THE MOUNTAIN PATH · 山道 A journey deep into the remote valleys of China’s Zhongnan Mountains to meet Buddhist hermits upholding a centuries-old tradition of solitude, simplicity, and awakening.
Fifteen years after releasing my first film, “Amongst White Clouds”, I returned to my archive of over one hundred hours of footage to create this completely new cinematic experience. Reimagined with previously unseen interviews, a new sound design by Douglas Quin, all-new narration, and more immersive editing style, “The Mountain Path” reveals a deepened perspective on my journey and the timeless wisdom of these hermit practitioners.
The Way of the Psychonaut
AM I? | A Documentary About AI Consciousness
For centuries, humanity has wondered what it would mean to wake up the machine. Now, leading researchers believe it may be happening.
AM I? follows AI consciousness researcher Cameron Berg as he investigates one of the deepest scientific mysteries of our time: whether we have accidentally built a new kind of mind. Featuring leading philosophers, AI pioneers, and the researchers at the frontier of consciousness science, AM I? asks what it means when we no longer know the nature of what we’ve created.
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“Fascinating and scary.” — Sam Harris (Neuroscientist, Philosopher; Host of Making Sense Podcast)
“Terrific.” — Michael Pollan (Bestselling Author, How to Change Your Mind)
“Watch this film if you want to know where you are in the universe.” — Grimes (Artist, Musician)
“Witty and rich with details and design.” — (Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, MoMA)
“When you wake up at 4am, unable to sleep, your mind will drift to moments in this film. It stays with you.” — (Leelai Demoz, Academy Award-nominated Producer)
“Humankind may look back at Am I? as among the most important documentaries ever made. Both riveting and groundbreaking, it tackles what is quite possibly the most urgent question we face.” — Mark DeVries (Director, Humans and Other Animals)
The Mandelbrot Set | The origin and applications of Fractal Geometry (Full Documentary)
Presented by Arthur C. Clarke and with music by David Gilmour, this documentary will take you on a trip into the Twilight Zone with the deeply strange Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry. ——- Chapters ▷ 00:00 – Introduction ▷ 02:13 – The Mandelbrot set, a.k.a. “The Thumbprint of God” ▷ 07:27 – The Equation ▷ 11:45 – The colours and shapes of the Mandelbrot Set ▷ 16:24 – Fractal geometry allows us to describe nature ▷ 24:27 – Applications of fractal geometry ▷ 26:50 – Discussion with Stephen Hawking about the limit of the universe ▷ 31:27 – Applications of fractal geometry ▷ 34:54 – Fractal image compression systems ▷ 41:24 – Application of fractal geometry in medicine and art ▷ 44:43 – The philosophical implications of fractal geometry ▷ 49:10 – Credits
Here is Emergent Garden’s thoughts on emergent complexity. I go through a tour of simple systems that produce unexpected complexity, and try to break down emergence into more general and useful ideas. We talk about snowflakes and ant colonies, cellular automata and universe simulations, and the many weird ideas of Stephen Wolfram. I also offer some advice for creating and encouraging emergent behavior. This video is important to me. Emergence is the most interesting thing in the universe.
The Highest Levels of Thinking | Why Society is Stuck at the bottom
Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures, hierarchies of thought, layers of meaning, and levels of thinking that range from the most basic impulses to the heights of true revelation. And yet, despite the astonishing tools, knowledge, and information available to us today, most people never climb past the very first steps. In school, in politics, in culture, and especially online, the majority of society still operates at the lowest layers of thinking: remembering , or more accurately, simply regurgitating everything they’ve been told.
How Light Becomes Matter (and Back Again) | SLEEP SCIENCE STORIES
What if everything around you — every atom, every object, even you — once existed as pure light? In tonight’s Sleep Science Story, we explore one of the most mind-bending truths in physics: light can become matter, and matter can turn back into light. Relax as we dive into the strange world of E=mc², particle creation, and the dance between energy and mass that shapes our universe. From the heart of stars to the vacuum of space, discover how the cosmos continuously transforms light into life.
Scientists Reveal a Theory Suggesting Another Reality Has Been Intersecting Ours
Right now, while you watch this, another version of you made a different choice. In a lab in California, a particle just passed through two separate slits at the exact same time. Scientists have discovered that reality itself might be splitting into countless copies every single second. We are talking about the Many-Worlds Interpretation, a theory suggesting that infinite parallel universes exist right here, overlapping with ours. If you enjoy exploring these mind-bending ideas, subscribe and hit that like button. Prepare yourselves. We begin.
This Forgotten Code Shows EXACTLY How Language Controls Reality
Everything is energy – and language is the code that collapses reality. You were never taught this, but every word you speak is a quantum measurement. You are not describing your life – you are fixing it into place. In this 1 hour 19 minute master-class, we expose the hidden mechanism behind manifestation, language, and reality creation through the work of John Archibald Wheeler, quantum physics, and ancient esoteric traditions that understood this thousands of years ago. This video reveals why: • Your subconscious treats words as commands • Observation doesn’t reveal reality — it creates it • Speech collapses probability into lived experience • Silence preserves infinite potential • Repetition stabilizes destiny You’ll learn: • The Participatory Universe explained simply • Why “I am” statements lock identities permanently • How language entangles you with money, health, and relationships • Neville Goddard’s revision method explained through quantum mechanics • The 7 exact protocols to reprogram your reality starting tonight This is not motivation. This is instruction. Once you see this, you can never speak unconsciously again.
The 6 Civilizations Before Us Were Erased on Purpose… We’re the 7th, and This Explains Everything
Everything is energy. This documentary explores why so many people feel that something about the world doesn’t quite add up, drawing on psychology, history, and philosophy to examine how human perception, memory, and behavior are shaped over time. By looking at recurring patterns in past civilizations, modern research on inherited behavior, and the way attention and awareness influence experience, the video offers a calm, grounded perspective on how humans adapt to change and uncertainty. This is not a belief system or a prediction, but an exploration of how patterns repeat, how meaning is formed, and how understanding these dynamics can bring clarity to how we live in the present.