I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is because eventually people are going to say what the hell is going on it's just to nuts it's not enough to say it's nuts you have to explain why it's so nuts I look for the invention of artificial life the cloning of human beings uh possible contact with extraterrestrials possible human immortality and at the same time appalling acts of brutality genocide race baiting uh homophobia
famine starvation because uh the systems which are in place to keep the world Saye are in utterly inadequate to the forces that have been Unleashed uh the collapse of the Socialist world the rise of the internet these are changes so immense nobody could imagine them ever happening and now that they have happened nobody even bothers to mention what a big deal it is uh the fact that there is no such thing as the Soviet Union people never talk about it anymore but when I was a kid the the notion that that would ever change was
beyond conceiving uh so the good news is that as primates we're incredibly adaptable to change put us in a desert we survive put us in the jungle we survive under Hitler we survive under Nixon we survive we can put up with about anything and it's a good thing because we're going to be tested to the limits because what they see going on is the breakdown of all tradition all order all San function Norms of behavior and they're quite right that it's happening but they're quite wrong to conclude that it should be resisted or is somehow
evil uh the mushroom said to me once it said this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the Stars you don't depart for the stars under calm and orderly conditions it's a fire in a mad house and that's what we have the fire in the mad house at the end of time this is what it's like when a species prepares to move on to the next Dimension the entire Destiny of all life on the planet is tied up in this we are not acting for ourselves or from ourselves we are we
happen to be the point species on a transformation that will affect every living organism on this planet at its conclusion well the great Watershed difference between the archaic understanding and what is called scientific materialism is the archaic mind understood in fact perceived that nature is conscious nature is alive nature is an organism full of intent uh the goal of the archaic mind is to connect with communicate with and align itself to this great greater Gan holism which is sometimes called nature the great spirit the realm of the ancestors but this is what the archaic uh
mind understood and was comfortable with and in fact it is true our own uh decision to view the universe As Dead As inanimate as unintelligent allowed us permitted us to dissect it use it and uh and uh uh deny its validity outside of human purpose now the consequences of living like that is coming back to haunt us you know we have almost destroyed our home we have almost cut the Earth from beneath our own feet so this impulse toward the ganic and the and the archaic is uh a survival Instinct at this point we must
give uh reverence and Credence to Nature and Nature's methods because no other methods will allow us to work our way out of the present mess we're in uh high temperature high energy resource extraction commodification uh Mega agriculture we're at the end of the Rope for these things so the archaic holds answers but it only holds answers if we are willing to think of the universe as a living int ENT entity in with which we are in partnership not set against but that in fact we are a part of uh a morphogenetic intent and an unfolding
reality that is larger than human understanding imagine larger than human understanding [Laughter] so the whole entire Milky Way galaxy is a being well it's a kind of it's an organism yes and uh the the the Galaxy is a kind of an organism you can think of it as a fractal resonance with a cell the galaxy has a nucleus a very dense material where very mysterious processes are going on then it has a cytoplasmic envelope of stars and gas clouds that surround that core and then it is an individual very distinctly defined by the vast emptiness
that lies between it and the next galaxy yes I think nature builds by fractal intent and that uh all organisms have a core and then a deployed surround whether we're talking about the cell the solar system the Earth the G Galaxy uh in the process of the conservation of novelty uh structures are created with cores that are more complex than their outlying neighborhoods to my mind a Galaxy hanging in space is a picture of the time wave every Star is a data point in an enormous computer simulation of the novelty wave that's why it has
that spiral structure you know scientists are very puzzled that the galaxies don't fly apart they don't seem to have enough mass that their gravitation should hold them together and there's been a lot of talk about dark matter or some missing Factor well the missing factor is novelty the Galaxy stays together because the Galaxy wants to be a Galaxy in other words it it wants to hold on to the level of Novel uh morphology ology that it has achieved it has an actual appetite for expressing itself in that form that's why the galaxies are Spirals and
in a sense those spirals are very large pictures of the time wave where we can at last see it not confused with its uh background or foreground so everything organizes itself fractally spiral with a dense Center in its spatial domain and a dense Center in its temporal domain we are like this galaxies are like this planets Stars bird flocks coral reefs uh but in the case of the Galaxy it's particularly easy to observe the structure because the thing is so huge that its forces Dominate and damp out other forces which might distort it
