Dialectics of Nature

This was an atheistic version of Christianity's vision of humanity.

Again, Engels wrote in his Dialectics of Nature that even if the universe is destroyed, the dynamic of matter is such that an evolutionary process will begin again, ultimately culminating in the formation of a communist society.

In other words, matter itself will always evolve toward the same end.

Thus, communism is for communists inevitable.

It's basically what Dr. Pang is trying to s- to, to do, and he's, he's very clear about that in the book, is that he's, uh, using some, uh, like, ideas that you can find in Engels and Marx about consciousness, for example, or society, and he wants to prove it at a material level through the practice of Qi Gong.

So for example, um, there's a quote of Engels in a book called The Dialectical of Nature, uh, where, um, Engels says, "Consciousness is matter." But he's just saying it.

Like, it's almost like an intuition from his observation of the dialectical process of nature.

So Dr. Pang says, "I want to prove that.

[laughs] It isn't a separate place of existence.

It is, it is, uh, and I sort of borrow a little bit from Engels' Dialectics of Nature, it is like a place which is i- enmeshed with the ostensibly rationalist materialist universe of the Imperium of Man.

It is like the soul deep in every subject.

This is why the Inquisition exists, right? It's, it's because it, that, that exists out of the para- out of reason's paranoia.