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Lift-off. 13 00:01:11,733 --> 00:01:13,033 We have a lift-off. 14 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:15,100 Thirty-two minutes past the hour. 15 00:01:15,167 --> 00:01:17,033 Lift-off on Apollo 11. 16 00:01:36,067 --> 00:01:39,667 The first moment that I realised I wanted to be an astronaut 17 00:01:39,733 --> 00:01:42,833 was the day where, I, as a young boy, 18 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,633 along with millions and millions of people around the globe, 19 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,333 watched those first footsteps on the moon. 20 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,400 One giant leap for mankind. 21 00:01:51,467 --> 00:01:55,367 I realised that humanity had just become a different species. 22 00:01:56,833 --> 00:02:00,600 We were no longer a species confined to our planet. 23 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:02,933 That's what I wanted to do. 24 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 I wanted to be part of that exploration. 25 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:09,100 I wanted to be part of that group of people that stepped off the planet 26 00:02:09,167 --> 00:02:10,167 Ron Garan ISS ASTRONAUT 27 00:02:10,233 --> 00:02:11,873 and was able to look back upon ourselves. 28 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:16,933 WELCOME ASTRONAUTS 29 00:02:18,633 --> 00:02:21,800 As a child, I assumed that I would go into space. 30 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:24,333 We were trying to get to the moon, 31 00:02:24,417 --> 00:02:25,584 the whole Apollo programme, 32 00:02:25,633 --> 00:02:27,408 and it seemed like we had this momentum moving forward. 33 00:02:27,417 --> 00:02:28,542 Mae Jemison SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT 34 00:02:29,767 --> 00:02:32,500 And I assumed I would be a part of it. 35 00:02:36,867 --> 00:02:39,367 The first time I went into space, it was 2008. 36 00:02:39,433 --> 00:02:42,000 I flew on Space Shuttle Discovery. 37 00:02:42,067 --> 00:02:45,133 It was really an incredible day, it was almost surrealistic. 38 00:02:46,417 --> 00:02:49,500 I remember leaving the crew quarters and boarding the Astrovan, 39 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,500 and waving to everybody as we stepped out. 40 00:02:56,033 --> 00:03:00,433 And we get out to the launch pad, and it was really a spectacular sight. 41 00:03:03,067 --> 00:03:06,367 When you watch a space-shuttle launch on TV, 42 00:03:06,433 --> 00:03:08,733 it looks like you see all this white smoke, 43 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,767 and then eventually this space shuttle 44 00:03:10,833 --> 00:03:13,967 just slowly, gradually rises out of the smoke and heads up. 45 00:03:14,033 --> 00:03:15,467 But what it felt like 46 00:03:15,533 --> 00:03:17,633 is it felt like we were on the end of a slingshot. 47 00:03:20,967 --> 00:03:25,733 And when those solid rocket boosters fire, you realise you are going somewhere. 48 00:03:31,167 --> 00:03:34,733 That somebody just let go that slingshot and off you go. 49 00:03:34,967 --> 00:03:36,900 Shuttle has cleared the tower. 50 00:03:37,633 --> 00:03:40,967 That was a really amazing experience. 51 00:03:47,667 --> 00:03:51,200 On that first day, that first day in space, 52 00:03:51,267 --> 00:03:55,667 the most spectacular moment was when you look out the window for the first time. 53 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,600 When you are able to unstrap out of your seat, 54 00:04:01,667 --> 00:04:05,433 your tasks are over, and you get to really take a look at our planet. 55 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:08,133 It's just absolutely breathtaking to see that. 56 00:04:13,767 --> 00:04:17,067 It is just an incredible view. 57 00:04:17,133 --> 00:04:20,500 I looked down at this planet, at our Earth, 58 00:04:20,567 --> 00:04:24,233 and you see this thin, shimmering layer of blue light 59 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,867 that's our atmosphere that sustains us. 60 00:04:28,250 --> 00:04:31,333 It almost seems like it iridesces from within. 61 00:04:37,067 --> 00:04:39,567 What's really amazing and beautiful 62 00:04:39,633 --> 00:04:44,833 is watching this line slowly pass across the Earth below us. 63 00:04:46,533 --> 00:04:49,433 Something that you can't see from the Earth. 64 00:04:50,633 --> 00:04:55,367 And watching all the evidence of human activity all of a sudden come alive 65 00:04:55,433 --> 00:04:58,333 as we pass into the dark side of the orbit. 66 00:04:59,433 --> 00:05:03,233 We flew so close to dancing curtains of auroras 67 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:05,400 that we felt like we could reach out and touch them. 68 00:05:12,667 --> 00:05:16,067 There's so many just absolutely breathtaking things. 69 00:05:21,433 --> 00:05:23,300 The really wonderful thing 70 00:05:23,367 --> 00:05:26,033 that happened to me when I was in space 71 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:29,500 was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe. 72 00:05:31,867 --> 00:05:37,400 I actually didn't think, "Here's this Earth and that's the only thing I belong to." 73 00:05:37,467 --> 00:05:43,600 I actually imagined myself in a star system 10,000 light-years away, 74 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,367 and I felt I also belong there. 75 00:05:48,867 --> 00:05:52,167 You know, we're as much a part of this universe 76 00:05:52,233 --> 00:05:56,100 as any speck of star dust, you know, any asteroid. 77 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:59,333 We're a part of this universe. 78 00:06:05,867 --> 00:06:07,600 On the third spacewalk that we did, 79 00:06:07,667 --> 00:06:11,400 I was strapped to the end of the space station's robotic arm 80 00:06:11,459 --> 00:06:16,793 and was flown through a big manoeuvre across the top of the space station and back. 81 00:06:16,867 --> 00:06:19,033 So, at the top of this arc, 82 00:06:19,133 --> 00:06:20,575 I was looking down at the space station 83 00:06:20,584 --> 00:06:26,210 against the backdrop of the undescribably beautiful Earth 250 miles below, 84 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:28,167 and it took my breath away. 85 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,467 I was filled with awe. 86 00:06:33,133 --> 00:06:37,833 If we can do this, if nations can join together and do this amazing thing in space, 87 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:42,400 imagine what we can do to overcome the challenges facing our planet. 88 00:06:42,467 --> 00:06:44,400 But the other side of that is 89 00:06:44,467 --> 00:06:49,367 we have this incredibly beautiful, peaceful, fragile planet from space, 90 00:06:49,433 --> 00:06:53,467 but you can't help but think about the unfortunate realities of life on our planet 91 00:06:53,533 --> 00:06:56,900 for a significant portion of those inhabitants. 92 00:07:01,433 --> 00:07:05,333 The real issue is how do we operate here on this planet? 93 00:07:09,033 --> 00:07:12,167 There's a story that comes from India that says, 94 00:07:12,233 --> 00:07:13,667 that once upon a time 95 00:07:13,733 --> 00:07:17,367 humans had the godhead in themselves 96 00:07:17,433 --> 00:07:21,833 but we behaved so badly that the gods decided to take it away from us. 97 00:07:21,900 --> 00:07:25,600 And so they were trying to figure out where to hide it so that humans wouldn't find it. 98 00:07:26,867 --> 00:07:30,067 One said, "Let's put it at the bottom of the ocean. 99 00:07:30,133 --> 00:07:31,500 "They'll never find it there." 100 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:33,900 And everybody said, you know, 101 00:07:33,967 --> 00:07:37,700 "No, one day humans will get to the bottom of the ocean and they'll find it there." 102 00:07:38,833 --> 00:07:42,733 Another said, "Let's put it in the skies and the heavens." 103 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:48,167 And they said, "No, humans will fly that far one day and they'll find it." 104 00:07:49,833 --> 00:07:53,733 And then Brahma said, "I know where to hide it. 105 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,733 "Let's put it inside of humans themselves, 106 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,067 "because they'll never think to look for it there." 107 00:08:02,267 --> 00:08:05,433 We have to look inside of ourselves to figure this out. 108 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:13,812 PLANETARY 109 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:04,733 One of the truly extraordinary events of the 20th century 110 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,100 was space travel. 111 00:09:06,167 --> 00:09:07,209 David Loy PHILOSOPHER 112 00:09:07,267 --> 00:09:09,433 And by that I don't simply mean 113 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:12,067 the fact that we went to the moon and came back, 114 00:09:12,133 --> 00:09:16,867 but that this gave us a totally different perspective on the Earth. 115 00:09:18,167 --> 00:09:23,400 A totally different understanding about who we are. 116 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,067 The history of human life on the planet, in one sense, 117 00:09:39,133 --> 00:09:43,733 is a history of wandering, 118 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,300 a history of leaving home. 119 00:09:46,367 --> 00:09:47,533 Sean Kelly PHILOSOPHER 120 00:09:49,133 --> 00:09:55,933 Humans spread out of Africa to eventually inhabit every continent of the planet. 121 00:09:57,067 --> 00:10:02,000 So in that sense, humans became planetary 40,000 years ago. 122 00:10:02,967 --> 00:10:06,700 But they didn't know that they existed on the planet. 123 00:10:06,767 --> 00:10:10,567 With the Apollo mission, we had a kind of visceral experience 124 00:10:10,633 --> 00:10:16,067 where individuals were able to see the whole planet from space. 125 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,033 And through our technology, the rest of us could see it. 126 00:10:26,633 --> 00:10:29,467 I think the first time we got that picture of the Earth 127 00:10:29,533 --> 00:10:32,067 we were seeing our home in a much bigger context. 128 00:10:32,133 --> 00:10:36,000 It was no longer, you know, the house we lived in or the village or the country. 129 00:10:36,067 --> 00:10:40,033 Suddenly we were seeing this is home in the much larger context. 130 00:10:41,733 --> 00:10:43,733 It became a symbol for many, many things. 131 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:48,900 The environmental movement, the whole global thinking that's happening. 132 00:10:48,967 --> 00:10:53,800 In the past, we could have individual community, national destinies. 133 00:10:53,867 --> 00:10:56,767 The one thing that it did for me was it just brought home the fact 134 00:10:56,833 --> 00:10:57,908 Peter Russell PHYSICIST AND AUTHOR 135 00:10:57,933 --> 00:11:02,000 we are one species on a single planet with a common destiny. 136 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,700 To identify ourselves as part of the human species? 137 00:11:10,767 --> 00:11:17,733 That's really the identity shift, right, of ourselves as a single species on this planet. 138 00:11:21,233 --> 00:11:26,000 You realised that there was a subset of the teeming life on that planet 139 00:11:26,083 --> 00:11:27,125 Janine Benyus BIOLOGIST AND AUTHOR 140 00:11:27,133 --> 00:11:28,267 called humans, 141 00:11:28,333 --> 00:11:33,533 and that you were far enough away to not see our differences. Right? 142 00:11:35,133 --> 00:11:40,500 You could almost see us as one people, as one population. 143 00:11:47,867 --> 00:11:51,633 I spent half of 2011 on board the International Space Station, 144 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:55,233 and during that time I got into a routine 145 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,400 where I would almost say goodnight to the Earth. 146 00:12:04,033 --> 00:12:05,800 I would go to the cupola, 147 00:12:05,867 --> 00:12:08,800 which is the windowed observatory on the bottom of the space station, 148 00:12:08,867 --> 00:12:11,567 and I would just gaze at the Earth. 149 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:19,267 One of the really interesting things about a long-duration spaceflight 150 00:12:19,333 --> 00:12:22,867 is you get to watch the Earth transform 151 00:12:22,933 --> 00:12:26,200 over the weeks and the months that you're up there. 152 00:12:26,433 --> 00:12:30,133 You get to watch the ice break up, the seasons change. 153 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,133 And from that perspective, the perspective over time, 154 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,033 you really get the sense that we have this living, breathing organism 155 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:42,600 hanging in the blackness of space that's riding through the universe. 156 00:12:46,067 --> 00:12:48,867 Very early on the astronauts looked at the whole of Earth, 157 00:12:48,933 --> 00:12:51,333 and this feeling came that it was one single living system. 158 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,467 I think that was part of the shift that happened. 159 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:59,100 And it's interesting that came at the same time 160 00:12:59,167 --> 00:13:02,867 as Jim Lovelock was thinking about his Gaia hypothesis. 161 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,200 The idea that all the different creatures, the oceans, atmosphere, soil, 162 00:13:09,267 --> 00:13:11,867 were sort of working together, 163 00:13:11,933 --> 00:13:14,067 which throughout the history of life on Earth 164 00:13:14,133 --> 00:13:18,033 had kept the optimum conditions for evolution to continue. 165 00:13:19,267 --> 00:13:23,667 When he looked at the Earth, he saw this was exactly what was happening. 166 00:13:24,967 --> 00:13:30,067 And so he put forward the idea that the whole planet is like one single living system. 167 00:13:33,933 --> 00:13:37,167 If you imagine the famous Earthrise picture, 168 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:44,300 these first images of the Earth that the Apollo missions were taking from space, 169 00:13:44,367 --> 00:13:49,467 you normally think of it as an astronaut in a spaceship, 170 00:13:49,533 --> 00:13:52,433 looking from outside of Earth at the Earth. 171 00:13:54,533 --> 00:14:01,500 More fundamentally, however, these images are the Earth looking at itself through us. 172 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,100 In other words, 173 00:14:05,167 --> 00:14:08,133 the first images from space are a critical moment 174 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,533 in the emerging awakening of the Earth. 175 00:14:21,733 --> 00:14:25,567 So, we look at those first images that came back from space. 176 00:14:25,633 --> 00:14:29,167 It's important for us to understand that those are as out of date now 177 00:14:29,233 --> 00:14:31,000 as my high school yearbook picture is. 178 00:14:31,067 --> 00:14:32,142 Bill McKibben ENVIRONMENTALIST 179 00:14:32,167 --> 00:14:36,400 I mean, you look at the summer Arctic and there's 40% less ice on it. 180 00:14:38,733 --> 00:14:43,833 You look at those vast oceans, and they're 30% more acid than they were 40 years ago. 181 00:14:45,333 --> 00:14:49,833 It's hard for us to take in both the kind of beauty and majesty, 182 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:55,233 and to understand the vulnerability and the fragility of those systems. 183 00:15:02,667 --> 00:15:08,267 Clearly, the basic, most fundamental, physical problem that we face 184 00:15:08,333 --> 00:15:13,033 is this exploding fountain of carbon into the atmosphere, warming the planet. 185 00:15:17,933 --> 00:15:20,400 And that comes from the fact that fossil fuel 186 00:15:20,467 --> 00:15:25,433 radically transformed our set of possibilities, beginning 300 years ago. 187 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:38,667 We are at the point where we know that humans have impacted the planet. 188 00:15:39,833 --> 00:15:43,467 That was something that we didn't think about, you know, 200-300 years ago. 189 00:15:43,533 --> 00:15:46,100 We weren't having that kind of impact. 190 00:15:46,167 --> 00:15:47,700 We know we can affect the world. 191 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:06,200 We are traversing a terrain 192 00:16:06,267 --> 00:16:11,133 which we, as a species and as a planet overall, have not seen before. 193 00:16:12,467 --> 00:16:14,933 We are facing an ecological crisis 194 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,042 Lawrence Ellis COMPLEX SYSTEMS THEORIST 195 00:16:16,067 --> 00:16:21,700 that has the capacity to tremendously alter life on earth. 196 00:16:24,833 --> 00:16:31,367 We don't know what will happen if major parts of the web of life disappear. 197 00:16:45,467 --> 00:16:50,300 Every species that exists on the planet has been coaxed into existence 198 00:16:50,367 --> 00:16:54,033 over the 4.4 billion-year history of the Earth. 199 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:59,667 So, literally, it's taken the entire history of cosmic evolution to bring forth 200 00:16:59,733 --> 00:17:00,775 Drew Dellinger ECOLOGICAL ACTMST AND POET 201 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,333 the diversity and complexity of the biosphere that we have now. 202 00:17:16,933 --> 00:17:18,053 When I look back on my life, 203 00:17:18,100 --> 00:17:21,800 there were certain crucial moments that changed me forever. 204 00:17:23,367 --> 00:17:27,600 One of them was the discovery that we are in the midst 205 00:17:27,667 --> 00:17:28,667 Brian Swimme COSMOLOGIST 206 00:17:28,733 --> 00:17:29,733 of a mass extinction. 207 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,767 At the present time, there are perhaps 10 million species, 208 00:17:37,833 --> 00:17:39,800 and species come and go. 209 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,933 But in mass-extinction moments, 210 00:17:43,700 --> 00:17:47,300 species begin to be extinguished in droves. 211 00:17:49,467 --> 00:17:53,533 In our moment, thousands of species are disappearing every year. 212 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:09,133 Back in the 1980s, there was a conference at the Smithsonian, 213 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,067 and they made an announcement that we were in the middle of this mass extinction. 214 00:18:16,233 --> 00:18:20,467 That quite simply there had never been a moment more destructive 215 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,433 in the last 65 million years than our moment. 216 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,533 I mean, it was just so colossal, so depressing. 217 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,133 And so, I couldn't sleep that night. 218 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,567 I didn't know what to do. It just really affected me. 219 00:18:32,633 --> 00:18:35,600 The next morning I went out and I bought The New York Times, 220 00:18:35,667 --> 00:18:39,800 and the announcement of this mass extinction was on page 26 221 00:18:39,867 --> 00:18:41,233 ACTION IS URGED TO SAVE SPECIES 222 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:43,167 of The New York Times. 223 00:18:43,667 --> 00:18:48,267 So, that means that we humans found 25 pages of news items 224 00:18:48,333 --> 00:18:52,267 more important than the elimination of life on the planet Earth. 225 00:18:56,533 --> 00:19:00,433 In that moment, I realised that something was profoundly wrong 226 00:19:02,667 --> 00:19:05,833 with our human civilisation for eliminating life, 227 00:19:06,633 --> 00:19:10,333 for our media for not reporting it and forgetting about it, 228 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,433 for our political system for not doing something about it. 229 00:19:18,467 --> 00:19:22,367 What is it that pulls our awareness away 230 00:19:22,433 --> 00:19:27,600 from sitting with the pain 231 00:19:27,667 --> 00:19:30,867 of what we have done and are doing to this planet, 232 00:19:32,767 --> 00:19:35,933 of what we have done and are doing to each other, 233 00:19:36,967 --> 00:19:39,100 that is so destructive? 234 00:20:18,933 --> 00:20:23,033 Today, we have not only an ecological crisis, 235 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:26,033 and various economic crises, 236 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:28,533 but we also have a kind of story crisis, 237 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,367 that is to say there's something very wrong 238 00:20:31,433 --> 00:20:34,300 about the way that we understand who we are, 239 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:36,200 and our relationship with the Earth. 240 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:44,200 When we look back at human history, 241 00:20:44,267 --> 00:20:48,533 every culture organises itself around a fundamental story. 242 00:20:50,767 --> 00:20:53,700 We can pretend we're living without a story, 243 00:20:54,767 --> 00:20:58,733 but if we stop and really think about it and ask ourselves, 244 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,433 "What's the way in which I organise my life? 245 00:21:03,033 --> 00:21:07,333 "How do I find meaning in my day-to-day activities?" 246 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,233 you'll start to see that there's actually a story behind that. 247 00:21:12,467 --> 00:21:14,033 So story is, 248 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:19,367 I think, the most essential organising power within the human experience. 249 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,367 Ever since we grew these big brains, 250 00:21:30,433 --> 00:21:35,067 we've been asking ourselves this fundamental question. 251 00:21:35,133 --> 00:21:36,908 "Where did we come from, what are we doing here, 252 00:21:36,933 --> 00:21:38,308 Wes Nisker MEDITATION TEACHER AND AUTHOR 253 00:21:38,333 --> 00:21:40,767 "what is life in this universe all about?" 254 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:42,933 And 255 00:21:43,967 --> 00:21:46,833 we've come up with some pretty fantastic stories 256 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,600 to answer those big questions. 257 00:21:48,667 --> 00:21:51,300 Heavens and hells and gods and demons. 258 00:21:53,333 --> 00:21:56,633 And humans became so arrogant 259 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:01,300 we believed the entire universe was made just for us, 260 00:22:01,367 --> 00:22:04,967 for the education and liberation of our individual souls. 261 00:22:08,533 --> 00:22:10,933 That somehow we weren't connected, 262 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,500 we were specially created, 263 00:22:13,567 --> 00:22:16,000 and were separate from all the rest. 264 00:22:16,767 --> 00:22:20,333 Those are totally dysfunctional stories right now. 265 00:22:35,900 --> 00:22:37,900 The world into which you were born 266 00:22:37,967 --> 00:22:40,467 doesn't exist in some absolute sense, 267 00:22:40,533 --> 00:22:42,233 but is just one model of reality. 268 00:22:44,967 --> 00:22:48,667 The interesting thing is not to say who's right and who's wrong, 269 00:22:48,733 --> 00:22:51,367 but to look at how different belief systems 270 00:22:51,433 --> 00:22:56,033 mediate the relationship between humanity and the natural world 271 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:57,208 with profoundly different consequences 272 00:22:57,233 --> 00:22:58,342 Wade Davis EXPLORER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST 273 00:22:58,367 --> 00:22:59,847 in terms of the ecological footprint. 274 00:23:18,567 --> 00:23:21,400 Every other culture in the history of the planet 275 00:23:21,467 --> 00:23:24,200 has told stories that they were embedded in nature, 276 00:23:24,267 --> 00:23:25,900 that they were connected to nature, 277 00:23:25,967 --> 00:23:28,000 that nature was their mother, was their father, 278 00:23:28,067 --> 00:23:30,500 was the source of their existence. 279 00:23:31,267 --> 00:23:33,933 We've told stories that we're separate from nature, 280 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,433 that we're superior to nature, that we walk around on top of nature. 281 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:40,700 When we look at our politics, 282 00:23:40,767 --> 00:23:42,567 when we look at our economics, 283 00:23:42,633 --> 00:23:46,333 we see that they're based on this separation between humans and the Earth. 284 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,133 And I think that sense of alienation has led us to desecrate the Earth. 285 00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:58,733 Every culture, every people, has a worldview. 286 00:23:59,367 --> 00:24:01,400 We all have a place that we come from. 287 00:24:01,467 --> 00:24:03,367 We all have our ways. 288 00:24:03,433 --> 00:24:05,467 We all have our practices. 289 00:24:06,667 --> 00:24:11,000 We all have our creation stories, our cosmologies. 290 00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:21,733 The worldview that we currently exist in as a dominant paradigm 291 00:24:24,567 --> 00:24:27,033 places human beings above all else. 292 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:31,267 It views the rest of the planet, 293 00:24:31,333 --> 00:24:36,633 views all other beings, as resources that are to be acquired, 294 00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:37,742 Angel Kyoda Williams ZEN PRIEST 295 00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:40,000 resources that are to be used. 296 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:53,767 And for that worldview to continue to persist and to thrive 297 00:24:53,833 --> 00:24:56,767 it has to ignore the destruction. 298 00:24:57,533 --> 00:25:01,600 In fact, it has to put us all to sleep 299 00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:05,667 because if this worldview were to face the truth of what we have 300 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,767 put into motion 301 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,367 it would collapse on itself. 302 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,167 If we look at the ecological crisis, and if we look at the economic crisis, 303 00:25:24,233 --> 00:25:28,500 I think we can ultimately see them as rooted in those stories 304 00:25:28,567 --> 00:25:30,933 that you've got to keep growing, keep expanding, 305 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,233 because if you don't do it, somebody else will. 306 00:25:35,033 --> 00:25:40,533 There are pressures to keep this economic juggernaut moving, 307 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:44,733 all I think based upon this ultimate story of economic growth and success. 308 00:25:46,567 --> 00:25:47,875 What we're doing, it seems to me, 309 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:52,833 is trying to control the conditions of our existence on this Earth, 310 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:57,133 trying to mould everything into a resource that we can use. 311 00:25:58,133 --> 00:26:03,767 Given this obsession with never-ending economic and technological growth, 312 00:26:03,833 --> 00:26:06,400 it seems inevitable that sooner or later 313 00:26:06,467 --> 00:26:09,167 we're gonna bump up against the limits of the biosphere, 314 00:26:09,233 --> 00:26:10,567 of the planet, 315 00:26:10,633 --> 00:26:13,567 and it seems like it's starting to happen now. 316 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:26,900 There has to be a part of us that knows the Earth is in pain. 317 00:26:30,533 --> 00:26:33,133 That what brought us forth 318 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,567 Becca Tarnas ARTIST AND WRITER 319 00:26:34,633 --> 00:26:36,433 is in some sense dying. 320 00:26:37,033 --> 00:26:43,100 And our mainstream narrative, it's to allow us to feel numb, 321 00:26:43,167 --> 00:26:45,767 to cut us off from that 322 00:26:45,833 --> 00:26:48,967 inherent intuitive sense that something is really wrong 323 00:26:49,033 --> 00:26:52,900 in how we're relating to this only home of ours. 324 00:27:10,367 --> 00:27:12,967 One of the problems that we face 325 00:27:13,033 --> 00:27:18,000 is that we haven't done a very good job of remembering what makes us human, 326 00:27:18,067 --> 00:27:19,600 and what makes us happy. 327 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:22,567 The average American 328 00:27:22,633 --> 00:27:27,433 is significantly less happy on surveys than they were 50 or 60 years ago 329 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,600 even though our standard of living has theoretically trebled over that time. 330 00:27:35,567 --> 00:27:39,800 And the reason is that we've gotten out of touch with each other. 331 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:44,100 Americans spent the last 50 years 332 00:27:44,167 --> 00:27:47,200 embarked on the project of building bigger houses 333 00:27:47,267 --> 00:27:48,633 farther apart from each other. 334 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:54,800 That has had not only huge environmental consequences, 335 00:27:54,867 --> 00:27:58,000 you have to heat and cool and drive between these places, 336 00:28:00,033 --> 00:28:02,300 it's also had deep social consequences. 337 00:28:02,367 --> 00:28:04,733 You run into people a lot less. 338 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,567 The average American has half as many close friends 339 00:28:08,633 --> 00:28:10,700 as they would've 50 years ago. 340 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:15,433 That's a very big change for a socially evolved primate. 341 00:28:24,667 --> 00:28:27,467 If we were to walk down the street 342 00:28:27,533 --> 00:28:32,167 and ask somebody in a way that went straight to their hearts, 343 00:28:32,233 --> 00:28:34,833 "What is it that you want?" 344 00:28:35,767 --> 00:28:38,867 They would say, many of them, "Intimacy." 345 00:28:38,933 --> 00:28:40,200 Barry Lopez NATURE WRITER 346 00:28:40,267 --> 00:28:43,967 "I want to be intimate with the world, 347 00:28:44,033 --> 00:28:46,133 "and I want someone to be intimate with me." 348 00:28:47,867 --> 00:28:52,433 That means, "I want a congress of some sort, 349 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:54,867 "I want to be part of something." 350 00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:57,467 Every traditional culture 351 00:28:57,533 --> 00:29:01,167 I have sat down and had the opportunity to frame the question with, 352 00:29:01,233 --> 00:29:06,067 when I've said, "What's the one word that comes to mind about Western culture?", 353 00:29:06,567 --> 00:29:09,267 the word I hear most often is "Lonely." 354 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,967 "You people are really lonely." 355 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:14,633 "You've designed something 356 00:29:14,700 --> 00:29:19,700 "that has taken the notion of the individual so far 357 00:29:19,767 --> 00:29:22,600 "you've cut yourself off from everything else, 358 00:29:22,667 --> 00:29:26,467 "and you've created a landscape of desperately lonely people." 359 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,233 More than the environment itself, 360 00:29:34,667 --> 00:29:39,500 what we are losing most dramatically is our own connection, 361 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,633 our intimate connection to nature, 362 00:29:47,333 --> 00:29:48,833 our own sense of ourselves 363 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:50,675 Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey EXPLORER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST 364 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,833 that we've forgotten and become so distanced from. 365 00:29:58,133 --> 00:30:01,067 I see people dashing all over the place, 366 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:04,300 and I think, 367 00:30:05,867 --> 00:30:08,633 "We're racing all over, but for what?" 368 00:30:11,633 --> 00:30:14,333 I remember one elder told me, he said, 369 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,167 "You all have watches but you have no time." 370 00:30:20,267 --> 00:30:23,200 And I stopped and had to take that in, 371 00:30:24,333 --> 00:30:27,167 because I find myself doing that. 372 00:30:27,833 --> 00:30:31,567 I'm racing to airports, I'm racing to meetings, I'm racing through email. 373 00:30:31,633 --> 00:30:35,233 I am racing through my life but not necessarily living. 374 00:30:40,067 --> 00:30:42,700 The greatest wound of modernity 375 00:30:42,767 --> 00:30:46,900 is the idea that we are other than life, 376 00:30:46,967 --> 00:30:49,000 or that nature is other than us. 377 00:30:49,833 --> 00:30:52,833 And we were brought up thinking that, 378 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,000 we're in classrooms, cut off from nature, looking outside the window at it, 379 00:30:56,067 --> 00:30:57,467 and studying it in textbooks. 380 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,633 Our upbringing, and our houses, and the way we dress, 381 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:02,075 Paul Hawken ENVIRONMENTALIST AND AUTHOR 382 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:05,267 and the way we lived, and the way we cut ourselves off, you know, 383 00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:10,567 was as if nature was out there, a threat, not very friendly. 384 00:31:11,367 --> 00:31:15,833 That wound, that deep, deep wound is such a... 385 00:31:15,900 --> 00:31:17,567 Such a loss, you know. 386 00:31:26,467 --> 00:31:28,667 A lot of people, 387 00:31:28,733 --> 00:31:33,267 if they see grass in the crack of the sidewalk, 388 00:31:33,333 --> 00:31:37,267 that may be the only other living thing 389 00:31:37,333 --> 00:31:40,600 that they see hour upon hour. 390 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,300 You know, and most of us live in cities now, 391 00:31:44,367 --> 00:31:46,367 and are very separate. 392 00:31:47,033 --> 00:31:49,900 It becomes easy to forget 393 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,867 that you're kin with a living planet, 394 00:31:55,933 --> 00:31:58,900 that you're part of a living planet, you know, 395 00:31:58,967 --> 00:32:01,133 when you don't see it much. 396 00:32:03,267 --> 00:32:07,167 It's as if we're living in a museum, you know, 397 00:32:07,233 --> 00:32:10,200 curated by someone who's decided 398 00:32:10,267 --> 00:32:15,067 to not let any natural objects in for some reason. Right? 399 00:32:20,833 --> 00:32:25,867 It doesn't take much to go back into the natural world and go, 400 00:32:25,933 --> 00:32:28,967 "Oh, now I remember." 401 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,367 I work with people all day long and I bring them outside. 402 00:32:36,433 --> 00:32:41,400 I watch them eventually get back in touch 403 00:32:41,467 --> 00:32:44,667 with their evolutionary kin, you know. 404 00:32:44,733 --> 00:32:47,833 They're back in a natural setting. 405 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,533 It's like putting water on a dry plant. 406 00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:00,933 At a certain point, being in that natural setting, 407 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,067 and we talk about, "Are you separate from nature?" 408 00:33:03,133 --> 00:33:07,200 Of course they say, "No, of course not. No, I'm back home." 409 00:33:08,267 --> 00:33:10,467 But, you know, 410 00:33:10,533 --> 00:33:12,833 forty hours from now, 411 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:14,833 you know, they're in their cube 412 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:19,200 and they get on their elevator and they go down to the subway 413 00:33:19,267 --> 00:33:24,433 and they get on a tube and travel, and of course... 414 00:33:24,567 --> 00:33:27,133 Of course there's that disconnection. 415 00:33:45,733 --> 00:33:49,200 For either a human being or a social system to change, 416 00:33:49,267 --> 00:33:51,800 the old system has to stop working. 417 00:33:51,867 --> 00:33:54,600 Life as usual has to stop working. 418 00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:55,708 Charles Eisenstein ECONOMIST AND AUTHOR 419 00:33:55,733 --> 00:33:57,467 Normal has to become unsustainable. 420 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,600 Everything that has worked for hundreds of years, 421 00:34:03,667 --> 00:34:05,700 our way of looking at the world, 422 00:34:05,767 --> 00:34:07,933 the ideology of growth, 423 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400 of mastering nature, of conquering nature, 424 00:34:10,467 --> 00:34:13,233 the technologies of control, 425 00:34:14,833 --> 00:34:17,733 all of these things are coming into question. 426 00:34:20,067 --> 00:34:23,667 So part of making this transition 427 00:34:23,733 --> 00:34:29,200 is to begin experimenting with new ways of doing things. 428 00:34:30,267 --> 00:34:33,467 In other words, to plant the seeds of a new story. 429 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:43,467 The kind of intelligence we need is not data, but narrative. 430 00:34:43,967 --> 00:34:47,333 How do you put all these disparate pieces together 431 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,600 in a structure 432 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:55,767 that has direction, momentum, promise? 433 00:34:57,333 --> 00:35:03,900 So, the question for me is not just, "Do we need a new story?" 434 00:35:03,967 --> 00:35:07,367 But, "Do we need a new way of telling a story?" 435 00:35:12,967 --> 00:35:15,533 There are three stories actually 436 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,033 that 437 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:18,442 Joanna Macy ECO-PHILOSOPHER AND ACTMST 438 00:35:18,467 --> 00:35:20,533 we have to choose from 439 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,433 to make sense of our lives now, 440 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:25,467 to make sense of our world. 441 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,100 The first story is "Business as Usual." 442 00:35:33,133 --> 00:35:36,600 All we need to do is grow our economy. 443 00:35:39,733 --> 00:35:43,133 So, I call that the industrial-growth society. 444 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,700 But there's another story, 445 00:35:47,767 --> 00:35:54,167 which is seen and accepted as the reality 446 00:35:54,233 --> 00:35:57,033 by the scientists, the activists, 447 00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:59,933 who lift back the carpet, 448 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:06,133 look under the rug of the "Business as Usual" and see what it's costing us. 449 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:09,133 It's costing us the world. 450 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,033 We call that story "The Great Unravelling." 451 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,533 Unravelling is what biological and ecological and organic systems do. 452 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,467 As diversity's lost, they shred. 453 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,133 That's not the end of the story, though, 454 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,167 because there's another narrative, 455 00:36:36,233 --> 00:36:40,467 another lens through which we can choose to see. 456 00:36:42,733 --> 00:36:46,367 And that is that a revolution is taking place, 457 00:36:48,133 --> 00:36:52,200 a transition from the industrial-growth society 458 00:36:52,267 --> 00:36:55,467 to a life-sustaining society. 459 00:36:57,133 --> 00:37:02,167 And it's taking many forms, this third story, 460 00:37:02,233 --> 00:37:03,900 "The Great Turning," 461 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,933 and it's got huge evolutionary pressures behind it. 462 00:37:15,867 --> 00:37:19,167 Any species, any life system, 463 00:37:19,233 --> 00:37:22,767 which develops technology 464 00:37:22,833 --> 00:37:26,233 is gonna go through a similar crisis to us, 465 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,067 because as soon as you start developing technology 466 00:37:29,133 --> 00:37:32,533 you're gonna fall into this phase of evolution 467 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,400 where you start changing the world. 468 00:37:35,733 --> 00:37:39,367 And the awareness has got to catch up with that. 469 00:37:39,433 --> 00:37:43,200 You've got to then gain the wisdom, the understanding, 470 00:37:43,267 --> 00:37:47,733 the true intelligence to know how to manage that technology 471 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,833 without destroying your habitat. 472 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:52,967 So, I see this phase that we're in right now, 473 00:37:53,033 --> 00:37:56,467 which has come to a head in our generation, 474 00:37:56,533 --> 00:37:59,900 is probably inevitable on any planetary system 475 00:37:59,967 --> 00:38:04,533 which develops an intelligent, tool-using species. 476 00:38:06,267 --> 00:38:09,867 And if it doesn't destroy itself, 477 00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:14,733 any species which has come through this phase 478 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,133 has got to have let go of this sort of egocentric, materialistic consciousness. 479 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:45,533 The sense of separation 480 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,533 that all of us usually feel, 481 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,600 the feeling that there's a me inside here somewhere, 482 00:38:51,667 --> 00:38:54,000 maybe behind the eyes, inside the ears, 483 00:38:54,067 --> 00:38:58,533 looking out at you, or an objective external world. 484 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:04,533 This sense of separation is not real, it's a delusion, 485 00:39:05,467 --> 00:39:10,200 or in more contemporary terms, it's a psychological and social construct. 486 00:39:17,067 --> 00:39:20,067 We can be very selfish as a human being, 487 00:39:21,167 --> 00:39:24,967 and this of course has to do with 488 00:39:25,033 --> 00:39:26,533 Anam Thubten TIBETAN LAMA 489 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:32,233 the fact that we have to survive as a human species, 490 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:37,833 and sometimes the ego has a role in this human existence. 491 00:39:40,833 --> 00:39:43,300 That's how we survive it, 492 00:39:43,367 --> 00:39:48,067 and also, our ancestors, our parents, taught, some way or another, 493 00:39:48,133 --> 00:39:52,267 that we have to be little bit selfish in order to survive, 494 00:39:52,333 --> 00:39:55,600 and that is the part of the old consciousness. 495 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,933 The sense of a separate self is not only a delusion, 496 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,067 but it's a delusion that causes suffering, anxiety. 497 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,100 This deluded sense of a separate self is always going to be haunted 498 00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:13,800 by the sense of lack, sense of insufficiency, 499 00:40:13,867 --> 00:40:15,642 the feeling that something isn't right about me, 500 00:40:15,667 --> 00:40:17,400 something is wrong. 501 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:24,600 We misunderstand the problem as outside ourselves. 502 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:27,200 I feel something is wrong, something isn't right, 503 00:40:27,267 --> 00:40:30,467 it must be that I don't have enough of this out here, 504 00:40:30,533 --> 00:40:32,700 or I have to solve this problem. 505 00:40:44,533 --> 00:40:47,333 The whole drive of Western society 506 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:48,533 Alan Senauke ZEN PRIEST 507 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,467 with commodification and consumerism 508 00:40:51,533 --> 00:40:56,133 is "Buy this, get this, own this," 509 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,300 and that sense of lack, 510 00:40:58,367 --> 00:41:03,200 that sense that you have that something is missing, will disappear. 511 00:41:05,633 --> 00:41:09,467 And of course we know, from our own experience, 512 00:41:09,533 --> 00:41:11,067 it don't work like that. 513 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,200 There will always be something incomplete. 514 00:41:15,267 --> 00:41:18,867 And it's bottomless. 515 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:22,933 Once you engage in that project, it's like you're digging... 516 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,333 You're digging in one hole, and tossing the dirt in another, 517 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,800 and you'll be doing that forever. 518 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,700 So what's the solution to this? 519 00:41:37,433 --> 00:41:39,667 Is it returning to nature? 520 00:41:44,467 --> 00:41:46,600 Well, we can't return to nature, 521 00:41:46,667 --> 00:41:49,967 because, if we really understand it, we've never left it. 522 00:42:11,333 --> 00:42:12,642 We don't need to return to nature, 523 00:42:12,667 --> 00:42:17,133 but we do need to realise the sense in which we are embedded in nature. 524 00:42:19,467 --> 00:42:23,700 It's a kind of delusion or optical delusion 525 00:42:23,767 --> 00:42:26,800 where we feel like we're the centre of the universe, 526 00:42:26,867 --> 00:42:29,000 and that's not the case at all. 527 00:42:29,967 --> 00:42:35,400 Even to lift our eyes to the sky we can see this earth is not the centre of the universe. 528 00:42:35,467 --> 00:42:36,608 Joan Halifax ANTHROPOLOGIST AND ECOLOGIST 529 00:42:36,633 --> 00:42:41,000 But at the same time, if we lift our own internal eyes into our own experience 530 00:42:41,067 --> 00:42:47,933 we realise that we ourselves are living in a world, a universe, 531 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:52,767 a reality that is characterised by inter-relationality. 532 00:42:53,633 --> 00:42:59,433 We begin to see that, in fact, what I thought was myself, was not myself at all. 533 00:43:06,833 --> 00:43:11,333 Central to that is that the Earth is seen as a living system. 534 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,600 A living being, where everything we are 535 00:43:14,667 --> 00:43:18,700 and can ever be is dependent upon 536 00:43:18,767 --> 00:43:24,133 this great, verdant, fertile, sensitive, 537 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,467 intricately interwoven web of life. 538 00:43:44,633 --> 00:43:50,200 So, now we're starting to look through deep time at how this universe was created. 539 00:43:50,633 --> 00:43:55,033 I mean, fantastic tools and analysis that we've come up with 540 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:59,567 has shown us a whole different picture of who we are. 541 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:05,900 First of all, that we are intertwined with all and everything. 542 00:44:06,733 --> 00:44:10,567 We now know that we are related to all the life that's ever lived. 543 00:44:11,333 --> 00:44:14,633 The story of evolution is everybody's autobiography. 544 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:24,067 Approximately 13.7 billion years ago, the universe exploded into existence 545 00:44:24,133 --> 00:44:27,333 in a tremendous burst of pure energy. 546 00:44:29,267 --> 00:44:32,833 We come from that original flaring forth of the universe. 547 00:44:32,900 --> 00:44:34,567 We come from that origin moment. 548 00:44:34,633 --> 00:44:40,367 And we are connected to this seamless unfolding process that has taken place 549 00:44:40,433 --> 00:44:42,933 over these 13 billion years. 550 00:44:43,967 --> 00:44:46,900 From the original fireball to the galaxies, 551 00:44:46,967 --> 00:44:49,900 to the stars, to the planets, to Earth, 552 00:44:49,967 --> 00:44:53,667 to oceans, life, consciousness, and humanity. 553 00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:59,233 So, we are part of an unfolding evolutionary process 554 00:44:59,300 --> 00:45:02,267 that includes all beings 555 00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:05,133 and is 100 billion galaxies wide. 556 00:45:07,667 --> 00:45:11,400 We've been on the planet Earth as humans for 200,000 years, 557 00:45:11,467 --> 00:45:15,067 and this is the first moment when we have a common story. 558 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,367 The story of the birth of the universe. 559 00:45:20,133 --> 00:45:23,067 The story of the development of our planet Earth. 560 00:45:23,133 --> 00:45:27,100 That is now bubbling up in human consciousness. 561 00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:35,933 We are all parts of the great circulation that constitutes the Earth 562 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,067 and its ecosystems. 563 00:45:39,933 --> 00:45:43,133 The air, the water, the food, 564 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,667 that comes into me and then passes out of me, 565 00:45:46,733 --> 00:45:50,367 this is embedded, this is part of this larger circulation. 566 00:45:52,033 --> 00:45:56,967 We know, on the most basic level, that the air that we breathe, 567 00:45:57,033 --> 00:46:01,567 the oxygen in that air, we're dependent upon the plants for that. 568 00:46:01,633 --> 00:46:04,700 And likewise the plant world is dependent 569 00:46:04,767 --> 00:46:08,200 upon the carbon dioxide that we breathe out. 570 00:46:11,233 --> 00:46:15,667 One of the ways to understand life 571 00:46:15,733 --> 00:46:20,267 is to just look at ourselves, our own body. 572 00:46:21,533 --> 00:46:25,667 It is estimated that our body consists of only 10% human cells. 573 00:46:25,733 --> 00:46:29,667 The other 90% are other types of organisms. 574 00:46:29,767 --> 00:46:31,733 Bacteria, primarily, and virus. 575 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:35,433 So, right away, we have to understand 576 00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:38,467 that we are not a human being, we're a human community. 577 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:41,700 Without those cells, 578 00:46:42,733 --> 00:46:46,300 those so-called nonhuman cells, we would not be alive. 579 00:46:46,367 --> 00:46:49,667 We would perish right away. 580 00:46:50,467 --> 00:46:55,367 Our body itself contains this extraordinary message, if you will, 581 00:46:55,467 --> 00:46:58,167 of how interdependent we are 582 00:46:58,233 --> 00:47:01,300 on the lives of other organisms. 583 00:47:03,633 --> 00:47:06,833 All of us, human beings and animals, 584 00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:10,467 each live in dependence upon each other. 585 00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:15,133 We human beings depend on external things 586 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,067 for the food that sustains us, clothing, 587 00:47:18,133 --> 00:47:19,242 HH. The 17th Karmapa TIBETAN LEADER 588 00:47:19,267 --> 00:47:21,500 and even the air we breathe. 589 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:27,367 I usually think that this planet, the world, 590 00:47:27,433 --> 00:47:31,600 and the sentient beings who inhabit it, 591 00:47:32,067 --> 00:47:35,067 are a single living system, 592 00:47:35,133 --> 00:47:37,767 like a body, for example. 593 00:47:37,833 --> 00:47:40,400 A whole with parts or a single assemblage. 594 00:47:40,967 --> 00:47:43,633 Thus we are all, 595 00:47:44,533 --> 00:47:49,633 as human beings or as individuals, 596 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:55,867 aspects or parts of that living whole. 597 00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,167 In terms of looking at a truth like interdependence, 598 00:48:43,233 --> 00:48:46,200 how interrelated everybody's life is, 599 00:48:46,267 --> 00:48:48,433 we often just ignore that fact 600 00:48:48,500 --> 00:48:50,500 because it's so mind boggling 601 00:48:50,567 --> 00:48:51,642 Ethan Nichtern MEDITATION TEACHER 602 00:48:51,667 --> 00:48:56,067 to think about just setting foot in one city on this planet. 603 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,700 If one stepped onto a subway platform, 604 00:49:00,767 --> 00:49:04,067 to even think about there's 500 other 605 00:49:04,133 --> 00:49:08,633 feeling, thinking, eating, you know, loving, human beings here... 606 00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:13,533 It's just, we feel like we can't handle that. That level of awareness. 607 00:49:15,700 --> 00:49:21,167 You can instil a view but then there actually have to be processes like meditation 608 00:49:21,233 --> 00:49:25,633 that actually shift the way the mind relates to others. 609 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,000 You can't just say a lot about how we're all connected. 610 00:49:30,067 --> 00:49:32,633 You have to actually offer tools 611 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:36,067 for how you would become more aware on that subway platform. 612 00:49:36,367 --> 00:49:40,200 It's not just like, you know, "Love thy neighbour", you know. 613 00:49:40,267 --> 00:49:42,533 That's a great sentiment, but how? 614 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:52,000 Many of us have explored the way 615 00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:56,667 that we can heal this sense of alienation or separation. 616 00:49:59,367 --> 00:50:04,200 And it's been an exploration that has not been in our time, our generation, only. 617 00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:08,267 It's gone on for thousands upon thousands of years. 618 00:50:08,967 --> 00:50:13,333 And it's expressed in traditions of indigenous cultures. 619 00:50:15,100 --> 00:50:19,000 It's expressed in a world of global religions. 620 00:50:20,633 --> 00:50:26,467 And it is really coming to actualise or into the deep insight 621 00:50:26,533 --> 00:50:29,533 that there is no inherent separate self. 622 00:50:30,467 --> 00:50:33,867 That we are coterminous with everything. 623 00:50:34,667 --> 00:50:36,267 We're not separate. 624 00:50:36,333 --> 00:50:39,167 And it's not just a mystical perspective. 625 00:50:39,233 --> 00:50:42,367 I mean, it's a completely pragmatic view 626 00:50:42,433 --> 00:50:46,967 that science has been validating for decades. 627 00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:54,033 But, of course, the great religious meisters of the past 628 00:50:54,100 --> 00:50:57,700 have seen and have tried to open the human heart 629 00:50:57,833 --> 00:51:01,500 to the awe of existence. 630 00:51:06,367 --> 00:51:08,567 I believe that 631 00:51:08,633 --> 00:51:12,633 the next revolution in human world 632 00:51:12,700 --> 00:51:14,400 is meditation. 633 00:51:15,367 --> 00:51:19,000 Meditation will open a whole new channel 634 00:51:19,067 --> 00:51:21,800 of our consciousness through which we can see 635 00:51:21,867 --> 00:51:23,967 the very thing that we're talking about. 636 00:51:24,033 --> 00:51:27,733 The sacredness, the majesty, the beauty of our existence. 637 00:51:29,033 --> 00:51:32,933 And anybody can practise 638 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:37,367 without adapting a belief system. 639 00:51:45,733 --> 00:51:50,867 Mindfulness is important because it helps you get in touch with what's going on 640 00:51:50,933 --> 00:51:53,100 with yourself 641 00:51:53,167 --> 00:51:55,367 and with your thoughts 642 00:51:55,433 --> 00:52:00,467 and even with your actions and the actions of others and how their energy interacts. 643 00:52:04,333 --> 00:52:07,833 You start to become more present and your mind isn't all over the place. 644 00:52:07,900 --> 00:52:09,142 Your mind is right where you are. 645 00:52:09,167 --> 00:52:10,208 Ali Smith MINDFULNESS AND YOGA TEACHER 646 00:52:10,233 --> 00:52:12,642 And I think you're better able to pick up on other people's problems 647 00:52:12,667 --> 00:52:13,800 and become more empathetic. 648 00:52:13,867 --> 00:52:16,133 You become more compassionate. You become more loving. 649 00:52:29,100 --> 00:52:33,267 Therefore, we should definitely make sure 650 00:52:33,333 --> 00:52:37,433 that our minds don't come under 651 00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:41,100 the power of external things. 652 00:52:41,767 --> 00:52:47,900 Sometimes it should be like we are bringing our mind home, 653 00:52:47,967 --> 00:52:51,733 letting the mind rest peacefully, letting it relax. 654 00:52:55,967 --> 00:52:59,567 Once the mind has relaxed, 655 00:52:59,633 --> 00:53:06,600 at that moment we should recognise our mind. 656 00:53:06,967 --> 00:53:11,633 And if we are able to sustain this essence, 657 00:53:11,933 --> 00:53:13,800 the mind will become peaceful, 658 00:53:13,867 --> 00:53:17,867 and I think that we will feel that today 659 00:53:17,933 --> 00:53:22,667 we have something worth keeping in our minds. 660 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:32,900 I sometimes refer to mindfulness as the opposable thumb of consciousness, 661 00:53:32,967 --> 00:53:36,600 able to reach out and take hold of reality in a totally different way. 662 00:53:37,267 --> 00:53:42,533 Mindfulness is gonna change our sense of identity and our ability to move out 663 00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,800 of our individual story and into community, 664 00:53:45,867 --> 00:53:48,667 and into a healthier mental life. 665 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:54,333 This question of identity is central 666 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,433 to how we feel about ourselves and how we treat each other 667 00:53:57,500 --> 00:53:58,900 and how we treat the environment. 668 00:53:59,333 --> 00:54:03,567 Who we think we are in the scheme of things really influences that. 669 00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:09,767 The more we start to bring our attention into our bodies, into our breathing, 670 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:15,167 the more we begin to feel connected to the rest of the breathing life of this planet. 671 00:54:15,233 --> 00:54:18,467 And we start to lose that sense of, 672 00:54:18,533 --> 00:54:21,100 "I am my individual story." 673 00:54:21,167 --> 00:54:23,733 We begin to expand our sense of identity. 674 00:54:26,467 --> 00:54:31,200 The spiritual path is not to eradicate your personality, 675 00:54:31,267 --> 00:54:35,300 but to just expand the context in which it lives, 676 00:54:35,367 --> 00:54:38,867 and gain wider identities. 677 00:54:54,367 --> 00:54:56,233 I remember once 678 00:54:56,300 --> 00:55:00,933 taking a group of young people out camping, 679 00:55:01,933 --> 00:55:03,000 up in the Adirondacks 680 00:55:03,067 --> 00:55:06,367 and the great wilderness of the American east where I spent much of my life. 681 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,133 We were out on an island, and it was a dark night, 682 00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:17,433 a new moon, and so the stars were in great, wild abundance. 683 00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:22,333 We were sort of looking up at them and talking and it became clear that 684 00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:27,133 five or six of these ten kids, no one had ever shown them the Milky Way before. 685 00:55:28,367 --> 00:55:31,233 And, they had the appropriate reaction. 686 00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:33,933 It was like, "Whoa, dude..." 687 00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:39,167 And really that must've been almost the moment at which humans became humans, 688 00:55:39,233 --> 00:55:43,400 when some ape looked up at the sky and said, "Whoa, dude..." 689 00:55:44,833 --> 00:55:47,567 It's the experience of feeling 690 00:55:47,633 --> 00:55:51,100 a small part of something very big 691 00:55:51,167 --> 00:55:53,267 and mysterious and orderly 692 00:55:53,333 --> 00:55:58,200 and cool and buzzing and beautiful and harmonious. 693 00:56:00,233 --> 00:56:03,200 And that kind of 694 00:56:03,267 --> 00:56:07,533 feeling small is a really useful thing to do. 695 00:56:11,167 --> 00:56:14,100 It's the opposite of the message that we get sent 696 00:56:14,167 --> 00:56:16,400 by all those screens all day long. 697 00:56:17,533 --> 00:56:20,700 That we're very big and very important, and the most important thing 698 00:56:20,767 --> 00:56:22,067 that there possibly could be. 699 00:56:29,700 --> 00:56:31,700 One of the greatest resources for me 700 00:56:32,967 --> 00:56:35,900 is slowing down, 701 00:56:37,433 --> 00:56:38,700 settling, 702 00:56:39,933 --> 00:56:41,467 becoming still, 703 00:56:44,033 --> 00:56:45,033 and attuning 704 00:56:45,133 --> 00:56:49,000 to the interconnected world that already exists 705 00:56:49,067 --> 00:56:50,867 all around us. 706 00:56:53,733 --> 00:56:58,567 If you've ever had an opportunity to go to a pond or an estuary or a stream 707 00:56:59,967 --> 00:57:02,133 and just sit and settle, 708 00:57:04,333 --> 00:57:08,267 the experience is one of becoming aware 709 00:57:08,333 --> 00:57:11,367 of a vibrant, alive, 710 00:57:11,433 --> 00:57:13,667 pulsating world 711 00:57:13,733 --> 00:57:15,300 which we hadn't been aware of 712 00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,733 just a few minutes or a few hours before 713 00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:21,500 because we were going too fast. 714 00:57:26,433 --> 00:57:29,200 When you sit, 715 00:57:29,267 --> 00:57:33,800 separated from all of the noise, 716 00:57:34,967 --> 00:57:36,667 all of the messaging, 717 00:57:37,267 --> 00:57:40,400 all of that chaos but just 718 00:57:40,467 --> 00:57:42,867 go to a quiet place 719 00:57:42,933 --> 00:57:44,933 and settle down, 720 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,033 we remember again 721 00:57:48,267 --> 00:57:51,867 that what we've been really seeking 722 00:57:51,933 --> 00:57:53,167 is this. 723 00:57:57,333 --> 00:57:58,900 This map, 724 00:57:58,967 --> 00:58:02,567 this compass, this internal compass is the one that matters. 725 00:58:02,633 --> 00:58:04,700 This is the way we find our way. 726 00:58:04,767 --> 00:58:07,600 This is the way we navigate these times. 727 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,200 Really, the place 728 00:58:18,267 --> 00:58:20,733 that we need to return to 729 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:24,033 in order to recognise home 730 00:58:25,433 --> 00:58:26,967 is our own bodies. 731 00:58:28,133 --> 00:58:30,700 Our own sensation, 732 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:36,000 our own direct experience 733 00:58:36,100 --> 00:58:39,800 with sound and movement, 734 00:58:39,867 --> 00:58:42,800 and feeling sense 735 00:58:42,867 --> 00:58:44,700 and emotion 736 00:58:44,767 --> 00:58:46,367 and pain 737 00:58:46,433 --> 00:58:48,067 and joy 738 00:58:48,133 --> 00:58:54,033 and the complicated things that we're not able to give words to. 739 00:58:55,733 --> 00:58:59,600 We all have the capacity to feel our connection to the Earth, 740 00:58:59,667 --> 00:59:01,833 to feel our connection to others, 741 00:59:01,900 --> 00:59:03,533 with people that seem 742 00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,833 different and foreign and strange from us. 743 00:59:13,133 --> 00:59:16,100 We're of this Earth, we're not on the Earth. 744 00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:19,567 We're of... We're of the Earth. 745 00:59:42,767 --> 00:59:45,067 Part of what I think is needed 746 00:59:45,133 --> 00:59:48,100 for this emerging planetary movement 747 00:59:48,167 --> 00:59:51,067 is to turn to and honour 748 00:59:51,133 --> 00:59:52,133 those people who, 749 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,833 for thousands and thousands of years, 750 00:59:55,900 --> 00:59:57,667 have lived this path 751 00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:01,967 of radical, deep interconnectedness. 752 01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:17,700 There's a lot of people who are interested and curious 753 01:00:17,767 --> 01:00:22,300 and wanting to hear about the indigenous perspective, 754 01:00:22,367 --> 01:00:23,575 Mona Polacca HOPI INDIGENOUS ELDER 755 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,700 and having the sense that it's important. 756 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,400 To me it's sort of like an awakening. 757 01:00:34,267 --> 01:00:36,767 It's an awareness that 758 01:00:36,833 --> 01:00:41,500 people have to feel a sense of identity. 759 01:00:43,067 --> 01:00:46,467 It causes one to reflect on 760 01:00:46,533 --> 01:00:48,000 who they are, 761 01:00:48,067 --> 01:00:51,667 and what are my roots, what are my connections? 762 01:00:56,867 --> 01:00:59,033 Everyone is indigenous. 763 01:01:13,333 --> 01:01:15,700 That's deep within all of us, 764 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:22,733 that knowledge knows us better than we know it. 765 01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:23,942 Tiokasin Ghosthorse LAKOTA INDIGENOUS LEADER 766 01:01:23,967 --> 01:01:26,600 But when we live in compassion with that knowledge, 767 01:01:26,667 --> 01:01:28,600 it becomes spirit of who we are. 768 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,633 We know our first protection is for Mother Earth. 769 01:01:35,533 --> 01:01:37,000 That's what we have to do. 770 01:01:37,900 --> 01:01:40,333 We have to protect Mother Earth and her natural processes 771 01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,767 in order for all of us to live here. 772 01:01:45,933 --> 01:01:50,567 Without self-reflection, we are never going to resolve 773 01:01:51,267 --> 01:01:54,300 this process of self-destruction 774 01:01:55,067 --> 01:01:59,467 that we have adopted towards our own annihilation. 775 01:02:03,033 --> 01:02:06,467 This disorder that we are witnessing 776 01:02:06,533 --> 01:02:08,600 Luntana Nakoggi KOGI MAMO AND INDEGENOUS LEADER 777 01:02:09,467 --> 01:02:11,733 is not a game. 778 01:02:12,667 --> 01:02:15,333 It is going to end life. 779 01:02:16,533 --> 01:02:20,000 We have to remove from our minds 780 01:02:21,300 --> 01:02:24,333 borders, divisions, 781 01:02:29,767 --> 01:02:34,667 and let all the peoples have value. 782 01:02:37,233 --> 01:02:40,467 We are all equal. 783 01:02:42,733 --> 01:02:45,933 Most people think, "Well, we are individuals." 784 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,267 But the truth is that 785 01:02:49,333 --> 01:02:53,167 even when you are sitting in your room, by yourself, you are not alone. 786 01:02:54,367 --> 01:02:57,067 You, as an element of this family, 787 01:02:57,133 --> 01:02:59,100 you are an integral part of a system 788 01:02:59,167 --> 01:03:00,242 Sobonfu Some DAGARA INDIGENOUS LEADER 789 01:03:00,267 --> 01:03:01,267 that is functioning. 790 01:03:03,333 --> 01:03:07,833 We belong, whether we want to belong or not. 791 01:03:07,900 --> 01:03:09,567 We belong to the Earth. 792 01:03:11,333 --> 01:03:13,600 You are still connected. 793 01:03:13,667 --> 01:03:15,633 The Earth has not forsaken you. 794 01:03:23,367 --> 01:03:27,267 I think we have disconnected because we have forgot to appreciate. 795 01:03:28,500 --> 01:03:31,133 Appreciation takes us beyond Mother Earth, 796 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,667 it takes us beyond the stars, 797 01:03:34,433 --> 01:03:37,900 and knows that every little speck of matter, 798 01:03:38,967 --> 01:03:42,267 every living, breathing being, matters. 799 01:03:48,767 --> 01:03:50,800 That's the key, is appreciation. 800 01:04:00,867 --> 01:04:02,767 We have a connection 801 01:04:02,833 --> 01:04:05,967 not only in this world, on Mother Earth, 802 01:04:06,033 --> 01:04:08,900 but we also have a connection all the way to the universe. 803 01:04:11,333 --> 01:04:14,500 All my life, that's what I've been told. 804 01:04:14,567 --> 01:04:16,867 Be conscious about our actions 805 01:04:16,933 --> 01:04:18,667 and the things that we're doing. 806 01:04:23,100 --> 01:04:24,933 And so you're always looking 807 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,867 to see what you're doing 808 01:04:26,933 --> 01:04:30,367 and its effect on your children and your grandchildren 809 01:04:30,433 --> 01:04:33,333 and your great grandchildren and the future generations, 810 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,200 the ones that are yet to come, 811 01:04:36,267 --> 01:04:38,333 the ones that we won't see. 812 01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:41,000 That's why I'm here today. 813 01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:49,833 It's because my ancestors, they did that. 814 01:04:53,567 --> 01:04:55,033 They thought about me. 815 01:04:59,633 --> 01:05:03,367 I'm one of those grandchildren 816 01:05:03,433 --> 01:05:06,033 that they made a prayer for. 817 01:05:08,233 --> 01:05:10,800 Now, I'm a grandmother. 818 01:05:12,100 --> 01:05:14,300 I have this responsibility. 819 01:05:17,633 --> 01:05:19,400 Not just me, but all people 820 01:05:19,467 --> 01:05:21,833 should make that prayer 821 01:05:21,900 --> 01:05:24,267 that their ancestors made 822 01:05:28,067 --> 01:05:31,300 and carry on that sacred responsibility. 823 01:05:40,900 --> 01:05:43,367 The sense of sacredness 824 01:05:43,433 --> 01:05:47,467 is really very much the heart of all spiritual traditions 825 01:05:47,533 --> 01:05:49,933 and at the same time it's non-conceptual. 826 01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,933 We really can't learn this notion of sacredness. 827 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,833 It's like love, you have to feel it. 828 01:05:57,900 --> 01:05:59,567 Everybody can feel it 829 01:05:59,633 --> 01:06:01,867 because it's all around us. 830 01:06:04,133 --> 01:06:07,300 If we can feel that, more and more, in our society 831 01:06:07,367 --> 01:06:12,600 perhaps we will begin to realise that there is a benevolence, 832 01:06:12,667 --> 01:06:17,267 there is a beauty pervading everywhere, 833 01:06:17,333 --> 01:06:22,233 all things... All living beings, as well as also all existence. 834 01:06:35,433 --> 01:06:40,100 I think we realise it's time to fit in here. 835 01:06:43,300 --> 01:06:44,967 It's time to come home. 836 01:06:45,033 --> 01:06:51,367 And it's time to figure out how to function 837 01:06:53,033 --> 01:06:57,300 in a way that will allow us to stay here. 838 01:07:01,367 --> 01:07:06,833 When we get to the point where civilisation is functionally indistinguishable 839 01:07:07,833 --> 01:07:09,667 from the ecosystem that surrounds it, 840 01:07:12,233 --> 01:07:13,933 then we'll be a welcome species. 841 01:07:18,700 --> 01:07:20,133 Well... 842 01:07:20,967 --> 01:07:22,667 The good news and the bad news 843 01:07:22,733 --> 01:07:26,500 is that we know nothing, absolutely, for certain. 844 01:07:27,100 --> 01:07:30,233 We've put the planet into violent flux. 845 01:07:30,300 --> 01:07:32,967 We've taken ourselves out of the Holocene, 846 01:07:33,033 --> 01:07:37,200 this 10,000-year period of benign stability 847 01:07:37,267 --> 01:07:40,367 that underwrote the rise of human civilisation. 848 01:07:40,433 --> 01:07:42,367 Now, we're into someplace else. 849 01:07:42,900 --> 01:07:47,467 And in that someplace else all bets are off. 850 01:07:48,700 --> 01:07:51,200 What the world looks like is going to depend on 851 01:07:51,267 --> 01:07:54,733 what we do in the next few years. 852 01:07:56,667 --> 01:07:58,800 Everything's up for grabs now. 853 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,500 Gary Snyder, the great poet, said once, 854 01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,267 "There's no final resolution." 855 01:08:12,367 --> 01:08:16,100 In other words, you're not going to fix the world and have it stay that way. 856 01:08:17,267 --> 01:08:19,533 It's not the way this universe works. 857 01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:23,967 If you want something like that or like to live happily ever after, 858 01:08:24,033 --> 01:08:26,000 you came to the wrong place. 859 01:08:26,067 --> 01:08:27,733 It doesn't work here. 860 01:08:29,433 --> 01:08:32,033 And there's some kind of grace 861 01:08:32,100 --> 01:08:35,833 and ease and a lightness that can come in 862 01:08:35,900 --> 01:08:37,967 when you have that attitude 863 01:08:38,033 --> 01:08:40,867 that we're not going to fix the universe forever. 864 01:08:48,667 --> 01:08:50,267 Our work is not for us. 865 01:08:50,333 --> 01:08:52,400 It's for people we don't know. 866 01:08:52,467 --> 01:08:54,000 It's for generations to come. 867 01:08:55,267 --> 01:08:59,700 And there is a kind of grace in that, 868 01:09:01,067 --> 01:09:06,533 because then you can let go of who you think you are 869 01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,600 and what's important. 870 01:09:08,667 --> 01:09:12,167 And all the things that are considered important today, 871 01:09:12,233 --> 01:09:18,200 almost without exception, will be trivia in 50 years, 872 01:09:18,267 --> 01:09:22,300 unnoticed, unremarked upon, meaningless. 873 01:09:22,367 --> 01:09:26,067 Except those efforts 874 01:09:26,133 --> 01:09:30,467 enjoined by people everywhere 875 01:09:31,467 --> 01:09:36,233 to reimagine what it means to be a human being on Earth 876 01:09:36,300 --> 01:09:40,667 and what it means to relate to each other in our place here. 877 01:09:48,267 --> 01:09:52,067 Each one of us, as individuals and as a global community, 878 01:09:52,133 --> 01:09:55,367 we have to live with a vision of interconnectedness. 879 01:09:55,467 --> 01:10:00,300 That vision has to be in our marrow. 880 01:10:02,033 --> 01:10:05,233 It's also a vision of compassion. 881 01:10:05,300 --> 01:10:09,033 It's compassion that is not directed just toward our in-group. 882 01:10:09,100 --> 01:10:14,800 It's to recognise that we're not separate from any being or thing. 883 01:10:16,767 --> 01:10:20,867 Whether it's mycelium or it's the aspen trees 884 01:10:20,933 --> 01:10:23,300 or whether it's our very atmosphere. 885 01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:29,367 There's a kind of non-separateness between those worlds, 886 01:10:29,433 --> 01:10:34,233 or those domains of existence and us, each one of us, as individuals. 887 01:10:37,733 --> 01:10:42,200 What we need is a dynamic social awareness. 888 01:10:44,967 --> 01:10:49,033 We need to recognise that what we do as individuals 889 01:10:49,100 --> 01:10:53,367 is connected to the fate of the planet and the fate of other people. 890 01:10:56,267 --> 01:10:59,967 So, if we consider, say, where our clothing comes from, 891 01:11:01,233 --> 01:11:05,567 we might act in a way to protect the lives of people who are making it, 892 01:11:07,567 --> 01:11:09,933 to recognise this interconnection, 893 01:11:10,733 --> 01:11:16,533 rather than to just sort of succumb to our isolation and our privilege. 894 01:11:19,667 --> 01:11:24,400 In order to see that interconnectedness you actually have to open to it, 895 01:11:24,967 --> 01:11:27,233 which means to be curious about the world. 896 01:11:29,933 --> 01:11:33,067 If you actually go and experience someone else's culture 897 01:11:33,133 --> 01:11:36,033 you can't help but connect to the humanity within them. 898 01:11:36,100 --> 01:11:37,333 It's not gonna be, 899 01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:39,642 "Oh, well, these people are poor and they're separate from me." 900 01:11:39,667 --> 01:11:42,147 If you're sitting back in your home, and you're watching on TV, 901 01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:43,600 yeah, it's easy to do that. 902 01:11:43,667 --> 01:11:45,475 But if you get out and you start interacting with people 903 01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:47,267 and you make friends with people, 904 01:11:47,333 --> 01:11:49,100 I think that's how real change happens. 905 01:11:49,167 --> 01:11:52,967 People have to get out and interact and spread that love. 906 01:11:53,033 --> 01:11:58,200 It's hard to not be empathetic and sympathetic to someone else's plight 907 01:11:58,267 --> 01:12:00,133 if you're in it with them and you're there 908 01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,533 and you see everyone as the same group of people. 909 01:12:05,067 --> 01:12:07,367 Scientists have finally proven it to be true 910 01:12:07,433 --> 01:12:10,667 something that anthropologists have always intuited to be correct, 911 01:12:10,733 --> 01:12:13,667 something that philosophers have always hoped to be true. 912 01:12:13,733 --> 01:12:17,133 And that is the fact that we're all literally brothers and sisters. 913 01:12:17,500 --> 01:12:20,633 We're all cut from the same genetic cloth. 914 01:12:20,700 --> 01:12:23,700 It means that, by definition, all human populations 915 01:12:23,767 --> 01:12:27,233 share the same raw genius, the same mental acuity, 916 01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:30,067 the same intellectual potential. 917 01:12:30,133 --> 01:12:32,333 And critically, what that means 918 01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:37,200 is that the other peoples of the world aren't failed attempts at being modern. 919 01:12:37,267 --> 01:12:42,200 Each culture is, by definition, a unique answer to a fundamental question. 920 01:12:42,267 --> 01:12:45,467 What does it mean to be human and alive? 921 01:12:45,533 --> 01:12:47,333 And when three thousand cultures 922 01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:50,533 or even more in the world answer that question, 923 01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:52,600 those voices, collectively, 924 01:12:52,667 --> 01:12:54,900 become our human repertoire 925 01:12:56,233 --> 01:12:58,067 for dealing with all of the challenges 926 01:12:58,167 --> 01:13:01,833 that will confront us as a species in the ensuing millennia. 927 01:13:14,067 --> 01:13:16,433 We are Earth beings. 928 01:13:16,533 --> 01:13:18,633 We are Earth kind. 929 01:13:19,700 --> 01:13:25,967 We have been gifted with this extraordinarily magnificent planet. 930 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,500 That gift takes a lifetime to understand. 931 01:13:30,567 --> 01:13:32,000 And even then, 932 01:13:32,067 --> 01:13:33,108 Mary Evelyn Tucker PHILOSOPHER AND ECOLOGIST 933 01:13:33,133 --> 01:13:34,833 we're in the face of mystery. 934 01:13:39,333 --> 01:13:42,300 I think the urgency of our moment 935 01:13:42,367 --> 01:13:46,733 calls us to be in awe 936 01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,933 of this beautiful, blue-green planet. 937 01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:51,833 There's nothing like it that we know of. 938 01:13:55,867 --> 01:14:00,600 When you're looking at the world from a great height, 939 01:14:00,667 --> 01:14:06,533 you don't see those lines on the map that we all learn when we're children, 940 01:14:07,533 --> 01:14:10,667 and you see the world that's spinning. 941 01:14:11,833 --> 01:14:14,333 So, if you stay in one point, relative, 942 01:14:14,400 --> 01:14:17,733 you will see the entire world pass beneath you. 943 01:14:19,833 --> 01:14:24,933 This is our field of practise to me. The whole world. 944 01:14:29,767 --> 01:14:31,233 Everything is giving 945 01:14:32,533 --> 01:14:34,600 and it's giving without borders. 946 01:14:35,833 --> 01:14:41,533 It's giving without separation of my tribe, your tribe. 947 01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,333 There's no chosen people. 948 01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:50,233 We're all chosen. 949 01:14:52,167 --> 01:14:57,233 And once you look at the spinning planet, 950 01:14:57,300 --> 01:14:59,567 you realise it's all holy. 951 01:15:15,833 --> 01:15:21,267 We have a lot of solutions that are already present across the planet. 952 01:15:22,333 --> 01:15:25,133 But I think at the heart of this 953 01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:29,567 is a deepening sense of awe and wonder 954 01:15:30,567 --> 01:15:34,833 at the beauty and astounding, 955 01:15:34,900 --> 01:15:38,800 infinitely astounding complexity in which we live. 956 01:15:40,833 --> 01:15:43,500 What is required 957 01:15:43,567 --> 01:15:48,900 is the intrinsic value of nature is known to all of us, 958 01:15:48,967 --> 01:15:54,267 from a child to an adult, through the window of wonder. 959 01:15:54,867 --> 01:15:57,633 That's what we need more than anything. 960 01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,633 I think that that state of awe is highly instructive. 961 01:16:05,700 --> 01:16:09,867 And it remains unexamined for us in modern culture, 962 01:16:09,933 --> 01:16:13,667 because we dismiss it as a childlike response to the world. 963 01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:18,633 It's not. It's the doorway to a kind of peace 964 01:16:18,700 --> 01:16:21,200 and an opening through which 965 01:16:21,867 --> 01:16:25,267 I hope an undreamed-of politics, 966 01:16:25,333 --> 01:16:27,933 an undreamed-of level of co-operation, 967 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,467 an undreamed-of level of reconciliation, is possible. 968 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:51,867 What instantly 969 01:16:53,833 --> 01:16:56,167 touches the heart-mind 970 01:16:59,233 --> 01:17:02,233 and it's sudden and you can count on it, 971 01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:10,067 it's like the kiss of the universe, and that's to glimpse its beauty. 972 01:17:12,500 --> 01:17:13,933 It doesn't take long. 973 01:17:14,967 --> 01:17:16,967 It doesn't take an argument. 974 01:17:19,100 --> 01:17:20,867 You're just stripped 975 01:17:21,867 --> 01:17:26,767 of all your explanations and all your notions 976 01:17:26,833 --> 01:17:32,267 of who and what you want to be as an achieving individual 977 01:17:32,333 --> 01:17:35,133 and then you're just hit. 978 01:17:39,900 --> 01:17:42,800 And you're struck with such a gladness of that beauty 979 01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,400 and the originality of it 980 01:17:48,700 --> 01:17:50,933 that you don't have time to think about 981 01:17:52,433 --> 01:17:54,300 how is it going to turn out. 982 01:17:56,167 --> 01:17:58,100 All you know is you'll serve it 983 01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:00,667 to the last breath. 984 01:18:27,100 --> 01:18:33,833 RECONNECT TO SOMETHING BIGGER