Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village."
(2:48)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how our current average lifestyle requires more than nature can generate.
(1:50)
Medha Patkar, social activist and advocate for peoples vulnerable to massive dam projects in India, asks why India should follow a Western paradigm of development.
(4:49)
Laboratory scientist Dean Radin discusses the possibility of a global mind and questions whether that global mind could wake up?
(3:03)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.
(0:55)
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).
(24:17)
Groundbreaking scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy Peter Kingsley emphasizes the sacred role of Western civilization in global oneness.
(18:53)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes his work and perspective on oneness, drawing from Maori culture, language, history and cosmology.
(21:23)
In this complete interview Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, talks about indigenous perspectives on the current ecological and cultural crises.
(27:42)
Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes how children growing up in this time of global environmental crisis may, out of necessity, behave in a radically different way and make a significant difference.
(2:33)
A retrospective of our journey offering a picture of what is being born during this time of global transformation.
(4:42)
Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke draws upon the history of the first Maori settlers to New Zealand to reframe globalization as a tremendous opportunity.
(2:44)
Zen teacher and social activist angel Kyodo williams reminds us that societies can change on a massive scale.
(1:02)
Actor Cliff Curtis offers the perspective that the trinity of industrialization, imperialism and colonialism served an important function by linking humanity closely together.
(3:10)
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us that oneness starts from the individual.
(4:11)
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)
Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, describes how oneness operates at a ceremonial level in indigenous cultures.
(5:29)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, explains how industrial society treats land as something that belongs to us, and asks, how can we shift back to "belonging to the land"?
(3:49)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, describes how this tool lets us calculate the amount of natural resources necessary to support our collective expenditure.
(4:59)
Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee believes the greatest mistake made by the various proponents of global oneness is to think that human beings can do it by themselves.
(2:06)
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, shares his childhood realization that Earth's limited resources could not support our current lifestyle indefinitely.
(2:03)
Groundbreaking scholar of pre-Socratic philosophy Peter Kingsley describes how traditions and institutions of learning very rarely want to discover something truly new.
(2:31)
Duane Elgin, media activist and pioneer of the "Voluntary Simplicity" movement, describes the perception that the universe is dead as the root cause of the exploitative mindset.
(3:18)
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)
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)
What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions?
(25:14)