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It\'s not

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always easy to survive on Earth.

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And yet we humans live in
every part of the planet.

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How do we do it how do we play our
part in the sacred balance of

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life I began my search for answers in the
Arctic and discovered one thing right away.

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We can\'t do it alone.

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It\'s early June spring in the high Arctic.

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Ice is starting to break up.

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We\'re traveling to the
northern tip of Baffin Island

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11 hours by sled from the remote
community of pond inland.

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It\'s a place where people have
to band together to survive.

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Right now it\'s time for
the spring migration.

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When the Inuit travel onto
the ice to camp and hunt.

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I\'ve been invited to
join a family expedition

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Well it was with them I saw how close
they are to one another and this place.

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They can put the fishing lake was
already set up when I arrived.

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Wi new assignment work is
sack made the introductions.

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I met the elders and the
whole extended family.

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Let\'s hope there\'s something there.

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There\'s fish Yeah unfortunately. Yes

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Wherever we stopped the first
priority was a cup of hot tea.

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Next with shelter and food.

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Here comes on. Rice wine.

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Dinner was waiting for us a
magnificent Arctic char.

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Crystal. Thank you Shibuya launch.

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So if the skin

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to the people I

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spoke to him told me they\'ve always lived
here sharing knowledge food and love.

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Are categorical.

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The work done no more warming.

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At midnight the hunters decided to move on.

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We set out for the edge
device and drove for hours.

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Elijah punny per COO CIO told me.

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He has been hunting here for decades.

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This year is brought to younger hunters with
him to lead a crooner and David Stokes Law

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Marine mammals are also moving northward to

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their summer grazing in the rich
waters of the Arctic Ocean.

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They\'re part of a great
convergence of life.

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We spent two days waiting the hunters
listening and looking out across the water.

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A lot depends on their skill much of their
family\'s food comes from this spring and hunt

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Very good.

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I was

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amazed at the sharpness of

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their senses their intuitive
connection with the world around them.

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Long minutes before I heard anything

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David six locker in the sense
that coming pulse of light.

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He knew the narwhal were on their way.

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If the animal these Hunters value most.

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They told me you have to
shoot it just when it\'s

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taking a breath or it will
sink out of reach forever.

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Every narwhal is precious.

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Not one must be wasted.

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Every hunter within earshot came
to help and to share the MAC duck

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The skin and the fact beneath Rahm MC ducks
keeps them strong the hunters told me.

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It\'s their favorite food.

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David six luck shock the Norwalk
but he didn\'t seem to own it.

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He took that first taste and
then the rest was shared

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over thousands of years.

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They\'ve learned how to
find the food they need.

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And they\'ve also learned a
deep respect for their prey

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According to the old stories a disrespectful
Hunter and his family will go hungry.

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The truth of all life is
starkly clear in the Arctic.

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We can\'t survive alone
were born to be connected.

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And science is beginning
to tell us how and why.

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As a baby is born she\'s not
separated from her mother

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Tied to her by sight and sound and

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touch caught in a web of chemical
connections a beam of attention.

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Her parents are caught in the same web.

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There\'s a force that shapes us into humans.

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Binds us together all lifelong.

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We call it love.

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But it\'s more than a feeling

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Physical fact without loved
children whether even die.

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Secretly zebra live in Africa.

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Whereas Maria left three units in Canada.

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Marina hasn\'t always lived in Victoria
British Columbia. And two years ago

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Martha McDougall and L Hoffman went to Bucharest
in Romania together from an orphanage.

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Maria is part of the legacy of dictator

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Nicolae Ceausescu bent on
increasing Romania as population.

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He forced families to have more
children than they could support.

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After his death tens of thousands of
children were found in grim institutions.

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Hungry and sick jam together yet isolated.

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They were cut off from loving human care.

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Like some terrible scientific experiment it
has revealed the basis of normal development.

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Exiled from the human family denied love.

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These children were severely affected
physically as well as mentally and emotionally.

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Over the past decade many of them have
been adopted into North American families.

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Was proposed to us by our facilitator

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and what we heard
additionally over the phone

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was just that she was a
little girl in an orphanage

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Young and wasn\'t able to care for her.

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And then we went a long time without much
more information and then we did get a video.

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And the video is actually kinda
heartbreaking because you know she\'s

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22 months old and she\'s not
talking and she\'s not walking.

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And she has a lot of difficulty with

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her hands and to actually
manipulate or hold objects.

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And I think knowing what

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a 22 month old child should look
like it\'s it\'s really heartbreaking.

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But again there\'s a point in the video where
you just know that there\'s something there

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Children connect they seem to do it naturally
but it\'s a lesson they learn from love.

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Interacting with those around us.

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We learn who we are and how
we connect with our world.

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What happens if we\'re denied
that lesson can love repair.

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What lack of love has caused.

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I met psychologist Lucy
Lumiere in Victoria over

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the past decade she and her
colleagues at Simon Fraser University

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I\'ve been studying children
adopted from Romania.

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The goal of the study was
really to take advantage

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of a very tragic situation that
allowed us to take a look at

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the impact of early deprivation
on children\'s development and

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their early lives they\'d
never had that face to

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face interaction with a
supportive caregiver.

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For example they\'re hungry and
they\'ll cry and cry and cry.

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And nothing happens.

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There needs aren\'t met.

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So they develop

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A set of expectations and understandings

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that their needs when they
have them will not be met.

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The kid whose needs are not met has no
sense of there being any security or

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any safety and they continue to seek

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that safety but they don\'t get
it and they don\'t find it.

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Maria do you want to put on your
lamb suit got baby babies in

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a carriage little by little over

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the past two years Maria has been
learning what it means to be connected.

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Yet when you\'re a baby I used to put you in
that you know I used to ride in that carry.

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Anyway just teeny teeny teeny.

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Initially you know the things
that really mattered for her

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that she had food shed a place to
sleep and that she had a home.

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And that was really very
clear that those sort of

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basic needs she needed to know were met.

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And then you could watch her.

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Then we became important and then we became a
family and we weren\'t just the providers of

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the third diapers isn\'t that bad

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but that we were always there we weren\'t gonna
go away and we loved her no matter what

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And then she started to
reciprocate that and

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that was pretty amazing
to watch that happen.

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Do I try on your Z pursue know.

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Maria and her family are getting ready for
the Christmas pageant at their church

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If I had to put your head up the
whole backwards There we go.

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Yeah alligator that when you consider where

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these kids came from and
what their lives were like.

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And you\'d look at them now it\'s it\'s an amazing
story of resilience of family commitment.

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We can turn to that as well and say that

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this terrible terrible experiment which was

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never a deliberate experiment
has provided us with

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information about the incredibly
important role of Love Well I

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think that it tells us that when
you take a child out of these

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Horrific conditions and put that child into
a warm and caring and supportive family.

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That child has the capacity to
flourish and grow in that environment.

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I have no idea what she
may want to do or become.

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But I do think made an impression
on a lot of people who sort

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of watched her develop already into a
blossom into a beautiful young girl.

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He\'s really quite interested
in talking to people.

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I\'m going up a plane with them.

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I\'ve just been overwhelmed by
the resilience of her spirit.

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And through all that she\'s been

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through and spending a year and
a half and and institutions.

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And all those losses that she\'s experienced
before in her life and the way that

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she\'s rebounded in her own way and to become
this such a beautiful act a little girl.

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The power of love holds families
friends communities together.

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And it also ties us into
a much wider world.

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That\'s what I found when my
grandson tomboy and I go

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together.

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And when you

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throw it and you whip it don\'t call it
with this pulled it down here like this.

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And then going back.

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I knew that was going to happen here.

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Let me. Okay and you
caught it you get T that

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first pretty bony. Good

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Is it good because you caught it
or is it just because it\'s fresh

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and here\'s a kid that has grown up
with all of the modern accoutrements.

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I mean he\'s got a computer.

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He serves in that. He\'s
emailing me all the time.

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And yet to take him out into
nature my great touched on

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and see that the magic is still there for
him is an incredible reaffirmation to me.

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That that contact with nature is very
very profound and it hasn\'t been lost.

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You love dinosaurs

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Meat was maddening Yeah.

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Yeah I think we\'ve said that we
often teach kids to be afraid

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of things that it might
bite you and then they get

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scared but then they find out
that it\'s not that scary

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black beyond the human family binds
us to the rest of the living world.

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The great American naturalist
Henry David Thoreau wrote.

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A lake is Earth\'s. Ie

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Looking into it the beholder measures
the depth of his own nature.

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He wrote those lines about Walden Pond
the place he fled from the city in 1845.

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Walden Pond near Boston is a special
place for my old friend EO Wilson.

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Like Thoreau he comes
here to escape the city.

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He\'s a Harvard biologist and
international authority on ends.

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He believes places like this
answer a deep human need

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He brought me here to show me why.

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Well Walden Pond.

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And this particular inlet is call throws

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cold because Henry David Thoreau
had his cabin just up that slope

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the pond itself goes around the
circumference of about two mile Arole

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realized in his time of reflection
but there was a great deal

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more than just economic
welfare but there is nature.

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As important for the human
spirit as almost anything else.

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Let\'s move from hunting here of who I am.

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What kind of little things are.

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I\'m a little organisms which means I\'ve got
filled much material right at the feet.

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And I walked with a couple of feet
into the would it stay there all

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day and got to give a
feeling for that trial

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find some organisms like me Ed fell in love

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with the natural world as a child combing
the beaches in swamps of rural Alabama.

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Right we always was always interesting
to see what\'s underneath.

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Now most people would probably say
all creepy qualities underneath

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But listen what I see under these
log there\'s a whole world.

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Here is one of the an unlimited number
of fighters species you have here.

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And now what I want to emphasize
here is that although these are

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tiny creatures for you and me they
are the giants of the system.

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Head Wilson believes that
the love we share for

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exploring the living world
is part of human nature.

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In the most profound way.

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You\'re saying is it\'s genetic.

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We\'re born with that kind
of instinct to haul. Yes.

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Part of what I call biophilia a word
that has gotten to get foreign currency.

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The love of life not
just a love of life but

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the innate hereditary
tendency to affiliate with

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light to be attracted to it to

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leakage variety to enjoy and
prefer certain qualities of it.

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Something that I think most
of us share very strongly.

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That\'s not to say of course that all
of us love every kind of living thing.

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This is a milk snake.

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Are they poisonous No this is a beauty.

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I have this terrible confession.

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I\'ve always had this guilt feeling
when I was ten years old.

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I was fishing with my dad and I was going
through the bush and i never heard

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a rattlesnake but I heard this buzz and I
knew what it was and totally unconsciously.

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I killed it and ran away.

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And I felt guilty about it because
it was unnecessary to reflect.

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David please give your shelf absolution.

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Actually that kind of fear for

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just a few creatures like snakes
and that was fighters is natural.

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In fact it\'s shared with other
primate species you know monkeys and

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H without any training on their part
you know they have the reaction

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of fear and exactly what I had.

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It was instant reaction.

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This was this was deepen our
thought through much of science

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in our gene but one q become
familiar with a clicker.

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And this really is an
exquisitely beautiful.

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It is beautiful.

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So rho

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wrote I came to the woods
because I wished to live

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deliberately and see if I could
learn what it had to teach.

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And not when I came to die

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discover that I had not lived.

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You can see it at work everywhere are deep
inborn connection with the living world.

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That\'s what celebrated each year
in many Christian churches on

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the feast of Saint Francis
the patron saint of animals.

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This is Saint Paul\'s Anglican
Church in London Ontario

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Dean Terry dance gave the homily St.

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Francis didn\'t simply preach
to the birds and the animals.

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Because he was a little bit crazy.

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His preaching to the animals grew
out of a spirituality in which he

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believed that as God\'s creatures we are
connected to all of God\'s creation.

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As God creatures We do not
exist apart from Creation.

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We are a part of creation
gracious God we thank you

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for the gift to these creatures
if you\'re making and we bless

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them in the name of the
father son and Holy Spirit.

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Gracious God we thank you for this creature
of your making and we bless it in the name of

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the father and the son and you
can take it that way. Okay

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After the service we spoke to bishop how
for Christians when animals are brought

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up from the Garden of Eden non there\'s

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a context that animals can
be a relationship with God.

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And so therefore an animal is not just
a material thing like a rock that has

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no feelings and no emotions
and no spirit when you are

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capable of being in a relationship then you
have a part of you which is non-material

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which we may call a spirit
or soul and that spirit

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of soul may be different than
my spirit or soul. But it is

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Same purpose it brings
us into relationships.

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This service is one way of saying to
the world that our relationship with

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the animal kingdom is essential
for the future of the human race.

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Most of us know we liked the living world.

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But it\'s hard to grasp how much we need
it and how much we need to keep it safe.

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As you know most of us now especially in

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the developed world live in
places like this in cities.

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And it\'s very easy for people
to say well who needs nature.

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We\'ve got our cities. What what
does a biologist answer to

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that well a biologist
city like that and and

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and eager to remind people
that that land that

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they\'re on does not support them no
matter how comfortable and how a Fisher.

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A city might be

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Ah it\'s a structure on top of

00:31:11.930 --> 00:31:15.049
a very fragile foundation which was

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the natural world we would have a
tremendous psychological deficit.

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If we got rid of most of
it we would enter what

00:31:24.815 --> 00:31:30.019
I like to call if comes after
the Mesozoic Asia repower than

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one were in the synagogue Asia
it\'s now I think we would come

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into what could be called the Remote
joy which means the age of loneliness.

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And we\'d never get it back.

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And we would have missed something
that really should be thought.

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And that is our relation to the rest
of life and all other reversible.

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According to some psychologists
were already in the age of

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loneliness separated from the
earth and suffering as a result.

00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:19.444
Harvard psychologists Seroquel took
me into central Boston at rush hour.

00:32:19.445 --> 00:32:21.754
To show me the symptoms.

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Here we are in that part
of a major urban area.

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The noise is all around this.

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How does one relate to

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A world well most people
as you notice don\'t

00:32:33.410 --> 00:32:36.544
and they are sort of head
down straight ahead walking

00:32:36.545 --> 00:32:43.954
fast from one place to another and never
notice that the natural world even exists.

00:32:43.955 --> 00:32:47.059
And I never noticed that there are plants

00:32:47.060 --> 00:32:52.879
around that they could spend a
little bit of time with and

00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:58.039
calm themselves down and
relate to most people who

00:32:58.040 --> 00:33:03.184
have no experience of that no. Inclination

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To even think of that as they
go about their daily lives.

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So most people spend their time totally
disconnected from the natural world.

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Eco psychology is a new
discipline that sees

00:33:26.840 --> 00:33:32.280
our interstate as a reflection of
the state of the world around us.

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Sarah con helps her students and patients
to reconnect with their natural home.

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She prescribes a few minutes
a day in the company

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Another kind of therapy involves a
guided meditation in a natural area.

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I have to admit I was a little
uncomfortable at first.

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But we\'re here today to
invite you to go into

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a meditative state and opening sensory
opening state to see what calls to you.

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It\'s called Soul tracking.

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And it\'s really following a fascination
or something that draws you.

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So in order to do that we\'ll start with

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Just feeling your feet on the ground and if
it feels comfortable you can close your eyes.

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Are there ever people
it doesn\'t work on what

00:34:41.855 --> 00:34:46.474
they don\'t get into it that they don\'t
well some people it takes longer.

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People who are nervous more uptight or
yeah or being in the in the natural world.

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It\'s harder for them to to
close their eyes for instance.

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So that\'s fine if they
want to leave them open.

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Okay so close your eyes and
feel your breath coming in

00:35:09.500 --> 00:35:14.209
As a way of connecting him to

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the earth to the atmosphere I\'m
one of those Mr rationality.

00:35:20.150 --> 00:35:23.719
So letting my hair down is not easy.

00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:31.720
But the one exercise that I really loved was
closing your eyes trying to feel your body.

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And you become aware that
you\'re standing on the Earth.

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Immediately you become aware
of the sounds around.

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Because when we live in a city where we tried
to do is shut down most of our senses.

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So continue the breathing

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Located for yourself the center
of intuition in your body.

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When you\'re ready you
can open your eyes and

00:36:06.140 --> 00:36:14.140
let the Earth surrounding you presented
itself to just let it come to you.

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And if not part of it draws your attention
and invite you to approach it. And do so.

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First thing that hit me was the leaves.

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The leaves of all things
for me to be attracted to

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I didn\'t notice it\'s the decay that\'s comes
with age death and just hit 65 issues.

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I\'ve thought a lot about coming to an end.

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But when my father died he
always believed that he would

00:37:05.660 --> 00:37:10.110
return to the earth can be reborn
through the trees and fish.

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And of course that\'s that\'s
what these leaves are doing.

00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:17.910
Yeah.

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Psychology traditional psychology

00:37:38.030 --> 00:37:39.799
is really kind of seen.

00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.239
You study an animal or
you study a person in

00:37:44.240 --> 00:37:48.469
isolation like you wanna see what\'s in their
brain and expressed it in their behavior.

00:37:48.470 --> 00:37:53.554
Yeah we\'ve never really considered
the surroundings as part of it.

00:37:53.555 --> 00:37:58.399
We have created what some people
call pathological individualism

00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:02.734
Bounded masterful
self-contained individual.

00:38:02.735 --> 00:38:10.470
And so that were cut off from
the ground on which we live.

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The ground in which we live
building that relationship is how

00:38:35.630 --> 00:38:41.640
we humans have survived even in
harsh places like the high end

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I\'ve come to Peru to meet

00:38:46.090 --> 00:38:51.530
a longtime friend and learn about
that crucial human relationship.

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This is Cuzco.

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The valley of the sun.

00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:09.050
It was the center of the Incan empire
which stretched from Chile to Colombia.

00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:20.514
The Incan empire was destroyed
more than 400 years ago.

00:39:20.515 --> 00:39:23.384
But 8 million people still

00:39:23.385 --> 00:39:31.385
The language of the Inca Inca faces
Inca ways still going strong.

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It may be because they
live among the gods and

00:39:56.500 --> 00:40:00.529
human beings are connected
to this landscape in

00:40:00.530 --> 00:40:05.104
a very special way according
to my friend Wade Davis

00:40:05.105 --> 00:40:09.079
He\'s an ethno botanist who has
been working with the people and

00:40:09.080 --> 00:40:13.654
the plants of the high-end Ds for
many years. And this is precisely.

00:40:13.655 --> 00:40:17.719
This is one of the most mysterious
sort of fortresses of the Inca clearly

00:40:17.720 --> 00:40:21.979
built a huge effort to guard
the way first saw this view of

00:40:21.980 --> 00:40:25.939
the Incas sacred valley almost
30 years ago way this is

00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:31.864
an absolutely spectacular sentence then
this area has become his second home.

00:40:31.865 --> 00:40:35.269
And I think what impressed me
most when I first began to read

00:40:35.270 --> 00:40:38.569
the anthropological literature
and to meet some of

00:40:38.570 --> 00:40:42.169
the local people was the idea that
this really was a sacred place.

00:40:42.170 --> 00:40:44.044
They weren\'t speaking in terms of metaphor.

00:40:44.045 --> 00:40:47.959
And often when we think of sacred
landscapes it\'s almost metaphorical. Here

00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:50.284
they really believe the Earth was alive.

00:40:50.285 --> 00:40:52.549
I mean that river is not
just a sacred river.

00:40:52.550 --> 00:40:54.649
It is a Veins of Pachamama.

00:40:54.650 --> 00:40:58.909
The Milky Way as his heavenly
counterpart shooting

00:40:58.910 --> 00:41:03.769
star flies and so Bolt of silver
and silver is tiers of the moon.

00:41:03.770 --> 00:41:09.154
That mountain is an apple that doesn\'t
just mean as a symbol of God is a God.

00:41:09.155 --> 00:41:13.860
And as long as you\'re in the shadow of
that apple it will direct your destiny.

00:41:16.600 --> 00:41:20.119
And this is something that people
I think don\'t understand about

00:41:20.120 --> 00:41:23.119
the relationship of indigenous
people in general to landscapes

00:41:23.120 --> 00:41:28.189
They have forged through time and through
ritual traditional mystique of the earth that

00:41:28.190 --> 00:41:30.589
is based not on the idea
of being self-consciously

00:41:30.590 --> 00:41:33.139
close to it but are far subtler intuition.

00:41:33.140 --> 00:41:35.989
And that is the idea that
the Earth itself can only

00:41:35.990 --> 00:41:40.110
exist because his breathing the
beam by human consciousness.

00:41:43.030 --> 00:41:49.819
And what that means is that a young Rune
Akuna lad from the village of concerto were

00:41:49.820 --> 00:41:52.699
from the sacred value who
believes that mountain has

00:41:52.700 --> 00:41:56.119
an opera will have a profoundly
different relationship to it.

00:41:56.120 --> 00:41:58.099
Then a Canadian kid was
raised to believe that

00:41:58.100 --> 00:42:01.230
that mountain is a pile
of or ready to be mined.

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:05.404
Traditional life his still

00:42:05.405 --> 00:42:11.160
Jin cero a small town about
an hour\'s drive from Cuzco.

00:42:17.530 --> 00:42:21.019
Everything works in terms
of reciprocal bonds that

00:42:21.020 --> 00:42:23.704
are never spoken about and never forgotten.

00:42:23.705 --> 00:42:30.844
And reciprocity takes a spiritual turn in
terms of the reverence for the earth itself.

00:42:30.845 --> 00:42:34.579
The idea that you can\'t simply plant a field
you must give a blessing to the Earth.

00:42:34.580 --> 00:42:36.409
You can\'t simply harvest a field.

00:42:36.410 --> 00:42:37.549
You must bless the tools.

00:42:37.550 --> 00:42:39.889
You can\'t simply chew the coca leaves.

00:42:39.890 --> 00:42:43.579
You must bless the OPP who\'s and
bless your colleagues and everything

00:42:43.580 --> 00:42:48.630
is wrapped up in this relationship
of community spirit in the landscape

00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:56.569
This is one of gin
Cheryl\'s community fields.

00:42:56.570 --> 00:43:01.080
Everyone\'s here to mount
the potatoes together.

00:43:02.710 --> 00:43:08.970
Every activity begins with a
ritual sharing of coca leaves.

00:43:10.750 --> 00:43:13.204
Wait brought a bag of them.

00:43:13.205 --> 00:43:16.369
So we could join in the blessing from

00:43:16.370 --> 00:43:24.370
Mr.. Mit isn\'t omega near that it is done.

00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:33.870
He says The community is
yours glasses glasses.

00:43:38.740 --> 00:43:42.660
Glasses glasses glasses.

00:43:50.110 --> 00:43:57.949
So what happens when they give you those
three and it\'s called it\'s called.

00:43:57.950 --> 00:44:02.989
It\'s called akin to and that\'s
accelerating gestures reciprocity to you.

00:44:02.990 --> 00:44:06.079
And then when you blow the
essence Back to the optimizer

00:44:06.080 --> 00:44:10.114
to walk as if you\'re blowing
essence and lays back down here.

00:44:10.115 --> 00:44:16.920
For instance reforms no cloud the
essence of the me the names eternal.

00:44:21.700 --> 00:44:25.140
Then it was time for work.

00:44:26.140 --> 00:44:31.879
They told me humans and nature work
together for the best results.

00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:35.449
Potatoes become toxic
if light reaches them.

00:44:35.450 --> 00:44:40.710
So the soil is piled up around the
plants several times in the season.

00:44:48.040 --> 00:44:52.904
The women started work yesterday
making the teacher beer

00:44:52.905 --> 00:44:58.940
They\'ve been cooking all morning and now
they\'re bringing the food out to the field.

00:45:06.420 --> 00:45:10.059
I\'ve never been offered guinea pig before.

00:45:10.060 --> 00:45:14.510
But that\'s what you get when you
celebrate in the high Andes.

00:45:21.090 --> 00:45:25.580
Appearance I feel so much part
of this community you know.

00:45:30.910 --> 00:45:35.219
My my my constraint

00:45:35.220 --> 00:45:42.079
as is the women offered
flowers to the field.

00:45:42.080 --> 00:45:44.929
Then they decorated the men and themselves.

00:45:44.930 --> 00:45:47.550
And the Dancing began.

00:46:01.600 --> 00:46:09.600
People potatoes the Earth\'s fertility the
drifting rain even the lake and the mountains.

00:46:10.655 --> 00:46:14.370
They all seem to be part of the dance.

00:46:27.610 --> 00:46:30.574
Meeting the people of Chin cero.

00:46:30.575 --> 00:46:34.639
I saw how ceremony reconnects
them to the sources of

00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:39.900
life to the awesome powers
that inhabit their landscape.

00:46:40.270 --> 00:46:43.459
To my mind the real kind of revelation of

00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:46.504
anthropology the idea that the
world in which we live in

00:46:46.505 --> 00:46:49.159
our particular culture doesn\'t exist in

00:46:49.160 --> 00:46:51.889
some absolute sense but
it\'s one model of reality.

00:46:51.890 --> 00:46:55.950
Just one possibility one facet
of the human imagination

00:46:59.250 --> 00:47:02.544
And that\'s an idea that
normally fills you with hope.

00:47:02.545 --> 00:47:07.509
It shows you the absolute
importance of cultural diversity.

00:47:07.510 --> 00:47:10.149
All of these myriad cultures form

00:47:10.150 --> 00:47:14.229
a kinda intellectual and spiritual
and cultural web of life that

00:47:14.230 --> 00:47:16.779
envelops the planet and is as important to

00:47:16.780 --> 00:47:21.264
the sustenance of the planet as is the
biosphere the biological level of life.

00:47:21.265 --> 00:47:27.249
And you might think of that web of cultural
life as the ethno sphere the sum total of

00:47:27.250 --> 00:47:30.309
all thoughts dreams ideas myths beliefs

00:47:30.310 --> 00:47:34.850
brought into being by the human imagination
since the dawn of consciousness

00:47:41.620 --> 00:47:49.620
They asked though Sphere wade made me
understand where I\'ve been for almost a year.

00:47:49.955 --> 00:47:56.370
I\'ve been traveling through the world
imagined into existence by human beings.

00:48:00.910 --> 00:48:08.910
Not darker everywhere on earth.

00:48:09.005 --> 00:48:13.399
We bind ourselves together
weaving the web of meaning that

00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:18.690
tells us how to live that\'s
the genius of our species.

00:48:21.820 --> 00:48:24.649
So many versions of the human

00:48:24.650 --> 00:48:32.650
And story each one describes how the
world works and where we fit in.

00:48:33.740 --> 00:48:41.539
In every place we evolved a different story
creating the rituals of interconnection.

00:48:41.540 --> 00:48:46.230
Here our path back to the living earth.

00:48:50.530 --> 00:48:54.960
Now it\'s time to take this story home.

00:48:55.120 --> 00:48:58.864
Airports look the same the world over.

00:48:58.865 --> 00:49:05.670
It\'s hard to see beyond the bland surface
of technology to what it all depends on

00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:18.950
But walking home through Vancouver after
my long journey the city looks different.

00:49:19.380 --> 00:49:25.160
Everywhere. I could see the
natural world that work.

00:49:28.830 --> 00:49:34.310
The air that moves through
us moves around the planet.

00:49:37.290 --> 00:49:39.804
The fountain of life.

00:49:39.805 --> 00:49:42.474
That\'s where we all begin.

00:49:42.475 --> 00:49:46.430
Born from water into air

00:49:48.520 --> 00:49:56.520
Every living thing we can see the fire of
creation the power of sunlight and soil.

00:50:05.410 --> 00:50:10.684
In the heart of the city were
at home in the natural world.

00:50:10.685 --> 00:50:13.380
We are the IRR.

00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:22.560
If we can see and feel the web we\'re part
we can change the way we act towards it.

00:50:23.170 --> 00:50:26.719
Star magnolia tree.

00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:29.734
We all know where home is.

00:50:29.735 --> 00:50:31.564
It\'s with our family

00:50:31.565 --> 00:50:35.329
the Living and the Dead Sea.

00:50:35.330 --> 00:50:37.384
This is a chromate is planned here.

00:50:37.385 --> 00:50:41.779
If you ever seen that beautiful
purple flower when grandma Sue died I

00:50:41.780 --> 00:50:47.070
put her ashes on there so that every
time it blossoms I think of my mom.

00:50:47.350 --> 00:50:54.724
Let\'s go down the beach.
Well lots of seaweed.

00:50:54.725 --> 00:50:59.940
But our family is far
larger than we realize.

00:51:00.010 --> 00:51:04.954
Whereas home with one another
in the whole human community.

00:51:04.955 --> 00:51:11.419
And in the biosphere close relatives
of every living thing there.

00:51:11.420 --> 00:51:13.369
But look what\'s that

00:51:13.370 --> 00:51:17.569
oh right was the sticky.

00:51:17.570 --> 00:51:24.139
That\'s great. There\'s a bunch
of shelves over there.

00:51:24.140 --> 00:51:28.114
You see this one here. The
ever seen one like that.

00:51:28.115 --> 00:51:31.159
It doesn\'t belong here and
it\'s going to slowly move up

00:51:31.160 --> 00:51:34.729
the beach and push all these
other ones out of existence.

00:51:34.730 --> 00:51:39.210
I know they\'re really
strong and some reason.

00:51:44.680 --> 00:51:49.099
So look at that. We\'re not alone.

00:51:49.100 --> 00:51:52.020
Nothing exists alone.

00:51:52.660 --> 00:51:56.239
We\'re all creatures of the living earth

00:51:56.240 --> 00:52:00.720
Held together in the sacred balance.

00:52:37.660 --> 00:52:39.930
Okay

00:53:19.870 --> 00:53:22.410
okay