This time I have a specific reason for going to Blackwells. Richard Dawkins had been plugging his book, ‘The God Delusion’, on television recently (September 2006), and the gist of what he says is that there is no God. And that the concept of God is propagated by the meme gene, that wireless gene. This gene is completely separate from the Double helix replicator gene that we know. The meme seemingly is created as an idea is passed on from one person to another. The idea is hardwired as it is passed on through conversation, literature, film, etc. The meme can be seen to play its part in different cultures being created, and sustained in its form, in the world. A certain type of culture of ideas sustains itself by this gene. The idea is sustained and hardwired as the idea gels itself in each person and hence in each type of population. The Bible, the Koran and all the other holy books are excellent tools for mainting the God meme gene. It sustains the idea through literature. Not all ideas are memed. Only those that has the power to intrigue takes hold. The idea of a God or someone looking over you plays on the feeling of fear and security and the idea catches on and takes hold in the gene pool. The meme is lost in death in an individual and is not passed on in replication, but it already exists in others as the idea does not die with the creator of the idea. The idea has already been hardwired in others still alive. So the double helix is not the only driving force of the form. In fact it is suggested that the meme might be a more important gene in creating the future than the double helix. The double helix is just responsible for creating the vehicle that carries the magical process. So what else do we not know! If you drop the science, then what tools do we have to see the Truth of things. The mystics have been doing very well without the science. Awareness, observation, allows one to see the workings of all the hardware in the human form without having to know the science. Art is one of those tools that opens up the spirit to ‘watch’ the process. It is a dialogue between the spirit and the living walking form.

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