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Why is there evil in the world? Professor Jiang builds his answer around a thought experiment: a hundred stranded survivors who weld themselves into a secret, sacrificial bond powerful enough to rule. He shows how secrecy, taboo, and shared sacrifice create the hidden groups behind public power. Then he frames the whole question through Kant, Hegel, Plato, and Gnosticism, ending at a surprising claim — a divine spark lives in every person.
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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’ll 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, okay? This is not truth. These are tools. All right, 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
terrible what is happening the word that is happening the word that we use for
us 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 um 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
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 what
the romans do it and why is it today this really is 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
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 want 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 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 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 it we find this
disgusting and contemptuous so the entire world will unite against israel but guess what that’s
what the religion wants in the extreme form of jewish eschatology or the 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 israel government
who want to accelerate the process of the end of the world where israel will face the world
and 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 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 the 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
energize 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 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 causing trouble
everywhere they’re going to start fights there they shout death to the Arabs on
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 slowly unpack review to reveal to you how this works okay so
So 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 escape from the island.
And on the island, the center is 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 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 situation 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 speak 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 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 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. 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 shows them his hand. Then from his pocket, he takes out a knife, okay? And then
he cuts off his hand in front of everyone and he does not cry. He just looks at everyone 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 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 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
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 would 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
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 look 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
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 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 100 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 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 while you’re on this island you will develop certain rituals
that are very strange but are important if you want to maintain unity okay so
So for example, one strange ritual is the funeral ritual.
The funeral ritual.
The idea here is that when someone sacrifices himself,
you have a huge funeral to celebrate that person.
And this may involve you cutting that person
into different pieces and eating that person.
Okay, but you will develop really strange rituals.
Okay, does that make sense?
Okay, so I’m gonna answer your question.
Why are these guys in charge
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 and 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 the pass into meaning 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 path. They are overwhelmed by the Persian
invasion and rather than run like most people, the Philanthus 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 it off and put it on a pike to warn the Greeks we are
merciless eventually Greeks 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 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
seems there 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
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 turn 18, they graduate, okay?
And in order to graduate, what they do is this.
They have a mission.
So the Spartans 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 serfs.
So there are lots of rules governing the helots.
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 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 helots
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
It made Sparta into the dominant military power in Greece at that time, okay?
What happened then is Thebes, another city-state in Greece,
they would copy the Spartan system, okay?
But they made it voluntary.
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 called the system the Sacred Band 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 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 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 theban system
um who’s 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 actually 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 philip ii learned learn all this from thebes
and at first Macedonia and Thebes were allies but Phil II was very ambitious so then he started to
he wanted to conquer all of mainland Greece and in 338 BCE at the battle of Trachonia
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 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. 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 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 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 um 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 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 so the idea is that
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
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 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 gonna 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 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 why 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 candy may cost one dollar nothing right but you try it and you are terrified you’re seized
by doubt you’re seized by fear sorry so um this is the um sound that tells us that we should go on
break 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
to it 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 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 not 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 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 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 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 the 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’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
they 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 alright but I’m gonna
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 alright I know
this is disturbing and i know uh i’ll probably get banned on youtube for this but it’s important that
that we do this okay all right so now i explain the theory as to why this is happening how is
the 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’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 Nomana, 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
Nomana and that creates something called the Phenomena. The things that we see, the
phenomena. And that’s the world we know. Phenomena we can never ever know. That’s the theory of Kant.
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. The first question is, what is the phenomena? 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 land how do we know that we’re seeing the same world how do our perception of the world
aligned 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 the normal 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 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
This Geist is constantly expanding and becoming.
Gist, gist, gist means the essence of things,
the core of 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 with the Geist, we can answer all three questions.
The Nomana, the real world is the spiritual world,
not the material world.
It’s the Geist that gives us these filters.
And because we’re all seeing the world through the Geist,
we see the same world, okay?
So now this creates another problem,
which is where did the Geist come from?
What is the Geist, okay?
And here we will look at Plato and Dante, okay?
So again, this is a really deep theory
and we’ll go more deeply into this as the semester 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 Gnostic just
means knowledge okay um so in the beginning the Big Bang the force is the
monad or the the one there are different names for this thing or news just think
this as a supreme god okay the big bang the the the force all like like the the sun almost okay
the spiritual sun of the universe the news works by breathing when he breathes he vibrates his
divine power and through this he creates new beings called dyads dyads are just peers of
um forces okay these diets 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 doesn’t 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 is what the hindus and the buddhists
believe as well nirvana is to return to the monad i’m not sure you guys have studied religion before
okay but that’s the idea so what pleo says is that through the pursuit of knowledge philosophy
the love of knowledge you can return to the monad okay um dante and we’ll say dante in death later
on okay but donnie has another solution what don is dante says is that the man at 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 monad okay so plato says pursue knowledge dana 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
get 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
And these messengers are Plato, Dante, right?
Jesus, right?
Doesn’t make sense.
So now and then the monarch will send
through the Geist, okay?
The monarch 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 monarch has given us free will, 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?
And that’s what they tell us.
What the system also tells us is that
the powerful want to deny the 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 thing 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 for transgression, by doing the same evil act,
what the powerful have done is they’ve logged on to the same website, right?
And because they’ve logged on 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, right? I know this is a lot,
but Kant, Plato, Hegel, Dante, we will go much more deeper into over the semester. I just
Let’s introduce these ideas now.
Okay, questions, guys.
Okay, you had a question from last class, right?
Right, so can you ask a question from last class
and I’ll answer it first?
Alright, from last class you mentioned that
the ones that control society are those old pensioners,
right, because they get revenues from the youngers
and they control the society.
In our society, I do see signs or phenomena
that the government are sort of helping the old pensioners
creating more say entertainment or facilities that benefit them so why is
that is it possible that the government also benefits from old pensioners
actions or is actually the government are controlled by old pensioners yeah I
mean we discussed this last class but it’s the pensioners they’re 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.
um so I was just thinking about the model and I think the monad uh yeah okay 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 the system okay so um in this system what is evil is the denial of
this 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 uh
deny the spiritual world that’s what’s evil in this 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 knowledge which
includes by the way art right movies because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world
the world we live in is fake and movies all they do is depict this fake world then
And it makes things worse, okay?
And Dante, 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 with cohesion…
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 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
the personal sacrifice they do sacrifice um as a consummation of their religion because that’s what
their religion demands of them 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 and there are 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 and dante’s theory it may 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 donald is saying about
our 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 donnie
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 become i don’t know unemployed and a drug addict who knows okay right that’s how they think
Mm-hmm.
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.
Exactly.
Thank you.
Yep.
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?
But 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 benefits such as power by disobeying the monad and letting others disobey the monad
because they can keep their power.
Okay, so let us be very clear, okay?
This is really important.
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. 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.
And again, guys, this is
a theory. No one knows if this is true or not.
I don’t know.
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 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 then ting 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 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 it will always be there okay it is exactly buddhism yes the ultimate we can 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 can we give someone else an opportunity to speak please
okay 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 make sense okay does anyone else want to ask
questions okay one more question okay okay and I think just like gives us the
way to approach nomad right okay you ask the question again I don’t like I want
to confirm that Plato or something they because they don’t Plato said that to
learn knowledge and then things had to pursue love so they 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 become 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 the universe, the secret
language of the universe dante says that’s too hard guys that’s not intuitive like for play
play-doh is an elitist right play-doh is like only if you come to my school and you learn geometry
sacred geometry where you access heaven donnie’s 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’s like and donnie’s 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 like why is that
like a lot of other like religions and you know plato or like don’t they came to the same
realization of monad 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 guys 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
you and others have limited ideas well like biologically we cannot explain it okay we’ve
never explained it so if you’re saying 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
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’ll continue this next class.
Okay.
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