Discusses the Cycle of Air, the three squares from the Step Diagram that apply to Air—Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Man. The Evolutionary Timeline. Extinction Events. Darwin’s Theory. Ecosystem Roles. Nature’s Eccentricity and Conundrums. Evolution by Ecosystem. Emotions and the Body Kesdjan

1. THE ELEMENT
AIR

2. TALKING POINTS
1. The Cycle of Air
2. The Air Triple in the Step Diagram
3. Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Man
4. The Evolutionary Timeline
5. Extinction Events
6. Darwin’s Theory
7. Ecosystem Roles
8. Nature’s Eccentricity and Conundrums
9. Evolution by Ecosystem
10. Emotions and the Body Kesdjan

3. ”
“
The function of man is knowledge; but if one
does not understand man as a whole, one will
not understand his function.
Gurdjieff

4. THE AIR CYCLE
Symbol Description Atmosphere
Ar Argon (monatomic) 0.9315%
CH4 Methane molecule 0.0002%
CO2 Carbon Dioxide 0.0406%
H2O Water 0.2500%
N2 Nitrogen molecule 77.878%
NH3 Ammonia trace
NH4+ Ammonium ion trace
NO2- Nitrite ion trace
NO3- Nitrate ion trace
O2 Oxygen molecule 20.890%
SO2 Sulfur dioxide trace

5. THE AIR CYCLE
In the O2-CO2 cycle, all photosynthetic life emits O2
and consumes CO2. The reverse happens at night, to
some degree. Animal life consumes O2 and emits
CO2, and also CH4, which eventually becomes CO2.
All bodies of water emit O2 and CO2 (fish and
plankton). They absorb O2 and CO2 when there is
an imbalance.
H2O evaporates from land and sea and animals and
plants and returns as rain (sometimes acidic carrying
SO2 and/or CO2). Lightning transforms N2 into
NO2- which falls to the ground as Nitric acid HNO3.
In the upper atmosphere cosmic rays transform
Nitrogen into Carbon which becomes CO2.
However, the most important activity of all is the
nitrogen cycle.

6. THE AIR CYCLE
THE NITROGEN CYCLE
Plants and animals need nitrogen to make
proteins. Plants create the supply.
Nitrogen, N2, is transformed into ammonium,
NH4+, nitrates and nitrites via nitrogen fixation
by bacteria in the soil.
Plants absorb these chemicals through their
root hairs.
Animal waste and plant and animal death create
organic nitrogen. Bacteria and fungi convert
this into ammonium, NH4+.
Ammonium is converted into nitrate by
nitrifying bacteria in a process called
nitrification.
Other bacteria convert nitrates back into
nitrogen gas bytes process called denitrification.
The same process occurs at sea.

7. The triple comprises one-brained, two-brained
and three-brained beings.
These are the notes fa-sol-la in the side octave
from the Sun
All these creatures breathe oxygen, living either
in air or surviving from air that is available within
their environment. Note that oxygen pervades
lakes rivers and seas even at the bottom.
In each, the instinctive center and the inner
bodily structure is similar.
They all have endocrine glands. The theory is
that these glands convey the influence of the
planets.
None of these creatures are photosynthetic or
require sunlight.
THE AIR TRIPLE

8. ORGANIC LIFE: A TRANSMITTING STATION
• Planets are active force, Earth is passive, Organic life
is neutralizing. A substance of the planets (EMR &
Magnetism) mixes with a substance of the Earth in a
way that is mediated by organic life.
• The result is a substance (information of some kind)
that serves the Earth.
• Organic life is a transmitting station for influences
that would otherwise never reach the Earth.
• Nature (including mineral and metals life) might be
the body of the Earth. Nothing in the realm of Earth
is dead. It is all alive.
• As the carrier of the neutralizing force organic life is
unchanged by that action of the planets.

9. INVERTEBRATES

10. INVERTEBRATES
Triad: moving, instinctive & sex center.
Some reproduce asexually, but for most
reproduction is sexual.
Invertebrate breathing is by gills in water,
primitive lungs on land, except insects that
have spiracles.
They have 5 or 6 senses (touch, taste smell,
sight, hearing, proprioception).
Invertebrates rarely move far, except insects.
Some (dragon flies and butterflies) migrate.
11,000 miles is the record.
Both cold-bloodedness and lack of skeleton
limit size.
Apparent emotions are probably instinctive
center manifestations.

11. VERTEBRATES
Vertebrates are only 3% of animal life.
The skeletal structure gives vertebrates superior
mobility.
Warm blooded ones have a better ability to survive in
extreme climates (both warm and cold), but it means
they need to eat more. Only a few can hibernate.
They have emotional center and (likely) higher
emotional. Likely can process H12. They do not
appear to have “human” negative emotions.
Vertebrates are known to laugh and yawn, but not
invertebrates.
Normally females die when they are no longer
capable of reproduction.

12. MAN
Three-brained, but only demonstrably so when
in the collected state.
When identified, may as well be two-brained.
When mechanical, may as well be one-brained.
Wrong work of centers characterizes this species.
Few animals murder in the way that some
humans do. Few go to war in the way that Man
does.
Extremely complex tools comes from the
thinking center and its ability to conceptualize.
In evolution the last species to arrive.

13. THE EVOLUTIONARY TIMELINE

14. EXTINCTION EVENTS
Big extinction events eliminate 70+% of all
species and come along every 100 million years
or so.
The worst “recent” one was the Late Devonian
extinction which eliminated 95% of all species.
But Nature came through.
A snowball Earth is believed to have happened
twice between 600 - 700 million years ago.
Prior to -700m there was only primitive life
(maybe).

15. EXTINCTION EVENTS
Big extinction events eliminate 70+% of all
species and come along every 100 million years
or so.
The worst “recent” one was the Late Devonian
extinction which eliminated 95% of all species.
But Nature came through.
A snowball Earth is believed to have happened
twice between 600 - 700 million years ago.
Prior to -700m there was only primitive life
(maybe).
We do not know the causes of these extinction
events. Such events may even constitute threats
to the Earth itself, or at least to its progress.

16. EXTINCTION EVENTS
Life Biological Period Date
Kernel Hadean -4600m
Metals Hadean -4600m
Minerals
Bacteria,
Archaea
Archean,
Proterozoic
-3500m
Eukaryotes Proterozoic -2000m
Plants
Sea Plants,
Invertebrates
Proterozoic -600m
Invertebrates
Land Plants &
Invertebrates
Paleozoic -488m
Vertebrates
Land
Vertebrates
Paleozoic -397m
Man Man Holocene -1m?

17. ”
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The evolution of complex life-forms by natural
selection is as probable as a tornado blowing through a
junkyard and assembling a 747 jet aircraft.
Fred Hoyle

18. DARWIN’S EVOLUTION
It was established by virtue of intellectual
contest with the “already defeated” church.
The mechanism “natural selection” is
obviously wrong, especially as there is no
evidence whatsoever to back it.
Selection can emphasize characteristics—as
man proved with dogs thousands of years
ago.
This is an interesting example of modern
science abhorring a theory vacuum.
Evolution obviously happens, as the fossil
record shows. So how?
Darwinian evolution insists on “intermediate
species” but has real problems finding them.

19. NATURE’S ECCENTRICITIES
The venus fly-trap: Why?
The flying fish: Why?
The triops: Really?
The cyclops shark: Why?
The salamander can regrow almost everything:
Why?
The beauty of coral reefs and many flowers:
Why?
There are many examples of symbiotic life that
seems to occupy an evolutionary dead end: the
yucca plant and the yucca moth: Why?

20. ECOSYSTEM ROLES
We can use the Six Processes to classify lifeforms:
Growth lifeforms: that naturally expand the
ecosystem. (E.g. termites)
Destructive lifeforms: that curtail growth. They
are predators that tend to prey on growth
lifeforms. (E.g. wolves)
Purification lifeforms: that consume lower forms.
(E.g. anteaters)
Corruptive lifeforms: that bring disease to an
ecosystem. (E.g. locusts, bacteria, viruses, man)
Health creating lifeforms: that cure disease. (E.g.
vultures, antibiotics, the fish the clean shark’s
teeth).
Evolutionary lifeforms: that try to assist the
evolution of other forms. (E.g. rock eating
bacteria, domesticated animals).
It’s a theory.

21. MORE EVOLUTIONARY CONNUNDRA
Why did the horse, elephant and camel die
out in North America?
Why didn’t mammals develop in Australia?
Why did marsupials develop in America but
not Eurasia or Africa. (North America has
one species, South America has 120 species,
Australia 250 species.)
Why is evolution different according to
location (Hawaii, Canary Islands, Caribbean,
Madagascar, New Zealand, Australia, etc.).
How do migrations begin?
Why do eels migrate to spawn (and then die).

22. NEW ZEALAND
Until man introduced mammals, New Zealand
ecosystem evolved from birds.
This provides us with an excellent example of how
evolution probably occurs.
Individual species do not evolve—what would they
eat, or to be more exact, how would they fit into the
local trogoautoegocrat?
Ecosystems evolve. This is clear when we consider life
at the bacterial level. It is clear that soil wasn’t created
by random evolutions.
In New Zealand birds took on the roles that mammals
would usually take. Many became flightless. (Why
would a bird do that?)
No new attempt by amphibians to get onto the land in
New Zealand occurred.

23. DEEP SEA VENTS
Deep sea vents provide another excellent
example. There is no sunlight and, at the
outset, only bacteria (and possibly, not
even that).
And yet an ecosystem forms as
illustrated. It is not known how fast this
occurs.
Experiments have demonstrated that
amino acids form at these depths quite
naturally.
Also, by the way, we are an ecosystem of
bacteria. All animals are.

24. EMOTIONS AND THE BODY KESDJAN
EMOTIONS AND ORGANS
Affirming Denying
Heart Love, joy Rejection
Lungs Pride Sorrow
Liver Generosity Melancholy
Spleen Trust Anxiety
Small Intestine Patience Impatience
Large Intestine Confidence Nervousness
Kidneys Courage Fear

25. EMOTIONS AND THE BODY KESDJAN
The Kesdjan body is the body of the Air Octave.
It is unperfected. In vertebrates there is no
possibility of perfecting it. They are fixed.
In Man it requires the emotional act of self-
remembering in order for it to grow.
The Kesdjan body is unified, but also it is
flawed (otherwise they would be no need to be
born).
It is not immortal and can die. This is the
double death that Michelangelo mentions in a
poem.
It is the vehicle for the body of Reason.

26. THE TROGOAUTOEGOCRAT
• The realm of Air provides the foundation for
planetary influence to reach Earth.
• Evolution happens at the level of the ecosystem.
The mechanisms is uncertain. It is probably
planetary (astrological).
• Evidence indicates that Man is only lately
evolved. However, Gurdjieff suggested that
Nature had tried to “people” the planet 5 times.
This is currently the 5th attempt. There may not
be a sixth.
• Man’s role in this triple is to be a vehicle for the
planets and food for the Moon.
• In most circumstances Man is only a two or one-
brained being.

27. STONES UNTURNED
The domain of Fire.
Feeding the Moon.
Plasma Cosmology.
Angels, Archangels.
The Devil, Demons and Elementals.
The Sun Absolute.

28. THE
Q & A