…heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence. And one of my favorite Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce…

…like thermodynamics, newtonian physics, the laws of mechanics, so forth and so on. And that we are. I mean, this is where Descartes pushed it in this 18th century. That we are machines of some sort. Yet, you know, persistently modernity insists that there…

…those coincidences, folks, would be the birthplace of Einstein some centuries later. But anyway, they pitched their tents at Ulm. And Descartes, who was not the mature philosopher of science that we know, but just to some punk mercenary, you know, getting…

…angel appeared to him. And the angel said, the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measurement and number. And Descartes awoke from this dream and he founded scientific materialism. He founded modern science based on the revelation of an angel.…

…loud. You know, they posture and preen about the glory of the rational intellect and all this malarkey. It's malarkey. If Descartes had not been given the clue by this angelic visitor, probably modern science would have been delayed for another century or…

…heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence, and one of my favorite Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce…

…siege was a young French soldier who had been wenching and traveling across Europe in the style of the times, rené Descartes, destined to be the founder of modern scientific materialism. I like to think that perhaps Descartes Actually encountered his bethnom…

…the times, rené Descartes, destined to be the founder of modern scientific materialism. I like to think that perhaps Descartes Actually encountered his bethnom Michael Mayer, prince of alchemists, in the confused situation that prevailed when Prague fell, for…

…far different affair, Terence, what if there had been a different story? What if in the duel between Michael Mayer and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes…

…Michael Mayer and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes experiences a near death experience in which he sees not only in a panoramic view as we all know what…

…Mayer and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes experiences a near death experience in which he sees not only in a panoramic view as we all know what happens in a…

…human soul and its spirituality retreats until it only contacts the pineal gland at one point of tangentiality. This is Descartes Doctrine and then finally the later revision of Descartes denies the existence of the res virens entirely the interior spirit…

…only contacts the pineal gland at one point of tangentiality. This is Descartes Doctrine and then finally the later revision of Descartes denies the existence of the res virens entirely the interior spirit and spirit is exercised from the modern world making…

…money okay well then up here you get a tremendous shift: 1740 this is called the European Enlightenment. It begins with Voltaire, Descartes, those people and it plunges deeply, deeply. Here let's get a little closer focus excuse me going back just a tiny…

…same epistemic naivete, this inability to distinguish between subjective and objective world through the intercession of newton and Descartes that Frederick the elector and the alchemists around him and the alchemists that preceded them through the centuries…

…One of the best kept secrets of the birth of modern science is that it was founded by an angel, that the young rené Descartes was whoring and soldiering his way across Europe as a 21 year old in a Habsburg Army and one night in the town of…

…Ulm in Southern Germany, he had a dream strange that this would be the birthplace of Albert Einstein some 200 years later. But Descartes had a dream and an angel appeared to him in the dream and the angel said: the conquest of nature is achieved through…

…was a young French soldier who had been wenching and traveling across Europe in the style of the times, rené Descartes, destined to be the founder of modern scientific materialism. I like to think that perhaps Descartes Actually encountered his bethnom,…

…the times, rené Descartes, destined to be the founder of modern scientific materialism. I like to think that perhaps Descartes Actually encountered his bethnom, Michael Mayer, prince of alchemists, in the confused situation that prevailed when Prague fell, for…

…far different affair, Terence. What if there had been a different story? What if in the duel between Michael Mayer and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies, but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes…

…Michael Mayer and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies, but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes experiences a near death experience in which he sees not only in a panoramic view as we all know what…

…and rené Descartes that you have envisaged, it's not Mayer who dies, but Mayer who blows a near fatal hit to Descartes and Descartes experiences a near death experience in which he sees not only in a panoramic view as we all know what happens in a…

…can be formalized. This is an assumption that's basic to a lot of cognitive psychology. It's basic to the cartesian. Descartes himself thought that what made human intellects human was their ability to think logically, clear and distinct ideas, essentially…

…know who founded the philosophy of rational materialism? Any takers? Aristotle was early I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well, you know who told rené Descartes to found rationalism and materialism? An angel,…

…was early I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well, you know who told rené Descartes to found rationalism and materialism? An angel, are you ready for this? This is a suppressed history episode in the history…

…you ready for this? This is a suppressed history episode in the history of human thought. Here are the facts, folks. 1619, rené Descartes is 21 years old he's a young frenchman in search of adventure. He joins a Habsburg Army that is going off to Prague…

…as Einstein's Hometown and in fact that figures in our story obliquely as you will see. This French Army camps at Ulm and rené Descartes hits the hay. And in the middle of the night an angel appears to this young man in the radiance of his rooms and…

…heading. Topography cracked the voices of silence and one of my favorite Heidegger Surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave so there's a lot of fun in McLuhan and this comes out of his being a Joyce…

…that science is very unfriendly to angels, there is anecdotal evidence that science was founded by an angel the famous visitation to Descartes in which he was as a young man, told the conquest of nature will be accomplished through number and measure. This…

…is just the habit, the wish or the means the technology of communicating with angels so that we can receive this information and Descartes was somehow open to this dream, cthulhu was open to this dream, and we actually have worked hard the three of us…

…the reality of the trinity, the full trinity that means the body, the soul the spirit and so on at the same time Descartes also Descartes and newton that we frequently blame for a mechanistic paradigm and so on they were full of the spirit themselves…

…of the trinity, the full trinity that means the body, the soul the spirit and so on at the same time Descartes also Descartes and newton that we frequently blame for a mechanistic paradigm and so on they were full of the spirit themselves yet they don't…

…and wenching his way around Europe while he decided what to do with himself, and his name was Rene Descartes a frenchman. And Descartes, in his later years reminisced about his period as a soldier in this army and I like to think that it was actually…

…Descartes, in his later years reminisced about his period as a soldier in this army and I like to think that it was actually Descartes who murdered Meyer. One of my ambitions is to write a play or a novel where these two confront themselves in a back…

…alley of burning Prague and carry on a debate about the future of Europe before Michael Meyer falls to the sword of Descartes. Well that may be apocryphal but what is not apocryphal is that this habsburgian army, having laid siege and destroyed the…

…Now by a strange coincidence, Ulm is the birthplace of Einstein some hundreds of years later. But on the night of September 16th Descartes had a dream and in this dream an angel appeared to him and this is documented by his own hand and the angel…

…dream and in this dream an angel appeared to him and this is documented by his own hand and the angel said to Descartes: the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measure and number. And that revelation laid the basis for modern science. René…

…fold first of all there's the permanence of the laws of nature, the eternal mathematical laws of nature considered by newton and Descartes to be ideas in the mind of god, god being a mathematician. This is a very popular and recurrently popular idea among…

…certain kind of skepticism and a certain kind of love of science? Well I think I still believe what the angel told Descartes which is, you know nature is understood through the coordination of measurement and proportion. So really nature is the study of…

…Apollonius but it was very difficult and became simple when the idea of coordinate systems was abstracted from Renaissance Painters by Descartes and turned into a cognitive strategy based on rulers and so on. So the coordinate frame is the basis of…

…Umm. Topography cracked the voices of silence and one of my favorite Heidegger Surfboards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan and this comes out of his being a Joyce…

…people know? You know modern science was founded by Rene Descartes in the early 17th century. What were the circumstances under which Descartes founded modern science? Rene Descartes was a 19 year old, basically ne er do well, and he decided that he would…

…Southern Germany. Which synchronicity freaks, pay attention. Ulm will later be the birthplace of Albert Einstein, worth noting. But that night Descartes in the barracks, had a dream and an angel appeared to him and the angel said: the conquest of nature is…

…of western thinking built on platonism owes its debt to an invisible agency speaking from hyperspace. So does modern science a La Descartes. How much more of this I mean we don't care if artists talk to angels because our definition of them is that…

…want to say one more thing. I'll subvert myself. That is, in order to do its work science had to and this happened with Descartes it had to take the things that are most dear to us colors, taste, feeling, tactility and it defined those things as what…

…from that and so the primary datum is the first level of being. But to say I believe in it you know in western philosophy Descartes and that would be in like 1625 said cogito ergo sum I think, therefore I am and that seemed to make sense for 200…

…given think, the datum of immediate experience but then the therefore is an enormous abyss of assumption that may have made sense to Descartes but it does not make sense to modern people. I think what we can say is: I think, if you're not thinking then…

…in consciousness because as soon as you say that the human unconscious is separate or the human consciousness was the first thing Descartes said separate from the entire realm of matter then you get the idea of the unconscious and the extension of mind…

…same epistemic naivete, this inability to distinguish between subjective and objective world through the intercession of newton and Descartes, that Frederick the elector and the alchemists around him and the alchemists that preceded them through the centuries…

…years war. One of the young French Soldiers in this Habsburg Army laying siege to the city was the 19 year old rené Descartes who would grow up to be the great proponent of modern French Materialism. Michael Meyer, One of the last great synthesizers of…

…talk I got a dig in at cartesian logic or cartesian rationalism. As you know modern scientific materialism was founded by rené Descartes, a French philosopher of the 17th century. But what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from…

…what the historians of science have been at great pains to keep from view is the following story, which is attested to in Descartes own journal: when he was a young man of about 22 years old he decided to go soldiering and wenching around Europe which…

…they made camp at Ulm in Southern Germany and just as an aside Ulm Later was the birthplace of Albert Einstein. But that night Descartes had a dream, and the dream in the dream a radiant angel appeared to him and said: the conquest of nature is to be…

…gland and the pineal gland has always been thought of as somehow connected to the soul it was the seat of the soul for Descartes and I think that maybe what history is is the rather muddled situation that occurs in an animal species while it perfects a…

…who was basically soldiering and wenching his way across Europe which was something gentlemen did in those days and his name was rené Descartes. And after the fall of Prague I can't remember the exact date but I think it was in early august of 1619 this…

…those coincidences folks would be the birthplace of Einstein some centuries later. But anyway they pitched their tents at Ulm. And Descartes who was not the mature philosopher of science that we know but just some punk mercenary, you know getting his first…

…angel appeared to him and the angel said: the conquest of nature is to be achieved through measurement and number. And Descartes Awoke from this dream and he founded scientific materialism. He founded modern science based on the revelation of an angel.…

…loud and you know they posture and preen about the glory of the rational intellect and all this malarkey it's malarkey. If Descartes had not been given the clue by this angelic visitor, probably modern science would have been delayed for another century or…

…of cultivated feminine response to nature it is utterly impossible recall that the point of view of cartesian materialism pushed Descartes to actually claiming in public debate that animals were machines. He said they feel nothing. The apparent display of…

…feel nothing. The apparent display of pain is simply something which we project onto them because we alone have a soul. And Descartes you see himself had not gone over completely to materialism he believed there was a human soul but it came tangential at…

…gland there was a switch and the soul was running things like a telephone switchboard operator from there. Well, very shortly after Descartes his followers just said: well we don't need this this soul concept was just a thing to stay on the right side…

…because which that's an interesting sort of metaphor the descent of an angel into the desert of reason. As you probably know, when Descartes was 21 years old, he shipped out in a habsburgian army to kick some ass in Eastern Europe and learn some manly…

…soldiering skills. And he was in Ulm in Southern Germany in august of 1620, Ulm Later to be the birthplace of Einstein. And Descartes, who was completely wet behind the ears, didn't know anything, had a dream, and in the dream an angel this is apropos…

…world entirely animate with spirit and angelic beings running up ladders and performing all kinds of miraculous tasks. And then with Descartes you know you get this grudging admission that well maybe the soul touches matter at just one place in the pineal…

…of each one of us there's this magic trip hammer and there the little angel performs the forbidden transduction. And then 50 years after Descartes then they say well no, no that was the naive part of his thinking. We're going to get rid of that and now…

…see if we are willing to accept that the universe is an organism rather than a machine, which is what we inherit out of Descartes and newton. If we can see that the universe is an organism, then we can see that it is evolving across all spectrums of…

…or weeks in the alembic of the alchemist. Well as science defined itself throughout the 17th and 18th century under the impetus of Descartes and Kant and all of these people, this notion of the world as a distillate apparatus was given up but it returns…

…firm ontological division between mind and matter that is built into western thinking now did not exist. That comes with rené Descartes with the invention of what's called the res extensa, the extended world and the res virens the interior world which has…

…know who founded the philosophy of rational materialism any takers? Aristotle was early. I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well you know who told rené Descartes to found rationalism and materialism? An angel.…

…was early. I think I'd give credit to rené Descartes for modern materialism and rationalism. Well you know who told rené Descartes to found rationalism and materialism? An angel. Are you ready for this? This is a suppressed history episode in the history…

…you ready for this? This is a suppressed history episode in the history of human thought. Here are the facts, folks. 1619, rené Descartes is 21 years old he's a young frenchman in search of adventure. He joins the Habsburg Army that is going off to…

…as Einstein's Hometown and in fact that figures in our story obliquely as you will see. This French Army camps at Ulm and rené Descartes hits the hay and in the middle of the night an angel appears to this young man in the radiance of his rooms and…