Secret Knowledge of the Greeks Resurrected

Good evening, everyone. So I'm assuming most of you have read my book, my latest book, Unleashed. I think most of you have this one. The Promethean Promise: The Power of Gods Wielded by Humans. Here we go. And so the topic I'm going to cover, most of you already have some background knowledge. I go back to the Axial Age and the breakdown of the bicameral mind, the rise of philosophies mysteriously all over the world. Karl Jaspers, he was the one who termed the phrase, identified the Axial Age. He could not explain it. He left that up for future generations to explain it. Eventually, 50 years ago, Julian Jaynes did explain it. He came out with his incredible book, The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, that shows how we had a different operating system of the mind about 3,000 years ago. And around this period called the Axial Age, society had gotten too complex. for that bicameral operating system to continue to guide the human race. We were guided by external authority. It's a neurological impulse in the brain. It was a message sent from the right brain to the left brain, and it was heard— it's audio hallucinations— heard as the voices of the gods, and we developed a structure of hierarchy and leadership You had those who were more efficient at having these bicameral audio hallucinations. They became the leaders, the oracles, the— yeah, just the leaders of society. And we followed. That's been our historic development as followers. We followed the pharaohs. We followed whatever they said was automatic and obeyed with pure obedience. We were not conscious, James points out, in the sense that we had internal awareness or introspective awareness, subjective meaning. Everything was just objective, such as, say, Perhaps like just reading a news article. This event, that event, this event. No subjective thought. No analyzing. No internal analyzing of the situation. No internal thoughts. It's all following and obeying, and I've talked to you about this, and you've read about this in my works. We had the Axial Age, and philosophies rose. Without any communication from civilization to civilization, similar philosophies just began rising around the world, and this was the Axial Age. But you had a very unique situation in Athens, Greece, and that was this lineage that we've talked about of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and it was an evolution of the new intro— Intro. Perspective, inner awareness, the conscious mind. And what was going on there, and it didn't happen anywhere else across the planet, was philosophy went from replacing the lost voices of the gods, basically telling the humans what to follow, what to think, What to believe, to, with Socrates, beginning to turn inward to figure out how you can generate that from within, what to think, what to believe, how to act, as opposed to absorbing it through tradition or through external authorities. Through kings or priests, but internally within. Now that was a psychological rupture, I guess we could call it, something we had never seen before, this independent, this moving towards sovereignty awareness. Introspection. Thought. Well, also during this time as you've read and I've spoken to you about, there was incredible turmoil because we all of a sudden had a race, a species with no guidance. All animals of nature have guidance. They come in these automatic Automatic responses are strong impressions. I've mentioned to you, you know, if you have an animal in the woods and a predator approaches, you have all these strong embedded automatic reactions on what to do— to flee or to fight or to attempt to evade. So these are all part of these strong impressions that Mother Nature had put into us. Well, when man, when humans lost their strong impressions, which were the voices of the gods, when we lost our operating system from Mother Nature, total chaos, turmoil. Across the world, there are records of civilizations destroying themselves from the inside out, of great wars. This was an extinction event. And it was under this pressure that rose the philosophies to give us guidance. We needed guidance from out there, from above. We didn't have it from within. That would take some time to develop that. Now, there were exceptional humans who stood out throughout history, but by and large— and Athens was experiencing These internal strifes and this war with Sparta and chaos, and they— Athens was struggling and falling apart, and that's when Plato entered the picture, and Plato, out of survival, realized he needed a structure, a psychological structure by which humans could could exist without such turmoil. It could bring stabilization to society, to civilization. So he developed his philosophy with the forms, you know, what's good, what's just, and he developed a whole philosophy around this abstract That there are philosopher kings, and then there's the cave, his allegory of the cave and the prisoners in the cave. When you break it all down, and you've read it in Unleashed, essentially what Plato was dealing with and describing was a mostly bicameral civilization that was lost and turmoil was erupting. He was bringing order, stabilization, scaffolding to this civilization with his philosophy, his abstracts of the forms, and he was giving the people something to follow to replace the voices of the gods. In his case, it was very benevolent. Later it became very malevolent in following centuries, but at the time it was very, very benevolent. And his philosopher kings were the few truly conscious people. And there was nothing but benevolence around this. They were the— the philosopher kings were really the conscious people. They were the ones who knew the forms. They were the ones who could guide the bicameral civilization. And of course, that's all in my book. And then we had the— Plato was the bridge, and what was supposed to happen And what was amazing about Athens and this knowledge of the Greeks, which by the way was spreading throughout the lands, that the Greeks have this special knowledge, this secret knowledge that no one has, it came with Aristotle really. And Aristotle was on the other side of that bridge. And what Aristotle did was he began to realize for the first time ever on our planet, that reality was something that we could interact with, that we could— that had a causal cause and effect, that we could understand, that we could learn, and then we could reason. That was just completely revolutionary, that we could reason, that we could begin to control, that we didn't have to follow tradition or follow myth. We could— or follow the pharaohs or the kings, the priests, or the oracles— that we could ourselves begin to observe what's in front of us perceptually, and then we could begin to integrate those into reason, into concepts. And then I say in my NeoThink works, into puzzle pieces and integrate them into puzzle pictures, breakthrough puzzle pictures. But Aristotle was working It was just— when you really understand what was going on, it's just simply mind-blowing what Aristotle brought to the world. And this began to spread through the countryside, through the neighboring lands, and it just began to spread of this incredible knowledge of the Greeks. What was it that they had there in Athens? Now, a very powerful king, Philip, King Philip II of Macedonia, had heard of this, and he had heard of this enormous advantage. By now, Athens was stable. They didn't have the problems with war and this inner turmoil anymore. So this, and by the way, this is not in Unleashed. Oh, okay. More material. It will— I'm going to develop a couple hundred more pages around more that I have learned. You know, when I was telling you about Unleashed, I said there was a lot more I had yet to do with it. And this, I'm giving you, you know, my— looking at you here, looking at you, my people. I'm giving you more information about where this transition into consciousness, where it's going. Where it came from, where it's going. So King Philip, the powerful army, had heard about this— we'll just call it the secret knowledge of the Greeks. Okay. I realize it's not secret knowledge. What it was was the operating system of consciousness that delivered such power. But it was not Well known. It was just in this little area, this little peninsula, Athens, Greece. So now Aristotle is very happy at Plato's Academy. He'd been there for 20 years. And here's King Philip of Macedonia. He's looking at this— I'm just going to call it the dream team of lineage. First of all, you had this advanced knowledge already happening in Athens, Greece. Then you had this unbelievable but very unsettling person, powerful person in Socrates. And from there, this brilliant mind in Plato who took Socrates and then brought Brought security and stabilization to Athens. And now you have Aristotle. Couldn't have Aristotle without Plato, and you could not have Plato without Socrates. So here you have Aristotle and this amazing power that Aristotle Wielded. When you look— I'm reading some— I'm reading the Canon of Aristotle, and it's a tough read because as I've explained to you, the very edited beautiful works of Aristotle for the public that would spread like wildfire, well, that is lost to the world. I even have some areas I want to look at. look into that will come later as to maybe bringing some more insight into how that was all lost. I already put in Unleashed all the known factors, but you know how neothink works. It's a new way of marshaling evidence through integration— integration power. And when you snap together these puzzle pictures, there are missing pieces, and those are pieces lost to history, right? But NeoThink gives a new power to marshaling evidence in that if you're putting together a puzzle picture, and let's say it's the Empire State Building, all right, I'm just grabbing anything. Last time I think I said a hippopotamus, right? Well, those few missing pieces When you get everything together and you have 4 or 5 missing pieces, you know what they look like because you can see the picture and your consciousness can say, okay, this is a stream of windows going down, or whatever it might be. This is the tip of a needle up here, of the needle, the radio tower. I'm going to experiment with trying to get deeper into what happened Everything's logically there. You know, it's, you know, it's the disintegration of paper, the library fires, the burial of his library, the moisture, the worms, and so on and so forth. But is there more? I want to find out. Is there suppression? And as I go through my little talk today, I think we'll come full circle to what I'm talking about here. But okay, so Back to this King Philip II. He has a son, 14 or 15 years old, Alexander, who we all know in my book becomes Alexander the Great. But he wants not the typical elite, well-educated tutors for his son and for a handful of others that eventually basically rule Macedonia later. But I'm going to leave that part out. That will be in the expanded version because I don't want to get too far into the weeds here. So he wants not just his great educators for Alexander. He wants Aristotle. Now to get Aristotle, I'm not so sure without having dug into this more, I'm not so sure Aristotle would have gone to tutor for King Philip II, tutor his son Alexander. I'm not so sure about that, but King Philip offered really a proposal that Aristotle really could not refuse. You see, previously the powerful army of Macedonia had basically wiped out Aristotle's hometown, and he knew people in the town and so on. Stagira is how you pronounce it. It's pronounced very differently than it's spelled, and he said, I will— and all the citizens were either exiled or enslaved, And to get Aristotle to come to Macedonia to tutor his son, he said, I will allow all the citizens back in, and I will remove all the enslaved, and they can all be free. Well, Aristotle's not going to turn that down. So Aristotle goes To Macedonia. And by the way, the purest pronunciation is Makedonia, but in today's world, it's Macedonia. All right, so he goes back. All right, he goes to Macedonia, and he's put in a sort of a remote area with his son and a handful of others, young 14, 15-year-olds. And he teaches him the typical things that they teach— military, politics, ethics— just typical tutor stuff. But then it's said that Aristotle did something with Alexander that is quite rare. And that is he taught him what's basically called like higher knowledge. Some call it secret knowledge. And historians have tried to figure out, well, what was that? But it's in, for example, Plutarch, who was a Greek-Roman philosopher and— Historian. Historian— biographer actually— had— and he lived, let's see, in the 1st century which would be like what 3, 3 and a half centuries after Aristotle died, but Plutarch had said that Aristotle had given this rumored secret knowledge of the Greeks to Alexander. Well, now when you put together the puzzle that I put together and you look at the missing pieces— as I said, historians, they wonder and they try to figure out what it is. They say, well, it must be his esoteric— that's The tutoring, teaching, and then there's the exoteric which are— sorry, dog's going crazy here. The exoteric were the beautifully polished writings that would spread amongst the public, and those are all gone. So anyway, I already touched on that, but back to historians. They say, well, it must be the esoteric. But I believe that's not what it is. Putting together the puzzle pieces and seeing the missing pieces, I believe what he was orally, verbally, which was not written down, teaching Alexander was the operating system of consciousness. This ability— and remember, He was an adolescent. Alexander was an adolescent, much more able to absorb new ways of absorbing knowledge and thinking. So he was teaching a young teenager the operating system of consciousness. And what that did Was give Alexander a power that very few people at the time had. Aristotle had it. Now Alexander had it. It wasn't necessarily secrets or more about politics or more about this or that. It was the operating system. Of consciousness. And I think we have our evidence in what this young Alexander was able to do that today historians see what he was able to do, leaving Macedonia at 20 years old. Young, young. Leader of the military, of his Macedonian military. And conquer most of the known world, and defeating easily armies, very, very— armies just as military, with just as much military might as his army, and some many times more. He would fight armies, you know, he said traveling for 10 years, but he was traveling the world with a With a lean and mean army and/or military, and he was overthrowing one after the other, 2 times, 3 times, 5 times, 10 times the size of his own. And historians know that the Persians were no walkover. They were very advanced militarily, but Alexander did not have a problem. So in Unleashed, I speculated that what we witnessed there, that the historians, when they try to explain this, it just collapses into myth. They cannot explain this. But I explained it in Unleashed. And simply, when you understand back in those times, to us, we take for granted for granted our consciousness. But when you go back into those times, consciousness was just— it's like it was supernatural almost. I could give you some quotes out of the Bible with how they saw Jesus because he was fully conscious. And the bicameral peasants, it was like I said, it was like— What? Supernatural. So here you have Alexander, the conscious warrior, the conscious leader, going up against armies that are fighting based on tradition, on myth, on External authority in this utter following mode. So if this happens, this is what we must do, right? It's a following mode based on history, tradition, how they fight. And here comes Alexander with consciousness, and he can look at a very specific situation. And mid-battle changed the approach, changed the flanking. He could do things that would be the least expected, the least in the traditional structure, and therefore he could overwhelm, he could mystify, he could overpower Powerful militaries 10 times his own size. The power of consciousness back then. It's very different than today. Back then, like I said, it was superpower. It was supernatural almost. So that's who Alexander was and why he was almost— he's almost like just a myth, what he accomplished. Militarily. Now, here's something that I did not put in Unleashed, and it's really got me thinking and looking deeper at all of this. There was a letter that Plutarch exposes of Alexander to Aristotle. And he's really quite upset at Aristotle. What had happened was Aristotle Had essentially begun writing scrolls or books based on what he had verbally or orally taught Alexander. Basically, Alexander said something to this effect: Thou hast done wrong. Why are you revealing this to basically to the world? Because what advantage will I hold over other men? Okay, so your typical historians look at that a certain way, and they try to put this together. But you're with me now. You understand most of you. You have read Unleashed. What's going on here is Alexander is saying, don't go giving up the operating system of consciousness to everyone else. Where's my advantage? Where's my power? This is mine. This is ours. Don't go giving it up to every— don't be writing this down and spreading the word. What are you doing? Thou has done wrong. Alexander was very upset with Aristotle, and then he went on to make the incredible statement. Incredible statement. But when you put together the puzzle, you can see exactly what he meant. This puzzles historians today. All right. He said, basically he said, and I'm just paraphrasing, you know, he spoke and then the translation is much more formal than the way I'm going to tell you, but basically he says, I cherish my psychological, my knowledge Far more than my military might, far more than my military power. It's what's up here that I cherish. Don't give that away. Now, we've built a puzzle together. You've read it in Unleashed. You've heard my speeches. So what I just finished telling you was he could easily defeat armies, advance Persian military armies, 2, 3, 5, 10 times his own size. So it's not the military might. Yes, he needs a good, strong, lean and mean military behind him, but the fact that he could defeat military might that's as great or greater than his own is coming from this. It's that power. This psychological rupture at that time that very few people actually commanded. That's why Alexander was upset with Aristotle. Basically, they went on to have a falling out, and it was very unfortunate. Their relationship soured. Now this has led me into some very Very interesting thoughts. Consciousness, power over others, command centers. You could be a conscious king. You can be a conscious priest. You could be a conscious dictator. You could be a conscious politician. You could be a conscious Bureaucrat going through the ages. But surround yourself with a command center and control all those who don't have your power, your psychological power or advantage. Just going to jump to today real quick and then we're going back. Today, when I converse with people, when I may be at a summit or just visiting business associates, and when they talk, I can see how controlled they are by and large by things such as the media or the illusions of bureaucracies or government. I can see it. I recognize it. And I see what I just described. We'll call it the Alexander Principle, the command center, the command center of the media, the command center of politicians, the command center of bureaucracies, the command centers of organized religion. Speaking of religion, So you had almost— I see quite a contrast between Alexander the Great and Jesus, for example. Jesus who came 3 centuries later basically, or 2 and a half centuries. Oh no, 3 centuries later, because Alexander died at 32 years old, a year before Aristotle, of sickness. So you had Jesus who broke through and realized that these conscious, educated elite, the scribes, for example, that he would argue with and have arguments, which led to his crucifixion. Jesus realized these conscious command centers— I'm just calling them that, command centers— and their advantage that they were taking over the fishermen and the ditch diggers and the farmers, the salt of the earth, who are still largely in A residual bicameral state of pure following. And Jesus went— and not to get too deep into this, it's all in Unleashed— but he went and tried to wake up consciousness. He tried to spread that. That was his ministry, traveling the countryside. The kingdom of God is within. Right? So he was trying to wake them up to consciousness. Because he saw they were taken advantage by the elite conscious command centers. Back to the Alexander Principle. See, that's what Alexander— that's what he wanted. He wanted commands. He wanted— and this is very interesting because Alexander is quite an interesting character because first of all, you have to shed your 20th century or 21st century skin, and you have to go back and realize back then conquering was almost like business. It was a way to spread your prosperity of your people, you see. So it's different than war today. I'm not excusing it. I'm just saying there is a difference. And even though he was absolutely ruthless, Alexander, The Great. He brought Greek knowledge. He was very— if they went against him, he'd wipe you out, but if they welcomed him, and he was known at the time for his enemies befriending him and liking him because he would bring greater prosperity to the areas he conquered. He just wanted to bring the great knowledge of the Greeks and spread it through the world. That's why we have Alexandria. That's why we have the Library of Alexandria. It all came out of Alexander, and it's so difficult to mix the two, but like I said, you have to shed your 21st century skin to actually kind of get a perspective on this, but Alexander was— I know it sounds contradictory, but he was like a benevolent tyrant if you will. But he was not happy with Aristotle. Now Aristotle's reply was, I kind of did, but I kind of didn't. He did write this down, but basically he was saying that without me sitting down and doing what I did with you with the people, they're not going to get it. They're not going to get the transformation. Maybe there's some parallels to today with my father's writings, my writings, and now what we're doing with my sons bringing this to you in a teaching format. Maybe there's some parallels there. But the Alexander Principle He wants— okay, let's say 2 people are looking at a land. Now, in the Alexander Principle, one would say with his consciousness, his greater conscious power, will say, I want to conquer the land to control the people. Now, the unified field in Unleashed And where Aristotle was coming from with his volition, and he realized that force stopped volition. Basically, force stopped consciousness. So the Aristotelian, the neo-think, the Unified Field of Conscious Civilization perspective is, I want to go into that land with my consciousness and create values for the people. Both conscious, different paths. So I'll even throw that back to Neotech. Remember neo-cheaters and master neo-cheaters? Remember that? I would say that conscious individuals can be— I mean, you have to be extremely conscious Within your bubble, I'll say, like Hitler, within his military bubble, he had to be the best conscious operator there was to do what he did. Master neo-cheater, using consciousness to control and hurt people, a command center, his dictatorship, his fascist Control. His Reich. You see, so consciousness can be used immorally and morally, for good or for bad. So that's the beginning there. And Alexander's sort of emotional reaction to Aristotle That was in my mind, and I'm going to do more research, but I'm quite sure about this, that Alexander was, say, almost the beginning of having consciousness with A hierarchical, top-down, force-based, authoritative Platonic structure. Remember, Plato didn't start it that way, but that's what it became. Okay? And that's well described in Unleashed. So Alexander kind of began that conscious power he got from Aristotle, but using the structure provided by Plato. So we have Socrates, we have Plato, we have Aristotle, and the breakthrough was made, and we have Alexander, and he mixed the two together. That was the beginning of the end of Aristotle's breakthroughs. Now, how do we lose all of Aristotle's exoteric The beautiful writings for the people. And how are we left with just maybe 1/5 of his works? And what we were left with was a very difficult— as I said, I'm reading through it right now. It was just his lecture notes and his thoughts. It was not these beautifully edited— and as a writer, I can tell you how disturbing that would be to Aristotle today. I know. I never want anyone to see my notes. I have them in many, many boxes in storage somewhere, but I never would— I wouldn't even let my family read those. I only want the polished finished works. The story with Pax Neotec with my father, he had given me a copy to read and I was maybe 15 pages in, I get a phone call and he says, stop reading now. And he said, there's more work I need to do. That was after he'd already spent, I don't know how long, maybe 18 months to 2 years. So I said, okay, well, when can I read it? He said, it'll just be a few more days. Another entire year went back by before his accident. I still hadn't gotten a final copy. So I had to make decisions with his copy because there were his final draft with his notes and edits, and I had to make the decision, do I put those in, or do I leave those out, or do I attempt to get in there and believe to policies where he would have been happy with it? I ultimately made the decision not to put those in based on my own experience, and he and I wrote in the same fashion. We went through— we go through many, many edits. When you get a book from us, it's not a typical book that you would buy at Barnes Noble where maybe they went through one or two drafts. We go through many drafts because we're getting down to the principle under the principle under the principle, to the foundation. So So I had to make that decision, and I realized I could not put in partial notes, and I could not get in because he was so isolated developing this as I am with my works. I could not go in and pretend that I would anticipate what he was saying, so that's just a little information I've never released before, but that's actually what happened there. So I know that Aristotle would not be so happy with the fact of what we all see of his. He would not be happy that I have to really digest and labor through his writings. He wouldn't be happy with that, but that's all we've got of Aristotle. You know, for a while we thought that's all there was of Aristotle. That's all we've got, and as Oh, who was it? I see the spelling, but I can't remember the name. It's a Roman name, Latin name. Anyway, he said, and I've said this before, that Plato's writings which are quite beautiful, he said, but by comparison Aristotle's exoteric writings were Like rivers of gold, you see. In other words, even superior to Plato. And when you just do some research on Aristotle, just the breadth and depth of his writings, there's estimated to be probably 5 times, at least 5 times more literature by Aristotle than Plato. The man was prolific. He covered all— it's just such domain, so many topics that no one else had ever done. He was the ultimate neo-thinker. That's what neo-thinking is, integrating different subject matters. And bringing them all together into, in his case, the operating system of thinking, of consciousness. So that brings me back to Alexander, and it brings me all the way to today. This Alexander Power of Aristotle. He was gifted the operating system of consciousness integrated with what the world had at the time, dominated the world at the time, was the Platonic structure, hierarchical structure. Now, this And I say that's the beginning of conscious beings caught up in a bicameral structure. So let's jump to today. And that's exactly what we have. We have it to the extreme, such as in regimes like, say, Iran. Where you raise your voice and you're just shot down or hung, right? But even in America, the freest country in the world, our consciousness within this hierarchical structure is held down because we're spending our time saying, how can we fit in? How can we make this breakthrough work in today's regulatory structure? How can we make this leap discovery? How can we deploy it in this world with this culture of liberalism, of not the— Not the historical liberalism, but you know what I mean. How can we— or both ends of the spectrum, of the ultra-right, the ultra-left, both ends, everything actually, is we are caught in the Platonic structure with their command. Centers. So where does that leave us? Well, you know, kind of toward the end of section 1 in Unleashed, in Unleashed, I talk about what keeps me up at night, and that is The fact that we have the power to make our species extinct, and when you have competing hierarchical structures—China, United States, Russia. North Korea. It becomes a statistical probability. You see, when you go through history and look at slaughter and death, the bloodiest century is the 20th century. That's because of human limitations. Distance, muscle are replaced with machinery and bureaucracies who— it removes the personal nature of it. You can sit behind a desk and put a signature that's going to kill millions of people on the other side of the world. So it just increased by leaps and bounds Well, the 20th century was by far the bloodiest century. Now what about the 21st century with nuclear power and hierarchical top-down authority structures that compete? Where is that going to take us? The Savior is going to be Neovia. Now we've all talked about Neovia. It evolved out of Immortalis. Neovia is going to— it won't happen all at once. We tried that with the Twelve Visions Party, but that's just a leap too far, but it will start And by the way, Neovia is no longer just an idea. There's actually tangible assets happening now that I cannot yet discuss with you. Neovia is happening. Okay? It's happening. But we will start with Neovia 1, which will be largely concentrated on deploying Discovery, removing the gap between discovery and deployment. And there's very unique and interesting ways that I've gone about this to accomplish what we need to accomplish. But with each Neovia— and Neovia will be a growing, prolific, expanding dynamic, and I've set the structures in place for this to happen— each Neovia, by the way, to really get the support to do what we need to do comes from the groundswell of the people. So when the success is seen, the people will notice and they'll be like, well, we want to know Neovia. We want our seniors to be living not decrepit and in pain, but healthy and their back posture great and still productive. We want that too. We want to reduce our Medicare. You know, it's very, very ominous news coming out lately about finances and bonds and debt of our country and so on. Well, we want to cut the debt. We want people to be healthy, not having to spend the final years of their lives just always in the hospital. Doctor's office. So this, the people are going to make this happen. So we want a Neovia. Okay, here's how we do it. We want a Neovia. Here's how we do it. But with each new Neovia, with with the demonstration of essentially more volition, less force, right? More volition, less force. Each one, each progression is going to get an incremental increase in freedom. Less force, more volition. And we will eventually get to the point, and I don't know, I don't have an answer for you as to how soon, but we will eventually get to the point where we have Neovia. Well, it's Neovia X, meaning we don't know what number, but Neovia prime. You all know what that means: the prime law. A sovereign Neovia run with the prime law. With that demonstration, what happens in that environment? This will spread by popular demand. This is how we will have a civilizational shift from the Platonic hierarchical top-down. Authoritarian, force-based structure to purely free volitional prime law Aristotelian structure. That's the game plan. That's where it came from, and that's where we're going to. Now, I think I mentioned this to you on my talk a week or two ago, those of you who were at the unveiling of Frankie's Life Code, which is fantastic. Um, I mentioned that there is something that keeps me up at night, and every time I look at this, I ask myself, are we 10 years too late with this? What a tragedy if that's the case. But as I say in Unleashed, the best time to have begun this was yesteryear. The second best time is right now. That's what we're doing. And we just have to do what we must do and just hope that we're not too late. Too late.