65 videos in religion and spirituality

A Global Vision

Peaceworker Sami Awad talks about how the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is felt around the world: it is part of our shared suffering.

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A New Fairytale

Peaceworker Sami Awad recognizes the need for a new narrative that builds mutual trust and respect between the people living in the Holy Land.

(4:19)

A Traditional Upbringing

Napi Waaka, an elder and cultural ambassador of the Maori, tells us some lessons he learned about oneness living traditionally in the forest as a young child.

(6:00)

An Attitude of Service

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion answers our question about his core message with a heartfelt appeal to live life in service to creation.

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An Invitation

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), speaks of the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor meeting to bring a new harmony into the world.

(4:58)

Are You Nothing but a Pack of Neurons?

According to laboratory scientist Dean Radin, research suggests that our moral sense is deeply tied to our worldview.

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Awakening the World

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee tells us that, for an individual, the spiritual path begins once there has been an experience of oneness through grace.

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Awareness of the Oneness of Life

Writer and consultant Tom Hurley describes his own experiences of oneness, from childhood experiences of nature to the first photos of the planet earth.

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Being Part of Everything

Freddy Ehlers, general secretary of the Andean Nations, describes an experience of beauty in which all sense of duality collapsed. These experiences of oneness bring both peace and passion to life.

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Commonly Shared Values

Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge explains how our commonly shared values are the basis on which we can build a common coexistence.

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Peaceworker Sami Awad, speaks about the power of non-violence as a tool for healing and empowering individuals, communities and nations.

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa reflects upon the meaning of oneness in this age.

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Complete Interview

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, talks about indigenous perspectives on the current ecological and cultural crises,

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Complete Interview

In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews.

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Complete Interview

Zen teacher and social activist angel Kyodo williams reminds us that societies can change on a massive scale. At one time, slavery was considered an economic necessity,

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Complete Interview

Sufi teacher Lynn Barron shares her life’s journey back "home" to an ongoing mystical experience of oneness, an "awareness that doesn't wander." Lynn insists that oneness must be lived in everyday life

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East Meets West

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes the relationship between mind and body as seen through both Eastern and Western sciences.

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Encountering the Other

Jerusalem Peacemaker Rabbi Eliyahu McLean describes how engaging deeply with someone of a different spiritual tradition can strengthen your own roots.

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Essential Buddha Nature

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains two essentials of Buddhist practice: developing mindfulness and learning consideration for others.

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Finding a Non-Violent Solution

Jerusalem Peacemaker Rabbi Eliyahu McLean discusses the merits of a non-violent solution in the Holy Land and suggests that religious and spiritual traditions may have a significant role to play in fi

(2:41)

Finding Humanity

Buddhist teacher, former inmate and founder of several prison service organizations Fleet Maul talks about life behind bars.

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For the Sake of the Whole

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee thought that once people caught a glimpse of emerging oneness, they would gladly contribute their spiritual as well as material resources to it.

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How can we deal with everyday distractions?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa addresses the challenge of dealing with everyday distractions.

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How is oneness experienced?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness is experienced, first as a breadth of vision cultivated through meditation and contemplation

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How should spiritual leaders share their knowledge with the world?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa suggests that spiritual leaders should connect to the general public,

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How Society's Structures can Shift

Zen teacher and social activist angel Kyodo williams reminds us that societies can change on a massive scale. At one time, slavery was considered an economic necessity,

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Hymn to the Sacred Body of the Universe

Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger shares one of his poems.

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Is the spiritual consciousness of the world changing?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa believes that it is the responsibility of religion to adapt to the changing needs of people.

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It Never Gets Back to the Mother

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, asks why creation is not included in our thought and education.

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Keep Your Own Culture Alive

Tibetan monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la emphasizes the importance of preserving individual cultures in the contemporary age of globalization, as they each offer something unique to humanity.

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Oneness and the Heart of the World

In this talk, Father Keating discusses the dynamic nature of God and the paradox implicit in experiencing divine oneness.

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Oneness in Everyday Life

Sufi teacher Lynn Barron wants to know: What does oneness really look like? Not as a theory, but as a lived reality in everyday life? See complete interview.

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Ongoing Revelation

Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, describes how oneness operates at a ceremonial level in indigenous cultures.

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Reevaluating our Relationships

Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge discusses the importance of continual dialogue across nations and religions to understand our most positive shared values.

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Respect is Like a Mirror

Jerusalem Peacemaker Sheikh Bukhari says that when you respect someone of a different belief, respect comes back to you.

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Return to the Wholeness

Community leader, psychologist and Zen teacher Dr. Vera Kohn explains how oneness is both the origin and the destiny of all things, which arise and return like a wave on the ocean

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Sawubona

Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona ("We see you") as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence.

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Selfishness is the Root Cause

Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Geshe Kalsang Damdul la explains that on both global and individual scales self-centeredness underlies conflict and suffering.

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Spiritual Depth

Spoken word poet and activist Drew Dellinger describes how activism can come from a place of spiritual depth.

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The Convergence of Science and “Spirituality”

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains how science tends to give rise to a fractured system of disciplines, while spirituality connects an individual

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The Core Essence

Peaceworker Sami Awad points to the core essence of the Abrahamic traditions to suggest how religion can become a player for peacebuilding rather than a tool for creating animosities between people.

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The Earth is a Oneness Idea

L.A.-based social activist and community leader Orland Bishop evokes primal qualities of the earth, like foundation, stability, abundance, accessibility, reconciliation, and peace

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The Emerging Consciousness of Oneness

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee tells us about his own change of orientation from the individual mystical process of realizing oneness

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The Four Fold Song

Jerusalem Peacemaker Rabbi Eliyahu McLean shares a mystic teaching, called the Four Fold Song, as an example of a narrative that embraces both our individuality and our interconnectedness with all of

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The Grace of God

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee believes the greatest mistake made by the various proponents of global oneness is to think that human beings can do it by themselves.

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The Greatest Threat

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo believes that the greatest threat to the world is the rising middle classes of Asia who long for the same, inherently unsustainable levels of comfort as privileged Westerners.

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The Heart of Religion

Fr. Alberto Luna, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador, calls for a sincere turning toward the "true and authentic" God, who resides deep in the human heart.

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The Land is There to Show You

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, reminds us that the Aboriginal way of life was full of ease.

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The Light in Humanity

Peaceworker Sami Awad describes the light within every individual and the layers of dust that can cover it over.

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The Nature of the Mind

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo describes how the infinite, primordial awareness that lies behind the mind and its sense of duality is the key to experiencing oneness.

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The Power of Non-Violence

Peaceworker Sami Awad describes how non-violence empowers people to deal with injustice and oppression, and breaks down the barriers that prevent people from relating to each other.

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The Role of Art

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion describes the role of art as rousing humanity from its collective amnesia and guiding it toward its purpose in the world.

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The Role of the Mystic

Jerusalem Peacemaker Rabbi Eliyahu McLean says that we forget the true goal of our spiritual and religious traditions when we get caught in the forms and structures that they teach.

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Two Wings to Fly

Jerusalem Peacemaker Rabbi Eliyahu McLean suggests that the strife in the Holy Land presents a unique opportunity to experiment with ideas of unity.

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Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Jerusalem Peacemaker Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bukhari explains why we need to transform violence through love, rather than responding with more violence.

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Waking Up

Tibetan Buddhist nun Ven. Tenzin Palmo explains that, although we desperately want happiness, we are undermined by a society that rewards greed, aggression and egotism

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We are Servants, Not Owners

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion describes how within one generation most of Ecuador's forests were eliminated, leaving a struggling fraction of the original ecological richness.

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What does oneness mean in the context of Tibetan Buddhism?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa explains how the experience of exile has given Tibetans a heightened experience

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What Happens If You Don't Have a Relationship to the Land?

Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, says the dominant culture's lack of relationship to the land must be changed

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What Is Sacred?

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains why Aboriginal understandings of the land have no credibility in wider Australian society.

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What is spiritual power?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa explains the subtlety of spiritual power, and describes traditional means of cultivating it.

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What is the role of spiritual leaders?

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes the need for spiritual leaders to connect with the general public.

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Words from the Karmapa

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness begins as an internal experience

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Worlds Apart

Tibetan Buddhist teacher Ven. Choegyal Rinpoche believes that although the worlds of business and spirituality are far apart, they can meet by developing common values of care and compassion.

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