A curated collection of documentaries, scientific insights, and philosophical perspectives on quantum physics, non-duality, and the mysteries of existence.
This vault archives YouTube transmissions and corresponding literature across meditation, neuroscience, ontology, ecology, AI, spirituality, and cosmology.
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491 Transmissions
Biology/Ecology
Normal Is Over (2019)
NormalisOver 1.1 New Version Engl. 2019 from ReneeScheltema on Vimeo. With an open mind, investigative journalist Renée Scheltema investigates the cause, and symptoms of our crisis while offering hope. She meets experts, and pioneers all over the world, trying to stave off global decline. They...
With an open mind, investigative journalist Renée Scheltema investigates the cause, and symptoms of our crisis while offering hope. She meets experts, and pioneers all over the world, trying to stave off global decline. They concentrate on matters such as ecological economics, organic agriculture, renewable energy, saving species, reducing plastic, our carbon footprints, sustainable finance, and more..
Altruism
ANARKEDEN: THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN UPRISING ~ 2018-2023
The healthiest action we can take is to rise above the old paradigm and channel our energy towards the creation of a new world!!! Providing for everyone’s needs sustainably, Anarkeden is an automatic-wealth-generating ecosystem waiting to be embraced. Over the next few years we have...
https://youtu.be/xLeo2LMMEwA
The healthiest action we can take is to rise above the old paradigm and channel our energy towards the creation of a new world!!! Providing for everyone’s needs sustainably, Anarkeden is an automatic-wealth-generating ecosystem waiting to be embraced. Over the next few years we have the potential to transform the entire world and heal humanity’s collective disconnection.
Documentaries
Unlocking the Mystery of Consciousness: Uncover the Answers | Frauke Sandig & Eric Black
I recently saw the documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness, and I felt that it would be a perfect conversation for the show because of how it digs into multiple layers of consciousness and asks a lot of big questions and answers, a couple of questions....
https://youtu.be/TLgyfcddt98
I recently saw the documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness, and I felt that it would be a perfect conversation for the show because of how it digs into multiple layers of consciousness and asks a lot of big questions and answers, a couple of questions. But you're also left with questions at the end of films, which is always a good sign to keep the conversation going.
Frauke Sandig and Eric Black have done a number of other projects together on a common theme of social, environmental, and psychological consciousness.
Set to be theatrically released in the US and Germany in September 2021, Aware confronts the "Big Questions", cutting a window into a realm previously held tight by philosophy and religion: AWARE follows six brilliant researchers, approaching the greatest of all mysteries from radically different perspectives, from within and without: through high-tech brain research and Eastern meditation, by scientifically exploring inner space through psychedelic substances and by investigating the consciousness of plants. Scientists are arriving at new insights - some have been integral to Indigenous knowledge for millennia.
AWARE opens as a science film but emerges well beyond the explicable, ultimately leading one on a voyage upon the ocean of consciousness, a contemplative, sensual, cinematographic meditation. The networks of consciousness are reflected in 'grand' imagery revealing the vast interconnectedness of Nature - from the smallest organisms to the world of plants and animals and on to the cosmos.
We explore the depths and crevasses of the topic of consciousness and how we are impacted by it inwardly and outwardly through meditating, psychedelic research, etc.
The duo has done exceptional work highlighting stories or topics that challenge our subjective experience and implore the viewers to look harder, think deeper, and act better.
Astronomy/ Cosmology
Was The Universe Born From Nothing?
If you like this video, check out writer Geraint Lewis´ excellent book, co-written with Chris Ferrie: Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos
https://youtu.be/MOItjGpiAfo
If you like this video, check out writer Geraint Lewis´ excellent book, co-written with Chris Ferrie: Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos
Altruism
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth – Trailer
Documentary by Frauke Sandig & Eric Black. The ending of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 is now part of our own manufactured mythology, but for the source of our demise, there is no need to look to the esoteric: The remote homelands of the present-day...
https://youtu.be/4d4X6SOsgBs
Documentary by Frauke Sandig & Eric Black. The ending of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 is now part of our own manufactured mythology, but for the source of our demise, there is no need to look to the esoteric: The remote homelands of the present-day Maya in Mexico and Guatemala present a perfect microcosm to show how unhindered globalization is impacting the planet and indigenous peoples, now under attack for their natural resources from all sides.
The film follows six young Maya into their daily and ceremonial life, revealing their determination to resist the destruction of their culture and environment. They put forth an entirely indigenous perspective in their own words, without narration. Their cosmovision is juxtaposed with a shortsighted exploitation of the Earth.
Altruism
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness – Theatrical trailer
“I found AWARE to be in many ways the most moving and beautiful depiction of deep understanding of consciousness and of who we are that I have seen depicted through film.” – Jack Kornfield, author and Buddhist teacher “ Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness is a...
https://youtu.be/0TvncyJ_dNU
“I found AWARE to be in many ways the most moving and beautiful depiction of deep understanding of consciousness and of who we are that I have seen depicted through film.” – Jack Kornfield, author and Buddhist teacher “
Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness is a heady experience – dare I say spiritual? – that stirs feelings of awe and wonder, humility and connection... the film creates a contemplative openness that words alone might find hard to describe. It’s a remarkable film.” – Valerie Kalfrin, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
What is consciousness? Is it in all living beings? What happens when we die? Why do we seem to be hardwired for mystical experience? In these times of existential crisis, there has been an explosion of research into consciousness. AWARE follows six brilliant researchers, approaching the greatest of all mysteries from radically different perspectives, from within and without: through high-tech brain research and Eastern meditation, by scientifically exploring inner space through psychedelic substances and by investigating the consciousness of plants.
With Richard Boothby, Monica Gagliano, Roland Griffiths, Josefa Kirvin Kulix, Christof Koch, Matthieu Ricard and Mingyur Rinpoche
Talks
Lynne McTaggart The Power of Eight… Activating the ‘VEGAS’ Nerve
For 20 years, Lynne McTaggart, an internationally bestselling and award-winning author, has been uncovering your birthright – the miraculous power of intention. In this interview, Lynne McTaggrt shares her knowledge on the importance of connection, relationships, and community.
For 20 years, Lynne McTaggart, an internationally bestselling and award-winning author, has been uncovering your birthright – the miraculous power of intention. In this interview, Lynne McTaggrt shares her knowledge on the importance of connection, relationships, and community.
Biology/Ecology
Michael Marder: Moss – The Inassimilable (SYMPOSIUM Mosses and Lichens)
Moss is as unlikely to fascinate philosophers as, say, cockroaches or dust. But if we scratch the surface of that indifference, something else entirely seems to be hiding just beneath it. Each in his own way, Francis Bacon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche tell us...
https://youtu.be/PP_lZMUOvog
Moss is as unlikely to fascinate philosophers as, say, cockroaches or dust. But if we scratch the surface of that indifference, something else entirely seems to be hiding just beneath it. Each in his own way, Francis Bacon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche tell us one and the same thing: moss is inassimilable to metaphysics. Condensing in miniature the entire kingdom Plantae, these tiny plants comprising approximately 14,000 species throw a formidable challenge to thinking based on oppositions, to linear chronologies, and to conventional theorizations of energy. From the outside, they support projects that aim to revolutionize philosophy, to convert philosophy back to life from its obsession with death. Seen through a child’s eyes, moss becomes as cognitively fresh and refreshing as it is vividly, dazzlingly green.
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology. He is the author of many books and countless academic articles that engage with a critique of anthropocentrism in philosophy accounting for non-human types of existence especially with respect to the ontology of plants and their modes of being. His most recent publications include: Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013); “The Philosopher's Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium” (2014); “Pyropolitics: When the World Is Ablaze” (2015); “Dust” (2016); “Grafts” (2016); with Luce Irigaray, “Through Vegetal Being” with Luce Irigaray (2016); and “Energy Dreams: Of Actuality” (2017), Political Categories: Thinking beyond Concepts (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)
Blogs/ Websites
Choiceless Awareness – The Secret of Secrets- The Wisdom That Leads to Samadhi
A contemplative film on choiceless awareness — attention that rests open and undirected, judging nothing, excluding nothing. In that effortless watching, the wisdom that leads to samadhi ripens on its own.
https://youtu.be/-e_CId346nA
https://awakentheworld.com/
A contemplative film on choiceless awareness — attention that rests open and undirected, judging nothing, excluding nothing. In that effortless watching, the wisdom that leads to samadhi ripens on its own.
Analytic Idealism
Quantum Bayesianism and the embodied agent
The Nobel Prize in physics in 2022 went the scientists who, for over 40 years, have carried out a series of experiments indicating that, contrary to materialist expectations, physical entities do not have standalone existence but are, in fact, products of observation. This result is...
https://youtu.be/X0HYYDXteAg
The Nobel Prize in physics in 2022 went the scientists who, for over 40 years, have carried out a series of experiments indicating that, contrary to materialist expectations, physical entities do not have standalone existence but are, in fact, products of observation. This result is extraordinarily relevant to our understanding of the nature of reality, and so Essentia Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (home to Prof. Anton Zeilinger, one of this year’s Nobel Laureates in physics), organized a conference discussing the implications of this result. The conference was hosted by IQOQI-Vienna’s Dr. Markus Müller and featured seven other speakers. In this presentation, Dr. Jacques Pienaar discusses the notion of an embodied agent in the context of Quantum Bayesianism ('QBism,' for short). QBism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which the wave function represents simply what we know about reality—a kind of betting strategy about what we will see next—as opposed to reality itself.
Altruism
Meditation and Going Beyond Mindfulness – A Secular Perspective
This public talk from 19 April 2018 was held at the London School of Economics Old Theatre in London, England, UK. Joy of Living Meditation Program: Learn meditation under the skillful guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at your own pace. Vajrayana Online: Study and practice...
https://youtu.be/ukTaodQfYRQ
This public talk from 19 April 2018 was held at the London School of Economics Old Theatre in London, England, UK.
Joy of Living Meditation Program: Learn meditation under the skillful guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche at your own pace. https://joy.tergar.org/
Vajrayana Online: Study and practice of the Tibetan Buddhism with Mingyur Rinpoche. https://learning.tergar.org/
Talks
Peter Diamandis -The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Emerging technologies have unprecedented potential to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues. Among the most powerful -- and controversial -- is the gene-editing tech, CRISPR-Cas9, which will improve agricultural yields, cure genetic disorders, and eradicate infectious diseases like malaria. But CRISPR and other...
https://youtu.be/FTTgdtl8FvM?si=dPuHPEX2zcWmJ9nw
Emerging technologies have unprecedented potential to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues. Among the most powerful -- and controversial -- is the gene-editing tech, CRISPR-Cas9, which will improve agricultural yields, cure genetic disorders, and eradicate infectious diseases like malaria. But CRISPR and other disruptive technologies, like brain-machine interfaces and artificial intelligence, also pose complex philosophical and ethical questions. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with these questions than Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation and co-founder of Singularity University and Human Longevity Inc. In this session, Peter will give a state of the union on the near future and explore the profound ethical implications we will face in the ongoing technological revolution.
