But the problem is that people cant see the cigar store now. I mean, things dont affect people the way they used to. I mean, it may very well be that 10 years from now... ...people will pay $10,000 in cash to be castrated... ...just in order to be affected by something. Well, why...why do you think that is? I mean, why is that? I mean, is it just because people are lazy today, or theyre bored? I mean, are we just like bored, spoiled children... ...whove just been lying in the bathtub all day... ...just playing with their plastic duck... ...and now theyre just thinking, Well, what can I do? Okay. Yes. Were bored. Were all bored now. But has it every occurred to you, Wally, that the process... ...that creates this boredom that we see in the world now... ...may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing... ...created by a world totalitarian government based on money... ...and that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks... ...and its not just a question of individual survival, Wally... ...but that somebody whos bored is asleep... ...and somebody whos asleep will not say no? See, I keep meeting these people... I mean, uh,just a few days ago... I met this man whom I greatly admire. Hes a Swedish physicist. Gustav Bjrnstrand. And he told me that he no longer watches television... ...he doesnt read newspapers, and he doesnt read magazines. Hes completely cut them out of his life... ...because he really does feel that were living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare now... ...and that everything that you hear now contributes to turning you into a robot. And when I was at Findhorn, I met this extraordinary English tree expert... ...who had devoted his life to saving trees. Just got back from Washington, lobbying to save the redwoods. Hes 84 years old, and he always travels with a backpack... cause he never knows where hes gonna be tomorrow. And when I met him at Findhorn, he said to me, Where are you from? I said, New York. He said, Ah, New York. Yes, thats a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact that they want to leave, but never do? And I said, Oh, yes. And he said, Why do you think they dont leave? I gave him different banal theories. He said, Oh, I dont think its that way at all. He said, I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp... where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves... and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing theyve built. Theyve built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia... where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result, they no longer have... having been lobotomized... the capacity to leave the prison theyve made... ...or to even see it as a prison. And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree... ...and he said, This is a pine tree. He put it in my hand and he said, Escape before its too late. See, actually, for two or three years now... Chiquita and I have had this very unpleasant feeling that we really should get out. We really feel likeJews in Germany in the late 30s. Get out of here. Of course, the problem is where to go. Cause it seems quite obvious that the whole world is going in the same direction. See, I think its quite possible that the 1960s... ...represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished... ...and that this is the beginning of the rest of the future, now... ...and that from now on therell simply be all these robots walking around... ...feeling nothing, thinking nothing. And therell be nobody left almost to remind them... ...that there once was a species called a human being... ...with feelings and thoughts... ...and that history and memory are right now being erased... ...and soon nobody will really remember... ...that life existed on the planet. Now, of course, Bjrnstrand feels that theres really almost no hope... ...and that were probably going back to a very savage... ...lawless, terrifying period. Findhorn people see it a little differently. Theyre feeling that therell be these pockets of light... ...springing up in different parts of the world... ...and that these will be, in a way, invisible planets on this planet... ...and that as we, or the world, grow colder... ...we can take invisible space journeys to these different planets... ...refuel for what it is we need to do on the planet itself... ...and come back. And its their feeling that there have to be centers now... ...where people can come and reconstruct a new future for the world. And when I was talking to, uh, Gustav Bjrnstrand... ...he was saying that actually these centers are growing up everywhere now... ...and that what theyre trying to do, which is what Findhorn was trying to do... ...and, in a way, what I was trying to do... I mean, these things cant be given names... ...but in a way, these are all attempts at creating a new kind of school... ...or a new kind of monastery. And Bjrnstrand talks about the concept of reserves... ...islands of safety where history can be remembered... ...and the human being can continue to function... ...in order to maintain the species through a dark age. In other words, were talking about an underground... ...which did exist in a different way during the Dark Ages... ...among the mystical orders of the church. And the purpose of this underground... ...is to find out how to preserve the light, life, the culture... ...how to keep things living. You see, I keep thinking that what we need... ...is a new language... ...a language of the heart... ...a language, as in the Polish forest, where language wasnt needed. Some kind of language between people that is a new kind of poetry... ...thats the poetry of the dancing bee that tells us where the honey is. And I think that in order to create that language... ...youre going to have to learn how you can go through a looking glass... ...into another kind of perception... ...where you have that sense of being united to all things... ...and suddenly you understand everything. https://youtube/watch?v=4uAiWFdoJDg
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:20:33 +0000
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