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- [Nathanaël] When we are kids,

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we say that one day
we will explore the world.

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Then we grow up, routine sets in
and we forget about our childhood dreams.

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But for some reason,

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something compelled a friend and I
to follow this dream.

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This is our story.

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That summer, I went
to visit Marc in New York.

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We had not seen
each other in 10 years,

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and at first, it was like
we had nothing left in common.

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I had just made a movie
on water access in India

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and he was working in marketing,

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trying to convince Americans that
bottled water was a luxury product.

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But we ended up hitting it off
like in the good old days,

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when we used to play
in his grandmother\'s back yard.

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But this time,
our playground was Central Park.

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(energetic techno music)

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In New York,
we were living the high life.

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Between the high-end restaurants,
the VIP clubs,

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and the apartment
right on Wall Street,

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Marc was living the American Dream,

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the one everyone on the planet
dreams of.

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But I felt he was a bit out of place
in this superficial world.

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So before leaving,

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I left him a pile of documentaries
to shake him up a bit,

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and get him thinking.

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(gentle rock music)

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- [Marc] Me, I was perfectly happy
in my little \"Manhattan bubble.\"

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I had landed the job of my dreams

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and I had no intention whatsoever
of watching Nathanaël\'s documentaries.

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But life called me to order.

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One day, when I was pretending
to be Michael Jordan in my hallway,

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I slipped on the ball
and broke my foot.

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As I was stuck in bed,

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I ended up watching
all those documentaries.

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(engine rumbles)
(gentle rock music)

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(overlapping shouting)

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After that, I\'ve got to say
it was hard to get back to work.

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Especially since, at the same moment,
the financial crisis hit.

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That day,
the whole world discovered

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that the greed
of a handful of people

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was jeopardizing
the future of the entire planet.

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I was now convinced that the system
was incapable of providing a solution

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to the problems it had created.

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And as a water salesman in Manhattan,
I was also part of the problem.

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But what could I do about it?

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I was afraid I might turn into a cynic
or fall into depression.

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So I decided
to leave everything behind

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and go search
for the answers to my questions.

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I had no clue what I was getting into.

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- [Onboard announce]
Please keep your seat belt

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fastened while seated
in case of turbulence.

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(gentle rock music)

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(horns honking)
(sirens blare)

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- [Nathanaël] At that time,

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I was presenting my film
in a festival in New Delhi.

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Marc just showed up,
out of the blue.

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He wanted us to make
a documentary about \"change.\"

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I laughed.
What a crazy, huge idea!

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But after watching him for a while,

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I thought it might be interesting
to capture his personality

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and his eagerness
to understand everything, on camera.

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♫ We must get closer

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♫ To the essence of life

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♫ But beware
That it takes courage and strife

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♫ Expend your mind,
don\'t let it wither and die

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- So you like this?

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♫ So meditate

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♫ Come on
Lets contemplate

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♫ Talk to the heavenly bodies

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♫ Of the universe

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♫ Of the universe

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(distance from mic muffles Marc)

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- [Marc] After several days of traveling,

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we met Anand,
an inventor of some sort,

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who created agricultural tools,

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facilitating the life
of the farmers in the fields.

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So, this is the workshop.

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You are welcome here.

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(saw whirs)

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- [Marc] Anand and his wife
were looking after several ashrams.

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We were definitely far away

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from the companies
quoted on the Stock Exchange!

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But with these collective work centers,

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they succeeded in revitalizing
the local economy,

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which had suffered
after the closing of the mines.

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(gentle instrumental music)

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Kodak style!

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Yeah, perfect!

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Looks quite professional.

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- We are ready?
- Yes.

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What does it mean to be
a disciple of Gandhi?

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Being a disciple of Gandhi
means…

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When life passes by too fast
and slips away,

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Gandhi invites us
to take back the lead.

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People talk about sustainable development,
Gandhi has given \"Swaraj\"

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\"Depend on yourself\",

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and that is sustainable development.

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We have forgotten the poor.

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People want to become
richer and richer...

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And I even heard that Americans
want to go to the moon for a picnic!

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It is not with this way of thinking that
we will make the world a better place.

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If we follow Gandhi\'s teachings

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yes, life will be slower,

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but it will be full of happiness.

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(gentle instrumental music)
(rain pours)

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(stone scrapes)

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(overlapping conversations)

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- [Marc] After our visit
to Prema and Anand,

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we wanted to know more about Gandhi
and his views on economics.

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So we enrolled in a seminar
called \"Gandhi and Globalization,\"

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organized by Dr. Vandana Shiva.

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This woman succeeded

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in having several
irresponsible global corporations

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sentenced at the International Court
of The Hague.

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I had seen her in
Nathanaël\'s documentaries

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and I was eager to meet her.

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- Like I always say, Gandhi,
for me, is like a ventilator.

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You know?

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When in a room, nothing is open,
everything\'s closed,

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there\'s one little ventilator,
from where you get fresh air.

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And the fresh air of thinking fresh,

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is the value of Gandhi.

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I mean besides what he
did for us, as a country,

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in the independence movement.

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But globally, today, you know.

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He allows us to think fresh.

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(gentle instrumental music)
(overlapping conversations)

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- And at some point you only go
to the top restaurants,

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top clubs, and see like...
Party with celebrities.

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I fell there was something
wrong with exporting water,

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and telling people should not
drink the local water,

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because it was free,
so it was such nonsense.

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- You want me sitting here?

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- You can sit just where
you were this morning.

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- Oh, but your camera looks to this side.

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You know, I was training as a physicist,

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and I have actually done
a PhD in Quantum Theory.

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But I got involved in
protecting the forests,

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of the Himalaya, right here.

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Up in these mountains.

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As a result of that, I started to write.

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About ecological problems.

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And the Ministry of Environment calls me

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to do the impact of mining,
in these hills.

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I was, at that time, in Bangalore.

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And of course it\'s my home,
I was born here.

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I do the study, and the mines get closed,

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as a result of our study.

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And I realized then, that with a focus,

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and with dedication, there
was so much one could do.

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And sitting in privilege
jobs, isolated from society,

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you could keep making excuses,
but you wouldn\'t bring the change.

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So I threw up my job, came back home,

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started to work
from my mother\'s cow shed,

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and that\'s what I\'ve
been doing since then.

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(birds squawking)

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So things are changing,
but they\'re changing

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in the wrong direction,
because the dominant

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change is driven by giant corporations.

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Who are turning everything
into a market,

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and turning everything
into a commodity.

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There\'s no people, there\'s no nature.

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There\'s no culture, there\'s no value.

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The change we need is a change

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that helps us recognize that if we

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continue in this present path of change,

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humanity will annihilate the conditions

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for its living on this planet.

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Climate change
is one of those dimensions.

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Disappearance of food
is another dimension.

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You know, the corporations
have a very good agenda

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of how to destroy small farmers,

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but they don\'t have an agenda
of how will you get the food

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when all the small farmers are gone.

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They don\'t know how they do that.

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So, recognition that nature
is the condition of our being alive,

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is the shift we have to make.

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We have to stop thinking
of nature as wilderness,

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and start thinking of it
as condition for life.

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(animals squawking)

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Where do people begin to make
a reconnection with nature?

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With food.

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First of all, knowing where it comes

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from and making sure that
nature\'s contributions

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haven\'t been abused by corporate greed.

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Which takes all these
bounties, and messes them up,

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with pesticides, herbicides,
genetic engineering.

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Food from nature is healthy food.

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But I think everyone
can be linked to nature.

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If you don\'t have land,
a pot in your backyard.

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A little kitchen garden.

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A link with a farmer
in your neighborhood.

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Every one of these are
connections with nature.

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(machines clatter)

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- [Marc] The second speaker at the seminar
was Satish Kumar,

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who, in his youth, had participated
in Gandhi\'s agricultural reform

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and had undertaken
a 7,000-mile pilgrimage

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to protest against the atomic bomb.

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- Year 2000, I came,
there was nothing here.

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It was about 10 acres at that time.

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And Vandana Shiva, and I, together,

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dreamt that this should
be a learning center,

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where people can learn
about organic farming,

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about caring for nature,
about making compost,

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and learn about Gandhi, and ecology,

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and environment,
and spirituality, and education,

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all the things which
you are witnessing here.

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It is all came out of a dream.

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So if you cannot dream,
nothing will happen.

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(gentle instrumental music)

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(speaking in native language)

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- [Marc] What really hit me
during this seminar

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was learning that such a simple
but vital thing like exchanging seeds

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had become illegal.

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Here, like in many other places,

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the major seed companies
had a bill passed

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prohibiting the use of local seeds.

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Then they introduced hybrid seeds,
followed by GMOs,

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rendering farmers totally dependent

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on the fertilizers and pesticides
sold by these seed companies.

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Since the passing of this bill in India,

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more than 250,000 indebted farmers
have committed suicide.

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(woman singing)
(gentle instrumental music)

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(speaking in Urdu)

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- So she\'s telling a
story of 16 years ago,

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when she first came,
Vandana was looking

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for a person who had a
good knowledge of seeds,

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and she was the person with those skills.

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(speaking in Urdu)

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Fronds, which are 500
varieties of grain today.

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And 80 varieties of wheat.

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So the lines, in Punjab, for example,

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they are depleted because of
the overuse of fertilizers,

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and it\'s also a health hazard for

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the workers who are working there,

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because the water is mixed with uria,

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and it affects their skin, and it causes
problems for them.

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But she here she works,
right from June to August,

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in the fields here, and since they don\'t

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use any of those things,
she has no such health problems.

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(gentle instrumental music)

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(speaking in Urdu)

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(laughs)

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- And the most important element
of Gandhi

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was the right to say no,
and the duty to say no,

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which he calls \'Satyagraha\'

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The power of truth, the passion of truth,

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the force of truth.

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When the British wanted us
to stop making salt,

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so they could have a monopoly,

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he said,
\"We will continue to make salt.

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We need it for our
survival, nature gives it

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for free, we will not obey your laws.\"

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We have followed that same logic,

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and said we will not respect
battles on seed,

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because you haven\'t created
these seeds.

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We receive from them from nature,

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centuries of evolution by farmers,

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have given these wonderful seeds to us,

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they can\'t be patented.

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We will continue to save them,

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we will continue to share them.

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- [Marc] Do you think we should try

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to fix the system, or change the system?

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- You cannot have
unlimited economic growth

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in a limited planet.

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You cannot have infinite
growth, in a finite world.

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And so, this system cannot go on forever.

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If it does it will destroy
the world, and the Earth.

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And you cannot go backwards, because

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then it will be unemployment, a recession.

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So, this system cannot be fixed.

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So we need to have a new system where

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you take from nature,
or work, what in your

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minimal necessity, and your requirements,

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and your needs, and when you have used

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it, you return it back to the Earth.

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So it\'s kind of like a cycle.

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That\'s how nature works.

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You have leaves on the tree, and then

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in the autumn the leaves
will fall, on the ground,

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and then they become
nutrients to the roots,

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and that nutrition will go into the tree,

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and next spring it will come again.

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As leaves.

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So we have to learn from nature,
and create a cyclical economy.

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- We\'ve got, in the world,
an ecology movement,

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some parts of it does
look at how you consume,

00:16:36.260 --> 00:16:38.860
and very often only
promotes green consumerism.

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(laughs)

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Without questioning
the very idea of consumerism.

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- [Satish] Exactly.
- You know?

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That the reduction of our identities

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to being consumers is part of the problem.

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And recovery of our
identities, as creators,

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producers, makers of things,
is part of the solution.

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So, you know, one reason
the shramdaan you do

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is so important, is because that\'s
where you start to respect physical work.

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(gentle instrumental music)

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(sewing machine whirs)

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- [Marc] From consumer
to creator-producer.

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It was then that I realized

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I had no idea how to make
anything with my hands

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and I didn\'t even know
how nature functioned.

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Suddenly, working in the fields
or sculpting something out of clay

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seemed much more gratifying

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than filling out Excel spreadsheets
to impress my boss!

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(group exclaims)
- Lovely.

00:18:00.940 --> 00:18:02.840
- Wow.
- Very nice.

00:18:03.608 --> 00:18:08.127
- This idea that only corporations
can give us livelihood,

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otherwise we will all die,
and nothing will happen,

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is complete brainwashing.

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Complete brainwashing.

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The real employer, and giver of security,

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and livelihood is land, sunshine,

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mountains, rivers,
rain, human communities,

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our two hands, we work together.

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We have plenty.

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We don\'t need mortgage to live well.

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We don\'t need corporations to give us
a few pieces of figures, on our computer,

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to make us think that now
you have something to survive.

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You don\'t eat the figures
on the computer.

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What is money?
Money is only an idea.

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Money is only a plastic card.

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Money is only a figure on your computer.

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Money is not the real thing,
you don\'t eat computers,

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you don\'t eat figures.
Money is a means of exchange.

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They are not the real security.

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So people don\'t need to fear.

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(upbeat rock music)

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(laughs)

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(women speaking in native language)

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- Overall, my vision, of another economy

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is every place people producing.

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In sustainable ways.

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Generating livelihoods,
and meeting their needs.

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De-centralized economies everywhere.

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It\'s a crazy world, in which everything
has to be manufactured in China.

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And everywhere else
people sit unemployed.

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And because they are unemployed,
and have no money,

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the only place they can shop
is at a well Walmart.

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Because they bring their stuff
from China, and sell cheap.

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What we need is to shift from this idea

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of a forced cheapness that has very

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high costs for the planet, and people,

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to an idea of authentic affordability.

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And low cost for the planet,
and low cost for people.

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(overlapping conversations)
(woman laughs)

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- Sun is shining.

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The friends are sitting around.

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We are chopping the vegetables.

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The garden is growing food.

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You have enough, then you are happy.

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Pleasure is when you
want, seeking something,

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which you think you don\'t have.

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And you want pleasure.

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You want again, you want more.

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You are always dissatisfied.

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Pleasure always leaves you dissatisfied.

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Whereas contentment always
brings you happiness.

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So happiness is when you
know that you have enough.

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- Absolutely.
- Absolutely, okay?

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- Good, perfect.
- Thank you.

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- You are welcome.
- For your time.

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- Hope you are not too
late for your train now.

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- No, no, not too late, not too late.
Not too late.

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- [Man] Well we got lucky,
we got one more talk.

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(group laughs)

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(conversations in native language)

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- [Marc] Up until that moment,

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the preachy environmental political
movements had always left me cold.

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But meeting people
who were truly inspired,

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fighting for the respect of life
and the dignity of the less fortunate,

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that was a totally different story.

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They were not in it
for their own personal gain or for fame,

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and I finally understood why.

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Like Gandhi, their actions were
powered by strong spiritual values.

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- You know religion
does not have to be spiritual,

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because now it\'s increasingly institution,

00:22:10.208 --> 00:22:12.059
and in our times of deep insecurity,

00:22:12.259 --> 00:22:15.699
it is increasingly
a political institution.

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For political purpose, and therefore
it\'s becoming fundamentalist.

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It\'s based more on how to hate somebody,

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and less on what to be yourself.

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Spirituality is about your understanding,

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your place in this universe.

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And in that process,
understanding that you\'re connected

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with the rest of the universe.

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Understanding connection, and with it
understanding responsibility.

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Therefore, spirituality
is about deep freedom.

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Because when you know who you are,

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you know you\'re not shaped
by a Nestle, or a Monsanto.

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You\'re shaped by an amazing creation,
of which you are a part.

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And to feel a part of that
is tremendous empowerment.

00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:05.060
Because this universe is
such a creative force.

00:23:05.260 --> 00:23:08.920
(melodic instrumental music)

00:23:20.800 --> 00:23:23.560
(engines rumble)

00:23:34.840 --> 00:23:37.220
- [Marc] The original idea
behind my trip with Nathanaël

00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:40.740
was to make a little movie
about alternative lifestyles.

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But in just a few days,

00:23:42.540 --> 00:23:46.140
these people had changed
my entire way of perceiving the world,

00:23:46.340 --> 00:23:50.000
the economy, nature,
and even my idea of progress.

00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:53.260
Without even being aware of it,

00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:55.720
they had totally reformatted
my hard drive.

00:23:56.840 --> 00:24:01.000
(melodic ambient music)
(woman vocalizing)

00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:55.340
- [Marc] For sure, I had not understood
everything about Eastern spirituality

00:24:55.540 --> 00:24:57.980
or even about
Gandhi\'s vision of economics.

00:24:58.180 --> 00:24:59.180
But suddenly,

00:24:59.380 --> 00:25:03.180
the superiority complex of
Western society seemed totally absurd.

00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:05.860
Blinded by progress and technology,

00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:08.560
we had lost touch
with the essential things in life.

00:25:18.357 --> 00:25:21.260
- Enjoy this universe.
You enjoy it with the modern science,

00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:24.100
but you keep your eyes also,
on the spiritual science.

00:25:24.300 --> 00:25:26.860
So you clear the good balance in

00:25:27.060 --> 00:25:30.800
the modern science, and
the spiritual science.

00:25:37.760 --> 00:25:40.460
Pleasure, you can get from the market.

00:25:40.660 --> 00:25:42.660
Happiness you cannot get from the market.

00:25:42.860 --> 00:25:45.600
Happiness you have to look inside.

00:25:51.451 --> 00:25:55.013
Go deep inside.
And spend a lot of time.

00:26:35.560 --> 00:26:40.480
We should put this shot in the film,
just for the heck of it, you know...

00:26:41.520 --> 00:26:44.520
(gentle jazz music)

00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:46.900
- [Nathanaël] Once we returned to France,

00:26:47.100 --> 00:26:50.300
we isolated ourselves
to watch the footage of the interviews.

00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:52.580
I have to admit
that I was taken by surprise

00:26:52.780 --> 00:26:55.100
by all the testimonials we\'d heard.

00:26:55.300 --> 00:26:58.780
The men and women we had met
were tackling the root of the problem.

00:26:58.980 --> 00:27:03.020
In their opinion, it was impossible
to find a solution for today\'s crises

00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:06.340
without questioning the commercial
and materialistic mentality

00:27:06.540 --> 00:27:07.720
that had created them.

00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:12.980
In France, a number of thinkers
have also reached the same conclusion,

00:27:13.180 --> 00:27:14.720
like this man, Pierre Rabhi.

00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:16.620
Using ecological farming,

00:27:16.820 --> 00:27:19.860
this philosopher-turned-farmer
has transformed a rocky terrain,

00:27:20.060 --> 00:27:23.240
in the Cévennes region of France,
into a natural oasis.

00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:28.560
\"I was 20 years old, and Modernity
seemed to be a fraud.\"

00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.720
Well, I was 29 when
that happened to me!

00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:35.640
It took me a bit longer.

00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.960
Modernity is supposed to
liberate human beings, but in fact

00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:03.160
we see exactly what modernity does
to human beings.

00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:06.240
From kindergarten to university
we\'re locked indoors.

00:28:06.840 --> 00:28:09.720
Then, everyone works
in an office cubicle.

00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:12.680
For fun we go to
another sort of cubicle.

00:28:13.480 --> 00:28:17.480
We get there in a \'moving cubicle\' and
end up in our final cubicle: a coffin.

00:28:18.080 --> 00:28:21.240
As a life experience,
it\'s not very liberating!

00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:25.700
We spend a large part of our lives

00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:27.960
confined in tiny spaces.

00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:32.280
Once in a while, we go skiing
to get a bit of fresh air.

00:28:32.560 --> 00:28:35.880
Then in the summer,
we sunbathe to get some air,

00:28:36.120 --> 00:28:38.960
to have a bit of contact with life.

00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:40.800
I think it\'s terrible!

00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:43.840
Now I\'m not judging anyone.

00:28:44.080 --> 00:28:48.760
This is my own personal grievance
with the great deception of Modernity,

00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.320
which claims to be
improving the human condition

00:28:53.520 --> 00:28:55.400
but is in fact destroying it

00:28:55.640 --> 00:28:57.560
and pillaging the planet.

00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:04.600
And as a result of that realization,

00:29:05.105 --> 00:29:12.545
my wife Michelle and I decided
not to accept that model of life.

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:14.560
What that means

00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:21.080
is looking for a way out of this
groundless existence that people have

00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:25.440
and this disconnection from
the real foundation of life.

00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:27.840
The real foundation
of life is in nature.

00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:29.440
We ourselves are nature.

00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.520
So we turned to organic farming,

00:29:38.040 --> 00:29:41.200
which for me was like
a rite of initiation.

00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:47.760
Since I began on this path,
I have learned to observe life.

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.760
Observation leads us to
recognize the power of life

00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.720
and indeed the mystery of life.

00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:02.280
Take a tomato seed, for example;
a tiny, insignificant seed.

00:30:02.760 --> 00:30:05.800
You put it in the ground and it
gives you kilos of tomatoes!

00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:08.120
Something has happened here.

00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:11.120
There is a kind of intelligence
in the world.

00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:13.280
The seed doesn\'t have a brain

00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:16.920
but there is an intelligence
orchestrating all of this,

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.960
orchestrating this symphony,
this harmonisation of it all.

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.000
The problem is that we\'re disconnected
from that intelligence.

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:30.280
We\'ve chosen a mechanistic
intelligence instead, based on reason.

00:30:30.800 --> 00:30:33.880
(gentle piano music)

00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:41.680
We proclaim ourselves to be the best,

00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:45.600
the masters, the dominators,
the owners of life.

00:30:46.560 --> 00:30:50.800
But it\'s not as if the elephants
and dolphins have voted on it!

00:30:51.080 --> 00:30:53.640
We\'ve simply decided this ourselves.

00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:55.840
So we\'re really in the dark.

00:30:57.040 --> 00:31:00.560
(lively orchestral music)

00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.545
- [Marc] According to Pierre Rabhi,
the separation of man from nature

00:31:19.745 --> 00:31:22.675
is what led to the commodification
of our world.

00:31:22.875 --> 00:31:26.450
To understand how
all this had come about,

00:31:26.650 --> 00:31:30.261
we went to see the sociologist
and philosopher Frédéric Lenoir.

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:33.480
Man was separated from nature
very long ago.

00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.200
The turning point was the shift
from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic,

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:40.840
the shift away from a nomadic society

00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:43.680
of hunter-gatherers
who lived as part of nature.

00:31:44.080 --> 00:31:49.140
They believed in spirits
and invisible forces

00:31:49.340 --> 00:31:51.160
that they had to be
in harmony with.

00:31:51.520 --> 00:31:52.880
They respected nature.

00:31:53.120 --> 00:31:56.700
While hunting, a man would pray
for the soul of his prey

00:31:56.900 --> 00:32:00.400
and believed that in doing so
he was making an offering to nature.

00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:07.120
All of this changed when man
became sedentary in the Neolithic.

00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:11.460
Man separated himself from nature
to go live in villages, then towns,

00:32:11.660 --> 00:32:13.560
and he began to dominate nature.

00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:17.720
From that moment onwards, we went
from harmony with nature

00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:19.600
to the domination of it.

00:32:19.800 --> 00:32:22.600
Nature was seen as a means
to serve the needs of the city,

00:32:22.840 --> 00:32:24.840
to provide it with natural resources.

00:32:27.600 --> 00:32:29.920
During this process,
over several millennia,

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.740
reason became more important
to Man than intuition,

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:37.440
and other qualities, like the heart

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.000
and the way our bodies
connect us to nature.

00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:42.440
Reason became overly dominant.

00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.760
This led to the separation
of Man from the world he lives in.

00:32:49.760 --> 00:32:52.280
Later, during the Judeo-Christian age,

00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:55.800
Man developed an
extreme form of rationalization

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.560
in which nature was
no longer an enchanted garden,

00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:03.160
but rather a place that Man could use
and dominate, as Genesis says,

00:33:03.360 --> 00:33:05.200
and progressively pillage.

00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:14.080
Descartes made this ideology almost
sacrosanct with his famous phrase:

00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.880
\"Man must become
the master of Nature.\"

00:33:18.280 --> 00:33:20.560
The world is seen
as an inert mechanism

00:33:20.760 --> 00:33:22.000
that Man can make use of.

00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:26.240
It is the total domination
of the mind and of reason over nature.

00:33:30.760 --> 00:33:32.120
Today we can see the limits

00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:34.240
of this way of thinking.

00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.360
The disastrous consequences
on the environment,

00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:41.960
the fact that Westerners
have lost touch with their bodies,

00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.040
have problems
handling their emotions etc.

00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.480
So people want to rediscover

00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.240
that harmony
with their bodies and with nature.

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:56.920
(gentle instrumental music)

00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.230
- [Marc] At that point,
my goal was not

00:34:02.430 --> 00:34:05.623
so much to reconnect
with my body and with nature,

00:34:05.823 --> 00:34:09.546
but rather to reconnect with the workplace
and the world of business.

00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.780
(thunder rumbles)

00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:14.280
(rain pours)

00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:21.800
The hail shows that Nature is annoyed.

00:34:23.160 --> 00:34:24.600
Nature is not happy.

00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:26.520
Not happy at all.

00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.160
We\'ve really screwed up, guys!

00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:34.760
- [Marc] My old employer was offering me
a position in Sustainable Development.

00:34:35.720 --> 00:34:37.780
If it had not been for
all those encounters,

00:34:37.980 --> 00:34:39.900
I would have accepted right away.

00:34:40.100 --> 00:34:42.340
But accepting it
felt like I was negating

00:34:42.540 --> 00:34:44.180
everything I had been told.

00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:47.480
The truth was I wasn\'t so sure
of anything anymore.

00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:55.027
- [Nathanaël] We had started down
a certain path

00:34:55.227 --> 00:34:57.208
and it was almost impossible
to stop now.

00:34:57.420 --> 00:35:01.980
We wanted to learn more about this
disconnection between man and nature,

00:35:02.180 --> 00:35:04.020
between body and spirit.

00:35:04.220 --> 00:35:06.420
So we decided to go
to Central America

00:35:06.620 --> 00:35:09.100
to meet the guardians
of the ancient civilizations

00:35:09.300 --> 00:35:11.320
and explore their vision of the world.

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.760
(melodic instrumental music)

00:35:57.240 --> 00:36:00.140
- [Marc] In Mexico,
we met with Dr. Navajo,

00:36:00.340 --> 00:36:03.940
who spoke to us about the great
civilizations of Central America.

00:36:04.140 --> 00:36:07.820
After warning us about scams involving
shamans and psychotropic drugs,

00:36:08.020 --> 00:36:10.020
he insisted that we meet Tenoch,

00:36:10.220 --> 00:36:14.120
a healer who helps indigenous
communities preserve their traditions.

00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.800
(Tenoch speaking in Spanish)

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.640
This is more the age of alienation
than the age of crisis.

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.440
Those people have changed our minds

00:36:28.120 --> 00:36:31.200
and put our senses to sleep.

00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.280
When the tsunami hit,

00:36:33.520 --> 00:36:37.080
not one animal died:
they all ran to the mountains.

00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:38.760
They knew what was coming.

00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:41.880
Why didn\'t man know?
Well, he was watching TV!

00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.880
We\'ve lost the ability to observe

00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:51.200
and to foresee events
through observation.

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:56.040
Change is coming, that\'s very obvious,
and it\'s coming strongly.

00:36:56.360 --> 00:37:00.360
This is why we have to start changing
our way of thinking

00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:03.120
and begin vibrating
at a higher frequency.

00:37:06.160 --> 00:37:11.040
- How do we change the way we think?
- To change our way of thinking,

00:37:11.600 --> 00:37:14.120
stop thinking about
what we don\'t want.

00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:18.560
Your mind doesn\'t know if you want
the things you are thinking about or not.

00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:21.240
By thinking of something,
you make it manifest.

00:37:21.680 --> 00:37:25.080
So all we have to do is
change our negative thoughts

00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:26.960
to positive thoughts.

00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:30.440
If we don\'t want war,
we have to stop thinking about war.

00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:32.120
We have to think about peace.

00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:37.340
If we don\'t want disease, we have to
stop thinking about disease.

00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:39.400
We have to think about health.

00:37:39.640 --> 00:37:43.240
Think about what you want
to happen in the world,

00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:46.160
in your life,
in your actions, and in your words.

00:37:57.120 --> 00:37:59.560
The change that is coming
begins with us.

00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.300
We have to start
by changing ourselves,

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:04.840
so we can embrace
the change when it comes.

00:38:05.040 --> 00:38:07.360
We have to set an example

00:38:07.560 --> 00:38:09.600
with our words and our actions.

00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:13.240
Don\'t harm others.
Be real, be honest.

00:38:13.560 --> 00:38:15.320
Be who you really are.

00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:20.240
Don\'t hide behind masks or...

00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:22.440
... or facades, you know?

00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:26.360
When you enter the Temazcal,
you undress, right?

00:38:26.720 --> 00:38:29.880
You bare not only your body,
but also your soul, your essence.

00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:35.120
(gentle acoustic guitar music)

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.380
- [Marc] According to Tenoch,
a change of civilization is happening,

00:38:51.580 --> 00:38:54.480
but it depends on
the transformation of each individual.

00:38:58.831 --> 00:39:01.468
Those ideas were still
a bit abstract for us,

00:39:01.668 --> 00:39:03.774
so Tenoch sent us
to see his friend Marzo,

00:39:03.974 --> 00:39:07.314
who was organizing
a Temazcal ceremony that week,

00:39:07.514 --> 00:39:11.614
a kind of Mexican sauna meant to
purify the body and the mind.

00:39:11.883 --> 00:39:13.750
We decided to give it a try.

00:39:14.600 --> 00:39:16.440
We can\'t turn up like Conquistadors.

00:39:17.200 --> 00:39:18.840
We should stop filming for now.

00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:21.560
But if he\'s connected
he knows we\'re coming.

00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:23.600
He\'ll be expecting us.

00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.920
(animals squawking)

00:39:38.600 --> 00:39:40.440
Modern man

00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:42.400
separates himself

00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.600
when...

00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:48.960
when he loses sight of the fact

00:39:50.080 --> 00:39:52.560
that he is one with everything,

00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:57.960
that his very Self is an integral part
of the whole cosmos.

00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:08.120
If Man has no cosmic identity,
he turns into a robot,

00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:10.280
a mechanical being,

00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:12.600
a being that...

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:14.560
does things without thinking

00:40:15.160 --> 00:40:16.880
and acts out of habit.

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.840
Man won\'t last much longer like this.

00:40:20.240 --> 00:40:21.440
No one could.

00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:24.560
The end result of all this is madness.

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:26.800
People just go crazy.

00:40:39.240 --> 00:40:44.000
We know that our strength
does not lie in military arms

00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:46.400
or in scientific progress,

00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:48.240
but rather...

00:40:49.640 --> 00:40:52.640
in the respect and love we show
to our Mother Earth.

00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:56.320
This is why we believe
in ceremonies.

00:41:03.640 --> 00:41:06.360
The Temazcal
is like a place of communion,

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:09.960
a bath of purification.

00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:12.840
a place where

00:41:13.640 --> 00:41:17.040
we transform all our emotions

00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:20.680
and leave behind
whatever we don\'t want.

00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:23.960
we come out like a new born.

00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:27.480
The Temazcal is a gift from life.

00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.720
A gift of love.

00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.120
(fire crackling)

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.520
(woman singing in Spanish)

00:42:06.240 --> 00:42:10.120
- [Marc] Our experience in the Temazcal
took us by surprise, to say the least.

00:42:10.640 --> 00:42:14.340
It was nearly 150°F in that hut.

00:42:14.540 --> 00:42:15.680
I couldn\'t leave.

00:42:16.640 --> 00:42:19.820
In order to stay inside,
I had to let myself go

00:42:20.020 --> 00:42:22.460
and I glued my body
to the cool soil of the earth

00:42:22.660 --> 00:42:23.920
to be able to breathe.

00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:28.780
(woman singing in Spanish)

00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:31.480
(steam hisses)

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:37.680
As the chanting went on,
painful episodes of my life surfaced.

00:42:42.520 --> 00:42:44.020
I had to face my fears

00:42:44.220 --> 00:42:47.380
and all the pathetic agreements
that we make with ourselves

00:42:47.580 --> 00:42:49.400
that keep us from being genuine.

00:42:51.040 --> 00:42:53.480
It was like a deep,
internal cleansing.

00:42:55.240 --> 00:42:58.800
Nathanaël and I left that hut
feeling joyful and calm.

00:42:59.960 --> 00:43:02.800
(birds squawking)

00:43:07.520 --> 00:43:14.920
We\'re not just bodies
living a spiritual experience.

00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:21.040
we are actually spiritual beings
living a human experience,

00:43:21.560 --> 00:43:23.040
a material experience.

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.040
- Thank you so much.
- You\'re welcome, my brother.

00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:50.060
- [Marc] After our stay in Chiapas,

00:43:50.260 --> 00:43:53.480
I started asking myself
some strange questions.

00:43:54.080 --> 00:43:58.640
Questions about my true identity
and how this universe really functions.

00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:03.020
According to various
Eastern philosophies

00:44:03.220 --> 00:44:05.060
and certain indigenous cultures,

00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:07.420
it\'s a bit like
in the movie, \"The Matrix.\"

00:44:07.620 --> 00:44:11.580
The reality around us is an illusion
perceived by our five senses

00:44:11.780 --> 00:44:13.400
and decoded by our brain.

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:17.940
The body is just a vehicle

00:44:18.140 --> 00:44:21.440
to allow the soul to experience
this material world.

00:44:30.600 --> 00:44:34.340
- [Nathanaël] At this point, our film was
totally skidding off the tracks!

00:44:34.540 --> 00:44:38.660
But this theme of self-awareness was
too exciting for us to stop exploring.

00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:40.500
So we went to see a mystic,

00:44:40.700 --> 00:44:44.160
and asked her our questions
about the true nature of reality.

00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:47.000
Welcome to the
documentary \"Plan B\"!

00:44:47.200 --> 00:44:50.520
Ladies and gentlemen, broadcasting
all the way from Lake Atitlan!

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:52.440
You think that\'s good?

00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.160
I should speak in Spanish,
not English, right?

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.080
- Or in English?
- Better in Spanish, no?

00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.480
Yes, because my English is really bad!

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:06.360
The thing is, we see
only one side of Creation.

00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:09.160
This is a characteristic
of human beings.

00:45:09.520 --> 00:45:12.840
We see only what is visible.
Let\'s put it like that.

00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.960
But there\'s a whole other side
that is invisible,

00:45:16.200 --> 00:45:19.200
that can only be seen
with the eyes of the soul.

00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:24.320
You have to open your heart
and open your mind

00:45:24.600 --> 00:45:29.800
in order to allow
this level of perception.

00:45:30.640 --> 00:45:32.920
There are spiritual paths,

00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:35.800
therapies, yoga, meditation,

00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:43.120
and many other things there to help
us awaken to a more subtle reality.

00:45:47.080 --> 00:45:49.400
For example, this lake:

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.880
if we come to the lake
early in the morning

00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:55.120
we can see the bottom.

00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.880
Why? Because the lake is totally calm,

00:45:59.600 --> 00:46:02.800
so you can see the bottom very easily.

00:46:03.600 --> 00:46:05.720
What if you come in the afternoon?

00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:10.000
There are waves on the water
that prevent you from seeing the bottom.

00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:14.240
What do we see when we apply
this example to human beings?

00:46:14.720 --> 00:46:17.080
Our minds are full of thoughts :

00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:19.440
\"Should I do this ? Should I do that ?\"

00:46:19.640 --> 00:46:22.680
\"Maybe I should. Maybe not.
Should I stay? Should I go..?\"

00:46:23.240 --> 00:46:25.800
This endless ta-ca-ta-ca-ta
in your mind, right?

00:46:26.040 --> 00:46:27.400
This happens to us all.

00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:33.120
Meditation is there to reduce
this endless ta-ca-ta-ca-ta...

00:46:33.520 --> 00:46:34.960
and calm the mind,

00:46:35.200 --> 00:46:41.280
so that you can experience the state
of silence that is inside you.

00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:52.320
(gentle instrumental music)
(animals squawking)

00:47:26.040 --> 00:47:28.880
We are all one.
There is no division.

00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.760
What happens is that
human beings see things in fragments.

00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:37.480
When we enter the dimension of time
and space, everything gets divided.

00:47:37.720 --> 00:47:39.800
We see the past, present and future.

00:47:40.680 --> 00:47:44.160
We see one person and another
then we divide everything.

00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:46.560
The only thing
that really exists is Unity.

00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:49.440
But we are not aware of it.

00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.080
- [Marc] We stopped for a while to see
what was behind the \"ta-ca-ta-ca-ta...\"

00:48:00.640 --> 00:48:05.080
We took up a tough program,
including meditation, fasting, and yoga.

00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:08.700
We ended up hurting our backs,
but with a bit of practice,

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:12.980
we observed all those uncontrollable
thoughts that poison our lives,

00:48:13.180 --> 00:48:16.660
disconnecting the auto-pilot
to stay in the present moment,

00:48:16.860 --> 00:48:19.240
without judgment or expectations.

00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:31.720
The ocean contains many drops.

00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:35.040
If we take a drop of
water out of the ocean,

00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:39.760
each one contains the same elements

00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:41.920
as the open ocean.

00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:47.440
The ocean is the universal mind
we sometimes call \"God\",

00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:49.320
or \"Energy\".

00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.160
Inside every person,
there is some of this divine element.

00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:59.840
Inside you, and him, and me.
Inside all of us. You see?

00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:06.120
Our mission is to unify ourselves
with this divine element.

00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:24.960
(On the wall : \"If you want to live,
let mother earth live.\")

00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:36.420
(gentle pop music)
(distant radio chatter)

00:49:36.620 --> 00:49:39.540
♫ Don\'t be afraid

00:49:39.740 --> 00:49:42.480
♫ Don\'t be afraid

00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:48.080
♫ Don\'t be afraid

00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:53.160
♫ Just don\'t be afraid

00:49:56.680 --> 00:49:58.660
- [Nathanaël] Having just arrived
in San Francisco,

00:49:58.860 --> 00:50:02.080
we left our bags at Liat\'s house,
whom we\'d met in Guatemala.

00:50:04.680 --> 00:50:06.220
Our rational way of thinking

00:50:06.420 --> 00:50:09.460
needed to confront
the teachings of the ancient wisdoms

00:50:09.660 --> 00:50:12.040
with the scientific understanding
of the world.

00:50:13.080 --> 00:50:15.380
So we took advantage
of a conference in the area

00:50:15.580 --> 00:50:19.080
to meet astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan
and ask him a few questions.

00:50:31.200 --> 00:50:33.480
Twentieth-century science

00:50:34.160 --> 00:50:37.520
has only just discovered,
or rediscovered,

00:50:37.720 --> 00:50:40.200
what Buddhism
has been telling us for 2500 years,

00:50:40.600 --> 00:50:43.720
namely the concept of interdependence.

00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:45.840
Everything is connected.

00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.360
Science has taught us since the 1950s

00:50:54.600 --> 00:50:58.200
that we\'re all made of star dust;
we\'re children of the stars.

00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:01.560
In fact, all the atoms in our bodies

00:51:02.080 --> 00:51:04.560
are made from the
nuclear reactions of the stars.

00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.400
If it weren\'t for the stars,
we wouldn\'t even exist.

00:51:07.720 --> 00:51:10.880
So we\'re interdependent with
the stars and the cosmos.

00:51:12.560 --> 00:51:14.920
There\'s another kind
of interdependence

00:51:15.640 --> 00:51:18.400
that has been shown to us
by quantum mechanics,

00:51:18.680 --> 00:51:20.800
the physics of the
infinitely small.

00:51:21.520 --> 00:51:24.720
This concept states that
if two particles have interacted,

00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:29.400
even if you separate them by
two million light years

00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:32.640
they will still remember
having interacted.

00:51:33.240 --> 00:51:36.720
What you do to one particle
affects the other instantly

00:51:37.160 --> 00:51:39.840
with no communication
of information between them.

00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:44.840
This means reality
has to be seen as a global entity,

00:51:45.080 --> 00:51:47.240
rather than a local entity, you see.

00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:51.880
So once again this means that
we\'re all connected to one another,

00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.080
that everything is interdependent.

00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:57.680
(birds chirping)

00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:01.040
The conclusion I draw
from this is that

00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.800
Science is not the only way
to observe reality.

00:52:05.040 --> 00:52:07.600
There are other windows onto reality,

00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:11.240
such as spirituality,
in this case Buddhism.

00:52:11.640 --> 00:52:18.680
I think the great sages
such as Christ or the Buddha,

00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:22.400
who saw things common mortals
don\'t see, have much to teach us.

00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:26.520
And great poets like Rimbaud
and Baudelaire, they too

00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:29.040
tell us a great deal about reality.

00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.832
So I think it\'s arrogant

00:52:32.032 --> 00:52:37.166
to say Science alone
can give us access to reality.

00:52:38.080 --> 00:52:39.480
Perfect, thank you so much.

00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:44.720
(gentle ambient music)

00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.060
- [Marc] If Science confirms
that we are all interdependent,

00:52:49.260 --> 00:52:52.940
then war, famine,
and the destruction of the environment

00:52:53.140 --> 00:52:54.560
seem even more absurd.

00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:57.940
Not far from San Francisco,

00:52:58.140 --> 00:53:00.780
the Institute of Noetic Science
has been studying

00:53:00.980 --> 00:53:02.820
the mysteries of human consciousness

00:53:03.020 --> 00:53:04.320
for more than 40 years.

00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:09.660
Cassandra Vieten,
the Director of the Institute,

00:53:09.860 --> 00:53:12.320
introduced us
to a whole new point of view.

00:53:16.068 --> 00:53:18.361
- We\'re not, not feeding
everyone in the world,

00:53:18.580 --> 00:53:21.580
because there isn\'t enough food.
We\'re not feeding everyone in the world,

00:53:21.780 --> 00:53:24.180
because our limited consciousness

00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:27.700
hasn\'t come to a solution
that allows us to do that.

00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:30.860
That makes it a necessity to do that.

00:53:31.060 --> 00:53:33.860
So many of the problems
that we are facing,

00:53:34.060 --> 00:53:36.420
as a species, on this planet,

00:53:36.620 --> 00:53:40.680
are grounded in limitations,
in our human consciousness.

00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:44.940
Inequity of resources, violence,

00:53:45.140 --> 00:53:48.120
war, climate change, they spring from

00:53:51.080 --> 00:53:53.240
the way we view the world.

00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:01.940
One of the projects we\'re working on here,

00:54:02.140 --> 00:54:04.420
at the Institute of
Noetic Sciences is called

00:54:04.620 --> 00:54:06.580
worldview literacy, where we\'re

00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:10.060
helping people see how
they view everything

00:54:10.260 --> 00:54:12.220
through a worldview.

00:54:12.420 --> 00:54:15.780
It\'s almost as though they\'re looking
through a pair of glasses.

00:54:15.980 --> 00:54:19.640
And their worldview
arises from many factors.

00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:24.880
Genetics, culture, religion,
how they were raised,

00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:28.860
what they\'ve learned in
school, the experiences

00:54:29.060 --> 00:54:30.820
they\'ve had in their lives.

00:54:31.020 --> 00:54:34.820
And most of us are not aware of
the worldviews we\'re holding.

00:54:35.020 --> 00:54:37.900
We think they\'re just the truth.

00:54:38.100 --> 00:54:42.546
And so, one of the things
that self inquiry brings to us,

00:54:42.746 --> 00:54:47.145
one of the things that
contemplative practices can do for us,

00:54:47.420 --> 00:54:52.500
is we begin to recognize that
our thoughts are just thoughts.

00:54:52.700 --> 00:54:55.220
Our beliefs are just our beliefs.

00:54:55.420 --> 00:54:58.260
And they are not really who we are.

00:54:58.460 --> 00:55:01.780
They\'re just, sort of, working hypotheses.

00:55:01.980 --> 00:55:04.640
(birds chirping)

00:55:07.828 --> 00:55:10.831
So you may be, for example,
sitting in meditation,

00:55:11.031 --> 00:55:13.688
and find out, wow,

00:55:13.888 --> 00:55:16.050
I really see the world
as a dangerous place,

00:55:16.250 --> 00:55:21.817
and that\'s been influencing everything,
since the time I was a little kid.

00:55:22.020 --> 00:55:25.700
What if I didn\'t see the
world as a dangerous place?

00:55:25.900 --> 00:55:32.340
And when that kind of a shift happens,
behavior changes, thoughts change,

00:55:32.540 --> 00:55:37.664
relationships change, motivations,
priorities, values change,

00:55:37.864 --> 00:55:39.954
and that\'s really
the kind of transformation

00:55:40.154 --> 00:55:42.279
we are interested in studying.

00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:47.940
- [Marc] While listening to Cassandra
in the woods,

00:55:48.140 --> 00:55:50.700
I realized the beliefs
I had built my life on

00:55:50.900 --> 00:55:52.900
had totally collapsed during this trip.

00:55:53.100 --> 00:55:55.020
They had been replaced
by new hypotheses,

00:55:55.220 --> 00:55:58.300
like the gut feeling that the world
is just not made of matter,

00:55:58.500 --> 00:56:00.740
or that chasing after money
and social status

00:56:00.940 --> 00:56:03.520
leads us away from
what is really important.

00:56:03.782 --> 00:56:05.514
The problem was
all these new beliefs

00:56:05.714 --> 00:56:08.119
were totally out of sync
with the world around me.

00:56:08.399 --> 00:56:09.461
Everywhere I looked,

00:56:09.700 --> 00:56:12.580
I saw messages inciting people
to consume and pollute.

00:56:12.780 --> 00:56:15.200
I was turning into
a bit of a schizophrenic!

00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:18.960
(gentle rock music)

00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:51.660
- [Marc] It was time to see a specialist.

00:56:51.860 --> 00:56:54.100
So we made an appointment
with Dr. Bruce Lipton

00:56:54.300 --> 00:56:57.280
to try to understand
how collective beliefs take shape.

00:56:57.840 --> 00:56:59.180
(stammers)

00:56:59.380 --> 00:57:02.820
- I\'ll get the water going,
then you\'ll pick a tea.

00:57:03.020 --> 00:57:04.213
- Okay.
- [Marc] Perfect!

00:57:04.493 --> 00:57:08.636
- When I first was talking about this,
people said, \"Oh, he\'s crazy.\"

00:57:08.836 --> 00:57:10.339
You know, \"Oh, you\'re crazy!\"

00:57:10.539 --> 00:57:12.915
And now, I say some of the things I say,

00:57:13.115 --> 00:57:16.418
and the scientists go,
\"What are you saying that\'s new?\"

00:57:16.620 --> 00:57:18.860
(laughs)
Now, I\'m boring.

00:57:19.060 --> 00:57:21.380
(laughs)

00:57:21.885 --> 00:57:28.134
The world, as we see it, is an expression
of the collective beliefs of a population.

00:57:28.334 --> 00:57:30.338
Or at least a large number of them.

00:57:30.538 --> 00:57:32.913
And therefore,
when we look at the world today,

00:57:33.113 --> 00:57:35.225
in crisis, and failing,

00:57:35.425 --> 00:57:39.025
and science has recognized
that the extinction

00:57:39.225 --> 00:57:42.845
that lies in front of us,
is due to human behavior,

00:57:43.045 --> 00:57:46.423
and that human behavior
has been programmed by culture,

00:57:46.623 --> 00:57:50.121
then it says if you want
to evolve, and survive,

00:57:50.321 --> 00:57:54.254
this crisis, we have to
change the belief systems.

00:57:54.454 --> 00:57:56.900
Einstein\'s...
I love the famous quote.

00:57:57.100 --> 00:57:59.580
It\'s like, \"You cannot solve the problems

00:57:59.780 --> 00:58:03.660
\"with the same thinking
that created the problem.\"

00:58:03.860 --> 00:58:07.220
And the beliefs are based on this.

00:58:07.420 --> 00:58:10.177
There are three questions
they call the perennial questions

00:58:10.377 --> 00:58:14.107
that have been asked by humans
for 10,000 years.

00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:17.640
How did we get here?

00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:21.320
Why are we here?

00:58:23.240 --> 00:58:25.940
And how do we make the best of it?

00:58:26.140 --> 00:58:28.547
(smacks lips)
Okay?

00:58:29.174 --> 00:58:34.365
The answers to the questions,
when a population accepts the answers

00:58:34.565 --> 00:58:37.998
from some individual,
or some organization,

00:58:38.198 --> 00:58:41.163
they also make that individual,
or organization

00:58:41.363 --> 00:58:45.260
the truth provider,
for the rest of the questions of life.

00:58:45.540 --> 00:58:49.063
The church said the
spiritual world is primary.

00:58:49.272 --> 00:58:53.315
But science,
especially after Isaac Newton said

00:58:53.515 --> 00:58:55.647
you don\'t need
to have a spiritual element,

00:58:55.927 --> 00:58:58.980
it\'s just the physical world.
It\'s like a clock, it\'s a machine.

00:58:59.180 --> 00:59:02.140
(clock ticks)

00:59:02.340 --> 00:59:06.100
So, when science took over,
it was after Charles Darwin,

00:59:06.300 --> 00:59:10.320
because Charles Darwin provided
the answers to the questions.

00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:15.260
\'Cause we got here
through random mutations.

00:59:15.460 --> 00:59:17.100
Why are we here?

00:59:17.300 --> 00:59:20.800
No reason at all,
because it\'s an accident.

00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:27.380
How do you make the best of it,
and that was when everything went crazy,

00:59:27.580 --> 00:59:30.420
because it said, oh
you live in a struggle.

00:59:30.620 --> 00:59:34.020
Evolution is a struggle, and
to survive you gotta fight.

00:59:34.220 --> 00:59:35.620
And you gotta compete.

00:59:35.820 --> 00:59:38.541
So we bought a belief that
the world is not our friend.

00:59:38.741 --> 00:59:40.637
But we have to go out everyday,

00:59:40.837 --> 00:59:43.596
and fight for life,
so we bought that belief.

00:59:43.796 --> 00:59:47.656
(horns honking)
(lively piano music)

00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.420
That\'s the world we live in today.

00:59:56.620 --> 00:59:59.900
The belief of a material world,
spirit\'s not really relevant.

01:00:00.100 --> 01:00:04.420
And that we\'re in competition to who\'s
gonna win, and who\'s gonna die?

01:00:04.620 --> 01:00:08.167
Those beliefs have now changed,
\'cause the leading edge of science

01:00:08.367 --> 01:00:09.550
has new answers.

01:00:09.750 --> 01:00:11.650
So we didn\'t get here
through random mutation,

01:00:11.850 --> 01:00:15.706
we got here through what are
called adaptive mutations.

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:19.060
The ability of an organism
to fit the environment.

01:00:19.260 --> 01:00:23.340
And so every organism was part
of a collection of a whole.

01:00:23.540 --> 01:00:25.540
There was no individual
organisms showing up,

01:00:25.740 --> 01:00:28.900
they were all created to
fit into the structure

01:00:29.100 --> 01:00:32.380
of the environment, the biosphere.

01:00:32.580 --> 01:00:37.680
So we had a purpose, we were here
to bring harmony to the environment.

01:00:40.869 --> 01:00:45.032
And because we haven\'t done that,
we are now risking our lives,

01:00:45.232 --> 01:00:48.942
so the evolution is pushing us
to the next higher level.

01:00:49.142 --> 01:00:51.608
To recognize that we are all one.

01:00:51.808 --> 01:00:56.047
That all of humanity is one organism,
and we are the cells,

01:00:56.247 --> 01:00:59.762
and that when we fight each other
we\'re killing ourselves,

01:00:59.962 --> 01:01:02.429
and we\'re destroying the planet.

01:01:02.700 --> 01:01:06.120
(somber orchestral music)

01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:40.300
Every time the answers changed,
the previous civilization ends,

01:01:40.500 --> 01:01:42.899
and a new civilization begins,

01:01:43.099 --> 01:01:46.414
built on a new truth,
and a new belief, and a new way of life.

01:01:46.694 --> 01:01:50.311
So, when the new science
enters into the public,

01:01:50.945 --> 01:01:53.987
then the public will have a
new direction and way to go,

01:01:54.538 --> 01:01:57.969
but we\'re at the stage
where the old one is coming down,

01:01:58.169 --> 01:02:00.508
and the new one is being built.

01:02:01.420 --> 01:02:04.180
And your work is part of bringing

01:02:04.380 --> 01:02:07.180
the world a new vision
that is more sustainable,

01:02:07.380 --> 01:02:09.380
and something that will keep us alive.

01:02:09.580 --> 01:02:13.940
Rather than the beliefs that we\'ve been
using, that are now killing us.

01:02:14.140 --> 01:02:16.900
And so you\'re seeing an
evolution in process right now.

01:02:17.100 --> 01:02:20.000
(lively jazz music)

01:02:30.281 --> 01:02:35.030
- [Marc] Finally, the activists,
the shamans, all the scientists we met

01:02:35.310 --> 01:02:38.110
all had spoken of the arrival
of a new civilization,

01:02:38.340 --> 01:02:41.680
conscious of its interdependence
and more in harmony with life.

01:02:43.520 --> 01:02:46.100
This new story was being written
by the Dervaes family,

01:02:46.300 --> 01:02:47.640
whom we had met in India.

01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:52.580
In a garden a tenth of an acre,
right in the middle of Los Angeles,

01:02:52.780 --> 01:02:54.460
they produce every year,

01:02:54.660 --> 01:02:57.500
more than three tons
of organic fruits and vegetables

01:02:57.700 --> 01:02:59.320
with good humor and joy.

01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:01.900
(group laughs)

01:03:02.100 --> 01:03:04.580
- He\'s like... He\'s like...

01:03:04.780 --> 01:03:05.848
(group laughs)

01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:09.540
Well at first we were weird.
(laughs)

01:03:09.740 --> 01:03:11.939
We didn\'t look like we belong anywhere,

01:03:12.139 --> 01:03:13.781
and we were out of step
with the modern world.

01:03:13.981 --> 01:03:16.010
We were going back, and when you go back

01:03:16.210 --> 01:03:18.902
you separate yourself from
those people going forward.

01:03:19.140 --> 01:03:25.208
But then we became
normal with a good press, good success,

01:03:25.408 --> 01:03:28.741
and we started our own business
selling our surplus to restaurants,

01:03:28.941 --> 01:03:30.764
and we became well known for that,

01:03:30.964 --> 01:03:34.011
and now we\'re accepted
and people are copying that.

01:03:34.211 --> 01:03:35.236
- Do you want me to use that?

01:03:35.436 --> 01:03:36.747
- Yeah, use that up,
and then grate some more.

01:03:37.027 --> 01:03:40.747
- So, I figured, we were here to take
care of this planet, as our home,

01:03:41.060 --> 01:03:43.900
and that we were stewards
of the planet, not owners.

01:03:44.100 --> 01:03:45.180
But renters.

01:03:45.380 --> 01:03:48.980
And if you know anything about renting,
you don\'t trash the place.

01:03:49.180 --> 01:03:52.160
If you trash your apartment, you pay.

01:03:55.720 --> 01:03:59.660
Well you talk about all cycles,
this is what you would do...

01:03:59.860 --> 01:04:02.900
Anywhere if you have
extra greens and waste,

01:04:03.100 --> 01:04:06.540
you hand it to the animals,
they turn the waste into fertilizer,

01:04:06.740 --> 01:04:11.958
fertilizer goes back into the garden,
and you just do it over, and over again.

01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:17.480
(water pours)
(lively instrumental music)

01:04:20.160 --> 01:04:25.280
Here\'s where we take our...
Gray water, they call it.

01:04:27.326 --> 01:04:29.175
Working with nature
is one of the hardest things

01:04:29.375 --> 01:04:30.935
because man wants to control nature.

01:04:31.140 --> 01:04:35.100
They want to dominate over nature,
and tell nature what to do.

01:04:35.300 --> 01:04:39.340
And they say the worst mistake a gardener
can make is to think he\'s in control.

01:04:39.540 --> 01:04:41.300
And the hard thing was to let go,

01:04:41.500 --> 01:04:45.060
and see if we can work
in harmony with nature.

01:04:45.260 --> 01:04:49.180
It was hard, okay?
But hard, it doesn\'t mean bad.

01:04:49.380 --> 01:04:54.340
(Marc speaking in French)
We have to teach her...

01:04:54.540 --> 01:04:57.780
I feel that the hope is in
the individual, not in the...

01:04:57.980 --> 01:05:00.860
You don\'t hope for the government,
and you don\'t hope for the corporations,

01:05:01.060 --> 01:05:02.420
because they got their own agenda.

01:05:02.620 --> 01:05:07.260
And you can\'t pierce their agenda,
but you can go inside your soul,

01:05:07.460 --> 01:05:09.460
and see what you can do as an individual.

01:05:09.660 --> 01:05:13.223
And in this day and age we are empowered.
We\'re not ignorant.

01:05:13.423 --> 01:05:17.900
And that gives me hope, that some people
will see this as a solution.

01:05:18.100 --> 01:05:20.100
Living the solution, not thinking it,

01:05:20.300 --> 01:05:24.340
not talking it, but walking,
and living the solution.

01:05:24.540 --> 01:05:28.120
(gentle instrumental music)

01:05:33.240 --> 01:05:34.740
- [Woman] No, no, Petra.

01:05:34.940 --> 01:05:37.320
(goat bleats)

01:05:54.200 --> 01:05:57.360
You don\'t need a pair of
Gucci sunglasses

01:05:57.720 --> 01:05:59.440
to enjoy a beautiful sunset.

01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:01.560
That\'s what really makes you happy.

01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:10.480
(plane engine rumbles)

01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:25.120
(lively instrumental music)

01:06:34.080 --> 01:06:36.140
- [Nathanaël] Marc and I
returned to France.

01:06:36.340 --> 01:06:39.880
We were absolutely convinced
that a change was about to take place.

01:06:41.240 --> 01:06:45.640
All over the planet, citizens
were aspiring to this new world.

01:06:46.080 --> 01:06:49.720
(dramatic orchestral music)

01:06:54.640 --> 01:06:57.140
And then it all fell apart.

01:06:57.340 --> 01:06:58.820
The rebellions were crushed,

01:06:59.020 --> 01:07:01.400
and the general unrest
and discontentment resumed.

01:07:02.520 --> 01:07:06.280
We were wondering what was preventing
this new story from being written.

01:07:10.520 --> 01:07:13.640
To our friends who led regular lives,
we were dreamers.

01:07:14.080 --> 01:07:16.620
We had no jobs,
we had no more career plans,

01:07:16.820 --> 01:07:18.360
and no one to produce our film.

01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.160
We felt a bit out of touch.

01:07:26.920 --> 01:07:31.080
(woman singing in French)
(somber pop music)

01:08:41.320 --> 01:08:44.620
- [Announcer] Please mind the gaps between
the train, and the platform.

01:08:44.820 --> 01:08:48.880
(woman singing in French)
(somber pop music)

01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:18.220
-[Marc] By digging a little bit deeper,
we finally understood

01:09:18.420 --> 01:09:20.920
what was preventing
the new world from emerging.

01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:23.580
(radio host speaking in French)

01:09:23.780 --> 01:09:26.200
On \"Terre à terre\",
the environmental program,

01:09:26.560 --> 01:09:30.240
we\'re exploring the links
between ecology and politics

01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:33.920
with Hervé Kempf, journalist
for the newspaper Le Monde and writer.

01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:41.640
Democracy is in such a degraded state
that we need to ask ourselves

01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.440
if we haven\'t slipped into
a kind of oligarchy

01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:48.800
in which a handful of people determine
the fate of the entire population

01:09:49.040 --> 01:09:50.200
on fundamental issues.

01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:52.760
The oligarchs are democratic
between themselves,

01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:56.320
they deliberate between themselves,
but once the decision is made

01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.400
and they\'ve adopted their
belief system and value code,

01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:00.840
they put them into play.

01:10:01.080 --> 01:10:06.440
Because of course they control
most of the mass media.

01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:09.960
They own the main TV channels,
big newspapers and radio stations.

01:10:10.200 --> 01:10:13.000
The trouble is that
these values they hold

01:10:13.400 --> 01:10:17.520
are completely incompatible with the
fundamental problem we\'re faced with,

01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:20.120
namely the worldwide
environmental crisis.

01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:26.080
Capitalism has had its day.

01:10:26.320 --> 01:10:30.440
It\'s an old system
that has outlived its glory days.

01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:34.880
Its dynamism and energy
had many positive aspects,

01:10:35.120 --> 01:10:36.880
it would be absurd to deny that,

01:10:37.080 --> 01:10:40.400
but it has passed its prime now,
like other systems before it.

01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:44.800
It\'s rotting, falling apart, collapsing.

01:10:47.160 --> 01:10:52.240
So the way I see it,
we\'re in a period of historic transition.

01:10:53.280 --> 01:10:56.000
We are moving into a new age,
a new phase of history.

01:10:56.240 --> 01:10:59.880
But will we succeed
in creating a form of post-capitalism

01:11:00.280 --> 01:11:02.200
that is ecological and fair,

01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:07.400
that is preoccupied with the freedom
and dignity of human beings,

01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.440
that can build a new relationship

01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:15.000
between our now-united
human society and the biosphere?

01:11:15.400 --> 01:11:18.800
Or will we end up with a
totalitarian post-capitalist regime,

01:11:19.040 --> 01:11:24.800
in which the oligarchy becomes
more and more authoritarian,

01:11:25.040 --> 01:11:26.640
enforcing its will violently?

01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:29.320
That\'s the big question
and I don\'t know...

01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:33.000
I can\'t say which
direction it will take.

01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:37.360
Should I put this sentence
in the section before?

01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:40.400
- That\'s totally kick-ass!
- Yeah, that\'s not bad.

01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:44.240
They\'ll understand that
you\'ve been conditioned.

01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:48.638
- [Marc] According to Hervé Kempf,

01:11:48.838 --> 01:11:50.992
the rise of finance
and of multinational corporations

01:11:51.192 --> 01:11:53.028
has taken its toll on democracy.

01:11:53.260 --> 01:11:55.500
Instead of addressing the real issues,

01:11:55.700 --> 01:11:59.940
like the destruction of the environment
and the unequal distribution of wealth,

01:12:00.140 --> 01:12:02.420
the experts in the media
continue repeating

01:12:02.620 --> 01:12:04.040
the same three messages.

01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:07.380
1. Neo-liberalism
is the best system there is.

01:12:07.580 --> 01:12:09.660
There are no other alternatives.

01:12:09.860 --> 01:12:13.140
2. The world is in trouble,
but there\'s nothing you can do about it,

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:16.460
so just let the experts
take care of it for you.

01:12:16.660 --> 01:12:20.380
3. Growth and technology will
solve all of humanity\'s problems.

01:12:20.580 --> 01:12:24.200
So consume and have fun.
Everything is under control.

01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:28.120
(energetic rock music)

01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:35.520
(sirens blare)

01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:41.280
We needed to take a step back.

01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:45.540
It was necessary to dig into
our interviews to find something

01:12:45.740 --> 01:12:49.360
that would help facilitate this
transition that seemed blocked.

01:12:50.040 --> 01:12:52.800
We\'re too dependent on
political parties and so on,

01:12:53.040 --> 01:12:55.240
these kinds of \'clans\'
that exist today.

01:12:56.040 --> 01:12:59.360
But politics today isn\'t in sync
with the reality of the world,

01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:00.680
not at all.

01:13:01.280 --> 01:13:05.200
We\'ve been trying to keep this
mess going for a very long time now,

01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:10.080
desperately trying to support
a system that\'s dead.

01:13:10.320 --> 01:13:11.320
It\'s already dead.

01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:15.000
It can\'t provide work for everyone,
it can no longer...

01:13:16.080 --> 01:13:19.120
It\'s already dead and yet
we insist on keeping it alive.

01:13:19.520 --> 01:13:24.360
Meanwhile, civil society is finding
innovative new alternatives.

01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:28.440
But to innovate, we have to
abandon those fundamental ideologies

01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:32.000
based on unlimited profit
and unlimited growth.

01:13:32.240 --> 01:13:33.440
We have to give that up.

01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:39.680
If we create this new civilization -
what I call the \"moderation civilization\",

01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:44.120
the elegance of moderation -
then we have a future.

01:13:44.320 --> 01:13:47.760
The planet\'s resources are bountiful.

01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:53.840
Look at the abundance in my garden.
Sometimes it\'s even too much!

01:13:54.200 --> 01:13:55.800
So Nature isn\'t the problem here.

01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:59.440
Everything we need
for a new world is right here,

01:13:59.840 --> 01:14:02.160
but this new world
will never arrive

01:14:02.400 --> 01:14:05.960
if we don\'t give up the ideology
that underpinned the old world.

01:14:06.520 --> 01:14:08.360
That\'s all I can say about it.

01:14:12.080 --> 01:14:14.440
We don\'t call it the
\'fight against violence\'.

01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:17.960
We can\'t touch the aggressors
if we \'fight against violence\'.

01:14:18.200 --> 01:14:19.380
There\'s no one to fight.

01:14:19.580 --> 01:14:21.600
We prefer a
\"good treatment campaign\".

01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:24.780
- [Marc] Renouncing the old vision,
stepping outside of the box

01:14:24.980 --> 01:14:27.300
and innovating
according to other values...

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This is what Marianne Sébastien,
whom we met during a forum, is doing.

01:14:32.432 --> 01:14:33.640
For the past 20 years,

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she has been working with
the marginalized people of Bolivia,

01:14:37.032 --> 01:14:39.250
and helping them
by integrating personal development

01:14:39.450 --> 01:14:41.151
with entrepreneurship.

01:14:41.620 --> 01:14:45.480
This approach as allowed the creation
of a new society based on non-violence.

01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:48.920
- Ciao, Marianne!

01:14:51.160 --> 01:14:53.280
- Shall I sit here ?
- Sure, there\'s fine.

01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:55.920
There\'s a lot to be done.

01:14:56.360 --> 01:15:01.200
We need people to witness the fact
that anything is possible, right now.

01:15:01.560 --> 01:15:03.640
You don\'t need to
have read all the books

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or developed all the theories
on global warming.

01:15:07.520 --> 01:15:10.240
Love is what warms us.
That\'s our internal climate.

01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:11.680
Let love do the work!

01:15:11.880 --> 01:15:13.680
When you think about it,

01:15:14.200 --> 01:15:20.440
all that time spent making dramatic
assessments of the situation,

01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:23.040
that takes a lot of time,
I can tell you.

01:15:23.480 --> 01:15:27.080
How much time has been spent
actually putting solutions into action

01:15:27.320 --> 01:15:30.080
or doing things that
transform the world immediately?

01:15:33.320 --> 01:15:35.320
When you live with
children who die

01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:38.400
– and kids dying is not
how things are supposed to be –

01:15:38.920 --> 01:15:43.360
or with people who have been exploited
in the mines for generations,

01:15:44.440 --> 01:15:46.320
the only thing that matters is joy.

01:15:47.200 --> 01:15:48.600
All that matters is laughter.

01:15:49.640 --> 01:15:53.000
If I had not laughed and sung
with hundreds of prisoners,

01:15:53.200 --> 01:15:55.720
or people living
on the streets in Bolivia,

01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:57.400
Voix Libres would not exist.

01:15:58.240 --> 01:16:01.600
So... it\'s not down to me,
because laughter

01:16:02.120 --> 01:16:05.580
and love are in each person\'s heart,
waiting to be uncovered.

01:16:05.780 --> 01:16:09.080
Life has wrapped our hearts
in a soggy piece of paper

01:16:09.320 --> 01:16:10.800
and the fire can\'t catch.

01:16:14.200 --> 01:16:17.240
A developmental specialist
once told me he\'d never seen

01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:24.520
an NGO or a charity that bases all of
its programs on interiority.

01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:28.200
For me, outer development cannot
exist without inner development,

01:16:28.440 --> 01:16:31.520
so let\'s stop and give
people alternatives.

01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:34.320
Let\'s transform people,
unlock their potential,

01:16:34.560 --> 01:16:38.120
so they have self-confidence
and feel like worthwhile human beings.

01:16:40.080 --> 01:16:43.520
- Perfect, we have to keep that.
- Of course, you can keep that.

01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:47.480
(gentle pop music)

01:16:53.200 --> 01:16:54.975
- [Marc] All over the world,

01:16:55.255 --> 01:16:57.470
ordinary people are changing
their internal software.

01:16:58.080 --> 01:17:02.400
Their actions are now guided
by feelings of altruism and cooperation.

01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:05.700
Like the immune system
of our diseased society,

01:17:05.900 --> 01:17:09.160
they\'re living proof that
a healthier world is well on its way.

01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:12.680
This is why we have to unite,
like we\'re uniting today.

01:17:13.080 --> 01:17:16.400
For the first time ever, people
are here from all five continents

01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:17.920
and from all races.

01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:19.680
Indigenous peoples,

01:17:20.520 --> 01:17:21.840
peasants

01:17:23.160 --> 01:17:24.160
and city folk.

01:17:25.320 --> 01:17:31.600
This is my message to the world,
all the way from the Amazon.

01:17:32.080 --> 01:17:33.080
Thank you.

01:17:37.360 --> 01:17:39.560
- We began the idea
of the seed \'satya graha\'

01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.380
Like Gandhi said, \"We will
not cooperate with these laws.

01:17:43.580 --> 01:17:47.340
\"Not in our minds, and not in our hearts.
\"They don\'t exist for us, we will function

01:17:47.540 --> 01:17:52.340
\'in the corners of our co-endeavors.
And in the corners of our mind.\'

01:17:52.540 --> 01:17:55.440
(audience applause)

01:17:58.240 --> 01:18:01.900
We began with you one year ago
at Navdanya

01:18:02.100 --> 01:18:03.780
And this is the good vision,

01:18:03.980 --> 01:18:06.240
and after all these travels,
this is the conclusion.

01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:09.500
- The real challenge is we have

01:18:09.700 --> 01:18:13.100
to have confidence in our
capacity, as ordinary citizens,

01:18:13.300 --> 01:18:14.580
to bring change.

01:18:14.780 --> 01:18:18.140
We have to recognize that
we are not atoms in society.

01:18:18.340 --> 01:18:20.020
We are community.

01:18:20.220 --> 01:18:23.220
That we start seeing
ourselves as relationships,

01:18:23.420 --> 01:18:25.700
not as isolated individuals.

01:18:25.900 --> 01:18:27.900
The minute you break
out of your isolation,

01:18:28.100 --> 01:18:29.820
you experience power.

01:18:30.020 --> 01:18:31.620
The power of togetherness.

01:18:31.820 --> 01:18:37.420
And it\'s our isolation that the dominant
system has constructed in our mind.

01:18:37.620 --> 01:18:39.780
That is why Margaret Thatcher, who brought

01:18:39.980 --> 01:18:42.140
neo-liberalism to England said,

01:18:42.340 --> 01:18:45.460
\"There is no society, there
are only individuals.\"

01:18:45.660 --> 01:18:48.580
It\'s vital for global corporations,

01:18:48.780 --> 01:18:53.580
to reduce people to think of themselves
only as consuming individuals.

01:18:53.780 --> 01:18:56.980
We have to see ourselves
as creative communities.

01:18:57.180 --> 01:18:59.820
The Earth communities,
the human community.

01:19:00.020 --> 01:19:01.020
Our local communities.

01:19:01.220 --> 01:19:03.660
And amazing power comes out of that.

01:19:03.860 --> 01:19:07.440
(crowd cheers and applauds)

01:19:10.480 --> 01:19:13.400
(gentle pop music)

01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:00.760
(birds chirping)

01:20:03.640 --> 01:20:06.810
- [Nathanaël] We had everything we needed
to finish our film.

01:20:07.010 --> 01:20:09.109
So we went to stay
with some friends of ours,

01:20:09.340 --> 01:20:13.440
who had renovated a warehouse in
Southern France, and we began editing.

01:20:14.080 --> 01:20:16.840
(sparks crackle)

01:20:19.200 --> 01:20:21.420
- [Bruce] When we fight each
other, we\'re killing ourselves,

01:20:21.620 --> 01:20:23.136
and we\'re destroying the planet.

01:20:23.360 --> 01:20:26.600
So his conclusion is that
competition is killing us, in fact.

01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:31.880
We can finish with that.
So that\'s the end of the first part.

01:20:32.280 --> 01:20:35.720
So if we build a whole
new system and its institutions

01:20:36.120 --> 01:20:38.840
on these values and this
perception of the world,

01:20:39.080 --> 01:20:43.800
on this relationship to the world,
we create a different world.

01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:47.680
(overlapping conversations)

01:20:48.560 --> 01:20:51.680
- [Marc] After all this,
I felt much richer on the inside.

01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:57.520
Unfortunately,
it didn\'t matter much to my bank.

01:20:58.480 --> 01:21:00.880
My parents were also starting
to get worried.

01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:04.400
And now, there was
a huge hole in my resume.

01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:09.240
I started to wonder how I could
find a job that had meaning.

01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:15.220
So we went to ask my
orientation counselor, Satish Kumar,

01:21:15.420 --> 01:21:18.880
who teaches at Schumacher University
in Southern England.

01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:21.520
(gentle pop music)

01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:24.960
(Book title : \'You Are Therefore I Am\')

01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:29.700
- When I go to universities
to talk to students,

01:21:29.900 --> 01:21:33.300
they asked me, \"What do you advise us?\"

01:21:33.500 --> 01:21:36.460
I said to the students,
I say, my advice to you

01:21:36.660 --> 01:21:40.720
is that when you leave your university
don\'t seek an employment.

01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:47.060
Create an employment.
Create a livelihood for yourself.

01:21:47.260 --> 01:21:51.260
So an employment, human
become the instrument

01:21:51.460 --> 01:21:54.500
of making money for the employer.

01:21:54.700 --> 01:21:57.620
You are only a tool,
you are an instrument.

01:21:57.820 --> 01:22:00.980
To make money, for your employer.

01:22:01.180 --> 01:22:03.640
For your factory.
That\'s no good.

01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:09.380
You don\'t want to change a human being
into an instrument of making money.

01:22:09.580 --> 01:22:12.040
Human being\'s a creative being.

01:22:18.400 --> 01:22:21.080
Trust is the key to good living.

01:22:22.417 --> 01:22:26.031
Surrendering to the process
of the universe,

01:22:26.231 --> 01:22:27.755
and trusting the universe,

01:22:27.955 --> 01:22:31.345
and not having this ego
that I will control every process,

01:22:31.545 --> 01:22:36.986
and I will plan everything,
and I will manage the outcome.

01:22:37.360 --> 01:22:39.940
You have to let things happen.

01:22:40.140 --> 01:22:43.260
And you will be surprised.
There will be miracle.

01:22:43.460 --> 01:22:46.100
So trust the world.
Trust yourself.

01:22:46.300 --> 01:22:49.660
Trust other people, trust
the process of the universe,

01:22:49.860 --> 01:22:51.920
and be a part of the flow.

01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:56.940
When you are a part of
the flow, of the universe,

01:22:57.140 --> 01:23:02.900
you will enhance the universe,
and universe will enhance you.

01:23:03.100 --> 01:23:06.860
You will enrich the universe,
and universe will enrich you.

01:23:07.060 --> 01:23:09.340
But trust is the key.

01:23:09.540 --> 01:23:13.120
(gentle instrumental music)

01:23:40.400 --> 01:23:43.011
- [Marc] When I escaped from New York
to make this film,

01:23:43.211 --> 01:23:46.160
I wanted to change the world.
But the world changed me.

01:23:53.400 --> 01:23:55.340
During the time we spent on this trip

01:23:55.540 --> 01:23:59.060
meeting inspiring people,
rediscovering nature,

01:23:59.260 --> 01:24:00.980
and decolonizing my mind,

01:24:01.180 --> 01:24:03.860
I found some of the answers
to my questions.

01:24:04.060 --> 01:24:06.400
But mostly, I discovered joy.

01:24:07.040 --> 01:24:10.680
(gentle instrumental music)

01:24:19.560 --> 01:24:23.020
If I had to remember
one thing from all those encounters,

01:24:23.220 --> 01:24:25.100
it is that in order to
make a better world,

01:24:25.300 --> 01:24:27.200
we have to change our vision of it.

01:24:28.400 --> 01:24:30.500
And in order for
this change to take place,

01:24:30.700 --> 01:24:32.320
we are all called to evolve.

01:24:33.320 --> 01:24:37.040
Because the real revolution
comes from within.

01:24:37.800 --> 01:24:39.880
(laughs)

01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:44.900
(giggles)

01:24:45.100 --> 01:24:48.140
(speaking in native language)

01:24:48.340 --> 01:24:51.920
(gentle instrumental music)

01:25:09.400 --> 01:25:12.400
(upbeat jazz music)

01:25:27.320 --> 01:25:31.180
♫ We must get closer
to the essence of life

01:25:31.380 --> 01:25:35.540
♫ But beware that it
takes courage and strife

01:25:35.740 --> 01:25:36.820
♫ Expand your mind

01:25:37.020 --> 01:25:39.900
♫ Don\'t let it wither and die

01:25:40.100 --> 01:25:41.940
♫ You\'ll find it lifts your spirit

01:25:42.140 --> 01:25:43.380
♫ High to the sky

01:25:43.580 --> 01:25:46.620
♫ So meditate

01:25:46.820 --> 01:25:50.640
♫ Come on
Lets contemplate

01:25:52.480 --> 01:25:54.580
♫ Talk to the heavenly bodies

01:25:54.780 --> 01:25:57.520
♫ Of the universe

01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:01.560
♫ Of the universe

01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:14.620
♫ We must get closer
to the essence of life

01:26:14.820 --> 01:26:19.100
♫ But be aware that it
takes courage and strife

01:26:19.300 --> 01:26:20.500
♫ Expand your mind

01:26:20.700 --> 01:26:23.460
♫ Don\'t let it wither and die

01:26:23.660 --> 01:26:25.420
♫ You\'ll find it lifts your spirit

01:26:25.620 --> 01:26:26.980
♫ High to the sky

01:26:27.180 --> 01:26:29.860
♫ Come on meditate

01:26:30.060 --> 01:26:31.340
♫ Yeah yeah

01:26:31.540 --> 01:26:34.320
♫ Lets contemplate

01:26:36.080 --> 01:26:40.100
♫ Turn to the heavenly bodies

01:26:40.300 --> 01:26:41.980
♫ Of the universe

01:26:42.180 --> 01:26:45.100
♫ Of the universe

01:26:45.300 --> 01:26:47.340
♫ Yeah

01:26:47.540 --> 01:26:49.100
♫ Yeah

01:26:49.300 --> 01:26:52.040
♫ Of the universe

01:26:58.360 --> 01:27:01.080
♫ Yeah yeah yeah

01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:04.980
♫ Oh

01:27:05.180 --> 01:27:06.980
♫ Yeah

01:27:07.180 --> 01:27:08.840
♫ Oh

01:27:11.720 --> 01:27:15.460
♫ Move straight ahead people

01:27:15.660 --> 01:27:19.380
♫ Move straight ahead people

01:27:19.580 --> 01:27:23.540
♫ Come on
Say move straight ahead people

01:27:23.740 --> 01:27:25.540
♫ Come on and move and move and move

01:27:25.740 --> 01:27:27.700
♫ And move and move and move

01:27:27.900 --> 01:27:29.220
♫ Yeah yeah yeah

01:27:29.420 --> 01:27:30.780
♫ Yeah yeah yeah

01:27:30.980 --> 01:27:34.060
♫ Gotta break free

01:27:34.260 --> 01:27:37.180
♫ Yeah
Give you space

01:27:37.380 --> 01:27:39.600
♫ And break

01:27:41.360 --> 01:27:43.820
♫ Gotta break free

01:27:44.020 --> 01:27:45.820
♫ Come on and break free

01:27:46.020 --> 01:27:48.120
♫ Come on come on come on

01:27:48.393 --> 01:27:50.667
English transcription:
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