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Dying to Live

Posted on Mar 5th, 2008 by Sandra : Inspirational Ambassador Sandra
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Well, February is over. What a month. I think it's time for some inspiring and interesting videos...

First: Randy Pausch - reprising his "Last Lecture" on the Oprah Show. He has pancreatic cancer, and was told he had three to six months to live last summer. He's still alive.

Randy Pausch reprising his "Last Lecture"


I love the bit about choosing to be a 'tigger' or an 'eeyore'...

Randy (www.randypausch.com) is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (www.etc.cmu.edu), and creator of the Alice (www.alice.org) software project. 





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Earthlings

Posted on Mar 10th, 2008 by Sandra : Inspirational Ambassador Sandra
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Well, I thought I was going to do a series of uplifting videos etc for spring.  Life does not always work out like I want.

The following video, called "Earthlings"  is a feature length documentary about our  dependence on animals, but most of all shows the 'inhumanity' of how animals are treated by industry etc. I've known all this, but to see it is another thing. The film is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by Moby.


Earthlings


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An Evolution of Community

Posted on Mar 13th, 2008 by Sandra : Inspirational Ambassador Sandra
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My dear friend Alan Steinfeld of New Realites ("Consciousness" cable program broadcast from New York) interviewed Dr. Bruce Lipton a while back. I only recently saw the interview, and loved it. Bruce says that the 'human is a reiteration of the cell'  -  that the cell's evolutionary step is the same step we as 'individual' humans have to make - to hook up with each other into community...

Alan Steinfeld interviews Bruce Lipton


And, a little something from the wonderful Tony Parsons... just a reminder, that all there is is this...


Adventures in Advaita with Tony Parsons


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My Stroke of Insight

Posted on Mar 20th, 2008 by Sandra : Inspirational Ambassador Sandra
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An inspiring and deeply moving TED talk. Watch right through to the end, it is a full on experience that builds as Jill speaks:   Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight

Here is the YouTube version, but it is worth going to the TED website as there is so much wonderful stuff there.


Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight



From TED:
"Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story of recovery and awareness -- of how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:44.)"


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