…is because that was always an area of concern that was seeded to religion. And in the 19th century, when Darwin and Charles Lyell and Herbert Spencer and all these people got together and created modern evolutionary theory and scientific materialism,…

…really an article of faith, and it was hard to hold the line. I mean, in the 1860s, Darwin's theory was called the Darwin Wallace theory of evolution because there was a second person in the picture, Alfred Russel Wallace, who was, for my money, a…

…to the greatest scientist of the age and ask his his opinion? So he copies this thing off and sends it off to Darwin. Darwin practically shits white when he reads this thing because he realizes that 30 years of work is now eight months from publication,…

…the greatest scientist of the age and ask his his opinion? So he copies this thing off and sends it off to Darwin. Darwin practically shits white when he reads this thing because he realizes that 30 years of work is now eight months from publication,…

…the Royal Society. And he says, you know, chuck, look at this, this letter that arrives from Indonesia, this Wallace character. And Darwin said, don't worry, I'll read wallaces paper at the meeting of the Royal Society where you were going to present your…

…through the second half. So you present your paper before dinner, I'll read Wallaces paper after dinner. And it will become the Darwin Wallace theory of evolution, which it did. Well. Then later, their suspicions of his lack of loyalty to the true faith…

…that are unanticipated. So when they looked at the shape of the continents, they discovered continental drift. When Wallace and Darwin looked at the distribution of butterflies over indonesian islands, they suddenly had a vision of the origin of species. How…

…psychedelic community to my mind, is Rupert Sheldrake, and Rupert is a botanist, a natural scientist, a man in the tradition of Darwin and WaLlACE we're trying to say. And what is being realized, I think, is that the psychedelics have always been exerting…

…dealing with the psychedelic era. We are like people talking about evolution in 1855. You know, a few of us have read Darwin paper. Nobody is sure exactly what it means. It's a strong intuition of something. The species thing is a problem. Nobody's quite…

…of probability. That is how the universe actually sculpts itself into higher and higher form. This is not the theory of evolution that Darwin came up with, which sort of pushes from behind. It's a theory that there is a kind of attractor in the future…

…experience can modify nuclear DNA, which is denied by anti lamarckian evolution. That's not the way it's supposed to. Work, according to Darwin and the neo Darwinians. Nevertheless, if we don't believe that the only part of the body which is not traded out…

…to do with it, so he wrote a letter to the great scientist of the age, which was Charles Darwin in London. And when Darwin opened this letter, you know, just said, holy shit, this guy has scooped me 20 years I've been working on the origins. Here it…

…years I've been working on the origins. Here it is in four paragraphs. Who is this guy? Well, so then it became the Darwin Wallace theory of evolution for its 1st 50 years. And then Wallace dropped out of the picture because he disgraced himself by an…

…to be executed by the combined commitment of millions and millions of people had a slightly different version of evolution than Darwin did, how Wallace did. Yes, it was an interesting intellectual, and it actually has something to do with what we're talking…

…has something to do with what we're talking about, because there have been many descriptions of what the controversy between Wallace and Darwin really was, what it came down to. And I don't think most modern people realize this about evolution. In the 19th…

…came down to. And I don't think most modern people realize this about evolution. In the 19th century, these guys like Darwin and Thomas, Henry Huxley and Charles Lyell, they were waging war against Christianity. They were the great warriors of atheism. And…

…that are unanticipated. So when they looked at the shape of the continents, they discovered continental drift. When Wallace and Darwin looked at the distribution of butterflies over indonesian islands, they suddenly had a vision of the origin of species and…

…psychedelic community to my mind is Rupert Sheldrake and Rupert is a botanist, a natural scientist, a man in the tradition of Darwin and WaLlACe we're trying to say. And what is being realized I think, is that the psychedelics have always been exerting a…

…I mean, this may seem trivial to. You, it's new to me, so I'm into it. I read this book by George Dyson called Darwin among the Machines, and I. Highly recommend this book. This is a great book, fun book, Darwin among the machines. And one of the…

…read this book by George Dyson called Darwin among the Machines, and I. Highly recommend this book. This is a great book, fun book, Darwin among the machines. And one of the points that he. Makes in there that I had sort of. I mean, when you hear it,…

…left it going, in other words, the divine clockmaker. The universe was structured by a force which has now withdrawn from it. And Darwin and his circle were very clearly atheist, and they wanted to see biology as requiring no purpose to direct it at all.…

…so it's a different intellectual world. Well, now, when we look at nature, we see a kind of a different picture. We see that where Darwin said nature is all red in tooth claw, we see that the way to make your to be a successful species, the way to…

…I think, to suppose there is. A purpose, and also we see a. Level of global integration and global mutation that Darwin couldn't have even dreamed of, the idea of elements of time having their particular qualities. Have you correlated that with astrology…

…of probability. That is how the universe actually sculpts itself into higher and higher form. This is not the theory of evolution that Darwin came up with which sort of pushes from behind. It's a theory that there is a kind of a tractor in the future…

…sure to come. Because what I want to say ultimately is that the program of understanding human origins that begins with Darwin in the 19th century has only proceeded about halfway. What outraged the Victorian Mentality so much was the suggestion that human…

…that mutations are always random, but they are given cogency and order by then undergoing the process named by Darwin: Natural selection. That means the mutations which confer adaptive advantage are retained. The mutations which don't confer adaptive advantage,…

…you. It may be because it is trivial and I just never quite understood it before but I recently read George Dyson's book Darwin Among the machines, which is a wonderful book if you haven't read it. It's basically a history of the idea of thinking…

…monkeys, coral reefs, glaciers, volcanoes and so forth that the kinds of ideas that were developed in the 19th century by Darwin and the people who followed after him would be generally adequate to explain the situation. The astonishing natural product is…

…questions: the punctuated evolution thing, the idea that evolution moves by fits and starts, which was denied by Neo Darwinists and by Darwin himself in favor of the idea of a slow, gradual, steady progression moving at a more or less uniform rate. Darwin…

…by Darwin himself in favor of the idea of a slow, gradual, steady progression moving at a more or less uniform rate. Darwin was a great disciple of Lyell's and the principle and geology of uniformitarianism the idea that things go on at uniform rates.…

…and then big changes. That catastrophist theory, which was a popular theory at the beginning of the 19th century was rejected by Darwin as it was rejected by Lyell, because as soon as you allowed catastrophes. All the Christians agreed with this and said:…

…it suggests that evolution moves by fits and starts. And what started as an appalling heresy, it's been a recurrent heresy ever since Darwin first put forward his book and people have objected to it on the grounds that evolution may well move by fits and…

…time when there's a tremendous amount of interest in evolutionary psychology. Psychologists in the last five to ten years have discovered Darwin and I keep meeting psychologists who speak to me with that sort of enthusiasm and bright eyed quality of the new…

…and darwinism was all the fashion. In a sense, I think taylor was misunderstood. He was not so much a critic of Darwin as someone who wanted to extend darwinian mechanics and darwinian theory into domains that perhaps did not seem intuitive to a…

…speak to me with that sort of enthusiasm and bright eyed quality of the new convert. They've seen the light, they've discovered Darwin and I wonder why as a biologist, they haven't discovered Darwin a long time ago Darwin, after all opened up the field…

…of the new convert. They've seen the light, they've discovered Darwin and I wonder why as a biologist, they haven't discovered Darwin a long time ago Darwin, after all opened up the field of evolutionary psychology with his book the expression of emotions…

…seen the light, they've discovered Darwin and I wonder why as a biologist, they haven't discovered Darwin a long time ago Darwin, after all opened up the field of evolutionary psychology with his book the expression of emotions in man and the animals,…

…this is where humanness came from, and when you realize that the straight people who've had the field all to themselves since Darwin their best idea is that it was the coordination of the throwing arm, that it's the baseball pitcher who is the highest…

…as psilocybin in the diet but other things as well. Psilocybin is the most spectacular case and you know if you came to see Darwin You'd have to hear about evolution. So you came to see me so you have to hear this little theory about human emergence.…

…experience through this relationship with our machines. I think I said at one of these other meetings that I read George Dyson's book Darwin Among the machines which, if you're interested in all this is a great book to read. And the point that he makes…

…idea that god is a clockmaker and that god made the universe and wound it up like a clock and went away and what irked Darwin and Lyle and those people was the idea that the universe has a purpose. You see, they thought that if it has a purpose this…

…questions: the punctuated evolution thing, the idea that evolution moves by fits and starts which was denied by Neo Darwinists and by Darwin himself in favor of the idea of a slow, gradual, steady progression moving at a more or less uniform rate. Darwin…

…by Darwin himself in favor of the idea of a slow, gradual, steady progression moving at a more or less uniform rate. Darwin was a great disciple of Lyell's and the principle and geology of uniformitarianism, the idea that things go on at uniform rates.…

…and then big changes. That catastrophist theory, which was a popular theory at the beginning of the 19th century was rejected by Darwin as it was rejected by Lyell because as soon as he allowed catastrophes, all the Christians agreed with this and said:…

…suggests that evolution moves by fits and starts. And what started as an appalling heresy it's been a recurrent heresy ever since Darwin first put forward his book. People have objected to it on the grounds that evolution may well move by fits and starts.…

…People have objected to it on the grounds that evolution may well move by fits and starts. Even t h Huxley disagreed with Darwin on this one. Anyway if evolution moves by fits and starts rather than uniformly then it looks as if there's not a uniform…

…how reality works. What I mean by teleology is purpose and let me explain briefly the history of this problem. When Darwin invented evolution in the 19th century it was possible to call yourself an English Intellectual and actually believe that the planet…

…planet came into existence on September the 4th, 4004 b c that was a respectable intellectual opinion in British Parlors of 1850 Darwin the whole intellectual world was under the spell of deism the idea that the universe was the creation of a benevolent…

…deism the idea that the universe was the creation of a benevolent god who was guiding it from its birth to its death. Darwin opposed this and said: in the phenomenon of random mutation and natural selection, no plan, no purpose, no end state is being…

…of science that it would extend its methods into social phenomena. Having had such great success in the 19th century with Darwin and Wallace and biology, they thought: well then Herbert Spencer and all these people, why not just extend it into society?…

…epiphany, and that's exactly so. I'm here for part of the ride I don't see what's going on yeah and in George Dyson's book Darwin Among the machines he says there is nothing as much like thought as money and then gives examples of how money works like…

…trip on it was clear to me that this had to have evolutionary implications. And it seemed to me as I read my Darwin and Freud that there had to be some kind of quickening influence in human emergence that if not outright transcendental, was certainly…

…now and then. The fear of extinction, the fear of being part of what made this planet the way it is according to Darwin, is part of what's driving us all and it's probably part of what's driving this phenomenon we're describing today. You mean of some…

…runs slowly and it runs quickly. It has a kind of modulated speed. Well it's been a commonplace of western cosmology since Darwin, although it's never been elevated to the status of a law or even a principle. That steady complexification has occurred in…

…slowly and it runs quickly. It has a kind of modulated speed. Well it's been a commonplace of western cosmology since Darwin, although it's never been elevated to the status of a law or even a principle. That complex steady complexification has occurred…

…explorers, sailors who tell of feral pigs on remote islands and how they have gone wild and so forth. All this is what Darwin draws on and he discusses it in a common sense way. There's no statistical tests, chi squared tests, 5 levels of probability.…

…like this and I haven't mentioned the Galapagos, but they are another one are such obvious laboratories of speciation that when Darwin and Wallace and Walter Henry Bates and other people who were grappling in the 19th century with the so called species…

…In Indonesia, you can cross a strait of water 20 miles wide and have a 70 replacement in butterfly species. And Darwin and Wallace, Familiar with these places, both continental forests and faunas and the island situation, finally figured out what the…

…is that if islands have this tremendous role in speciation, as all evolutionists believe which in fact as you say, both Darwin and Wallace provide the classic cases then if we have places where there are contact, island chains and archipelagos have…

…kind of science where more people are empowered to take part. And when you think about it the kind of base that Darwin drew on exists today and even more so. There are tens of thousands of amateur plant breeders. There are amateur orchid growers…

…decides how you will steer the car. Well it has been for the past 150 years extremely fashionable in sociology and biology because of Darwin to deny telos in nature, to say that you know any apparent order in nature is made up of the disorder of random…

…mean this may seem trivial to you but it's new to me so I'm into it I read this book by George Dyson called Darwin among the machines and I highly recommend this book this is a great book fun book Darwin among the machines and one of When…

…I read this book by George Dyson called Darwin among the machines and I highly recommend this book this is a great book fun book Darwin among the machines and one of When you hear it, you say, yeah, I always sort of knew that, but I had never quite…

…it going. In other words, the divine clockmaker. The universe was structured by a force which has now withdrawn from it. And Darwin and his circle were very... clearly atheistic, and they wanted to see biology as requiring no purpose to direct it at all.…

…for. And so it's a different intellectual world. Well, now when we look at nature, we see a different picture. We see that where Darwin said nature is all red in tooth and claw, we see that the way to be a successful species, the way to survive, is…

…us, I think, to suppose there is a purpose. And also we see a level of global integration and global mutation that Darwin couldn't have even dreamed of being there. The idea of elements of time having their particular qualities, have you correlated that…

…of view on these matters and I don't imagine I was invited here to dumb it down. So you know if you had Darwin You'd get natural selection, if you had Freud You'd get sexual repression. So you've got McKenna so you're going to get psychoactive catalysis…

…scientific attitude, rolling up their sleeves and going in there with the same attitude that Wallace went to the Amazon and that Darwin went to the Galapagos, and let's figure out let's map the flora and fauna, let's get a taxonomy of these types let's…

…experience can modify nuclear DNA which is denied by anti lamarckian evolution. That's not the way it's supposed to work according to Darwin and the Neo Darwinians. Nevertheless, if we don't believe that the only part of the body which is not traded out…

…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. Merciliot talks about this, about how all the alchemical dreams of the 15th and 16th century have been…

…a fancy word meaning purpose. And what happened, you see is it's just simply a legacy of our intellectual history. When Darwin developed the theory of evolution in the 19th century, English Intellectual society was under the sway of Christianity and it was…

…ago in England people believed this with perfect confidence that they were at the cutting edge of intellectual understanding. Well, Darwin wanted to overcome deism, which was this all pervasive belief in an interventionist creator who was literally guiding the…

…belief in an interventionist creator who was literally guiding the flight of every atom and the fall of every leaf and Darwin said: we don't need this kind of invasive deistic plenum. Let's just take the process of mutation, a random process driven…

…evolution who, if I believed in reincarnation I would claim him as my own, Alfred Russell Wallace, was unable to agree with Darwin and he said: no that accounts for minor change in organisms, natural selection but how can you use those processes to…

…as anybody can tell, it is the primary value on the page. It sets the arrow of time, it redeems biology from just being, as Darwin saw it red in tooth and claw. It's far more than that it's an architecture, it's a plan, it's an unfolding and it seems…

…how you will steer the car. Well it has been for the past 150 years extremely fashionable in sociology and biology because of Darwin to deny telos in nature to say that any apparent order in nature is made up of the disorder of random mutation meeting…

…they were trying to pull away from the telos of Medieval Scholastic philosophy. They didn't want god, these 19th century English Atheists Darwin and Lyell and that crowd. However we have come through the so called death of god and the elimination of a…

…frame thy fearful symmetry? That kind of symmetry, or symmetry as we from the cattle towns of Western Colorado say how does Darwin see this as far as the theories of evolution, are you basically implying an accidental chaotic dance is going on in regards…

…chaos has actually changed. In the 19th century chaos meant disorder and the gene. In a sense you could almost say that Darwin was the first chaos theorist. Because they discovered the people, Darwin and his school, that you could take two processes which…

…and the gene. In a sense you could almost say that Darwin was the first chaos theorist. Because they discovered the people, Darwin and his school, that you could take two processes which are both random and that by running these two random processes…

…is essentially a theory which is an effort to account for the large numbers of diverse plants and animals on the planet. Darwin, in his diaries, referred to what he was doing as searching for a solution to the species problem. It was not thought…

…in England by this time Wallace had been six years knocking around in the forests of Indonesia. So he sends this letter to Darwin. Darwin had been working on the origin of species for nearly 18 years. This letter arrives in the post, he opens it up…

…in England by this time Wallace had been six years knocking around in the forests of Indonesia. So he sends this letter to Darwin. Darwin had been working on the origin of species for nearly 18 years. This letter arrives in the post, he opens it up and…

…was done and this is why Charles Darwin is the discoverer of evolution. For a few decades it was called the Darwin Wallace Theory, but eventually it's an interesting story although not relevant to what we're doing but what overturned well somewhat relevant.…

…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. Merciliot talks about this, about how all the alchemical dreams of the 15th and 16th century have been…

…That is not in fact what it was about. That's not what it was about. The outrageous assertion of the evolutionists, of Darwin Particularly and his school was not that human beings were descended from the great apes. In fact the outrageous assertion wasn't…

…origin of species and the descent of man and where the real kicker was lodged was in the origin of species why? Because Darwin set out to show that nature could be the product of processes without purpose. That was the bit that brought the roof down.…

…nature was to make lifelong friends into enemies and sunder families. Alfred Russell Wallace, who was the co discoverer of evolution with Darwin, really preceded him. He had a fever he was a professional butterfly collector, as I was once in my youth, and…

…day Charles Darwin at home in England in his Garden, working over 20 years of notes on the problem of the species. When Darwin got this letter from this unknown character, postmarked Ambon, Dutch East indies and read it, he paled visibly. And he went to…

…purists, it may have been better that way, because Wallace, who was in many ways a deeper thinker than Darwin was a Fabian Socialist, was fascinated by paranormal phenomena, as well as being interested in electricity, biogeography, anthropology, truly…

…as psilocybin in the diet but other things as well. Psilocybin is the most spectacular case and you know if you came to see Darwin You'd have to hear about evolution. So you came to see me so you have to hear this little theory about human emergence.…