Now, we're getting into a mobile theater for Oxford University which I have been working on for some time, working with people in England on it, so we really are going to be able to have an uncompromised, really a first class theater that can be converted from the Prussianian to the Greek or the Theater in the Round, and completely erectable in one day, and practically movable all around the country. There have not been things like that before. I can see lots of new potentials opening up, and I think it is not to be overlooked that a large number of those geodesic domes that I gave you, you get up to 100,000 count I really know my figure there because I received a counting on the geodesic domes that were made for children's playgrounds you see them on children's playgrounds. Of the 100,000 50,000 of those are on children's playgrounds. What interests me is that kids really like it, you know. It is something apparently very kin to the spirit of that child. It really feels right. And I think it is one reason why the geodesic domes go on to be very popular with Dome Books and so forth, and the Whole Earth Catalog.

But we will be coming to very much more advancement. It will cost less and it'll be opening like umbrellas and doing a very, very great deal. Now, I would like to change the subject from these kind of projects.

And, I'd like to talk for tomorrow we're going to get into questions, and I'd like to talk tonight about some of my thoughts some of my thinking about the great mystery of our presence here. I think I said to you that, when in 1927 I made up my mind I was going to do my own thinking, that I think one of the first things I said to myself, (I think I'm repeating to you, now I recall saying to you this) was "since you are going to have to give up all your beliefs," and you have a mother grandmother who said "Darling, you believe this and that," and I did because I loved her very much, and I believed it. I carried a lot of momentum of the feelings that I had accepted as a child that my loving parents had given me my feelings about everything, that I didn't, it was purely believing there was nothing no kind of experimental evidence to prove anything whatsoever.

So, I said, then, if you're going to do your own thinking, I think one of the first questions you've got to ask yourself is, "In view of your experience, that there is such fervor and so much belief in a God and various phases of different kinds of gods by different people, believing in some greater competence and wisdom of great power and great omnipotence and great omniscience." I said, "What, if you're going to do your own thinking, does your own experience suggest to you that there is a greater intellect operating in Universe than that of man." and I said, I think I said to you, I was overwhelmed by it. So I thought really a great deal about this subject as time has gone on. I assure you that when I went on to do all those things that I thought about, at all time I was then making the working assumption that there was, with this great mystery and greater intellect operating that you and I given minds to think with, that we're supposed to use them to think with. That the wisdom, I would not challenge that wisdom, this is what we are given. I must find out how I can really use all the things I am given. And, I felt really, very, very close to, all those years, to that Great Mystery, trying to understand that every time I can, what it is that is wanted to be done, what should I be doing. But assuming this greater wisdom, and that some kind of communication really does come at you, so I take all the things that do happen as very much as communication. So when things might seem untoward, I don't take that as untoward, I take it as communication, and I try to understand what I am trying to be told.

Now, I'm sorry that I thought I was going to bring it with me today, and I didn't. But I'm going to bring it to you tomorrow morning. I have written quite a little about what we are saying here, but I'm going to read to you tomorrow, I'll bring to you and read to you some things I have been writing about, what I call, what everybody calls, in the Christian world, "The Lord's Prayer." But it is, not just to the Christians, the Jewish there is a "Lord's Prayer," alright.

Now, the that I'll discuss tomorrow, but I'd like to go through with you some experiences I have had as the years have gone on going around the world. And,

For instance, I was in Japan, and when I was a little boy going then to, being taken to the church on Sundays, and I had a little paper miter box they called it, I was supposed to save pennies and put them in there, and put coins in there, and you turned those in on Sunday. These were to go to missions so that missionaries could go to the "poor heathens" who were then, didn't have the advantage that we had about knowing about God, these "poor heathens," and so as a child you're all hooked kicked up about that, and this is the way you do get on, with what your particular church looked like, the vestments of the minister, these got to be in your association and the father you loved so much sitting beside you and the mother. You get to very powerful associations, so I found that when my grandmother was High Episcopal Church, and my father was only low Episcopal Church took me to a High Episcopal Church in Boston which was almost like the Catholic Church with their incense, I didn't know whether that incense was not something I'd had associated with church at first so maybe that's wrong. This is I told you that I had very high sensitivity of smelling, because on account of my sight had been so bad when I was young, that I smelled things, so the ways churches smelled, the different religions seemed to smell differently, I liked this one, because this is the one I've been brought up with, it smells this way, and I'm used to that kind of alter flowers, the smell of those alter flowers, whatever they might be. The little child has these very powerful associations, so when I came to Japan, and I was I had very wonderful associations of people in Japan, and I was asked to go to a little city across by the Yomiuri Shimbun, which was the largest Newspaper in Japan at the time and the owner of it was opening up a new plant of their newspaper on the northwestern side at Saporo of Japan not Saporo at any rate, I was asked to attend the ceremony, and all the ambassadors to Japan from all the foreign countries were invited, and they had a special train for us, special car a special train that took us to this town. So I went with the Ambassadors, we arrived at the place, and they had a Shinto Ceremony for the opening.

And in the Shinto we get into the really oldest of the known going religions, and the Shinto ceremony, I was seated with all the Ambassadors up on the front row at the left hand side, almost like a wedding where there is the groom's family and the bride's family. And all the officials of the newspaper and so forth were all over on this right side, so that we were asked, I was treated as an Ambassador, I was put in that rank for this occasion, and so we were told to watch very carefully what went on because a time would come when each one of us would have to go thru a performance, and the Shinto Priest did go through now what we are all sitting there on these benches facing this way, and up here is then a number of saw horses, what we would call, kind of benches we used horses we have under our drawing boards. They were tall ones and there were planks then mounted on them, so there was, in effect, an alter alter means on high there is something up on high, and it was exhibited. And up on top of all those planks were all kinds of vegetables and fruits, and there were bags of rice, and there was sake, and all these things that are grown by Nature were up there. And then, on the table over here about a little to the right of where all our chairs were out in front of us, were an enormous number of fronds it looked just like laurel fronds beautiful green twigs, covered with leaves.

So the Priest went through the thing and then our host went through and then we Ambassadors, in that group, had to do it.

I'll now do for you what I was taught to do, and I'll explain it to you as I go. This alter, with all these things is up here, I've gotten up from my chair and I must go to exactly the middle here, and facing like this very erect, standing like this. My hands beside me, I must now take my hands (and Bucky makes two loud claps), clap just as loud as I can twice. Then I must go over to the table with all the green fronds, and pick up one of the green fronds, then I must go up to all these fruits and vegetables and things and put it up on top there, then I must go back just as fast as I can here, get in the middle, stand like this, with my hands (and Bucky makes two loud claps again), and then go sit down.

Now, this is a ceremony before people had words. We are really going very far back. What's going on here is that human beings finding that their survival Nature has something the sun shines, and these things grow , they don't really know why they grow, but the greeness is something to do with the sun, they have really a sense about chlorophyll, or they have a sense about photosynthesis, but they don't know what it is, it's intuitive, something is going on with that green. And, God is very, very busy. This is God, God does these things, but God is extremely busy, so this clapping is to get God's attention, and then you go and take this green, which shows what you want God to have grow, and you put it up there to show these are the things you'd really like God to have grow for you so you can survive, to thank God for that, and then you clap again to get where God could stop being busy with you and get back to his very important work. That's what it is. And I couldn't think of a more beautiful ceremony. I just couldn't.

So I, and I'd been wondering how I was going to feel. You know, as a kid brought up with the "heathens", and when I went through one of their own ceremonies, because I would like to do it in great earnestness, so I say I've never enjoyed a ceremony so much as I am enjoying this one, it really is beautiful.