Question: I've been working through this paper, The Truth About Temporal Eternity. I mean, I once asked you a question about simultaneity of eternity, and I don't understand the difference between the two. With simultaneity of eternity, you're living within history. I mean you talk about how you actually have a dialogue with all these people in your mind, and then, temporal eternity is like, the person's dead, but they're living within your own mind, and they're alive. You bring them back to life in reliving their discovery. But isn't that the same?

LaRouche: Yes, it's the basis for it. We are a special species. The characteristic of the human species is not what most people think the human species is. Man is not an animal. Our animal acts are not human. It's the act of discovery of principles which increase man's power in and over the universe-the power to exist-that's us. And since we all die, "us" is our sense of  our connection to others both before and after us, who are part of this process of serving humanity with discoveries of principle which correspond to the human mission.

Now, when you understand the other issue, of what is the universe. Well, in the universe, there's nothing outside the universe, there's nothing before it, there's nothing after it. Right? The sense of time, as we can demonstrate it, is not clock time, because as we improve our power over the universe, we speed up the clock! Think about it. When we improve transportation, we speed up the clock. When we improve communications, we speed up the clock, because the human action produces its effect more quickly. We're speeding up the clock of the universe. There's no such thing as fixed time in space. It's a relative time. And we, in this process, we are connected to our earliest ancestors and to our most distant future successors. We are part of a process. The key thing is a sense of human identity. Can we think of ourselves as, yes, I'm a model person but I can think about people in the past, and I can think about people in the future. Or, do we see ourselves as living in their time, in the past, because we're a product of that time, we're a continuation of that time, and we exist therefore in their time? We replicate exactly their experience and we're part of that. And those future generations are part of us.

So, when you think about life, your mission in life, you're going to die. We're all going to die. Therefore, what are you fighting for? You're fighting for us. You're fighting for your place in the skein of eternity, and you're always there, and your intention is to be always there. Your intention is to be always useful, to the past and to the future. And as long as you're useful to the past and to the future, you're actively part of it. And your purpose in life is to die in peace because you know you're part of it all. I have done my mission. I can die in peace. I'm not an animal. I'm human. That's what it's all about.

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