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I do visit and and and meet as I meeting with you around the world a great deal and find myself introduced in various kinds of ways. And I always find it really important to. Say that the only thing really that I know of that is significant about my south is allowed. I am probably as close as you can come to an average man. I mean really very intent on finding out what the average man really have. I'm I'm confident all of humanity has a great deal more bond with a valid BDM on the way of faculties than all the life has had enough experience to expect to it to be a to be operative. And I became that in Tampa back in 1927 to see if I could explain it. I wasn't really interested in me as me at all I was interested in. What this particular.
Individual. I could do about employing those faculties which are not properly attended to by the circumstances of our life. And see if I could bring them into play because I felt there so much that. We need to do in order to be able to understand little more about why we're here in the universe and what way if we do have it and function and how or if we do have a function. We might be able to fulfill our two or more important agree and I'm confident that all of us are here for one another and. The fact that I have been able Lendrick to carry on for quite a number of years very independently and then I am am invited to meet you tonight. It is a manifest I have of the sum of the
capabilities I have found to be residual and innate and what I am come to come of it is and an average human being. And. I'm really I'm really confident we are in a very new period of human humanity abad of our. Planet. And I'll give you the quickest kind of introduction to. Where I think we are. Making that assumption that all human beings are. Really born with a very extraordinary inventory of faculties a relatively small amount of which is as yet been bought and apply. We can assume that some of these individuals go through their early days with less. I laws of those original faculties and others. And just a few so you understand a little bit about what I'm talking about those faculties I
just point out that we do know scientifically certain things about behavioral ism that are to give us clues to what I'm saying. As for instance we know that the child went on. I'm sure almost all of you have have been close to a newborn baby and you find the little child with eyes closed and. Seemingly not and a conscious coordination. Yet the they have fingers seem to be not. Completely uncontrolled and if you are tempted to do as I have said they have been and I think many others to put your finger into the child's hand. That child closes on your finger very deftly and holds on in such a strong a sense of communication and that you really sort of just really
intuitively aware of something important going on and you want to remove your finger and immediately release an accommodated and you want to put your finger that again they will again hold on. They repeat as many times as you want but you perfectly have those. There is that coordinating by hand with you in the eyes and ears not working at all. This ought not really to surprise us because inside the womb the child's. Doors and they do their breathing system not operating as yet they're getting their. Due the umbilical cord blood is being. Processed by the breathing of the mother and. So they don't have to take in anything in their lungs and now the lungs are not yet working so that these these these faculties are not operating yet and they can hear and the important inside. That there are some some indication now that they do get a fax of I was sound through it while even the cell in the room you go into the nervous system and not heard as
disturbance of air which I kind of hear you and I. Employ and their eyes are costs of no use inside the womb. But but they've been in tactile communication with their mother for months so the Nama sensitivity of touch. So this child is not just starting and comes out of the room as far as touch scars. That is what has been going on and it's very very highly sensitized. We know that as a promise I make scheduling the DNA RNA genetics and so forth begin to get it coming apply. That each individual has a different kind of time schedule and their brain as tsunami as telephone switchboard and lines get plugged and connections get made so coordination begins to occur in the brain. When that when they go in that when the lines get plugged then and the scheduling of the plugging in is different from each and every individual.
But when the plug in occurs then the child immediately call a stylus co-ordinating to employ this kind of a faculty that is assay plug in comes and they hear if they are we've learned that says the hearing is frustrated and not in a play at that time it is liable to be disconnected and I'm pliable. They've had ticks at the time in their eyes is meant to begin to be used. Children who have some kind of it say it was some disease or something manifest around their eyes when they were born and and our eyes have been covered up in some kind of a treatment. When the time came for them see their eyes were blindfolded and they never were able to see after us but rather you put the disease have a minute and think do it with blindness or was there something in the vicinity there been being treated rather as if the acid faculty comes into play and is not
employed. A disconnect is liable to be made and this will explain my talk about individuals having great many factors we don't know about because not knowing about them and not being properly accommodated that becomes the big disconnection is made but the switchboard is there and I have felt myself that you might be able to plug it in from inside I'm sure that nobody from outside knows as they are knows anyway how to reconnect as fresh bodies. But that if we had but I Sal's begin to think about it and search to see if we have a faculty we may be able to make that plug and I was out. Now or come back than to the idea there are a number of individuals who have less disconnects at the time of a plug and than others. Now talk about the original FAQ Alysa total inventory as really being genius of what people have been with von with a brilliant inventory of Teva
belive us. So I have I have. I say in and drive Broadway that all humans are humans are born geniuses and God the genius very rapidly by circumstances and the circumstances are not really something that you blame on humanity but it was a state I have of development of humanity and universe. But I also want to remind you that human beings I Bond absolutely helpless and stay helpless longer than any other. Young of any other species. They're also rather volatile if you will face faculties and capabilities. They haven't as yet been employed they're not having experience therefore our experience relates to call it. Knowledge or rate awaits relates to experience so they haven't had experience or they've gone absolutely ignorant. So helpless and ignorant in the way we are all born this is the beginning for everybody. And the various individuals and have come before us have had a certain amount of experience of
aged and to begin to find out something and the fact that those are gone before us may not have yet had enough experience to be able to foster other faculties of which we have gone that they don't know about is really not nothing derogatory to those who've gone before us. He says simply the state of the gravest but perfect Clearly all of humanity is being gradually accumulate a large amount of total experience and the way in which we can proliferate the information of value regarding expenses you had is accelerating all the time and becoming more marked. The profuse and really profound saw that there was a nominal amount of awareness in the part I have. I would have all of you that was not in the when this I was before you and saw that it is not really appropriate to be critical of those before have not had as much experience. And you more than to be a puppet to to assume
that those who are not coming along any younger than you are gone and each one is born in the presence of. Last misinformation and considerably more reliable information. And on of these innate faculties may be able then to employ some of them a little early hours on that you have no occasion to employ. Circumstances are changing so they can begin to employ them so that I find there really is is at a younger not younger levels and I am invited around. I don't and universities but also the high schools and even to the to their elementary schools and meeting with the crowd they are all ears. I am really astonished at the magnitude of that information then I have reliable information and the soundness of their thinking and and the comprehensiveness of their perception. And I said I wouldn't want to try to sort of find where we are in the total scheme of things and I have. Learned referring to an individual
who has not lost very many of the faculties and who people tend to call a genius and think about it as somebody who is really born with something other than other people simply because he has not had as much damage to his original equipment. Everybody with Francis Dunn sink of Layar nodded eventually as such a genius. And if we really find that entire Dick the capabilities demonstrated by by by land I know they are very comprehensive and great highly capable and very impressive. I'm going to think about the then the economic authority the way humanity as has been born and organizes out there are those who have more power than others and. We're there now say there's a power and authority that has been operative and they are not Oh DO NOT house such a power authority but he had of
a patron the Duke of Milan. And their command gave him authority gave him for the call letters patent or letters to shout anybody I was a Saturday out of the out of the Monica. Are they that do it was it was or was it all or all power for that time to be able to go into any of mine anyways and the establishment and study the potentials of that undertaking and see how it could be employed and the more fact away TAWS the increase of the total common wealth. I'm going to review as quickly as I can but I can see of the history I have patrons and and lay are not our type geniuses. Going back to the earliest information we have. Where we can read anything in the end just pictures and how aggressive so far on was going back to earliest age about 8000 years the total information we have
regarding those times shows either man was a very ignorant and yet. Had the same hunger that we have today the same need to be regenerated same fest and the knowledge the knowledge of humanity was was very great. Illiteracy was was almost complete. That man lived a very short lives having gone through all kinds of afflictions during those short years somewhere possibly around 21 years of age as it was with an average average life. Even though that was a higher potential and the same potential there is today. But that's all you could you could average real life realization out and life being so very difficult and painful and nobody could think of life as being something worthwhile in its own right. And you try to understand why you're experiencing it. And there was a there was a general assumption. That that is what you're going through. It was a trial on the way to the
afterlife and the worse the trials they've they've been the better the rewards and the afterlife. But also our at that time in the in the experience of those human beings there was so little to go around and so many people. The idea of those who could eat so vast a downed it really just a pharaoh that was only really one man could could be. How have everything you can think of that he seemingly ought to have that your experience could teach you ought to have and therefore you assume that the afterlife would be primarily a father Pharaoh and if it was if you would work very hard you might be taken into that pharaohs afterlife. And be part of a very wonderful new world so we have the economic patronage of the land not a type at the time of the earliest Pharaoh would be the afterlife of the Pharaoh and because of that there's a pharaoh a living Pharaoh then data layer now typed completer
Sauer didn't pry whatever of the resources around there were to get ready for his afterlife. We have the land out of that and sang route. If there's an afterlife he's going to need what we know about tools of Savas and we know we now know that there's such privation that that I see various very very general be very difficult to conceal those tools are they will still be there when they Pharaoh gets to the after afterlife. But as I will build a great stone mountain and I'm top of all those tools and all the things you're going to need in his afterlife. And that's what's proceeded to do so there is your pyramid and the land out of being the what you call that genius type hasn't lost his fundamental look to September itself or just recognize such a principle as a lever the lever really has to be discovered by man very suddenly by virtue of it he can lift ten and more times his own weight and
very much money live for their own muscles and by virtue of that of those levers which they land out are as a first to perceive it as able to move great rocks and you can not only elevate them to get something under them but they would also use it to forward the rock in the direction you wanted to move it. Then finding his people how dying of starvation continually. You realize they needed much more food and there were eight humans here. They lend out a type observer there's a sniper are going through the desert and it's very green on its banks. And he saw that you could draw dead a dig ditches and running the waters back more deeply and to the end the adjacent land and you could therefore cultivate much more land and support more people so we started doing that right away. That other was a land not of began to alter the scenery and our living life by employing principles which the land now type by the perceptive everyday to understand and to employ to
initiate. There was no press and far out and. As in all building operations and there was a scaffolding operation so the scaffolding for the afterlife was something you did in the present life. And he and they accomplish those tasks that he the pharaoh dies and that and then they throw the land out of the tomb with the ferret story and get to the afterlife. The elder than other people. Then and there. But when when the Pharaoh and the land out are gone. The tools are still there and people still remember about the levers and a great many living people still remember all our sayings and the irrigation ditches are still there. I was a saying that the dead really alter the scenery quite permanently and people they became something of a general experience of humanity. So then there's another Pharaoh to be taken care of in another ladder nado as old as employed and authorized to employ the resources of the round and he adds to the tool inventory by and he employs all runs and empty as
mot because he's a land not a type you see many more things to be done. Gradually as a series of these Pharaohs and their and their land out ours and there is an increase of the tool in a Torah the alterations of the scaffolding the present like that is so and pardoned out and agreed it becomes obvious that you could really take care of the afterlife of all the nobles as well and that's what happened in Egypt and I was a really great second set of dynastic Egypt. We then have such a progressive proliferation of tools and capability and. They are not US discovering generalize principles and applying them. And in the special case development of tools that there is a comes a point when this site is perfit and evidence here that we can also take out after life of all the middle class and that is what happened in the era that we are familiar with SE Greek and the Roman history
and you'll find then these middle class families with well-to-do middle class families having all the mausoleums men looked out for. Finally with so many more are planned out as being accredited and the will to live a Torah increasing by enormously we get to a point where a Buddha and later a Christ and how many of these these men and others in the sea you could really take care of the afterlife of everybody. Everybody cannot be looked out for. And as for everybody come into what is generally known as Sasser as a questionnaire over the dating starting at and ending A B C and beginning of a deed we have then fifteen hundred yez AV out of the organization and rearrangement of the scenery by Leonato types to look out for the after life of everybody and that's still so very manifested or go into into great cathedrals in Europe and see a little figure in black and in Seville ecstasy the realization of
being joint joining with people the afterlife that people should live. But then there was such a proliferation of ATOS that gradually they said well you know we not only take care of the afterlife of everybody but we could also take care of the living and living life of the king as we're out and I became that person on AC as a Divine Right of Kings. That then. The tool preparation continued and finally said well we can take care of the laughter life of everybody and the Living life of the king and the nobles and that's a Magna Carta time. Then there was more proliferation of toes and found this site. Now we could take care of after life everybody and the king and the nobles and all the middle class and that takes really rights to all the great Victorian era right up to the day after just beginning of the century. That's what that's all around Boston stale there are buildings everywhere around the world but that middle class and all the nobles and all the King are still only talking about
less than 1 percent of humanity. Then the two of proliferation became so very great that in this century we suddenly have a new awareness and the new awareness is that there now is a capability to take care not on the afterlife for everybody but the Living life of everybody. And whether it is really calming an awareness that maybe there are not two universes maybe is only one universe and all really doing is taking a split split Emmett said. It's how to split complex humanity and really bring the whole thing in into one focus and this is now as far as a 99 percent amplification since we're talking about here and that's that's what is there the essence of being as many people in this room as are in this room to really think about what it is we're we are experiencing and what we what are the opportunities involved. But it became also very evident to those who are perceptive regarding generalized principles which are operative in the universe as ready eternal principles
because I can't be a principle unless our time and those principles can be employed always a special case ways and mankind doing thing eternal body can imply the eternal principles and in temporal and temporary ways and in doing so how are we how then the oddest Leonato types who do have a genius and perceptively in seeing not just how to do this and subjectively and the one I call the PR side assess making findings which exploit by some doubts but individuals who see the principles and how that take initiative and having had that disconnect in the brain they start to want to do it themselves on behalf of their fellow men. So we have the the artist and their land not a type. This era sank up to now the artist had been making end products really with his own hands he'd been making what he caught one off. And as and I grew up in the Victorian era it was really very bad.
Completely soft. I hope I look healthy but I was the year I was born near here in Milton. The automobile was was invented in America and I was seven years old in the first automobile came in evidence here in Boston. I was nine years old when our plane was invented and the radio was invented also the hours gone. It doesn't get to be useful I'm at there are boys trying out making love SATs and but it doesn't get used and so it gets into the news until the Titanic with an S.O.S. And I was by then somewhere around 12 years of age. So I was born in an era when there were people really highly isolated one from another and even even an town of Milton you don't know what's going on in a place like mad upin I say but not go that dangerous people over there. And I think we had two people in Melbourne who'd been to Europe and they had to give lectures about each year to such an
event. I guess once you realize I mean by being born around and the other set ready and the end of the Victorian but very prominent was the fact that there were lovely shops around and there was a beautiful cabinet maker amazing run off with his own hands those was a cobbler making beautiful shoes and there were people making beautiful colors. There was no mass production telling us that. There's little mass production like things like nails and then making bricks and some production for some time but the idea really is that the oddest genius that I see that up to now they artistes have been making things with it and really his own hands. And when we have a 99 follower step up there are not enough artist to make for everybody. So now the artist has to make tools. And there's also some things happen now we've captured a lot new energy that we didn't used to have through the waterfall in the new electricity. And so the artist makes the
tours and the tools and that energy that new kind of at a source of energy makes the end product for people with all of the mass production so the mass production is something that belongs to the 99 percent and it has no significance whatsoever except in the terms of everybody in fact is so complex and this is total involvement of the energy harnessing the things out to be done run into many many errors and a so complex that they just can't be undertaken and that's it's up to the terms of the numbers who they benefit and the mother benefit. The more economical ion. I'm not using the words more profitable I'm using word more economical and then there's the whole thing works. The mawther the more economical. No official. So all of that's a riot. It really is interesting to me how to find myself gone and coming on a Bona line of these to be one of the other and have a really dry deep awareness and
realizing this really is for all of us and all of us do have capabilities and it is not a matter anymore of getting a great Pharaoh and a great great genius that they're all looking for that we tend to do it sterile way such habits or conditioned reflexes that our tendency to want to find a political leader to do it for us as is manifest in what I'm talking about. But there is we were gradually going to really discover we've really got to do what I sow so we're going to have to do many many things are going to be done to really make this begin to work and we have very little time. And right I've now given you what I see as a great enormous historical transition and I tell you to three other of the factors I feel are operative I feel it by far the most prominent in all of all that we've been able to learn so far have been gone absolutely ignorant and helpless. They have to say it we've seen it done a great deal in the physics and chemistry is itself off and we've discovered something that is really very very recent in the physics in the
last two decades three decades and that is something called complementarity. There's been operative in society a feeling of something I call my MO Knology Amano logic where the newspaper reporter says is that the key is that the building block where man has been looking for one thing that does everything but they complement Tao it is something that society has it has and yet doesn't really tend to realize that. But science as science began to find was that there was some compliment out of it because you began to realize yes there are negatives in pods and you know an electron is negative and then at least you gave the negative sign and then you found there's a positron complimentary in balancing it. But it's really very recent and I magine very few in this room recall and and all those are the time the thought of his significance the Nobel Prize or given a 1956 to two physicists who were able to demonstrate the what is called the.
Invalidity of parity that's where the words are used in the Nobel. But these men discovered was of the complementary is were not mirror images of one another. Otherwise you're not just talking about a positive and I this is a positive negative and interaction that they complement. But that there is no mirror image therefore that there is when we talk about that it really has to be a you and me there is no just me about this universe at all. That there is at minimum a proton and neutron and they're not the same. They're absolutely complementary and they're even interchangeable. Though their weights and things are different by virtue of each having to decide energy effects and that makes a team of three the three parts of the proton neutron and just two side energy cakes each one having and you think about France's two triangles because that's a three part affair also and one triangle is
isosceles and the other is scaling. Yet all of the angles add up to 180 degrees in the lengths of all the edges of the same as Are they came out and they do balance but they don't look like they're not just like you I mean by such a mirror image that they're not mirror images. This is just really it is so important some of these recent findings and we have a society that is not really hearing because it has been so specialized that nobody's thinking comprehensible about the significance of what the special is fine for it as found. And we'll discuss that and that specialization and but I like then to get back to the fundamentals we have now a realization that there really is a you and I me is that it can't just be me. And we also discover in that that same context.
The proton and the neutron. Always and always always and only co-existing and not being mirror image and yet interchangeable by one becoming the other through the steam ply. That there was always an autonomous of some of the as I possibly one of two our Astro physicists and others interested in some of these amatory facts. I have had this say and remarked feller in the recent decade. There never could have been a disorder this is a fundamental audit or was it all the same all the things that you've heard and read her a popular magazine like life might go and interview scientists as I dead 20 years ago and asked for our accounting of the universe. Everybody you have to always have the universe began and that always began in chaos and then gradually out of the chaos came some strange kind of improbability.
But that is because we are absolutely against probability where the disorder always increase in the probability of it right absolutely against probability suddenly beautiful out I came out of it or before rose out of the disorder of this prime prime time audio before audio. And may they say it today is quite a never is and never going to disown a man just was ignorant. I saw and read. We're finding ourselves confronted more and more the most beautiful orderly universe and as we know more about it than the idea that man has to be a failure becomes less and less tenable and gradually begin to realize that the universe is not about the iris is designed to be a failure Tom. And along with it man is also meant to be a success. That has to be a very new kind of protest criteria of this new moment. We've always been assuming up to now. You have to earn a living as you have to earn your right to live you're supposed to die it is normal for you to die.
This is part of that enormous moment of the progressive ignorance of man. I mean move on absolute in and out. Said a person I've found that I am very incapable of thinking when I have biases and preferences. I learn then who I really do any good thinking is really just simply to continually reconsider what it is you're finding out and trying to find out of town what the significance of it may be and the more you know Conference of your hour and. Annoy you just stick to what it is you're finding out the more amazed you become about our universe and its potentials. And gradually get to where your field is where you spontaneously say what I've just said now or quite clearly to me man is really designed to be a success but it wasn't designed to be a success to start off or that it really find out how to be. Now I'm came very interested really in how that happened because as you and I know. Nature really could have given us a an operating manual. We're familiar with the manual coming
with your camera. You never had that kind of fancy camera before but he told exactly how to operate is really very very satisfactory and I would have planned it could have had a beautiful operating manual. How could Nature done that route you and I recognize sweet and sour I don't agree with that. We didn't invent it we have that table to recognize quickly and smooth. We have many ways we can be communicated to in such a way Francis that you could say that anything that is green is safe to eat anything as red as unsafety that a carrier. If nature had wanted to communicate to us she has many such capabilities but she didn't she didn't give us an operating manual so I thought it was much as she. I find it to be fantastically automated as a capability to design something like a human being and that's a very complex event and to see how to support it. The spider I'll knowledge when we arrive all ignorant so we don't know how to do it. You know to be able to and to be that successful in nature would have to then have delivered the packet it suddenly be every writer magic a manual for
us very easily. So I said why didn't she give us a manual and I'm quite confident the reason she didn't give us a manual as she would she want us discover that was not just our stomach and it wasn't just I must own that we really had discovered that we had a mind. And then mind was absolutely unique to humans and this was what I really significant and universes in response were using it either as the cause. I'm Then again looking for function of man and universe and universe needs local mind and these are ability to to sort out and order and employ discover and employ it. And so we have such a local function and universe we have a very limited use that Michael we don't really know out of the model that we do learn a little more all the time with it it is amazing how much we have already learned. So I say this is why that we were given a nose operating manual solved by trial and error. We were really learned by experience and not by what somebody told us to believe.
And that's the only information really means anything at all and so we got to it. I would. And this is what a lot size sang this one for all the people who've ever demonstrate wisdom is really saying you will have to go back to your own experience too to find out. That said James Jeans is the one who defined science in a way that really I thought was was was right brilliant he said. By science I mean the earnest attempt to set in order the facts of experience. No more no less. As I said Now you might sing that's just a nice simple clean statement that maybe is not too profound. I became interested it back in 1927 in trying to see how it and prior this particular. Human being average human being trying to find out who those factors are and assuming that I am
here for the others and I'm not if I'm a South African I wonder what I could do on behalf of my fellow man without trespassing on them. What I saw people getting out laws and they read they were they put restraints on human beings and so forth but I said and I don't exactly opposite way what can I do that doesn't trespass or certainly by trespassing. I would be restraining them. I wouldn't cut down their options. I have said anything I can can do for my fellow man that for instance prevents him from being killed by us by a foreign by events that he didn't even know were occurring. If I can and the Sept hours give him then more light more hours of his life. I'm really not trespassing on him. If I say something is going to be hit you in the head you do realize I just intercepted here and I feel I'm not trespassing on you you know if you want to die you've been indicted quickly but. But I like to be our choice and not not have it happen to you. So then I see the man as a process and
because it is a process it's going to take up a lot of his time and he has the one thing that we know about is how he is something of a limited life. The universe you can't see anything happening to the wrong without but that those lives are limited so I like to give him our obvious life that he may but that he has under his own option to invest in it the way he would like to. He doesn't mean to do it I don't know why but he has to sleep a whole lot of time for such as are taken up by the process so that fact is a very complex kind of process go take a whole lot more time and so anything I could do about that process that relieved him of having to do attend to it as that would give him that time to do things then I could do things that various time that he does have to invest could be more effective he like to talk to other people. I like to be able to talk a greater distance and then just by shouting so you find and means were say as a telephone but if you don't have to have a telephone on it you can. He wanted to pick it up when he wants it. But as everyone has it that was all.
I began to get into what I could do and I did get a good inventory. Then I began to say one of the things that happen to human beings that we would have to then understand in order to be able to be sure that that he is not going to be destroyed by things he doesn't know are happening or he doesn't know how to cope with us yet. So I saw all the things going to happen first have to our age and things that happen from outsiders and things that happen from inside us as a macrocosmic origin in a microcosm in origin. I found all that but we tended to think about our sayings and had sort of static names for really all of our our events and these events have various kind of frequencies. So I said I think you know to be really useful to my fellow man one of the first things I got to do is to start. I didn't make an inventory of everything I can ever remember happening to anybody because back in 97 I said I'm afraid there's going to be an awfully big list but if that's what I as I think of when I'm committing myself to do I believe that's the first job after them.
And I started and to my surprise after a couple of weeks I couldn't think of anything more that I'd ever recall happening to human beings. I had down that people smile across and they frown and etc. etc. but I'm here doing their work and. Then I say I show this list who are some engineers and architectural editors and they are they thought a very interesting there was a checklist of all the things that do seem to happen to human beings that if you are a designer you would have to cope with. And so we had a group that used to meet in the and they are that up to the oppression and. Call the structural study Association the OC NH weekly weekly meeting there try to add to that list. Finally nobody could add any more sorrow which cited to publish the test and we did publish in an architectural magazine. Once you got something published and sense of responsibility for that you've been sorry you've been telling us along you're taking an initiative and I was interested I'd take an admission and find other people found it useful.
But now there is publish I did have to think about it some hours. So one day I open the file and that was in front of me not forgotten the recovery said that it was and I looked at it and do it and my ire sort of fell in the middle of the list and I saw of mosquitoes alongside a tornado. I say I think it's all in Congress as less than when you publish you get something out from under you and gave you new eyes. I said I think it's hopeless it really ought to be gone over because. I've done this in Congo it was the size of these things good happens and in the interest of just getting the list together and it really hadn't occurred to anybody to put them in size so I said I think out. Put these in order severity and I as I said all right would have and most cataclysmic things and and then we get to think of a very awful and they're very dangerous and then pretty bad and the not so bad. Not to innocuous So
I found all these items are out of many pages they're all in and one of those categories. Then within those envelopes I found I could inspect them and yes crankily this was a little more severe than that so I put them in such an order. Once I found that I had a beautiful long long odds of relative severity and looking at it then suddenly something just jumped out at me I can't tell you how astonished I really was it was yes as clear as could be that the bigger the less frequent. Quite clearly the earthquake came very infrequent in the street or very frequently and if I just devious out extremes. But what I had in front of me then. Was and a way in which things you and I call tornado in softball all really had numbers. And they were pure quantum wave mechanics that is as Nature finds wind and wave and its energy in vast amounts the big ones. The numbers of times and universe are large amounts of energy at any one place to do big things
is very much less frequent numbers of times as small amounts of energy and in one place to do small things. If you just think about the amount of energy there is in those stars in the distance they are a part of. Yes and a usual kind of just a train near any two near stars would be something like. Takes light moving at 700 million miles and out it far how for years to get from one to the other. Those are really really great distance at all but in between that respond an ounce of energy do right small things. So I suddenly found that I had. I understood. James Dean's definition of science as a earnest attempt to set in order the facts of experience not just to have experience. And this is this is exactly what size always looking for order and suddenly you didn't know it was there but this told me the universe had a fantastic author. And now I have something very reliable to deal and when I want to see how it's going to operate on behalf of my fellow man gave me very great insights obviously in designing a
shelter for you and a drama control here. I would not include Novi proving now no via when a star explodes and it doesn't happen very often and and I wouldn't really know how to make you know by provender way so. I can really I can get with it in a very reasonable range of the things that it is reasonable for me to be able to do on your behalf. Because I saw from this point on and we want to try to intercept things that are going to impinge on that you don't know about. But all we want to do is intercept we don't try to stop our frustrate because you can't stop nature by so what we do then we need water and we need it very badly but we don't need it all the time. And when it rains we can't drink it all fast enough. So I want to do is intercept the water shunted into holding patterns and then valve it into a presence of the magnitude and the frequencies that will go with it without assistance. So that I'm really giving the general scheme of the way you approach an anonymous environment of controlling for of all of humanity.
This is what I really mean by this beautiful generalized press will suddenly become become visible and I would I've been surprised how long it has been since I've found that author and to my knowledge outside of myself I haven't found anybody as yet trying to convert those over in the world of physics and the mechanics. Now. What we're doing then is taking inventory right now of what we think are some of the most important and outstanding aspects of our experience and the review then we're born helpless and ignorant and yet we begin and we again understand one reason why were we were so we would discover for ourselves how relatively unimportant I'm muscle is and how very important is I mind because I mind has this extraordinary capability to make that kind discovery of the author. It is doing something the brain doesn't tend to do. That we don't know how brain doing it to talk. I think to have an
important understanding together tonight I'd like to then give you differentiation I've. Found myself making between brain and mind. And I know I have a number of friends present and they've heard me do this before and they I'm sure they were with me it's a good idea to submit this. I was asked to give the annual discourse to the American Association of neurosurgeons or 2000 of them in Chicago three years ago and I gave this differentiation and they they gave me an ovation for and I asked of them I could assume that the rich applause meant approval of my differentiation of brain and mind and they said yes I could assume that. So I don't feel uncomfortable by submitting to you that is had is had been through a good testing already. Nobody really knows about such saying this and tell you again prove what you can by experience back spammers.
In order to express to you as quickly as I know how my differentiation of brain and mind I'll do in the following way is identify those neurosurgeons. I start off by saying I take a piece of rope. And I test this piece of rope as vigorously as I know how. And the more vigorously I tense it the Tata it becomes by coming taut it mean is contracting in his girth which means it's going into compression in a plane at 90 degrees to my purposeful Tensing. I just thought I was tensing so I was going to compression. Now I'm going to take. A number of steel rods each of them three feet in length and only one eighth of an inch in diameter is very slender. Taking one of those rods between the fingers it will bend a rattle if I put my fingers or the ends of that rock band. I take the notch number these rods and bundled together in parallel
bring them into complete triangulation which is called closest packing when they get there then pack six around one and then and then a trial travel round out and 18 so forth. They make the hexagonal packing which you see in wire rope and. Now they're being and toss it packing and there come out an over on the outside a hexagonal group. I'm going to strap them together very tightly in parallel and toss it back in and put hexagonal caps on both ends of it. I've followed steel. Now that is a very tight bundle and I can put them on a high drive and a hydraulic press and treat this as a column. Let's say that I have my total bundle is now. Three inches in diameter and three feet long is a good column ratio so it is now a column. Now we know that each rod by a Sal can band very readily under under compression from his hands but we know that they are in close at packing so they can't bend towards one another in a mark as a cause I
can go and one way is to bend away from one another. So that's exactly what happened say the column that begins as you put on a more pressure becomes like a cigar. Instead get fatter means and the straps around his girth like the out begin to be stretched. Otherwise the consequence is that by reloading and compression it goes into tension in a plane at 90 degrees to compressing this way we find that the tension the compression always on always only co-existing and that one induces in the other an action at 90 degrees to the first. This is known later on as precession I'm going to use that word in talking to this 90 degree result rather than 180 degree result. We tend to think really when you push a wood park that's all that's going to happen and not realize you get something at 90 degrees. I know and demonstrated tension compression always and only co-existing. Now we find that a system such as this picture or it could be
your body or our Earth has an inside us and outside us and returns upon itself and in all directions and we call out a system of subdivision of the universe and do in all of the universe outside the system all the inside the system a little bit of the universe as a system is out and as a quality I would be of such a plane would go swimming to infinity. I want to take out some angle in order to be able to doubt how that Cephas come back in a south. I keep taking out an angle that makes an all systems as view from inside a concave as viewed from outside the convex. We find that concave and convex always and only coexist and we have then. The convex. Defuses radiation impinging on it and concave concentrates radiation impinging on it. So they're not the same and they're always known to co-exist. We find in engineering an action and reaction always known to co-exist. We found the proton and the neutron always known a co-existing. We have
far always known a car existing phenomena. There are many others. We have then something called theory of functions. Route taken X and Y and then a function always known a car exists with another function that is implicit in a function that there is another function. It's very much like to complement our dinners out and now we have X stand for attention and y for compression and I have X stands for convex and y for concave X standing for proton and y for neutron and X standing for action and y for reaction. Now I can do problems and it algebraically where there are these always known a car existing phenomena and then we have a word which embrace it although saying to call it relativity and there is something else and I gave a complement our the both of them involve some some cocoa variables but then have a word that embraces all of sayings and what is universe.
Now. I started by saying to you I take a piece of rope and I don't have a piece of rubber Tom. You know when you want to say you don't have a piece or out. We have it and let it show us call a generalisation and generalization is covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive. In an end and science. A generalization is discovering a principle which holds true in every case no exceptions could be found. I've. When I said I take a piece of rope it is a first degree generalization everybody in this room has had some rope experiences. Probably none of you have used the same piece of rope and you probably have acquired a lot of abuse or rub of Monella and nylon and so forth. This room probably represents over a million different rock experiences and. As long as I don't say anything regarding out rope experience that contradicts anything you
regret. And if ever you experienced you allow me to go onto that as called a first degree as an aside every generalization I'm holding to in every case. It is a second degree generalization to go further than that and discover the theory of functions where I have a generalization and basing generalizations. It be very exciting that they can be a generalization generalization then you find that relativity is a as a as a first degree generalization and word universe is a fist or a generalization but embraces all the generalizations. Now you've got a little dog to play tension and compression with you by just dangling about in front of him and they just grab it and follow it and that he is a convex and concave surface that is teeth and has action reaction working and has a protons and neutrons not even knowing it. There is nothing and I experienced a little dog the suggestible dog will develop the theory
of functions. Now then I've gotta come back to that as of what we've discovered is the brain is always dealing with a special case that is most beautiful kind of a television studio. In which the information is coming in through the eyes and the edges and all of our senses into the television studio comes in so fast we tend to think we see outside we don't the light of bounce and comes in. So in the television studio the incoming spot news and then meet and they have a number of other screens as I said and I have experienced it before and the brain goes to work right away. He goes a special cases. Yes you had this before and you have this if you are that so we know what to do about it out. What did I do the last time you kept all that up so that's on the screen. But if you if you haven't experienced before then you go Sonali over the palm of it but you're going to do about the same. But that's what brain is doing it's always and dealing in the special cases and it is a most beautiful storage and retrieval system and comparison system.
Now while I just gave you a principle such as I say let the lever I mention the land nado discover the early lead Willis Leonato discovering a lever. The lever. I'm sure the first man discovering it thought he had a very special tree. He found this tree was standing on line across another lifting enormous tree. And he went over to try the list of big trees. Vatican lifted so he thought of the trees standing on must be magic tree so he dragged it home. And a few a few years later Dr. Said dolling I think any tree will do. I'm. Certain that as a first generalization. And you discover it doesn't have to be a tree it could be a steel by a reinforced concrete and then his cover that if there's a mathematical principle the distance
between the fulcrum and the load being a basic increment you come out one and it actually is in balance it does take that same amount of weight to lift this thing up it and send the Yugo to increment saod out early on the lever arm and you left it twice as much. Got out 10. You lift 10 times as much. This beautiful mathematics this whole food matter what the material but there on the moon have Iraq and Iran universe this is a true scientific generalization that now once you discover this generalization you find. The mine it is mine and mine alone the tendency to discover this could be it but the mathematics of beautiful mathematics of it. But then you discover that you can design a generalize anything. As far as I give you Archimedes discovering the principle of I have a displacement of floating bodies and discovering that the the the geometrical volume that weight of the fluid that's going to float in. If is a boat in water that
size of the size about field of the water is a total weight. They can that can be floated in the boat all the cargo and I was in the also going to St.. But you haven't discovered this fundamental press one that works for any fluid or any kind of I've a floating body. Then you discover you can design a generalized boat. It has to be a ferry boat has to be a canoe and has to have absolute uniques. So we find a brain then is always dealing in those special cases and mine and mine alone has this extraordinary capability to survey them all and from time to time find something out of a relationship that is running through. But it isn't in any one of the things by the South. Now I'd like this as a regular do. What I'm saying with the relationship of brains and computers and this is something coming all your lives and I'd like you to feel it and feel it very strongly. I'm going out and deduced it to a word I find essential to
consider and it's consider as meaning if we're going to really find meaning in our own lives and all those experiences are having this word is a word synergy s y and ya G-Ride. And I expect to see more handsome knight than I usually see but I I've been have been now a visitor at two hundred sixty nine universes around the world and I always ask this question of those universe audience and how many are familiar that was an engine and I asked for Hans Massey Hamsa night really amazing me with some it would have given my plays when you look out there with me and I'll give you hands up so I really have allied air about it. I think you couldn't say 50 percent but it might be say 30 percent is really it is a very large number. The average university audience and I would always have somebody help me count them out around the world. House University our history present. An average public it's been 1 percent.
Now the word center J to those of the 60 percent who didn't raise a Hamm's means behavior of horror systems and predicted by behavior of any of their powers. And it is the only word that means behavior of horses and unpredicted by the behavior of any of its powers. There's a word used in psychology called dished out where there whether they say that the whole seems to be more than the sum of the parts that's where the SAT but it is a an observation that without the kind of scientific foundation I'm going to give you in just a minute regarding synergy. His is a perfect valid observation but is not of a knowing one as yet. The word synergy then is the only word that actually specifically said the behavior of the whole is not predicted by the behavior of any of the parts. And being the only word and the fact that it is not a popular word questioned
by those percentages live in your means is certainly not a popular thought that our behavior is of halls unprotected by the behaviors of the past. For this reason society has been perfectly content to have an elementary education that you're going to know about parts and that's all you're going to need that you just said Adam Adams of any time you want to really look a few more you can find out and they want and we have that sand chain is no stronger than its weakest link so you know about the weakest link and. And you're a savage. There's nothing in that one. There's nothing really about a chain having also to be just a linear fan because a chain couldn't come back in is out. Supposing Jane did come back and Severus a circle you break one of the links is there one piece of chain. So you're kind of fooling me here exposing the chain went around in many directions so to say a grace fest America linkage in a linkage you break one of the links would not be very important. But we're going
to go a lot further him and find that we have a Salford self-repairing chamber. And so then and that's not really find out where you find out about the weakest link doesn't tell you thanks. I had. What is of a simplest demonstration I know of. I was senator. There are three or four that I can tell you about that. That I've been in our lives that I'm very manifest with the simplest most beautiful one is really the beginnings of modern science begins with Kepler. The astronomer. Finding himself. Gone. He is not the first to discover that planets. ARE THE SAME be somebody that the planets seemingly related to the sun. And the French apron planets and stars and the heavens. But he became very preoccupied with the planets of the sun and he discovered an adda
lizard was was or whether the plane impressive. He discover if you think about a if you put a spike in the ground and put a piece of rock to that and pull it taught you. Let's say you have done is on on the beach sand. And then you stop. Hold him pulling that rope down low against the sand and you can sidestreet be amazing in Iraq as you do all the sand between yourself and the TAB against So our great alarm so that when you've gone a little way you made it a V-shaped area that you scrape with the tether that called a pipe shaped nowt but kept a fountain rise of the if we have the sign as an imaginary sandal with a spike in it and there are two tethers to each of the planets. I'm the sign that as I move around the Sun and many very different distances and a very different race that the pieces of pie the areas of the
piece of the pie made by each of the planets were turning out all to be the same areas some of them a very narrow long piece of pipe. So I was fairly shot and found. But that when you found these planets were all having the same areas of sweep out. There was such extraordinary mathematical coordination. Which then suddenly made the seemingly great variance of the times of their numbers of days are they as in the the distances are savage. Probably something of great ugliness and he said These planet. I hear there's something going on here that no pieces of string that I know tethers. How can they coordinate in this beautiful mathematical way how they come or should he have the same feeling as you and I have about pushing and pulling and because they were a family being when he found this uprising was relieved. Something to do with some kind of a tether that they were being held by the sun and that as a runner they non moving very well and the other two were all
very bosan and that I pounded it was it some kind of a tension between them. So he then made a some hypothetical hypothetical assumption. I've heard it called a mass attraction. And considerably later Isaac Newton makes experimental proof of the mouse attraction and discovers some odd mathematics tide rising and very important. But he found it in particular in relation to objects of the and the earth and saw the world as gravity rather than mass attraction that it is the as easy as he gave it gave that word to his experiment. But he founded. It to two objects being massive tracked it as you have the distance between them. You fall off all the attraction. This is this is very regular. As however he was talking in a time when society was almost 100 percent illiterate. He was talking and
only to scientists and he talked in this very scientific way and most economically scientific way and he's sad that the attraction was in the Invest ratio of the second power the inverse ratio of the relative proximity is expressed in their respective masses and diameters. And that's a very complicated sense to cope with and it is because when I say it's the double the distance away. At this hour the numbers two instead of one going to double. Then the second power of. Two is far and it found that the attraction decreased fall fall because he's using the word attraction it has really a connotation of going towards. And he found that the second powering is when your going away start as ys are the inverse ratio of this second power the inverse ratio of the relative proximity. And right you can verify this with an experiment by two fences taking two very large. Massive spheres made out of non
metallic material you had not experienced personally or I've seen a mass something magnetic and you and your impression of that magnetism. So yes that has to do with metals. So you can be sure there's no magnetism in this experiment. So if they take a lot of chip chips of Irene and you make 210 footballer's faceted held together by by some plastic that has no metal in it. These two fat tempers Fayez we then will have rods made out of them. They crown which is plastic on the metal in it and it doesn't stretch. He would hang these two squares from the beam say a thousand feet out early from this here and we'll hang them because he's attended each of the other ten feet they're ready I'll be five feet each. I'm going to hang them to 10 feet two inches a pot. Then we come to where the bars are hanging simulate Rast air with unmeasured definitely the service and mid-fi there's only
about an inch. And that instead of being two inches and. Then you say I can't quite understand that you can't send a towel in the terms I have being attracted the center of the same earth because we have a 4000 mile radius of our earth and that size out not that much anger would not account for our coming back toys together. You move it out one inch on the beam and dive expecting now to go to two inches and goes again sadly more than two inches as a detraction decrease and not fall falling. Second powering up and read easy to express attitude make than that of the experiment. You take enough time to tick and cat. But then you observe one of these fears these irate chip plastic spheres and there's nothing in one of those fears nothing that man knows anything about and once fair by the sound of the says it's going to attract another scare. In fact is nothing once read by south of the said there's going to be another spit
attractant. So you don't know there's attraction until at least two spheres and they could be more than and then there's traction to show up for all of them. That's all we mean by Center Jazz all I have to prove to you that there are behavior as a whole is unprotected by the pots. Now. Having given you this one which which really was not easy to read in the Newtonian statement. We then understand what Galileo was saying about falling bodies and you may have sort of wondered why Galileo's talk about accelerating acceleration when you just say acceleration was exaggerating celebration why because as a body is falling towards the earth it now is how the distance in the tracks is four times as much so it has to move faster. The Grammys and wind resistance but now that's what is going on. Now in. The same terms because I find society really hasn't understood assented to nothing in the terms that you understand how a man like God.
Despite of this information being around for hundreds of years will hear God saying I see there is some significance was being said. Therefore as as or you accelerate and not incidentally when we hung those two bodies. On a on a beam from two towers reaching out from our earth. They are on board of our earth and our earth is making sixty thousand miles an hour around the sun so the two balls are also already going 60 thousand miles around the now around the sun. So what they did this other way was something additional to that. I want to Goddess or was that when you accelerate give a different acceleration. You have a body already on bought of our earth. If you gave an additional acceleration to outlay from our own. I'll build power. Gave an acceleration of get is five years for this way from that from the answer in the shortest time. That you would have to go very far away because every time you double the distance
the attraction of the earth or it would be reduced to one quarter of what had been before and. I think very little and I Society has paid much attention to what went on about rocketing as of us but when we first began to then rocket how things go into orbit. You'll find they're going off at about 100 miles out from our earth. But do you and I. It's a hundred miles and this guy's quite a distance away just like where we are. But let's take a club 100 miles or relation to a thousand mile diameter earth is one eighth of the diameter. Let's take one eighty of the trial bridge club you find it and also have to divide it both ways. So it's a very thin paper mache and his success in this aspect lying on our travels globe is about 100 miles out that as it were seemingly running no distance a tile from the glob that suddenly are in orbit. I say I got it had paid attention any really realize X never has either was not going to take very much to
become independent and in a universe that now no sooner than you begin to get down to where the traction of the earth is so minor then there gradually is not much more than the traction of other bodies such as the moon or the sun and the sun because they also have the mass pose. So Santa gets out to that critical there is no longer being pulled by the earth primarily and it goes into our bit riot is our friend precession I gave you just a minute ago. Precession is a fact. I have a system in motion on another system in motion with different accelerations and different patterns and the fact and one on the other precession is always at 90 degrees. Now we are used to the idea that a factor of about in another is always at 180 degrees if I push or you're going to yield a hundred degrees or in a pole you're coming 180 degrees. What we're finding here is a defect of bodies in motion of the universe each other is at 90 degrees and so that's why
they go into orbit around you. I'm just is it that way I just say that we have sociology and psychology trying to find some of the generalized laws such as physics is found in chemistry is found. I just gave you one that applies. Here's a principle of universe and have individuals bodies and a society of many individuals. And when one of you affects another metaphysically because I've said something that. You're a distance you begin to go what I says I'm you you're going to orbit around me. We all of us in obvious around various people who get into critical product proximity physically then you may fall in and that's what I call a Saxon have at it. So this idea quite a difference from the critic of this critical part so many posts by people that are really their individual orbits.
But society is operating precession and not and and everybody is thinking normal is 180 degrees by pushing your suppose to be pushed by Paul yes because of the pole but it's not so you'll move it 90 degrees to me. Once you begin to realize as we understand your society very much better. Now it was really quite a lot of enlightment coming out rapidly from just discovering as a phenomena mass attraction. And that. But the mass attraction and itself. Then has one of fact when it is uncritical then that it has a hundred a degree it does fall in one falls and on the other and an accelerating separation but and if most of the normal ones are just in orbit now or. Precession was not fought told by. By the mass attraction a mass attraction was itself Senate out of soju it was not predicted by the One Power. So now I have a synergy of synergy the
precession wasn't predicted by the mass attraction though it is part of it. So those synergies are senators. Now you discover then the deep when I'm giving you governs all they would behave as I do anything we call things we call matter where they are. Well there are critical POC centers and things are falling into each other and you call it something called solid but it isn't solid at all. It is and there's a lot of critical aggregate of critical proximity then we get to have things in orbit to another and then if they get enough acceleration they finally would become radiation and. Then there is a point where you get right seemingly 180 degrees but even then it's away phenomena if the wave is a guess at 90 degrees is guessing that precisely how. There is nothing than any individual proton and neutron that says that is going to make an album.
There's going to be an album. We find there's nothing in the atom specify that thought tower they were going to be 92 regenerative chemical elements. There's nothing in and in the united to regenerate chemical elements that fought towels that become a devout associate NG and chemical compounds. There's nothing in the chemical compounds that fought towers. The human south. On the and the biological south. There's nothing in the biological Sal that fought Tallis the tissue is not in the tissue it foretells human beings and there's nothing in the human being that fought Tallis all that all the other living creatures into play out of the vegetation giving off the right gases for other mammals the mammals you know the right vegetation to keep the gases going with the good reciprocity complement out in fact we find. As we get larger and larger and no point does the last stage for Talon next stage but they are they are they are recognized in the stages where there are these critical
proximity is where they stay in certain unique aggregates having precession effects and others adopting around them. So we have synergies of synergies and value and a high degree to be fine to get to a universe as an unpredicted by any of his powers. I just want to see how contradictory This is the idea of education of specialization where you start the child of a child his interest the whole universe. When asked beautiful questions of his parents about totally innocent parents of bad values so this I don't think you can just play around like I feel about a gun said you school pretty soon and then you get going here I mean CNN learned for those gathering you must concentrate on NBC 9. Out so we then got the word elementary as we could read as assuming that the pilots explained everything. Which is so we find this a complete fence completely fallacious. So if we're really good and we as human beings are now all in a Nama
specialisation and brain ponder see how it happened. The kit we are specialized in how to get that way how to get past schools and they're all human beings been assuming that specialization was desirable and inevitable and logical. Because a child demonstrated its interests and everything is not especially refined when Nature wants to make especially as she's very good at it. And she can make a bird that can fly beautifully but it but when is NOT fly can't get red It has wings as rise especially centerline. And when is a better fish and a good grade of swimming but it can't be the bird. So we find out what is really unique about man is the lack of a specialization of nature want to be specialists. We sayd nature have a bone to the microscope and when I have heard of it. Because she knows how to sing like to do those kind of things which are quite clearly she meant him to be a generalist. And you take the average sizes of things the very basics in the very little and if you find the
bigger they get the most specialize Allen and the smaller they get the most specialize out and we are about Mann's about the middle of the weights of everything as rich as most average guy and he do little of sayings but buy very little of them. But he has this beautiful phenomena mind and his own a creature you know that all the other creatures have brains with it and his own one has mine. And he can understand generalized principles they understand. Suddenly the negative pressure on the top of a wing of Bernoulli principle and be able employ it to fly not not today and fly 100 times faster than a bird but he takes off his wings with doesn't either. So he's not encumbered by a love. So fine and then able to cope with extraordinary large arrays of information and does begin to find author and universe and bring order. He has this capability. Now. In that respect I would like to give you as quickly as I town.
The feeling that we're going to arise. First I'd like to see how it got to be specialized. We're going to have to get rid of it and Harry and I come back again to such simple observations as a child being born absolutely helpless. Come back to and man being Bon as many other mammals a bone and we have. Objective ways of saying other mammals and such as that no different from man we see While horses are a herd of wild horses and one of the stallions is gets to be born a young one and he didn't mean to be bigger but he's bigger than the others and he's very tough. Before mussels there was a big a stallion and I had an older one and he finds this new young one right challenging and they have a battle and that whichever comes is the strongest of the two winning that battle of that he becomes the stallion that inseminates out ahead and and when Darwin talked about
survival of his is he talking about the constraints of build and that tend then to concentrate is strongest on the other types of genes and to and to have them regenerate. A question that early man as men do today but somebody finds our bond very much bigger and tougher than other ones he didn't ask to be but there is and because he is big and tough he then also finds it all a big a tough man and I say you look like a pretty tight tight and I'm going to knock you down. And the big man can knock him down and that's out but if the bigger man. Old man came out then suddenly this young one is it. He's King. And he finds a lot of other toughens would like to be the top guy here and so they challenge him sorry. He like Sam's. But one thing I was don't let two of them come at your lunch. They're called divide and conquer is just fundamentally instinctive to us. So he now has like all these other guys and then as fight
he's just begun there is an election in the ass for being hungry is very hungry and I said I I see a lot of characters I was a dozen red berets and they died. And I pity those mushrooms they died. I see the animals going around and eating the things the animals that don't die. And I tell them they're flashing to be absolutely safe. I mean I'm living on animals if I say I like you and I like you and I like you and I just tell you now because I can actually do it I like to. When I kill one of those animals is easier for me get around those animals of you help me and I can eat a whole animal enemy and it spiles before I made it all up. So I might as well be a gang of us a get together and we heard those and get the caps of animals in color. Right. We do that as I write everybody understand and all those animals larger ice all the rest you eat roots.
That is just the way history reads very clearly. 18:15 has no time a taller go and the 2 million is our knowledge a man being on the rez. Yes 1815 him a commoner caught telling a rabbit and England could be hung on the spot without trial. The rabbits belong to the nobles long the king the king. Get it signed. Those are the outlines of that pic and nobody saw this but knowing friend of mine. Now in those terms. Supposing you an out of your part of the gang a tough guy route and I'm the toughest one and even pretty well he had to go hunting every rights around I feel like it's great and so are there a whole lot of other characters over that little time to you know the not a fight he runs away from me every time I come around but I see is pretty spotty keeps stealing my animals so I say vise
groundbreaking Amendment. So we got in this locality and I say I gotta cut your head off. He said You better not cut my head off. I say why. Don't I understand the language of your enemy over the hill and you don't. I tell you what he's saying. It was a pretty good idea you got there. Right. You report to me every day what a saying and not only will I not cut you head off but you're going to eat. You need better on this side you can eat on the other side they are down. So the safer over here. So you say OK but I'm going to cut your head off you say better not do that because I can make your bet Assad and anybody else when you can prove it. So yeah you pervert. I tried out but you just make Sarge understand and and one after another as I spot if you're going to cut your head off here you give me some good reason. Something you do right especially from as I write. You just attend to that
nothing and you just tend to that I'm making you just and maybe Sarge you attend to that language you mind your own business. I know my mind's everybody's been as I've said everybody. OK. Now. You find yourself not only surrounded by all these big tough guy act as any good fighters that I find it pays you're struggling with him but he finds out all the specialists out in their reading and they feel pretty good about it. So he sort of become so effective that he overcomes the enemy the other side the elder doesn't have a specialist. And if I'd graduated with very big territory around it. I said I this uprising going pretty well everybody likes it pretty good or at least the ones that on the inside air you know and so I like to have this go on for my son. But I see you're getting pretty old and I'd like you to teach out of other language what you teach something about that metallurgy and what you teach somebody else about knitting and.
Weaving. I'll just give you then the foundations of the Oxford University. It's all what we call a specialization assembly than the in the logic of divide and conquer and sit on the out of the power amount of yesterday. That's all about it. Either as he caught on to it generally his mind gave him a generalized principle that I don't and I don't I don't like to come into it once. And he has worked on that all the way through it was a very simple one. OK this is how we got where we got others recently saying that the the metaphysic of the physical world by guys as easy to see but the metaphysical were simply all of the intellectual Slayers. Now we also have some very important information which is that the all of the known biological species that have become extinct all the human
tribes have become extinct or all become extinct by virtue of over specializations. Because of something else I gave you earlier the big things happen rather infrequently and the little things frequently when the when when you just developed. A hybrid is a specialization by concentrating genes. You also breed out general adaptability and breeding out the general doubt ability of get on dry and I say for quite a long time while the relleno on top of that but I want to walk for the big ones comes along and once these are bred out was ability to cope with a big one and out the gobs. So in developing on specialization as we have. We really brought our humanity to a point where his discoveries I'll develop the ability to really to annihilate all of humanity and I so specialize nobody co-ordinating has and so you do the total correlation but if you absolutely futile about it at a point where we can really very relics to exterminate ourselves.
So I think I'm I hope I give you two things not that the specialization of specialization is illogical. Right and it was in the natural and the child is showing and rounded to be comments was all the time. Now you say to me how can you be a generalist as it all sank. Jack of all trades and master of none. Again the old master used to proliferate such sayings as that existed. I seem to say here I caught on. As I am an average man it became perfectly clear to me that because a generalization cannot be generalization is that holds true in all cases and because there are really very few generalizations them out of a few hundred that we even know about. And incidentally amazingly as you begin to get familiar with generalizations none of them contradicts the other.
Every one of them into accommodative and there are actually synergies within the that are the generalizations are generalizations. Stronger ones I don't. Again it's surprising race because that attraction for instance could have been just additive. If you how the decision is price. Then it should be fall fall as a very strong and not it. And we find these mathematical odd is also equally surprising and I find all the generalization in accommodating each other and all of them having surprise mathematical authors. But I then found out of France that I was the Science Technology IT editor fought two years in Fortune magazine 1938 a phony I was brought there. Because of I was had knowledge about a comprehensive development and I was taught that to try to get American business to understand some of the significant
some of the foundations scientific foundations they were paying so much attention just a business and measuring profits that the Epogen and that the manager had it was a poet and he really wanted it. He was apprehensive about it so he's brought me back to try to stress the science foundations.
Series
Sunday Forum
Episode
Buckminster Fuller: How To Build A Fuller World
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
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WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
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cpb-aacip/15-956dk1g7
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Sunday Forum is a weekly show presenting recordings of public addresses on topics of public interest.
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Part I of II
Created Date
1970-11-15
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Public Affairs
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01:32:39
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
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Identifier: 71-0107-02-07-001 (WGBH Item ID)
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Duration: 01:32:07
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Chicago: “Sunday Forum; Buckminster Fuller: How To Build A Fuller World,” 1970-11-15, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 20, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-956dk1g7.
MLA: “Sunday Forum; Buckminster Fuller: How To Build A Fuller World.” 1970-11-15. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 20, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-956dk1g7>.
APA: Sunday Forum; Buckminster Fuller: How To Build A Fuller World. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-956dk1g7