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Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy: Helpful Advice for the Wounded Heart
Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy: Helpful Advice for the Wounded Heart
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.~Rumi
Sofo Archon
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature
Food is your medicine - Joe's food garden is in the Western Cape in South Africa. Thank you Joe for being such an inspiration you are an incredibly wise man. We agree working with the soil is the best connection.
3 min
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Matthew Crawford: 'Distraction Is a Kind of Obesity of the Mind'
Does your phone, the TV and advertising demand your attention everywhere you look? All this stimulation is triggering a social crisis, says writer Matthew Crawford. He talks to Ed Cumming about how to reconnect with reality
Ed Cumming
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015) ($5)
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
115 min
How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.
How Working Less Could Solve All Our Problems. Really.
Shorter workweeks could help reduce accidents, combat climate change, make the genders more equal, and more, contends historian and author Rutger Bregman.
Rutger Bregman
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
We Need Ecstasy and Opium in Place of Prozac and Xanax
What can doctors do to ease emotional pain? The physicians of ancient and medieval times found many plants and plant-derived substances (ie, drugs) that soothed mental as well as physical ills. Rarely did they draw a line between the psychological and physiological benefits...
Marc Lewis and Shaun Shelly
How Good Boundaries Can Free You
How Good Boundaries Can Free You
Your story is shaped by what you are saying yes and no to. Every single person on the planet knows the challenge of boundary setting. But being clear about what you will, and will not, allow into your life can help you to live a happier and simpler existence.
15 min
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister
This Movie Shows The UK Transformed Into a Socialist Utopia After Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Prime Minister
How did he do it? And what led to this incredible victory for humanity? It's a story for the ages... Intrigued? This clip is just an excerpt from the full movie. If you want to take things back to the very beginning, you can watch the full 30 minute moviehere.
6 min
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
I Promise, It's Not Lame to Ask a Woman for Permission
Six years ago, Dave Booda was accused of rape. He didn't defend himself - instead, here's what happened.
Dave Booda
Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans
Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans
This... might be a problem.
5 min
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Fear Is One of the Greatest Problems in Life
Before we go any further I would like to ask you what is your fundamental, lasting interest in life? Putting all oblique answers aside and dealing with this question directly and honestly, what would you answer? Do you know?
J. Krishnamurti
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationships Based on Images Can Never Bring Lasting Peace, Yet Our Whole Society Is Built on Images
Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves. The wife has an image about the husband ...
J. Krishnamurti
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
How Taxpayer Money Provides the Research for Big Pharma
Public money and public universities boost Big Pharmas profits, so shouldnt the public be able to afford the drugs?
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, Clo Copass
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Big Pharma's Pollution Is Creating Deadly Superbugs While the World Looks the Other Way
Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
Madlen Davies
Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope
Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)
THE CHILD MAY NOT REMEMBER, BUT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
2 min
'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill
'God Have Mercy on Your Souls': GOP Passes Cruel, Destructive Trumpcare Bill
'By rushing this bill through Congress, Republicans are creating a manufactured crisis that will devastate millions of families'
Lauren McCauley
Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence, not many people really know how to spot it in themselves or in others.
Jose M. Mestre, Kimberly A. Barchard,
Universal Wisdom Meditation
Universal Wisdom Meditation
This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story, emerging from the heart of our humanity. Meditation: Facilitated by Anneloes Smitsman of...
12 min
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
Bringing People Together in “The Age of Loneliness”
It has been said that were living throughThe Age of Loneliness.Loneliness is epidemic among young adults, and even more common among the elderly, with some reporting that the num
Planet Local
Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality
Distress, Status Wars and Immoral Behaviour: The Psychological Impacts of Inequality
It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners make more thannine times as muchon average as the remainder, and in...
Nick Haslam
25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult
25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult
Being a well-adjusted human has never been easier.
Anna Borges
5 to Life: Compassionate Release for Terminally Ill Prisoners
5 to Life: Compassionate Release for Terminally Ill Prisoners
The terminally ill deserve to die a dignified death with loved ones able to see them go in peace. But for Allison's father, it was too late. Watch their story about the agonizing struggle against time and red tape that is all too familiar to too many Americans dealing with...
9 min
The Day I Saved My Own Life
The Day I Saved My Own Life
CW: description of a suicide attempt On 19th April 2012, I overdosed whilst living in San Francisco. I had just had a therapy session, in which my and my therapist signed a suicide contract one that said I agreed to calling her if I was feeling like I was going to do...
Amani Omejer
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine (2017)
In May of 2016, six American VeteranswithPTSD went to the Amazon in search of healing. What they found was another war...for the soul of humanity.
65 min
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
21 Ways to “Give Good No”
Saying no can be really hard. But Christine Carter has a three-step plan to get there.
Christine Carter
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
We have created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy. These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy:toxicity, monoculture, monopoly, inequity...
60 min
Dairy Is F**king Scary! - The Industry Explained in 5 Minutes
Dairy Is F**king Scary! - The Industry Explained in 5 Minutes
Dairy is scary. Please share this video with anyone and everyone who still thinks dairy is just fine!
5 min
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
9 Times Video Games Were Great for Mental Health
There is a common misconception that video games induce loneliness, or a symptom of disconnection. But although games are often blamed as a cause of mental illness, numerous studies have shown they are often a remedy, more than anything. Video games are therapeutic for...
Marijam Didzgalvyte and Jish Newham
Musician Macka B. Schools Us on Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Musician Macka B. Schools Us on Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet
Medical Mondays have become an internet sensation, Macka.B dropping bars about the Health benefits of Vegan Foods. This compilationvideo features 4 episodes, including the now famous cucumber, followed by herbal teas, pumpkin seeds and okra.
4 min
Carnage
Carnage (2017)
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstellasks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
65 min
Why Recognizing Our Own Privilege Can Be so Hard
Why Recognizing Our Own Privilege Can Be so Hard
There is a kind of lottery that very rarely is talked about in which every single human being participates.
Chris Agnos
Stressed out? This Weird, Relaxing And Life-Affirming Video May Be Just What You Need
Stressed out? This Weird, Relaxing And Life-Affirming Video May Be Just What You Need
Having a bit of a grumpy day? "Hi Stranger," by Kirsten Lepore, offers a surreal, uplifting and intimate experience that may leave you feeling relaxed as much as puzzled. With so much going on in the world today, little videos like these are a nice reminder of the other side...
3 min
Breaking Taboos Around Men's Mental Health
Breaking Taboos Around Men's Mental Health
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. Jamal Edwards, founder of film-making company SBTV, asks why so many men are taking their own lives, and whether society's stereotypes of masculinity have stopped men from seeking help with depression.
9 min
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us
Three principles to help you avoid burnout and continue working toward a better world.
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
Fukushima: Coming Home to a Nuclear Wasteland
Fukushima residents are grappling with a choice: return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
22 min
'Healthcare Is a Right': Bernie Sanders Finds Common Ground in Trump Country
'Healthcare Is a Right': Bernie Sanders Finds Common Ground in Trump Country
In rural McDowell County, West Virginia, a crowd of Trump supporters cheered progressive senator's call for universal healthcare
Nika Knight
8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication
8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication
Communication is essential to achieve successful human interactions. However, the type of communication we havehighly determines the outcome of our relationships. It all simply boils down tohowwe are connecting with each other.
Elyane Youssef
In Praise of Boredom
In Praise of Boredom
Or, The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land
Rob Hopkins
A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin
A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (2016) ($5)
A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and...
54 min
How to Be a Great Listener
How to Be a Great Listener
Theres so much talking going on in the world with everyone trying to get their opinions and stories heard, but not a whole lot of listening. Yet, when we listen, we learn and we connect. We discover new information and fresh things about other people. Listening is a vital...
5 min
The Importance of Empathy
The Importance of Empathy
With an increasingly polarized and divided world, we need empathy more than ever before. Too often we are talking at each other, unable to listen and jumping to entirely wrong conclusions. Communication is fast becoming a stressful endeavor, which instead of connecting us, is...
3 min
How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men
How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men
Why men need more platonic touch in their lives
Mark Green
In Utero
In Utero (trailer)
IN UTERO is a documentary about life in the womb and its lasting impact on human development, human behavior, and the state of the world.
2 min
The Urgency of Slowing Down
The Urgency of Slowing Down
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous Beyond Vietnam speech in Harlems Riverside Church. In it, he spoke of being confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
Kazu Haga
Keep Your Spirits Up: You Can't Help the World When You're Tired and Sad
Keep Your Spirits Up: You Can't Help the World When You're Tired and Sad
We must take care of ourselves in a way that ensures our compassion is not drained away.
Colin Beavan
Jeremy Hunt Is Killing the NHS
Jeremy Hunt Is Killing the NHS
Last week the CEO of the British Red Cross said the NHS was facing a 'humanitarian crisis'. Aaron looks at the service's recent problems and how they reflect an intentional project, by the Tory Party, to privatise healthcare in the UK.
10 min
The Myth of Romantic Love May Be Ruining Your Health
The Myth of Romantic Love May Be Ruining Your Health
Romantic love in Western societies is often portrayed in a stereotypical way: two yearning halves, who search for each other to find their complete, original state. Few find this bliss because its a myth,dating back to Plato. In Greek mythology, the perfect lovers were joined...
Susanne Vosmer
How Forests Heal People
How Forests Heal People
Healing Forestis a journeytodiscover the magical healing powers of nature. To find ways to reconnect people with nature. Join us in this exploration of fascinating forests andinspiring stories of healing from nature.
5 min
Celebrity Is Not Just Harmless Fun – It’s the Lieutenant of Exploitation
Celebrity Is Not Just Harmless Fun – It’s the Lieutenant of Exploitation
Our failure to understand the link between fame and big business made the rise of Trump inevitable
George Monbiot
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere
Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)
The future of our children, our health, and our society, will depend on how we meet the defining social challenge of our time: developing a quality, comprehensive education system. The conflicts over policy and resources have become commonplace - sowing division rather than...
69 min
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
Many traditions speak of the opposing forces within us, vying for our attention. Native American stories speak of two wolves, the angry wolf and the loving wolf, who both live inside of us.
2 min
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film
The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film
Narcissism isn't just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. But what causes it? And can narcissists improve on their negative traits? W. Keith Campbell describes the psychology behind the...
5 min
To the Youth a Day After the Election: Another World Is Possible
To the Youth a Day After the Election: Another World Is Possible
Dear Youth,
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.
Maria Popova
4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm
4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm
Feeling overwhelmed? Here are 4 Steps to get recentered.
Jacob Devaney
Why You Should Stop Apologizing for Doing All That You Can
Why You Should Stop Apologizing for Doing All That You Can
Ive noticed lately that a lot of allies and accomplices I talk to about NoDAPL and other struggles will namewhat they are trying to contribute to the cause, and then promptly apologize that they cant do more. Often, the apologies seem perfunctory, or even insincere, but...
Kelly Hayes
Doctors Response to Daily Mail Bigotry is Beautiful
Doctors Response to Daily Mail Bigotry is Beautiful
A poetic open letter to the Daily Mail newspaper from Dr. Neil Tiwari, in response to a bigoted attack on his colleagues, is going viral and it's beautiful.
Neil Tiwari
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is next for this new science and the public perception of this interesting field of research.
13 min
You Should Get Naked More Often. It's Good for You.
You Should Get Naked More Often. It's Good for You.
When Nelly encouraged overheated people worldwide to get naked in 2002, he was unknowingly advocating much more than just a sexy, sweaty dance party. Sunbathing, sleeping, working out, and lounging around in the buff actually provide legitimate health benefits. While you...
Joni Sweet
How to Be Positive When the World Is Negative
How to Be Positive When the World Is Negative
Do you sometimes feel that the world around you is negative? Do you get easily irritated and frustrated, not knowing how to deal with this negativity, and lack theenergy needed to keep going in your life? If so, here are some powerful tipsthat willhelp you to keep calm, be...
Sofo Archon