Program Notes

Guest speaker: Timothy Leary

strong>[NOTE: All quotations are by Timothy Leary.]

“Since World War II, in the Western societies, the generation you belong to is almost a different species.”

“It’s a wonderful time in history to be alive when young people are doing things better than grownups. Because that’s a key sign that evolution’s happening, because evolution only happens with young people.”

“I feel that it is necessary, if you want to continue to evolve, that you have to learn and be comfortable with computers.”

Juan Enriquez:
“Will our kids be a different species?”

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Greetings from cyberdelic space.

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This is Lorenzo and I’m your host here in the psychedelic salon.

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space. This is Lorenzo and I’m your host here in the Psychedelic Salon. And once again, I want to start out by thanking those kind souls who either bought a copy of one of my books or who made a

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direct donation to the salon. Your support is greatly appreciated and hopefully I’ve already

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sent you a thank you note by email. However, I still haven’t gotten those two snail mail thank

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yous out yet. I promised a week or so ago, but that should happen this week.

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However, I just want all of you to know how much I appreciate your support.

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Well, here we are back together again in the salon.

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And already last weekend’s workshop at the Esalen Institute seems like a dream, but a very pleasant dream, of course.

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dream, but a very pleasant dream, of course. It was a really interesting weekend, and I’m still seeing all the faces of the people who were there, and the new friendships I made, the old ones that

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we re-established. It was really great, and in the weeks ahead, I’ll be podcasting several hours of

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the conversations from that event for all of us here in the salon, and we’ll eventually get the video of it posted online as well,

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and I’ll keep you informed about that.

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But in case you haven’t already seen the posting on my Facebook page, I came home with over

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150 cassette tape recordings of workshops that Terrence McKenna led at Esalen over the

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years.

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And while I’m sure that some of them we’ve already heard here in the salon,

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from what I can tell just by reading the labels on the tapes, we’ve probably got over a hundred new Terrence McKenna talks to listen to here in the salon over the next couple of years.

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So if you are a big fan of his, I think that you and I are going to have a lot of fun in the months

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ahead. And what this means is that I’m no longer concerned about keeping the

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salon going with new and interesting material for a few more years. Now for today, I want to pick up

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where we left off with the good Dr. Timothy Leary holding forth in a very small group setting

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somewhere in Germany. And as near as I can tell, this somewhat private salon was held sometime in 1983,

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which is the date you might want to keep in mind as you listen,

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because some of the things he refers to will seem pretty old-fashioned now, I think.

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Anyhow, what I’m about to play is the second tape in this series, and I haven’t cut anything out. This is just where it picked up after the last one stopped, the one that I played last week.

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So let’s pick up where we left off in my previous podcast

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and hear what was on Timothy Leary’s mind

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about 30 years ago.

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It can’t change because you cannot recreate the force

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of the original event of childhood

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and mother and father and so forth.

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Well, through our experiments with LSD, in our early experiments we found something that

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was very powerful and very frightening and very good, we found that during powerful drug experiences, or any powerful life experience, like when a mother gives birth to a baby,

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But when a mother gives birth to a baby, there’s a reprogramming of her brain or re-entering. It has to be because here’s a 20 year old girl and she gets married, right?

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And she’s working 100 times, 100 times, and suddenly she’s pregnant and then suddenly there’s a baby, to keep the thing going, she has to be totally involved in that baby.

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That’s a reprogramming of her reality, it’s a reprogramming of her brain.

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A new circus came out, powerful chemical experience.

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When the mother looks at the baby, and the baby gives the suck, all these circuits go

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on in the brain, and that’s the most powerful brain-change drug there is, giving birth to

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a baby.

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However, if the mother is not there, in some cases the baby is taken away from

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the mother. The baby does not make that first imprint and it’s called childhood schizophrenia

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or autism. Or, if the mother, many terrible things have happened

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the mother is maybe very

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pained or frightened and the baby is born

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and the first time she looks at the baby

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and she thinks the baby is going to be like the baby

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who that

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my mommy

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twisted

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the first imprint My body is like this. What if you twisted it like that?

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The first imprint is not that way.

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And there’s a very psychiatric situation

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that’s called postpartum depression.

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Yeah.

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And that imprint is not made.

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And that’s very complicated.

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So the wonderful thing about the imprint

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and the way the brain is made by DNA

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is that people imprint all these different Chinese

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and German and Danish,

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like whoever speaks German,

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I’m saying Danish,

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unless they were born in it, right?

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Because Danish is very hard.

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I’m in Danish.

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I like to say it’s true.

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The opening up of the

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brain

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and the program is put in

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of German or Chinese

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or of the

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fat woman with the red blooms

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or the baby, whatever.

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What we discovered during our

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LSD experience is that

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re-entraining was taking place

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and that there are hundreds and hundreds of cases in early LSD experience where in our last experiences that re-imprinting was taking place.

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And there are hundreds and hundreds of cases in our early OSD experience where

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someone was very open and they’d go to the refrigerator

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and they’d open the door of the refrigerator

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and there’s all that plastic food. Hundreds of thousands of people became vegetarians on the spot.

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I’m sure all of you have heard of this person.

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That’s imprinting or re-throbbering. And what that led us to discover is, and this is one of the most wonderful,

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optimistic discoveries that I’ve ever heard about, it is possible to re-print the human

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brain. Or, if your brain is a biocomputer, it’s possible to reprogram the brain.

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Now, there are all sorts of laws about reprogramming or re-imprinting.

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An imprint lasts about one week, unless it’s reinforced.

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imprint lasts about one week, unless it’s reinforced. So, if you, say, you imprint something very new, four, five, six days is kind of a date away. If you re-imprint something that’s familiar, then it tends to be enforced.

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Now this re-imprinting can be very dangerous. There are many cases, particularly early in

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our research, when a husband and wife would take out his knee together together and the wife would come up to the husband and smile.

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The husband was shocked.

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So, for several days, when they tried to make home. After five or six days,

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you’ve got one week to adapt.

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However,

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if the wide deer is not like a shark,

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then

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maybe they get to work.

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So the

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process of re-inventining or reprogramming and we all uh

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you weren’t yesterday when i talked about john lilly the concept of the brain is about computer

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we all do john lilly was a natural thing but he was the first one who wrote the book

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on uh metaprogramming and metaprogramming the human brain it’s one of the great classic books in psychology. And we’re just

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at the beginning of a new science of reprogramming or re-imprinting your own brain. And it is

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true that if you want to do it, if you learn how to do it, it’s possible to reprogram your brain.

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And now, if you have a microcomputer,

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you know, an Apple,

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you can go get the software,

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you can get the sloppy disks, you know,

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and you pay $50 and you get a disk for bookkeeping

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or you get a disk for Space Armada, like that.

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You can make up your mind, really, and reprogram your brain if you want to.

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I want to mention now, and then we’ll have a break in two minutes, but I want to mention one more idea. A very important area of science now is demographics, population genetics, population studies.

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And there are two aspects to this.

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Where you live is one of the most important things about you,

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because geography is destiny, and the ecological nature of habit

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really determines

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what species, what level of intelligence

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you live at.

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And also, the year you were born,

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the generation you belong to.

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It’s terrible, but

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the generation you belong to

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in a Western society,

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not in the old societies,

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because there are

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no generations, but since World War II in the Western societies, the generation you

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belong to is almost a different species. Like yesterday I took a walk down into the village

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and I saw the people that were over the age of 50 walking along.

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And they looked just the way they looked 40 years ago.

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They had umbrellas and they had raincoats.

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And you know, what German man and woman of 50 look like?

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Little glass.

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Walking along like this.

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And then I look at the German kids, see?

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And we’re dealing with two different

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species. So, those born after 1946, in America, I’m not sure it’s true here, 1946, after Hiroshima,

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television, multiple reality, those born after 1946, they think very differently.

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And that’s the generation which is the body intelligence generation that I’ve been talking about.

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Those born after 1965 are a different species. You know, when a hundred years ago, every boy, he was born to, you know, to take care

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of a horse very quickly.

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Then when, in the 1920s and 30s, the mechanical age, like every boy had a, was born with a wrench in his hand.

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And his father is saying, you know,

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what are you going to do with those pliers?

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Pull the horse’s teeth?

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No.

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And then, kids today in Germany and in America

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are born with that computer thing, that is a new level of intelligence and a new species. But it is

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possible. I can never be able to do computers as well as someone born in 1965. On the other

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hand, I understand that, so I don’t feel left out and I can at least try a little bit.

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Now, this is the first time, probably, in human history that little children can do things,

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complicated things, better than their grown-ups. That violates all the rules.

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In, uh, I told this story in, uh, Hempburg, um, You know the Rubik’s Cube?

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The Rubik’s Cube is invented in Hungary, right?

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The Rubik.

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But they became very popular in America.

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The biggest selling book in America last year,

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8 million copies book,

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much bigger than any Bible book,

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was the Adam and the Ruth’s Cube.

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8 million copies.

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That’s the biggest selling book

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written in the Bible, either.

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Now, in Hungary,

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the Commissar of Education

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and the government

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got very angry and upset.

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They said,

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we’ve got to stop the Rubik’s Cube.

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Oh, the Soviet Union said,

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ah, the Rubik’s Cube

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is another example

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of degenerate,

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decadent capitalism

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to take the young people’s minds is another example of degenerate, decadent capitalism to take

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the young people’s minds off the working class

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in the revolution.

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In Hungary, the

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Arab knows that

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this is terrible

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because the kids can

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do it better than the teachers.

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It’s impossible.

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Children cannot do anything better

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than the teachers.

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And it’s true. I have some friends who are sons of the children of my friends.

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Every kid’s come in and do the same thing.

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It’s a wonderful time in history to be alive when young people are doing better than grown-ups.

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Because that’s the key sign that evolution is happening,

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because evolution only happens with young people.

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So now we have these three generations,

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the after 65, and then the 46 to 64,

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and then we have evolutions happening.

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As we look at history, it’s obvious that at each new stage of evolution, there’s great fear because changes are happening so quickly the the fear of

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drugs for example but even before that the first time that machines came there was that, the first time that machines came, there was that fear.

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The first time automobiles came, the farmer said,

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the cows won’t give milk and the chickens won’t lay eggs.

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And if a human being goes faster than 20 miles an hour, it’ll be bad and we’ll go crazy.

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Every new technology that expands our mobility

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and changes the way we think and live, there’s

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always this superstitious fear. And there is a fear right now, of course, there’s a great fear of drugs.

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And there’s even a great fear of computers.

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And particularly among people from the 60s and 70s generation,

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there’s a fear of technology.

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And many people in the 60s and 70s wanted to go back to an earlier way of life. And that’s good.

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The wonderful thing about today, there’s so many different experiences you can make with your life and your lifestyle.

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And the idea that hundreds of thousands of European and American young people are going to India, hitchhiked around the Middle East and studied yoga. I don’t think that the next day of evolution is going to come from everybody going to India

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and wearing an orange robe. I think it’s wonderful to use the stages and the intelligent person

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who wants to experience and relive different stages.

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When we were first taking LST, for example, one period, we spent three or four months living in teepees.

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Now, teepees are a very aesthetic place to live.

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And it goes up, your eyes go up, and you have furs, and you have fire.

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You can see the moon at night. On that side of the TV you can see the forms reflected.

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It’s very aesthetic. And also, you get used to, you activate, reactivate earlier primitive aspects of your brain.

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As we did that first night with the rongabonga and we went around dancing with the candles, that’s good. Because we have

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these

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circuits of the brain

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and

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I think the intelligent person

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in the future

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will try to reactivate

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almost every day or every week.

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Like I said, it’s very good

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to fold this up

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for an hour a day or an hour a week,

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but you don’t want to do it all the time. The taboos about computers and about video

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games are extremely interesting. In America, I told you about the Rubik’s Cube, but in

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America, in many conservative cities and villages, they passed laws against children playing video games.

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The other day in Hamburg, I was being interviewed

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by a 24-year-old, very sophisticated young German writer

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who was violently opposed to video games.

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He said, it’s terrible.

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These young kids go to these places and they put their marks in.

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And they just, like Trump,

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they get this watch, you know,

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and they’re in their own mind.

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He was saying the same things

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that his father was saying about marijuana

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15 years ago.

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And the changes of generations

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are happening so quickly.

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There’s a movie. See, the thing about video games is very interesting. It’s part of this brain computer intelligence.

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The concept in video games is hands-on. And kids now, 5, 6, 7 years old, are learning to, they have one button that goes this way and they fire, and this is for hyperspace, and this is for select, and this is for, a lot of these little games, like they have one I’ve talked about many times, it’s called Las Vegas Gambling. You put that in the little Atari home video thing.

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And then the six-year-old child, first thing is enter.

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And then, how much money do you want?

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So I put 5,000 marks.

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And then, what game do you want to play?

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Blackjack, seven cards there, five cards there, five cards draw. And the six-year-old play, blackjack, seven cards to bet, five cards to bet, five cards to draw, and the six-year-old shouts at the blackjack.

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There’s a little man in the video, he’s got a little mustache, and his eyes go…

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And they go, click, click, the cards come, and then it says bet, and then the draft, and then it’s 50 marks marks, and then hit or stand, you know, for a black jacket.

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The game is programmed to be the best Las Vegas croupier, gambler.

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There’s a six-year-old kid who is actually matching wits, not with a machine.

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You’re talking through the machine to other people. So the computer is really

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with now, the first generation of computers, it was a computer hack. You just go there

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and he didn’t care about food, he was just getting a coke and he had bad complexion and

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he didn’t wash and he didn’t go out with girls, he was just there because he was trying to

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talk to the machine. But now the second generation, oh yes, people.

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The universities.

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The universities in America.

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Patrick, you must not use computers for frivolous playing.

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Ha ha ha ha ha.

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Now the second generation,

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the kids that come along,

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they’re not playing with the computer.

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They’re using the computer

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to match with the most intelligent programmers

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of, let’s say, New San Francisco.

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So the computer now is like a telephone.

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But the concept of hands-on

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means that you, the child, or the human being,

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is no longer a passive victim.

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Now we have it all victimized by movies and by television.

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You have movies there, you pay your money,

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you sit there, popcorn, and you’re there,

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and they’re doing things to you.

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And they are controlling, they’re programming, they really are programming.

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The reason you and I smoke cigarettes is because we saw Gary Cooper.

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You know, you got the, you know, you got the roses, you got the…

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Or me, you know, you sit and you drink beer and you watch TV. You’re passive. But the video games, the concept of hands-on is…

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Now the first video game was Pong. It was just Pong, Pong, Pong, Pong. That was like 1976. Why do people do that? I’ve done the second generation,

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third generation.

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Within two years, they will have video

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games in which

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it will be as complicated

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as Goethe’s Faust

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or Shakespeare or Star Wars. Right now,

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they have Star Wars. You can be Darth Vader,

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you can be Ansel, you can be

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only, you know,

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Juan Cadovey, or you play these…

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So these children are learning how to be active.

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They’re not going to be passive…

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Because they’re going to get bored.

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Because they get very bored with video games,

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that means that the people that make them

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have to make them better and better and more and more complicated.

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And then when they get the idea of putting in a disc,

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putting in a game, learning it, pulling it out,

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playing something.

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One thing you could do before with television

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was change the dial, that’s one thing.

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And the little baby that changed the dial

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was seeing more, multiple reality,

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was seeing more than the great sultans had in the past.

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But with video games it’s much more active

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and it is a higher level of intelligence.

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Now, it is always possible,

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there is always the danger that the commissars,

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or the chancellors, or the presidents,

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or the heads of merchandising and marketing

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of the big corporations or the presidents or the heads of merchandising and marketing of the corporations or the military will try to program it

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to program our brains.

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But, as I said, I don’t know if I just said that today,

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I think I said that today,

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IBM and the KGB and CIA, their programming,

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and their getting instructions, they don’t have the freedom.

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Throughout human history,

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evolution has always depended upon

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the one single intelligent

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individual who had enough

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courage and confidence to be able

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to stand up

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to the system

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and say, no.

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Or intelligent enough to say,

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no!

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No. I wanted to say, No! Or,

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or what do you say?

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Oh, yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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To as intelligent a single person

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as all the options

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to,

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your time,

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go there and mention,

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yahoo,

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you know,

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you can do that or,

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so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, yahoo, you know, you can do that.

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Sotanistic said,

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one writer can bring down an empire.

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And the history of human evolution is a history of intelligent individuals,

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women and men,

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who have carried this tradition.

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It’s the oldest tradition of the mystery schools,

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the masochist schools,

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the Sufi schools,

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the yogi schools,

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the Illuminati,

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the Templars,

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throughout human history

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there have always been

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those who have said

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that the purpose of human life

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is to find the intelligence within

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and not the external reward. So the same thing is going to be true

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with computers and video games. I feel that it is necessary, if you want to continue to

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evolve, to get to learn and be comfortable with computers. You don’t have to become an

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comfortable with computers. You don’t have to become an expert yogi at computers, but

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you should know enough about how computers are programmed, because like it or not, your brain is going to be programmed by someone who’s programming computers. And you must

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know enough about it to be able to, at least be able to get the problems that you want.

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There’s a movie

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that just came out in America called Tron.

00:27:30

Have you heard about it, Tron?

00:27:33

This movie,

00:27:35

see,

00:27:35

video games are now

00:27:38

at the stage that the motion pictures

00:27:40

are at when they have zootropes

00:27:41

and you put in a mark and, you know,

00:27:43

they flash the little pictures like this. They haven’t even started using computer video games. The first movie

00:27:55

that did this is a movie by Walt Disney called Tron. And it’s about a man and a woman and another man. They’re all programmers of video games.

00:28:09

And this one man has made a video game

00:28:11

that’s very, very popular.

00:28:14

But the computer company,

00:28:17

and actually the computer cheated him out of his royalty,

00:28:19

so he’s very angry.

00:28:21

And he wants to break into the computer

00:28:23

to get proof that it was his game.

00:28:29

And as he learns more about the computer,

00:28:31

he’s blocking him off from access

00:28:34

to certain parts of the computer.

00:28:37

And then his two friends,

00:28:40

the woman and the man,

00:28:41

are also getting to know too much about the computer

00:28:43

so that they are blocked off from their own games.

00:28:49

And suddenly they are told,

00:28:51

well, the system’s down, you can’t work on the computer today.

00:28:55

But inside the computer,

00:28:58

the people from, they’re inside the computer,

00:29:01

the people in the game,

00:29:02

and they are put in a prison by these, with electronic, you know, it’s an electronic prison because that’s exactly what preventing access to a circuit is, inside the computer.

00:29:30

So, the computer, there are these researchers where they use laser beams and they can take an apple and they can, like that.

00:29:34

The computer pulls them into the video game land.

00:29:37

So he’s in there and he’s alive in there.

00:29:38

He’s running around.

00:29:45

But everyone else that’s in there are the creations of his own mind or the creations of these of his two friends outside it’s getting complicated but and i wouldn’t even understand took me about a day to figure

00:29:50

out actually my seven-year-old son had explained it to me but the point is it’s not really the

00:29:56

video game that they’re talking about it’s the brain and that uh that the figures in our brains are created by our own programming or by somebody

00:30:08

else that’s programmed our own game and our brain is like a series of enormous video games in which

00:30:14

there’s a chancellor you know schmidt and there’s a big jagger and they were all running around inside the video games in our head. So the concept of

00:30:25

the next kind of movie

00:30:31

will be a show of people and they will winter their brains

00:30:35

and oh see, the

00:30:37

visualization of the computer video

00:30:43

panoramas is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen.

00:30:49

Because it’s made just the way the brain is made.

00:30:52

And it’s very much like those of you who have taken very, very heavy doses of

00:30:56

a Sunderland drug where everything is made of light,

00:31:00

everything is made of lattice work.

00:31:01

You can be sure that you see everything is glowing with that energy. That’s what the movie is like.

00:31:11

But that’s the beginning. This is the first beginning. It’s a whole new kind of movie making, which is going to change our consciousness and raise our intelligence just as much as

00:31:26

colored movies intelligence did over black and white and sounded over talkies over the

00:31:32

silent movies and so forth.

00:31:34

Now next I’d like to talk about, I talked about body intelligence and the key to body

00:31:41

intelligence was that you become an artist of your own life.

00:31:46

And I made the point that it takes a lot of work to do that.

00:31:49

Then I’m going to be talking about brain-computer intelligence,

00:31:54

in which you learn to use your brain the way you program a computer,

00:31:57

which gives you a chance to reprogram or re-imprint.

00:32:01

And now I’m going to me talk next about genetic intelligence,

00:32:06

which is

00:32:08

a tremendous step ahead.

00:32:10

I want to give you practical examples

00:32:11

of how genetic intelligence is

00:32:13

operating right now.

00:32:15

But before I do that, let’s stop and see if there are any

00:32:17

questions or any comments.

00:32:20

Anyone want to say anything?

00:32:22

Is it clear?

00:32:23

Thank you.

00:32:26

I love that. You said Anyone want to say anything? Is it clear? I’m sorry? I don’t know if that’s…

00:32:28

You said the reprogramming of our own EO computer,

00:32:34

the first steps to learn it is getting practice with a technical computer.

00:32:39

Right?

00:32:40

With what?

00:32:41

With a technical computer, video games and so on.

00:32:44

Well, I didn’t say that it was a first.

00:32:46

I said that I think that, yes,

00:32:48

if you want to enjoy the next 20 years,

00:32:51

you’ve got to learn something about computers, really.

00:32:54

Or you might be,

00:32:56

you’re going to be,

00:32:58

yeah, a lot of fun is going to be happening around you.

00:33:01

You might enjoy it.

00:33:02

Okay, but there might be much more techniques

00:33:04

you talked about

00:33:06

yesterday that you want to tell

00:33:08

us today how to

00:33:10

reprogram

00:33:12

our video computer.

00:33:14

And

00:33:16

without, okay, video games is

00:33:18

one possibility, but yesterday

00:33:20

you told us you want to talk about

00:33:22

more possibilities how to reprogram

00:33:24

our video computer. Yeah.

00:33:27

I think what I will do for the next year is go every day to a mall where I can play video games and then I will write you how I have changed my personality with you.

00:33:39

And I will do that every day.

00:33:41

Well, no, I mean, I don’t do that every day.

00:33:43

I will change. I will change. when I did every day. Well, no, I mean, I don’t want you to work every day.

00:33:46

I’m ashamed.

00:33:49

Of course, I’m having new impressions on what you said with the live magazine.

00:33:53

Actually,

00:33:53

we bought a game like Atari

00:34:00

and for the first two weeks

00:34:02

we played it a lot.

00:34:04

We played it a lot for the first two weeks we played it a lot.

00:34:05

We played it a lot for the first two weeks.

00:34:07

Then after you get to know it, then it gets kind of boring,

00:34:09

so I don’t want you to go every day for eight hours.

00:34:12

It goes on until you get it.

00:34:14

Until you get it, yeah, until you get it.

00:34:16

Then I always go in a video parlor in Arcadia in America

00:34:23

because I want to see.

00:34:26

And I’ll spend it.

00:34:27

And I’ll sit there and I’ll watch and I hear a seven-year-old kid

00:34:30

with patterns and sequences

00:34:33

and pattern changes.

00:34:36

At least I want to see

00:34:38

what’s involved in the game.

00:34:39

But I don’t want to spend

00:34:41

a lot of time there.

00:34:42

But yes, I always go into a video parlor at least once a week just to see what the new games are. I don’t know if I told you this, but many of you are new anyway, so I’ll tell it again if you heard it before.

00:35:05

The great mystery of Western civilization is Pac-Man. Pac-Man. Pac-Man has made over a billion dollars, maybe close to two billion dollars.

00:35:25

They have a song called, an infray called Pac-Man Fever.

00:35:30

You know, do they have it in Germany?

00:35:32

It’s one of the top songs about going down to the arcade with a bed board in my pocket.

00:35:37

Pac-Man Fever. All the children of seven, eight, nine, and ten sing this song.

00:35:42

Do you know what Pac-Man is? Have you ever seen it?

00:35:49

Oh, Pac-Man is a shield of all these little white dots,

00:35:51

and there’s this little round thing with a mouth,

00:35:53

and it goes and it eats all those dots,

00:35:56

and it’s being chased by three others,

00:35:57

and then you have to go out, and there’s a big energizer circle,

00:36:01

and you’re one of them,

00:36:02

then the police are chasing you you turn blue, and you can

00:36:06

turn and you can eat them.

00:36:07

But it only lasts for about 15 seconds, and then they turn, now the little white guts

00:36:15

of the hub is the pills.

00:36:17

And then you need to go to the end of the game, just eat all the pills before you get

00:36:21

arrested three times by the narcotics office.

00:36:31

I had to figure out why this game was so popular.

00:36:35

Also,

00:36:37

in Los Angeles

00:36:40

there’s a big paper, the LA Times,

00:36:42

which is very establishment,

00:36:43

and they had an article one Sunday by a psychiatrist who not like Pac-Man.

00:37:08

And

00:37:08

seven, eight-year-old

00:37:10

kids, whenever they’re coming out of that paper,

00:37:12

they’re all reading how to play Pac-Man.

00:37:17

So,

00:37:18

no, I don’t want to make a big deal of it, but I just

00:37:20

tune in so you

00:37:22

know that

00:37:24

I feel

00:37:24

it’s part of being in the 20th century now to know.

00:37:30

See, people, they mainly, anything that’s new, they don’t like.

00:37:33

So they think something more of us can tear us bad.

00:37:36

I think the intelligent person wants to know what it is.

00:37:40

Why do they like Pac-Man?

00:37:41

Why do they like these games?

00:37:44

it is, why do they like Pac-Man, why do they like these games? Because…

00:37:48

Is there any other…

00:37:52

But you think that daydreaming is a very good way to get into contact

00:37:56

with your brain possibilities? Visualization and…

00:38:00

Daydreaming, as we call it. Sure.

00:38:04

And, I mean, you can

00:38:06

get some help

00:38:08

to get in this state of daydreaming.

00:38:11

But daydreaming

00:38:12

sounds too fast. Maybe

00:38:17

planned, directed visualization.

00:38:20

Yeah.

00:38:22

Because daydreaming is

00:38:23

something that’s possible too.

00:38:25

There are many schools

00:38:26

which train people how to visualize

00:38:29

and use their imagination

00:38:32

in a very precise way.

00:38:33

And even curing cancer.

00:38:36

There are many schools in the United States

00:38:38

that probably have it here too, where

00:38:39

they visualize cancer in ways

00:38:41

of

00:38:42

the body can fight against it.

00:38:51

I was talking about which state of the aesthetic care time, which is the best time for reprinting or re-

00:39:01

what do you say, the brain could be reinforced

00:39:06

what state of the

00:39:10

ecstatic

00:39:11

movement, ecstatic curve

00:39:14

during LSD session

00:39:16

what is the

00:39:17

optimal time for it

00:39:20

is it at the beginning or at the end Yes, that’s a very interesting question. It’s a question about… During an LSD experience,

00:39:41

everything is moving very fast and in many different directions and if your consciousness

00:39:47

gets caught

00:39:48

or if you focus your consciousness on anything that happens

00:39:50

it kind of stops it

00:39:52

and then

00:39:53

the

00:39:56

all the manuals

00:39:59

and the devices

00:39:59

don’t get caught, keep going

00:40:01

keep going

00:40:02

because

00:40:04

you might

00:40:08

look in your wife’s

00:40:10

face

00:40:11

and you look at her eye

00:40:14

and suddenly her eye

00:40:16

is getting bigger and bigger

00:40:17

until she’s nothing except the whole world is her big eyes.

00:40:20

Well, that’s not the girl you married, right?

00:40:23

I don’t agree with you.

00:40:24

So then you have to, alright, close your eyes and be like that. not the girl you married, right? I don’t agree with you.

00:40:30

But then some people get frightened and in order to take

00:40:33

white stuff.

00:40:42

There may be people, early experienced people, they would start thinking about their

00:40:50

heart.

00:40:51

Many doctors would have to imagine.

00:40:52

And they’d say, my heart is healthy.

00:40:53

Boom.

00:40:54

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:40:55

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:40:56

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:40:57

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:40:58

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:40:59

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:41:00

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:41:01

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:41:02

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:41:03

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy.

00:41:04

And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy. And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy. And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy. And then, you wait a million years and boom, oh my god, it’s healthy. And then, you wait a million years, and…

00:41:07

Thump! Oh my God!

00:41:11

And then you wait.

00:41:13

So, call it off, call it off, they’re right away.

00:41:16

And then we say, well, of course your heart’s stopping.

00:41:20

It starts most of the time.

00:41:22

And it starts, and that’s’s what I’m supposed to do.

00:41:26

I’m supposed to go to a hundred and twelve.

00:41:32

Die, die. Okay, we’ll die.

00:41:39

So, in a bad trip, a bad trip is when the imprint takes place soon. And then I went down to

00:41:47

a rather honest experience with a very nervous young man from New York and he said, worry,

00:41:55

worry, worry, worry, worry. It’s coming in ten seconds. And I came up, I see myself. No shit, what? The bottom, the bottom, the bottom.

00:42:06

I said, okay.

00:42:08

Now.

00:42:11

Hey.

00:42:13

Oh, no, no, no.

00:42:16

Boom.

00:42:17

Boom.

00:42:37

But in general, the imprint takes place towards the end of the… and is very powerful. For example, the last three times my wife and I took LSD. It cost several thousand dollars.

00:42:47

Because the first time, my wife looked around the house and said,

00:42:54

We cannot live in this house anymore.

00:42:58

That was at three in the morning.

00:43:00

At nine she was out there still hallucinating in the car, real estate,

00:43:04

and by noon she was still hallucinating that we had a new house and it cost $5,000.

00:43:11

We took the OSD and the new house and we were out in the garden and she looked around and she said, well, we’ve got to get a garden to come and plant all these differently.

00:43:22

We’ve got to get a garden to come and plant all these differently.

00:43:27

And then the time when my dog had to flee,

00:43:30

that was a number that cost us $500 to get the dog to flee.

00:43:37

But things like, if you want to give up smoking, for example,

00:43:40

then if you smoke during LSD session,

00:43:44

that’s definitely going to increase your impurity. If you want to give up smoking, the easiest way to do it is during the LSD session,

00:43:48

have no cigarettes around and try to not smoke and give it that way.

00:43:53

Same thing is true of…

00:43:55

You should do it. If you think you could get the imprint,

00:43:57

but you won’t smoke after the session…

00:44:00

Yes, it will make it 100 times easier easier for you to get out of smoking, yeah.

00:44:07

And music, for example. Any music that you listen to during an LSD experience,

00:44:15

number one, you read a lot into it, sometimes more than there.

00:44:23

Like, there are millions of people that thought the Beatles were playing just for them, you know.

00:44:28

All you need is love.

00:44:31

John, you know, poor John Lennon got a phone call from millions of people saying,

00:44:36

John, thanks for the love.

00:44:39

Because it is true that it’s your brain and it is for you.

00:44:43

John did write it for you.

00:44:45

John doesn’t know that.

00:44:49

So that imprint of music is…

00:44:53

But usually the inference occurred towards the last…

00:45:00

after three or four or five hours of an LSD experience.

00:45:04

And it’s extremely important after an LSD experience

00:45:08

that the next day be protected

00:45:13

from any kind of pressure or tension

00:45:19

so that you should not get involved in freeway traffic in a smoggy city the next day because you’re so sensitive.

00:45:37

Although, you can program yourself so that you can do anything.

00:45:41

You can go right through the freeway traffic and drive any miles an hour if you want to. In general, it’s better to plan the hours of the day after

00:45:54

now is the experience so that you’re surrounded by the environment that you want to make part

00:46:01

of your reality. Because you literally are creating your own. Well, I’d like to go on to the genetic…

00:46:06

I started studying today.

00:46:10

I didn’t have enough time to finish.

00:46:12

The science in the last…

00:46:14

Every branch of science in the last 10 or 15 years

00:46:17

has been a breakthrough,

00:46:20

a very interesting breakthrough.

00:46:22

But the breakthrough is giving more

00:46:25

power and responsibility

00:46:30

to the human being.

00:46:34

For example,

00:46:36

the second law of thermodynamics,

00:46:38

I have always thought was wrong.

00:46:41

The second law of thermodynamics is entropy.

00:46:44

And it says that the world is

00:46:46

just quietly getting into zero temperature and that all systems become, differentiated

00:46:55

systems collapse into pretty soon everything is the same. It’s the clockwork theory of

00:46:59

the universe that all the clocks are going to run down and priests in all universes are going to be… Now that’s a Protestant capitalist

00:47:07

ethic thing of, you know, God is a

00:47:11

banker and you’re going to spend all your money sooner or later.

00:47:18

There’s a man called Ilya Prigogine.

00:47:20

Do you know about Prigogine? Does anyone know about the Nobel Prize?

00:47:24

In 1968 or 1969?

00:47:27

He has demonstrated both mathematically and experimentally that, yes, it is true that all systems collapse.

00:47:37

It’s obvious. Even Mount Everest is going to eventually collapse.

00:47:42

But as systems collapse, it’s called the theory of dissipative

00:47:45

chaos or dissipative structure,

00:47:48

energy is released,

00:47:50

which allows a reformation

00:47:52

at a higher level.

00:47:54

So that evolution is possible.

00:47:55

Evolution always involves

00:47:57

a dissipation

00:48:00

and a convulsive

00:48:01

changing and then a restructuring at a higher level.

00:48:04

And the higher the level

00:48:06

of complexity, the more fragile it is. So, basically, evolution and intelligence can

00:48:14

prevent entropy from happening. And intelligence is anti-entropy. And so, that was the great

00:48:21

anti-entropy.

00:48:22

And so,

00:48:26

that was the great death

00:48:28

promise of physics

00:48:33

and thermodynamics.

00:48:35

We have repealed the law of gravity.

00:48:39

We have reached escape velocity

00:48:41

in order to leave the planet.

00:48:43

This thing is four and a half billion years.

00:48:45

It’s a gravity atmosphere swap

00:48:48

four, six, eight thousand miles high.

00:48:52

In order to get out of this swap,

00:48:54

we’re allegedly chained to the planet Earth by gravity.

00:48:59

And it has taken an incredible amount of intelligence

00:49:02

from our large numbers of people

00:49:04

to get the escape velocity

00:49:06

so that we’ve set the first human beings

00:49:08

off the planet.

00:49:09

And every ten years now,

00:49:13

an increase of a hundredfold,

00:49:15

more and more and more people

00:49:16

are going to be leaving the planet.

00:49:18

That seems so obvious.

00:49:19

I know there are some people

00:49:20

who don’t believe that

00:49:21

human beings are going to continue

00:49:23

to leave the planet, but there are some people who don’t believe that humanity is going to continue to leave the planet,

00:49:26

but there are many, many scientists in America and in Europe

00:49:31

who have written convincing books that

00:49:35

to the tradition of evolution, as we said yesterday,

00:49:38

is from the unicellular to the shoreline,

00:49:41

four foot, two foot, the wheel, rockets, higher and faster with more

00:49:48

intelligence, because the higher and faster you go, the more intelligent you have to be

00:49:52

to have forced communication. So it seems inevitable to most of us that we’re going

00:49:56

to be leaving the planet. So we repeal the law of gravity, and we no longer have to think

00:50:00

of ourselves as slugs crawling crawling around somebody else’s planet.

00:50:07

Planets are terrible places. They’re terrible places. They’re traps. They’re swamps.

00:50:13

And, oh, planets are like, well, they’re like, they’re like, planets are like Peterbald restaurants or

00:50:25

maybe a shopping street highway

00:50:28

and you go up and you get the food and fuel and gas

00:50:32

and you want to go up.

00:50:33

But the basic, most human beings in the future

00:50:37

are not going to live just pulling themselves along,

00:50:40

fighting.

00:50:40

So anybody said that my energy goes

00:50:42

and we’re eating gravity.

00:50:44

That’s simply a waste. So we’ve said that my energy goes into gravity, that’s simply a waste.

00:50:47

So, we’ve revealed the law of gravity.

00:50:57

I talked about the helplessness of personality and intelligence. We talked about it yesterday too. Now I realize

00:51:05

that you can increase your intelligence, you can expand your intelligence, you can re-imprint

00:51:09

your reality, you don’t have to be stuck with any point of view. There’s no reason why anyone

00:51:14

should live a life or inhabit a reality that is not of your voluntary choice. But the real breakthroughs in present time are coming in the field of genetics.

00:51:29

And we have deciphered the DNA code, Watson and Crick and Marshall.

00:51:34

The woman never got any credit for it. By the way, it was two men who grabbed all the credit.

00:51:39

So we are understanding how evolution works. We understand that one single cell is you. You evolved your

00:51:53

mother’s womb over nine months to become a little infant and then it was all pre-posed

00:51:57

that you would have this kind of hair. And also, now there are new aspects. Genetics

00:52:03

is exploding in all different directions. First they thought that only blue eyes were inherited, you know, or color and all that, but now they’ve realized in the last 10 or 15 years, called behavioral genetics and sociobiology, that behavior is inherited.

00:52:29

That behavior is inherited. How? Because you not only got your mother’s beautiful blue eyes from her side of the family, but you also inherited the kind of brain models that

00:52:36

have been going on. So that you inherit different types of brains. So when you walk down the street of your city,

00:52:47

you meet a hundred people,

00:52:49

there are probably a hundred different brain models.

00:52:51

And there’s some Maseratis,

00:52:52

and there’s some tanks,

00:52:54

and there’s a lot of old bulk bodies,

00:52:58

and there’s some garbage trucks,

00:52:59

and there’s…

00:53:01

Because to keep a large species like ours going

00:53:03

in the division of labor,

00:53:05

it simply does require many different kinds of nervous systems.

00:53:09

And it’s a good thing.

00:53:11

Now, the very term genetics in America is so politically hot

00:53:17

that Edward Wilson, who was the man who first developed sociobiology,

00:53:23

was attacked by some angry left-wing women at a conference

00:53:26

because he said that most women are biologically different from men,

00:53:33

and that was considered to be chauvinist.

00:53:38

Because of World War II, because of Nazi eminence on genetics, liberals and socialists have gone the other way and said there’s no difference, all human beings are born equal, and it’s simply a dozen classes, education, and if everyone is educated the same way, everyone will come out to be the same. You cannot run a beehive, you cannot run a termite colony, or you cannot run an advanced

00:54:11

complicated human civilization if everyone is the same.

00:54:14

You simply have to have…

00:54:16

Now, lions are all the same.

00:54:18

Elephants are pretty much all the same, except for boys and girls.

00:54:20

I don’t know if there are any gay elephants, but there are.

00:54:24

That’s okay with me. What do you think? I don’t know if there are any gay elephants probably there.

00:54:25

That’s okay with me.

00:54:28

Who do you think?

00:54:30

I’ll be in this tremendous division of labor.

00:54:36

This, by the way, is only temporary.

00:54:38

Because as we live a long time, as we have understanding and control of DNA,

00:54:44

it’s possible actually to change.

00:54:46

See, there have been sex changes. Isn’t that wonderful? You know, in the last 20 years we’ve seen sex changes.

00:54:52

You know, like being a boy, you can have an operation to become a girl. That’s amazing, isn’t it?

00:55:01

So, in the future, we will be able to make biological body changes.

00:55:12

You’re listening to The Psychedelic Salon,

00:55:15

where people are changing their lives one thought at a time.

00:55:20

And at that point, the second tape in this series came to an end,

00:55:24

with the exception of a little conversation about taking a break.

00:55:28

And there’s still one more tape left in this series,

00:55:30

and I’ll try to get that out as soon as I can.

00:55:33

Then my plan is to play either part of the recent Esalen workshop

00:55:37

or another one of the Terrence McKenna in Maui series,

00:55:41

which is still waiting for me at the post office.

00:55:43

I’ve got to get down there today and pick that up.

00:55:46

But as I said in the beginning, we now also have, in addition,

00:55:49

over 150 other McKenna recordings that are stacked up here in the salon.

00:55:54

And so I might want to play the Maui recordings first,

00:55:57

and then the Esalen Workshop to give us a little break

00:56:00

from getting too much of the barred McKenna all at one time.

00:56:04

And also in the queue, there are

00:56:05

several other recent talks that have either

00:56:07

been given in recent months

00:56:09

or that are going to be given in the weeks ahead

00:56:11

by some of our fellow tribe members

00:56:14

who are still on the lecture circuit.

00:56:16

And I know that the

00:56:17

McKenna fans, like me, can never

00:56:19

get enough of the guy, but there

00:56:21

are also some of our fellow

00:56:23

slauners who think that I’ve already played too many of his talks, so I’ll try to reach some kind of a balance to keep us all happy.

00:56:30

But getting back to the talk that we just heard, first of all, I have to say that I found it

00:56:36

somewhat synchronistic to hear Dr. Leary talking about the Pac-Man game, which was all the rage

00:56:42

back when he gave this talk that we just heard.

00:56:50

Because just a week ago, as I mentioned in the last podcast, I just finished reading Ernest Cline’s wonderful novel, Ready Player One, in which that very game plays a role

00:56:56

itself.

00:56:57

And so I checked out the App Store and found a free Pac-Man app to download, only to discover

00:57:03

that, well, I’m still not very good at it.

00:57:07

But the main thing that I want to point out about the talk that we just listened to right now was

00:57:11

Leary’s comment about each generation since World War II actually being a different species.

00:57:18

Now, back in 1983 or so, that was probably quite a radical statement. However, just this morning I listened to a

00:57:25

TED talk by Juan Enriquez that is titled, Will Our Kids Be a Different Species? And

00:57:32

in it he points out the fact that at times the human race consisted of several different

00:57:37

species all coexisting here on our beautiful little planet at the same time. And there

00:57:42

really isn’t time right now for me to get into all that, but

00:57:45

if you go to the program notes for this podcast, which you can get to via psychedelicsalon.us,

00:57:51

you’ll find that I embedded that TED talk on the page, and you can listen to it for yourself.

00:57:57

It’s a very fascinating talk, and I think it would be more than worth your time to watch it.

00:58:03

Well, I’m going to get out of here for now and get back to my massive digitizing project.

00:58:08

But I’ll get the next Timothy Leary talk out as soon as I can.

00:58:12

So, for now, this is Lorenzo signing off from Cyberdelic Space.

00:58:17

Be well, my friends.