I'm Trevor Lewis and I'm here with Chris Largent,
The founder of the Seventh Academy,
And we're continuing the series on ancient world wisdom.
This talk is about the Egyptian tree analogy.
Chris,
Over to you.
Thanks very much,
Trevor.
So in ancient Egypt,
Probably especially in the ancient Egyptian inner temple at Wasut,
Which I believe is now Luxor,
It was a place that everybody went to study.
And I mean,
At its height it educated 80,
000 people,
And fewer anybody in India,
Greece,
Persia,
Even China.
You'd go study at the Egyptian inner temple at Wasut.
And one of the teachings,
One of the ways they taught things was to use trees.
Now,
One way a tree was used is to define what you got born to do.
So for instance,
They would say root people got born to resist any kind of change or difference.
And their whole culture is made up of root people.
If you look at England in the late 18 and the early 1900s,
What they're championing is no change.
And so the root people,
And people get born to do that.
You have,
Whatever the cultural norm is,
You're going to be dedicated to it,
Rather dogmatically and rigidly.
And if your character fits that,
That's what you're going to do.
And somebody needs to have those roots there.
So it's an important role.
We don't look down on these roles.
Then trunk people are the people who,
There's a little more activity going on there,
But they're demonstrating and holding and showing conventional values,
Good,
Bad,
Or indifferent.
Again,
That's very much the cultural norm.
So with these two groups,
Root and trunk people,
They have lots of reinforcement as individuals.
The branch people,
Still pretty much woody stuff,
Still very conventional,
But they're starting to think about change.
And mostly they're going to do that through some social convention,
Some institution like politics or something like that,
That they think is going to help change.
But it's still fairly much the norm.
Then you start getting differences and you start getting people who might even be more marginalized.
The twig people are people who are interested in anything that's above the normal materialist reductionist physical way of looking at things.
So they're interested in metaphysics.
And so they get interested in all kinds of truths or inspiring ideas.
And they go looking around for things.
And they're very nice people.
They're the light and love people.
And you think,
Okay,
They're marginalized.
Often the branch,
Trunk,
And root people think they're screwy in some way or another.
There's something wrong with those people.
They're up there doing those things,
Whatever they're doing.
But the twig people still kind of find their own groups.
And so there's a little reinforcement there,
But they're going to be marginalized to a certain extent.
And then you hit the leaf people.
And this is usually a very small group of people.
They're way outside the norm.
They're often marginalized and misunderstood.
And it's a challenging job.
It's the most challenging job.
Galactically,
It's one of those things that you think,
Whoever signed me up for this,
I'm not using them for the next trip I have.
So there,
Right?
Because you have all these challenges there.
First of all,
People don't pioneer in large numbers.
So we had this series named by Trevor actually called the Merlin Awakening and Merlin Energies about culture transformers,
Not so much about Merlin specifically.
And one of the things that came out was people pioneer pretty much alone.
You can run into other pioneers,
But they're doing slightly different things from what you're doing.
And so a lot of people say,
Well,
You know,
I feel kind of alone here.
Yeah,
You are alone.
That's your job.
And not a whole lot of people want to do it.
Millions of people don't pioneer.
Only a few people do.
In addition to that,
The most challenging,
All clear paths are behind you.
Everybody else is looking for a path.
The culture transformers have to make the paths.
That's why they're so often misunderstood in their own time,
Because they're doing something very different from people are just saying,
I'm trying to discover from all these paths,
All these timelines have been set up by the culture pioneers,
Which one is the best one for me?
But the pioneers are the ones that had to make that path.
Remember,
Krishnamurti saying truth is a pathless land.
That's a typical insight of a culture pioneer,
Which Krishnamurti was one.
So it's the leaf people are those that have that constantly moving the culture forward.
And smaller group,
Margin,
Very marginalized group,
Often misunderstood group and very challenging.
Again,
As we saw earlier with culture transformers,
It's a they're aware of changing the cultural consciousness.
So that can be very exhilarating and elating,
But it never stops being challenging.
And that's one of the things we discovered in that Merlin awakening series.
And people are saying,
Well,
You know,
When did when does something settle down?
Yeah,
When the big transformation is over,
Whatever it is.
Thank you,
Chris.
Thank you,
Everyone for joining us today.
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