…one says, what was it that caused this blindness the question you raise there's something that happened around the 17th century that Milton described so well in Paradise Lost there was a consciousness of the spirit of satan, which is what Paradise Lost is…

…civilization may be under the possession of such a spirit, worshipped through money and other mammon? The spirit of mammon, as Milton Describes him in Paradise Lost, he says, even in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward bent, admiring more…

…mother nature's treasures better hid. So here's the description of a demon which actually is the spirit of our whole civilization by Milton in Paradise Lost, as an actual entity. Now in that case it's a kind of poetic entity, but it's also a Biblical…

…the psychedelic experience is a new object for western languages. It will be very interesting to see what English, the language of Milton, Chaucer and Shakespeare will be able to do with the psychedelic experience. I mean, my God, in William Blake you get…

…you have natural selection and you have traits, and these traits extend themselves. But it's a great step, you know, to Milton, to the space shuttle, to an integrated global economy. I mean, are these the products of animal existence? The darwinist says…

…of view. Obviously, the earth has achieved great things outside the human realm, but within the human realm. Mozart and Bach and Milton and Rumi, all of this stuff has been achieved. And it represents an epigenetic accomplishment. It is not part of the…

…and convinced they're going to go invade somewhere. Well, he'd probably been chatting with Joseph Goebbels before they walked in. Is Milton Erickson, who just, with his voice, does all sorts of things to people that. Are totally speaking, people that he…

…don't go that far, it's not to my mind. We're not talking about the God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven, as Milton said. We're talking about the secret agenda of bios on the planet. That it is complete hubris to believe that you can escape…

…comes in the sense that I don't think we're dealing with the God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven. What Milton said, that's some whole other scale. But what we're dealing with is something like the God of biology that there is something…

…in the face. And yet the enterprise of intelligence is without precedent in the organic world. I mean, where are you going to get Milton? Where are you going to get Einstein? Where are you going to get Bach and Duccio and all the rest of the gang out…

…leap to the defense of dolphins, magpies, and honeybees, good luck, because it ain't King Lear. That's the point, you see. It isn't Milton. It's something, but it isn't. I mean, language has a force and a dynamic of its own. Perhaps it is a virus from…

…here, is that you're not literary. You're not a literary culture. But I, and true, don't deny it. None of you can quote Milton, but I also think it's a temporary thing. Your children will not be like you. Your children will be fully visually literate.…

…couple of days ago, I think, I'm not sure we're talking here about the God who hung the stars like lamps in heaven, as Milton said. More I think we're talking about the bursting of a guy, an egg. But because my theory predicts the future, I am…

…kind of animal who just went a little further than the next guy. But to get out of that, Shakespeare and Milton is a pretty amazing accomplishment, hardly, to speak of the mathematical languages that we generate. So something happened, some people think,…