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Sister Judy of the
Rejuvenated Ecstasies

Every ‘day’ of creation is followed by a ‘night’ of extinction. The fossil record shows six major extinctions. We are currently in the beginning of the seventh. The last great extinction took out the dinosaurs that ruled the planet for 250 millions years. Lurking among the thundering footfalls of the great beasts were soft, furry mammal-like things.

Some say that the dinosaurs went extinct because they smoked cigarettes (see, e.g., Larson). They may have been inhaling but it wasn’t Marldinos. It wasn’t a pack of Lucky Strikes either. It was more like a boatload of Lethal Strikes. Of course, we are talking principally about the comet that struck in the vicinity of the present Yucatan about 65 million years ago. Everybody knows the story: the dinosaurs got wiped out and the mammals took over, and now we have predatory banking, and corporations rule the planet.

Again, I will reiterate that my objective is not to present an in-depth account of the science behind these ideas but to show that the science is consistent with certain mythological accounts—specifically, the Babylonian one as recorded in Genesis.^[1] The Babylonians had a story called the Enuma Elish that discussed certain aspects of creation. Needless to say, it would not have become a hit unless it was revised and published in a different book. The Hebrews had their own stash of Creation wisdom known as the Sefer Yetzirah, which is part of a general subject known as Kabala. The interpretations of the Enuma Elish and stories about Marduk, Enil and Enki have been done by Zecharia Sitchin and are readily available today, as is English interpretation of the Sefer Yetzirah. What is really amazing is the story of the Bible itself and how for so long, even after it was compiled into its current set of books, its reading in anything but Latin was forbidden. The whole history of medieval to modern Europe could be explained in terms of the struggle of religions and their way of either repressing or releasing to the common masses Biblical content and context. We live in a fortunate time with freedom of thought and relatively unconstrained research; we’d better enjoy it before we lose it again. Anyway. . . add the Knights Templar to the historical scene and someone has the basics for a major set of books. It could be a goldmine.^[2]

What I am presenting is consistent with the Sefer Yetzirah. Physicist Gerald Schroder has drawn from his consultations with rabbis in penning a couple of elegant and authoritative books on the subject. I am not just pulling this stuff out of my pituitary.^[3]

So, according to the story, “On the sixth day the Earth brought forth cattle and creeping things.” Creeping things could be interpreted as snakes and lizards, but that is incorrect because those basically slither. Creeping things refers to the blind mole rats that were lurking around the egg nests and perching areas of the dinosaurs. All the animals that are mentioned on the 6th ‘day’ are mammals. Not only that, but on the same ‘day’ that the earth brings forth mammals, man shows up.  There are some people—some in this very room, even^[4]—who are unjustifiably adamant in their own adopted interpretations on this subject. These people should actually try reading and studying the body of mythology that they insist on importing and distributing with minimal scrutiny (or worse, lost in the deliberate blindness of an agenda).  Most people think of man as a special creation apart from all else, but the slightest investigation reveals that man showed up on the sixth ‘day’ along with the rest of the mammals. The business of man’s being made from the dust of the ground is not discussed at this point, but appears in the next chapter of Genesis and relates entirely to a different story—namely, the human dependence on agriculture, man going from hunter-gatherer status to pastoralist to fixed-cultivator.  But I am getting ahead of myself.  And certainly ahead of you.

Now distinguished colleagues, ascendant laity, honorable slackers, boys and girls, I am going to tell you something that is going to blow your pea-picking brains. Even though I am showing how cosmology, geology and the fossil record are consistent with the first chapter of Genesis, I must say that Darwinian evolution, strictly speaking, is incorrect.^[5] New genetic studies show that genetic variation is much more complex than thought for a long time. Before decoding the human genome we thought we were much grander than rats, but it turns out that we have only a few more genes than rats, and not a whole lot more than fruit flies. After all, fruit flies have six legs and we only have two. They also have a whole lot more eyes, plus they fly whereas we walk. Basically, what it comes down to is that random genetic mutation just doesn’t work even in the context of geological time. As it turns out, a guy named Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a more correct concept.^[6]  The fact is Lamarck was a commoner, whereas Darwin was an aristocrat and the equivalent of a trustafarian. While Darwin was playing around with his ideas, Lamarck was a self-made naturalist. He sent Darwin a copy of his version of evolution and Darwin flipped out. He had a friend in high places who pulled some strings, and Darwin was able to get his own version published before Lamarck, and the rest is history.

Lamarck’s version was disdained, slandered and mocked. The distorted account asserts that if giraffes wanted to have longer necks to reach higher leaves then they could get longer necks by simply stretching their necks harder. One fellow attempted to disprove Lamarck’s supposed version by cutting the tails off twenty-five generations of rats, and still their progeny had tails. Supposedly they would get tired of having their tails cut off and would quit growing them. We all know Darwin’s version. Random mutations give some lucky duck an advantage of some sort, he gets all the babes, and the changes are passed on.

One thing the fossil record shows is that evolution is not linear, it does not occur at a constant rate. Evolution is ‘punctuated.’ After an extinction event like global climate change, or a comet impact, or global volcanism, the niches that are left behind by extinct species are rapidly filled up by new species at a much faster rate than random mutations could account for. Lamarck explained this fact by suggesting some malleable mechanism that allowed change to happen faster. Now we know what that mechanism is—quantum mechanics.^[7]

As we now know, DNA is made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made ultimately of light quanta, which themselves are electromagnetic wave forms.  Being a wave form, light is subject to resonant frequencies of other wave forms such as those associated with the changing state of the environment, the location and proximity of the earth to other stars, cosmic rays etc. It is also subject to the transmissions of the wave forms emitted by our own and other minds. I can see you all slowly edging towards the doors. But again I don’t make this stuff up. Check out authors like Bruce Lipton and Lynn McTaggert. Science has shown that the mind is nonlocal and the brain is a wave form analyzer. Just like Schrödinger’s cat, our reality is only what we believe it to be. More on this subject later. Let’s get back to the naked ape.

Actually there are no naked apes. Humans are the only primate with a major absence of hair. We also have major differences in sweat glands compared to other primates. This brings us to other stories in Genesis that are allegorical stories about our actual history as a species, which is recorded in our universal subconscious memories. This is why people have such strong feeling about these stories. They do resonate with our actual subconscious but we misinterpret what they actually say.

So here are Adam and Eve in the Garden. They were vegetarians (look it up).  They had it made. Just lying around picking fruit off the trees. That is precisely where other primates are today. Also, thus was Australopithecus, our earliest ancestor—our Adam, our Eve—2.6 million years ago.

Now a word about the limbic system. In addition to the reptilian brain, which comprises our brainstem and contains all the basic ‘software’ to run our body functions, mammals have a limbic system.  The limbic system is basically the seat of our emotions. Emotions became necessary so mothers would take care of their young. Instead  of dropping  a bunch of eggs in the dirt like so much baggage, as reptiles do, mammals give birth to live young and have to hang around and take care of them. It has been shown that baby animals are cute- looking in order to get an emotional response from their mother and others who would otherwise try to eat them.^[8]

Thus Australopithecus was still a hairy, fruit-eating, doting primate but something was about to rock the world of our Adam and Eve. They got thrown out of the Garden. About two million years ago climate change dried up their jungles and they were forced out onto the African Savannahs (I do not accept as valid the supposed intervention of extraterrestrials—at least at this stage).  Our ancestors were forced to make a living by a much more exhaustive physical effort than picking fruit off a tree—namely, being nomadic, traveling (and frequently running to and away from things), and chasing down animals.  This activity was a real body-heat-generating thing. If they did not lose the fur and begin to sweat like crazy they were going to spontaneously combust. Whatever the mechanism of losing hair, that is what they did.^[9]

Not only that, they got big heads. All that clamoring around—trying to stay alive, developing social skills, making tools, developing hunting strategies, partying like it was one million years ago—was a lot to manage in those acorn-class skulls. The ancients increased their brain capacities from 400 CCs to about 1200 CCs. This was (and still is) a major problem. The brains were evolving faster than the females’ ability to accommodate them in childbirth. Throughout the centuries people have been pointing to the Bible and saying that women were cursed because they talked to a snake. [The snake they talked to was the curvilinear sine wave of the zero-point energy field otherwise known as Kundalini (another story), and the knowledge gathered on the snake’s advice was knowledge brought by experience.]  Human birth is so agonizing today because of the size of the human head. We just know too damn much; getting fat off that fruit of the tree of knowledge, we have had to pay the price. Worst of all, concomitant with the expansion of mental capacity, we developed self-awareness. That is why we know we are naked. It is in the jacked-up cerebrum.

Next lecture we will discuss Jungian psychology as depicted by Adam naming the animals. Now go eat your Twinkies. Oh yes, the hope thing. The ability to plan ahead resides in the neocortex. We have a test next week. Go use your neocortices.