44 videos about interconnectedness

A Child of Ubuntu

Zulu Sangoma (healer) Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa describes the African philosophy, Ubuntu—"I am because you are"—as the root of humanity's interconnectedness.

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A Few Questions

Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke tells us that to discover one's own interconnectedness, we have only to ask the questions we might not ask until the end of life:

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A Maori Point of View

Te Taru White, the Kaihatu (joint leader and curator) of Aotearoa New Zealand's national museum, explains the interconnectedness of life from a Maori perspective.

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A Quantum View of the World

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin suggests that civilization is going through a developmental stage.

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An Electronic Membrane

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin discusses the possibility of a global mind and questions whether that global mind could wake up?

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An Indigenous Contribution

Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.

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Being Part of Everything

Freddy Ehlers, general secretary of the Andean Nations, describes an experience of beauty in which all sense of duality collapsed. These experiences of oneness bring both peace and passion to life.

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Complete Interview

Sufi teacher Lynn Barron shares her life’s journey back "home" to an ongoing mystical experience of oneness, an "awareness that doesn't wander." Lynn insists that oneness must be lived in everyday life

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews.

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Complete Interview

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).

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Complete Interview

Zen teacher and social activist angel Kyodo williams reminds us that societies can change on a massive scale. At one time, slavery was considered an economic necessity,

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Everything is a Cycle

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how oneness is a physical reality, whether we like it or not.

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Give Thanks

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, tells us that the simplest way to live oneness is not to separate oneself from any other thing or person.

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Global Democratic Values

Professor and political organizer Cesar Montufar believes that shared, global democratic values are emerging from globalization.

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Global Oneness Project Trailer

A retrospective of our journey this past year offering a picture of what is being born during this time of global transformation.

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Hold the Ketchup

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how remembering the whole creative process that goes into the products we consume

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How should spiritual leaders share their knowledge with the world?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa suggests that spiritual leaders should connect to the general public,

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Human Yearning for Caring Connection

Scholar, futurist and activist Riane Eisler explains how interconnectedness is not only a spiritual notion but is rooted in biology itself: the "human yearning for care and connection" devel

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Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe

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

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I Am Human First

Gary "Jagamarra" Simon, a traditional healer and artist of the Walpiri tribe of central and western Australia, explains how human particularities are directly formed from the natural environment.

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It's Good Science

Registered nurse and health care activist Charlotte Brody explains how the science of biofeedback shows that there is no separation between the external and internal environment.

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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.

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Learning From Nature

Environmentalist and artist Jose Manuel Carrion shares some of the lessons he's learned from observing the natural world.

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New Version of Our Stories

Registered nurse and health care activist Charlotte Brody describes some of the many ways to tell the same story of oneness.

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No Man is an Island

Timoti Karetu, leader of the Maori language revitalization movement, describes how indigenous thought can serve as the conscience of majority cultures.

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Oursness

Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains the Aboriginal understanding of land ownership as one of shared responsibility and kinship with the environment,

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Return to the Wholeness

Community leader, psychologist and Zen teacher Dr. Vera Kohn explains how oneness is both the origin and the destiny of all things, which arise and return like a wave on the ocean

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Seva Cafe: Love All, Serve All

Seva, or service, is the selfless giving of oneself for the betterment of others and the world around.

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Smile Cards

Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes a project encouraging random acts of kindness that demonstrates the power of small things to transform society.

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Sweeping the Streets

Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta gives an example of an act of kindness that illustrates how generosity connects us to other people.

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The Convergence of Science and “Spirituality”

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains how science tends to give rise to a fractured system of disciplines, while spirituality connects an individual

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The Land is There to Show You

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that the Aboriginal way of life was full of ease.

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The Land Owns Us

Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains how the connectedness of every living thing to every other living thing is not just an idea but a way of living.

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The Philosophy of Science

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains that scientists are not typically trained in the philosophy or history of science, nor do they think on a daily basis about how the particular thing they'r

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The Race for Materialism

Lawyer and environmental activist M.C. Mehta describes how the Western yardsticks for quality of life are impossible for a population the size of India's.

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The Values of Charity Focus

Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta talks about the values behind his organization, like selfless volunteering and focusing on small things, which allowed his team to discover the power of many.

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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.

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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.

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To Meet As Human Beings

Sister Carmen Barsody describes the realization of interconnectedness experienced by participants in her "street retreats," where people of all walks of life spend a day living on the street

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Two Views

For actor Cliff Curtis, the notion of oneness evokes both suspicion and hope. Politically and economically, oneness has been used to justify the elimination of diversity.

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We Are Caretakers

Bob Randall, a Yankunytjatjara elder and traditional owner of Uluru (Ayer's Rock), explains that the real law of survival is to take care of the land and one another-not just for ourselves but for

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What a Hongi Means

Maori elder and healer Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Peri explains the formal Maori greeting ritual called Hongi, which reminds participants of their interconnectedness with one another and with the environment.

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What Does Oneness Mean to You?

Young people at the International Youth Conference in Dornach, Switzerland share what oneness means to them.

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Yearning for a Different Way of Living

Writer and consultant Tom Hurley describes how the polarities of individual versus collective, and inner versus outer are really different phases of one reality.

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