I've got to put in a battery. It's a strange feeling as you you begin to hear yourself in very peculiar ways as your hearing aid is sort of beginning to fail. It's a whole new, probably with hearing aids, you really have to learn to live with them. The doctor said if I could really put up with it for a couple of years then I'd begin to find that the human brain is so extraordinary it begins to sort out what it is you do want to hear, but they just give me incredible noises, but now I'm really getting now I've been using quite a few years, and I'm beginning to really get a great deal out of them. At any rate, this compensation business, I'm sure that if I hadn't hearing aids, I'd have just stopped trying to hear and it would be quite easy to get old and just enjoy your own thoughts, and keep going over and you read a lot, and, but with them, and trying to hear, it again has helped me to recover that childlike business I listen terribly hard, you have no idea how and I'm sure this keeps me very alive.

Does that answer the platonic business? It was just not in the structures class.

"Does the metaphysical Universe employ spatial relationships such as vectors or shapes?" Yes, because I said, what was I think absolutely unique as far as my own any kind of contribution I have been able to make in SYNERGETICS was introducing the conceptuality independent of size and time. So, what are the tetrahedron? These are conceptual structural systems. And then if I say, "What does that triangle consist of?" What material? I really don't know at all. I really can see tetrahedron, conceptionally, without having any particular material. The "insideness" and "outsideness" business, there is something that I can associate with really motions itself, but without having to say what the material really is, because there is this is we have such an extraordinary frame of reference with our own insideness and outsideness and so forth. And anything we can think about that has any substance to it any "thinkable system" thinkability requires a system. Anything that is actually identifiable will, at any location, is going to have an insideness and an outsideness.

So, "Does the metaphysical Universe employ" so the metaphysical is my mental activity, so it does employ the spatial vectors and so forth.

"Can human relationships be described as joining of shapes, convergence of vectors, and so forth?" Very much so, the there is it's rather dull, but you really can get down into making the vectors of the approaching things, and we can really get to the vectors like we get close in critical proximity, and feel heat and all the energy and everything else. There are vectorial things going on very powerfully. Actually can be described as forces. The metaphysical, I the metaphysical intereffects I don't think you can describe with vectors the physicals, yes.

"How do other peoples around the world feel about a cooperating, trusting one-town world? How far is humanity from realizing this? How urgent is the need to act soon? How likely to succeed or fail?" I have, fortunately, traveled around the world, and I have talked to the human beings everywhere, and one of the things that really has impressed me is, in Russia, the Russians can't understand why the Americans and Russians shouldn't be getting on absolutely superbly. I'm not talking about their politicians or leaders, but the people themselves. They just don't understand why we can't get on. What's going on?

And the Arabs, Israeli I have talked to many, and absolutely good feeling. It couldn't be better. And really, there is a people resentment around the world of the political manipulation of them making and putting them one against another and realizing how terrifically propagandized to feel the way they do. Going back and forth as much as I do, and being in India when they found, the United States papers I was really shocked when I found the New York Times was really pretty reliable, but I found the New York Times reporter in India not being faithful to what was going on there, and he was really participating in propaganda. Whether he had a political job and had that job mixed up with I'm afraid that was in there. But it was really, there was some treachery of information to humanity going on.

The, so, I think my answer to you is that the people are ready. Everywhere. They would very much welcome it.

How quickly people will this phenomena, trust, every child is born with trust. Has to. It is absolutely dependent on that parent. That the breast is going to be there. Whatever is necessary for a long, long time. And when a child, lying in bed, his drunken parents suddenly (smack) in a fight with one another, I assure you this trust gets very greatly shattered. These things are very, very delicate, and it doesn't, it's hard to find the tiny little things that suddenly make little human beings really skeptical about other human beings. But there is a born trust and it will persist so long as it doesn't have very important evidence that is not to be trusted. When I say the mother and father are drunk and father is leaving home with his angry voice, and this little child really may not know what the words are but really feels absolutely insecure all of a sudden.

The urgency to act is always there. I think it has always been there through all history. All history calls for integrity of the human beings, and I, fortunately I think, very, there are a very large numbers of human beings acting in extraordinary integrity, and even the ones who seemingly are bad, they've been taught the game and they're really quite convinced of the game they're playing. I don't see businessmen as bad people at all, but I think they really are caught in convinced of the game being valid that where they haven't had the right information, and it's very easy to get people to play the wrong games. So that, the big thing is, integrity is required at all times, so then "How likely is it to succeed or fail?" That I feel is absolutely touch and go now. And I think the whole difference whether we do or not actually lies with each one of us. It's really the little things each one of us are doing. If I don't personally feel the need to pick up the paper, to clean up my own mess, if I don't feel that, it's going to go just like wildfire everything is going to go to pieces. I've got to feel it about everything I do, and I do feel it that way, all the time now. Much more than I ever have. All my life I've had this feeling, but much more now I really feel there were times I let things go a little, but I must not let things go anymore. I think humanity is really being weighed. I call it really some final exam. And humanity is not marking the papers. Nor are politicians marking the papers. We are we really going to qualify to graduate to be a little more responsible than just, just really thinking that we are the whole world and we are the whole Universe, which we tend to be prone to think, and that the Universe is here to please us or displease us the stars are just a decoration. Are we really going to graduate where we are going to put ourselves in the right magnitude and really realize that we are here to really use this beautiful thing and it's truth is just not something you traffic there is no temporizing with truth whatever it is you go with it.

So, "What are your predictions for future years?" I can give I know what the options are. I know where things can go, and I can really spell out and the particular thing that I gave you to read last night, as I go into the last parts there, ways what would happen if you then stop wasting the fuel to go to false jobs that are not producing life support, and you begin to see how the economies work out I spelled that out quite clearly in that piece that I gave you. I think I know that those are options. So that, but whether we are going to make it or not is quite a different thing, so I can't make any prediction that that is where we're going to go, but I know those are options and there are probably other options. But that's true and somewhere along the lines that I put there seem to be the prominent way in which rivers would flow if you do this and that. It was a good question, Connie.

Question from Janet. "Is it as valid, or as valuable for a person to devote his time and energies to playing music, painting or writing poetry as it is to devote time and energies to show the healing and so forth?" I think this is very much a matter of the individual. And here is where the intuition really does play a very important part, and I know my artist friends who just really did do painting and so forth and my friends who have been musicians, have helped me a great deal to do what I do. They have loved me. We have been friends, they inspire me, and apparently what I do inspires them. But the main thing is INTEGRITY WITH SELF. Because we are nature does have butterflies, and she has lilies and they're different. And they are very intercontributory and there is great cross pollinating that goes on in the affection and the harmonics our metaphysical cross pollination is harmonic. Things that really either inspire very positively, or might irritate, they force you to precess or something. So, as far as I'm concerned out of validity, it is just a matter of integrity, is this person really feeling very much like painting? be sure to paint. Be sure to do it. That's the language. I see artist after artist that I know who did not stay in school very long, and they very often were the drop outs. And they were, to me, very probably drop outs because as they were being exposed to information and the way they were being taught about language, and how to write and so forth, it didn't feel right. This was not an intellectual decision at all, but it just didn't feel right. The artist had, then, I say, every child is born genius. And their genius is they are intuitively threatened, and they really just clam up. They don't know why they are clamming up, and they don't want to be bad boys, or they're just not getting on. Because I think they are absolutely protecting something within them. So many, many of my artists friends simply were drop outs that way, they just clammed up. That was not the language they liked to speak. They had a visual language instead of a hearing language, etc. So they wanted to paint. This is the way they talk. That's what you do in your music. You speak that way. So I think it depends on what language that you feel you are going to be most effective in. So that is really the artist.