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Why do some people see things that others don't? Julia Galef believes that it's because they're using what she calls Scout Mindset.
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This 20 minute interview with Joanna Macy will help answer an essential question: How are we going to live our lives fully, with inner peace and courage (and even joy) as we confront a world that is destroying itself?
20 min
The Media Education Foundation presents Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life A Lecture by Stuart Hall In this recently discovered, newly restored video of one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the...
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If you live in the United States, odds are you've encountered the distinctly American "conservative christian." It seems that these people, despite their fierce devotion to their faith, have no idea what the Bible actually calls them to do. In this episode, we're taking a...
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In this video, Krishnamurti critiques our work culture and urges us to find out if we can free ourselves from the imprisonment that is a 9 to 5 job. Jiddu Krishnamurti, (born 1895, Madanapalle, Indiadied 1986, Ojai, Calif., U.S.), Indian spiritual leader.
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We live on a finite planet. What happens to yesterday's shiny new thing that is today's cast-off? What happens to "throw away", when there is no away?
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For decades the United States has been a bastion of free market ideology and extreme individualism, but in the last few years we've seen a major resurgence of socialist ideas. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at why so many young people are attracted to socialism...
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Bridging or breaking? That is the sharp choice we face today as a society and as individual citizens. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, has long been one of our nations leading and most original thought leaders. He has delved...
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February, 2012, my wife, Gayoung, and I were moving back to Asia after two years in Australia. We had no plan. We just wanted to let go of our lives and return to Asia permanently. The Art of Letting Go is a full-length documentary that follows us for one year on an amazing...
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Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israels foremost philanthropic organization...
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This is a clip from The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013). Watch the full documentary here.
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For too long women in general and women of color even more pointedly have been told to suppress their grief and rage in the name of love and forgiveness. No more. How do we reclaim our emotions in the labor of loving others? What might authentic reckoning, apology, and...
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Someone sent me a video on January 19th in which the host, claiming a secret source among the White Hat power faction, said that final plans are in motion to overthrow the criminal Deep State once and for all. The inauguration of Joe Biden will not take place. The lies and...
Charles Eisenstein
The Last Guardians is an award-winning documentary made with the indigenous Spara and Kichwa communities of Ecuador's Amazon. Now, more than ever, the global community can learn from indigenous knowledge and wisdom in its battle to conserve the planet. Becoming, once more...
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The chaos we see in society is a reflection of the chaos within the minds of human beings. If we wish to heal society, we need to heal ourselves. Our society, and consequently us as individuals, operates on a worldview based in separation, in seeing and feeling ourselves to...
103 min
What is the State's role? How does its theoretical purpose compare to its actions in reality? In this episode, Second Thoughtconsiders the role of the modern state and evaluates whether it's fulfilling its stated duty to the people.
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Capitalist realism is the ambient all pervasive atmosphere where it's just sort of implied that capitalism is all there is. It conditions how we view the world, how we work, our social relations, even our thoughts and behaviors. When it comes to mental health, capitalist...
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The "hyper-individualist" mindset runs rampant in capitalist nations, especially the US, where it's praised as "hard work" and "common sense." In this episode, Second Thoughttakes a look at why the individualist mindset is counterproductive and an utterly absurd way to view...
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Being a teacher in the world of today is a demanding job with lots of challenges, often resulting in stress and burn-out. Is there a solution?
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What can we do, when time is running out? Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has a revolutionary proposal for facing the Climate Crisis. The way out is in, he states. The way out of climate change is inside each of us. His invitation is to stop: to stop running and to take a good...
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We live in challenging times. To live awake, in harmony and truly connected is an art. The basic condition of this art is to come home to yourself and be fully present. But how to do that?
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According to the standard account, capitalismwhatever your criticisms of itis synonymous with freedom. Zephyr Teachout explains how we are told other systems necessitate central planning by undemocratic bureaucracies. But what if thats not true? capitalism puts us at the...
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This video is dedicated to the memory of Vivienne Elanta. She was an Australian environmental activist. With her partner John Croft, she co-founded the Gaia Foundation of Australia, with the objectives of developing projects which are engaging towards personal growth...
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"The consumer society - it's hyperindividualism -and hyperindividualism is a form of disempowerment, and they know it. So you get to express your personal identity, while you are being stripped of collective power. And the elites are not going to go without a fight. Look at...
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What could ancient Greek philosophers tell us about how to live our lives today?
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Equal to the Tao Te Ching is the great Taoist text known as the Zhuangzi, attributed the great sage Zhuangzi. One of the chapters in the Zhuangzi text is the story of Robber Zhi and Confucius. This passage tests our spiritual understanding of Taoism and essentially reveals...
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Would I have done things differently if I were in your shoes? If I were in the totality of your circumstances? When we look into the eyes of "the other" - without looking away - the labels start to come off. The question "What's it like to be you?" is a powerful starting...
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Digital Wampum is a series of 8 short, testimonial films, on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.)
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Why race is like Santa Clausa pervasive myth we love to convince each other of.
Cedrick-Michael Simmons
"Growing up I had vague memories of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but watching his program now as an adult and as a filmmaker I was fascinated by the degree of sophistication and discipline Rogers brought to his show.
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Can indigenous thinking save the world? Tyson Yunkaporta's new book 'Sand Talk' explores this question and is making a big impact.
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Enjoy this heartwarming share from peace and environmental advocate, Satish Kumar.
9 min
We all want peace, so why isnt the world more peaceful? Discover the scientific evidence that points to a surprising solution.
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A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
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Ayishat Akanbi is a stylist and cultural commentator. Her monologue 'The Problem with Wokeness' went viral a couple of years ago. She argues that modern social justice movements, or 'wokeness', often creates division, and harms those it is intended to help.
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INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his spiritual son and the Dalai Lama his science guru. A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohms profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the universe...
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
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Part 1:introductions are made, along with a treatment on the origins and nature of systemic racism in the USA.
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My wife, Stella, recently shut down her account on the social-media-platform-that-must-not-be-named. It feels like Im walking away from a fight, she said. Almost everything I read there is a signal as to what side the poster is on. Or an attempt to promote the idea that, Im...
Charles Eisenstein
Imagine a future in which every person was afforded the basics of life. How would this change our society? Is UBI the future? Second Thought
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A Collection of Tweets That Fell on Deaf Ears
Leaving behind their cosmopolitan life, a couple and their three young children travel the ends of the earth searching for a new perspective on life. In their five-year journey across six continents, they live with some of the oldest indigenous communities on the planet. From...
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In Lesothoa highland country surrounded by South Africaan artist named Nthabiseng TeReo Mohanela takes discarded materials and transforms them into unique clothing and accessories. Teaching young people the benefits of recycling and re-creation, she calls her project From...
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Transformation Diaries is a platform for the questions of our times. From love, sexuality and social organization, all the way to our relation to the biosphere and the metaphysical, we explore the underlying sets of beliefs and assumptions at the wellspring of culture...
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All humans on the planet are living under an illusionary paradigm that can be compared to what was presented in the 'Matrix'. A mental prison that exists within the minds of the collective. This prison exists as the societal paradigm we have chosen to accept. That is all...
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How do we get from the world of now to the society we long to live in?
Michael Nagler
Time. What is it? This is such an odd question to ask. But to never inquire into the nature of time is even more strange. We are all subject to time and its process of birth, life, decay, and death. This linear process makes us believe that the nature of time is just linear...
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The Theory of Enchantment course provides educators with a world-class social-emotional learning program (SEL) that integrates pop culture with developmental psychology. This program helps educators transform the lives of their students and motivates them to maximize their...
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Assume that all human beings desire warm, close relationships with each other. This is also true of you and of all other white people.
Assume that you are a regular white person (not an exceptional white person) and that all whites are good people, caring, intelligent...
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse
Are long, drawn-out consensus processes the only alternative to a rigid, hierarchical decision making model that reinforces unhealthy power dynamics? Trainer, facilitator and writer Miki Kashtan offers her powerful framework of Convergent Facilitation, which is a model of...
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A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
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The other day I was amused to read a critique ofThe Coronationin which the author was absolutely certain that I am a closet conspiracy theorist. He was so persuasive that I myself almost believed it.
Charles Eisenstein
Realism and utopia are often seen as opposite poles. Realism, it is thought, is concerned with what is and utopia is concerned with our wishes about what we would like to be. However, once we fully examine the issue we can see that this way of thinking is mistaken. A properly...
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There is a special area of the Matrix reserved for people who think they have exited the Matrix. The answers to metaphysical questionsand indeed political questions, personal questionsare usually less important than the process that the question launches. Here we explore the...
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"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
Tawai is a film about reconnection. It connects us to our ancestors and the type of life they may have lived. It connects us with our bodies and senses, inviting us to feel...
Bruce Parry
The Twelve tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe who gather at the United Nations in New York to create a unique ritual for Humankind and planet Earth. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through...
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This is the final in a series on Planet of the Humans. The other posts are here:
Ketan Joshi
In a recentarticle called Coronavirus Requires a Collective Response by professor David Harvey, I was struck by the timeliness of hisargument. Harveyquoted Karl Marx a bunch but Im going to simply paraphrase. Marx claimed that any major project to change the world will first...
The Power of Peace
Humankind has become a very dangerous species. We need people who can sit still and be able to smile, who can walk peacefully. We need people like that in order to save us.
Recently I was sitting with a group of children, and a boy named Tim was...
Thich Nhat Hanh
As the world rushes toward the brink of biospheric collapse, many people are now looking to traditional Indigenous wisdom for guidance on how to live sustainably.
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