Today we are going to discuss some extremely controversial topics and because this is going to go on YouTube there are certain words I cannot say. So just to warn you I will write down these words but I will not say them because if I do say them then I will get censored on YouTube. Today we're going to look at how evil triumphs. Why is the world so evil? And there's going to be a lot of extremely disturbing topics we're going to discuss but you're mature and it's important that we discuss these topics in order to understand how the world works. So let's just start and we will do a lot of speculation and theorizing in this class. So do not take this as gospel. Do not believe this is the truth. The entire point of this class is to help you to help the theories and the ideas to better understand the world. These are tools.
Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs
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This is not truth. These are tools. Alright so the first question I have for you is what is happening in Israel? Right now as you know Israel is besieging, bombarding Gaza. You might have seen the videos on social media. It is disturbing. It is terrible what is happening. The word that is happening, the word that we use for what is happening in Gaza is this word. You are not allowed to say this word on YouTube but that is the intention. What I will argue though is that the truth is far more disturbing than this. What is really happening in Gaza is a ritual sacrifice. And this happens quite often. In human history. If you go back and you look at the real history of humanity, this happens quite often. Some of the most famous examples are the Aztecs. We've dug up temples of the Aztecs and inside the temples are thousands and thousands of human skulls.
So before they went to war, they practiced human sacrifice. They would commit mass murder of their enemies in public. So the Aztecs were really famous for this. The Phoenicians, specifically the Carthaginians. We will discuss them later this semester but the Phoenicians were also famous for a particular type of sacrifice which is child sacrifice. The Romans wrote histories insulting the Phoenicians for practicing this sort of sacrifice. But the Romans themselves practiced human sacrifice. What they would do is that after every major war, they would capture all the major leaders, all their enemies, and they would parade their enemies through the streets of Rome. This is something called a triumph. At the end of the triumph, they would gather enemies at the temple of Jupiter. Jupiter is their god. And then they would strangle to death their enemies. That's sacrifice. That's human sacrifice. They didn't call it that. And they sort of disguised it. But we know for a fact that they did do this.
So the question for us is, why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why do the Romans do it? And why is it today that the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific to me. because it is really this sort of sacrifice why because 47 % almost half of the population of Gaza is under 18 years old so the majority of people who are getting killed are in fact children what is most striking or blatant about what's happening in Gaza is that we can all see it for ourselves and it's almost as though this release want us to see it and want us to hate them right you can see over the world popular opinion is turning against Israel you have these popular protests all around the
world protesting what is happening in Palestine if they really want to do this right there are actually much more effective ways of doing this for example you just poison their water you just poison their water or you could poison the ear so that everyone in Gaza gets a fast cancer right we have the technology to do this so so Israel could do it this secretly and no one would talk about it and in 20 years time 30 years time the public population of Gaza would all be gone it would be a very secret right instead they choose to do this because they don't want to do it because they don't choose to do this in front of the world and my argument to you is that this is intentional they want the world to hate them because by doing this they create the ultimate taboo right we find this disgusting and contemptuous so the entire
world will unite against Israel but guess what that's what their religion wants they call it extremist freedom from within Israel as a Jewish tradition especially before the beginning when Basra was a diarrhea war and extraréalist and right but I think the God is the 你的 can be cruel and it could be Peacemaker of this ritual sacrifice is to unite the Israeli population and what's extremely disturbing and horrifying about it is that this works why well let's use an analogy okay the analogy is this in Chinese history the most popular military strategy M is to fight with a river behind your back you guys have heard of this strategy right where okay an army is losing okay it's being scattered by the enemy so what the general does is forces the army to retreat to a river and now with a river blocking your escape you have a choice you can either drown in the river
or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death and so at this point the soldiers are unified they're galvanized you're energized and then they find a surge of energy to go and destroy the enemy okay this is the most popular military stratagem in ancient Chinese history and guess what it's the same as Israel doing this right now in Gaza it's the same logic yes you have a question so what is the river for the Israel like yeah that's a good question what's the river right here right the river is a taboo right what's the worst thing you can do in modern society killing children guys right so there's no exit for Israel you either go all the way or the world comes and destroys you anyway and in fact what's really interesting is that if you you go online you will see is released go around the
world and causing trouble everywhere they're going to start fights there they shout death to the Arabs on public buses in the Western world it's intentional they want to unite themselves by dividing the world by ending the world okay does that make sense all right so this is all very disturbing and I want to see if you have any suggestions and suggestions or you have any suggestions slowly unpack review to reveal to you how this works okay so uh to do this what i'm going to do is i'm going to use a thought experiment the thought experiment is this let's just say that there's an island we don't know where the island is but it's an island and there's no skip from the island and on the island there at the center it's a hill and it's safe but everywhere else you have these flesh -eating monkeys roaming everywhere okay the problem is that on this
island the resources you need to survive trees food and rivers the monkeys are there okay there's one safe spot in the center but everywhere else if you want resources you have to go fight these monkeys they're flesh -eating monkeys they want to kill you they want to eat you and there's an infinite number of them now let's just say that one day for whatever reason okay we don't know why but 100 men aging and they range from 15 to 65 years old okay they are mysteriously transplanted onto this island in a safe spot they come from different countries they do not speak the same language they are of different ethnicities they are all poor people in their countries they don't have much education so they're there and they realize quickly that the whole world is utterly hopeless there's no escape from this island these monkeys are everywhere and they are tough warriors and the situation
looks bleak they don't even speak the same language they don't have a common culture so at this point you would imagine that they would feel hopeless and just lie down and die but in reality what happens is the opposite what happens is that in this hopeless situation they find a drive a purpose a spirit to fight for each other and what will happen really quickly okay and this is really interesting is the first thing that they will do is they will develop a common language they don't speak the same language some speak chinese some speak english some speak spanish some say russian doesn't matter they will very quickly develop a common language and then what they will do is with this common language they will start to tell each other stories of where they come from and then these stories will become a common myth a founding myth of why they're here and they come
to believe that god has chosen them to save the world and that's why they're here then what they will do is with this new religion they will start to develop the word change they start to develop different language they live and share to one another they continue to do many things and everything comes together and then they bring healing because they 인중 betrayal occurs and then what they will do is they continue to develop a new religious religion rituals to reinforce this religion these rituals include sex okay so these men will have sex and the reason why is create intimacy and bonding among them and there'll be a lot of religious rituals as well another thing that they will do is pick a leader there's a hundred of them they need a leader to organize them and so we can imagine that during the leadership election everyone gets up to speak now the man who
65 he is wise he has experience yes strategies so he delivers a very powerful speech inspiring everyone and telling people how they can survive against the flesh -eating monkeys okay so he's really smart then suddenly you have a man up here who's 15 years old or 16 or 17 okay he is not articulate he has no ideas but what he does is that he stands in front of everyone and he's cooperative and he's brave and he looks at everyone while saying a word he shows them his hand ok it shows him his hand then from his pocket he takes out a knife ok and then he cuts off his hand in front of everyone and it's not cry it just looks at everyone one as though nothing happened let me ask you this question who does everyone pick to be the leader the second person obviously right the man who has shown sacrifice and commitment
and devotion to everyone else the old man has ideas and he will become the advisor to the leader but the leader is the man who is most willing to die for everyone else and so in this situation the bravest among them will come and emerge as the leader and as such what will happen is that these people these men will become extremely inspired and devoted even though they are weak they will learn to become strong even though they are poor and uneducated they will learn to be wise and clever and strategic they will radically transform themselves and ultimately what will happen is the idea of cohesion cohesion like brothers cohesion like a family they will understand each other even though they're from different cultures even though they have different backgrounds they will understand each other better than they understand their own children and their own wives and this cohesion will lead to something called synchronicity
synchronicity synchronicity is when people act in unison together okay so a very simple example of synchronicity is a sports team right when you watch a soccer match how is that soccer team able to work together well because of synchronicity because their minds are alike it's what we call a hive mind and this allows for something called telepathy they're able to think and act as one so let me give an example of this let's just say one they're like these men they're sleeping but one of them one is off to collect wood and then he's attacked by monkeys it doesn't matter if he screams because he's too far away would his comrades know that he's in danger they would okay and the example here is let's just say you're a mother and you have children okay and one of them goes off to france on a vacation but then while he's in france he gets hit
by a car and he's hospitalized would you as a mother know that he that your son is in danger would you feel it he hasn't called you you don't know about this but in your heart would you know it the answer is yes you wouldn't know it you would feel something is wrong you would get on the phone and try to call your son you would you can't reach your son you would call the police okay you don't know what's happening but something in your heart is telling you i need to get in touch with my son okay and that's how the hive mind works that's how synchronicity works let's let's look at another example let's just say that one day you there's ten of you and you're all collecting wood and then suddenly you're attacked by a hundred flesh -eating monkeys there's a bridge that you've created okay it's a rope bridge nine get
across the bridge all right but you're the last person okay and all the monkeys are about to descend on you and you know that if the monkeys get across your comrades are dead so what you what do you do in this situation yeah you you cut the rope okay you die you think about it you just kill yourself because what matters is that your life what matters is the family what matters is the team and we know about this because in war what often happens is in trench warfare the other the enemy will throw a grenade into the trench right there's not enough time to get that to pick up that uh grenade and throw it away so what soldiers do is they will jump on the grenade and absorb the explosion thus killing himself it happens instantaneously no one thinks about it you just do it because what matters is saving your comrades and
this is what happens okay a synchronicity develops where it's almost as though you're able to reach read each other's minds and they keep on doing this for like 10 20 years and then suddenly okay let's continue a thought experiment suddenly you are transported back to the real world as though nothing happened but you have memories of what happened okay doesn't make sense okay you've experienced 20 years of hell on Monkey Island you've dealt the capacity to work together you have a hive mind you're really energized you're really inspired you're really driven you have a new religion all to yourself now suddenly you're all transferred transported back to your real world your old life okay now what would happen what would happen is that the hundred of you would want to come together again right and you would share your experience your rituals your religion with your children and your grandchildren and quickly over time what
will happen is that you guys will conquer the world you will become the secret elite the world is yours there may be presidents there may be famous people but secretly you're the ones who are in control your children your grandchildren your great -grandchildren will inherit this legacy and they are the ones who truly control power in the world does that make sense all right yeah question
here like if when the time if this person really transferred back to the reality what if that time already have a leader that like you are just a peasant but not
a leader okay yeah that's your question I've already told you this okay on the service there are leaders but the real power are you guys okay and I'll explain why all right now um what's also interesting is that while you're on this island you will develop certain rituals that are very strange but are important if you want to maintain your self -esteem if you want to maintain your self -esteem unity okay so for example one strange ritual is the funeral ritual the funeral ritual the idea here is that when someone sacrificed himself you have a huge funeral sub with that person and this may involve you cutting that person into different pieces and in that person okay but you you will develop really strange rituals okay does it make sense okay so I'm gonna answer your question uh why are these guys in charge and not the real leaders of Society but first I want
to give you some historical analogies to this okay how do you know that what I'm saying is correct well let's look at certain analogies of his in history all right so Sparta Sparta is one of the most famous military societies in world history Sparta is a city -state in ancient Greece um you may have heard of Sparta um a movie about Sparta was made called 300. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the movie 300. but 300 is really about 300 Spartan soldiers who are fighting millions not millions but hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers Persia is invading mainland Greece they fight at a place called thermopylae the battle thermopylae and this is a pass into meaning Greece the Greeks have to hold this position if they are to prevent the invasion okay 300 Spartan soldiers backed by thousands of other Greek soldiers make a last stand in this path they are overwhelmed by
the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people the 300 soldiers make a final stand their leader is Leonidas and he tells them we will fight to the death they all fight to the death and they're all massacred and the Persians take Leonidas head cut on us on a pike to warn the Greeks we are merciless eventually the Greeks um inspired by the sacrifice of Leonidas they will repel the invasion and destroy the invaders so how do we get this culture okay well the education system of the Spartans is really interesting it's really disturbing actually so young boys at age five and six are taken away from their homes and they are put in a school run by older boys okay so so the older boys are maybe like 10 11. and so what happens as you can imagine is the older boys beat the crap out of the younger boys okay from day
one there's no education they're not learning anything all that's happening is the older boys are just beating the crap out of the younger boys but because this is happening we call this like hazing okay this happens actually a lot um among communities and sports teams they're when they're getting the crap being out of them it builds solidarity it builds Brotherhood so these young boys who are five and six they learn to love each other because only by helping each other can they survive the brutality okay then what happens is when they 11 when they become 11 12 13 when they hit puberty this is really interesting they become mentored okay mentored by an older soldier an older Spartan soldier who's maybe 28 29 30. but he has a family they become lovers they have sex with each other and this builds group solidarity okay so during hazing phase these young boys learn to trust each
other they learn how to bond with each other during the mentorship phase these young boys learn to think like in a hive mind okay they learn to be part of a larger group then when they um turn 18 they um graduate okay and in order to graduate what they do is this they have a mission so the Spartans um have slaves called helots okay these are just people that they've conquered and who are now work as slaves in the fields for them okay they're like serves so there are lots of rules the important rule is curfew so if it's dark at night you cannot be outside the house if you are outside the house at night you could be um executed okay so as a graduation mission these young soldiers hide in the fields at night okay they hide in the fields and they wait for the sun to go down so it's now dark
and they look for helots to come back because they're late and what they'll do is they'll sneak up behind the helot and cut their throats okay this is basically sacrifice okay human sacrifice so the Spartans did this as well it's a very common thing and what this does is it builds group cohesion leading to synchronicity only there are thousands and thousands of city -states in Greece only Sparta did this and it made everyone think Sparta was disgusting everyone hated Sparta but it kept Sparta unified and it made Sparta into the dominant military power in Greece at that time okay what happened then is Thebes another city -state in um Greece they would copy the Spartans Spartan system okay but they made it voluntary so if from if it did so in Sparta you have to be an elite to be part of the system but in Thebes anyone could join the system okay and they
call the system the sacred band um of 300 soldiers and they were again lovers okay but this is really important for you guys to understand at this time in history there's no concept of homosexuality it was perfectly permissible no one cared if you had sex with men or animals or whatever okay it was not a big deal this comes much later in modern times back then this was not considered homosexuality was not considered a concept okay if you're out in the field out at war for like years and years and there's no woman around you're gonna have sex with other men it's a very natural thing to do okay it doesn't mean you're homosexual okay so the secret band of thieves became the dominant military power after sparta okay it's called the secret band and they were like the um vanguard they were the spearhead they would be the first in battle and they were
so ferocious that their enemies would run away okay then what happened is that macedonia would copy the theban system um who's the most famous macedonia in the world do you guys know which macedonian is the most famous ever in human history you know the name but you may not know he's macedonian accident of the grave okay his father is philip the second philip ii is the one who actually built the greatest army in the world the macedonian army it was actually the gray dragon who built the the great army and then he had to build another great army and he built the great his son who would take this army and conquer persia okay we'll learn this later on but phil ii learned learn all this from thebes and at first macedonia and thebes were allies but phil ii was very ambitious so they start to want he wanted to conquer all of mainland greece
and in 338 bce at the battle of uh zirconia macedonia fought against the commandment of thebes and athens and macedonia destroyed thebes and athens okay because macedonia basically copied the system from sparta and thebes at this point macedonia should have destroyed the entire theban and athenian army but when all was lost the sacred band they stood in the middle of the field they blocked the advance of macedonian charge so that everyone could escape back into the cities they did not fear death they welcomed death okay for them what mattered was honor and sacrifice and that's how you create the greatest army in the world okay does that make sense so these historical analogies give credence to our thought experiment okay now we're going to look at a question which is okay why does this system work okay so let's do game theory game theory game theory is just a study of how you how to
win games okay it's a very general thing so let's do a thought experiment and just say there's about a million people in the world okay there's a million people in the world and they're all trying to win the game against each other but only only one can win well according to game theory the best way to win a game is by does anyone know cheating okay cheating if you follow the rules you will never win the game you have to cheat and in this game the best way to win is by coordinating with other people right because everyone's playing by himself so if you can work with other people then that gives you a huge advantage over everyone else right the problem with this is the moment that people start coordinating it forces an arms race of coordination so maybe these people are going together these four now are forced to work together which now
forces these five to work together okay so if you are the first to work together you're gets you get screwed in the process so if you cheat you have to cheat secretly okay you have to coordinate without people knowing you're actually coordinating together you have to conspire secretly okay and there are different ways to collaborate secretly okay so let's let's look at examples so family is one example right of coordination synchronicity another example is religion if you have a leader right if you um have a similar race ethnicity you have a similar language okay so these are examples of how you you get people to coordinate together so the problem is that these are all obvious to people which forces them to do the same thing okay but there's a strategy that you can use that allows you to coordinate secretly and defeat all your enemies and this strategy is called transgression transgression the breaking
of taboos the breaking of social norms the breaking of social laws transgression okay so let's study this concept so the idea is that um the theory is that the greater you transgress okay this is the level of transgression the greater your cohesion which leads to synchronicity okay that's a theory i want to propose to you all right so transgression i mean it's a very simple idea you're breaking the rules right you're cheating and therefore everyone wants itaci, Adam is right on it Darryl, can you do it. versión puesta -fácil licencia para ser cub entertainmental. to put you in prison, which means that the only way that you can survive is if you keep the secret among your group, right? Which forces cohesion. Does that make sense? All right. And we see this in all aspects of society, right? So the most basic form of transgression is just joking or pranking, right? So for example, you guys, six of you, decide, you know what?
We're going to play a joke on the school. We're going to cover all the rooms with toilet paper. It's a joke, it's a prank, but obviously you don't want to get caught because the school will punish you. And this joke and this prank will make you more cohesive, right? Because now you have a secret amongst yourself and anyone betrays you, you're all screwed, right? Does that make sense? That's logic. The other thing that's really interesting is that when you try, grass when you break a taboo you feel empowered you feel liberated and it becomes addictive right you fill the school with toilet paper you're like that was a lot of fun what was it fun because you broke the rules you feel I'm more powerful than my teacher then so you keep on doing more and more of this stuff right then you may be like hey
let's go to store and steal a candy that Kenny may cost $1 nothing right but you try it and you are terrified you're seized by doubt you're seized by fear sorry so this is the sound that tells us that we should go on break but but again we don't go on break in this class okay so I apologize when we're not taking a break we keep on going okay but that's what the sound is okay so you're terrified because your mother your teachers everyone told you stealing is bad right but when you actually go and do it how do you feel you feel energized you feel liberated you feel empowered and if your friends were with you how the French becomes much more unified much more cohesive much more synchronized does that make sense and now you want to look let's put more rules let's see what happens if we pick more and more rules
and you keep on going because it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know yeah right this right can you think of a more worse transgression than this that's why they do it because it feels empowering it releases energy they do it because they believe that when you do this it releases divine energy and when you when you actually do it okay guys I'm not telling you to go do this okay please do not do this okay and please remember okay this is evil we should not be doing this but when you actually go and do it those who can do it they feel as though they are now inundated that now they are now filled with divine energy they found the secret of the universe they found the ultimate power in the world world another transgression which is not as bad but pretty bad is
the idea of incest right and there are secret societies out there guys that do this and you know what guys I hate to tell you this okay but they do it in public in front of everyone else because that creates both group unity synchronicity and it releases in their minds divine energy they have now access to God if you want to know what secret societies do well yeah this and this okay and again there's only a small group of people but now we know why these people control the world because they're able to keep secrets because they're more motivated than everyone else and they're able to work together in a way that allows them to achieve ultimate power these leaders you see right these leaders you see they are puppets they are just the face the real power are the secret societies that practice these rituals and again I'm not saying this is a truth
I'm just saying this is a possible theory about how the world works right because this is a class of speculation it's a class of theory don't think this is the truth okay but you can think about how this works and ask yourself you can think about how this works and ask yourself does it explain the world okay all right so how to explain this what I want to do now is go into the deep theory as to why this is happening okay so if you talk to these people and they're honest with you they'll tell you that when we do this we access God and God gives us divine power because they're superstitious and they're stupid okay just because they're the elite just because they're powerful people does not mean they're clever in fact they're kind of stupid if you actually meet them and they're stupid because they're not good or no good people do
they Squ量 I'm going to explain how this system works and when I do it when I explain to you it will make sense okay but are we clear so far about what's happening guys all right I know this is disturbing and I know I'll get banned on YouTube for this but it's important that we do this okay all right so now I explained a theory as to why this is happening how is it transgression is able to unleash divine energy okay just because a the end of the theory as to why this is happening how the So, Kant. We will look at some major thinkers, and they're really deep thinkers, and we'll go more into them this semester, but I'm going to introduce them, okay? So, Kant. Remember from the first class, Kant had a theory of how the world works. There is no objective reality that we see, okay? So, before, the assumption was that we just absorb reality, okay?
But Kant says that we are active, sorry, we'll wait for this. So, Kant says that we are active participants in reality. How? Well, because our brains are filters. We add space and time to reality. Space and time does not exist outside of us, okay? So, the objective reality is called nomina, okay? The things in themselves. Do not worry about these names, but this is the objective reality. What happens is that, for a filter... For filters, we interact with the nomina, and that creates what we call the phenomena, the things that we see, the phenomena, okay? And that's the world we know. The nomina, we can never, ever know. That's the theory of Kant, okay? And this has been confirmed by neuroscience. So, this is basically the most accurate model of the world that we have. The problem, though, is that Kant's conception of the world... ...creates three questions. Okay?
The first question then... first question is, what is the nomina? Kant says we can never know it, but, we still want to know it, okay? That's the first question. Second question then is, who gave us these filters? Right? Where do our filters come from? How do our minds work? And who created our minds in the first place? The second question. The third question is, if we are all seeing the world for our own lips... how do we know that we're seeing the same world how do our perception of the world align together okay so Kant creates these problems Hegel who comes after Kant Frederick Hegel by the way he proposes a solution to this to these three problems and what he says is this this is really important for us to understand is that no one is the Geist the Geist is hard to translate we usually translate it to mean Spirit okay so what
Hegel is saying is that the spirit world is what creates the material world we are just a shell what really matters is the spirit world now it's really important to understand the concept of the Geist okay and again there's it's German but there's no actual English translation for it so it's books books and books and books and books and books from other different best to see guys as a combination of three words that derive from guys okay these three words are ghost geyser and just okay so these three english words are derivatives of the german word geist right most words in english are actually german origin sorry it's not most words but many words okay all right ghost is just a parallel reality that exists alongside us right a spiritual world that's the first concept geyser is just a force that is exploding or becoming or expanding so this guys is constantly expanding and becoming
gist just just means the essence of things the core things okay so the real truth in the world is the geist not what we see but what is invisible to us okay so that's the idea of the geist does that make sense now the geist we're going to talk about the geist now the geist we're going to talk about the geist now the geist we're going to answer all three questions the nominal the real world is a spiritual not a material world it's the geist that gives us these filters and because we're all seeing the world for the guys we see the same world okay so now this creates another problem which is where do the guys come from what is the geist okay and here we will look at plato and dante okay so um um again this is a really deep theory and we'll go more deeply into this as the semester um
moves but i just first want to introduce the idea to you right now okay so this comes from plato and a religion called gnosticism okay the gnostics uh gnostic just means knowledge okay um so in the beginning the big bang the force is the monad or the uh the one okay there are different names for this thing or news just think of this as a supreme god okay the big bang the the the force all like like the the the sun almost okay the spiritual sun of the universe the news works by breathing when he breathesand he vibrates addedda his divine power. And through this, he creates new beings called dyads. Dyads are just peers of forces, okay? And these dyads then create different realities, all right? So different realities are being created through this inaction. And eventually, you reach earth, okay? So in other words, what Plato and Gnostics are telling us is that the Geist is a multi -layer, multi -dimensional world that we access all the time, okay?
Does that make sense? And the earth, what we see, it is just the most outer shell in this universe. Is this clear to you guys? All right. So, now, the question then is, what is the purpose of life in the world? And what Plato says is that the purpose of life in this world is to return to the monad, okay? And guess what, guys? This is actually the framework for a lot of religions, including Hinduism, right? And Buddhism. This is what the Hindus and the Buddhists believe as well. Nirvana, Nirvana is to return to the monad. I'm not sure if you guys have studied religion before, okay? But that's the idea. So what Plato says is that through the pursuit of knowledge, philosophy, the love of knowledge, you can return to the monad, okay? Dante, and we'll study Dante in depth later on, okay?
But Dante has another solution. What Dante says is that, the man, the monad is love. Okay? And the monad, because he creates things, his divine spark emanates throughout the universe, okay? So, there is a divine spark in us. And this divine spark is called love. So, we are able to love people. Mothers love children. You love each other, because of this divine spark in you. And the more you love, the more you love the people around you. love the more you return to the monad okay so plato says pursue knowledge danae says pursue love okay so now the question is okay this sounds all very good but why does evil happen in the world okay what's the source of evil right that's interesting okay you have you have this theory of the universe but then the question then is why do people do bad things then why is there sacrifice
in the world why why are people doing all these bad things and not only getting away getting away with it but they're also controlling the world that's a big question right so um for plato the answer is very simple this world doesn't matter who cares if they control this world it's a fake shadow world ignore them just focus on the pursuit of knowledge because that allows you to be one with the monad okay who cares about this world give them what they want give them their power their fame their money who cares dante's answer is actually very interesting okay that's that's plato's answer it doesn't matter this world doesn't matter who cares what happens in this world it's a prison anyway danae actually proposed something different he says this if the monad is love love is true trust so the monad loves us and as a result the monad gives us free will now free
will can lead to bad things for example this world but he has no choice in the matter because for him to interfere means to take away our free will and that's and free will is his greatest gift to us okay but now and then what he will do is he will send messengers to our world to remind us that the monad has given us free will and we can activate it and achieve a greater consciousness and these messengers are plato dante right jesus right doesn't make sense so now and then the monad will send um for the geist okay the monad will implant ideas in these people who will then tell us the truth but it's our choice we're not to believe it because the monad has given us free will all right so for plato what's important is the pursuit of knowledge for dante what matters is the pursuit of love to love each
other unconditionally okay um and that's what they tell us what the system also tells us is that the powerful want to deny this system right because if they control earth the fake world they want to make it as real as possible does that make sense that's the source of the power the belief that the only that matters is the material world the prison that we live in and that's why we have science right science is negation of the spiritual world and the validation of the material world if you cannot see it it must be fake right okay so that's how power works now transgression works in this model because transgression allows the powerful to align to a certain part of this universe okay because in this universe there are evil forces as well does it make sense so for example the metaphor is think of the internet right well there are millions and millions of
websites and for transgression by doing the same evil act what the power have done is they've locked on to the same website right and because they locked on to the same website it allows for synchronicity it allows for them to commit to think alike and to behave the same way okay all right so that's the general theory and again this is all speculation i'm not telling you this is true but i'm giving you a framework to work with to better understand why things happen we're just speculating we're using our imagination here um i know this is a lot but kant plato hegel dante will go much more deeper into over the semester i just introduced these ideas now okay questions guys okay uh you had a question from last class right right so so can you ask a question from
last class and i'll answer it first all right from last class you mentioned that um the ones that control society are those old pensioners right because they get revenues from the youngers and the they control the society in our society i do see signs or phenomena that the government are sort of helping the old patienters by creating more say entertainment or facilities that benefit them so why is that is it possible that the government also benefits benefits from old patient's actions or is actually the governments are controlled by old practitioners yeah i mean uh we discussed this
but it's the pensioners, the old people, who control society, control the culture, who control government, right? Because in China, from the first day, you're taught to respect your elders, right? You're taught that elderly people are worth emulating, they're worth studying from, they're what's most precious about our society. So it makes sense that the government would create policies to most benefit the elderly, okay? That's just the structure of Chinese society, respect for the elderly, okay? Thank you. Any more questions, guys? Yep. Amber has a question.
So I was just thinking about the model, and I think it's interesting... The Monad. Yeah, this model that we have on the board. So like you said, the existence of evil is... if you don't mind repeating yourself.
Oh, yeah, so what is evil?
Yeah.
Okay, in the system. Okay, so... In the system, what is evil is the denial of the system, okay? So because the Monad is the truth, it's love, right? So the closer you move to the Monad, that's what's good. The further you move away from the Monad, that's what's evil, right? So at the very end of this model is Earth. So the more you embrace the material world, the more you deny the spiritual world, that's what's evil in this model. Okay. So for Plato, what's good is the pursue of knowledge, and what's evil is the pursuit, the denial of knowledge, which includes, by the way, art, right? Movies, because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world. If the world we live in is fake, and movies, all they do is depict this fake world, then it makes things worse, okay? And Dante, as okay, whatever allows for more love is good, what allows for less love is bad, okay?
So just to add on to that, so what if, like we mentioned earlier, sacrifice, sacrifice can be considered as a way to unite people, it creates cohesion.
Yeah, and it unlocks divine energy because you're accessing a part of this model.
Okay.
Yeah, does that make sense?
Yeah.
Right? And that's why, as you're doing this sacrifice, they are worshipping a certain god, right? So sacrifice is part of their religion, it's not done independently. They have a religious framework for the sacrifice, and that's why they do it, right? They don't do sacrifice for the purpose of sacrifice, they do sacrifice as a consummation of their religion, because that's what their religion demands of them, right? And so they're worshipping a god, they're sacrificing these people. They're sacrificing these people to send to this god, right? So they're accessing a part of this model, which is a lower part, okay? And there are evil beings in this model as well, right? But they go lower.
So by, I'm trying to, so by being evil, we're like doing the bad deeds, we get, as long as it creates love, in Dante's theory, it gets us ultimately closer to the...
To the monad, yes. To the monad, yes.
But the evilness... The monad that we perceive is constructed by our current society, so...
Yeah, so what Dante is saying about our current society is that our society is, first and foremost, anti -love. It does not allow for people to love each other. So, for example, school, right? So, without school, your parents would just care about your happiness. But because of school, parents care about your grades, and whether or not you get into an elite American college. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. You're just going to do a good job. And so the parents deny your free will. They deny your agency. And as a result, you don't feel loved, okay? So that's what Dante would argue. Our society is anti -love because the society is constructed in a way that does not allow for normal human relationships to flourish, right? In a normal relationship... your parents would just let you do whatever you want. I would think, you know? But because they're like, no, no, no. If
I let you do whatever you want, you will not do well in school, and you won't be able to get a job, and then you'll become, I don't know, unemployed and a drug addict, who knows, okay? Right, that's how they think. Does that make sense?
Yeah, so the denial of free will is anti -love, and therefore it's evil, and it limits you from getting closer to Monad.
That's right. Okay, great. Exactly, thank you. Yeah?
Just like what Amber mentions, that this world is anti -love, but what is the purpose of not letting us get closer to the Monad?
That's a good question, right? Why are they doing this? Because the people in power wanna stay in power, right? Because what they're doing, it goes against the Monad, but they wanna stay in power.
So they gain benefits, such as power, by disobeying the Monad, and letting others disobey the Monad, because they can't keep their power.
Okay, so let us be very clear, okay? This is really important. Different people will interpret this model in a different way, okay? In their conception, the Monad's the evil one. Their god's the good one. They're liberating us from the Monad by making us more focused on the material world. Okay, does that make sense? But the reality is that they were able to get their power because they had a religion that promoted transgression, which allowed them to coordinate well together. And now that they have this power, they need to rationalize why they have this power, and they need to develop systems to maintain this power. And that's why we have the world we live in today. Does that make sense? Okay, does that make sense? They're powerful, they want to maintain the power, so they will think of new ideas that allow them to keep this power, even if it means denying the truth, okay?
And again, guys, this is a theory. No one knows if this is true or not. I don't know, okay?
But like what you just mentioned, that Nomad has two meanings to either...
No, no, no, the Nomad does not have two meanings. It has one, it has different names, but one meaning, okay? This is really important for you to understand. There are different names for this, but it is the sun, okay? The divine sun, the source of all life.
So Plato defines Nomad as knowledge, and Dantène defines Nomad as love.
No, no, no, no. Okay, listen, okay? You have to get this straight, okay? This is everything, okay? Love, knowledge, everything, okay? The question that Plato and Dante are debating is how do you return to the Nomad, okay? So for Plato, it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you to get closer to the Nomad. For Dante, it's the pursuit of love, okay? But this is the one and all, the infinite and the eternal. What Plato would say is that this is the perfect. This is the immutable. It will never change, and it's the eternal. It's always been there, and it will always be there, okay? It is exactly Buddhism. It's more spiritual.
The ultimate we can interpret as one thing or another.
This is exactly Buddhism and Hinduism, okay? So this is really interesting how different religious traditions working in different localities have the same conception of the world, of the universe. And can we give someone else an opportunity to speak, please? Okay? Can someone else ask a question? I know you're enthusiastic. You're enthusiastic, but sometimes you want to step back and absorb the idea, okay? So you've asked a lot of questions, but go home, think about this some more, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Does anyone else want to ask questions? Okay. One more question, okay? One more.
Okay. So Plato and Danteng just gives us the way to approach Nomad, right?
Okay. Okay. Okay. Can you ask the question again? I don't...
I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives the way to let us approach Monad, right?
So the Monad in the conception of everything is the same, okay? It is a source of everything. Plato and Dante are proposing different ways to come closer to the Monad. Right? Right. For Plato, it's like, spend your entire life learning mathematics, specifically geometry, because he thinks that geometry is really the language of the universe, the secret language of the universe. Dante says, that's too hard, guys. That's not intuitive. Like for Plato, Plato's an elitist, right? Plato's like, only if you come to my school and you learn geometry, sacred geometry, will you access heaven. Dante's like, that makes no sense. The Monad would not create a system which only the elitist can access. The elite, the chosen, could access him. The Monad, if he truly loves everyone, will give everyone the capacity to reach him. And that capacity that is accessible to everyone is love, right? Doesn't matter who you are, you can all love. But quite honestly, there are not that many people in the world who can do calculus, right?
Right? So Plato's like, you have to do calculus. Plato's like, and Dante's like, that's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the world. Okay? Does that make sense now? Okay. Any more questions, guys?
Why is that a lot of other religions and Plato or Dante, they came to the same realization of Monad? Why is that? It's from different places in the world, different regions. But why do they all have kind of the same thing about wisdom or knowledge in general?
Yeah. So that's a really good question. And the answer is the Geist, right? The answer is, where do our thoughts come from? And where do our thoughts go? Do you really think that it's our brain that produces thoughts? Why is it that with the same brain, right, same neurological structure, but we have different ideas? And why is it that I have so many ideas and others have limited ideas? Well, like, biologically, we cannot explain it, okay? We've never explained it. So if you study neuroscience, one thing that you will never ever ask is, where do our thoughts come from? Which is weird because that should be the most basic question, right? That's the first question you ask. But they never ask that. Why? Because they cannot answer it. And the answer, the possibility is, the Geist exists. And our ideas come from the Geist. And when we think of ideas, it goes back into the Geist, right?
It's a ghost. It is with us and it is not with us. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why, and that's how we can explain why all these different religions have the same conception of the universe. Because they're getting this conception through inspiration, right, through communication with the Geist. Right? Does that make sense? Okay. I think that makes a lot more sense than, oh, the synapses in our brains, you know? They fire together and they hit and like, oh, we have an idea. I don't know. Okay. Okay. All right. So, great. We will continue this next class, okay?