to do is they, they assign you one, you pick one of these major public policy issues,

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you know, like affirmative action, you know, uh, whether or not there should be an equal rights

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amendment to the constitution, you know, you pick one of these public policy issues and then you're

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supposed to go around researching all the people that have spoken on the issue and break them up into

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these five factions. And what I did is I came to believe that there were actually, in addition to

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the, the, uh, right, right systematists and right marginalists, there was a group called right middle

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marginalists that were in between the middle marginalists in there. And the same thing was

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true on the, on the left, that there were not only left systematists and left marginalists, but left

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middle marginalists, which were the classic liberals and conservatives, classic liberal and conservative

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positions that he hadn't even taken into account. And so I was doing my master's thesis, actually

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critiquing the founder of the department of social sociology at the department of Harvard,

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it wasn't the most popular thing to do, but I was convinced it was true. And then, so I started

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talking to Ralph Potter saying to him, look at, you know, just because, because I was a lawyer and I

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was asking questions that were a little bit different than other people, other students did. And I said,

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look, what is it that causes a person to be in one of these groups or the other?

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And, uh, and he said, well, that's interesting. He said, that's what I did my PhD work on. He said,

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under Talcott Parsons. And what he, what he came to believe is this, and this is what's important

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for you. And I want to see everybody taking notes here. This is the tough part of the, the, the seminar

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that what, what he decided is that there were four fundamental pillar beliefs that every human

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being has to form some kind of an opinion about if they're going to be able to function effectively

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in the world. Uh, and that what, what these are, they, and if I had the little chart up, I'd show you

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there's this great big four square, great big four square, like, you know, you play four square and

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there's four, four of these fundamental beliefs. And the first one is cosmology, which is how is it

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that you think the universe came into being? You know, these are profound and fundamental questions

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that have to do with your understanding of reality itself. And this, the second issue, uh, after

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cosmology about how the cosmos came into being

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is another big fancy word called teleology. And that is, how do you believe the universe is unfolding?

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there's some sort of end in mind. There's some sort of objective that is, uh, is unfolding in the

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universe, uh, or not. And then the fourth one, uh, is the, the other big word is called, but it's,

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you'll see how important this one is. It's ontology. What is your ontological, uh, conclusion? That is

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how did consciousness come into being for, it's a good thing for this weekend to talk about,

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you know, how did consciousness come into being? Is consciousness just sort of an epiphenomenon

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between the kind of random collision between mass and energy or units of mass encountering each other

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in, in the, in an organism? And somehow this is a, an epiphenomenon of some sort, like an overtone of

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music, you know, or how did consciousness come into being in this otherwise strictly material universe?

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Uh, in the fourth and final of these, uh, of the potter's box, the four square, uh, the one, uh, is,

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is epistemology. And that, oh, that's just another big word for what are the means that we have at our

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disposal as human beings to be able to answer cosmic questions like that? You know, are we limited to

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just what we can see and taste and touch, you know, and smell, are we limited to our five senses, uh,

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as taking in data and then putting them through our intellect to try to figure out what the answer

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to these things are? Or are there other means that we have at our disposal, uh, such as, for example,

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ESP, you know, or channeling that there's all kinds of other means that, that certain people

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hypothesize exist, uh, as it answers the epistemological question. And what they discovered,

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what they discovered is that there are entirely different answers that people provide to these

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four questions of how did the universe come into being? Is, how is the universe unfolding toward any

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particular end or objective or purpose? Uh, you know, how did consciousness come into being? Uh,

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and what means do we have at our disposal by means of which we can ascertain those truths,

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that there are different answers that you can come up with to those questions. And it's important,

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absolutely essential that we put a little bookmark on this to say that nobody knows the answer to those

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things. Nobody knows the definitive answer to those things. But the fact is it's impossible to function

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in the world without you at least unconsciously coming to some conclusion about those things. Even if you

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don't think about it consciously. And what, what they discovered is, is that, that, uh, if in fact

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you answer all four of those questions, the questions as the, the question is how the universe came into

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being, you know, how it's unfolding or whether it's unfolding toward a particular point, how consciousness

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came into being and what the means are that we have at our disposal to ascertain the information.

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If you answer all four of those questions in a way that is internally and self-referentially consistent,

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so that all three of the other answers are consistent with whatever the answer is that you gave to one

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of them, that if you answer those, those four questions in a way that is internally and self-referentially

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consistent, what you have is that you generate, you discern a common principle that is underlying the

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answer to each one of those questions. You come up with a principle that generates a specific mode of

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ethical reasoning. And I want to be clear about what this means. Everybody engages in conduct which

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they think is consistent with reality, right? I mean, that's the ethical thing to do is you choose to comport

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your conduct in accordance with reality, with the exception of some major people that we know.

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But the bottom line is that that's the ethical way of conducting yourself. You know,

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you may have a different view of what reality is, but as long as you're engaging in conduct

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that is consistent with what you legitimately believe reality to be, that's an ethical position.

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Okay? And so that there are different modes of ethical reasoning that are generated

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by different answers to those questions. And what we came to understand is that based on this analysis

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of Talcott Parsons' ideological spectrum that goes all the way from a right systematist

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all the way over to a left systematist, with those seven major nodal points along there, from right

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systematist, to right marginalist, to right middle marginalist, to middle marginalist, to left

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middle marginalist, to left marginalist, to left systematist, those seven nodal points along the

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sociological bar graph that they all, they all are, what they have in common is each one of them provides an

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answer to all four of those questions, which is internally and self-referentially consistent with

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the other three. And so, and that's what generates a consistent mode of ethical reasoning for these

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people. And so they have a worldview, a whole worldview. And if you apply the principles of that worldview

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to answering all the normal questions that you encounter in your work-a-day life, it generates

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a full-blown philosophy. That's where philosophies come from. When you actually get into, I mean,

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people who don't know any better just keep reading all these different philosophers and they say this

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and they say that. But what they're doing is they're offering a systematic analysis of fundamental

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questions coming from a consistent point of view and a consistent mode of ethical reasoning. And that's

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what generates the major philosophers. All right. So, so that's extraordinarily important. Uh, because,

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because what you discover is that a sub-function of your philosophy is your political philosophy.

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Your political philosophy flows directly out of your philosophy. What you're doing is you're applying

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your philosophy to the question of how do you go about addressing public policy questions in a community.

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Okay. Okay. That when you're faced with a range of potential responses to a given public policy

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problem, how do you select which one you want? You apply a mode of ethical reasoning to that.

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And so what we see, this is the one that is most common to everybody. This is where you get the normal

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right-wing and left-wing people. Okay. Because the, the, on the extreme right, the right systematists,

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the political philosophy that is generic to the right systematists is authoritarianism. And you come

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into the, the, the right marginalists and they are reactionaries. And you come in one step more to the,

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to the right middle marginalists and they're conservatives. And you come into the middle

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marginalists and they're moderates to no surprise. Uh, the, you go to the, to the, to the left of the

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center to the, to the left middle marginalist and you get liberals and you go to the, the left

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marginalist and you get progressives and you get to the, the far left of the left systematists and you

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get utopianists. Okay. So now we're talking now, we're, now we're into something that people understand,

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but the fact is they don't understand where it comes from and they don't understand what it means.

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You see? And so people sling these ideas around all over the place. You know, ah, he's a, he's an

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authoritarian, he's some kind of reactionary or the, you know, somebody, some kind of, you know,

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soft headed liberal and they, they don't even know what it means, but they just have some vague idea

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where they fall along the political spectrum. But what, what this shows is that there are full scale,

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scientific, logical ways of figuring out why it is that people do what they do. Okay. And what,

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what I discovered in, in going through all this, I said, now we're getting into this weekend. Okay.

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What I discovered is, is that the charisms that are attached to these seven different nodal points

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along the sociological bar graph, the charisms that are characteristic of each of those nodal points

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are exactly the same characteristics that are attributed to the chakras.

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And that you get these, these right, these right systematists are deeply rooted in their root chakra.

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I mean, red, red, you know, and that they're totally clinging to life, that they're totally insecure,

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that they, they're constantly fearful that they're going to die or disappear or be disempowered. And so

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that they, they, they react in a very classic way all the time. Okay. And that this happens and it goes,

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if you, if you're familiar at all with the charisms of the, of the different chakras,

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what you'll see, you start to line them up with these seven, uh, and you'll discover that these,

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these charisms match almost identically. And so for the first time you start to say, well,

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this may begin to explain why a person adheres to one of those worldviews. What happens is that,

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that when you look at this and you start to compare and, and, uh, contrast the, the fundamental

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charisms of the, of the chakras with these charisms of these particular worldviews, what you discover

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is a very important thing. And that is that there's got to be an eighth worldview because of the eighth

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chakra, the chakra that exists above your head at the top of the energy envelopes that are generated by

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the chakras in your body, that you have these seven energy envelopes that are each generated by the

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chakra, the energy of its particular vibrational frequency, its particular rate of spin,

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its particular tip to the ecliptic, that these are energy fields that, that form around your body.

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And at the apex of all of this, these envelopes, there's an eighth, there's an eighth chakra.

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So there's got to be an eighth worldview. And so what is that worldview?

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This is the worldview that we're bumping into all the time with the extraterrestrials.

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This is the thing that we aren't understanding at all. There's something just out of our reach,

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just out of our comprehension. There, there's things happening with these folks that they go

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faster than the speed of light. They materialize and dematerialize. They move through walls.

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You know, they don't seem to be bound by our limitations of time, you know, that there's something

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completely mysterious going on. And so, so what I'm saying is, is that the genuinely new paradigm

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is not just the sixth paradigm quantum worldview, which is the basic progressive

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worldview that everybody who believes in quantum physics basically ends up being kind of a progressive

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because they think that, you know, that their direct intention can influence the manifestation of

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matter in the next, next microsecond. And we can all, uh, you know, sing kumbaya together and make

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the world a better place. You know, that this, this is the progressive worldview and that all of us

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in the present time, we're going to have a next part of this conversation. This is a very important one

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that it may sound like what I'm saying is that you shouldn't attach yourself to the sixth paradigm

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quantum worldview as the new paradigm worldview, but I'm going to suggest that we should,

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because that's the next one that's opening up for us all. It's the sixth chakra. It's the,

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it's the, it's the pituitary chakra. It's the one that has to do with ESP. It's the one that has to do

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with telepathy. It's the one that has to do with, with the teleportation. It has, there's all kinds

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of charisms that are generic to this sixth paradigm, uh, worldview in this quantum realm that we're

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talking about. Uh, and the, the thing that's really so important about this is that the, the seventh,

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the seventh, well, let me, let me give you a classic example, just so we'll get grounded here.

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Uh, and, and that is, let's deal with just one of these four pillar beliefs of cosmology.

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Okay. The adherence to the right systematist worldview believe that they recognize that our,

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our universe is expanding. Uh, they recognize that all the elements on the periodical chart

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are disintegrating into their constituent elements. Uh, and so that they're expanding out and away from

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the original locus of the big bang and disintegrating and expanding. And what they conclude is that this

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is going to continue going on until every single element in the universe has disintegrated

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into its component quantum, in Koi quantum fields. And they're going to continue to expand

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and it's going to therefore expand out into no thing ness. That that's the absolute entropy of the universe.

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And so that's, that's, that's what they believe is going on both cosmically and teleologically.

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Okay. That's a pretty depressing worldview because it leads them to believe that there's no point to

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anything. You know, that there's the, the only thing that makes any difference is them asserting

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themselves and asserting control over an otherwise chaotic universe through the, through the application of

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brute force or better intelligence, but just dominating everybody and taking control. Now the reactionaries,

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the right marginalists, they believe that the universe is expanding out and away from the original

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big bang. And in fact, all the, all the elements are disintegrating, but they believe that when you get

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to the point where every single element on the periodic table has disintegrated into its respective

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in Koi quantum fields, and it expands to that particular point, what will happen is the impetus of the big bang

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will have been exhausted.

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And that there'll be this stasis, a moment of stasis in the bonding attraction that every single unit has for every other one

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will then take over. And there'll be this moment, this micro moment of stasis, and then it'll all start coming back together again.

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And all of those in Koi quantum fields will start joining together to form leptons and muons and, and, uh,

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and squarks and electrons and protons and neutrons and stars and galaxies, uh, and living conscious beings

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that are a function of this particular process. And that, that they will all continue to come back together

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tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter until they all just, they all collapse back into the point where

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every single in Koi quantum field in the entire universe is in direct physical contact with every

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other one. And that's the little pinhead you keep hearing about all the time that the, that these

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astrophysicists talk about the entire universe exists at the size of a pinhead. Remember that one?

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And then what happens, they believe is that the polarity at that point just reverses. And what happens is it

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explodes again, not, not exposed from the middle out. It's every single ultimately irreducible

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integer of matter in the entire physical universe repels every other one. And it generates another

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big bang. And so you get this big bang that occurs again, and it starts to expand out and create

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galaxies and universes and living entities and conscious beings that relate to the universe.

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And that it goes again. This is what they call the oscillating cosmos. This is the, what they call

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the magnumonis, the grand year of the reactionary worldview. And it repeats over and over and over

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again. And they believe that it's all very mechanical. It's just kind of predestined to kind of go like

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that. And what, what they think therefore is that you, their motive ethical reasoning is, is that it's not

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like, like the motive ethical reasoning of the right systematists that everything is chaos and that you

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have to just assert your power and control and get control of an otherwise chaotic universe and impose

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your will on it. What the reactionaries believe is that what you have to do is you have to get on one

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side or another of a dialectic because that they can tell is going on. There is this dialectical process

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going on, expanding and contracting. And so therefore their motive ethical reasoning is get on one side of

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a dialectic or another and thereby lend meaning to your life. You know, it's yin and yang and it's black

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and white. It's good guys, it's bad guys, it's red team, it's blue team. You know, it's, you know,

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it's Republicans, it's Democrats. And, and what we see is that our culture in Western civilization is very much

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attached to this, this reactionary paradigm right now. That everybody goes crazy over San Francisco 49ers

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playing, you know, the Kansas City Chiefs or the New York Yankees playing the, the Boston Red Sox,

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or, you know, the, the, the Oakland, uh, Golden State Warriors, you know, playing the, the Bucks

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or something. And, and they just train you to it. They people, they bring people up your entire lives

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dedicated to this dialectic and that people, people who can't find any other meaning in their lives

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go crazy in the stands, you know, and they put big spikes on their head and they wear all these

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crazy costumes and they, they drink, you get totally crocked and they eat meat like mad and they go and

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fight these, you know, I'm telling you that what I'm saying is that this, this, this, uh, reactionary

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paradigm, this dialectical paradigm is extraordinarily strong, uh, in that they unconsciously believe in the

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oscillating cosmos and that there's no meaning to, to life at all, unless you're on one side or another

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of a fundamental dialectic. And that's how you derive all of your, your meaning out of life.

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Of course, this is Hegel. Hegel is the philosopher of the second paradigm, the dialectical materialism

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that you hear about that. Uh, now the, what, what are the other views of this? You go, you go over to

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the, uh, all the way over to the, to the seventh paradigm, the, in this, in this case, the, the, uh,

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the left system at this worldview. And what they believe is that there is an infinite and an infinite

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and eternal sea of absolutely undifferentiated consciousness that abides.

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And that there is this event that takes place that is in fact taking place at every single

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microsecond because time doesn't exist in that field of the setting up of a, of a, uh, a

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perturbance inside the otherwise completely, uh, uh, undifferentiated field of consciousness. A

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differentiation occurs, uh, uh, a, a, and, and so that what happens is that this differentiation

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sets up a polar event of a, in, in that there's an, a, there's a desire to get back to a completely

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00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:34,940
unified, uh, consciousness. And so that there's a reaching out of one end of this differentiation

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to the other, which generates the original wave of energy in the universe. And then it's,

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it comes back together again and manifests as a potential Higgs boson, an actual particle of mass.

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And this process starts to go on and there's this kind of, kind of, uh, mitosis that takes place

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and it just keeps on going, going, going, going, going. And it actually, uh, generates the material

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universe. But it's important to remember the universe, all of these material entities is made up

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of consciousness. That it's just a condensation of consciousness in the universe. And so therefore,

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it's not a matter of there being a consciousness that exists just outside of the perimeters

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of the sum total of mass and energy in the universe. The universe itself is pervaded with consciousness.

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That every single, every single, uh, inchoic quantum field in the entire universe is in fact conscious.

533
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Uh, and that, that, and you start putting more and more of them together and they actually,

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this is an ontological issue, is that somehow a certain number of them come together and what

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they do is they end up having a collective consciousness. And they actually view, they experience

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themselves as having a consciousness that incorporates a whole bunch of these inchoic quantum fields.

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Uh, and then you get these little single organisms, uh, living organisms that are conscious and they

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actually can decide to kind of move around, you know, in the ocean and stuff. And that they can,

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and they get more and more complex. This is what Teilhard de Chardin talks about at length,

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is the complexification of life as it evolves teleologically up into higher and higher forms.

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And that there's this whole process that's going on. And so therefore, this left systematist

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00:59:18,300 --> 00:59:26,300
worldview is the, almost the classic theological worldview because they, they, in attempting to

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00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:30,780
communicate this extraordinarily sophisticated understanding to people at a time in the

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middle ages, when 99% of the people were completely illiterate, couldn't read, never saw anything,

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a book of any kind, uh, and never even moved more than 50 miles away from the spot that they were born.

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You know, and so that the effort to try to communicate this kind of extraordinarily subtle

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00:59:48,700 --> 00:59:56,380
insight, uh, into the ultimate nature of reality started anthropomorphizing the infinite and eternal.

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But at the same time, the mystics in that whole realm will keep saying, you cannot nounify,

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you cannot nounify the infinite and eternal. It is heresy. If you try to give a name to this

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and nounify it, you are ruined because you completely misunderstood what the reality is here.

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01:00:20,540 --> 01:00:28,460
Because it is not a noun. It's a verb. And in fact, it's a non-transitive verb of being.

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01:00:29,580 --> 01:00:35,340
All right. And that there is a, you can't even think of it in terms of there being a relationship

553
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between it and us. Us is it. We am it. You know, uh, and, and I am that I am.

554
01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:53,820
That's what this is. So you, so you get this, this completely different cosmological assumption

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01:00:54,540 --> 01:01:01,180
about how the universe came into being and how it's unfolding and what, toward what ends it's

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01:01:01,180 --> 01:01:07,180
unfolding. Okay. And so that you, you begin to see that these different cosmological assumptions

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and different teleological assumptions generate an entirely different mode of ethical reasoning.

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And so the reason that I raise all of this is so that you'll be familiar with the fact when I, when I

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tell you that the, the adherence to these different worldviews have a very different idea about global

560
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climate change. Okay. The, the, the authoritarians, they view the scientific information about the

561
01:01:36,220 --> 01:01:42,780
existence of global climate change as an inherent threat. It's a threat to their control. It's a

562
01:01:42,780 --> 01:01:48,780
threat to their continued domination and control of the, of the world through their ownership

563
01:01:48,780 --> 01:01:55,500
of oil and gas and coal and the military instrumentalities that run off fossil fuels

564
01:01:55,500 --> 01:02:01,180
that they use to dominate the world. Okay. And they've created this idea of money,

565
01:02:01,900 --> 01:02:06,860
which they created, you know, and they try to pretend they created it for our, for our benefit.

566
01:02:06,860 --> 01:02:11,900
So, cause it's easier than carrying around bushels of wheat and apples to exchange and barter,

567
01:02:11,900 --> 01:02:17,660
but it's not, they created it. So they control it. Right. And they, they manipulate it. They,

568
01:02:17,660 --> 01:02:24,700
and they become super multimillionaires, uh, by, by doing it and lending the money. And so the,

569
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:32,940
the whole idea of, of global climate change coming on and threatening the continued utilization of fossil

570
01:02:32,940 --> 01:02:39,900
fuels on which they have cast their lot for controlling the world is experienced as another

571
01:02:39,900 --> 01:02:47,180
threat, another type of chaos. Uh, and so what they do is they react to it and they, they try to crush the

572
01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:53,980
people that are involved in it. Okay. And now the reactionaries, the reactionaries, what they believe,

573
01:02:53,980 --> 01:03:02,060
you know what they believe, they believe that, well, it's a hoax by China, right? That our adversary,

574
01:03:02,060 --> 01:03:09,100
our ultimate other, our dialectic opponent is faking all this because they're trying to undermine our basic

575
01:03:09,100 --> 01:03:15,900
industrial base, uh, in the world. And so that they just say that it's a hoax perpetrated by China.

576
01:03:15,900 --> 01:03:22,700
All right. And so that, and then, and then the, the, uh, the conservatives, uh, they, they keep

577
01:03:22,700 --> 01:03:28,780
arguing that, well, maybe it's just part of the natural cycle, right? They love this one. It's just

578
01:03:28,780 --> 01:03:33,180
part of the natural cycle. Oh, there were ice ages and there were, you know, ice fields and, you know,

579
01:03:33,180 --> 01:03:37,820
now they're just kind of melting and we're going back to a different stage. And, you know, so they have

580
01:03:37,820 --> 01:03:43,820
a very conservative attitude about the whole thing. Uh, and the, and the, and the moderates were

581
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:49,260
basically agnostic about the whole thing. They just advise that we take incremental steps.

582
01:03:49,260 --> 01:03:53,660
Let's, let's try to do something about cutting back on the amount of fossil fuel that we use,

583
01:03:53,660 --> 01:03:58,860
but, you know, let's make sure that the people who own all the fossil fuels can own the alternative

584
01:03:58,860 --> 01:04:04,380
sources of energy as well. So that BP can move into, you know, creating alternative energy and doing

585
01:04:04,380 --> 01:04:09,580
windmills and, and, uh, you know, generating solar panels and stuff. As long as we take it nice and

586
01:04:09,580 --> 01:04:15,020
slowly, we can convert all the way into this. I mean, that's, that's the moderates way of dealing

587
01:04:15,020 --> 01:04:21,180
with it. The liberals classic, like Obama, Obama says, look, we're confronted by the scientists saying

588
01:04:21,180 --> 01:04:29,180
that, you know, unless we reduce the annual amount of global greenhouse gas emissions, uh, by 70%,

589
01:04:29,180 --> 01:04:41,820
by 2030, we're completely wedded to total catastrophe by 70%. And so the Obama administration proposes,

590
01:04:42,540 --> 01:04:48,700
how about 33%, how about 33%, that'll work, you know, cause we might be able to get away with that

591
01:04:48,700 --> 01:04:54,540
one, uh, and maintain the funding that the democratic party gets from the oil and gas corporations,

592
01:04:55,180 --> 01:05:00,060
uh, and the insurance companies and the big pharma. Uh, let's just take it a little, you know,

593
01:05:00,060 --> 01:05:05,500
just, it's like, it's like saying someone is getting set to be killed in an hour, a hundred miles away.

594
01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:10,460
And so let's drive our car 50 miles an hour to get there, you know, that isn't going to happen.

595
01:05:11,020 --> 01:05:16,540
Uh, and they know it. Uh, and yet they are so hooked into the liberal, the classic liberals,

596
01:05:16,540 --> 01:05:22,460
the liberals believe that they have to stay wedded to the transnational corporate capitalist economic

597
01:05:22,460 --> 01:05:28,540
system as the major mechanism for developing and distributing the major resources in the world.

598
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Uh, and there are certain people that benefit from that system and there are others who gain

599
01:05:32,620 --> 01:05:37,580
some trickle down benefits from it, et cetera. And, uh, the liberals are perfectly willing to go along

600
01:05:37,580 --> 01:05:43,260
with that. Uh, and so you see this happening now that the structures, the democratic and republican

601
01:05:43,260 --> 01:05:47,980
structures, what's happened is when we got to the end of the cold war with the dissolution of the

602
01:05:47,980 --> 01:05:55,580
Soviet union on December 31st of 1991, what happened is the robber barons that had been

603
01:05:55,580 --> 01:06:01,420
in power from the end of the civil war, 1868, all the way to 1898, the whole robber baron era,

604
01:06:01,420 --> 01:06:06,540
which even high schools teach as the age of imperialism and the, in the age of the robber

605
01:06:06,540 --> 01:06:11,420
barons and go on and on and on about how they had all these, these mills where people were being

606
01:06:11,420 --> 01:06:15,660
chained to the machines to work, you know, 12 hour days. And, and the women that were in the sewing

607
01:06:15,660 --> 01:06:19,660
factories, they couldn't go to the bathroom more than once a day, you know, all that kind of stuff

608
01:06:19,660 --> 01:06:27,420
that that was in full flower up until the end of the first world war. Okay. When the Soviet Union

609
01:06:27,420 --> 01:06:34,540
with the Bolsheviks rose up in October of 1917 and established a, a worldwide socialist revolution

610
01:06:35,100 --> 01:06:39,820
to try to confront the imperialists and the capitalists that were, were trying to take over

611
01:06:39,820 --> 01:06:45,420
the whole world, uh, for their corporations, you know, perfectly obvious. They were very clear

612
01:06:45,420 --> 01:06:50,540
about what they were doing. Mark Hanna, who was the major political advisor for McKinley in the 1898

613
01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:55,420
election, they asked him, you know, what would you advise a young boy, you know, ignoring all the

614
01:06:55,420 --> 01:07:01,420
women, of course, what would you advise, what would you advise a young boy to do in life? I suggest he

615
01:07:01,420 --> 01:07:06,300
make as much money as he possibly can before he dies. Oh, well, there's a great thing. There's a,

616
01:07:06,300 --> 01:07:11,340
there's a big life view, you know, but that's the way they were. And so what happened is that when

617
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the socialist revolution came on and it got totally sideswiped by Stalin and taken over and turned into

618
01:07:16,620 --> 01:07:22,300
an authoritarian communist regime, you know, it was total crap. But the bottom line is, is that as soon

619
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as Gorbachev stepped out of this dialectic that had been going on for 75 years, as soon as they stepped

620
01:07:30,380 --> 01:07:36,940
out of that, the robber barons just came rushing back, you know, in full flower and said, let's get

621
01:07:36,940 --> 01:07:41,100
back to it. There's been this hiatus in our ability to kind of take over the whole world and run it

622
01:07:41,900 --> 01:07:48,620
according to our best interests. You know, what it means is we have to infuse this discussion

623
01:07:49,420 --> 01:07:58,140
about global climate change with a spiritual message that this isn't just a political confrontation

624
01:07:58,140 --> 01:08:05,020
between authoritarian capitalism and, you know, socialism. It cannot be that. If they're both

625
01:08:05,020 --> 01:08:12,060
just completely secular, uh, non-spiritual combat, you know, this is going to be mayhem for our country.

626
01:08:12,060 --> 01:08:17,900
What we have to do is infuse the entire movement for, to stop global climate change with a genuine

627
01:08:17,900 --> 01:08:23,340
spiritual vision. So, so the question that arises is what spiritual vision is that going to be?

628
01:08:23,340 --> 01:08:29,980
And I'm suggesting that we have to be extremely careful. You cannot go to just the left systematist,

629
01:08:30,620 --> 01:08:35,260
uh, theological worldview. And moreover, it's prohibited by the first amendment.

630
01:08:36,300 --> 01:08:41,660
You cannot have the state, like we're, our office is drafting the California green new deal.

631
01:08:42,220 --> 01:08:47,340
Okay. The, uh, the democratic central committee, as you know, the democratic party has two thirds of

632
01:08:47,340 --> 01:08:51,900
the members of the, of the state assembly and two thirds of the, of the state Senate. So they have

633
01:08:51,900 --> 01:08:56,620
super majorities in both houses. We have the best chance here in California to get a genuine green

634
01:08:56,620 --> 01:09:05,100
new deal passed. So, uh, well, uh, uh, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, uh, and, uh, and, uh, the, the

635
01:09:05,100 --> 01:09:12,620
Markey had Markey have put in a nine page bill, you know, HR 109 in the house of representatives

636
01:09:12,620 --> 01:09:17,980
and, uh, and others have put in similar four or five page proposals. You know, we, we have,

637
01:09:17,980 --> 01:09:26,380
we have, uh, actually a, a 50, a 50 page, uh, outline, uh, of the bill somewhere here. Uh,

638
01:09:26,380 --> 01:09:33,820
here it is. Uh, we, that our office has put together a, a 50 page outline, which I have

639
01:09:33,820 --> 01:09:43,260
completely mislaid. Uh, so, but, but we actually have a 350 page draft of the bill, uh, in details.

640
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And, and it covers, it covers, uh, 13 different sectors from transportation to waste water, to, uh,

641
01:09:49,900 --> 01:09:55,740
agriculture, to electricity, generating electricity, et cetera. This is not just a whole bunch of

642
01:09:55,740 --> 01:10:03,100
abstract principles. It's very concrete program as to how you get there. Okay. But again, this is that,

643
01:10:03,100 --> 01:10:10,060
this has to be advocated from a non theological point of view, because if you're going to exercise

644
01:10:10,060 --> 01:10:14,460
power on behalf of the state, whether it's the state of California and the state legislature

645
01:10:14,460 --> 01:10:19,420
and the governor's office, or whether, whether it, uh, it ends up being, oh, here it is. Here's my

646
01:10:19,420 --> 01:10:25,180
little thing. So here's, here's our 50 page, uh, outline of the whole thing with the 13 different

647
01:10:25,180 --> 01:10:31,340
areas of water and waste management and electrical energy and agriculture, forest management and

648
01:10:31,340 --> 01:10:36,300
forest fire management, education, the green workforce, you know, to having like a green new deal

649
01:10:36,300 --> 01:10:41,020
to employ the people that move from the, from the other industries, you know, that we've, we've got

650
01:10:41,020 --> 01:10:48,780
this, uh, uh, working right now, but what we have to do is we have to field a group of people who are

651
01:10:48,780 --> 01:10:56,220
going to be espousing the enactment of this, not for simply just political reasons, but for genuine

652
01:10:56,220 --> 01:11:03,420
spiritual reasons. And it is the sixth paradigm is this new quantum paradigm. There's just right at

653
01:11:03,420 --> 01:11:08,700
the edge of sort of coming into being. It's the new paradigm that the entire kind of, uh, new age

654
01:11:08,700 --> 01:11:12,700
community is talking about. They're talking about it at the California Institute for Integral Studies.

655
01:11:12,700 --> 01:11:17,260
They're talking about it at IONS, you know, the Institute of Neumatic Science, that they're all,

656
01:11:17,260 --> 01:11:21,100
I don't know what it is they're all being so shy about, you know, but I mean, it's a classic radical

657
01:11:21,100 --> 01:11:28,300
monist worldview. It's a sixth paradigm, uh, quantum worldview, uh, realizing that, that the plenum,

658
01:11:28,300 --> 01:11:33,580
you know, that the, the, the field of inquiry, quantum fields that are blinking on and off every

659
01:11:33,580 --> 01:11:38,780
microsecond, you know, uh, can actually be influenced by directed intention of our human

660
01:11:38,780 --> 01:11:44,700
family. And we can actually manifest the next microsecond of reality consistent with our intention,

661
01:11:44,700 --> 01:11:51,020
uh, fueled by love and affection and an experiential sense of oneness. You know, we, we represent the

662
01:11:51,020 --> 01:11:57,020
Lakota people, as you know, uh, up in North Dakota and you, you talk to the shamans and they'll say,

663
01:11:57,020 --> 01:12:02,780
you know, Christians, you guys are really funny. Uh, you guys pray for rain and it doesn't rain.

664
01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:10,780
You know, what you have to do is you have to be the rain. You have to be the rain and the rain

665
01:12:10,780 --> 01:12:16,140
rains, you know? And if you don't understand that, you don't understand the new paradigm.

666
01:12:16,860 --> 01:12:22,060
You know, there's no, there's no dialectical relationship between the infinite and eternal.

667
01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:29,020
That this is an organic thing. And we're not invoking, we're not invoking the intervention

668
01:12:29,020 --> 01:12:36,220
of the infinite and eternal to support this. What we're doing is engaging the planet,

669
01:12:37,180 --> 01:12:45,180
which is a living organism of which we're an integral part. We have been generated by the planet.

670
01:12:46,060 --> 01:12:52,460
We've been generated by the planet. We are intimately related with the planet. And so

671
01:12:52,460 --> 01:12:58,860
therefore we have to take care of the planet just as though it's a child. We have to have the same

672
01:12:58,860 --> 01:13:05,660
kind of affection, the same kind of caring for the planet. And this is the new paradigm. And it relates

673
01:13:05,660 --> 01:13:12,860
very clearly to indigenous views, which, which are known as pantheist. Uh, this, this other thing,

674
01:13:12,860 --> 01:13:18,220
the theistic point of view is what they call panentheism. It's different. You don't spend a

675
01:13:18,220 --> 01:13:24,220
lot of time worrying about it, but, but pantheism, pantheism is what the Catholic church for so long

676
01:13:24,220 --> 01:13:31,260
condemned as paganism. And the, and the Catholic church is now moving. Uh, the fact is Francis wrote,

677
01:13:31,260 --> 01:13:38,300
the Pope Francis wrote the papal encyclical, Laudato Si, you know, back in June of 19, of 2015.

678
01:13:38,300 --> 01:13:43,260
And the, the right wing bishops are going crazy with their hair on fire saying, Ooh,

679
01:13:43,260 --> 01:13:48,380
this is pantheism. You know, this is paganism. You know, he's, he's actually talking about the

680
01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:55,340
planet having a spirit, you know, that, that we relate to. Yeah. Right. You know, that's right. Uh,

681
01:13:55,340 --> 01:14:01,500
you know, uh, and, and, and so that what we, what I'm suggesting we do as well, all of the,

682
01:14:01,500 --> 01:14:07,580
all of us can be extraordinarily positive about the seventh paradigm, the theistic paradigm that we

683
01:14:07,580 --> 01:14:13,420
talked about and even be extraordinarily open to the eighth paradigm of what the worldview is that

684
01:14:13,420 --> 01:14:20,220
we're going to have to adopt in order to understand that we in fact are not only not any longer at the

685
01:14:20,220 --> 01:14:26,940
center of the physical universe, but we're not even at the apex of the, the pyramid of all conscious

686
01:14:26,940 --> 01:14:34,140
beings in the universe. We have been displaced now by another highly intelligent and highly

687
01:14:34,140 --> 01:14:40,460
technologically developed, but distinctly non-human civilization. And we have to come to grips with

688
01:14:40,460 --> 01:14:52,140
that, but not yet, not yet. Uh, because, because we've got this incredible emergency in front of us

689
01:14:52,140 --> 01:14:57,100
right now. And so we're going to have to look to the new paradigm, the sixth paradigm, the quantum

690
01:14:57,100 --> 01:15:02,620
worldview, the one that's all being talked about by all of us in the new age community here, uh, and talk

691
01:15:02,620 --> 01:15:08,940
about this. We can all work very hard to get ready for the new paradigm, the, the genuinely new paradigm

692
01:15:08,940 --> 01:15:14,620
of the eighth paradigm, you know, when, and as you know, the, the churches and others have all talked

693
01:15:14,620 --> 01:15:19,820
about the fact that, that we are now going to encounter the existence of an extraterrestrial

694
01:15:19,820 --> 01:15:24,940
intelligence much, much sooner than we had ever anticipated because of the discovery of all of the

695
01:15:24,940 --> 01:15:29,660
exoplanets that we're going to, I know how they're going to do this. They're going to roll it in

696
01:15:30,380 --> 01:15:34,860
with the discovery of the new exoplanets. They're going to find one exoplanet. Oh, now they've

697
01:15:34,860 --> 01:15:38,940
discovered water on Mars. And what do you know? Oh, there's some remnants of water on the moon,

698
01:15:38,940 --> 01:15:42,860
which they were adamant there wasn't any such thing, you know, and now they've realized there are

699
01:15:42,860 --> 01:15:47,260
planets, which they weren't even willing to acknowledge, which tells you something, uh, about

700
01:15:47,260 --> 01:15:51,660
them. But they now acknowledge there are other planets. They're going to discover, you know, some

701
01:15:51,660 --> 01:15:57,100
microbe of life, you know, underneath the ice and some moon of some distant planet. And then they're going to

702
01:15:57,100 --> 01:16:02,380
start discovering more and more evolved forms of life. And they're going to try to go another

703
01:16:02,380 --> 01:16:08,460
entire generation of slowly feathering in the existence of life. You're going to try to completely

704
01:16:08,460 --> 01:16:13,740
ignore all the UFOs, all the encounters that everyone's had. They don't want to have to come

705
01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:18,380
to grips with what they've been doing and concealing it and lying about it and punishing people for their

706
01:16:18,380 --> 01:16:22,460
experience and trying to get them declared to be insane and everything else that they've done.

707
01:16:22,460 --> 01:16:26,620
They don't want to come to grips with that. You know, they want to just look to the exoplanets

708
01:16:26,620 --> 01:16:31,660
as a source of life. And so they're going to spend another generation getting us ready for this whole

709
01:16:31,660 --> 01:16:37,020
thing, you know, so that that's down the line. Okay. And that worldview, we have to work on that

710
01:16:37,020 --> 01:16:43,100
worldview to discuss the profound philosophical, theological implications of our being dislocated

711
01:16:43,100 --> 01:16:49,820
from the peak of the pyramid of conscious life in the universe. But not yet, not yet.

712
01:16:50,380 --> 01:16:54,540
We've got to get to the issue of global climate change. And we've got to come and embrace the

713
01:16:54,540 --> 01:16:59,420
sixth paradigm worldview, the radical quantum worldview. We've got to understand that it's

714
01:16:59,420 --> 01:17:05,580
our collective intention, motivated by love and affection for our planet as an organism

715
01:17:05,580 --> 01:17:11,420
out of which we arise. And that there's an intimate, integral, organic relationship that we have to the

716
01:17:11,420 --> 01:17:19,500
planet. And that we have to work to save ourselves and to save our planet. In fact, a huge majority of the

717
01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:23,980
people that have encountered the extraterrestrial beings are saying, they keep trying to tell you

718
01:17:23,980 --> 01:17:28,060
this. They keep trying to say, you've got to stop polluting the planet. You've got to stop,

719
01:17:28,060 --> 01:17:32,700
you know, ruining your whole climate on your planet. They've been saying this now for decades.

720
01:17:33,260 --> 01:17:39,980
Okay. So, so, you know, that whole UFO community thing that we're involved in, it also bears out what

721
01:17:39,980 --> 01:17:45,660
we're saying. But, but we, we cannot do the heavy lifting to have to establish such a completely

722
01:17:45,660 --> 01:17:51,500
radical brand new worldview. We need to go to the sixth paradigm worldview. We've got to flesh out

723
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:57,420
all the implications of this quantum worldview for our theology, for our economics, for our philosophies.

724
01:17:57,420 --> 01:18:03,980
This is what we've got to do. Okay. So this is the new paradigm. That's why I'm advocating that we

725
01:18:03,980 --> 01:18:09,500
work together to flesh out the details of the new paradigm and relate it directly to the need to save

726
01:18:09,500 --> 01:18:18,220
our planet and to, to move a spiritual vision into place to supplement the strictly political and economic

727
01:18:18,220 --> 01:18:25,660
issues. Because the fact of the matter is they're not working because the opponents of this are

728
01:18:25,660 --> 01:18:30,220
completely dug in and they've got access to the media. They've got access to the money.

729
01:18:30,220 --> 01:18:35,500
They've got access to the political power, then the military power. What we have is spiritual power.

730
01:18:36,140 --> 01:18:41,900
And it's a secret resource that we have. And we need to, we need to bring it to the fore.

731
01:18:41,900 --> 01:18:46,780
We need to strengthen it. We need to reach out and we need to supplement all the work we're doing.

732
01:18:46,780 --> 01:18:52,940
You know, our, our, our office is, is doing the, the outline of it. We're doing the details of it.

733
01:18:52,940 --> 01:18:57,900
We're in communication with the democratic central committee of California. You know, that, that

734
01:18:57,900 --> 01:19:03,980
we're, we're doing all the nuts and bolts. That's why you have lawyers. So you can do that. You know

735
01:19:03,980 --> 01:19:10,060
what the nuts and bolts are that have to get done. But what we need to do here is bring the spiritual

736
01:19:10,060 --> 01:19:18,460
vision of the new paradigm behind the need to save our planet, to save our species. Remember all species

737
01:19:18,460 --> 01:19:27,420
don't survive. All species don't survive. So the, the, the, the dice are rolling right now as to

738
01:19:27,420 --> 01:19:32,380
whether we're going to, whether we have contaminated our own bed, whether we've destroyed our own planet,

739
01:19:32,380 --> 01:19:37,020
our entire ecosystem, you know, the, despite the warnings that the extraterrestrial beings have

740
01:19:37,020 --> 01:19:43,020
been given to us for decades, we've got to change. We've got to move and we've got to understand what

741
01:19:43,020 --> 01:19:49,660
this new paradigm is and what the, what the philosophical and, and spiritual basis is that

742
01:19:49,660 --> 01:19:54,700
we can bring to the discussion of the green new deal. So that's what I'm proposing here. And

743
01:19:54,700 --> 01:20:00,060
that's the relationship between the awakening to the new paradigm and the passage of the green new deal.

744
01:20:00,060 --> 01:20:05,740
So there I am with one minute.

745
01:20:05,740 --> 01:20:15,740
Thank you.

746
01:20:15,740 --> 01:20:17,740
Thank you.

747
01:20:17,740 --> 01:20:19,740
Thank you.

748
01:20:19,740 --> 01:20:21,740
Thank you.

749
01:20:21,740 --> 01:20:23,740
Thank you.

750
01:20:23,740 --> 01:20:25,740
Thank you.

751
01:20:25,740 --> 01:20:27,740
Thank you.

752
01:20:27,740 --> 01:20:29,740
Thank you.