…years ago who's the botanist right and about him you'll hear more. Tisia who hated my guts we had she had left him in st Augustine and come to bogota where they had kindly said we could have their apartment. So in the week or two weeks where we were…

…I am now and this is god's I am, that's the divine presence. We stick out into the divine presence in every moment. And Augustine defined eternity which is the mode of god's being god is not in time, god is eternal. Eternity is not a long, long time.…

…in this sense would know that in our best moments we know that god is closer to us than we are to ourselves, as Augustine puts it so that god has entered into history before history. Was that history, in contrast to just time which is a void sequence…

…we were therefore six: vanessa, Dave, Ev, Dennis and myself and Sia Six people. Sia hated me. Ev had left him in st Augustine and come to Bogota, where they had said we could have their apartment in the two weeks. While we were getting together the…

…being called reading, and reading is very is a very specialized form of looking. You know, Thomas Aquinas was or was it saint Augustine I can never remember but anyway one of these fathers of the church. He would prove his sanctity to doubters by having…

…by getting real spiritual it was when what's his name? Was it petrarcho? Petrarch started the Renaissance by coming down. He took Augustine with him and was thinking of having this vision and instead he left his transcendence and his soul was too attached…

…do magic by stepping outside of a set of cultural expectations. Thomas Aquinas, this great doctor of the Church I'm sorry st Augustine, also great doctor of the church. To prove his saintliness they would come to him with books of theology, people who…

…that the evolution of sensory ratios within historical time had been very, very rapid. That, for example he talks about how st Augustine was a person of great piety and learning and people doubting this would show him an open page of scripture or…

…And apparently the women and there was one more woman they voted for Athena so in punishment now listen in punishment st Augustine relates that women lost the right to vote. And we're told that Athens is the cradle of democracy. And of course that's…

…felt that the evolution of sensory ratios within historical time had been very, very rapid. For example he talks about how st Augustine was a person of great piety and learning and people doubting this would show him an open page of scripture or…

…of this kind of thing that's not so well known but that is an example that Marshall McLuhan makes a lot of is st Augustine, the great father of the Christian Church. He had a reputation for being a very holy man and the accounts of his contemporaries…

…reputation for being a very holy man and the accounts of his contemporaries say that the way people would satisfy themselves that st Augustine had a pipeline to god is they would bring him scripture the Bible Essentially and open it in front of him and…

…book and question him about what was there and he could always tell them and they were amazed. As far as we can tell st Augustine was the only man in Europe who could read silently. Nobody else could do it it was regarded as a miracle. Now we all…

…in the last thousand years. Sensory ratios are incredibly subject to cultural modification. As an example of what I mean by that, st Augustine. To prove his piety, they would open a book of scripture in front of him and without making a sound, he would…

…from you was smaller than the part of the house. You can't understand it doesn't make any kind of sense. Another example is st Augustine, who was this great father? Of the church and who was, by the way African and he was known as the most brilliant…

…then they would close the book and he would be able to tell them what was written there. As far as we can tell, st Augustine was the only man in Europe who could read silently. Can you imagine this? It was a miracle. We don't know how the bugger…

…in the last thousand years. Sensory ratios are incredibly subject to cultural modification. As an example of what I mean by that, st Augustine. To prove his piety, they would open a book of scripture in front of him and without making a sound, he would…