…looking for a stable model. And finally they reached the golden age of periclean Athens. And there they found Plato, Aristotle, the dramatists so forth, and they created classicism. Now notice that we're talking here about the 14 hundreds. Classicism was…

…called Eleusis. And you well know the licinian mysteries for hundreds and hundreds of years were practiced there. Plato, Aristotle, most of those great philosophers went through the mysteries there. And recently drug ethologists and scholars like Robert Gordon…

…our tendency to denigrate ourselves, to see the world in terms of the great ones, not here, whoever they are. Aristotle, Madonna, Jesus, whatever. Your particular bent is the overcoming of neurosis, of unhappiness, of toxic lifestyles, is the felt presence…

…looking for a stable model. And finally they reached the golden age of Periclean Athens. And there they found Plato, Aristotle, the dramatists, so forth, and they created classicism. Now notice that we're talking here about the 14 hundreds. Classicism was…

…you never got a second shot. And everybody in the greek world would go at some point in their life, Plato, Aeschylus, Aristotle, the whole gang, everybody had this experience. And at the center of it. Something was drunk and something happened. And there's…

…which cut against its own purposes. The concept is a kind of progress in nature where previously none had been. So that from Aristotle to the 19th century, what you have as a theory of nature is what's called the great chain of being, or the great…

…I have two questions. One, are you aware of any psychedelics being used in ancient Greece around the time of Plato or Aristotle? Sure. You should read the road to Eleusis by Wassen and Hoffman that argues very persuasively that an LSD like alkaloid lay…

…just sick of their governments. So what I want to say about this is that for the first time since the Greeks advanced, Aristotle used the five basic solids to explain the structure of the universe. There are new mathematical cards on the table which seem…

…that dovetail directly into the aspirations of modern biology. Genetics, so forth and so on. The great chain of being of Aristotle is animated, given a dimension of motion. And lo and behold, it becomes the Darwin Wallace theory of evolution. Marsiliad…

…guy gets it in a single moment and he sees that the universe is infinite, and he begins to say so, and this is against Aristotle. And the church just goes nuts, and they drive him out of Italy, and he has a whole bunch of adventures in England and…