…are hardly more than two full integers in here. Now, what this thing is down here, 515 B.C. Can somebody, here. Whose birth? Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu, let me see. In 515, what was going on? There should be a steep something or other. Who was alive? Justinia.…

…more than two full integers in here. Now, what this thing is down here, 515 B.C. Can somebody, here. Whose birth? Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu, let me see. In 515, what was going on? There should be a steep something or other. Who was alive? Justinia. No, wait…

…novelty is one of the most astonishing places on the graph. How's this crowd all alive at one time? Thales, Anaximander, Lao Tzu, Cyrus the Great, Buddha, Mahavira, the prophet of the Jain religion, Confucius, Heraclitus, And then I'm leaving out the lesser…

…was 26. They could have gone drinking and taken Heraclitus along. He was only 15 at the time. And if they'd run into Lao Tzu, he would have been probably, he was 54. So all these people were together right in this steep descent into novelty here. No,…

…Tao Te Ching, which is, in a way, the prolegomena to this book. the Tao Te Ching is a series of philosophical poems attributed to Lao Tzu in which he talks about the Tao well from the picture of the Tao that you take away from the Tao Te Ching you…

…when you first started this whole process about the mathematical quantification, I guess it is, of those diagrams you had earlier was Lao Tzu in Tao Te Ching was addressing something about trying to understand the Tao instead of the Tao that can be named…

…and the birth of ideas were very concentrated. You know there was a 40 year period in the 5th century BC when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together.…

…forgotten for all eternity? Or do you have some inner consolation that that won't happen and you're going to go off and be with Lao Tzu and MAO and everybody else who ever died? Or you know think of it as a telephone booth being filled with water and…

…say, indo European Specific at the very same moment that Plato was teaching in Athens, Ezekiel was active in Israel, Mencius and Lao Tzu were active in china. This was a moment of tremendous creativity. Well then notice that down here, from about 500 AD…

…paraclete into our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, these were guys you know, a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a…

…up in four or five or six hundred b c with Pythagoras of Greece and with the buddha in Northern India and the Lao Tzu and the taoists in china, all coming to the same conclusion that there is this universe within. The great challenge of human life…

…forgotten for all eternity? Or do you have some inner consolation that that won't happen and you're going to go off and be with Lao Tzu and MAO and everybody else who ever died or just what is it and I think of it as a telephone booth being filled…

…4 006 year cycle? Well it turns out it's about 460 b c. Well when you look into that date, you discover Mencius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Ezekiel, Pythagoras all of these people were alive at a single moment in time, that moment, the moment which it indicates…

…then prints all the other stuff around. Now it's scrolling up more. Ok, Pythagoras, Persian Conquest of Egypt Birth of Aeschylus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Ezekiel will scroll up next and so forth. So it is or is it confirming that this deep trough is in fact…

…the paraclete into our midst and the idea of the messiah is born, which is an incredibly peculiarly western idea. I mean buddha, Lao Tzu, Mencius Confucius these were guys you know a messiah is a horse of a different feather. A messiah is not exactly a…

…that up and look at the bottom of that trough, there was a moment when you could have had a dinner party when Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Pythagoras and Ezekiel could have all gotten drunk together had they been able to find each other right back there…

…which ricochet into the past and if you are correctly situated, it'll turn you into a Christ or a buddha or a Lao Tzu. If you're not quite correctly situated, it turns you into a madame Blavatsky, a meister Eckhart in other words second stringers if…

…have no idea what that means. Let's answer first umm 526 b c. Oh it's the Greek Renaissance, It's Plato, Pythagoras, Ezekiel Confucius, Lao Tzu. Hey I think it's time to knock off. You should quit when you're ahead you know, yes most of my left is…

…the birth of ideas were very concentrated. You know, there was a 40 year period in the 5th century b c when Lao Tzu, Mencius, Confucius, Parmenides, Ezekiel and several other luminaries all if they had air tickets could have had a dinner party together.…