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Universal Essence
By Brian Wallace

I think that there came a certain point in my life when, through a process of falling in love and through a process of inquiring about the world around me, I started to experience a transformation of awareness or consciousness and some semblance of the understanding that the world around us is very integrated and it is one whole as opposed to many different aspects or overly multi-faceted.

I think that the sense of Eastern thought that says that there is a higher power, there is some universal essence that seems to keep the entire thing in motion, implies that we are manifestations or evolutions or forms of that eternal essence and that universal being and that godlike substance--whatever it is that's moving this entire thing. To me, that's very interesting territory to contemplate. more...

Part 1: Universal Essence
Part 2: Evolution of Individualism
Part 3: Entering the Labyrinth of Chaos
Part 4: Alan Agrippa
Part 5: The Creative Process
Part 6: Reservoir of Thought
Part 7: A Psychedelic Love Story
Part 8: The Modern World

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  We begin a new series, The Adventure of Being Alive

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The Agenda of Technology
By Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly, Executive Editor of Wired, describes species as larger ideas, and the importance of, within the span of our own generation, recording and genetically sampling every living species of life on Earth.

Part 1: The Agenda of Technology
Part 2: All Species Inventory: Preserving Ideas

Mark Pesce - A New Mode of Being

Mark Pesce, journalist, cyberspace researcher and theorist explains how information technology and immersive environments can be used educationally, and for ecologically sustainable and reasonable action.

Part 1: A New Mode of Being
Part 2: Virtual Childhood
Part 3: Sustainable and Reasonable Action

Barbara Chan - Global Restoration

Barbara Chan, a consultant and facilitator to developing socially responsible, sustainable businesses explores our need to be paying much deeper attention to the bigger picture of our relationships, and how we fit into the larger universe.

Part 1: Our Native Wisdom
Part 2: Planetary Stewardship

Pierre Levy - The Heart of Humanity

Pierre Levy, professor, author, and philosopher shares his thoughts on the relationship between human experience, technology, deep ecology, the ultimate goal of life, and the biosphere evolution.

Part 1: The Heart of Humanity
Part 2: Our Transparent Evolution
Part 3: Unified Individual Intelligence

Carol Gigliotti - The Ethics of Global Ecology

Dr. Carol Gigliotti, artist, ethicist educator, and animal rights advocate examines our different levels of connectedness, inter-species communication and beauty.

Part 1: Ethics in Beauty
Part 2: Mankind in Global Ecology
Part 3: Viewpoint of Ecological Biodiversity

Erik Davis - Network Thinking

Erik Davis, writer and co-founder of the PLANETWORK Conference in San Francisco, looks at the relationship between information technology and the environment on many different levels.

Part 1: Living Systems
Part 2: Play of Technology
Part 3: Network Thinking and Holism
Part 4: The Space of Planetwork

Char Davies - Immersive Environments and Awareness

Renowned digital artist, Char Davies explores the paradoxes of embodiment, being and nature in immersive virtual environments.

Part 1: Immersive Environments and Awareness
Part 2: Our Fleeting Existence
Part 3: Appreciating the Extraordinary