so on the right you see that the Harry 00:00:00

so on the right you see that the Harry Potter snitch thing right and then on 00:00:05

the left here you see this incredibly 00:00:08

peculiar alchemical image and the image 00:00:11

is something like this this is what this 00:00:18

image means it means at the base of the 00:00:20

world is this weird combination of 00:00:22

matter and spirit so this is matter and 00:00:24

this is spirit the winged element 00:00:27

represents spirit and then out of that 00:00:29

comes something that's like primordial 00:00:30

and reptilian and then out of that comes 00:00:34

something that's associated with 00:00:37

consciousness so it's it's like a it's a 00:00:38

map of the way that consciousness 00:00:41

emerges from the base of reality 00:00:43

now you'll see that this thing and that 00:00:46

thing the snitch and that this thing is 00:00:51

called around chaos this thing the 00:00:54

snitch and the round chaos are the same 00:00:56

thing 00:00:58

now in in Harry Potter when he plays 00:00:59

Quidditch remember Piaget had such an 00:01:03

emphasis on games right Piaget believed 00:01:06

that games were the sub-elements of 00:01:08

human culture and critic is this weird 00:01:10

two level game where on one level it's 00:01:12

sort of like soccer basketball and then 00:01:14

on another level you have two players 00:01:17

that are seekers and what they seek is 00:01:19

this snitch and the snitch is this thing 00:01:21

that captures your attention that's why 00:01:25

it's Goldman winged and it moves around 00:01:28

very fast 00:01:29

it's like mercury the spirit mercury 00:01:30

because mercury the God had winged feet 00:01:32

and he was the messenger of the gods so 00:01:36

that's that's how mercury was conceived 00:01:40

of and I'll tell you something else 00:01:42

that's weird about mercury so mercury is 00:01:44

a metal as well and if you mix mercury 00:01:45

with sand and the sand has gold in it 00:01:48

then the mercury will pick up the sand 00:01:51

and then or the gold and then you can 00:01:53

heat up the mercury and all that's left 00:01:55

is gold so mercury will lead you to 00:01:56

where the gold is and the spirit 00:01:59

mercurius the mercurial spirit was the 00:02:01

messenger of the gods and if you paid 00:02:04

attention to mercury the god then you'd 00:02:06

gathered the gold but it wasn't the gold 00:02:09

of fools it was the goal 00:02:12

that made your life valuable and that's 00:02:13

the same thing that's played out in this 00:02:16

weird Quidditch game the two best 00:02:17

players the fastest the ones that are 00:02:20

most awake aren't playing the normal 00:02:22

game they're playing a superordinate 00:02:24

game and the superordinate game is pay 00:02:27

attention pay attention and if you pay 00:02:30

attention then you'll get the thing 00:02:34

that's most valuable you win the game but there's more than that because in 00:02:40

the Harry Potter series for example 00:02:42

there was a piece of soul in that and 00:02:43

that's related to the idea that if you 00:02:46

pay attention to what interests you what 00:02:49

manifests itself is meaningful not only 00:02:51

do you build the world out of that 00:02:55

because you're differentiating something 00:02:56

that's undifferentiated into something 00:02:59

that's comprehensible and usable but at 00:03:01

the same time you're doing the same 00:03:03

thing to yourself because and that's the 00:03:04

constructivist idea right it's that well 00:03:07

where d where do you come from well you 00:03:09

come from exploration and the generation 00:03:13

of information and exploration 00:03:16

what should you explore well the things 00:03:18

that shine forth to you 00:03:22

that's the phenomenological idea and 00:03:24

that substantial idea is if you refuse 00:03:27

to explore the things that shine forth 00:03:30

for you that capture your interest and 00:03:34

your attention then that will lessen you 00:03:36

as a being 00:03:40

it'll make you weaker and progressively 00:03:42

weaker because not only do you remain 00:03:44

unformed but the ratio of chaos to world 00:03:47

in your domain of being becomes too 00:03:50

intolerable too much chaos not enough 00:03:55

order not enough of you then the whole 00:03:58

thing is unstable then you've only got 00:04:02

two options one is that you lose belief 00:04:04

in being itself and that's like a 00:04:07

nihilistic reaction another is you turn 00:04:10

to some sort of totalitarian or 00:04:13

ideological solution that fills in for 00:04:15

where you're not and that's an 00:04:19

abdication of your individual 00:04:22

responsibility 00:04:24

the consequence of turning to 00:04:26

totalitarian ideologies like that is 00:04:29

that they stagnate and become brittle 00:04:32

because there's no transformation in 00:04:37

them anymore because all of the people 00:04:39

inside of them have decided that 00:04:41

transformation is unnecessary and so 00:04:44

they become increasingly outdated and 00:04:47

corrupt and then that's the first step 00:04:50

on the way to having everything fall 00:04:55

apart in the most horrible possible way 00:04:59

and that plays out at the state level 00:05:01

just like it plays out at the individual 00:05:04

level 00:05:06