from what preceded it

is as dramatic a miracle as anyone could imagine.

The emergence of language from mute

bestiality, which is only 100,000 years in the past,

is as dramatic a miracle as anyone could imagine.

The emergence of a planet instantaneously

unified by electricity and media is

- and this is only 50, 60 years in our past, it's still going on -

is as dramatic a miracle as anyone could imagine.

It's absolutely irrational

to not be filled with the fire of consuming hope.

You just have to overcome

the leveling that we inherit

from these empty, existential scientific ideas.

And when we do that

and lift our eyes to the real, living

spiritually

empowered reality that exists in nature,

in society, in our lover

in ourselves,

then you see that the peacock's tail, the cauda pavonis,

is a transcendental object at the end of time.

An enormous.. uhh..

unspeakable something.. that beckons

across the historical landscape, that casts an enormous shadow

that reaches clear back to the earliest moments of the universe.

That we have always been in the grip

of that iridescent, strange attractor.

It has propelled our poetry, our art.

Our best moments have always been

when the tiny spark of that alchemical completion

burned for a moment in our mind,

in our life, in our perception.

And we occupy a special position

in regard to this. Millions..

thousands of generations

of human beings, have come and gone and could only

glimpse this in the ecstasy

of eroticism and psychedelic empowerment

and ritual magic.

But we are...

.. the last people.

Beyond us lies the mystery,

if we have but the courage to move forward into that abyss.

To believe that nature will reward

the dreamer. It cannot wander

much longer. All of the preconditions

have been met and the peacock's tail

grows daily, whiter, and more

radiant and more brilliant, as we

sense now, breaking into our dreams,

breaking into our waking lives, the presence

of this attractor. It has always given people meaning

but we are the privileged inheritors

of that meaning. And we have then,

the privilege of putting it all together

in one piece and standing ready at the end of

history, to go into

the mystery and be completed.