Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

And you get the very same thing in Isaiah.

So Samuel lives about roughly about the time of David, about 1000 BCE.

And Isaiah is about 700 BCE.

And Isaiah has a vision in the temple, and we know exactly when it was.

It was 742 BCE, because he mentions who was a king, and there's a record in the external world of the same king.

And God is saying, whom shall I send?

And I say, I think, not me, I'm a man of unclean lips and God sends out an angel with a burning coal to heal his lips.

And then Isaiah sings this beautiful song and I have my own version of it that I sing every single morning as part of my morning ritual.

And it goes like this.

Beautiful stuff, Aubrey.

And one of the things that strikes me about what you just said is that we hope we don't lose this opportunity.

Because in some senses, to tie it into our discussion of Iran, that in some senses, the Iran situation is like a fractal of the opportunity we have as a planet to kind of wake up.

And so what we will subsequently do and how we will kind of...

help out with the Iranian situation, I think is going to be emblematic of how we're going to kind of deal with the global situation.

We're being invited into the next level of what it means to be a child of God as a globe.

Brilliant.

And when I think about fundamentalism, I always see it going through four stages, whether it's in religion or economics or politics or whatever.

And the first stage is always the radical simplification of very complex phenomena.

It's like reducing a guy to a bumper sticker, or reducing mysticism to a bumper sticker.

That's always the first stage.