Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

[mike1414]

a wonderful talk...even if you dont watch it its worth checking out the opening clip

http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/Wade_Davis...e_Modern_World



enjoy

peace always
mike

[Solphilos]

That guy looks like Robin Williams.

Looks like a good video. Thanks for the link.

[mike1414]

Posted by Solphilos (here)
That guy looks like Robin Williams.

Looks like a good video. Thanks for the link.

indeed he does!

its a great vid imo, very informative...if you like this kind of thing.

hope you enjoy it

peace always
mike

[l_e_cox]

This is a 2-hour talk by anthropologist Wade Davis.
But, to wax poetic: though every sword must have a strong back, what matters in the end is its sharpness and the skill of the one who wields it.
Though the ancient wisdom has helped countless generations to cope and to survive, it has not, in all these generations, successfully gotten us up and out of the trap. Indeed, it suggests that the trap may be an unavoidable part of life.
Thus, if we want a future that amounts to more than all that past, we must find new wisdom and add it to what we already know and cherish. Great teachers seem few and far between. In essence, our challenge is to make them more and more numerous.

[str8thinker]

A great performance. Note that if you move the video up a little so that the transcript shows underneath, the current part of the transcript will be highlighted.

There are plenty of gems in this:

(I added these images tonight because) Haiti should be in all off our thoughts tonight literally, it may be the case of hundreds of thousands of people have died in this terrible earthquake. The epicenter of which was 10 kilometers from the Voudon temple where I did my research (into voodoo and zombies).

Was Haiti singled out in an attempt to suppress knowledge of this "technology"?

By an extraordinary accident of geography three of our most important salmon rivers (in Canada), the Skeena, Stikine and the Nass are all born in the same meadows at a place known to the indigenous people as the Sacred Headwaters. That's the place that there are now proposals for the extraction of coal copper and gold mines and most threatening of all a proposal by Royal Dutch Shell to impose colbert methane extraction - a template of wells that will literally blanket the entire head waters.