WEBVTT
1
00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.640
Welcome to Mission Evolution Radio show with Gwildowaka, bringing together
2
00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:17.559
today's leading experts to uncover ever deepening spiritual truths and
3
00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.800
the latest scientific developments in support of the evolution of humankind.
4
00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:26.359
For more information on Mission Evolution Radio with Gildawiaka, visit
5
00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.640
www dot Mission Evolution dot RG and now here's the
6
00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:34.960
host of Mission Evolution, Miss Gwildawieka.
7
00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.359
Many of us are concerned about the future sustainability of
8
00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.759
the human race. If the children are our future, what
9
00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.960
are the untold hours the younger generations spend on gaming
10
00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.159
and the impact on their consciousness and well being. What
11
00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.920
if there were games that empower our young rather than
12
00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.920
distract them with violence. Evolution Radio TV show is coming
13
00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.960
to you around the world on the x On Broadcast
14
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.400
network exben dot net with this CIS hour to explore
15
00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:14.680
systemic transformation, sustainable development and revolutionary gaming. Is Doctor Anna
16
00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:21.200
Louise Smithsman, Doctor Smithsman is an award winning futurist, systems scientist, entrepreneur,
17
00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.760
and best selling author. She's a founder and CEO of
18
00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.640
Earthwise Center and Earthwise Ventures. Doctor Smithsman holds a PhD
19
00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.560
from the Sustainability Institute at the School of Business and Economics,
20
00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:41.400
Mastric University, her website Earthwise Global, excuse me earthwise dot
21
00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.200
Global and louse. Thank you so much for joining us
22
00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:44.959
on Mission Evolution.
23
00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.799
Thank you so much for having me over again. It's
24
00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:49.959
wonderful to be back for you.
25
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.000
Yeah, it's been a while and I certainly enjoy our conversations.
26
00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:58.359
So let's start out with what is systemic transformation?
27
00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.519
Yes, or many people know the word, of course transformation
28
00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.240
that we think about a change process that is also
29
00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.759
irreversible in many ways, it brings new opportunities. When we
30
00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.719
put on systemic transformation, it means it's not just the
31
00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.400
transformation of self, but it's also the transformation of the
32
00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:25.599
deeper systems underlying reality, the deeper systems also that are
33
00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.639
sometimes governing our societies. So systemic transformation, you could think
34
00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.879
about it is kind of the deeper societal transformations as
35
00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.639
well as the deeper transformations that bring up profound changes.
36
00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.919
Well, it seems like we need to have personal transformation
37
00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.960
and the systemic transformation to last lasting change. So, as
38
00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.599
an advocate and pioneer us systemic transformation, what are some
39
00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.879
of the key issues affecting our peaceful future?
40
00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.560
Well, that we are driving our societies through systems that
41
00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.919
are sustainable by design. So a lot of the systems
42
00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.319
of our economies, our political systems, and societal systems, they
43
00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:12.599
are run by goals and reward systems and incentives that,
44
00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:18.159
rather than uniting people are creating division and competition and
45
00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.080
are also extractive, which means that they're using up a
46
00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.080
lot of resources from the planet and not giving back
47
00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.680
in such a way that the planet can regenerate as
48
00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:30.560
a result of those human activities.
49
00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.479
How long have we been dealing with this sort of systems.
50
00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.680
Well, the ironies we are actually those systems, right, I mean,
51
00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.759
the problem is our human conception of life. So you
52
00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.400
can see that humans have been driving these kind of
53
00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.120
systemic societal development not just for hundreds of years, but
54
00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.919
I would argue even for thousands of years. And it's
55
00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.759
just that with the technological development over the last few
56
00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.800
hundred years, this is becoming really pronounced. So now we
57
00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.000
are seeing the effects. But this way of thinking of
58
00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.840
trying to take something else in order to make something happen,
59
00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.400
not give back to the value that you're extracting, and
60
00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.000
that mentality is not new to humanity, and we've been
61
00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.040
doing this for a very long time.
62
00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.600
I would argue that a lot of the native cultures
63
00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:27.160
throughout the world are very sustainable, or were very sustainable.
64
00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.959
They believed in balancing unconditional love of self with unconditional
65
00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.480
love of other.
66
00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.439
They revered the earth. When did when did? When did?
67
00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:37.519
When do we lose all that?
68
00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.639
Yeah? Exactly, And you can see in many indigenous cultures,
69
00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.560
and there's a very different understanding also of relationship and
70
00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.519
our relationship as humans within the kind of larger web
71
00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.439
of life. So you can see that these practices that
72
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:54.360
I'm mentioning here, we call them also a mechanistic growth
73
00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:59.920
models that became very pronounced during the Industrial Revolution in particular,
74
00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.319
And this is where you can see that rather than
75
00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:07.639
having the smallest skilled development of indigenous communities, humanity was
76
00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:14.040
really going for colonization, large extraction, massive expansion, and therefore,
77
00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.279
you know, a very different driver behind all of that
78
00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.600
than indigenous communities traditionally.
79
00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.319
So how much do you think our exploding population or
80
00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.879
exploded population has to do with this coming into being
81
00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:27.879
very problematic?
82
00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:32.120
You mean, whether they're becoming aware of that or no,
83
00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:32.600
just it.
84
00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.720
Be having more and more problematic because there's more and
85
00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:36.519
more of us perpetrating.
86
00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.199
Oh yes, that's what I said. It's absolutely unsustainable these models.
87
00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:45.360
So we've already hit the limits of growth quite a
88
00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.680
while ago. And if you're looking at the climate crisis
89
00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.120
as a result of that, if we are looking at
90
00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:54.040
the planetary Boundaries framework, which is a framework, a scientific
91
00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.959
framework in order to determine what are safe boundaries for
92
00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.680
human activities over long periods of time, and you see
93
00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.160
the nine critical planetary boundaries that need to be honored
94
00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.600
in order for humans to be able to live well
95
00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.120
on our planet and also the children after us, and
96
00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.800
then six of those critical boundaries have been crossed as
97
00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.120
a result of human activity. And that is really put
98
00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:22.920
in to light. You know how deep the sustainability crisis is.
99
00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.319
That is at a moment unfolding, of which the climate
100
00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.240
crisis is one aspect. But the climate crisis is not
101
00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.480
the only one. There's a biodiversity crisis, you know, it
102
00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.199
is a major crisis also in the state of health
103
00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:39.519
of our oceans. So yeah, the humans need to wake
104
00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.120
up and learn to live in a different way with
105
00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.519
each other and with our planet.
106
00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:51.360
The problem is so deeply ingrained. I mean right down
107
00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.920
to the cellular level at this point, isn't it within
108
00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:54.680
the populace?
109
00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.639
Yes, and of course the you know, the the problem
110
00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.120
is that we fall asleep in model that makes us
111
00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.560
in many ways also lasier. And we all love, of
112
00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:07.920
course a good life, and we love technology as well,
113
00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.439
but we need to be able to use technology to
114
00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.120
help us solve the complex challenges of today, and not
115
00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.519
use technology only to get better at extracting more from
116
00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.480
our planet and not addressing the crisis some of indeed
117
00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.879
of also the pollution like Bess pollution that's coming down
118
00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.240
to the cellular level. I mean, were finding remnants of
119
00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.879
that at the cellular level that it should not be there.
120
00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.959
So we are affecting life on planet Earth in rather
121
00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.199
dramatic ways. But I do believe that human potential and
122
00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.319
human creativity and intelligence is capable of living in a
123
00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.959
very different way and growing our societies in a way
124
00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.360
that can be sustainable if we apply also the wisdom,
125
00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.560
for example, of living systems and the way that nature
126
00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.839
evolves and also grows in all of its complexity and
127
00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:00.800
its beauty and by diversity.
128
00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.720
So are you advocating instead of going back to the
129
00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.720
old ways, And there's way too many of us to
130
00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.360
do that at this point, that we use this very
131
00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.120
technology we've developed to develop new ways.
132
00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.560
Yes, that's exactly what I'm advocating. I think it's really
133
00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.959
important to be very innovative, and I don't think the
134
00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.519
solution is just is about going back. Of course, it
135
00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.399
would be wise to do better with less. We are
136
00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.360
over consuming and overproducing as well, there's a lot of waste.
137
00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.320
But I really believe that we can use technology differently,
138
00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.679
and especially if we're if we're looking as nature itself
139
00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:40.600
as a technology as well, better understand also the kind
140
00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.360
of biotechnology aspects of nature, how does it renew, how
141
00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.440
does it regenerate, and that we can apply it very differently.
142
00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.679
We don't have to apply it through very extractive mechanisms.
143
00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.879
But it also requires a different understanding about the universe
144
00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.000
in which we live. So a lot of these very
145
00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.720
extractive mechanistic technology just came from that industrial age based
146
00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:07.000
on a very classical kind of Newtonian conception of the universe,
147
00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.240
the belief that we live in a universe of immutable
148
00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.279
laws with separate parts and particles. And what we can see,
149
00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.240
especially in the latest in quantum sciences, is that we
150
00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.440
actually don't live in that kind of universe, the universe
151
00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:25.519
itself is a living system and is unified informationally. At
152
00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:30.720
deeper orders of reality, we start to reconceptualize technology also
153
00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.360
from that quantum perspective, we may actually then see significant
154
00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.080
breakthroughs that can help us solve these very complex challenges.
155
00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.360
I remember one time someone told me about the stray
156
00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:46.039
dog syndrome, and that's when a straight raw dog ran
157
00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.039
across the interstate in California. It ran across and it
158
00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.519
didn't get hit, but the ramifications were felt in traffic
159
00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:56.840
jams way back back yonder.
160
00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:58.200
Isn't that the way we are?
161
00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.519
We've ignored the fact that we are all connected and
162
00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.440
we can't make a single action, even have a single
163
00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:06.679
thought without an impacting the whole.
164
00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.519
Yes, I very much agree with what you're saying here,
165
00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.440
and people have also in the way that we've been living,
166
00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.080
we've removed ourselves so far from also the effects that
167
00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.960
we are creating. I mean, look alone, if we're going
168
00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.720
to the supermarket, very easy to get foods on the table, right,
169
00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.840
but we're not seeing what was necessary to bring that
170
00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.480
food to the supermarket and then to your table. So
171
00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.799
a lot of people do not understand anymore, what are
172
00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.080
the impacts that we are causing? Uh? And they may believe, well,
173
00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.879
what does little me and my life really mean in
174
00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.799
the bigger scheme of things. But when it accumulates over
175
00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.440
time and through all those billions of people that we
176
00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.399
are now on on the planet, then of course these
177
00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:56.480
impacts they compound and then you get these cumulative effects.
178
00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.759
So in other words, we have to treated it the
179
00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.679
straight out point rather than down the road.
180
00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:06.279
Yes, exactly, and perhaps rather than the question that is,
181
00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.320
where do we have a straight doc? So take care
182
00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.799
of your dog so that it doesn't become a straight
183
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.080
doc exactly.
184
00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.159
Take care of yourself so you don't become stract.
185
00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.080
Well, it is time that we're just about out of
186
00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.519
time in this segment. Analyus and I will return very shortly.
187
00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.639
You don't want to go away. This is Mission.
188
00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.960
Evolution www dot Mission evolution dot org. We're coming to
189
00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.759
you on the xone broadcast network ex bin dot net.
190
00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:42.840
What is our future human potential? We have one with
191
00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.360
us this hour discussing our potential and what is blocking
192
00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:51.159
it is doctor Annelous Smithsman her website earthwise dot Global.
193
00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:54.519
So analyus, that's that's the question. Is you speak of
194
00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.600
future potentials and the new cosmology that is emerging about
195
00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.519
a unified universe. Let's go into that little bit.
196
00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.279
Yes exactly, well, yes, the first question, do we have
197
00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.360
huge potential? Yes, we do all about So what that
198
00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.440
statement really is about is to saying that the future,
199
00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.360
already in a seat form, yeah, is within us. And
200
00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.960
that's really important to realize because for a lot of people,
201
00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.799
they when they hear the word future, they think about
202
00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.559
the era of time, so they think future is tomorrow.
203
00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.279
It's that which has not yet happened. But if you
204
00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.360
realize that the universe is in every evolving system and
205
00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.000
therefore the future in its potentiality already exists within us now,
206
00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.360
then it's a very different way of standing in the
207
00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.360
world and also relating with ourselves and relating with time,
208
00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.840
because then also that future of life is already within
209
00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.960
us now and we can connect with that and you
210
00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.639
may actually experience that in the way that you feel
211
00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.879
your motivation or your inspiration, or your deeper drive or
212
00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.080
the questions that you're asking. So if you realize that
213
00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.279
the deepest searching, this quest of your life, this motivation
214
00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:08.879
to keep going on, it's like this amazing little future
215
00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.279
that's knocking on your door, and it's already there within
216
00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:17.039
you seeking to emerge. This can actually give a lot
217
00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.320
of that action and also strength, especially in times that
218
00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:20.960
are challenging.
219
00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.320
So that's interesting. I'm trying to follow how the future
220
00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.000
is already within us, but I think I'm hearing you
221
00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.639
say that it lies in the things that drive us,
222
00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.679
It lies in the things that intrigues. It lives in
223
00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.519
our imagination, and if we engage that, then we created.
224
00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.240
Is that what you means? Yes, because it is an attractor.
225
00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.720
So it's an attract that calls us forward to continue learning,
226
00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.639
to grow, to develop. You can also say there for
227
00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.279
future is not a state, it's not an outcome, but
228
00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.639
future is a developmental process that is seeking us to
229
00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.639
engage with life as this incredible potentiality for us to
230
00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:06.080
become more conscious, to become better humans as well. So yes,
231
00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.679
very much. So it's not something static. It's a living
232
00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.679
process that that engages us, but that we can engage.
233
00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.440
And the more you live with that in this relational way,
234
00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.879
the more opens up, the more creativity starts to flow,
235
00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.240
the more ideas start to come, more synchronicities open up,
236
00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:27.559
amazing conversations open up us sitting here together now, Yes.
237
00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:32.720
Well, what about people that are deeply immersed in the
238
00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:34.759
get more syndrome?
239
00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:35.279
Okay?
240
00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.279
And their imagination runs to how can I beat the
241
00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.039
other guy out? How can I create a bigger company?
242
00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.600
How can I make more money? Because there's a lot
243
00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:47.519
of people immersed in that. Still, does that operate in
244
00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.120
the same way, and if so, how do we derail
245
00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.120
that so that we can find something more sustainable.
246
00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.799
So it may well be that they believe that the
247
00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.240
happiness and the joy and the developmental process they're experiencing
248
00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.799
because they want to have more, So they are projecting
249
00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.919
that that actually that staying its flow to if I
250
00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:07.879
have the next house, if I have the next carve,
251
00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.039
I have the next career. But once they start to
252
00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.159
recognize that that that that excitement and the joy of
253
00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.600
the expansion doesn't need to be materialistically, it can also
254
00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.360
be in other ways. That might be actually the beginning
255
00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.919
of recognizing that hold on what maybe what really what
256
00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.200
I'm actually enjoying is is this challenge I love to
257
00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:33.080
develop myself, to explore myself further, to seek new horizons.
258
00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.919
But maybe I don't need to do it in a
259
00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.639
way that's always materialistically driven about wanting to look more
260
00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.039
and more. So then of course a deeper driver of
261
00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.440
it now is it now lack or is it now
262
00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.799
the ambition of I want to compete? Is that what's driving?
263
00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.600
Or is it really this future potential as an attractor
264
00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.120
that is calling you forth to dream more, to explore more,
265
00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.159
to dive more deeply into your potential. So I believe
266
00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.600
that when it's coming from lack, and when it's coming
267
00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.200
just only from this drive to compete, or from fear
268
00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.360
or the fear of otherwise I won't fit in, that
269
00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.320
may not necessarily be your future potential that is calling
270
00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.000
you forth, and that these are the different drivers. But
271
00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:11.879
it's your feeling.
272
00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.120
Yes, So you're coming from fear in a very static
273
00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.320
place of hanging on to what you have and make
274
00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.320
more versus the freedom of engaging in possibility.
275
00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.960
That's it exactly. But so when your future is calling
276
00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.480
you forth, it's your future potential that's activating. Then when
277
00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.159
you find you suddenly have the courage also plus the
278
00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.440
motivation to start to transform, to let go of some
279
00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.720
old beliefs, to explore new horizons, to look at other
280
00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.600
ways of how can I live? How can I be myself,
281
00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.519
you know, how can I develop myself further? Which is
282
00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:46.919
a very different motivation.
283
00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.120
So we have to I would assume, listen within to
284
00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.679
find that in the first place. And yet most of
285
00:16:53.759 --> 00:17:01.039
us are totally distracted by media. Okay, how how damaging
286
00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:01.320
is that?
287
00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.359
Well, it becomes damaging of course if you if you
288
00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.359
don't listen to the deeper voice within yourself and you're
289
00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.680
always being distracted, so you become more contracted, you become
290
00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.599
more fearful, you feel you know, not in touch with yourself. Then, yes,
291
00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.480
that that becomes very damaging over time. And this is
292
00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.519
why you find often people they sink into depression or
293
00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.960
they you know, they feel cut off from life, they
294
00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.759
feel a sense of loss of meaning, a loss of self.
295
00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.079
But the signals are there every step of the way.
296
00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.920
Every day, every second is an opportunity to connect back in.
297
00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.039
Yes, So if we have.
298
00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.559
A lot of media, a lot of advertising, games, et cetera,
299
00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:51.039
et cetera, et cetera, are those impacting us and our
300
00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.160
perspectives more than we recognize?
301
00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:55.799
I think so, yes. And you see, there's also a
302
00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.079
lot of younger generations that are they're soaking it up.
303
00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.279
Many of them don't have to have a filter or
304
00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.960
a sense of self, and that becomes the new reality,
305
00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.440
and it also becomes the new benchmark. So we believe
306
00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.160
in order to fit in, I need to be in
307
00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.799
that virtual world and need to act be like that
308
00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.519
actor or actress. And yeah, and that can be very
309
00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.720
damaging also for that sense of identity and the sense
310
00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.319
of the world. Whether the world feels for them like
311
00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.400
a safe place, a place where they can blossom and
312
00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.319
share the talence, or whether they feel constantly that it's
313
00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:31.640
always out of reach so they will never be able
314
00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.720
to get successful in the way society is projecting that
315
00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:37.079
through a lot of this media.
316
00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.480
So how can the new cosmology of a unified universe
317
00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:42.400
impact all of this?
318
00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.799
Yes, but that starts with the journey within that. First
319
00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.880
of all, of course, to recognize we are part of
320
00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.640
this vast and amazing universe that is seeking us to evolve.
321
00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.640
It's not a punishing universe. It's not a universe of separation,
322
00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.279
but it's a universe of profound and action into dependence.
323
00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:03.839
So if you start with that as your base point,
324
00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.559
and already you have a different relationship with yourself, with totality,
325
00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.799
with life around you, with understanding that you have access
326
00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.519
to consciousness that has been evolving for billions of years
327
00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.759
that can lend you its creativity and its innovation. That
328
00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.359
human potential is not separate from the intelligence and the
329
00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:27.680
potential of the universe. So if you're starting to extend
330
00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:30.960
your own potential and your fields of possibility with the
331
00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.319
greater fields of possibility of life in the universe, you know,
332
00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.799
suddenly your possibilities expound phenomenally, but also your sense of
333
00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:42.920
relationship and feeling safe and at home and feeling a
334
00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:44.279
sense of belonging and connection.
335
00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.640
There was a quote from the original movie The Ten Commandments,
336
00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.000
and that's Moses said, you cannot break the law. You
337
00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.759
can only break yourself against the law. Is that what
338
00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.240
we're doing is breaking ourselves against the laws of nature
339
00:19:59.279 --> 00:19:59.839
at this point?
340
00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.559
Yes, But I would though like to add that maybe
341
00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.880
those laws, they are not as immutable. A lot of
342
00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:13.359
the laws in nature are relational laws, and so what
343
00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.039
is happening is what we're breaking ourselves against is going
344
00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:22.559
contrary to that deeper into dependence by making ourselves separate,
345
00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.880
but then creating consequences that affect us. All right, So
346
00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.680
we are already there in this in this tension.
347
00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.599
Right, not not not moving with the way life works,
348
00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:32.720
but trying to move against it.
349
00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.559
We know who's going to lose on that little equation.
350
00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.319
Exactly, exactly, back to that straight dog, right exactly.
351
00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.039
So what does it mean to you to walk the
352
00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.759
path of our future human potential? We talked about it
353
00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:48.640
a little bit, but let's let's go into that a
354
00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.160
little more.
355
00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.519
Yeah, to me, that that really means having the courage
356
00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:58.720
truly to live, to live more fully, to start to
357
00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.039
explore and to discover who you really are, and to
358
00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.799
also have a very active intention to contribute to this
359
00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.319
world that we are part of. To see that this
360
00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:13.839
world requires us to develop our future human potential so
361
00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.000
that it can evolve. It means living into the deeper
362
00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:20.720
questions together. Also means trusting in yourself and in the
363
00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.200
deeper purpose of your life and looking ways for which
364
00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.359
you can add a little bit of joy and laughter
365
00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:33.160
and h and value to life and to other people
366
00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.480
and to the world. And Yeah, that's really what it
367
00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:36.039
means to me.
368
00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:39.240
It seems like life itself is evolving and putting a
369
00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.359
lot of pressure on those systems and those people that
370
00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:45.000
are not is issue perception as.
371
00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.079
Well, yes, yes, we I mean we're hitting the both
372
00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.039
barriers and the boundaries. So indeed, I because a lot
373
00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.759
of those systems that are unsustainable by design and ways
374
00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.279
of living that we are now being confronted with. You
375
00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.079
can only stry start out so far as so, you know,
376
00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.640
we are putting our own societies in systems a breaking
377
00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:10.799
point because of the way that we design it. But
378
00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:13.000
we can design different systems.
379
00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.160
But are people becoming at the breaking point where they're
380
00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:17.960
unwilling to move with the times?
381
00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.279
So are and some are very smart, not in a
382
00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.839
good way, but in sheltering themselves from those effects. I
383
00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:28.920
get very concerned when sometimes I hear the very rich
384
00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.960
speak about, oh, well, we have our bunker and we
385
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.960
will live it out and we will survive this time.
386
00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.720
They don't care about, you know, all the people who
387
00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:43.000
are going to be impacted. They're already looking ahet. They're saying, Okay,
388
00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:45.640
society is going to collapse. A lot of the climate
389
00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.720
systems are going to collapse. It's inevitable, and we're already
390
00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.799
building for what comes after that. But we want to
391
00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.119
just keep ourselves safe.
392
00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:58.200
So there's there's no energy being put into turning it around.
393
00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:59.480
But rather hiding from.
394
00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.759
It, yes, exactly, hiding and making it worse. Yes.
395
00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.799
Yeah, well it's again. It's that time.
396
00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:08.640
Analyuse and I will be right back to continue our discussion.
397
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:13.599
Please stay right there. This is Mission Evolution www dot
398
00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:17.720
Mission evolution dot org. What impact does gaming have on
399
00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:23.480
our young people? Mission evolution dot org. With us discussing
400
00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.279
the impact gaming may have on our future is doctor
401
00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.960
Anna Luce smithsman her website earthwise dot global. So analy
402
00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.480
there's the twenty four thousand dollars question. What impact is
403
00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.400
I mean, kids are really into the gaming. It's a
404
00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.000
it's a huge thing. It was not around when I
405
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:43.200
was a kid. So I'm kind of sitting back watching it, going,
406
00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.000
oh my goodness. You know, you'll be sitting in a
407
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:46.640
living room visiting with somebody and all of a sudden,
408
00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:49.079
this yelling comes out of the bedroom, sounds like armageddon,
409
00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:50.880
and you go in there and a child is upset
410
00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.039
because he's losing a game.
411
00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.440
Okay, what's going on?
412
00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:03.680
Actually that sometimes describes because yeah, I have two teenagers
413
00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.680
and the boys they're fourteen and sixteen years old, and
414
00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.640
they go, you know, dog, come on from the left,
415
00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:14.160
you know, But what's going on, I'm on a partnership,
416
00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:15.359
not low.
417
00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:19.359
So, and it's so real to them too. I mean
418
00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.079
that's a little concerning absolutely.
419
00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.359
And then if I tell them afterwards, I ask, and
420
00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.559
you were and a drop with your friends? He said, no,
421
00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.359
that's fine. You know, we talked like that. So yes,
422
00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.519
it is. It's a very interesting new reality. Put it
423
00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.799
in perspective. Three point six billion people around the world
424
00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:41.519
apparently are playing video games, and sixty percent of those
425
00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.759
are you know, you so and young annuals. So that's
426
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.960
a huge percentage.
427
00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.279
What's what's the percentage, you know, what are those games
428
00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.599
made out of? What are the percentages that are you know,
429
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.240
let's get in there and be a superhero and kill everybody.
430
00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.519
Yeah, but that is the problem exactly because the majority
431
00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:01.839
of those games are battle games, and many of them
432
00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:05.160
are of course very popular on the shooter games and
433
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:09.039
games that are very very quick, very flashy, very very addictive.
434
00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.559
That's why these gaming companies make passive amounts of money,
435
00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:15.359
because they know precisely how to get them hooked, to
436
00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:18.920
keep them coming back, and get them also addicted. So
437
00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:21.839
I think it's especially the addictive pattern that can be
438
00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:25.319
very damaging, but also the very quick reflexes all the time,
439
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:31.519
the normalization of violence, also constantly using battle narratives, normalizing
440
00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.720
that as well, and getting desynthesized out of all of that,
441
00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:40.319
and you know, and gaming companies not using enough creativity
442
00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.359
and innovation to find out the ways to engage and
443
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.240
entertain as well as at the same time educate. And
444
00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:51.839
so coming back to actually the same is what we
445
00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.759
talked about before. Can we use technology differently, yes, can
446
00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:57.559
we use gaming also in a different way? Yes?
447
00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.480
So how much you think, and it's probably really difficult
448
00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.599
question the increase in school shootings and violence that we've
449
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.559
been seeing over the past fifty years. Once gaming was introduced,
450
00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:14.599
it seems like that accelerated quite a bit. Do you
451
00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:15.480
think they're connected?
452
00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.039
Yeah, I do. I know that a lot of people
453
00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:20.920
may push back on that. Then I think it's not
454
00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.160
just gaming, but also films, movies, TV series. You know.
455
00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.359
I think there is a normalization of violence, and the
456
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:31.039
violence is getting it's getting gross or and grosser. And
457
00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.920
you can see that even with my own children. You know,
458
00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:37.559
if I look at they don't flinge right if they're
459
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:43.839
seeing something quite violent, Uh, that's think wow. Yeah, So
460
00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.759
I do, But yes, go ahead.
461
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:51.640
Well, also in the games, you can kill everybody, but
462
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:53.279
then all you have to start the game over again
463
00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.079
and they're back to back to normal. And is it
464
00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:59.160
removing that finality of these kinds of actions.
465
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.680
Yes, they they don't feel the impact, and that is
466
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.359
a lot of the problems today. I believe that when
467
00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:09.079
when you you know, you constantly engaged in an activity
468
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:11.920
that's actually quite harmful if you're really looking at it,
469
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.759
but you don't feel the impact, so you get desynthesized.
470
00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:19.759
You're not learning from an either. And then some kids
471
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.079
are younger people or adults, they flip so they don't
472
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:25.519
know the difference anymore between a gaming world or a
473
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:27.680
movie and they think it's okay that ta get gun
474
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.359
and should right, and that is you know, it's this
475
00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:35.599
is a very good example of a systemic problem.
476
00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.240
When a child has a good witness, a good sense
477
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:43.920
of self, solid loving family, are they less vulnerable to
478
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.960
this flipping and getting lost in the game and the
479
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:50.599
more raise within the game than the other children.
480
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.759
Yes, I believe so. But I think most importantly as
481
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.759
parents that you need to teach your children is that
482
00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:58.920
they recognize when they start getting addicted. It did these
483
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:02.000
exercises with my son, and so, for example, if I
484
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.480
noticed that he was playing too long and he was
485
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.200
not taking a break naturally himself, but he was also
486
00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.599
not feeling that he was hungry, and I would tell him, look,
487
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.000
be very careful. That are the first signs that you're
488
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.559
getting addicted, and then ask him do you want to bedicted? No? No,
489
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.000
of course not, mum. You I may help you recognize
490
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.400
when that starts happening. Yes, Can you take a pose
491
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:23.920
on a break? Yes, So he learned from quite an
492
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.880
early age that make sure that the gaming activity doesn't
493
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:31.480
overtake your drive, you know, doesn't start to dominate what
494
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:33.240
you think or what you feel. So you have to
495
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.839
be able to step back. And that's why it's important
496
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.279
as parents that we also, of course supervise that because
497
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.559
they can't always make those decisions themselves and tell them
498
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:44.920
now stop, now take a break, Now take a pose,
499
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:46.720
go out for a walk, you know, go play with
500
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.079
your friends. They go swimming, go playing soccer or something else.
501
00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:54.279
But they need to really being able to disengage themselves
502
00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:54.599
from that.
503
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.119
So guiney is such a norm among our young people.
504
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.920
You advocate restricting them to the point that no, you
505
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.480
can't do it at all or is that going to
506
00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:05.400
be a real pushback.
507
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.279
No, I don't, and I am developing a game, so
508
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:13.079
I couldn't say that either. And the game that I'm
509
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.880
you know, developing with my team isn't much shorter gameplay experience,
510
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.400
and so it doesn't hook them in for hours and
511
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:23.640
hours and also helps them then then to detachment. I
512
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:28.400
think it's more important that they learn how to work
513
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:30.599
with you know, gaming, and it's fun and it can
514
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.960
be transformative, but this is also the way.
515
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:36.279
You know, this is the world we live in. So
516
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.359
rather than forbidding, which they're going to push back against,
517
00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:43.519
to sneak around to do what you're doing and educate
518
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:46.039
them on okay, this is out in the world. Now,
519
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.799
Here's how if you want to remain healthy yourself, you
520
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.319
deal with it. You get engaged, but don't let it
521
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.480
take you over. And the more realistic the games, yet
522
00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.559
the more sound goes in your ears, and the more
523
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:02.119
realistic on screen, the bigger screen you get. He has
524
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:05.720
are always wanting bigger, better gaming. Doesn't that really take
525
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:12.400
over our imagination and our our concepts? I mean, doesn't
526
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:16.240
it becoming so large we hardly have a chance.
527
00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:19.000
Yes, it seems like well, and it can make them
528
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.680
lazy as well. Right, So before if you were having
529
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:23.880
a book, and you can still have your own imagination
530
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.759
around the characters and the stories. So if all of
531
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.680
this is crafted out for you by either a moving
532
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.920
your film or a game, indeed, it can hinder your
533
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:35.119
own creativity to come up. So I think this is
534
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:37.480
also where game developers need to be much more conscious
535
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:39.920
around those things and see, now, how can we create
536
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.880
an immersive experience that stimulates them and then with the
537
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.279
stimulation it's there, and now let them go on a
538
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.559
journey or give them the opportunity to design part of
539
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.920
the game world in the way they would like to
540
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.599
conceive that then you start to engage the creativity. So
541
00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.119
I think if we're making this shift from being only
542
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:00.640
playing games to be entertained, to be coming a game
543
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:05.240
change to make your own games, now we start to
544
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:08.960
then engage the creativity. And that is again very important
545
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:10.960
in order not to be in that passive state that
546
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.680
you're speaking about.
547
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.559
Yeah, that's been a concern of mine for a lot
548
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.160
of years. Even televisions like like you say, with the
549
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:20.599
book you're reading somebody's story, but you're filling in all
550
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:21.200
the blanks.
551
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.000
You know, you're making the movie that goes with it
552
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:23.599
in your mind.
553
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:27.720
I personally read more than anything else for just that reason.
554
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.000
But how long now has it been that television and
555
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:35.640
this sort of thing has been dictating our creativity versus
556
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:37.480
stimulating it?
557
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.880
Long time? And again I think there's a big corporate
558
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.359
model behind that because by doing that, and there's people
559
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:46.759
will make a lot of money out of that. So
560
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.440
going back again to also our school systems, educational systems,
561
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:55.000
it's incredibly important that we help our youngsters to truly
562
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:59.319
develop their imaginative abilities and their creative skills and innovation
563
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:03.200
and not just passively passively entertain them and keeping them
564
00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:05.559
cold and only feeding them visuals.
565
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:09.759
But yeah, so let's change a little bit here. So
566
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:11.640
tell us a little bit about the illusions of the
567
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.599
mind and how they're impacting our current situation.
568
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.160
Illusions absolutely, and especially virtual reality, I mean, and now
569
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.480
with AI of course even more for for a lot
570
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:25.559
of them, they can't make the difference. But how do
571
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.319
we know what's real? You know what is? And then
572
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.759
illusions as well, in terms of coupled with with AI,
573
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.759
you know, not knowing in terms of what's the effect
574
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.400
of that. So illusion can play out in different ways.
575
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.960
It can be is it the real person, who's not
576
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:43.759
a person? But it can also be illusion in the
577
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:48.839
sense of creating false narrative, false stories. Uh, this information
578
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:55.319
that then feeds children, especially into the wrong behaviors, into
579
00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:57.839
the wrong actions or harmful actions.
580
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.920
And I don't want to say that all of TEA
581
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.559
v Is television or even games is detrimental. I mean
582
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.960
a lot of it is. Well, I wouldn't know a.
583
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.200
Third about the earth, I do.
584
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:10.680
You know. If I didn't, we didn't have a lot
585
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.279
of the programs. So yeah, there's a lot, a lot
586
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.759
of good to be had there too. Can we solve
587
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.960
our current problems with the mind? Speaking of the mind.
588
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.319
Well, the mind's created a lot of those problems, so
589
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:27.119
you know, so use that same mind again. Yes, I
590
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.720
do believe you can solve a lot. But it depends
591
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.880
on what aspect of the mind. So if we're just
592
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.720
only using the rationalistic aspects of the mind, maybe not.
593
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.480
You know, we need this as we're talking about as
594
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:41.160
creative aspects of the mind as well, the deeper compassion
595
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:44.000
of the mind, the empathy, the relational aspects alls of
596
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.240
the mind is really important, but most important perhaps And
597
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:49.799
there's also something that we're doing in our game is
598
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.799
how do you train your intuition so that you get
599
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.599
a sense of Okay, this game dynamic is taking me
600
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.279
away from life and this one, Oh that's fun and
601
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.480
I can actually regenerate, I can heal a character rather
602
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.440
than just kill them and destroy them. So it's also
603
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:08.320
about the different incentive and reward structures that we build
604
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:12.039
around all of these different experiences that we need to address,
605
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.599
and that often doesn't get addressed. And I think we
606
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:18.679
need to use our minds intelligencely in a way that
607
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:22.199
is like generative, that is future creative.
608
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.440
It's you know, when I think back to the science
609
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:31.840
fiction Osthmav and whoever you know they are, you see, Clerk,
610
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.119
we're living what they imagined. We're living, yes, And so
611
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.199
if we can engage that in ourselves, then we can
612
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.159
kind of.
613
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:41.840
Dictate the future in a different way, can't.
614
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.119
We Yeah, or listen to it even right, So then
615
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.320
it's like the future comes to live with us, and
616
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:50.639
maybe that is a future that is much more humane,
617
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:53.320
much more actually much more fun as well.
618
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.519
We can hope yea, well, it's that magic moment. We
619
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.920
need to take intother station break. We stay with us
620
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:02.000
is ana loose an eye, continue to explore the power
621
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.480
of human potential. This is Mission Evolution www dot Mission
622
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:13.199
Evolution dot org. Are we evolving or devolving? This is
623
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.960
Mission Evolution, Mission Evolution dot org. We're continuing our discussion
624
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:21.440
with doctor and Luis smithsman her website earthwise dot global.
625
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.519
And Louis, you speak of cosmic consciousness.
626
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:26.679
What is that?
627
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.159
But let's begining the word cosmos, because a lot of
628
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:33.159
people when they hat the word cosmic, they think it's
629
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:38.239
very fluffy or ethereal or but cosmos just literally means
630
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:44.440
ordered wholeness. So cosmic consciousness is the consciousness that emerges
631
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.079
out of that deeper ordered wholeness of the universe itself.
632
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.199
So that also comes from a growing field in these
633
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:54.280
new paradigm sciences, which takes the position that consciousness is
634
00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:00.199
primary and fundamental, and that energy and matter emerge out
635
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.360
of consciousness, that they're not separate from that. So cosmic
636
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.519
consciousness and I, therefore, I would say, is there is
637
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:09.519
also many ways you could say the consciousness of the universe.
638
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.719
So as more of us and I'm hoping this is
639
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.280
the way we're going as more of us start engaging
640
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.639
in this way of thought of the unification and cosmic consciousness.
641
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.760
Do we lay aground work for others to make it
642
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:26.800
possible for others to see it as well?
643
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.599
Yes, I do hope so, and I think that that
644
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.920
shift is happening if we're already looking also. I mean
645
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.440
I could even include this. This was in twenty nineteen
646
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.840
and completed my PhD research. And although it was a
647
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.800
real challenge to put that in at a very conventional
648
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:47.559
university like mystret University in the field of sustainability, in
649
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.360
the end it did get scientifically accepted and also to
650
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:54.599
peer reviewed research. And I heard from other PhD students
651
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:58.320
came after me that having it in there was you know,
652
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.840
helping that open the huge door for them so that
653
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.119
they can now also look at those questions more scientifically
654
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:08.800
and not be told that's too alternatives. So and then,
655
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:10.960
of course, if this goes into the mainstream, I think
656
00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.880
it's incredibly important that people understand what is this universe
657
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:18.480
that we form part of, what's the deeper nature of reality?
658
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:21.199
Because for so long we've told people that the nature
659
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:26.519
of reality is just to fight to survive, Yeah, to compete,
660
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:31.320
to go ahead, and people have believed a lot of
661
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.000
them and not saying oh but that you know that
662
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.679
humans are not trustworthy, that we will always hurt each
663
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.239
other and harm each other. But there's a far greater
664
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.480
potential within us. And if we really start to understand
665
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:49.039
what the deeper nature of reality itself is, that life
666
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:53.840
wasn't designed to just fight to survive, then we can
667
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.840
open up to this greater possibility.
668
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:03.039
As we open up to greater possibilities within ourselves. Does
669
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:04.199
that change the future?
670
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.559
I don't know if it changes the future, because in potentiality,
671
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:12.280
that future already exists. I think it changes our reality
672
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.599
now and it's and by so doing that, we then
673
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.800
create different futures. Yes, yes, go ahead.
674
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.039
There's a lot of prophecies out there about the new
675
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:23.239
heaven and the new Earth.
676
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.480
Do you think it relates to this, that.
677
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.960
Seeing creating a different reality creates a new way of
678
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.360
being or a new heaven and a new Earth.
679
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.840
Yes, exactly. I think that a lot of those those
680
00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:37.679
prophecies from from different cultures and and different traditions point
681
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:41.599
to this, you know, point in our story whereas humans
682
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.960
you come to this crust point, it's dipping point. Either
683
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.920
evolved to our next stage and we really start to
684
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.039
learn from the feedback that we're getting from life and
685
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.400
from our planets, or we play ourselves out of existence
686
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:58.840
Chapter Oerve four Humans.
687
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.880
Alternative doesn't look real nice to me, but that's just.
688
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:10.719
So. You write about thriveability as a pattern for living systems,
689
00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:12.679
would you go into that a little bit for us?
690
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:17.679
Yes, many people know the word thrive, but they don't
691
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.480
always know the word thrive ability. So the triveability talks
692
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.960
about the ability to thrive and that this is an
693
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:26.760
innate potential that is life given. Every living system has
694
00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:30.559
the ability to thrive. But that the ability again is relational,
695
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.639
so it requires an environment also for all of us
696
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.800
around that supports that. And know that we're sharing resources
697
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.000
also through that. So just like we have responsibility, the
698
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.599
ability to respond, sustainability, the abilities to sustain, we also
699
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.000
have thrive ability, the ability to thrive, and that if
700
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.440
we're looking at the patterns of living systems, we see
701
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.880
that they create conditions for life to thrive, and that
702
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.239
is what that statement refers to.
703
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:00.360
And just look at look at nature.
704
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.159
I love the seasons because it's nowhere is it more
705
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:07.199
evident than within the seasons, you know, the beginning, the
706
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.119
middle of the end, and the rebirth. I mean it
707
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:11.639
just on and on and on, and things tend to
708
00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:20.119
drive out there without without electronics without So it's about
709
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.760
that time in the show that I get to ask you, analysts,
710
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.840
what is your mission?
711
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:31.079
Ah? Well, to make this world more thrivable there you go. Yeah,
712
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.679
so that is really yes, and to really empower especially
713
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:38.440
younger generations as game changes for our world and transformation.
714
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:42.119
That's both my mission but also my passion. M hm.
715
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.719
And I love I love your approach as I understand it,
716
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:48.800
of working with what is present versus trying to get
717
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:52.079
rid of it. Would you speak to that a little bit?
718
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.119
Yeah, I think that's so important because you don't achieve
719
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:57.760
much from rejection. So if you're trying to get rid
720
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.000
of something rather than work with its potential, and then
721
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.000
to me, you're not actually using that deeper intelligence and
722
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.559
wisdom of the mind. Well, because you have a reactionary approach.
723
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.639
But if you're looking, Okay, what's present here and how
724
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:13.679
can we repurpose that? How can we get creative with it?
725
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:15.880
How can we direct it? In such a way that
726
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.039
the consequence gets very differently. And we talked about it
727
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:23.400
already before. Like technology, it's not about getting rid of
728
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.320
technology in order to become sustainable. It's about chews and
729
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.360
technology for a different purpose, in a different way, based
730
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.440
on a different understanding of life and reality.
731
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.519
Yeah, it's like, you know, I don't want to feel
732
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.320
like we're bad mouthing games are bad mouthing TV or
733
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:41.559
anything else. It's the way it's being exploited. It seems
734
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:44.880
to me that's creating most of the problem, not the
735
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:45.800
media itself.
736
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:48.440
This is it exactly exactly.
737
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:50.920
So as a levels scientist, how do you see it's
738
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:54.400
using the evolutionary process of life to create a thriving
739
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:55.360
world and future.
740
00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.039
Well, first of all, by applying is actually in the
741
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.400
design of our econ me. So if we're creating our
742
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:05.760
economies as living systems, well, first of all, what we're
743
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.800
start to do is we're stand to account for also
744
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.480
all the natural resources and ecosystem services. So apply that
745
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:16.039
system also to our economic design. Then apply it to
746
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.760
our democracy. So rather than having these dual states like
747
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.320
you're seeing in the United States, which is I think
748
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.000
very very damaging. What we're seeing right now is always
749
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.880
these bipolar states, so you have two parties constantly competing
750
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:33.320
for we'll get wins the elections. But applying are also
751
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:38.159
these same revolutionary processes to create that mutuality, to create
752
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:41.360
win win solutions rather than win loose solutions. So that's
753
00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:44.639
really important in our societal systems as well. Understanding that
754
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:50.800
human beings, we are vast evolutionary, complex living systems. So
755
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:55.000
create incentives and rewards and support systems for people to
756
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.360
coast stewart our planets and our futures, and to make
757
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:02.719
it empowering for people to have decision and power also
758
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.000
in the decisions that need to be taken together for
759
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:06.639
our future.
760
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:11.599
It seems like we're moving at mark seven right or nine,
761
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.360
You know, we're moving much more rap Everything's going much
762
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.840
more rapidly than fifty years ago. For sure, what's causing
763
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.159
it and how can we use this to our advantage?
764
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:26.519
Well, of course, the more complex your life becomes, the
765
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.360
more complex societies become, the more it feels that things
766
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.199
go very fast and where people start to feel that
767
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.880
things get out of control. So I think that humans
768
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:39.079
are not very good with complexity in that way. But
769
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:41.960
if you want to use it to advantage. Then it's
770
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.039
you need to make that complexity in our lives meaningful
771
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.400
and that needs to be happening. Try having kind of
772
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:52.800
connections that make sense. Post moments also get out of
773
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.480
the red race in many ways. So there are also
774
00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:58.400
countries where, for example, say well let's introduce the four
775
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.519
days a week as a working week rather than five days.
776
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.599
So pushing less and doing more with less, valuing also
777
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.039
the times with each other, the time to tell a
778
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.320
good story, and the time to experience life. And yeah,
779
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.159
stop stop pushing each other and our kids so hard.
780
00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:20.239
Yeah, I see the children are pushed so hard. There's
781
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.519
so many activities and they're expected to participate in all
782
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:23.840
of them.
783
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:25.119
And we see children that.
784
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:27.000
Were successful in everything.
785
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.880
They were fell Victorian, they were, you know, and all
786
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:32.480
of a sudden the suicide, you know, because the pressure
787
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.480
just takes them out. So how can we back up
788
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:41.519
and take it easy in a world that seems so
789
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:42.320
out of control?
790
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.599
Yeah, but it becomes out of control because we're not
791
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:48.719
backing up right, So that is the first thing to realize.
792
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:50.960
We're making it like that. So we have in some
793
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.440
ways feel like we regain our powers from a world
794
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.039
where we feel that's taking us constantly on the right.
795
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.239
So if you stand in that as a victim, say
796
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.360
I can't do anything, I'm helpless. The world is going
797
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.159
so fast and you're never going to change it. But
798
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:06.400
if you really realize I'm not a victim, I'm a
799
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.679
creator here, I'm going to it takes from that power
800
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.199
back and I'm going to bring in those rest moments,
801
00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.440
those balanced moments. We're going to go back to our visdom.
802
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.280
But also find ways in a healthy way with your
803
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.039
family and with your kids to say to let them know,
804
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.079
you know, you don't have to participate in all of
805
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.840
those activities and just choose one thing that you really like,
806
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:27.840
and it's okay to have time also in the day
807
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.159
that just do nothing, just.
808
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:39.519
Be you're imagining a future right exactly. Yes, well weird
809
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:41.679
just about out of time. If you were to leave
810
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:43.519
us with one thought, and what would it be?
811
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.920
Oh, and enjoy life and make it enjoyable.
812
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.679
Also for others, that's beautiful because we get ourselves so
813
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:56.079
busy we lose track of what's really important. If we
814
00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:59.039
take a look at look at every opportunity comes our
815
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.159
way and say, is this really important?
816
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:02.599
That should help, don't.
817
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:03.960
You think exactly?
818
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.599
Yes, Well, unfortunately we are out of time, Doctor Smithsmon,
819
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.400
thank you so much for coming on the show.
820
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.880
Thank you so much, wonderful conversation.
821
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:18.480
Our guest this hour has been doctor annahlu Smithsman, Award
822
00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:23.440
winning futurist, system scientist, entrepreneur and best selling author. To
823
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.159
find out more about doctor Smithsman, where you can find
824
00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:28.400
her books, games, and all she has to offer, visit
825
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.960
your website earthwise dot global. This has been Mission Evolution
826
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:37.280
with Guildawyeka. For more information or to enjoy past archived episodes,
827
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:42.719
visit www dot mission evolution dot org. But please be
828
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.280
sure to join us right here next time. This mission
829
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:50.000
will continue bringing information, resources and support to our rapidly
830
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:59.960
evolving world.
1
00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.640
Welcome to Mission Evolution Radio show with Gwildowaka, bringing together
2
00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:17.559
today's leading experts to uncover ever deepening spiritual truths and
3
00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:21.800
the latest scientific developments in support of the evolution of humankind.
4
00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:26.359
For more information on Mission Evolution Radio with Gildawiaka, visit
5
00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:31.640
www dot Mission Evolution dot RG and now here's the
6
00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:34.960
host of Mission Evolution, Miss Gwildawieka.
7
00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.359
Many of us are concerned about the future sustainability of
8
00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.759
the human race. If the children are our future, what
9
00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.960
are the untold hours the younger generations spend on gaming
10
00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.159
and the impact on their consciousness and well being. What
11
00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:56.920
if there were games that empower our young rather than
12
00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:01.920
distract them with violence. Evolution Radio TV show is coming
13
00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.960
to you around the world on the x On Broadcast
14
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.400
network exben dot net with this CIS hour to explore
15
00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:14.680
systemic transformation, sustainable development and revolutionary gaming. Is Doctor Anna
16
00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:21.200
Louise Smithsman, Doctor Smithsman is an award winning futurist, systems scientist, entrepreneur,
17
00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.760
and best selling author. She's a founder and CEO of
18
00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.640
Earthwise Center and Earthwise Ventures. Doctor Smithsman holds a PhD
19
00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.560
from the Sustainability Institute at the School of Business and Economics,
20
00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:41.400
Mastric University, her website Earthwise Global, excuse me earthwise dot
21
00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.200
Global and louse. Thank you so much for joining us
22
00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:44.959
on Mission Evolution.
23
00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.799
Thank you so much for having me over again. It's
24
00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:49.959
wonderful to be back for you.
25
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.000
Yeah, it's been a while and I certainly enjoy our conversations.
26
00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:58.359
So let's start out with what is systemic transformation?
27
00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.519
Yes, or many people know the word, of course transformation
28
00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.240
that we think about a change process that is also
29
00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.759
irreversible in many ways, it brings new opportunities. When we
30
00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.719
put on systemic transformation, it means it's not just the
31
00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.400
transformation of self, but it's also the transformation of the
32
00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:25.599
deeper systems underlying reality, the deeper systems also that are
33
00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.639
sometimes governing our societies. So systemic transformation, you could think
34
00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:34.879
about it is kind of the deeper societal transformations as
35
00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.639
well as the deeper transformations that bring up profound changes.
36
00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.919
Well, it seems like we need to have personal transformation
37
00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.960
and the systemic transformation to last lasting change. So, as
38
00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.599
an advocate and pioneer us systemic transformation, what are some
39
00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.879
of the key issues affecting our peaceful future?
40
00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.560
Well, that we are driving our societies through systems that
41
00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.919
are sustainable by design. So a lot of the systems
42
00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.319
of our economies, our political systems, and societal systems, they
43
00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:12.599
are run by goals and reward systems and incentives that,
44
00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:18.159
rather than uniting people are creating division and competition and
45
00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.080
are also extractive, which means that they're using up a
46
00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.080
lot of resources from the planet and not giving back
47
00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:28.680
in such a way that the planet can regenerate as
48
00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:30.560
a result of those human activities.
49
00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.479
How long have we been dealing with this sort of systems.
50
00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.680
Well, the ironies we are actually those systems, right, I mean,
51
00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:43.759
the problem is our human conception of life. So you
52
00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.400
can see that humans have been driving these kind of
53
00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.120
systemic societal development not just for hundreds of years, but
54
00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.919
I would argue even for thousands of years. And it's
55
00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:58.759
just that with the technological development over the last few
56
00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.800
hundred years, this is becoming really pronounced. So now we
57
00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.000
are seeing the effects. But this way of thinking of
58
00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.840
trying to take something else in order to make something happen,
59
00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:13.400
not give back to the value that you're extracting, and
60
00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.000
that mentality is not new to humanity, and we've been
61
00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.040
doing this for a very long time.
62
00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.600
I would argue that a lot of the native cultures
63
00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:27.160
throughout the world are very sustainable, or were very sustainable.
64
00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:30.959
They believed in balancing unconditional love of self with unconditional
65
00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:31.480
love of other.
66
00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:36.439
They revered the earth. When did when did? When did?
67
00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:37.519
When do we lose all that?
68
00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.639
Yeah? Exactly, And you can see in many indigenous cultures,
69
00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.560
and there's a very different understanding also of relationship and
70
00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.519
our relationship as humans within the kind of larger web
71
00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.439
of life. So you can see that these practices that
72
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:54.360
I'm mentioning here, we call them also a mechanistic growth
73
00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:59.920
models that became very pronounced during the Industrial Revolution in particular,
74
00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:02.319
And this is where you can see that rather than
75
00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:07.639
having the smallest skilled development of indigenous communities, humanity was
76
00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:14.040
really going for colonization, large extraction, massive expansion, and therefore,
77
00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.279
you know, a very different driver behind all of that
78
00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.600
than indigenous communities traditionally.
79
00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.319
So how much do you think our exploding population or
80
00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:26.879
exploded population has to do with this coming into being
81
00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:27.879
very problematic?
82
00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:32.120
You mean, whether they're becoming aware of that or no,
83
00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:32.600
just it.
84
00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.720
Be having more and more problematic because there's more and
85
00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:36.519
more of us perpetrating.
86
00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:41.199
Oh yes, that's what I said. It's absolutely unsustainable these models.
87
00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:45.360
So we've already hit the limits of growth quite a
88
00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.680
while ago. And if you're looking at the climate crisis
89
00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.120
as a result of that, if we are looking at
90
00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:54.040
the planetary Boundaries framework, which is a framework, a scientific
91
00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.959
framework in order to determine what are safe boundaries for
92
00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.680
human activities over long periods of time, and you see
93
00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.160
the nine critical planetary boundaries that need to be honored
94
00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.600
in order for humans to be able to live well
95
00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.120
on our planet and also the children after us, and
96
00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.800
then six of those critical boundaries have been crossed as
97
00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.120
a result of human activity. And that is really put
98
00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:22.920
in to light. You know how deep the sustainability crisis is.
99
00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:26.319
That is at a moment unfolding, of which the climate
100
00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.240
crisis is one aspect. But the climate crisis is not
101
00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.480
the only one. There's a biodiversity crisis, you know, it
102
00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.199
is a major crisis also in the state of health
103
00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:39.519
of our oceans. So yeah, the humans need to wake
104
00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.120
up and learn to live in a different way with
105
00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:44.519
each other and with our planet.
106
00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:51.360
The problem is so deeply ingrained. I mean right down
107
00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.920
to the cellular level at this point, isn't it within
108
00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:54.680
the populace?
109
00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.639
Yes, and of course the you know, the the problem
110
00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.120
is that we fall asleep in model that makes us
111
00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.560
in many ways also lasier. And we all love, of
112
00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:07.920
course a good life, and we love technology as well,
113
00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.439
but we need to be able to use technology to
114
00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:14.120
help us solve the complex challenges of today, and not
115
00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.519
use technology only to get better at extracting more from
116
00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:21.480
our planet and not addressing the crisis some of indeed
117
00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:24.879
of also the pollution like Bess pollution that's coming down
118
00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.240
to the cellular level. I mean, were finding remnants of
119
00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.879
that at the cellular level that it should not be there.
120
00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.959
So we are affecting life on planet Earth in rather
121
00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.199
dramatic ways. But I do believe that human potential and
122
00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.319
human creativity and intelligence is capable of living in a
123
00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.959
very different way and growing our societies in a way
124
00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.360
that can be sustainable if we apply also the wisdom,
125
00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.560
for example, of living systems and the way that nature
126
00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.839
evolves and also grows in all of its complexity and
127
00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:00.800
its beauty and by diversity.
128
00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.720
So are you advocating instead of going back to the
129
00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:05.720
old ways, And there's way too many of us to
130
00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:08.360
do that at this point, that we use this very
131
00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:11.120
technology we've developed to develop new ways.
132
00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.560
Yes, that's exactly what I'm advocating. I think it's really
133
00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:16.959
important to be very innovative, and I don't think the
134
00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.519
solution is just is about going back. Of course, it
135
00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.399
would be wise to do better with less. We are
136
00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.360
over consuming and overproducing as well, there's a lot of waste.
137
00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:32.320
But I really believe that we can use technology differently,
138
00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.679
and especially if we're if we're looking as nature itself
139
00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:40.600
as a technology as well, better understand also the kind
140
00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.360
of biotechnology aspects of nature, how does it renew, how
141
00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.440
does it regenerate, and that we can apply it very differently.
142
00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.679
We don't have to apply it through very extractive mechanisms.
143
00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.879
But it also requires a different understanding about the universe
144
00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.000
in which we live. So a lot of these very
145
00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:02.720
extractive mechanistic technology just came from that industrial age based
146
00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:07.000
on a very classical kind of Newtonian conception of the universe,
147
00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.240
the belief that we live in a universe of immutable
148
00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:13.279
laws with separate parts and particles. And what we can see,
149
00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.240
especially in the latest in quantum sciences, is that we
150
00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.440
actually don't live in that kind of universe, the universe
151
00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:25.519
itself is a living system and is unified informationally. At
152
00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:30.720
deeper orders of reality, we start to reconceptualize technology also
153
00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.360
from that quantum perspective, we may actually then see significant
154
00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:39.080
breakthroughs that can help us solve these very complex challenges.
155
00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.360
I remember one time someone told me about the stray
156
00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:46.039
dog syndrome, and that's when a straight raw dog ran
157
00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:51.039
across the interstate in California. It ran across and it
158
00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.519
didn't get hit, but the ramifications were felt in traffic
159
00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:56.840
jams way back back yonder.
160
00:09:57.279 --> 00:09:58.200
Isn't that the way we are?
161
00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.519
We've ignored the fact that we are all connected and
162
00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:04.440
we can't make a single action, even have a single
163
00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:06.679
thought without an impacting the whole.
164
00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.519
Yes, I very much agree with what you're saying here,
165
00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.440
and people have also in the way that we've been living,
166
00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:17.080
we've removed ourselves so far from also the effects that
167
00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:19.960
we are creating. I mean, look alone, if we're going
168
00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.720
to the supermarket, very easy to get foods on the table, right,
169
00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.840
but we're not seeing what was necessary to bring that
170
00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:29.480
food to the supermarket and then to your table. So
171
00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.799
a lot of people do not understand anymore, what are
172
00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.080
the impacts that we are causing? Uh? And they may believe, well,
173
00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:39.879
what does little me and my life really mean in
174
00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.799
the bigger scheme of things. But when it accumulates over
175
00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:47.440
time and through all those billions of people that we
176
00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.399
are now on on the planet, then of course these
177
00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:56.480
impacts they compound and then you get these cumulative effects.
178
00:10:57.200 --> 00:10:58.759
So in other words, we have to treated it the
179
00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:01.679
straight out point rather than down the road.
180
00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:06.279
Yes, exactly, and perhaps rather than the question that is,
181
00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.320
where do we have a straight doc? So take care
182
00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:11.799
of your dog so that it doesn't become a straight
183
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.080
doc exactly.
184
00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.159
Take care of yourself so you don't become stract.
185
00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.080
Well, it is time that we're just about out of
186
00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.519
time in this segment. Analyus and I will return very shortly.
187
00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.639
You don't want to go away. This is Mission.
188
00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.960
Evolution www dot Mission evolution dot org. We're coming to
189
00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.759
you on the xone broadcast network ex bin dot net.
190
00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:42.840
What is our future human potential? We have one with
191
00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:46.360
us this hour discussing our potential and what is blocking
192
00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:51.159
it is doctor Annelous Smithsman her website earthwise dot Global.
193
00:11:51.559 --> 00:11:54.519
So analyus, that's that's the question. Is you speak of
194
00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.600
future potentials and the new cosmology that is emerging about
195
00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:00.519
a unified universe. Let's go into that little bit.
196
00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.279
Yes exactly, well, yes, the first question, do we have
197
00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.360
huge potential? Yes, we do all about So what that
198
00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.440
statement really is about is to saying that the future,
199
00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:17.360
already in a seat form, yeah, is within us. And
200
00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.960
that's really important to realize because for a lot of people,
201
00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.799
they when they hear the word future, they think about
202
00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:26.559
the era of time, so they think future is tomorrow.
203
00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.279
It's that which has not yet happened. But if you
204
00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.360
realize that the universe is in every evolving system and
205
00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.000
therefore the future in its potentiality already exists within us now,
206
00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:42.360
then it's a very different way of standing in the
207
00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.360
world and also relating with ourselves and relating with time,
208
00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.840
because then also that future of life is already within
209
00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.960
us now and we can connect with that and you
210
00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.639
may actually experience that in the way that you feel
211
00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.879
your motivation or your inspiration, or your deeper drive or
212
00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:02.080
the questions that you're asking. So if you realize that
213
00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:05.279
the deepest searching, this quest of your life, this motivation
214
00:13:05.399 --> 00:13:08.879
to keep going on, it's like this amazing little future
215
00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.279
that's knocking on your door, and it's already there within
216
00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:17.039
you seeking to emerge. This can actually give a lot
217
00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.320
of that action and also strength, especially in times that
218
00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:20.960
are challenging.
219
00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.320
So that's interesting. I'm trying to follow how the future
220
00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.000
is already within us, but I think I'm hearing you
221
00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.639
say that it lies in the things that drive us,
222
00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.679
It lies in the things that intrigues. It lives in
223
00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.519
our imagination, and if we engage that, then we created.
224
00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.240
Is that what you means? Yes, because it is an attractor.
225
00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.720
So it's an attract that calls us forward to continue learning,
226
00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.639
to grow, to develop. You can also say there for
227
00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:50.279
future is not a state, it's not an outcome, but
228
00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.639
future is a developmental process that is seeking us to
229
00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.639
engage with life as this incredible potentiality for us to
230
00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:06.080
become more conscious, to become better humans as well. So yes,
231
00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.679
very much. So it's not something static. It's a living
232
00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.679
process that that engages us, but that we can engage.
233
00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.440
And the more you live with that in this relational way,
234
00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.879
the more opens up, the more creativity starts to flow,
235
00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:22.240
the more ideas start to come, more synchronicities open up,
236
00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:27.559
amazing conversations open up us sitting here together now, Yes.
237
00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:32.720
Well, what about people that are deeply immersed in the
238
00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:34.759
get more syndrome?
239
00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:35.279
Okay?
240
00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.279
And their imagination runs to how can I beat the
241
00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:41.039
other guy out? How can I create a bigger company?
242
00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.600
How can I make more money? Because there's a lot
243
00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:47.519
of people immersed in that. Still, does that operate in
244
00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.120
the same way, and if so, how do we derail
245
00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.120
that so that we can find something more sustainable.
246
00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.799
So it may well be that they believe that the
247
00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.240
happiness and the joy and the developmental process they're experiencing
248
00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.799
because they want to have more, So they are projecting
249
00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.919
that that actually that staying its flow to if I
250
00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:07.879
have the next house, if I have the next carve,
251
00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.039
I have the next career. But once they start to
252
00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:15.159
recognize that that that that excitement and the joy of
253
00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.600
the expansion doesn't need to be materialistically, it can also
254
00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:22.360
be in other ways. That might be actually the beginning
255
00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.919
of recognizing that hold on what maybe what really what
256
00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.200
I'm actually enjoying is is this challenge I love to
257
00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:33.080
develop myself, to explore myself further, to seek new horizons.
258
00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:34.919
But maybe I don't need to do it in a
259
00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.639
way that's always materialistically driven about wanting to look more
260
00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.039
and more. So then of course a deeper driver of
261
00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.440
it now is it now lack or is it now
262
00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.799
the ambition of I want to compete? Is that what's driving?
263
00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.600
Or is it really this future potential as an attractor
264
00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:53.120
that is calling you forth to dream more, to explore more,
265
00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.159
to dive more deeply into your potential. So I believe
266
00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.600
that when it's coming from lack, and when it's coming
267
00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.200
just only from this drive to compete, or from fear
268
00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.360
or the fear of otherwise I won't fit in, that
269
00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:08.320
may not necessarily be your future potential that is calling
270
00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.000
you forth, and that these are the different drivers. But
271
00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:11.879
it's your feeling.
272
00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.120
Yes, So you're coming from fear in a very static
273
00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.320
place of hanging on to what you have and make
274
00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.320
more versus the freedom of engaging in possibility.
275
00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:24.960
That's it exactly. But so when your future is calling
276
00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.480
you forth, it's your future potential that's activating. Then when
277
00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.159
you find you suddenly have the courage also plus the
278
00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.440
motivation to start to transform, to let go of some
279
00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.720
old beliefs, to explore new horizons, to look at other
280
00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.600
ways of how can I live? How can I be myself,
281
00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.519
you know, how can I develop myself further? Which is
282
00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:46.919
a very different motivation.
283
00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.120
So we have to I would assume, listen within to
284
00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.679
find that in the first place. And yet most of
285
00:16:53.759 --> 00:17:01.039
us are totally distracted by media. Okay, how how damaging
286
00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:01.320
is that?
287
00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:05.359
Well, it becomes damaging of course if you if you
288
00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.359
don't listen to the deeper voice within yourself and you're
289
00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.680
always being distracted, so you become more contracted, you become
290
00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:16.599
more fearful, you feel you know, not in touch with yourself. Then, yes,
291
00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:19.480
that that becomes very damaging over time. And this is
292
00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.519
why you find often people they sink into depression or
293
00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:25.960
they you know, they feel cut off from life, they
294
00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.759
feel a sense of loss of meaning, a loss of self.
295
00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.079
But the signals are there every step of the way.
296
00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:38.920
Every day, every second is an opportunity to connect back in.
297
00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.039
Yes, So if we have.
298
00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:47.559
A lot of media, a lot of advertising, games, et cetera,
299
00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:51.039
et cetera, et cetera, are those impacting us and our
300
00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:53.160
perspectives more than we recognize?
301
00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:55.799
I think so, yes. And you see, there's also a
302
00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:59.079
lot of younger generations that are they're soaking it up.
303
00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.279
Many of them don't have to have a filter or
304
00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.960
a sense of self, and that becomes the new reality,
305
00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.440
and it also becomes the new benchmark. So we believe
306
00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.160
in order to fit in, I need to be in
307
00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.799
that virtual world and need to act be like that
308
00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.519
actor or actress. And yeah, and that can be very
309
00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.720
damaging also for that sense of identity and the sense
310
00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.319
of the world. Whether the world feels for them like
311
00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.400
a safe place, a place where they can blossom and
312
00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.319
share the talence, or whether they feel constantly that it's
313
00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:31.640
always out of reach so they will never be able
314
00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:35.720
to get successful in the way society is projecting that
315
00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:37.079
through a lot of this media.
316
00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.480
So how can the new cosmology of a unified universe
317
00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:42.400
impact all of this?
318
00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.799
Yes, but that starts with the journey within that. First
319
00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.880
of all, of course, to recognize we are part of
320
00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:53.640
this vast and amazing universe that is seeking us to evolve.
321
00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.640
It's not a punishing universe. It's not a universe of separation,
322
00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.279
but it's a universe of profound and action into dependence.
323
00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:03.839
So if you start with that as your base point,
324
00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.559
and already you have a different relationship with yourself, with totality,
325
00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.799
with life around you, with understanding that you have access
326
00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.519
to consciousness that has been evolving for billions of years
327
00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.759
that can lend you its creativity and its innovation. That
328
00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:24.359
human potential is not separate from the intelligence and the
329
00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:27.680
potential of the universe. So if you're starting to extend
330
00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:30.960
your own potential and your fields of possibility with the
331
00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.319
greater fields of possibility of life in the universe, you know,
332
00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.799
suddenly your possibilities expound phenomenally, but also your sense of
333
00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:42.920
relationship and feeling safe and at home and feeling a
334
00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:44.279
sense of belonging and connection.
335
00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.640
There was a quote from the original movie The Ten Commandments,
336
00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.000
and that's Moses said, you cannot break the law. You
337
00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.759
can only break yourself against the law. Is that what
338
00:19:56.799 --> 00:19:59.240
we're doing is breaking ourselves against the laws of nature
339
00:19:59.279 --> 00:19:59.839
at this point?
340
00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.559
Yes, But I would though like to add that maybe
341
00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:08.880
those laws, they are not as immutable. A lot of
342
00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:13.359
the laws in nature are relational laws, and so what
343
00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.039
is happening is what we're breaking ourselves against is going
344
00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:22.559
contrary to that deeper into dependence by making ourselves separate,
345
00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.880
but then creating consequences that affect us. All right, So
346
00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.680
we are already there in this in this tension.
347
00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.599
Right, not not not moving with the way life works,
348
00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:32.720
but trying to move against it.
349
00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.559
We know who's going to lose on that little equation.
350
00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.319
Exactly, exactly, back to that straight dog, right exactly.
351
00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.039
So what does it mean to you to walk the
352
00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.759
path of our future human potential? We talked about it
353
00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:48.640
a little bit, but let's let's go into that a
354
00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.160
little more.
355
00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.519
Yeah, to me, that that really means having the courage
356
00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:58.720
truly to live, to live more fully, to start to
357
00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.039
explore and to discover who you really are, and to
358
00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:06.799
also have a very active intention to contribute to this
359
00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.319
world that we are part of. To see that this
360
00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:13.839
world requires us to develop our future human potential so
361
00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.000
that it can evolve. It means living into the deeper
362
00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:20.720
questions together. Also means trusting in yourself and in the
363
00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.200
deeper purpose of your life and looking ways for which
364
00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.359
you can add a little bit of joy and laughter
365
00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:33.160
and h and value to life and to other people
366
00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.480
and to the world. And Yeah, that's really what it
367
00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:36.039
means to me.
368
00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:39.240
It seems like life itself is evolving and putting a
369
00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:42.359
lot of pressure on those systems and those people that
370
00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:45.000
are not is issue perception as.
371
00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.079
Well, yes, yes, we I mean we're hitting the both
372
00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.039
barriers and the boundaries. So indeed, I because a lot
373
00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:55.759
of those systems that are unsustainable by design and ways
374
00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:59.279
of living that we are now being confronted with. You
375
00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.079
can only stry start out so far as so, you know,
376
00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.640
we are putting our own societies in systems a breaking
377
00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:10.799
point because of the way that we design it. But
378
00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:13.000
we can design different systems.
379
00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:16.160
But are people becoming at the breaking point where they're
380
00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:17.960
unwilling to move with the times?
381
00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:22.279
So are and some are very smart, not in a
382
00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:25.839
good way, but in sheltering themselves from those effects. I
383
00:22:25.880 --> 00:22:28.920
get very concerned when sometimes I hear the very rich
384
00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:31.960
speak about, oh, well, we have our bunker and we
385
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.960
will live it out and we will survive this time.
386
00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.720
They don't care about, you know, all the people who
387
00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:43.000
are going to be impacted. They're already looking ahet. They're saying, Okay,
388
00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:45.640
society is going to collapse. A lot of the climate
389
00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:49.720
systems are going to collapse. It's inevitable, and we're already
390
00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.799
building for what comes after that. But we want to
391
00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.119
just keep ourselves safe.
392
00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:58.200
So there's there's no energy being put into turning it around.
393
00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:59.480
But rather hiding from.
394
00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:02.759
It, yes, exactly, hiding and making it worse. Yes.
395
00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:05.799
Yeah, well it's again. It's that time.
396
00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:08.640
Analyuse and I will be right back to continue our discussion.
397
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:13.599
Please stay right there. This is Mission Evolution www dot
398
00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:17.720
Mission evolution dot org. What impact does gaming have on
399
00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:23.480
our young people? Mission evolution dot org. With us discussing
400
00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.279
the impact gaming may have on our future is doctor
401
00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:30.960
Anna Luce smithsman her website earthwise dot global. So analy
402
00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.480
there's the twenty four thousand dollars question. What impact is
403
00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.400
I mean, kids are really into the gaming. It's a
404
00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.000
it's a huge thing. It was not around when I
405
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:43.200
was a kid. So I'm kind of sitting back watching it, going,
406
00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.000
oh my goodness. You know, you'll be sitting in a
407
00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:46.640
living room visiting with somebody and all of a sudden,
408
00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:49.079
this yelling comes out of the bedroom, sounds like armageddon,
409
00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:50.880
and you go in there and a child is upset
410
00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.039
because he's losing a game.
411
00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:56.440
Okay, what's going on?
412
00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:03.680
Actually that sometimes describes because yeah, I have two teenagers
413
00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.680
and the boys they're fourteen and sixteen years old, and
414
00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:09.640
they go, you know, dog, come on from the left,
415
00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:14.160
you know, But what's going on, I'm on a partnership,
416
00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:15.359
not low.
417
00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:19.359
So, and it's so real to them too. I mean
418
00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:22.079
that's a little concerning absolutely.
419
00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.359
And then if I tell them afterwards, I ask, and
420
00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:26.559
you were and a drop with your friends? He said, no,
421
00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:30.359
that's fine. You know, we talked like that. So yes,
422
00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.519
it is. It's a very interesting new reality. Put it
423
00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:37.799
in perspective. Three point six billion people around the world
424
00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:41.519
apparently are playing video games, and sixty percent of those
425
00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.759
are you know, you so and young annuals. So that's
426
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.960
a huge percentage.
427
00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.279
What's what's the percentage, you know, what are those games
428
00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.599
made out of? What are the percentages that are you know,
429
00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.240
let's get in there and be a superhero and kill everybody.
430
00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.519
Yeah, but that is the problem exactly because the majority
431
00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:01.839
of those games are battle games, and many of them
432
00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:05.160
are of course very popular on the shooter games and
433
00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:09.039
games that are very very quick, very flashy, very very addictive.
434
00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.559
That's why these gaming companies make passive amounts of money,
435
00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:15.359
because they know precisely how to get them hooked, to
436
00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:18.920
keep them coming back, and get them also addicted. So
437
00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:21.839
I think it's especially the addictive pattern that can be
438
00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:25.319
very damaging, but also the very quick reflexes all the time,
439
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:31.519
the normalization of violence, also constantly using battle narratives, normalizing
440
00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.720
that as well, and getting desynthesized out of all of that,
441
00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:40.319
and you know, and gaming companies not using enough creativity
442
00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.359
and innovation to find out the ways to engage and
443
00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.240
entertain as well as at the same time educate. And
444
00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:51.839
so coming back to actually the same is what we
445
00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.759
talked about before. Can we use technology differently, yes, can
446
00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:57.559
we use gaming also in a different way? Yes?
447
00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:02.480
So how much you think, and it's probably really difficult
448
00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:06.599
question the increase in school shootings and violence that we've
449
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.559
been seeing over the past fifty years. Once gaming was introduced,
450
00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:14.599
it seems like that accelerated quite a bit. Do you
451
00:26:14.599 --> 00:26:15.480
think they're connected?
452
00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.039
Yeah, I do. I know that a lot of people
453
00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:20.920
may push back on that. Then I think it's not
454
00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.160
just gaming, but also films, movies, TV series. You know.
455
00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.359
I think there is a normalization of violence, and the
456
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:31.039
violence is getting it's getting gross or and grosser. And
457
00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.920
you can see that even with my own children. You know,
458
00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:37.559
if I look at they don't flinge right if they're
459
00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:43.839
seeing something quite violent, Uh, that's think wow. Yeah, So
460
00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:45.759
I do, But yes, go ahead.
461
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:51.640
Well, also in the games, you can kill everybody, but
462
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:53.279
then all you have to start the game over again
463
00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.079
and they're back to back to normal. And is it
464
00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:59.160
removing that finality of these kinds of actions.
465
00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.680
Yes, they they don't feel the impact, and that is
466
00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:05.359
a lot of the problems today. I believe that when
467
00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:09.079
when you you know, you constantly engaged in an activity
468
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:11.920
that's actually quite harmful if you're really looking at it,
469
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.759
but you don't feel the impact, so you get desynthesized.
470
00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:19.759
You're not learning from an either. And then some kids
471
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.079
are younger people or adults, they flip so they don't
472
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:25.519
know the difference anymore between a gaming world or a
473
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:27.680
movie and they think it's okay that ta get gun
474
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:31.359
and should right, and that is you know, it's this
475
00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:35.599
is a very good example of a systemic problem.
476
00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.240
When a child has a good witness, a good sense
477
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:43.920
of self, solid loving family, are they less vulnerable to
478
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.960
this flipping and getting lost in the game and the
479
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:50.599
more raise within the game than the other children.
480
00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.759
Yes, I believe so. But I think most importantly as
481
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:55.759
parents that you need to teach your children is that
482
00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:58.920
they recognize when they start getting addicted. It did these
483
00:27:58.920 --> 00:28:02.000
exercises with my son, and so, for example, if I
484
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.480
noticed that he was playing too long and he was
485
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.200
not taking a break naturally himself, but he was also
486
00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.599
not feeling that he was hungry, and I would tell him, look,
487
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.000
be very careful. That are the first signs that you're
488
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.559
getting addicted, and then ask him do you want to bedicted? No? No,
489
00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.000
of course not, mum. You I may help you recognize
490
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.400
when that starts happening. Yes, Can you take a pose
491
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:23.920
on a break? Yes, So he learned from quite an
492
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.880
early age that make sure that the gaming activity doesn't
493
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:31.480
overtake your drive, you know, doesn't start to dominate what
494
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:33.240
you think or what you feel. So you have to
495
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.839
be able to step back. And that's why it's important
496
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.279
as parents that we also, of course supervise that because
497
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.559
they can't always make those decisions themselves and tell them
498
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:44.920
now stop, now take a break, Now take a pose,
499
00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:46.720
go out for a walk, you know, go play with
500
00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.079
your friends. They go swimming, go playing soccer or something else.
501
00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:54.279
But they need to really being able to disengage themselves
502
00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:54.599
from that.
503
00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:59.119
So guiney is such a norm among our young people.
504
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.920
You advocate restricting them to the point that no, you
505
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.480
can't do it at all or is that going to
506
00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:05.400
be a real pushback.
507
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.279
No, I don't, and I am developing a game, so
508
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:13.079
I couldn't say that either. And the game that I'm
509
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.880
you know, developing with my team isn't much shorter gameplay experience,
510
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.400
and so it doesn't hook them in for hours and
511
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:23.640
hours and also helps them then then to detachment. I
512
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:28.400
think it's more important that they learn how to work
513
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:30.599
with you know, gaming, and it's fun and it can
514
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.960
be transformative, but this is also the way.
515
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:36.279
You know, this is the world we live in. So
516
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.359
rather than forbidding, which they're going to push back against,
517
00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:43.519
to sneak around to do what you're doing and educate
518
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:46.039
them on okay, this is out in the world. Now,
519
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.799
Here's how if you want to remain healthy yourself, you
520
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.319
deal with it. You get engaged, but don't let it
521
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.480
take you over. And the more realistic the games, yet
522
00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.559
the more sound goes in your ears, and the more
523
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:02.119
realistic on screen, the bigger screen you get. He has
524
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:05.720
are always wanting bigger, better gaming. Doesn't that really take
525
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:12.400
over our imagination and our our concepts? I mean, doesn't
526
00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:16.240
it becoming so large we hardly have a chance.
527
00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:19.000
Yes, it seems like well, and it can make them
528
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.680
lazy as well. Right, So before if you were having
529
00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:23.880
a book, and you can still have your own imagination
530
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.759
around the characters and the stories. So if all of
531
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.680
this is crafted out for you by either a moving
532
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:32.920
your film or a game, indeed, it can hinder your
533
00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:35.119
own creativity to come up. So I think this is
534
00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:37.480
also where game developers need to be much more conscious
535
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:39.920
around those things and see, now, how can we create
536
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.880
an immersive experience that stimulates them and then with the
537
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:45.279
stimulation it's there, and now let them go on a
538
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.559
journey or give them the opportunity to design part of
539
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.920
the game world in the way they would like to
540
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.599
conceive that then you start to engage the creativity. So
541
00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:58.119
I think if we're making this shift from being only
542
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:00.640
playing games to be entertained, to be coming a game
543
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:05.240
change to make your own games, now we start to
544
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:08.960
then engage the creativity. And that is again very important
545
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:10.960
in order not to be in that passive state that
546
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.680
you're speaking about.
547
00:31:13.400 --> 00:31:15.559
Yeah, that's been a concern of mine for a lot
548
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.160
of years. Even televisions like like you say, with the
549
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:20.599
book you're reading somebody's story, but you're filling in all
550
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:21.200
the blanks.
551
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.000
You know, you're making the movie that goes with it
552
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:23.599
in your mind.
553
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:27.720
I personally read more than anything else for just that reason.
554
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.000
But how long now has it been that television and
555
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:35.640
this sort of thing has been dictating our creativity versus
556
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:37.480
stimulating it?
557
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.880
Long time? And again I think there's a big corporate
558
00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.359
model behind that because by doing that, and there's people
559
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:46.759
will make a lot of money out of that. So
560
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.440
going back again to also our school systems, educational systems,
561
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:55.000
it's incredibly important that we help our youngsters to truly
562
00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:59.319
develop their imaginative abilities and their creative skills and innovation
563
00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:03.200
and not just passively passively entertain them and keeping them
564
00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:05.559
cold and only feeding them visuals.
565
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:09.759
But yeah, so let's change a little bit here. So
566
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:11.640
tell us a little bit about the illusions of the
567
00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.599
mind and how they're impacting our current situation.
568
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.160
Illusions absolutely, and especially virtual reality, I mean, and now
569
00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:23.480
with AI of course even more for for a lot
570
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:25.559
of them, they can't make the difference. But how do
571
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.319
we know what's real? You know what is? And then
572
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.759
illusions as well, in terms of coupled with with AI,
573
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.759
you know, not knowing in terms of what's the effect
574
00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.400
of that. So illusion can play out in different ways.
575
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.960
It can be is it the real person, who's not
576
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:43.759
a person? But it can also be illusion in the
577
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:48.839
sense of creating false narrative, false stories. Uh, this information
578
00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:55.319
that then feeds children, especially into the wrong behaviors, into
579
00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:57.839
the wrong actions or harmful actions.
580
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.920
And I don't want to say that all of TEA
581
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.559
v Is television or even games is detrimental. I mean
582
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.960
a lot of it is. Well, I wouldn't know a.
583
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.200
Third about the earth, I do.
584
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:10.680
You know. If I didn't, we didn't have a lot
585
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.279
of the programs. So yeah, there's a lot, a lot
586
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.759
of good to be had there too. Can we solve
587
00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:19.960
our current problems with the mind? Speaking of the mind.
588
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.319
Well, the mind's created a lot of those problems, so
589
00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:27.119
you know, so use that same mind again. Yes, I
590
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:29.720
do believe you can solve a lot. But it depends
591
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.880
on what aspect of the mind. So if we're just
592
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.720
only using the rationalistic aspects of the mind, maybe not.
593
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:38.480
You know, we need this as we're talking about as
594
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:41.160
creative aspects of the mind as well, the deeper compassion
595
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:44.000
of the mind, the empathy, the relational aspects alls of
596
00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.240
the mind is really important, but most important perhaps And
597
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:49.799
there's also something that we're doing in our game is
598
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.799
how do you train your intuition so that you get
599
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.599
a sense of Okay, this game dynamic is taking me
600
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.279
away from life and this one, Oh that's fun and
601
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.480
I can actually regenerate, I can heal a character rather
602
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.440
than just kill them and destroy them. So it's also
603
00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:08.320
about the different incentive and reward structures that we build
604
00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:12.039
around all of these different experiences that we need to address,
605
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.599
and that often doesn't get addressed. And I think we
606
00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:18.679
need to use our minds intelligencely in a way that
607
00:34:18.840 --> 00:34:22.199
is like generative, that is future creative.
608
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:26.440
It's you know, when I think back to the science
609
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:31.840
fiction Osthmav and whoever you know they are, you see, Clerk,
610
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.119
we're living what they imagined. We're living, yes, And so
611
00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:39.199
if we can engage that in ourselves, then we can
612
00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.159
kind of.
613
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:41.840
Dictate the future in a different way, can't.
614
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:45.119
We Yeah, or listen to it even right, So then
615
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.320
it's like the future comes to live with us, and
616
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:50.639
maybe that is a future that is much more humane,
617
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:53.320
much more actually much more fun as well.
618
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.519
We can hope yea, well, it's that magic moment. We
619
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:58.920
need to take intother station break. We stay with us
620
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:02.000
is ana loose an eye, continue to explore the power
621
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.480
of human potential. This is Mission Evolution www dot Mission
622
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:13.199
Evolution dot org. Are we evolving or devolving? This is
623
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.960
Mission Evolution, Mission Evolution dot org. We're continuing our discussion
624
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:21.440
with doctor and Luis smithsman her website earthwise dot global.
625
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.519
And Louis, you speak of cosmic consciousness.
626
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:26.679
What is that?
627
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.159
But let's begining the word cosmos, because a lot of
628
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:33.159
people when they hat the word cosmic, they think it's
629
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:38.239
very fluffy or ethereal or but cosmos just literally means
630
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:44.440
ordered wholeness. So cosmic consciousness is the consciousness that emerges
631
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.079
out of that deeper ordered wholeness of the universe itself.
632
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.199
So that also comes from a growing field in these
633
00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:54.280
new paradigm sciences, which takes the position that consciousness is
634
00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:00.199
primary and fundamental, and that energy and matter emerge out
635
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.360
of consciousness, that they're not separate from that. So cosmic
636
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.519
consciousness and I, therefore, I would say, is there is
637
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:09.519
also many ways you could say the consciousness of the universe.
638
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.719
So as more of us and I'm hoping this is
639
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.280
the way we're going as more of us start engaging
640
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.639
in this way of thought of the unification and cosmic consciousness.
641
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:24.760
Do we lay aground work for others to make it
642
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:26.800
possible for others to see it as well?
643
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.599
Yes, I do hope so, and I think that that
644
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.920
shift is happening if we're already looking also. I mean
645
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.440
I could even include this. This was in twenty nineteen
646
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.840
and completed my PhD research. And although it was a
647
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:42.800
real challenge to put that in at a very conventional
648
00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:47.559
university like mystret University in the field of sustainability, in
649
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.360
the end it did get scientifically accepted and also to
650
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:54.599
peer reviewed research. And I heard from other PhD students
651
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:58.320
came after me that having it in there was you know,
652
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.840
helping that open the huge door for them so that
653
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.119
they can now also look at those questions more scientifically
654
00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:08.800
and not be told that's too alternatives. So and then,
655
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:10.960
of course, if this goes into the mainstream, I think
656
00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.880
it's incredibly important that people understand what is this universe
657
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:18.480
that we form part of, what's the deeper nature of reality?
658
00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:21.199
Because for so long we've told people that the nature
659
00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:26.519
of reality is just to fight to survive, Yeah, to compete,
660
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:31.320
to go ahead, and people have believed a lot of
661
00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.000
them and not saying oh but that you know that
662
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.679
humans are not trustworthy, that we will always hurt each
663
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.239
other and harm each other. But there's a far greater
664
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.480
potential within us. And if we really start to understand
665
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:49.039
what the deeper nature of reality itself is, that life
666
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:53.840
wasn't designed to just fight to survive, then we can
667
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:55.840
open up to this greater possibility.
668
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:03.039
As we open up to greater possibilities within ourselves. Does
669
00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:04.199
that change the future?
670
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.559
I don't know if it changes the future, because in potentiality,
671
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:12.280
that future already exists. I think it changes our reality
672
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.599
now and it's and by so doing that, we then
673
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.800
create different futures. Yes, yes, go ahead.
674
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.039
There's a lot of prophecies out there about the new
675
00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:23.239
heaven and the new Earth.
676
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.480
Do you think it relates to this, that.
677
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.960
Seeing creating a different reality creates a new way of
678
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.360
being or a new heaven and a new Earth.
679
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.840
Yes, exactly. I think that a lot of those those
680
00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:37.679
prophecies from from different cultures and and different traditions point
681
00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:41.599
to this, you know, point in our story whereas humans
682
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.960
you come to this crust point, it's dipping point. Either
683
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:49.920
evolved to our next stage and we really start to
684
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.039
learn from the feedback that we're getting from life and
685
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.400
from our planets, or we play ourselves out of existence
686
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:58.840
Chapter Oerve four Humans.
687
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.880
Alternative doesn't look real nice to me, but that's just.
688
00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:10.719
So. You write about thriveability as a pattern for living systems,
689
00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:12.679
would you go into that a little bit for us?
690
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:17.679
Yes, many people know the word thrive, but they don't
691
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.480
always know the word thrive ability. So the triveability talks
692
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.960
about the ability to thrive and that this is an
693
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:26.760
innate potential that is life given. Every living system has
694
00:39:26.800 --> 00:39:30.559
the ability to thrive. But that the ability again is relational,
695
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.639
so it requires an environment also for all of us
696
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.800
around that supports that. And know that we're sharing resources
697
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:42.000
also through that. So just like we have responsibility, the
698
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.599
ability to respond, sustainability, the abilities to sustain, we also
699
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.000
have thrive ability, the ability to thrive, and that if
700
00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:51.440
we're looking at the patterns of living systems, we see
701
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:55.880
that they create conditions for life to thrive, and that
702
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.239
is what that statement refers to.
703
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:00.360
And just look at look at nature.
704
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:03.159
I love the seasons because it's nowhere is it more
705
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:07.199
evident than within the seasons, you know, the beginning, the
706
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.119
middle of the end, and the rebirth. I mean it
707
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:11.639
just on and on and on, and things tend to
708
00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:20.119
drive out there without without electronics without So it's about
709
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.760
that time in the show that I get to ask you, analysts,
710
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:23.840
what is your mission?
711
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:31.079
Ah? Well, to make this world more thrivable there you go. Yeah,
712
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.679
so that is really yes, and to really empower especially
713
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:38.440
younger generations as game changes for our world and transformation.
714
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:42.119
That's both my mission but also my passion. M hm.
715
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.719
And I love I love your approach as I understand it,
716
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:48.800
of working with what is present versus trying to get
717
00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:52.079
rid of it. Would you speak to that a little bit?
718
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.119
Yeah, I think that's so important because you don't achieve
719
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:57.760
much from rejection. So if you're trying to get rid
720
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.000
of something rather than work with its potential, and then
721
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.000
to me, you're not actually using that deeper intelligence and
722
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.559
wisdom of the mind. Well, because you have a reactionary approach.
723
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.639
But if you're looking, Okay, what's present here and how
724
00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:13.679
can we repurpose that? How can we get creative with it?
725
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:15.880
How can we direct it? In such a way that
726
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:20.039
the consequence gets very differently. And we talked about it
727
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:23.400
already before. Like technology, it's not about getting rid of
728
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.320
technology in order to become sustainable. It's about chews and
729
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.360
technology for a different purpose, in a different way, based
730
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.440
on a different understanding of life and reality.
731
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.519
Yeah, it's like, you know, I don't want to feel
732
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.320
like we're bad mouthing games are bad mouthing TV or
733
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:41.559
anything else. It's the way it's being exploited. It seems
734
00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:44.880
to me that's creating most of the problem, not the
735
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:45.800
media itself.
736
00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:48.440
This is it exactly exactly.
737
00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:50.920
So as a levels scientist, how do you see it's
738
00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:54.400
using the evolutionary process of life to create a thriving
739
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:55.360
world and future.
740
00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:59.039
Well, first of all, by applying is actually in the
741
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.400
design of our econ me. So if we're creating our
742
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:05.760
economies as living systems, well, first of all, what we're
743
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:08.800
start to do is we're stand to account for also
744
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.480
all the natural resources and ecosystem services. So apply that
745
00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:16.039
system also to our economic design. Then apply it to
746
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.760
our democracy. So rather than having these dual states like
747
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:22.320
you're seeing in the United States, which is I think
748
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:25.000
very very damaging. What we're seeing right now is always
749
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.880
these bipolar states, so you have two parties constantly competing
750
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:33.320
for we'll get wins the elections. But applying are also
751
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:38.159
these same revolutionary processes to create that mutuality, to create
752
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:41.360
win win solutions rather than win loose solutions. So that's
753
00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:44.639
really important in our societal systems as well. Understanding that
754
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:50.800
human beings, we are vast evolutionary, complex living systems. So
755
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:55.000
create incentives and rewards and support systems for people to
756
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.360
coast stewart our planets and our futures, and to make
757
00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:02.719
it empowering for people to have decision and power also
758
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:06.000
in the decisions that need to be taken together for
759
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:06.639
our future.
760
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:11.599
It seems like we're moving at mark seven right or nine,
761
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:15.360
You know, we're moving much more rap Everything's going much
762
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.840
more rapidly than fifty years ago. For sure, what's causing
763
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.159
it and how can we use this to our advantage?
764
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:26.519
Well, of course, the more complex your life becomes, the
765
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.360
more complex societies become, the more it feels that things
766
00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:32.199
go very fast and where people start to feel that
767
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.880
things get out of control. So I think that humans
768
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:39.079
are not very good with complexity in that way. But
769
00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:41.960
if you want to use it to advantage. Then it's
770
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.039
you need to make that complexity in our lives meaningful
771
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.400
and that needs to be happening. Try having kind of
772
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:52.800
connections that make sense. Post moments also get out of
773
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:55.480
the red race in many ways. So there are also
774
00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:58.400
countries where, for example, say well let's introduce the four
775
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.519
days a week as a working week rather than five days.
776
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.599
So pushing less and doing more with less, valuing also
777
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.039
the times with each other, the time to tell a
778
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.320
good story, and the time to experience life. And yeah,
779
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.159
stop stop pushing each other and our kids so hard.
780
00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:20.239
Yeah, I see the children are pushed so hard. There's
781
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.519
so many activities and they're expected to participate in all
782
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:23.840
of them.
783
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:25.119
And we see children that.
784
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:27.000
Were successful in everything.
785
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.880
They were fell Victorian, they were, you know, and all
786
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:32.480
of a sudden the suicide, you know, because the pressure
787
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.480
just takes them out. So how can we back up
788
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:41.519
and take it easy in a world that seems so
789
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:42.320
out of control?
790
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:45.599
Yeah, but it becomes out of control because we're not
791
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:48.719
backing up right, So that is the first thing to realize.
792
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:50.960
We're making it like that. So we have in some
793
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:54.440
ways feel like we regain our powers from a world
794
00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:57.039
where we feel that's taking us constantly on the right.
795
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:00.239
So if you stand in that as a victim, say
796
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.360
I can't do anything, I'm helpless. The world is going
797
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:04.159
so fast and you're never going to change it. But
798
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:06.400
if you really realize I'm not a victim, I'm a
799
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.679
creator here, I'm going to it takes from that power
800
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.199
back and I'm going to bring in those rest moments,
801
00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.440
those balanced moments. We're going to go back to our visdom.
802
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.280
But also find ways in a healthy way with your
803
00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:20.039
family and with your kids to say to let them know,
804
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.079
you know, you don't have to participate in all of
805
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.840
those activities and just choose one thing that you really like,
806
00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:27.840
and it's okay to have time also in the day
807
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.159
that just do nothing, just.
808
00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:39.519
Be you're imagining a future right exactly. Yes, well weird
809
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:41.679
just about out of time. If you were to leave
810
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:43.519
us with one thought, and what would it be?
811
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.920
Oh, and enjoy life and make it enjoyable.
812
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:52.679
Also for others, that's beautiful because we get ourselves so
813
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:56.079
busy we lose track of what's really important. If we
814
00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:59.039
take a look at look at every opportunity comes our
815
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.159
way and say, is this really important?
816
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:02.599
That should help, don't.
817
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:03.960
You think exactly?
818
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:08.599
Yes, Well, unfortunately we are out of time, Doctor Smithsmon,
819
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.400
thank you so much for coming on the show.
820
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:14.880
Thank you so much, wonderful conversation.
821
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:18.480
Our guest this hour has been doctor annahlu Smithsman, Award
822
00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:23.440
winning futurist, system scientist, entrepreneur and best selling author. To
823
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.159
find out more about doctor Smithsman, where you can find
824
00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:28.400
her books, games, and all she has to offer, visit
825
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.960
your website earthwise dot global. This has been Mission Evolution
826
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:37.280
with Guildawyeka. For more information or to enjoy past archived episodes,
827
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:42.719
visit www dot mission evolution dot org. But please be
828
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.280
sure to join us right here next time. This mission
829
00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:50.000
will continue bringing information, resources and support to our rapidly
830
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:59.960
evolving world.