15 videos about humanity

A More Humane World

Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge suggests the need for large numbers of people to get involved in creating a more humane world.

(1:10)

Awakening the World

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee tells us that, for an individual, the spiritual path begins once there has been an experience of oneness through grace.

(2:16)

For the Sake of the Whole

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee thought that once people caught a glimpse of emerging oneness, they would gladly contribute their spiritual as well as material resources to it.

(2:24)

Indigenous People's Role in Media

Actor Cliff Curtis explains how global media, a tool developed in service of imperialism, can be a vehicle for indigenous content, for stories that remind contemporary cultures of their own humanity.

(2:14)

Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves

Stephan Fayon, director of an international seed bank in Auroville, India, explains how preserving the diversity of seeds insures against the breakdown of large-scale industrial agriculture.

(4:19)

Oneness is Abundance

L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains how the American economic system that assigns value to competition and scarcity of resources undermines oneness, which is inherently relational and abundant.

(5:15)

Reevaluating our Relationships

Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge discusses the importance of continual dialogue across nations and religions to understand our most positive shared values.

(2:35)

The Total Thrust is Global Justice

Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger shares one of his poems.

(2:21)

The Web of Life

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta believes that because we are interconnected, we can only protect ourselves by protecting every living thing on earth.

(1:37)

Three Areas of Oneness

Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, explains three levels of oneness, along with the response evoked by each level.

(2:44)

Waking Up

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains that, although we desperately want happiness, we are undermined by a society that rewards greed, aggression and egotism

(3:34)

We All Eat, Shit, and Die

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, tells us that it's not what we do that counts, but how we do it.

(3:20)

We are Servants, Not Owners

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion describes how within one generation most of Ecuador's forests were eliminated, leaving a struggling fraction of the original ecological richness.

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We're People First

Arana Collett, a leader in the Maori language revitalization movement, says that since our world is made up of people, we can only change it for the better by forming good relationships.

(1:10)

Why Not?

Actor Cliff Curtis asks, If a small group of English could change the world through colonization, what would happen if humanity as a whole decided to choose a different course?

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