Smith called the dynamics of disenchantment, where people are struggling with these transcendent questions. Questions that are metaphysical, that go beyond just the here and the now in the world. Whyis the 3 lb of gray matter in my brain able to comprehend the complexities of
ideology or answer. So, how do you take someone like me who agrees that there's clearly something missing, who believes that there's something transcendent , it would be a crazy thing to assume that this is it, I I think.Yeah. How do you take them from this position to believing that what's written in this book in front of me, the Bible, yeah, is
The first principle is transcendence, which is going beyond space time and causality, getting in touch with something that is eternal. Transcendent is almost inexplicable but you feel that that's real.Second, is that the emergence from that experience of the interconnectedness of life as an ecosystem.
We're really lucky. I'm gonna burp. transcendent social human need. And you don't even have to believe in God to think that.
philosophies. In fact the vedant is more than 5,000 years old. It's the philosophy of the upanishets uh the transcendental level of awareness. This is meditation. So that has been covered entirely in that video.
Yeah. Plus, somewhere along the way, like in December of 1967, I learned meditation. Transcendental meditation, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. We were doing a show in Paris-- a UNICEF show.
has helped the process. Transcendental meditation helps as part of a process of tackling addiction because, firstly, if there is an addiction issue-- and I suppose now that I've been at university for, in my language, a fortnight.
And this is the way that science proceeds. By transcendent experience I mean the immediate and vital experience of being connected to something larger
And this is the way that science proceeds. The transcendent experience may or may not involve a belief in God.
And this is the way that science proceeds. by transcendent experience.
But nothing makes me feel more like, euphoric and connected and loving and just transported and transcendent than their music. You know what I mean? So it's an odd thing. So that's just a little interesting thing. Wasn't that interesting? OK. Jesse Nichols: Something that--. Especially that you mentioned you were going to Twitter. You have a very large Twitter following. And I think there are aspects of
Richard: Bullshit. I mean, let's go, let's go through that. Was the word transcendent , I'd forgotten what-- Steve: Transcendent was one of his words, yes. Richard: Ok, yes. Now, in science, there are plenty of things that we don't know. So, that's the first thing to get out of the way; science is not a kind of know-it-all, we've
we said, are the numbers that come from the number line, including all the integers and the rationals and the algebraic numbers and the transcendental numbers and all of those numbers altogether. Now, obviously, since the natural numbers are included in the real numbers, we know that the real numbers are at least as large as the natural numbers. And so the claim that we want to prove is that it's strictly larger. So suppose that it wasn't strictly larger. So
And we met Maharishi there, and we were invited a couple of days after we met him, to learn And he taught many of us the technique of transcendental meditation, which I've been doing since December of 1967. And one of the more phenomenal experiences in my life, which I spoke about in the book, is being invited by Maharishi
Something seems to be going wrong. So transcendental meditation-- look how long it's taking me to answer this question. How annoying . The first thing you have to do is acknowledge that you've got a problem.
So my point is this. The transcendental meditation comes in and necessarily preluded by what I've just said is because, in my view, you can't just start transcending into another dimension if you've not dealt with your behavior, or material, and psychological problems.
Perhaps you're a cat burglar. But transcendental meditation means the crucible of my consciousness is amending, so all things-- consciousness is not just one more phenomena. It is the seat of all phenomena.
It's called ARM-- Aboriginal Rights Movement in that movie. But Sheila was just transcendent , one of the best actors ever, who keeps herself in theater mostly. She was one of Sam Shepard's muses.
Awe in and of itself, the final component, element of wonder, is in itself a self-transcendent experience. And self-transcendent means to rise above our own corporeal existence to connect to something greater. And so that's really that spiritual piece.
and in dozens of American cities. The great transcendent triumph of a moon landing, if it occurred at all, was destined to happen until not some time in the 1970s. And then, in August of 1968, George Lowe, the director of the Apollo program office,
Jeez. But if you can do a cross-section of the ocean out there, you'd realize that there's these little 30-foot waves, but the ocean, in reality, And it is transcendent .
Jeez. But if you can do a cross-section of the ocean out there, you'd realize that there's these little 30-foot waves, but the ocean, in reality, So what transcendental meditation does is it gives access to that transcendent level of the mind.
modernity is is an age in which only the world can be the case that is to say there is no Transcendent uh reality outside of the world you can also say that modernity is an age in which we whether we believe in God or not ordinarily act as if only the
his uh apology and his his death um the there's a Transcendent World which has Primacy and mundane world you cannot identify then uh religion and state if
At the end of the week, they deployed those features. So this transcendent goals, it's all about a better life for the world and for the people.
But my purpose is not to produce red blood cells. I have a more transcendent purpose that gives purpose, guidance, direction for my life. And frankly, if you don't have a purpose in your life, you're going to suboptimize-- you will not reach your full potential as a human beings.
and can create really Transcendent effects and solve problems I mean take Buu's principle it's a subtle scientific
in terms of that transcendent other thing that you are confronting in this experience.
Happiness can feel very transcendent and vague and abstract, but like say to yourself, Am I getting enough sleep? Am I getting enough exercise?
- So some of the famous transcendental numbers would include the number pi, you know, the 3.14159265 and so on. So that's a transcendental number. Also, Euler's constant, the e, like e to the x, the exponential function. - So you could say that some of the sexiest numbers in mathematics are all transcendental numbers?
And this is called transcendental consciousness or pure consciousness.
So if this transcendental consciousness state can lead to more clarity, more peace, less anxiety, is that something that can be demonstrated and proven?
totally captured or you can say absorbed immersed in a very high level of awareness in a transcendental level of consciousness where the mind does not flip from object to object. It is a meditative state. A meditative awareness is generated which
uh is placed that's the highest rung of the ladder of happiness because the meditative awareness generates a very very subtle transcendental form of joy uh which is to be experienced to be known. So now yoga psychology tells us that if you want to maximize optimize
as a transcendental illusion.
And the transcendental overtones of his vocabulary helped to underscore its significance as an instrument of intervention and purgation.
I read the transcendentalists.
But for those of you that don't have such explicit, and obvious, or evident problems with substance misuse or other behavioral problems, I suppose transcendental meditation might just give you a home inside your heart, a home inside yourself so you don't just feel lost and adrift in this world, looking for redemption and satisfaction from material means, which will never, ever work for you.
Well, if this is affected by transcendental meditation and I reckon other forms of meditation, but we're here on the David Lynch ticket, so let's say transcendental meditation. Like Krishnamurti said, didn't you, Krishnamurti?
Jeez. But if you can do a cross-section of the ocean out there, you'd realize that there's these little 30-foot waves, but the ocean, in reality, And in transcendental meditation, it's a technique that doesn't mind waves because we know that they exist.
You also got into transcendental meditation?
from world pursuits to transcendental all the way to enlightenment.
This is a transcendental universal principle, to actually connect to that essence of who we really are.
with the same transcendentally stupefying results.
if you do Transcendental Meditation you get a 25 percent, etc., etc. So, you're better off saying, ok, I'm doing the right things diet wise. Exercise helps me with my stress.
body starts to decay? That's it? No more consciousness? That's what happens?" "Yes," or, "no," or, "I don't know." Or whatever, but I think that Thoreau--. I think that Soul Pancake is really inspired by the transcendentalists. And one of the things I realized in writing this book is like, "Wow, I really came back around." Like, oh yeah, I used to read all those transcendentalists in high school. I
bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then what?
And it's also a transcendent thing.
Would you see humans as a transcendent species that has rapidly evolved in the most extraordinary way, overcoming barriers to achieve advanced levels of intelligence,
The important thing about that is the transcendent empathy that can come from understanding the baggage, the context that someone brings to that interaction.