History of Philosophy Audio Archive #92- Fractal History and the Imagination: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 4-6)
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:50) - Part 4: Fractal History
(00:54:51 ) - Part 5: Creativity and the Imagination (1/2)
(01:40:24) - Part 6: Creativity and the Imagination (2/2)
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Part 4 - Fractal History at the Edge of the Millennium
The fractal idea of history, and millennia as the plateaus of history. These bifurcation periods as opportunities to influence the creation of the future. What kind of future or change are we trying to create? The need for the enhancement and spread of clarity. Psychic pets and their role in breaking the spell of rationalism. Psychedelics, the World Wide Web and psychic pets as forms of boundary dissolution. The need for change in the educational system. The problem of the rejection of mathematics.
Part 5 - Creativity and the Imagination (1/2)
The crisis in science: collision between the permanent and evolutionary views of the nature of reality. The universe as an evolving system of habits. Did natural law exist before the Big Bang? Cosmic creativity, imagination and the womb of chaos. Chaotic sudden perturbations. The Omega Point. The ego's response to chaos. The cosmic attractor in the evolutionary process.
Part 6 - Creativity and the Imagination (2/2)
How is human imagination related to the creative principle of nature? The nature of the Gaian mind. Human history as a Gaian dream. The Divine Imagination as the source of all creativity. How can we extract the message of the Gaian mind? How could the imaginations of the solar system, galaxy and cosmos be related to each other? Dark matter and the cosmic unconscious. The nature of the Logos. The personal apocalypse. The journey of language to the Divine Imagination. Natural law, ordinary reality and chaos.