Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs — Transcript

Today, we are going to discuss some extremely controversial topics. Because this is going 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, then I will get censored on YouTube. Today, we're going to look at how evil triumphs. Why is the world so evil? There are going to be a lot of extremely disturbing topics we're going to discuss. Um, 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. Um, 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 develop the theories and the ideas to better understand the world. These are tools. Okay? This is not truth. These are tools. All right. So the first question I have for you is,

what h 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 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

What is happening in Israel right now? As you know, Israel is besieging and 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

The Romans wrote histories insulting the Infineticians for practicing this sort of sacrifice. But the Romans themselves practice 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 the 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, okay? 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 the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, okay, um what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific because it is really this sort of sacrifice. Why? Because 47%

sacrifice, and this happens quite often in human history. If you go back and 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.

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? It we find this disgusting and contemptuous. So the entire world will unite against Israel. But guess what? That's what their religion wants. In the extreme form of Jewish esquetology or their religion, they believe that at the end of the world, Israel will fight the entire world and God will help Israel triumph in the end. So what's really happening in Gaza is that there are extremists within the is Israel government who want to accelerate the process of the end of the world where Israel will face the world. And if you think about it, the entire idea 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 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 the 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, okay? 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 the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, okay, um, what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific because it is really this sort of sacrifice. Why? Because 47%

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or 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 the Israelis want us to see it and want us to hate them. Right? You can see all 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 wanted to do this, right, there are actually much more effective ways of doing this. For example, you could just poison their water, or you could poison the air so that everyone in Gaza gets fast cancer. Right? We have the technology to do this. So, Israel could do it secretly, and no one would talk about it, and in 20 years' time, 30 years' time, the population of Gaza would all be gone. It would be very secret, right? Instead, they choose to do this in front of 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, uh, 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 flesheating 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 situation is utterly hopeless. There's no escape from this

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. In the extreme form of Jewish eschatology or their religion, they believe that at the end of the world, Israel will fight the entire world, and God will help Israel triumph in the end. So what's really happening in Gaza is that there are extremists within the Israeli government who want to accelerate the process of the end of the world where Israel will face the world. And if you think about it, the entire idea 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,

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 develop 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 100 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's 65, he is wise. He has experience. He has strategies. So he delivers a very powerful speech inspiring everyone and telling people how they can survive against the flash 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. What what he does is this. He stands in front of everyone and he's bold and he's brave and he looks at everyone without saying a word. He shows them his hand. Okay, he

the most popular military strategy 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 force 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. They're energized. And then they find a surge of energy to go and destroy their enemy. Okay, this is the most popular military strategy 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.

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 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 literally 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 wonders off to collect wood and then he's attacked by monkeys. It doesn't matter if he screams because

So what is the river for Israel? Like

10 of you and you're all collecting wood and then suddenly you're attacked by 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 what do you do in this situation? for the

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 go online, you will see Israelis go around the world and cause trouble everywhere. They're going to start fights. 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 angling the world. Okay, does that make sense? All right. So, this is all very disturbing, and I want to slowly unpack, review, and reveal to you how this works. Okay. So, to do this, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a thought experiment. A 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 escape from the island. And on the island, there,

instantaneously. No one thinks about it. You just do it because what matters is saving your comrades. And this is what happens. Okay. A synchronosity 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, does that 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 trans transported back to your real world, your old life. Okay? Now, what would happen? Well, what would happen is that the hund of you would want to come together again, right? And you would share your experience,

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 ranging 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 situation is utterly hopeless. There's no escape from this

okay yeah that's a good question I've already told you this okay on the surface 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 um while you're on this island, you will

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 co-

invading mainland Greece. They fight at a place called Thermopily, the battle of Thermopily. And this is the pass into main Greece. The Greeks have to hold this position. They are to prevent the invasion. Okay. 300 Spartan soldiers backed by thousands of other Greek soldiers make a last stand in this pass. They are overwhelmed by the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people, the 300 soldiers make a final stand. Their leader is Leonitis 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 Leonitis's head, cut it off and put on a on a pike to warn the Greeks, we are merciless. Eventually, the Greeks um inspired by the sacrifice of Leonitis, they will repel the invasion and destroy the um 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, they're 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 fraternities and sports teams there. When they're getting a crowded 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're 11 when they're 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. Uh 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 Helotss. 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 governing the helotss. An 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 synchronosity. Only there are thousand 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. It made Sparta into the dominant military power in Greece at that time. Okay. What happened then is thieves, another city state in um Greece, they would copy the Spartan Spartan system. Okay. But they made it voluntary. So if from if it so in Sparta you have to be an elite to be part of the system. But in thieves 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, if you're out at war for like years and years and there's no woman around, you're going to have sex with other men. It's a very natural thing to do. Okay? It doesn't mean you're homosexual. Okay? So, the Sacred Band of Thieves became the dominant military power after Sparta. Okay? It's called the Sacred 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 Theian system.

Um who is the most famous Macedonian 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 the Great. Okay. His father is Philip II. Philip II is the one who actually built the greatest army in the world, the Macedonian army. And it was actually the great, his son, who would take this army and conquer Persia. Okay, we'll learn this later on. But Phil the second learned learned all this from thieves. And at first, Macedonian thieves were allies, but Phil the second was very ambitious. So then he start to want he wanted to conquer all of mainland Greece. And in 338 uh BCE at the battle of uh Traonia, Macedonia fought against the combined of thieves and Athens. And Macedonia destroyed thieves in Athens. Okay? Because Macedonia basically copied the system from Sparta and thieves. 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 and 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 a 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 two are working 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 get you get screwed in the process. So if you cheat you have to cheat. 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, synchronosity. Another example is religion. Um if you have a leader, right? if you um have a similar race, ethnicity, and you have a sim similar language. Okay, so these are examples of how you you get people to coordinate together. 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.

All right. So the idea is that um the theory is that the greater you transgress. Okay. This is a level of transgression, the greater your cohesion which leads to synchronosity. Okay, that's a theory I want to propose to you. All right. So, transgression, I mean, it's it's a very simple idea. You're breaking the rules, right? You're cheating and therefore everyone wants 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 in 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 among amongst yourself and anyone betrays you, you're all

screwed, right? Does that make sense? That's a logic. Um, the other thing that's really interesting is that when you transgress, 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." Well, 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 the store and steal a candy. That candy may cost $1, nothing, right? But you try it and you are terrified. You're seized by doubt. You're ceased by fear. Sorry. So, um this is the um 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. We're not we're not taking a break. We keep on going. Okay. But that's what the sound is. Okay. So, um, 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 are with you, how the friendship becomes

much more unified, much more cohesive, much more synchronized. Does that make sense? And now you want to learn, let's break more rules. Let's see what happens if we break 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, I'm 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 inudated that now they are now filled with divine energy. They found the secret of the universe. They found the

ultimate power in the 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 I hate to tell you this, okay? But they do it in public in front of everyone else because that creates both group unity, synchronosity, and it releases in their minds divine energy. They have now access to God. If you want to know what secret societies do, well, um, 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. Th these leaders you see right these leaders you see they are puppets they are just the face the real power are these 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. Does it explain the world? Okay. All right. So, having explained 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 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 lead, just because they're powerful people, does not mean they're clever. In fact, they're kind of stupid if you actually meet them, right? But um I'm going to explain how this system works. And when I do when I explain to you, it will make sense. Okay? But are we are we clear so far about what's happening, guys? All right.

I know this is disturbing and I know uh I'll probably get banned on YouTube for this, but it's important that that that we do this. Okay. All right. So now I explain the theory as to why this is happening. How is a transgression is able to unleash divine energy. Okay. So um Kant we will look at some major thinkers and um they're really deep thinkers and we'll go deep 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 we'll wait for this. [Music] So Khan says that we were 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 our filters, we interact with the nomina and that creates something called the phenomena. The things that we see the phenomena. Okay? And that's the world we know. The nomen 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 that first question is what is the nomina? Kai 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 lens, 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 and this is really important for us to understand is the nomen is the gist. The gist is hard to translate. We usually translate to mean spirit. Okay. So what Heggo 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 gist. Okay? And again there's it's German but there's no actual English translation for it. So it's best to see guys as a combination of three words that derive from guys. Okay. These three words are ghost, geyser and gist. Okay, so these three English words are derivatives of the German word gist, right? Most words in English are actually German origin. Sorry, not 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. G just means the essence of things the core of things. Okay. So the real truth in the world is the gist. Not what we see but what is invisible to us. Okay. So that's the idea of the gist. Does that make sense? Now with the guys, we can answer all three questions. The nomena, the real world is the spiritual world, not the material world. It's the gist that gives us these filters. And because we're all seeing the world through the gist, we see the same world. Okay. So now this creates another problem which is where did the gist come from? What is the gist? 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 Nostism. Okay the Gnostics 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 of like like the the the sun almost. Okay the spiritual son of the universe. The news works by breathing. When he breathes, he vibrates his divine power and through this he creates new beings called diads. Diads are just peers of um forces. Okay, these diads 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 Nostics are telling us is that the gist is a multi-layer,

multi-dimensional world that we access all the time. Okay? Does it make sense? And the earth what we see it is just the out 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 um framework for a lot of religions including Hinduism, right? And Buddhism. This this is what the Hindus and the Buddhists believe as well. Nirvana is the 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. Um Dante and we will study Dante in depth later on. Okay. But Dante has another solution. What Don Dante says is that the manad 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. Um you love each other because of this divine spark in you. And the more you love, the more you return to the Mona. Okay. So Plato says pursue knowledge. Donna 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. Donnie actually proposed something different. He says this, if the monad is love, love is 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 there is a divine spark in us 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 Monet will send

um fool the gist. Okay. The Monach will implant ideas in these people who will then tell us the truth. But it's our choice whether or not to believe it because the Mona 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 their 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 that make sense? So for example, the metaphor is think of the internet, right? Well, there are millions and millions of websites and through 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 the same website, it allows for synchronosity. It allows for them to commit uh 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, right? Um, I know this is a lot, but Kant, Plato, Hego, Dante, we will go much more deeper into over the semester. So I just introduced these ideas now. Okay. Questions guys.

Okay. Uh you 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 they control the society. Um in our society I do see signs or phenomena that um the government are sort of helping the old patients by creating more um say entertainment or facilities that benefit them. So why is that? Is that possible that the the government also benefit benefits from old pensioners actions or is actually the governments are controlled by old pensioners?

Yeah. I mean u we we discussed this last class but it's the pensioners the old people who control society control the culture who control government right because in China from a first day you're taught to respect your elders right you're taught that elder pe elderly people are worth um emulating they're worth they're worth studying from they're 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 that's is the structure of Chinese society. Respect for the elderly. Okay, thank you. Any more questions, guys? Yep. Ember has a question.

Um, so I was just thinking about the model and I think

uh yeah, this model that we have on the board.

Um, 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 in the system.

Okay. So, um in the system what is evil is the denial of the system. Okay. 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 uh deny the spiritual world, that's what's evil in this in in this model.

Okay.

So for Plato, the what's good is the pursuit of knowledge and what's evil is the pursuit uh the denial of of knowledge, which includes by the way art, right? Movies because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world. We if the world we live live in is fake and movies all they do is depict this fake world then it makes things worse.

Okay. And Dante uh whatever um allows for more love is good. What allows for less love is bad.

Okay.

Okay.

Um so just to add on to that. So what if um like we mentioned earlier sacrifice sacrifice can be considered as a way to unite people. It creates cohesion. Yeah.

And with cohesion

it unlocks divine energy because you're accessing a part of this model.

Okay.

Yeah. Does that make sense?

Yeah.

Right. And and that's why

as they're doing this sacrifice they are worshiping 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 a personal sacrifice. They do sacrifice um as a consummation of their religion because that's what their religion demands of them.

Mhm.

Right. And because so the worship of God, they're sacrificing these people to send to this god.

Okay.

Right. So they're accessing a part of this model which is a lower part. Okay. M

and there are there are evil beings in this model as well, right? But but they go lower.

So by okay 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.

But the evil now that we perceive is constructed by our current society. So

yeah, so what D is saying about core 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 um 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 a elite American college

and whether or not you get 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 Donna 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.

Mhm.

Does that make sense?

Yeah. So the denial of free will is anti- love and therefore it's evil and make it limit Yeah. It limits you from getting closer to Monad.

That's right.

Okay, great.

Exactly. Thank you.

Yeah.

Just like the uh what Amber mentions that this world is anti- love, but what is the purpose of like not letting us get closer to the Monet? That's a good question, right? Why are they doing this? Because the people in power want to stay in power, right? Because what they're doing it goes against the monad, but they want to stay in power. So they gain like benefits such as power by disobeying the monad and letting others like disobeying the monad because they can keep their power.

Okay. So, so let so let 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 is the evil one. Their god is 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 were 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. 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 a power. So they will think of new ideas that allow them to keep this power even if it means denying the truth. Okay? And 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. 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 son, the source of all life.

So Plato defines nomad as knowledge and dentine 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 monad? Okay. So for Plato it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you to get closer to the monad. For Dante it's a p pursuit of love. Okay. But this is the one and all the infinite and eternal. What play 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's really similar to Buddhism.

It is exactly Buddhism.

You're like looking at the same thing. It's like more spiritual. Yes.

Aspect of the world and like the ultimate end of things. It's more like abstract concept. It's not something physical that we can um interpret as one thing or another.

Yes. 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 c can we can we give someone else an opportunity to to speak please okay can can someone else ask ask question like like like I know I know you're enthusiastic but sometimes you want to step back and absorb the idea okay so so you've asked a lot of questions but Go home, think about this some more. Okay, does that does that make sense? Okay, does anyone want else want to ask questions? Okay, one more question. Okay,

so like just to confirm that

uh Plato and Dante just like gives us the way to approach nomad, right?

Okay. Um can you ask the question again? I I I I don't

like I want to confirm that Plato or Dantain they because they uh Plato said that to learn knowledge and Dante said to pursue love so they gives the way to 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 achie to be come closer to the monad Right? For Plato, it's like spend your entire life learning mathematics, specifically geometry, because he thinks that geometry is really the language of of the universe, the secret language of the universe. Dante says that's too hard, guys. That's not intuitive. Like for Plato's an elitist, right? Plato is like only if you come to my school and you learn geometry, sacred geometry, will you access heaven. D is like that makes no sense. The Monad would not create a system which only 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 that is accessible to everyone is love.

Right? Doesn't matter who you are, you can all love. But quite honestly, there are 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 is like, and D is like, "That's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the world." Okay. Does that make sense now? Okay. Um, any more questions, guys?

I actually like why is that like a lot of other like religions and you know, Plato or like Dante, they came to the same realization of Monard? Like why is that? like it's from different places in the world, different regions, but like why do they all have kind of the same thing about wisdom or like knowledge in general?

Yeah. So, so um that's a really good question and the answer is the gist, 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 we're the same brain, right? same neur neurological structure but we have different ideas and why is it that I have so many ideas and you and others have limited ideas well like biologically we cannot explain it okay we never explain it so if you study neuroscience one thing that 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 gist exists and our ideas come from the gist. And when we think of ideas, it goes back into the gist, right? It's a ghost. It is with us and is not with us.

There's just like a big system out there that everything comes from there. So all of things will go back there eventually.

Exactly. Exactly. And and that's and 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 guys, right? Does that make sense? Okay. I 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. Uh we will continue this next class. Okay.