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- you can't have a problem if you're not intelligent. - Trump has a low level of intelligence, so he can't even see that he has a problem. - Trump is our first American tragedy. Presenting himself to the American public as a mystery. - Everything he is doing is self-inflicted disaster. Repetition. - OTOH, formally, what he is doing, he is a great president: He is creating the conditions for peace with Russia and China: The very thing the right-wing in our country are against. - But even though...
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(first 4m45sec are blank video) what thoughts come up when jeff works on lisp/scheme? regina having pierre sign his books for friends separation of soul from body (obe) - various modern techniques/authors socratic seminar pierre's experiences at st johns and with jacob klein where did the greeks / acheans come from? pg: if you are going to raise questions of meaning, you'd better be around people who are interested in meaning. how are you going to define meaning? meaning is a step to wisdom. if...
Topics: philosophy, plato, NSSAT, pg1
Please forgive the audio and video problems. I got there late to record. Audio was patched in from multiple sources. http://noeticsociety.org
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Another fun, thoughtful Saturday chat with Pierre. A sample of the topics discussed: Julie's questions on Love from Plato's Symposium Another origin of false beliefs besides from family or culture Children's stages of growth: 'Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny' understood at a higher level Meaning Changing values Where is your freedom to change yourself? Belief Systems Education A change in how Pierre handles dreams Follow the Logos Retern to the Hellenic Age and Menaing You don't have to...
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Another great Saturday morning chat with Pierre! (If anyone takes brief notes on subjects covered, please submit them to info at noeticsociety.org -- thanks! More Info Pierre Grimes and Philosophical Midwifery The Noetic Society The Pierre Grimes and the Noetic Society collection here on archive.org.
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[This "Saturday" talk actually takes place this week on a Sunday. -JS] Pierre talks with JeffS about his recent midwife talk and his success playing/practicing piano since then, then asks him if he would like to up his game and choose a next higher challenge (LISP/Scheme, teaching, writing on NeoPlatonism, etc.) so as to continue further insights (via blocks/midwifery). [The brilliant little book mentioned which teaches recursion via a "functional" computer programming...
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My apologies: The first 14 minutes or so are blank video because I arrived late to film. Thanks to Regina for supplying audio from her own recorder for this section. Thanks also to Adina B for the following contributed notes. -------------------- Certainly Prometheus brings dreams and the understanding of the arts. Why does the myth of Prometheus include Epimetheus ? Prometheus is providential and Epimetheus is “hindsight” or “after thinker” Prometheus knows that there is a box...
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Synopsis Another great Saturday morning chit-chat with Pierre and several members of the NS. This was at Regina's house. Technical Issues I botched the video today, so I got this audio recording from Barbara - Thank you Barbara! Pierre did make a diagram today (the JPEG in the Download Options section), but it mostly just has to do with the solipsism topic at the beginning of the talk. Highlights Barbara's question re "Divisions" and "distinctions" (after Proclus in his...
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Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre. First we explore a dream of Eldar’s . Then immediately following that (this recording), Pierre asks us to consider what we gained from listening to Eldar’s exploration (and from all dream explorations). This leads us into a discussion of tyranny, which leads us to consider the “matter” in the “Black Lives Matter” movement, and what societal positives have come out of wake of the George Floyd murder in Minnesota. Highlights Eldar’s...
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Synopsis On this Saturday morning, Pierre starts out by asking us what would happen if we all decided to act justly. What would be the consequences? Highlights One consequence: We would have to stop blaming others for our own misery People believe they are in an unjust world, thus allowing them to blame others for their misery Having good reasons for (apparently) just actions What would happen socially, politically, industrially, if we put the standard of justice up front? Our own imprisonment...
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Synopsis Saturday morning with Pierre on Zoom. Highlights (with Regina) Understanding Euclid: Bringing Mind and Love Together What makes a definition (á là Euclid’s definitions, and Proclus)? Review of last night’s discussion with Jed: 8 terms needed instead of 6 society. leader to its people. the group around the leader (the army), etc.. (?) What is the relationship between Philosophical Midwifery (PMW) and Analogy? What follows if PMW can get to the root of our problems, whether...
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Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning chat with Pierre. Bradley kicks it off with a discussion of what is going on at a local Zen monastery and his experiences there. This leads to a discussion of whether Buddhism has a Logos and whether it would or could accept Philosophical Midwifery as part of its system. (Though it is not mentioned -- probably because everyone here knows -- Pierre has done PMW at Zen monasteries in the past, in walks in the woods between sitting sessions, which has lead to...
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Synopsis Second segment of a Saturday morning with Pierre. (First segment was dreams, here .) We continue our discussion from yesterday morning's Parmenides study and last night's Friday talk regarding Soul, the self-motive power, and intellect. Most of the discussion revolves around the difference between humans and (other) animals. All of this stems from our study in yesterdays Parmenides morning group, of section 66 of Book 1, Chapter 13, of Proclus' Theology of Plato . More Info Pierre...
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music pierre's early discovery of oriental literature and a bookstore in NYC that carried it war stories st johns work money / gold standard, people who know how to play the game, johns hopkins international money program, hillary clinton revolving door with her grants, gold, how is money made, produced, manipulated? next time: phaedo does the soul have self?
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Jung, Self, One, Soul (bad/missing sound at beginning for first few minutes.) http://noeticsociety.org
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Synopsis Another lovely informal and fun Saturday morning chat with Pierre. Again, I am too tired to film, so audio only. But I snapped a picture of us at the beginning. Sitting around the table were Pierre, and then starting around from his left: JulieH, SteveD, Ciprian, JeffS, Eldar, and Barbara. Highlights The 'Transcendent' / Divine What evidence is there? Review of last night's talk We had all the time a connection between ourselves and an eternal source providing insights into the human...
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Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre, who helped Josh, JulieH, and Regina explore their recent dreams. (JulieH brought in a dream that pre-dated the dream she explored last night with Pierre. We don't usually do this, since the message(s) from earlier dreams most often get repeated in later dreams. But Pierre and JulieH were able to mine good new insights from what she brought in.) Dream Texts Josh's Dream -- Thu 9 Jan 2020 I'm in some middle eastern country and im a guest in their...
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Synopsis Another Saturday morning with Pierre and the gang. Continuing on yesterday’s discussion regarding the comparison of individual goods, Pierre (with Cathy’s help, and her having read the translation from the Balboas) explores how to have a conversation with people regarding their ‘goods’, and what the ultimate Good/goal is, both for us individually, and for all of us – the group we call ‘humanity’. Highlights chat with Kevin Belinda’s question in the 7-page doc from the...
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Synopsis Several NS members meet with Pierre as usual for a lovely Saturday morning coffee and chat and/or dream analysis. Highlights Pierre asks, “Is there a single underlying unifying theology under which Homer, Plato, and Proclus all operate?” Brief discussion of Michelle's dream exploration last night . JulieH's dream exploration: “Doing for myself” → “forgetting” Eldar's dream exploration: The “surprise game” and the consequences of not sharing what I see. Dream Texts...
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[The following are just my brief notes I made while also filming and participating. I missed a lot, especially around JulieH and Nancy's interaction. Please send any better notes to me if you take them, and I will gladly replace my own here. Thx. Also, this 'NSSAT' talk was held on Sunday, 12/31, rather than 12/30. -JS] PG asks JeffS (me) about how things were going after a midwifery talk we did last week, and I responded with how much easier and different my piano practice is going since...
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Synopsis Saturday chat with Pierre. Four of us bring dreams to explore. Post-discussion on Logos and Truth. Quotes of the Day Notable quotes from Pierre today: "You can only be free with words." "The necessary condition for the emergence of the Self is Truth." Dream Texts JulieH's Dream, Sat morning/May 4th, 2019 I’m at my house, getting ready for people who are coming over for an event of eating and I don’t know exactly. My room mate (X) is also there helping to...
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Ingmar and rhetoric in the Gorgias dialogue eta endings Exploration of Eldar's Dream Barbara - pathologoses Pierre: 2nd part of Goethe's Faust - magnificent conclusion to the challenge of Mephistopheles - the perfect society, and living under the fear of the collapse of the dikes: eternal vigilance - "Hold thou fairest moment" http://noeticsociety.org
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Synopsis Another great Saturday morning with Pierre over coffee. JeffL brings in a list of thoughts and daydreams that come for him when he sits (meditates), and he and Pierre consider these. Later, KevinG brings up a dream he has experienced the night before and he and Pierre explore its meaning from his early family life. Dream Texts KevinG's Dream 24 August 2019 I fall and hit the ground so hard that I died and woke up and I died and woke up I fell again out of a building or something and...
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Synopsis Another lovely Saturday morning chat and coffee with Pierre. Four NS members explore our recent dreams with Pierre as midwife. At the end, JeffL reads a bit from Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines(*) and asks Pierre about some confusion that appears to be in the text between what we would view as the 1st and 2nd Parmenidean hypotheses (One-Self vs Brilliant Light of Being / Mind). Also Alex has worked a bit more to capture Love and Logos and runs it by Pierre. (*) Tibetan Yoga and...
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Synopsis Another Saturday morning with Pierre and members of the NS. Highlights Is it necessary to know the author’s intention before-hand? If so, how are we going to get it? PMW with Jed Original Location https://archive.org/details/20210102NSSAT Usage License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License Please Help Support the Project Do you enjoy our free audios and videos? Please consider supporting Pierre, the NS, and our archiving activity by giving a small amount monthly to support our work....
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Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning with Pierre. Some discussion of how much we can say here politically as a 501(c)(3) registoered organization; dream and daydream reflections; and talk about what a real science would look like. Highlights With JulieH: Discussion of 501(c)(3) organizations and their (and thus our) ability to discuss politicians and political issues (without lobbying, etc.) (Pierre arrives) Daydream exploration with Eldar Don's reflection on the providence of black holes...
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Synopsis Another fun Saturday morning coffee with Pierre. We looked at 3 dreams this morning. Dream Texts JulieH's Dream -- Monday 4 November 2019 I had this dream earlier where I was — I got out of my classroom and I had been sent a note from the Dean’s Secretary or the secretary of the administrator of the Dept to take care of a matter which was that I needed to unlock this door and go in and take care of some conversation that a couple of administrators had had, and I needed to go in and...
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Pierre with... Josh: Teaching Math. What Does Excellent Teaching Look Like? Why Are We Here? Eldar: What Is the Self? Jed: Report on Calling Home after yesterday's dream exploration Josh: Dream - Waiting for Them to Ask... More info: http://noeticsociety.org
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Synopsis Another great Saturday morning chat with Pierre. (I was very tired, so I just did audio today, no video.) Pierre helped Regina and Eldar explore their dreams, with some post-discussion after each one. Regina's is at the beginning, and Eldar's starts about 1:03:00 I did take a snapshot of each, which are available as JPGs in the Download Options menu of this page. (All materials CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 INTL as usual.) Dream Texts Regina's Dreams 2 and 4 Oct 2019 Dream Wed 2 Oct 2019 I was...
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Synopsis On this Saturday morning, Barbara, Belinda, Kate, and Grace explore their recent dreams with Pierre midwifing. Dream Texts Barbara’s Dream October 1 2020 In this dream I’m with some people (fellow spiritual seekers) we go to a, or end up at a large, clear, (naturally living, rock and algae) rock lined lake in the midst of (surrounded by) low mountains. And, to get down to the lake, there’s various ways (less direct, ways around) , but one way involves going down the rocky side of...
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Synopsis The usual NS Saturday morning chit-chat with Pierre. This time at JulieH's house (indoors, as it was raining). I did not film -- not enough energy or time. So audio only. Sitting around the table, starting with Pierre, and moving around the table starting from his left: Pierre, JulieH, Barbara, SteveD, JoshB, Regina, Eldar, JeffS. Various chit-chat at the beginning. Pierre midwifes a dream with Eldar (starting around 0:30:30). Pierre uses the dream exploration to open up deeper...
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Synopsis Another fun informal morning chit-chat with Pierre, at David's. This morning, we spend the entire time with our visitor MaxC, who has brought a dream with him. Dream Text MaxC's Dream - Wed 17 April 2019 I was a follower of Sasuke from the Naruto franchise, who was very powerful with a bright purple star following him. He took a non human form, he was a demon. I was very scrawny, weak, grey, I was his minion, the only one he had around though. We were fighting together for a while, but...
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Synopsis NS members Eldar and JulieH explore their recent dreams with Pierre mid-wifing. At the end, a bit of political discussion, and more investigation into JeffL's recent luminosity experience. Dream Texts Eldar's Dream - Sat 26 Oct 2019 So I am fighting this arch-enemy of mine. I'm like a superhero, like Spiderman. And I'm in this huge room and I'm running away from this “monster”. He's like a big, white, muscular, quick giant and he wants to get me. And i keep on running away. As...
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