…and so on. But the turning point is up here. And as far as western history is concerned, what happens up here is Homer sings his song, and I maintain, symbolically and literally, that's what started it off. That's what set the last phase in motion. I…

…started to talk philosophy, it all went wrong. Well, I don't know if it went wrong. It certainly went in a different direction. Homer sings his song, and it begins an almost unbroken cascade into modernity. I want to talk about this one for a minute,…

…you've noticed that screens repeat themselves. Remember I showed you a screen where I said, at the top of a certain mountain, Homer sang his song. This is that same shape. But we're now not looking at thousands of years. We're only looking at 52…

…time from 1944 to 1996, it, on another level, is a span of time from roughly late egyptian time to the Umayyad caliphates, with Homer singing his song up here on the short scale, the 52 year scale, this is 1967. Now, these two things are in a,…

…to this theory, in a situation of resonance or geometrical relationship to each other. Is there anything about the world of Homer that is like the world of 1967? And I maintain, yes, a tendency to easy lifestyles, loose shoes and sophomoric philosophy…

…well, what I would say. I mean, first of all, let's get a little more honest here. There's a lot of argument about where Homer actually sang his song. We can only really pinpoint it to within about 150 years. It's up here somewhere. Now, I could zero…

…is here. 1968 is just over the top. The first moon flight is there. Well, now suddenly we have the homeric resonance. What is Homer but a story of noble men on a long and far voyage and eventually the homeward return? And then the heroics of that…

…from the late egyptian time to the Umayyad caliphate. And then he asked the question, is there anything about the world of Homer that is like the world of 1967? Now, if you've read Tarnas, you know that he uses astrological configurations that affect…

…wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind. And he said that up until the time of Homer, which is only 1200 bc, people weren't like us. What we call the ego, they called God. And they didn't have egos, except…

…out here, this is the last 22,000, and see how from basically, up here at the top of this little hill, that's where Homer sang his song. And from there on, at this scale, it looks just like a completely uninterrupted, perfectly smooth descent into hyper…

…between King Wen's sequences. Sequence formed on this. You see what I'm saying? 1185 BC. That's roughly right up here where Homer sang his song. Same, you know, close enough, huh? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now, it's all very well when you're talking about…

…it's insufficient, because everybody is bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting, you know, no classic recension. What…

…I mean, he assumes basically, that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism…

…book about the bicameral mind, felt that there had been a major shift in the construction of consciousness at the time of Homer, that before Homer, people didn't exactly have egos. They were sort of like soulless beings, which, when put under pressure by,…

…bicameral mind, felt that there had been a major shift in the construction of consciousness at the time of Homer, that before Homer, people didn't exactly have egos. They were sort of like soulless beings, which, when put under pressure by, like, a tighten…

…This is a mountain to set your sights on climbing. The great pyramid is right down here. We are here. Okay, what's here? Homer? Homer is at the top of history's fractal mountain. In other words, 1100 BC. Okay, what was the primary turning point there?…

…is a mountain to set your sights on climbing. The great pyramid is right down here. We are here. Okay, what's here? Homer? Homer is at the top of history's fractal mountain. In other words, 1100 BC. Okay, what was the primary turning point there? What…

…moments of progress, like the phoenician Alphabet and so forth and so on. And up here at the top of this thing, Homer sings his song. The trojan wars occur actually just slightly before that. What's happening there is that mycenaean piracy is overwhelming…

…few minutes ago I said, homer sang his song here, one cycle back, one fractal scale up. So the analogy is. Or the analogy to Homer singing his song and to the fall of Mycenae and all of that, or, I'm sorry, the fall of Minoan culture to Mycenaea is…

…It's insufficient because everybody is bound within an illusion of language. The entire enterprise of culture is this illusion of language. Homer was as sick with it as Heidegger. So there's no going back or getting no classic recension. What we have to…

…is a very specialized form of cultural adaptation and that comparing us and finding us favorably compared to the civilization of Homer or chattal Huyuk or Altamira is simply a form of cultural chauvinism. Okay, but psilocybin had other effects besides this…

…I mean, he assumes basically that the people he's talking to have read everything and have understood it. I mean, from Homer to Rabelais to Chaucer to Man magazine, he assumes you have a complete knowledge of modern film and popular print journalism…

…theory that this thing, which we call the ego, is so recent in human beings that it actually didn't exist at the time of Homer. And he goes into Homer, and he shows that the God always breaks through in situations of crisis and danger. And he felt…

…we call the ego, is so recent in human beings that it actually didn't exist at the time of Homer. And he goes into Homer, and he shows that the God always breaks through in situations of crisis and danger. And he felt that before homeric times, people…