…a as possible. So this function comes into being called reading. And reading is a very specialized form of looking. You know, Thomas Aquinas was. Or was it St. Augustine? I can never remember. But anyway, one of these fathers of the church, he would…

…this by talking about the effects of technology. It's that we haven't realized just how fluid the mental modality is. You know, Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages was thought to be a great saint, and he would prove his sainthood. They would come to him…

…after. The singularity is a coincidensia appositorum. It can simultaneously coexist in states which are contradictory. It is Thomas Aquinas vision of God. It's something which transcends rational apprehension, but it gives the universe meaning. Because all…

…you step out of the moving image and into eternity, into the nunc stans, the standing now, the standing wave form of Thomas Aquinas. And in the modern parlance of holographic transforms and in that state, then all of human history is seen to lead toward…

…are of. Have attained great success with their ideas. You know, you don't want to look too hard at Newton or Wagner or Thomas Aquinas or anybody else. So the squirrel test or the fluff test is insufficient. Well, so then what are you left with? Well,…

…world of pictorial space that we have inhabited ever since. Well, you know, in an earlier lecture, I told the story about how Thomas Aquinas proved his sanctity by being able to look at open books and then later tell what he had read without ever moving…

…wrote a lot about how even within historical time, sensory ratios have shifted in european human beings. The famous story of how Thomas Aquinas was the only man in Europe of his era who could read without reading aloud. And they would bring him books of…

…for the historical predicament. So human freedom is the precondition for the assumption of man's flaw, man's fall. You know, what Thomas Aquinas called the felix culpa, the happy flaw. And these ideas of law and freedom have been worked out since the late…

…And it is exactly the same mystery that you hit at 5 grams in silent darkness and it's still mysterious. You know, Thomas Aquinas, Heidegger, they don't really shed much light on this. We haven't in 25,000 years learned anything that makes this trivial or…