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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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30 seconds and counting.

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Astronauts report it feels good.

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T-minus 25 seconds.

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20 seconds and counting.

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T-minus 15 seconds.

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Guidance is internal.

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12, 11, 10, 9--

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ignition sequence starts--

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6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero.

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All engines running.

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Lift off!

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We have a lift off, 32
minutes past the hour.

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Lift off on Apollo 11.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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The first moment that I realized
I wanted to be an astronaut

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was the day where I, as a
young boy, along with millions

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and millions of people
around the globe,

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watched those first
footsteps on the moon.

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One giant leap for mankind.

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I realized that
humanity had just

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become a different species.

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We were no longer a species
confined to our planet.

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That's what I wanted
to do, I wanted

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to be part of that exploration.

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I wanted to be part of
that group of people that

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stepped off the planet
and was able to look back

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upon ourselves.

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As a child, I assumed that
I would go into space.

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We were trying to get to the
moon, the whole Apollo program,

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and it seemed like we had
this momentum moving forward.

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And I assumed I would
be a part of it.

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The first time I went
into space it was 2008,

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I flew on space
shuttle Discovery.

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It was really an incredible
day, it was almost surrealistic.

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I remember leaving
the crew quarters

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and boarding the
astro van, you know,

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waving to everybody
as we stepped out.

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And we get out to the
launch pad and it was really

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a spectacular sight.

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When you watch a space
shuttle launch on TV,

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it looks like you see
all this white smoke

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and then, eventually,
this space shuttle

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just slowly, gradually rises
out of the smoke and heads up.

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But what it felt like,
is it felt like we

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were on the end of a slingshot.

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And when those solid
rocket boosters fire,

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you realize you are
going somewhere.

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And that somebody just let go of
that slingshot, and off you go.

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The shuttle has
cleared the tower.

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That was a really
amazing experience.

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And that first
day, that first day

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in space, the most
spectacular moment

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was when you look out the
window for the first time.

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When you are able to
unstrap out of your seat,

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your tasks are over, and
you get to really take

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a look at our planet is just
absolutely breathtaking to see

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that.

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It is just an incredible view.

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I looked down at this
planet, at our Earth.

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And you see this thin,
shimmering layer of blue light

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that's our atmosphere
that sustains us.

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It almost seems like it
irridesces from within.

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What's really
amazing and beautiful

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is watching this line
slowly pass across the Earth

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below us, something that you
can't see from the Earth.

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And watching all the evidence of
human activity, all of a sudden

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come alive, as we pass into
the dark side of the orbit.

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We flew so close to
dancing curtains of auroras

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that we felt like we could
reach out and touch them.

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There's so many just
absolutely breathtaking things.

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The really wonderful
thing that happened to me

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when I was in space
was this feeling

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of belonging to the
entire universe.

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I actually didn't
think, Here's this Earth

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and that's the only
thing I belong to.

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I actually imagine
myself in a star system

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10,000 light years away, and
I felt I also belong there.

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You know, we're as much a part
of this universe as any speck

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of stardust, any asteroid--

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we're part of this universe.

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On the third
spacewalk that we did,

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I was strapped to the end of
the space station's robotic arm

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and was flown through a
big maneuver across the top

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of the space station and back.

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So at the top of this
arc, I was looking down

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at the space station
against the backdrop

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of the indescribably beautiful
Earth 250 miles below.

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And it took my breath away.

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I was filled with awe.

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If we can do this, if nations
can join together and do

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this amazing thing
in space, imagine

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what we can do to overcome the
challenges facing our planet.

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But the other side
of that is we have

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this incredibly beautiful,
peaceful, fragile planet

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from space that you can't help
but think about the unfortunate

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realities of life on our planet
for a significant portion

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of those inhabitants.

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The real issue is how do we
operate here on this planet.

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There is a story
that comes from India

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that says that once
upon a time, humans

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had the godhead in themselves.

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But we behaved so badly
that the Gods decided

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to take it away from us.

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And so they were
trying to figure out

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where to hide it so that
humans would find it.

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One said, Let's put it at
the bottom of the ocean,

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they'll never find it there.

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And everybody said, You
know, one day humans

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will get to the
bottom of the ocean,

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and they'll find it there.

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Another said, Let's put it
in the skies and the heavens.

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And they said, No, humans
will fly that far one day,

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and they'll find it.

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And then Brahma said, I
know where to hide it.

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Let's put it inside
of humans themselves,

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because they'll never
think to look for it there.

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We have to look inside of
ourselves to figure this out.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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One of the truly extraordinary
events of the 20th century

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was space travel.

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And by that, I don't
simply mean the fact

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that we went to the
moon and came back,

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but that this gave us a
totally different perspective

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on the Earth.

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A totally different
understanding about who we are.

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The history of human life
on the planet, in one sense,

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is a history of wandering.

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A history of leaving home.

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Humans spread out of Africa
to eventually inhabit

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every continent of the planet.

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So in that sense, humans became
planetary 40,000 years ago.

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But they didn't know that
they existed on the planet.

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With the Apollo mission, we had
a kind of visceral experience

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where individuals
were able to see

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the whole planet from space.

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And through our technology
the rest of us could see it.

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I think the first time we got
that picture of the Earth,

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we were seeing our home
in a much bigger context.

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It was no longer the
house we lived in,

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or the village, or the country.

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Suddenly we were seeing this is
home in a much larger context.

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It became a symbol for
many, many things--

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the environmental movement,
the whole global thinking

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that's happening.

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In the past, we could
have individual community

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national destinies.

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The one thing that it
did for me was just

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brought home the fact
that we are one species,

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on a single planet,
with a common destiny.

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To identify ourselves as
part of the human species,

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that's really the identity
shift, right, of ourselves

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as a single species
on this planet.

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We realized that there was
a subset of the teeming

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life on that planet
called humans,

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and that you were far
enough away to not

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see our differences, right?

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You could almost see us as
one people, as one population.

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I spent half of 2011 on
board the International Space

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Station.

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And during that time,
I got into a routine

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where I would almost say
goodnight to the Earth.

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I would go to the cupola, which
is the windowed observatory

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on the bottom of
the space station,

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and I would just
gaze at the Earth.

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One of the really interesting
things about a long duration

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spaceflight is you get to
watch the Earth transform

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over the weeks and the
months that you're up there.

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You get to watch the ice
break up, the seasons change.

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And from that perspective,
the perspective over time,

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you really get the sense that
we have this living, breathing

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organism hanging in
the blackness of space

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that's riding
through the universe.

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Very early on, the astronauts
looked at the whole of Earth

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and this feeling came that it
was one single living system.

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I think that was part of
the shift that happened.

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And it's interesting that
came at the same time

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as Jim Lovelock was thinking
about his Gaia hypothesis.

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The idea that all the different
creatures, the oceans,

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atmosphere, soil--

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were sort of working together.

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Which, throughout the
history of life on Earth,

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had kept the optimum conditions
for evolution to continue.

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When he looked at
the Earth, he saw

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this was exactly
what was happening.

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And so he put forth the idea
that the whole planet is

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like one single living system.

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If you imagine the
famous Earthrise picture,

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these first images of the
Earth that the Apollo missions

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were taking from space.

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We normally think of it as
an astronaut in a spaceship,

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looking from outside
of Earth at the Earth.

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More fundamentally,
however, these images

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are the Earth looking
at itself through us.

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In other words, the
first images from space

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are a critical moment in
the emerging awakening

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of the Earth.

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So we look at those first images
that came back from space.

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It's important for
us to understand

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that those are is out of date
now as my high school yearbook

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picture is.

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I mean, you look at
the summer Arctic,

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and there's 40% less ice on it.

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You look at those vast oceans,
and they're 30% more acid

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than they were 40 years ago.

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It's hard for us to take in both
the kind of beauty and majesty

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and to understand
the vulnerability

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and fragility of those systems.

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Clearly, the basic, most
fundamental physical problem

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that we face is this
exploding fountain of carbon

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into the atmosphere,
warming the planet.

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And that comes from the fact
that fossil fuel radically

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transformed our set
of possibilities,

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beginning 300 years ago.

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We're at the point where
we know that humans

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have impacted the planet.

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That was something that
we didn't think about 200,

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300 years ago, we weren't
having that kind of impact.

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We know we can affect the world.

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We are traversing a terrain
which we, as a species

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and as a planet overall,
have not seen before.

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We are facing an
ecological crisis

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that has the capacity
to tremendously alter

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life on Earth.

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We don't know what will
happen if major parts

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of the web of life disappear.

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Every species that
exists on the planet

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has been coaxed into
existence over the 4.4 billion

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year history of the Earth.

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So literally, it's
taken the entire history

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of cosmic evolution
to bring forth

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the diversity and complexity of
the biosphere that we have now.

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When I look back
on my life, there

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were certain crucial moments
that changed me forever.

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One of them was the
discovery that we

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are in the midst of
a mass extinction.

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At the present time, there are
perhaps 10 million species.

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And species come and go, but
in mass extinction moments

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species begin to be
extinguished in droves.

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In our moment,
thousands of species

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are disappearing every year.

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Back in the 1980s, there was a
conference at the Smithsonian.

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And they made an
announcement that we

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were in the middle of
this mass extinction, that

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quite simply there had
never been a moment more

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destructive in the last 65
million years than our moment.

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I mean, it was just so
colossal, so depressing.

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And so I couldn't sleep that
night, I don't know what to do.

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It just really affected me.

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The next morning, I went out
and I bought The New York Times.

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And the announcement
of this mass extinction

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was on page 26 of
The New York Times.

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So that means that we, humans,
found 25 pages of news items

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more important than
the elimination of life

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on the planet Earth.

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In that moment, I
realized that something

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was profoundly wrong with
our human civilization

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for eliminating life.

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For our media for not reporting
it, then forgetting about it.

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For our political system for
not doing something about it.

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What is it that pulls our
awareness away from sitting

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with the pain of
what we have done

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and are doing to this planet?

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Of what we have done and
are doing to each other?

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That is so destructive.

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Today, we have not only
an ecological crisis

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and various economic
crises, but we also

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have a kind of story crisis.

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That is to say, there
is something very wrong

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about the way that
we understand who

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we are and our relationship
with the Earth.

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When we look back
at human history,

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every culture organizes itself
around a fundamental story.

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We can pretend we're
living without a story,

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but if we stop and really think
about it and ask ourselves,

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What's the way in which
I organize my life?

00:21:01.892 --> 00:21:06.329
How do I find meaning in
my day-to-day activities?

00:21:06.329 --> 00:21:11.760
You'll start to see that there's
actually a story behind that.

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So story is, I think, the most
essential organizing power

00:21:16.780 --> 00:21:18.396
within the human experience.

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Ever since we grew
these big brains,

00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:34.500
we've been asking ourselves
this fundamental question,

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Where did we come from?

00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:37.810
What are we doing here?

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What is life in this
universe all about?

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And we've come up with some
pretty fantastic stories

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to answer those big questions--
heavens, and hells, and gods,

00:21:49.750 --> 00:21:52.780
and demons.

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And humans became so arrogant.

00:21:56.200 --> 00:21:58.510
We believe the entire
universe was made just

00:21:58.510 --> 00:22:02.530
for us, for the
education and liberation

00:22:02.530 --> 00:22:03.880
of our individual souls.

00:22:08.100 --> 00:22:10.410
That somehow we
weren't connected,

00:22:10.410 --> 00:22:13.300
we were specially
created and we're

00:22:13.300 --> 00:22:16.280
separate from all the rest.

00:22:16.280 --> 00:22:19.570
Those are totally dysfunctional
stories right now.

00:22:35.350 --> 00:22:37.390
The world into
which you were born

00:22:37.390 --> 00:22:39.832
doesn't exist in
some absolute sense,

00:22:39.832 --> 00:22:41.290
but it's just one
model of reality.

00:22:44.202 --> 00:22:46.160
The interesting thing is
not to say who's right

00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:49.880
and who's wrong, but to
look at how different belief

00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:53.690
systems mediate the
relationship between humanity

00:22:53.690 --> 00:22:56.270
and the natural
world with profoundly

00:22:56.270 --> 00:22:59.598
different consequences, in terms
of the ecological footprint.

00:23:18.040 --> 00:23:20.980
Every other culture in
the history of the planet

00:23:20.980 --> 00:23:23.920
has told stories that they were
embedded in nature, that they

00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:26.650
were connected to nature,
that nature was their mother,

00:23:26.650 --> 00:23:30.700
was their father, was the
source of their existence.

00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:33.430
We've told stories that
we're separate from nature,

00:23:33.430 --> 00:23:35.650
that we're superior to
nature, that we walk around

00:23:35.650 --> 00:23:38.140
on top of nature.

00:23:38.140 --> 00:23:42.170
When we look at our politics,
when we look at our economics,

00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:44.920
we see that they're based on
this separation between humans

00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:45.730
and the Earth.

00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:48.850
And I think that
sense of alienation

00:23:48.850 --> 00:23:50.440
has led us to
desecrate the Earth.

00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:58.920
Every culture, every
people, has a worldview.

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We all have a place
that we come from.

00:24:00.830 --> 00:24:06.050
We all have our ways, we
all have our practices.

00:24:06.050 --> 00:24:10.310
We all have our creation
stories, our cosmologies.

00:24:15.830 --> 00:24:19.450
The worldview that
we currently exist in

00:24:19.450 --> 00:24:20.750
is the dominant paradigm.

00:24:23.534 --> 00:24:26.980
It places human
beings above all else.

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:32.850
It views the rest of the planet,
it views all other beings

00:24:32.850 --> 00:24:36.930
as resources that
are to be acquired,

00:24:36.930 --> 00:24:38.595
resources that are to be used.

00:24:47.750 --> 00:24:50.150
And for that
worldview to continue

00:24:50.150 --> 00:24:56.960
to persist and to thrive, it
has to ignore the destruction.

00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:01.100
In fact, it has to
put us all to sleep.

00:25:01.100 --> 00:25:03.500
Because if this
worldview were to face

00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:14.790
the truth of what we
have put into motion,

00:25:14.790 --> 00:25:16.410
it would collapse on itself.

00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:22.057
If we look at the
ecological crisis,

00:25:22.057 --> 00:25:23.640
and if we look at
the economic crisis,

00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:27.990
I think we can ultimately see
them as rooted in those stories

00:25:27.990 --> 00:25:30.510
that you've got to keep
growing, keep expanding.

00:25:30.510 --> 00:25:34.510
Because if you don't do
it, somebody else will.

00:25:34.510 --> 00:25:40.030
There are pressures to keep
this economic juggernaut moving.

00:25:40.030 --> 00:25:42.310
All, I think, based
upon this ultimate story

00:25:42.310 --> 00:25:45.725
of economic growth and success.

00:25:45.725 --> 00:25:47.100
What we're doing,
it seems to me,

00:25:47.100 --> 00:25:50.700
is trying to control the
conditions of our existence

00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:54.660
on this Earth, trying to mold
everything into a resource

00:25:54.660 --> 00:25:57.630
that we can use.

00:25:57.630 --> 00:26:01.770
Given this obsession with
never-ending economic and

00:26:01.770 --> 00:26:04.410
technological growth,
it seems inevitable

00:26:04.410 --> 00:26:06.120
that sooner or
later, we're going

00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:10.140
to bump up against the limits
of the biosphere, of the planet.

00:26:10.140 --> 00:26:12.570
And it seems like it's
starting to happen now.

00:26:21.350 --> 00:26:23.510
There has to be
a part of us that

00:26:23.510 --> 00:26:26.210
knows the Earth is in pain.

00:26:29.970 --> 00:26:36.490
That what brought us forth
is, in some sense, dying.

00:26:36.490 --> 00:26:39.160
And our mainstream
narrative, it's

00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:44.140
to allow us to feel
numb, to cut us off

00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:46.630
from that inherent
intuitive sense

00:26:46.630 --> 00:26:49.630
that something is really
wrong in how we're relating

00:26:49.630 --> 00:26:52.160
to this only home of ours.

00:27:09.610 --> 00:27:12.700
One of the problems
that we face is

00:27:12.700 --> 00:27:14.710
that we haven't
done a very good job

00:27:14.710 --> 00:27:20.110
of remembering what makes us
human and what makes us happy.

00:27:20.110 --> 00:27:23.710
The average American is
significantly less happy

00:27:23.710 --> 00:27:28.240
on surveys than they
were 50 or 60 years ago.

00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:30.190
Even though our
standard of living has,

00:27:30.190 --> 00:27:35.020
theoretically, tripled
over that time.

00:27:35.020 --> 00:27:37.660
And the reason is
that we've gotten out

00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:40.780
of touch with each other.

00:27:40.780 --> 00:27:43.840
Americans spent
the last 50 years

00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:47.020
embarked on a project of
building bigger houses farther

00:27:47.020 --> 00:27:50.260
apart from each other.

00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:54.250
That has had not only huge
environmental consequences--

00:27:54.250 --> 00:27:59.570
you have to heat, and cool,
and drive between these places.

00:27:59.570 --> 00:28:01.700
It's also had deep
social consequences.

00:28:01.700 --> 00:28:04.190
You run into people a lot less.

00:28:04.190 --> 00:28:08.060
The average American has
half as many close friends

00:28:08.060 --> 00:28:11.220
as they would have 50 years ago.

00:28:11.220 --> 00:28:14.465
That's a very big change for
a socially evolved primate.

00:28:24.090 --> 00:28:27.070
If we were to walk
down the street

00:28:27.070 --> 00:28:31.720
and ask somebody in a way that
went straight to their hearts,

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:35.360
What is it that you want?

00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:37.650
They would say-- many of them--

00:28:37.650 --> 00:28:39.740
intimacy.

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:43.340
I want to be intimate
with the world,

00:28:43.340 --> 00:28:47.330
and I want someone to
be intimate with me.

00:28:47.330 --> 00:28:51.950
That means I want a
congress of some sort.

00:28:51.950 --> 00:28:55.510
I want to be part of something.

00:28:55.510 --> 00:28:58.060
Every traditional culture
I have sat down and had

00:28:58.060 --> 00:29:01.030
the opportunity to
frame the question with,

00:29:01.030 --> 00:29:02.950
when I've said, What's
the one word that comes

00:29:02.950 --> 00:29:06.020
to mind about Western culture?

00:29:06.020 --> 00:29:09.105
The word I hear most
often is lonely.

00:29:09.105 --> 00:29:11.860
You people are really lonely.

00:29:11.860 --> 00:29:15.690
You've designed
something that has

00:29:15.690 --> 00:29:19.140
taken the notion of
the individual so far,

00:29:19.140 --> 00:29:22.260
you've cut yourself off
from everything else.

00:29:22.260 --> 00:29:25.760
And you've created a landscape
of desperately lonely people.

00:29:30.060 --> 00:29:33.910
More than the
environment itself,

00:29:33.910 --> 00:29:37.620
what we're losing
most dramatically

00:29:37.620 --> 00:29:42.880
is our own connection, our
intimate connection to nature.

00:29:46.540 --> 00:29:49.870
Our own sense of ourselves
that we've forgotten and become

00:29:49.870 --> 00:29:52.750
so distanced from.

00:29:57.320 --> 00:30:00.080
I see people dashing
all over the place.

00:30:02.715 --> 00:30:07.541
I think, We're racing
all over, but for what?

00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:14.855
I remember one elder told me,
he said, You all have watches,

00:30:14.855 --> 00:30:16.432
but you have no time.

00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:23.930
And I stopped and
had to take that in,

00:30:23.930 --> 00:30:27.260
because I find
myself doing that.

00:30:27.260 --> 00:30:29.480
I'm racing to airports,
I'm racing to meetings,

00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:31.040
I'm racing through email.

00:30:31.040 --> 00:30:34.370
I am racing through my life,
but not necessarily living.

00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:43.130
The greatest wound of
modernity is the idea

00:30:43.130 --> 00:30:49.860
that we are other than life or
that nature is other than us.

00:30:49.860 --> 00:30:52.350
And we are brought
up thinking that.

00:30:52.350 --> 00:30:54.180
We're in classrooms
cut off from nature,

00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:57.720
looking outside the window at
it and studying it in textbooks.

00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.400
Our upbringing in our
houses, and the way we dress,

00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:04.830
and the way we lived, and
the way we cut ourselves off

00:31:04.830 --> 00:31:10.840
was as if nature was out there--
a threat, not very friendly.

00:31:10.840 --> 00:31:15.980
That wound, that deep,
deep wound is such a loss.

00:31:25.910 --> 00:31:30.200
A lot of people,
if they see grass

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:32.810
in the crack of
the sidewalk, that

00:31:32.810 --> 00:31:36.950
may be the only
other living thing

00:31:36.950 --> 00:31:41.790
that they see hour upon hour.

00:31:41.790 --> 00:31:45.870
And most of us live in cities
now and are very separate.

00:31:45.870 --> 00:31:54.690
It becomes easy to forget
that you're kin with a living

00:31:54.690 --> 00:31:58.710
planet, that you're part
of a living planet when

00:31:58.710 --> 00:32:00.220
you don't see it much.

00:32:02.730 --> 00:32:09.090
It's as if we're living in a
museum curated by someone who's

00:32:09.090 --> 00:32:12.270
decided to not let
any natural objects

00:32:12.270 --> 00:32:14.028
in for some reason, right?

00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:24.640
It doesn't take much to go
back into the natural world

00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:27.990
and go, Oh, now I remember.

00:32:32.510 --> 00:32:35.920
I work with people all day
long and I bring them outside.

00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:40.930
I watch them eventually
get back in touch

00:32:40.930 --> 00:32:44.800
with their evolutionary
kin, they're

00:32:44.800 --> 00:32:47.410
back in a natural setting.

00:32:47.410 --> 00:32:50.410
It's like putting
water on a dried plant.

00:32:57.170 --> 00:33:00.330
At a certain point being
in that natural setting,

00:33:00.330 --> 00:33:02.330
and we talk about, Are
you separate from nature?

00:33:02.330 --> 00:33:04.640
Of course, they say no.

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.720
Of course not,
no, I'm back home.

00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:14.516
But 40 hours from now, you
know, they're in their cube.

00:33:14.516 --> 00:33:18.660
And they get on their elevator,
and they go down to the subway,

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:21.150
and they get on a
tube and travel.

00:33:21.150 --> 00:33:25.960
And of course there's
that disconnection.

00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:48.570
For either a human being or
a social system to change,

00:33:48.570 --> 00:33:51.600
the old system has
to stop working.

00:33:51.600 --> 00:33:54.810
Life as usual has
to stop working,

00:33:54.810 --> 00:33:59.390
normal has to become
unsustainable.

00:33:59.390 --> 00:34:01.610
Everything that has
worked for hundreds

00:34:01.610 --> 00:34:04.895
of years, our way of
looking at the world--

00:34:04.895 --> 00:34:08.580
the ideology of growth,
of mastering nature,

00:34:08.580 --> 00:34:11.105
of conquering nature, the
technologies of control--

00:34:14.389 --> 00:34:16.429
all of these things are
coming into question.

00:34:19.540 --> 00:34:23.120
So part of making
this transition

00:34:23.120 --> 00:34:29.690
is to begin experimenting
with new ways of doing things.

00:34:29.690 --> 00:34:31.949
In other words, to plant
the seeds of a new story.

00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:43.460
The kind of intelligence we
need is not data but narrative.

00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:46.880
How do you put all these
disparate pieces together

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:56.730
in a structure that has
direction, momentum, promise?

00:34:56.730 --> 00:35:03.410
So the question for me is not
just do we need a new story,

00:35:03.410 --> 00:35:06.576
but do we need a new
way of telling a story?

00:35:12.054 --> 00:35:14.890
There are three
stories, actually,

00:35:14.890 --> 00:35:22.910
that we have to choose from to
make sense of our lives now,

00:35:22.910 --> 00:35:26.870
to make sense of our world.

00:35:26.870 --> 00:35:29.875
The first story is
business as usual.

00:35:32.660 --> 00:35:39.160
All we need to do
is grow our economy,

00:35:39.160 --> 00:35:41.920
so I call that the
Industrial Growth Society.

00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:51.150
But there's another story,
which is seen and accepted

00:35:51.150 --> 00:35:56.420
as the reality by the
scientists and the activists.

00:35:56.420 --> 00:35:59.970
When I lift back
the carpet, look

00:35:59.970 --> 00:36:03.510
under the rug of the
business as usual

00:36:03.510 --> 00:36:08.141
and see what it's costing us,
it's costing us the world.

00:36:11.510 --> 00:36:15.390
We call that story
the Great Unraveling.

00:36:15.390 --> 00:36:19.890
Unraveling is what
biological, and ecological,

00:36:19.890 --> 00:36:23.830
and organic systems do.

00:36:23.830 --> 00:36:27.195
As diversity is
lost, they shred.

00:36:29.890 --> 00:36:32.490
That's not the end
of the story, though,

00:36:32.490 --> 00:36:35.700
because there's
another narrative,

00:36:35.700 --> 00:36:42.230
another lens through which
we can choose to see.

00:36:42.230 --> 00:36:47.580
And that is that a
revolution is taking place.

00:36:47.580 --> 00:36:52.680
A transition from the industrial
growth society to a life

00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:59.040
sustaining society, and
it's taking many forms.

00:36:59.040 --> 00:37:05.045
This third story, the
great turning, but it's

00:37:05.045 --> 00:37:07.914
got huge evolutionary
pressures behind it.

00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:22.140
Any species, any life system
which develops technology

00:37:22.140 --> 00:37:25.530
is going to go through
a similar crisis to us.

00:37:25.530 --> 00:37:28.590
Because as soon as you
start developing technology,

00:37:28.590 --> 00:37:32.010
you're going to fall into
this phase of evolution

00:37:32.010 --> 00:37:35.250
where you start
changing the world.

00:37:35.250 --> 00:37:38.880
And the awareness has got
to catch up with that,

00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.690
you've got to then gain the
wisdom, the understanding,

00:37:42.690 --> 00:37:45.180
the true intelligence
to know how

00:37:45.180 --> 00:37:48.020
to manage that technology
without destroying

00:37:48.020 --> 00:37:49.620
your habitat.

00:37:49.620 --> 00:37:52.620
So I see this phase
that we're in right now,

00:37:52.620 --> 00:37:56.010
which has come to a
head in our generation,

00:37:56.010 --> 00:37:59.550
is probably inevitable on
any planetary system which

00:37:59.550 --> 00:38:05.800
develops an intelligent
tool-using species.

00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:11.230
And if it doesn't
destroy itself,

00:38:11.230 --> 00:38:14.260
any species which has
come through this phase

00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:17.720
has got to have let go of
this egocentric, materialistic

00:38:17.720 --> 00:38:18.732
consciousness.

00:38:42.348 --> 00:38:46.760
The sense of separation
that all of us

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:50.561
usually feel, the feeling
that there's a me inside here

00:38:50.561 --> 00:38:51.060
somewhere.

00:38:51.060 --> 00:38:53.450
Maybe behind the eyes,
inside the ears--

00:38:53.450 --> 00:38:59.620
looking out at you or an
objective external world.

00:38:59.620 --> 00:39:04.820
This sense of separation is
not real, it's a delusion.

00:39:04.820 --> 00:39:06.740
Or in more contemporary
terms, it's

00:39:06.740 --> 00:39:09.848
a psychological and
social construct.

00:39:16.490 --> 00:39:19.004
We can be very selfish
as a human being.

00:39:22.140 --> 00:39:26.600
And this, of course,
has to do with the fact

00:39:26.600 --> 00:39:31.730
that we have to survive
as a human species.

00:39:31.730 --> 00:39:37.010
And sometimes, the ego has a
role in this human existence.

00:39:40.410 --> 00:39:46.320
That's how we survived, and
also our ancestors, our parents,

00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:50.040
taught some or another that we
have to be a little bit selfish

00:39:50.040 --> 00:39:51.780
in order to survive.

00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:57.060
And that is the part of
the old consciousness.

00:39:57.060 --> 00:40:00.360
The sense of a separate
self is not only a delusion,

00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:04.560
but it's a delusion that
causes suffering, anxiety.

00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:06.330
This deluded sense
of a separate self

00:40:06.330 --> 00:40:11.310
is always going to be
haunted by the sense of lack,

00:40:11.310 --> 00:40:13.150
sense of insufficiency.

00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:15.150
The feeling that something
isn't right about me,

00:40:15.150 --> 00:40:15.941
something is wrong.

00:40:20.370 --> 00:40:24.030
We misunderstand the problem
is outside ourselves.

00:40:24.030 --> 00:40:26.700
I feel something is wrong,
something isn't right.

00:40:26.700 --> 00:40:29.970
It must be that I don't have
enough of this out here,

00:40:29.970 --> 00:40:32.100
or I have to solve this problem.

00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:48.010
The whole drive
of Western society

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:50.920
with commodification
and consumerism

00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:55.630
is buy this, get
this, own this--

00:40:55.630 --> 00:40:58.630
and that sense of
lack, that sense

00:40:58.630 --> 00:41:05.080
that you have that something
is missing, will disappear.

00:41:05.080 --> 00:41:09.010
And of course, we know
from our own experience,

00:41:09.010 --> 00:41:12.430
it don't work like that.

00:41:12.430 --> 00:41:14.680
There will always be
something incomplete,

00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:19.160
and it's bottomless.

00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:20.970
Once you engage in
that project, it's

00:41:20.970 --> 00:41:24.870
like you're digging in
one hole and tossing

00:41:24.870 --> 00:41:26.910
the dirt in another.

00:41:26.910 --> 00:41:28.320
And you'll be
doing that forever.

00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:37.140
So what's the solution to this?

00:41:37.140 --> 00:41:38.700
Is it returning to nature?

00:41:44.090 --> 00:41:47.300
Well, we can't return to nature
because if we really understand

00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:49.504
it, we've never left it.

00:41:49.504 --> 00:41:52.913
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

00:42:10.614 --> 00:42:12.030
We don't need to
return to nature,

00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:14.872
but we do need to realize
the sense in which we

00:42:14.872 --> 00:42:15.830
are embedded in nature.

00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:23.630
It's a kind of
optical delusion where

00:42:23.630 --> 00:42:26.400
we feel like we're the
center of the universe.

00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:29.360
And that's not the case at all.

00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:32.180
Even to lift our
eyes to the sky,

00:42:32.180 --> 00:42:35.570
we can see this Earth is not
the center of the universe.

00:42:35.570 --> 00:42:39.350
But at the same time, if we
lift our own internal eyes

00:42:39.350 --> 00:42:43.250
into our own experience, we
realize that we, ourselves,

00:42:43.250 --> 00:42:48.310
are living in a world,
or universe, or reality

00:42:48.310 --> 00:42:53.120
that is characterized
by interrelationality.

00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:56.630
We begin to see that, in
fact, what I thought was

00:42:56.630 --> 00:42:58.200
myself was not myself at all.

00:43:06.300 --> 00:43:07.860
Central to that
is that the Earth

00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:10.970
is seen as a living system.

00:43:10.970 --> 00:43:16.130
A living being where everything
we are and can ever be

00:43:16.130 --> 00:43:23.690
is dependent upon this great,
verdant, fertile, sensitive,

00:43:23.690 --> 00:43:27.254
intricately interwoven
web of life.

00:43:44.160 --> 00:43:47.100
So now we're starting to
look through deep time

00:43:47.100 --> 00:43:50.190
at how this universe
was created.

00:43:50.190 --> 00:43:53.580
I mean, fantastic
tools and analysis

00:43:53.580 --> 00:43:55.260
that we've come
up with has shown

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:58.710
us a whole different
picture of who we are.

00:44:01.530 --> 00:44:03.660
First of all, that
we are intertwined

00:44:03.660 --> 00:44:06.240
with all and everything.

00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:08.880
We now know that we are
related to all the life that's

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.860
ever lived.

00:44:10.860 --> 00:44:13.975
The story of evolution is
everybody's autobiography.

00:44:18.250 --> 00:44:21.890
Approximately 13.7 billion
years ago, the universe

00:44:21.890 --> 00:44:25.430
exploded into existence
in a tremendous burst

00:44:25.430 --> 00:44:28.650
of pure energy.

00:44:28.650 --> 00:44:32.190
We come from that original
flaring forth of the universe,

00:44:32.190 --> 00:44:34.140
we come from that origin moment.

00:44:34.140 --> 00:44:37.560
And we are connected to
this seamless unfolding

00:44:37.560 --> 00:44:43.350
process that has taken place
over these 13 billion years--

00:44:43.350 --> 00:44:47.340
from the original fireball,
to the galaxies, to the stars,

00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:51.900
to the planets, to Earth, to
oceans, life, consciousness,

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:54.770
and humanity.

00:44:54.770 --> 00:44:59.030
So we are part of an
unfolding evolutionary process

00:44:59.030 --> 00:45:04.360
that includes all beings and
is 100 billion galaxies wide.

00:45:07.110 --> 00:45:10.980
We've been on planet Earth
as humans for 200,000 years.

00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:15.860
And this is the first moment
when we have a common story.

00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:19.055
And the story of the
birth of the universe,

00:45:19.055 --> 00:45:22.720
the story of the development
of our planet Earth.

00:45:22.720 --> 00:45:26.560
That is now bubbling up
in human consciousness.

00:45:30.020 --> 00:45:34.760
We are all parts of the great
circulation that constitutes

00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:39.460
the Earth and its ecosystems.

00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:44.410
The air, the water, the
food that comes into me

00:45:44.410 --> 00:45:46.360
and then passes out of me.

00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:51.590
This is embedded, this is part
of this larger circulation.

00:45:51.590 --> 00:45:56.510
We know on the most basic level
that the air that we breathe,

00:45:56.510 --> 00:45:59.870
the oxygen in that air, we're
dependent upon the plants

00:45:59.870 --> 00:46:01.200
for that.

00:46:01.200 --> 00:46:05.210
And likewise, the plant world
is dependent upon the carbon

00:46:05.210 --> 00:46:07.308
dioxide that we breathe out.

00:46:10.900 --> 00:46:15.320
One of the ways
to understand life

00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.960
is to just look at
ourselves, our own body.

00:46:20.960 --> 00:46:23.180
It is estimated that
our body consists

00:46:23.180 --> 00:46:25.250
of only 10% human cells.

00:46:25.250 --> 00:46:29.480
The other 90% are other types
of organisms-- bacteria,

00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.740
primarily, and virus.

00:46:31.740 --> 00:46:34.770
So right away, we
have to understand

00:46:34.770 --> 00:46:39.720
that we are not a human being,
we're a human community.

00:46:39.720 --> 00:46:44.580
Without those cells, those
so-called non-human cells,

00:46:44.580 --> 00:46:45.600
we would not be alive.

00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:49.880
We would perish right away.

00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:54.220
Our body itself contains
this extraordinary message,

00:46:54.220 --> 00:46:56.420
if you will, of
how interdependent

00:46:56.420 --> 00:47:02.450
we are on the lives
of other organisms.

00:47:02.450 --> 00:47:03.850
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00:48:39.580 --> 00:48:42.780
In terms of looking at a
truth like interdependence,

00:48:42.780 --> 00:48:45.800
how interrelated
everybody's life is,

00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.280
we often just ignore
that fact because it's so

00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.730
mind boggling to think
about just setting foot

00:48:52.730 --> 00:48:57.540
in one city on this planet.

00:48:57.540 --> 00:49:01.800
If one stepped onto a subway
platform, to even think about--

00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:06.140
there's 500 other
feeling, thinking, eating,

00:49:06.140 --> 00:49:08.750
loving human beings here--

00:49:08.750 --> 00:49:15.302
we feel like we can't handle
that, that level of awareness.

00:49:15.302 --> 00:49:17.260
You can instill a view,
but then there actually

00:49:17.260 --> 00:49:20.700
have to be processes,
like meditation,

00:49:20.700 --> 00:49:25.370
that actually shift the way
the mind relates to others.

00:49:25.370 --> 00:49:29.520
You can't just say a lot
about how we're all connected,

00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:33.600
you have to actually offer tools
for how you would become more

00:49:33.600 --> 00:49:35.760
aware on that subway platform.

00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.380
It's not just like,
love thy neighbor.

00:49:39.380 --> 00:49:41.416
You know, that's great
sentiment, but how?

00:49:48.090 --> 00:49:52.320
Many of us have
explored the way that we

00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:55.998
can heal this sense of
alienation or separation.

00:49:58.810 --> 00:50:00.420
And it's been an
exploration that

00:50:00.420 --> 00:50:03.600
has not been in our time,
our generation only.

00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:08.460
It's gone on for thousands
upon thousands of years.

00:50:08.460 --> 00:50:10.950
And it's expressed
in the traditions

00:50:10.950 --> 00:50:15.330
of indigenous cultures,
it's expressed

00:50:15.330 --> 00:50:20.020
in a world of global religions.

00:50:20.020 --> 00:50:24.170
And it is really
coming to actualize

00:50:24.170 --> 00:50:26.440
or into the deep
insight that there

00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.790
is no inherent separate
self, that we are

00:50:30.790 --> 00:50:34.220
coterminous with everything.

00:50:34.220 --> 00:50:38.700
We're not separate, and it's
not just a mystical perspective.

00:50:38.700 --> 00:50:41.910
I mean, it's a
completely pragmatic view

00:50:41.910 --> 00:50:46.920
that science has been
validating for decades.

00:50:46.920 --> 00:50:53.580
But of course, the great
religious meisters of the past

00:50:53.580 --> 00:50:57.300
have seen and have tried
to open the human heart

00:50:57.300 --> 00:51:00.915
to the awe of existence.

00:51:05.870 --> 00:51:12.240
I believe that the next
revolution in human world

00:51:12.240 --> 00:51:14.870
is meditation.

00:51:14.870 --> 00:51:19.490
Meditation will open a whole
new channel of our consciousness

00:51:19.490 --> 00:51:22.300
through which we can see
the very thing that you

00:51:22.300 --> 00:51:23.380
talking about--

00:51:23.380 --> 00:51:28.370
the sacredness, the majesty,
the beauty of existence.

00:51:28.370 --> 00:51:36.526
And anybody can practice without
adopting a belief system.

00:51:45.110 --> 00:51:46.680
Mindfulness is
important because it

00:51:46.680 --> 00:51:48.570
helps you get in
touch with what's

00:51:48.570 --> 00:51:54.735
going on with yourself
and with your thoughts.

00:51:54.735 --> 00:51:57.690
And even with your actions,
and the actions of others,

00:51:57.690 --> 00:51:59.581
and how their energy interacts.

00:52:03.640 --> 00:52:05.560
You start to become more
present and your mind

00:52:05.560 --> 00:52:08.922
isn't all over the place, your
mind is right where you are.

00:52:08.922 --> 00:52:10.630
And I think you're
better able to pick up

00:52:10.630 --> 00:52:13.210
on other people's problems,
and you become more empathetic.

00:52:13.210 --> 00:52:15.460
You become more compassionate,
you become more loving.

00:52:28.450 --> 00:53:27.710
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00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:30.980
I sometimes refer to mindfulness
as the opposable thumb

00:53:30.980 --> 00:53:32.480
of consciousness--

00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:34.520
able to reach out and
take hold of reality

00:53:34.520 --> 00:53:36.770
in a totally different way.

00:53:36.770 --> 00:53:39.590
Mindfulness is going to
change our sense of identity,

00:53:39.590 --> 00:53:43.520
and our ability to move
out of our individual story

00:53:43.520 --> 00:53:47.690
and into community, and into
a healthier mental life.

00:53:51.010 --> 00:53:54.160
This question of identity
is central to how

00:53:54.160 --> 00:53:56.920
we feel about ourselves,
and how we treat each other,

00:53:56.920 --> 00:53:58.770
and how we treat
the environment.

00:53:58.770 --> 00:54:01.780
Who we think we are in the
scheme of things really

00:54:01.780 --> 00:54:04.260
influences that.

00:54:04.260 --> 00:54:07.380
The more we start to bring
our attention into our bodies,

00:54:07.380 --> 00:54:10.660
into our breathing,
the more we begin

00:54:10.660 --> 00:54:13.030
to feel connected to the
rest of the breathing

00:54:13.030 --> 00:54:14.710
life of this planet.

00:54:14.710 --> 00:54:20.650
And we start to lose that sense
of, I am my individual story.

00:54:20.650 --> 00:54:25.960
We begin to expand
our sense of identity.

00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.640
The spiritual path is not to
eradicate your personality

00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:34.870
but to just expand the
context in which it lives,

00:54:34.870 --> 00:54:38.188
and gain wider identities.

00:54:53.670 --> 00:54:59.250
I remember once, taking
a group of young people

00:54:59.250 --> 00:55:02.520
out camping up in
the Adirondacks,

00:55:02.520 --> 00:55:04.410
in the great wilderness
of the American East

00:55:04.410 --> 00:55:07.560
where I spent much of my life.

00:55:07.560 --> 00:55:11.280
We were out on an island, and
it was a dark night, a new moon.

00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:15.960
And so the stars were in
their great, wild abundance.

00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:18.690
And we were sort of looking
up at them and talking,

00:55:18.690 --> 00:55:24.240
and it became clear that five
or six of these 10 kids-- no one

00:55:24.240 --> 00:55:27.870
had ever shown them
the Milky Way before.

00:55:27.870 --> 00:55:31.970
And they had the appropriate
reaction when they saw it--

00:55:31.970 --> 00:55:35.080
whoa, dude.

00:55:35.080 --> 00:55:36.750
And really, that
must have been almost

00:55:36.750 --> 00:55:38.700
the moment at which
humans became humans--

00:55:38.700 --> 00:55:44.340
when some ape looked up to
the sky and said, Whoa, dude.

00:55:44.340 --> 00:55:49.800
It's the experience of feeling
a small part of something

00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:54.870
very big, and mysterious, and
orderly, and cool, and buzzing,

00:55:54.870 --> 00:55:57.666
and beautiful, and harmonious.

00:56:00.590 --> 00:56:06.650
That kind of feeling small is
a really useful thing to do.

00:56:10.470 --> 00:56:12.660
It's the opposite of
the message that we

00:56:12.660 --> 00:56:16.446
get sent by all those
screens all day long--

00:56:16.446 --> 00:56:18.720
that we're very big
and very important,

00:56:18.720 --> 00:56:21.350
and the most important thing
that there possibly could be.

00:56:29.140 --> 00:56:32.320
One of the greatest
resources for me

00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:43.250
is slowing down,
settling, becoming still,

00:56:43.250 --> 00:56:46.420
and attuning to the
interconnected world that

00:56:46.420 --> 00:56:49.630
already exists all around us.

00:56:53.056 --> 00:56:54.430
If you've ever
had an opportunity

00:56:54.430 --> 00:56:59.390
to go to a pond, or an
estuary, or a stream,

00:56:59.390 --> 00:57:04.700
and just sit and
settle, the experience

00:57:04.700 --> 00:57:11.810
is one of becoming aware of
a vibrant, alive, pulsating

00:57:11.810 --> 00:57:13.220
world.

00:57:13.220 --> 00:57:15.680
Which we hadn't been aware
of just a few minutes

00:57:15.680 --> 00:57:20.214
or a few hours before, because
we were going too fast.

00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:34.820
When you sit, separated
from all of the noise, all

00:57:34.820 --> 00:57:38.180
of the messaging,
all of that chaos--

00:57:38.180 --> 00:57:44.450
but just go to a quiet
place and settle down,

00:57:44.450 --> 00:57:51.440
we remember again that what
we've been really seeking

00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:52.150
is this.

00:57:56.650 --> 00:58:00.240
This map, this compass,
this internal compass

00:58:00.240 --> 00:58:02.160
is the one that matters.

00:58:02.160 --> 00:58:04.470
This is the way we
find our way, this

00:58:04.470 --> 00:58:06.626
is the way we
navigate these times.

00:58:14.900 --> 00:58:20.300
Really, the place that
we need to return to

00:58:20.300 --> 00:58:27.660
in order to recognize
home is our own bodies,

00:58:27.660 --> 00:58:30.980
our own sensation.

00:58:30.980 --> 00:58:39.280
Our own direct experience
with sound and movement,

00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:47.470
and feelings, sense and
emotion, and pain and joy,

00:58:47.470 --> 00:58:51.010
and the complicated
things that we're

00:58:51.010 --> 00:58:55.240
not able to give words to.

00:58:55.240 --> 00:58:59.260
We all have the capacity to feel
our connection to the Earth,

00:58:59.260 --> 00:59:01.240
to feel our
connection to others--

00:59:01.240 --> 00:59:05.784
with people that seem different
and foreign and strange to us.

00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:16.703
We are of this Earth,
we're not on the Earth.

00:59:16.703 --> 00:59:18.667
We're of the Earth.

00:59:42.260 --> 00:59:45.980
Part of what I think is needed
for this emerging planetary

00:59:45.980 --> 00:59:51.540
movement is to turn to and
honor those people who,

00:59:51.540 --> 00:59:55.380
for thousands and
thousands of years,

00:59:55.380 --> 01:00:03.335
have lived this path of radical,
deep interconnectedness.

01:00:03.335 --> 01:00:06.800
[CHANTING]

01:00:13.010 --> 01:00:17.270
There's a lot of people who
are interested and curious

01:00:17.270 --> 01:00:22.040
and wanting to hear about
the indigenous perspective,

01:00:22.040 --> 01:00:25.506
and having the sense
that it's important.

01:00:28.922 --> 01:00:33.780
To me, it's sort of
like an awakening.

01:00:33.780 --> 01:00:37.560
It's an awareness
that people have

01:00:37.560 --> 01:00:42.550
to feel a sense of an identity.

01:00:42.550 --> 01:00:47.370
It causes one to
reflect on who they are,

01:00:47.370 --> 01:00:51.130
and what are my roots,
what are my connections?

01:00:56.350 --> 01:00:58.240
Everyone is indigenous.

01:01:12.860 --> 01:01:19.130
That's deep within all of
us, that knowledge knows

01:01:19.130 --> 01:01:22.190
us better than we know it.

01:01:22.190 --> 01:01:26.110
But when we live in compassion
with that knowledge,

01:01:26.110 --> 01:01:29.900
it becomes spirit of who we are.

01:01:29.900 --> 01:01:35.310
We know our first protection
is for Mother Earth, that's

01:01:35.310 --> 01:01:37.400
what we have to do.

01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.800
We have to protect Mother
Earth and her natural processes

01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:42.081
in order for all
of us to live here.

01:01:44.967 --> 01:01:46.610
[NON-ENGLISH]

01:02:42.270 --> 01:02:47.070
Most people think,
Well, we are individual.

01:02:47.070 --> 01:02:50.490
But the truth is that even when
you are sitting in your room

01:02:50.490 --> 01:02:53.670
by yourself, you're not alone.

01:02:53.670 --> 01:02:56.770
You, as an element
of this family,

01:02:56.770 --> 01:03:02.830
you are an integral part of
a system that is functioning.

01:03:02.830 --> 01:03:07.370
We belong, whether we
want to belong or not.

01:03:07.370 --> 01:03:10.250
We belong to the Earth.

01:03:10.250 --> 01:03:15.010
You are still connected, the
Earth has not forsaken you.

01:03:22.730 --> 01:03:24.930
I think we have
disconnected because we

01:03:24.930 --> 01:03:28.060
have forgot to appreciate.

01:03:28.060 --> 01:03:30.510
Appreciation takes us
beyond Mother Earth,

01:03:30.510 --> 01:03:33.870
it takes us beyond the stars--

01:03:33.870 --> 01:03:39.620
and knows that every little
speck of matter, every living,

01:03:39.620 --> 01:03:40.992
breathing being matters.

01:03:48.230 --> 01:03:50.465
That's the key is appreciation.

01:04:00.380 --> 01:04:05.480
We have a connection, not only
in this world on Mother Earth,

01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:10.820
but we also have a connection
all the way to the universe.

01:04:10.820 --> 01:04:14.030
All my life that's
what I've been told,

01:04:14.030 --> 01:04:17.180
be conscious about our
actions and the things

01:04:17.180 --> 01:04:18.154
that we're doing.

01:04:22.540 --> 01:04:26.440
And so you're always looking
to see what you are doing,

01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:28.720
and it's effect
on your children,

01:04:28.720 --> 01:04:31.180
and your grandchildren, and
your great grandchildren.

01:04:31.180 --> 01:04:35.740
And the future generations,
the ones that are yet to come.

01:04:35.740 --> 01:04:39.020
The ones that we won't see.

01:04:39.020 --> 01:04:48.040
That's why I'm here today
is because my ancestors,

01:04:48.040 --> 01:04:49.138
they did that.

01:04:53.050 --> 01:04:54.220
They thought about me.

01:04:59.130 --> 01:05:05.080
I'm one of those grandchildren
that they made a prayer for.

01:05:07.700 --> 01:05:11.480
Now, I'm a grandmother.

01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:13.126
I have this responsibility.

01:05:17.070 --> 01:05:21.390
Not just me, but all people
should make that prayer

01:05:21.390 --> 01:05:28.550
that they're ancestors
made and carry

01:05:28.550 --> 01:05:30.778
on that sacred responsibility.

01:05:40.370 --> 01:05:44.140
The sense of sacredness
is really very much heart

01:05:44.140 --> 01:05:46.805
over spiritual traditions.

01:05:46.805 --> 01:05:49.700
And at the same time,
it's non-conceptual.

01:05:49.700 --> 01:05:54.430
We really can't learn
this notion of sacredness.

01:05:54.430 --> 01:05:57.390
It's like love, you
have to feel it.

01:05:57.390 --> 01:06:02.950
Everybody can feel it
because it's all around us.

01:06:02.950 --> 01:06:06.500
If we can feel that more
and more in our society,

01:06:06.500 --> 01:06:11.920
perhaps we will begin to realize
that there is a benevolence,

01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:18.870
and there is a beauty prevailing
everywhere, in all living

01:06:18.870 --> 01:06:21.589
beings of existence.

01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:42.232
I think we realize it's
time to fit in here.

01:06:42.232 --> 01:06:45.130
It's time to come
home, and it's time

01:06:45.130 --> 01:06:53.240
to figure out how to
function in a way that

01:06:53.240 --> 01:06:56.535
will allow us to stay here.

01:07:00.850 --> 01:07:05.140
When we get to the point where
civilization is functionally

01:07:05.140 --> 01:07:11.062
indistinguishable from the
ecosystem that surrounds it,

01:07:11.062 --> 01:07:13.010
then we'll be a welcome species.

01:07:18.380 --> 01:07:21.710
Well, the good news
and the bad news

01:07:21.710 --> 01:07:26.600
is that we know nothing
absolutely for certain.

01:07:26.600 --> 01:07:29.800
We've put the planet
into violent flux.

01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:33.560
We've taken ourselves out of
the Holocene, this 10,000 year

01:07:33.560 --> 01:07:37.550
period of benign
stability that underwrote

01:07:37.550 --> 01:07:39.920
the rise of human civilization.

01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.380
Now, we're into someplace else.

01:07:42.380 --> 01:07:48.140
And in that someplace
else, all bets are off.

01:07:48.140 --> 01:07:49.610
What the world
looks like is going

01:07:49.610 --> 01:07:56.170
to depend on what we do
in the next few years.

01:07:56.170 --> 01:07:58.062
Everything's up for grabs now.

01:08:03.530 --> 01:08:08.520
Gary Snyder, the
great poet, said once,

01:08:08.520 --> 01:08:12.099
There's no final resolution.

01:08:12.099 --> 01:08:14.140
In other words, you're
not going to fix the world

01:08:14.140 --> 01:08:16.979
and have it stay that way.

01:08:16.979 --> 01:08:18.990
It's not the way
this universe works.

01:08:18.990 --> 01:08:21.450
If you want something
like that or, like,

01:08:21.450 --> 01:08:25.560
to live happily ever after,
you came to the wrong place.

01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:28.939
It doesn't work here.

01:08:28.939 --> 01:08:32.540
And there's some kind
of grace, and ease,

01:08:32.540 --> 01:08:35.569
and a lightness that
can come in when

01:08:35.569 --> 01:08:38.149
you have that attitude
that we're not going

01:08:38.149 --> 01:08:40.018
to fix the universe forever.

01:08:48.170 --> 01:08:51.410
Our work is not for us, it's
for people we don't know.

01:08:51.410 --> 01:08:54.570
It's for generations to come.

01:08:54.570 --> 01:09:01.415
And there is a kind of grace
in that because then you

01:09:01.415 --> 01:09:08.220
can let go of who you think
you are, and what's important.

01:09:08.220 --> 01:09:11.740
And all the things that are
considered important today,

01:09:11.740 --> 01:09:17.580
almost without exception,
will be trivia in 50 years--

01:09:17.580 --> 01:09:21.819
unnoticed, unremarked
upon, meaningless.

01:09:21.819 --> 01:09:30.910
Except for those efforts
enjoined by people everywhere

01:09:30.910 --> 01:09:35.790
to reimagine what it means
to be a human being on Earth.

01:09:35.790 --> 01:09:39.899
And what it means to relate to
each other in our place here.

01:09:47.790 --> 01:09:51.630
Each one of us as individuals,
and as a global community,

01:09:51.630 --> 01:09:55.050
we have to live with a
vision of interconnectedness.

01:09:55.050 --> 01:09:59.040
That vision has to
be in our marrow.

01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:04.750
It's also a vision
of compassion.

01:10:04.750 --> 01:10:07.050
It's compassion that
is not directed just

01:10:07.050 --> 01:10:08.610
toward our in-group.

01:10:08.610 --> 01:10:13.450
It's to recognize that we're
not separate from any being

01:10:13.450 --> 01:10:16.320
or thing.

01:10:16.320 --> 01:10:20.370
Whether it's mycelium
or it's the Aspen trees,

01:10:20.370 --> 01:10:23.640
or whether it's our
very atmosphere--

01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:26.760
there's a kind of
non-separateness

01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:30.570
between those worlds, or
those domains of existence,

01:10:30.570 --> 01:10:33.615
and then us, each one
of us as individuals.

01:10:37.260 --> 01:10:41.514
What we need is a
dynamic social awareness.

01:10:44.450 --> 01:10:48.620
We need to recognize that
what we do as individuals

01:10:48.620 --> 01:10:50.790
is connected to the
fate of the planet

01:10:50.790 --> 01:10:52.630
and the fate of other people.

01:10:55.860 --> 01:11:00.750
So if we consider, say, where
our clothing comes from--

01:11:00.750 --> 01:11:03.830
we might act in a way to
protect the lives of people

01:11:03.830 --> 01:11:07.050
who are making it.

01:11:07.050 --> 01:11:10.230
To recognize this
interconnection,

01:11:10.230 --> 01:11:12.840
rather than to just
sort of succumb

01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:18.838
to our isolation
and our privilege.

01:11:18.838 --> 01:11:21.350
In order to see that
interconnectedness,

01:11:21.350 --> 01:11:24.930
you actually have to
open to it which means

01:11:24.930 --> 01:11:29.430
to be curious about the world.

01:11:29.430 --> 01:11:31.680
If you actually go and
experience someone else's

01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:33.840
culture, like, you
can't help but connect

01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:35.160
to the humanity within them.

01:11:35.160 --> 01:11:37.882
Like, it's not going to be, Oh,
well, these people are poor,

01:11:37.882 --> 01:11:39.090
and they're separate from me.

01:11:39.090 --> 01:11:40.590
If you're sitting
back in your home,

01:11:40.590 --> 01:11:42.965
and you're watching it on TV,
yeah, it's easy to do that.

01:11:42.965 --> 01:11:45.381
But if you get out, and you
start interacting with people,

01:11:45.381 --> 01:11:46.890
and you make
friends with people,

01:11:46.890 --> 01:11:48.600
I think that's how
real change happens.

01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:52.180
People have to get out and
interact and spread that love.

01:11:52.180 --> 01:11:56.580
Like, it's hard to not be
empathetic and sympathetic

01:11:56.580 --> 01:11:58.920
to someone else's plight
if you're in it with them,

01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:00.600
and you're there,
and you see everyone

01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:04.250
is that same group of people.

01:12:04.250 --> 01:12:06.880
Scientists have finally
proven it to be true--

01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:08.750
something that
anthropologists have always

01:12:08.750 --> 01:12:11.360
intuited to be correct,
something that philosophers

01:12:11.360 --> 01:12:13.200
have always hoped to be true.

01:12:13.200 --> 01:12:15.320
And that is the fact
that we're all literally

01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:16.880
brothers and sisters.

01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:20.090
We're all cut from the
same genetic cloth.

01:12:20.090 --> 01:12:23.090
It means that by definition,
all human populations

01:12:23.090 --> 01:12:26.750
share the same raw genes,
the same mental acuity,

01:12:26.750 --> 01:12:29.660
the same intellectual potential.

01:12:29.660 --> 01:12:32.090
And critically,
what that means is

01:12:32.090 --> 01:12:34.340
that the other
peoples of the world

01:12:34.340 --> 01:12:36.420
aren't failed attempts
at being modern.

01:12:36.420 --> 01:12:39.800
Each culture is by
definition, a unique answer

01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:42.230
to a fundamental
question, what does

01:12:42.230 --> 01:12:44.950
it mean to be human and alive?

01:12:44.950 --> 01:12:48.530
And when 3,000 cultures
or even more in the world

01:12:48.530 --> 01:12:52.130
answer that question,
those voices collectively

01:12:52.130 --> 01:12:56.110
become our human
repertoire for dealing

01:12:56.110 --> 01:12:58.840
with all of the challenges
that will confront us

01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:01.783
as a species in the
ensuing millennia.

01:13:13.590 --> 01:13:19.230
We are Earth beings,
we are Earth kind.

01:13:19.230 --> 01:13:24.640
We have been gifted with this
extraordinarily magnificent

01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:26.550
planet.

01:13:26.550 --> 01:13:30.420
That gift takes a
lifetime to understand.

01:13:30.420 --> 01:13:34.620
And even then, we're
in the face of mystery.

01:13:38.545 --> 01:13:41.720
I think the urgency
of our moment

01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:49.410
calls us to be in awe of this
beautiful blue-green planet.

01:13:49.410 --> 01:13:51.190
There's nothing like
it that we know of.

01:13:55.380 --> 01:14:00.150
When you're looking at the
world from a great height,

01:14:00.150 --> 01:14:03.390
you don't see those
lines on the map

01:14:03.390 --> 01:14:07.100
that we all learn
when we're children.

01:14:07.100 --> 01:14:11.380
And you see the world
that's spinning.

01:14:11.380 --> 01:14:13.870
So if you stay in one
point, relative, you

01:14:13.870 --> 01:14:19.290
will see the entire
world pass beneath you.

01:14:19.290 --> 01:14:24.341
This is our field of practice,
to me, the whole world.

01:14:29.260 --> 01:14:35.210
Everything is giving and
is giving without borders.

01:14:35.210 --> 01:14:40.362
It's giving without separation
of my tribe, your tribe.

01:14:43.700 --> 01:14:51.570
There's no chosen
people, we're all chosen.

01:14:51.570 --> 01:14:56.910
And once you look at
this spinning planet,

01:14:56.910 --> 01:14:58.730
you realize it's all holy.

01:15:15.340 --> 01:15:18.490
We have a lot of
solutions that are already

01:15:18.490 --> 01:15:21.950
present across the planet.

01:15:21.950 --> 01:15:28.270
But I think at the heart of
this is a deepening sense of awe

01:15:28.270 --> 01:15:35.680
and wonder at the beauty
and infinitely astounding

01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:37.836
complexity in which we live.

01:15:40.550 --> 01:15:46.410
What is required is the
intrinsic value of nature--

01:15:46.410 --> 01:15:51.180
is known to all of us
from a child to an adult,

01:15:51.180 --> 01:15:54.480
through the window of wonder.

01:15:54.480 --> 01:15:56.826
That's what we need
more than anything.

01:16:01.100 --> 01:16:05.210
I think that that state of
awe is highly instructive,

01:16:05.210 --> 01:16:09.230
and it remains unexamined
for us in modern culture,

01:16:09.230 --> 01:16:12.290
because we dismiss it
as a childlike response

01:16:12.290 --> 01:16:13.880
to the world.

01:16:13.880 --> 01:16:14.930
It's not.

01:16:14.930 --> 01:16:18.230
It's a doorway to
a kind of peace

01:16:18.230 --> 01:16:22.380
and an opening
through which, I hope,

01:16:22.380 --> 01:16:25.880
an undreamed of
politics and undreamed

01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:29.150
of level of cooperation,
and an undreamed of level

01:16:29.150 --> 01:16:30.749
of reconciliation is possible.

01:16:49.360 --> 01:17:00.160
What instantly touches the
heart and mind, and it's sudden

01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:06.570
and you can count on it, it's
like the kiss of the universe.

01:17:06.570 --> 01:17:11.210
And that's to
glimpse it's beauty.

01:17:11.210 --> 01:17:14.510
It doesn't take long.

01:17:14.510 --> 01:17:15.845
It doesn't take an argument.

01:17:18.610 --> 01:17:23.970
You're just stripped of
all your explanations,

01:17:23.970 --> 01:17:27.720
and all your notions
of who and what

01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:31.730
you want to be as an
achieving individual.

01:17:31.730 --> 01:17:34.272
And then you're just, Mm, yeah.

01:17:39.420 --> 01:17:43.870
And you're struck with such
a gladness of that beauty

01:17:43.870 --> 01:17:48.320
and the originality
of it, that you

01:17:48.320 --> 01:17:55.178
don't have time to think about
how is it going to turn out.

01:17:55.178 --> 01:17:59.848
All you know is that you'll
serve it to the last breath.

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