…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…

…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…

…it. The machinery of cosmic fate yeah well they're definitely not keen on astrology. Well a simple way of saying that was when Thomas Aquinas said: the moral life is its own reward. In other words if you're an ethical person, what you get is to live…

…the consciousness of Western man was substantially different than the way it is now and he offers the example of st Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas was as you know the great founder of scholasticism. Well, sort of the great did the exegesis of…

…of Western man was substantially different than the way it is now and he offers the example of st Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas was as you know the great founder of scholasticism. Well, sort of the great did the exegesis of scholasticism, and he…

…could tell them what had been said on the page he was looking at. This was taken as proof of near divinity. What was Thomas Aquinas trick? He was the only man in Europe who knew how to read silently. He could read without moving his lips. People fell…

…and it is exactly the same mystery that you hit at five 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…

…So this new function comes into 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…

…that you are doing the magic for. You know where was it? Did I say last night in the talk the thing about st Thomas Aquinas and all that? Oh well here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about: being able to do magic by stepping outside of a…

…perfect example of what I'm talking about: being able to 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…

…things we have is sanctioned ideologies. And I suppose to somebody milking their cows and spinning wool in the 12th century, Thomas Aquinas was the equivalent of quantum physics, they said: well good thing these priests are on top of it because we simple…

…and it is exactly the same mystery that you hit at five 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…

…after. The singularity is a coincidencia positorum 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 process…

…of screwballs 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…

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

…at 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 by they would come to…

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

…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…