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So I'm really excited to present the next speaker over the past few days
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I've gotten to know Dr. Rich Blundell if any of you have spoken with him
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You know that he is quite a visionary and as I was trying to figure out how to introduce him
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It's it's actually I really struggled with how to introduce such an interesting person
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So I am humbled to share his story with you and I'll be introducing him shortly
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But what what is he I'm trying to put I was trying to put a label on who he is and you really can't
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Because he's so many things. He's a scientist. He's an ecologist. He's a conservationist
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He's a philosopher. He also has a PhD in cosmic evolution, which is incredible
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But most of all I would say he's also
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And he's also a change agent and that's I think what we need more of today
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And I'm really excited to share his story with you
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So first I'm going to share this video and then he's gonna come up talk and we also have a Q&A prepared
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So, thank you
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So with that I'd like to introduce Dr. Rich Blundell
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So I think
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So he's such an interesting history such an interesting array of experiences
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And I know we are a little bit compressed for time. So we're gonna get right into it
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So much of your work has been centered around this concept of OIKA. Can you share with us?
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I can
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OIKA
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It's it comes from the Greek word ancient Greek word OIKOS
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Which means basically home
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In the ancient Greek conception it meant more like a house
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It's the root of the word eco as in
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ecology and
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The word economy which is actually meaningful in this sense, but basically it means home
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I'll just go a little further to say this that I'm an ecologist for me OIKA means
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It's the intelligence of nature that there's a that there's an intelligence
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Embedded deep within nature that actually proceeds our intelligence
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I study the history of the universe and includes the history of the earth the history of nature on earth when you study it
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You realize that?
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Intelligence was going before we showed up there is an intelligence in nature
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But the good news is because we're a part of nature we can feel that intelligence
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In fact, that's why we can feel it. It's because we are
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Part of nature. That's why we can feel it
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And guess what?
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It feels good
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The intelligence of nature when you feel it coming through you
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It feels really good
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and I think
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We can also express it
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so when we're when we're
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When we're aware of this intelligence when we get to know it when we become familiar
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And it becomes part of we become part of the family of nature
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We can express it we can live by that intelligence I
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Think a lot of our culture and you know the inheritance of
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Accidents of history have somewhat divorced us from this intelligence and we're feeling it
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And I think the conversations that we've been having the conversations this earlier with Michael about
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Wellness seems to be absent
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is a symptom of that of that divorce and
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Oika is about trying to restore that intelligence getting us to feel it
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As I said, I'm a scientist and so I study the history of nature and
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One thing I just want to say that
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Ecology is the science of relationships and when we think about ecology we think about it as the relationship
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between this bird and that tree or that insect and
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the amount of rainfall or
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We tend to think of it in terms of the things out in nature, but ecology is the study of relationships
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Right
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Humans are part of nature too. So ecology is the study of human relationships. In fact ecology is the study of
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our relationship
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Our relationships is the relationships between me and this chair right here
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It's the relationships between me and this chair right now. It could be
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So I think of ecology as this incredibly broad study of relationships and when you do that you realize that
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You know, it's not just talk this thing that we're connected to nature
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it's actually inescapable truth if you study long enough and hard enough and
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You realize that that's not just
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An idea or a sentiment. It's it's an empirical fact
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And that's part of what you see in this video is me tracking
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The story of the cosmos, you know starting in the in the big bang actually I start a little bit before the big bang I start in
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the mystery before the big bang
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But that mystery doesn't go away. It's still here. It's in this room. So I always try to start
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Talk of cosmic evolution in mystery and then keep that mystery alive because it's still here
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You know science is very limited in how it knows the world and so there's always still a mystery
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And I guess what I'm trying to get at here is
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And we can get to the next question, but I my proposal here the reason I'm here. There's first of all
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I want to say this
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I want to just quickly read the
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mission statement for
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GSM if part of it says
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I don't know my glass is going to be tough the sustainability movement
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The sustainability movement is at a crossroads in defining the path that will be taken towards either a life sustaining course of action
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Or a life depleting route and thus we find ourselves square at the center of the wellness movement
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the future of wellness may be when human beings are able to reconnect with the awareness that we are
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Are part of one cycle of life
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Finding resonance among each other and understanding the well-being we seek
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Can be found in well-being with each other. That's that's why I'm here
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This is like my call to action like what a guy that you just saw up there or an ecologist
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You know be doing in this room
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That's my work described there is to take seriously
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This idea that we can reconnect with the cycle of life the cycle the the rhythms of nature nature itself
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I'm taking that seriously. I'm taking it so seriously that it's a science
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I'm taking it so seriously that it's a form of spirituality
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Even that's that's why I'm here
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And one last thing I just want to say before we get get back into the conversation is that
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As I studied this whole grand arc of
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Cosmos the cosmos nature that brought us all here today
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I realized that
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When you're in right relationship
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with
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with nature with the world
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What feels good
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Is good
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And you guys are in the feel-good industry, right?
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Maybe i'm wrong, but i'm still pretty naive. I think what you're in. I think you're in like the self-care, right?
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But when you're in when the self
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Is deeply it feels deeply embedded in nature when the self is in right relationship to nature
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self-care
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Lo and behold is world care. It's the world when you take care of yourself
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And you're in right relationship. That's the key like that's the caveat here is that you've got to be in right relationship
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But if you're in right relationship
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Self-care is world care
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Healing the self is healing the world. I think that's
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like a wicked powerful
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Opportunity amen i'm from massachusetts
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Um, and and I want to also frame this that that's the light okay, but we're also in a moment
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There's another greek word. I want to introduce this
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You probably know this one chronos, right? That's linear time the greeks had a word for linear time called chronos
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They have another word for time called kairos
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It's not linear. It's it's a different kind of time
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That is a moment of profound transformation
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Right that there's a it's almost a crisis. Has anyone heard the term the meta crisis?
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anyone
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That's what we're in. We're in a convergence of crises
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The crisis this crisis that there's mental crises. There's economic crises. There's climate crisis. There's
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Fundamentally it all boils down to
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A crisis of consciousness a crisis of separation. I believe from nature
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I believe that's that that's the source of all of these crises
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I'm here at my point was but um
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That we're in a moment that
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the inflection point as
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New technologies are coming online right now that we've gotten glimpses of
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We the first glimpse we got was when the algorithms took over social media and look at what it's done
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I mean, we're all old enough to have seen the rise of this situation
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And we see what it's done. We're feeling you're feeling it in your industry. We're feeling it in our lives and
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That was just the first iteration of
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Artificial intelligence was the the algorithms that would curate content for us
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We're now entering into the next phase of this artificial intelligence world, which has gone from curation to creation
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It's starting chat GPT is powerful and as useful it is and I use it too. It's creating a world. Okay
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It's gone from curating content and now creating our reality for us
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The next phase is even going to be more insidious. Okay, we're going to go from curation to creation to control
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If we're not careful, in fact, it's kind of inevitable
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That's where artificial intelligence is taking us. So my proposal here is that we read store
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natural intelligence as a response to artificial intelligence
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Before it's too late and that's where I think your industry
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Finds another level of relevance. We need what you do now more than ever
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Again, I might be naive but I just think that there's a powerful moment here
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Powerful moment here and and I want to be a part of it
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I want to help you be a part of it if if you're up for it. I think there's this incredible healing moment
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so that's why I'm here and
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That's why I brought OYCA here to introduce it to this and I know this is like a sub niche of a niche
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And so but that's perfect. That's I used to say if I could just reach 10% of people with this message then
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Then we have a chance. I've
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Reduced my goals down. I'm at 1% and then I had to actually reduce it again. So I'm actually at point 1%
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so point 1% of you
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Reach out to me after this then I think you know, we're on the right track
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So I just sorry if that went long or went off track
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But I just wanted to get it all out there so that we could go from here. So, okay
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Yeah, I think what I'm gonna do is kind of fast forward to
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Our thesis so we talked about transformation and as you pointed out, we're an industry of spa professionals here
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So spa professionals are in a unique position
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But what can we talk about something tangible or even intangible that we as professionals can do it?
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Because not all of us can be forward-thinking
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Colleges and change agents. Well, what are what are the degrees that we can do that in?
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Because I'm I'm us. I'm actually not the pretend. I'm a spa director
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I can't like go out and walk in nature like half of the day or my tea will revolt. Okay
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Okay, but
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We can we can pull that apart
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First of all, I think
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That first of all your slide with the pyramid that had the assumptions up that had the assumptions as part of that
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I'm such a great word. We live by a lot of assumptions and there were there are assumptions embedded in what you said
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AI is also going to change a lot of those things that keep us that keep us in the grind that keep us from the things
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we care about and
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like those crabs that get pulled back, you know, that's going on and
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So those things are gonna I'm trying to tell you
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We are we are the next decade
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Every industry is going to be disrupted everything about our lives is going to be disrupted. So
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We need to take a look at these assumptions now is our opportunity to
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Rethink our assumptions redesign our assumptions about
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What we want to spend our lives doing we don't so I think to assume that we're not all going to have an opportunity to
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Learn about who we are. I think that's actually the purpose of life. That's been taken from us is that
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Figuring out what was that? You said figuring out who we are was something about somebody today had the line about
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It takes a life to who was it?
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Christy Christy Christy said it right. She said
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I'm trying to find who you are find who you are and I said when she said that I was so like happy because
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That's kind of what a life is for and
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But with that's been taken from us and that's what this story by the way that I tell this cosmic story
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That's our story. That's your story
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We don't know it like we should all know the story of where we come from
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That's our that's our origin story everybody in this room on every continent
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Everybody in this room on every continent on this planet from every ethnicity. That's our shared origin story
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That's the one thing that can actually unite us that transcends political divisions transcends
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Racial divisions transcends class everything. That's the story that can unite us
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That's the kind of story that can that can start to really heal
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My point there is just that
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We are about to enter into this transformative time and AI is going to usher these changes
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So now's the chance now is our chance to be to prepare
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for a radically different world and
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So I think
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We should be thinking about this
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Individually, like how are we going to individually adapt? But how can our collective
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Your collective
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Also respond to the changes that we're seeing in the world
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How can we as a collective also respond to this moment because there's going to be a lot of
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For lack of a better word
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refugees cultural refugees seeking meaning and I think that should be part of the wellness recipe like why isn't wellness
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giving people meaning where meaning has been lost and so
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The question was what can we individually do the first thing I think is to just
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Be prepared to think differently
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Get curious again about what the future can be
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Because I have a saying that I use the future is beautiful
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Or there isn't one so what's the beautiful future?
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That that because now we have an opportunity to create that's what the kairos means that there's a transformation happening and there's an opportunity
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Embedded within it that opportunity is the future that we want to create
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Okay, I know this all sounds idealistic and naive
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It is not naive. It is idealistic. So
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That's the first thing that we can all do is prepare ourselves mentally for the disruption for the changes that are going to
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take place
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not see them as
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threats not see them as
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You know see them as the end of something but let's make it the end of the thing that we're all complaining about
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The thing that's making us stressed out
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And the thing that's you know creating the anxieties
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And so what does this have to do with this story well if you come with me this afternoon on this earth story
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I'll begin to show you how
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How deeply embedded we are in each other start will start to cultivate that feeling of?
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That the nature that's within all of us and that good feeling that I was talking about
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forward-thinking scientists some people in philosophy some philanthropists, so if you know
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Earth story walk and hear more about rich because I feel like we really cut this short
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We'll go for a walk, and I'm going to tell you the history of the planet and it's such a 4.6 billion year story
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consciousness human consciousness emerged from this story it goes from being a
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solar system story to a geological planetary story to a chemical story and
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suddenly it becomes a biological story, and then it becomes a
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Animal story and then it becomes a consciousness story, and then it becomes a personal story
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It's not just a theory anymore. We've actually been able to track how our
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And we're comfortable shoes after your meetings go grab shoes
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would any of you be terribly disappointed if we canceled the
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The architectural panel so that everyone could go on the walk with dr. Randall
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This is really your son so
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Okay, you're amazing
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So I'm really excited to present the next speaker over the past few days
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It's it's actually I really struggled with how to introduce such an interesting person
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So I am humbled to share his story with you and I'll be introducing him shortly
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But what what is he I'm trying to put I was trying to put a label on who he is and you really can't
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So first I'm going to share this video and then he's gonna come up talk and we also have a Q&A prepared
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So, thank you
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So he's such an interesting history such an interesting array of experiences
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So much of your work has been centered around this concept of OIKA. Can you share with us?
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It's it comes from the Greek word ancient Greek word OIKOS
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Which means basically home
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In the ancient Greek conception it meant more like a house
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The word economy which is actually meaningful in this sense, but basically it means home
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I'll just go a little further to say this that I'm an ecologist for me OIKA means
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I study the history of the universe and includes the history of the earth the history of nature on earth when you study it
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The intelligence of nature when you feel it coming through you
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Accidents of history have somewhat divorced us from this intelligence and we're feeling it
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between this bird and that tree or that insect and
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Humans are part of nature too. So ecology is the study of human relationships. In fact ecology is the study of
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It's the relationships between me and this chair right now. It could be
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The story of the cosmos, you know starting in the in the big bang actually I start a little bit before the big bang I start in
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the mystery before the big bang
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Talk of cosmic evolution in mystery and then keep that mystery alive because it's still here
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The sustainability movement is at a crossroads in defining the path that will be taken towards either a life sustaining course of action
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the future of wellness may be when human beings are able to reconnect with the awareness that we are
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Finding resonance among each other and understanding the well-being we seek
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Can be found in well-being with each other. That's that's why I'm here
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This is like my call to action like what a guy that you just saw up there or an ecologist
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That's my work described there is to take seriously
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I'm taking that seriously. I'm taking it so seriously that it's a science
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Maybe i'm wrong, but i'm still pretty naive. I think what you're in. I think you're in like the self-care, right?
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Lo and behold is world care. It's the world when you take care of yourself
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And you're in right relationship. That's the key like that's the caveat here is that you've got to be in right relationship
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Healing the self is healing the world. I think that's
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There's another greek word. I want to introduce this
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You probably know this one chronos, right? That's linear time the greeks had a word for linear time called chronos
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That is a moment of profound transformation
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Right that there's a it's almost a crisis. Has anyone heard the term the meta crisis?
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The crisis this crisis that there's mental crises. There's economic crises. There's climate crisis. There's
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I mean, we're all old enough to have seen the rise of this situation
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And we see what it's done. We're feeling you're feeling it in your industry. We're feeling it in our lives and
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It's starting chat GPT is powerful and as useful it is and I use it too. It's creating a world. Okay
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It's gone from curating content and now creating our reality for us
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The next phase is even going to be more insidious. Okay, we're going to go from curation to creation to control
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If we're not careful, in fact, it's kind of inevitable
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That's where artificial intelligence is taking us. So my proposal here is that we read store
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natural intelligence as a response to artificial intelligence
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Before it's too late and that's where I think your industry
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Finds another level of relevance. We need what you do now more than ever
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Again, I might be naive but I just think that there's a powerful moment here
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Powerful moment here and and I want to be a part of it
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I want to help you be a part of it if if you're up for it. I think there's this incredible healing moment
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That's why I brought OYCA here to introduce it to this and I know this is like a sub niche of a niche
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Colleges and change agents. Well, what are what are the degrees that we can do that in?
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I can't like go out and walk in nature like half of the day or my tea will revolt. Okay
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I'm such a great word. We live by a lot of assumptions and there were there are assumptions embedded in what you said
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AI is also going to change a lot of those things that keep us that keep us in the grind that keep us from the things
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Learn about who we are. I think that's actually the purpose of life. That's been taken from us is that
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Slowly over time
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Figuring out what was that? You said figuring out who we are was something about somebody today had the line about
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It takes a life to who was it?
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Christy Christy Christy said it right. She said
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I'm trying to find who you are find who you are and I said when she said that I was so like happy because
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That's kind of what a life is for and
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But with that's been taken from us and that's what this story by the way that I tell this cosmic story
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That's our story. That's your story
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We don't know it like we should all know the story of where we come from
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That's our that's our origin story everybody in this room on every continent
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Everybody in this room on every continent on this planet from every ethnicity. That's our shared origin story
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That's the one thing that can actually unite us that transcends political divisions transcends
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Racial divisions transcends class everything. That's the story that can unite us
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That's the kind of story that can that can start to really heal
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My point there is just that
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We are about to enter into this transformative time and AI is going to usher these changes
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So now's the chance now is our chance to be to prepare
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for a radically different world and
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So I think
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We should be thinking about this
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Individually, like how are we going to individually adapt? But how can our collective
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Your collective
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Also respond to the changes that we're seeing in the world
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How can we as a collective also respond to this moment because there's going to be a lot of
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For lack of a better word
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refugees cultural refugees seeking meaning and I think that should be part of the wellness recipe like why isn't wellness
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giving people meaning where meaning has been lost and so
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The question was what can we individually do the first thing I think is to just
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Be prepared to think differently
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Get curious again about what the future can be
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Because I have a saying that I use the future is beautiful
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Or there isn't one so what's the beautiful future?
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That that because now we have an opportunity to create that's what the kairos means that there's a transformation happening and there's an opportunity
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Embedded within it that opportunity is the future that we want to create
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Okay, I know this all sounds idealistic and naive
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It is not naive. It is idealistic. So
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That's the first thing that we can all do is prepare ourselves mentally for the disruption for the changes that are going to
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take place
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not see them as
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threats not see them as
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You know see them as the end of something but let's make it the end of the thing that we're all complaining about
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The thing that's making us stressed out
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And the thing that's you know creating the anxieties
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And so what does this have to do with this story well if you come with me this afternoon on this earth story
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I'll begin to show you how
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How deeply embedded we are in each other start will start to cultivate that feeling of?
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That the nature that's within all of us and that good feeling that I was talking about
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You know we can have it we can start to really take the time to start cultivating that sense of belonging in the world
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Those are those are two things get ready for radical different radical change in our lives
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It's an inner. It's this is a be ready to change the way you think change your assumptions
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And and the third thing I've been thinking about this all day like what what else could I what other?
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Practical step could I offer you and this is going to sound self-promotional, but it isn't
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But you can reach out to me and and we can talk about how whatever it is you're doing we can start to
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To develop I have a whole network of highly creative people I work with a lot of artists a few
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forward-thinking scientists some people in philosophy some philanthropists, so if you know
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Let's reach out to me, and let's think about how we can start to integrate
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integrate deep ecological principles in whatever it is you're doing wherever you fall in the stack here wherever you fall on the spectrum of
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the wellness industry
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If you if you're interested in really deeply
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Reintegrating nature the experience and the feeling of being nature again into your
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programs and into your
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Your infrastructure reach out to me let me know
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Not at all so we attempted to fit our in out an hour conversation into like 25 minutes
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So that's that's what's happening here, but I think the theme is around transformation
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There is a huge opportunity for spot professionals here being in this self-care
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self-care industry and
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and I really encourage you to go on the
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Earth story walk and hear more about rich because I feel like we really cut this short
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But I know that we have meetings starting in like three minutes, so
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Well let me just tell you real quickly what the earth story walk is it's it's we'll start somewhere out here
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We'll go for a walk, and I'm going to tell you the history of the planet and it's such a 4.6 billion year story
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But I'm going to tell you the story in a way that eventually the planetary story becomes the personal story becomes your story
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And along the way I'm going to explain to you how
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consciousness human consciousness emerged from this story it goes from being a
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solar system story to a geological planetary story to a chemical story and
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suddenly it becomes a biological story, and then it becomes a
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Animal story and then it becomes a consciousness story, and then it becomes a personal story
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So that's what that's the function of this walk is to show you how deeply
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Embedded our consciousness is in the natural world. It's not just
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It's not just a theory anymore. We've actually been able to track how our
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Imaginations our identities our inner voice is
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Deeply embedded in nature, so that's what that's what that's what the first story walk is
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And we're comfortable shoes after your meetings go grab shoes
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Please check out his website
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Before we break
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Excuse me. I have a question
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would any of you be terribly disappointed if we canceled the
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The architectural panel so that everyone could go on the walk with dr. Randall
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This is really your son so
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I'm curious if if anyone had their heart really set on the panel
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Yeah, you could do the panel virtually great idea show
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Okay, you're amazing
