We think that if somebody says something in 140 characters or in a 90-cond reel or on on social media that that is enough to be considered a debate. But of course what Plato was saying in the ancient world was that a debate needs more time and it needs the maturity of thought to challenge ideas in a space which is not about identity in a space which is not confrontational. And so whatwe're seeing today is a rise in debate and not enough dialectic. And there is a key difference.
you know, mega gravity. And so as we've created Jungle Keepers and now we're protecting 130,000 acres of this river, we're protecting the plants and the animals and the ancient trees, and trying to preserve the ecosystem, and counting the butterflies and conducting ecological surveys, and what we've inadvertently found ourselvesthe caretakers of, is the fact that these people, in order to continue living, have to remain isolated, want to remain isolated. That's their one mandate as a civilization: the tribes
there, for example. If somebody dug up a tablet in very early writing, they would have a pretty good idea what it meant. They would recognize the signs, even though they were so ancient , and they'd see the relationships between them. So, you have a fantastically strong system where the spinal cordwas structured in a lexicographic, regular system.
Yes, that would that would be when civilizations become archaeologically visible. So you have uh ancient Sumer, Mesopotamia. Uh which roughly 3,500 I'm going to use BCbecause everybody's familiar with that.
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to escape slavery and find their freedom. Ancient humans have also used the stars to make cultural connections and to establish cultural identities.They told stories about constellations.
good as humans. And so over a long period of time, humans can track down animals and can gain access to things such as gazelles. Ancient Greeks talked about the Olympiad in 2000 BC.The Romans talked about healthy mind and a healthy body in 2 AD.
And there have been all sorts of technology since then that have been, like, this is the vanguard of, like, pushing against some of these more ancient social or cultural systems.And those obviously failed.
And we're using these very high-tech, expensive, state-of-the-art scientific measures to prove the power of these very simple and low-tech and low-cost and often ancient interventions. So we started with heart disease.And we found that in just a month, the blood flow to the heart improves-- using specthalium scans.
I am kind of a screamy drunk. Ancient br-- From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands dirty.
my resistance kind of dropped and I began to see that the ideas in these Traditions the ideas discussed by these ancient philosophers and MERS they're like a code you could look at them you could say well that's ridiculous it doesn't make any sense which is what Idid at the beginning uh then I say they're like a code they're like a treasure map and what they're a treasure
names with Hollands indicates a stand of Holly trees that would have been useful if you're actually looking for ancient trees however don't look in ancient Woodlands because ancient Woodlands were so heavily managed that no one ever let a tree grow to a great
boundary marker Oak uh what is the best way to age an ancient tree without chopping it down anyguesses girth yes girth what's the most fun way to measure the girth of a
on being 1 and a half met tall two hugs of an oak tree 130 years old it's not ancient yet three hugs 250 years old that means that theoak tree is now officially ancient there are oak trees in Britain that they think are over a thousand
happened to white storks in the winter they suddenly would seem to disappear in ancient times Aristotle had hypothesized that storks along with the other disappearing avian species went intohibernation perhaps at the bottom of the ocean but in 1822 a stunning piece of
And it goes all the way back to the sources of natural philosophy in the ancient world. Ancient China and ancient Greece both articulated in different ways a principle of locality.And I mean, you think about it, what does science do?
And most people think of the Victorians as being uptight. ancient things at the back-- the cerebellum, bits on the side, deep inside, ancient structures associated with memory, with emotion.
Ancient Rome was embroiled in a series of wars in the Middle East in Afghanistan that destroyed their empire and their slave culture
Ancient culture. Let us bring these five factors of progress together and see what happens.
Ancient Babel was a place where they all spoke one common language.
ancient world under the prophet Elijah.
Ancient wheat. Anybody gluten free here?
Ancient statutes with ancient breaks wear down over time and so they wouldn't be sharp breaks like that.
Ancient people said very nasty things about this kind of literary activity.
ancient grain that's been cultivated for over 5,000 years throughout Africa and all the way in the south of the Nile in
ancient logic. He was born in in Cyprus.
ancient tribe of the Tarahumara, and their shadowy disciple Caballo Blanco.
ancient music which is like from 800 ad till about 1600 ad and that period of
from an archaeological point of view is what they can dig out of the ground. And I think what they're missing, the ancients did leave us memories of what they went through. We have myths andtraditions and scriptures from all around the world which record a gigantic
to Ancient Intelligence, Ancestral Intelligence.
The ancient brain figured out survival.
So ancient philosophy is, in part, to blame.
The ancient Greek and Roman stoics said we shouldn't let ourselves feel anger.
They're gorgeous. And I think that you'd like seeing the other ones too. But ancient humans didn't look to the sky to answer these fundamental questions of where we came from and where we're going next. They also used the night sky for extremely practical things, like telling time, We didn't have calendars,
These ancient symbols-- today, we call them logos or trademarks.
In ancient times, King David the Israelite won his kingdom with five stones and a slingshot.
that ancient Egyptian described the young people to be rowdy and impolite And with that kind of framework, it is impossible to make progress
In ancient times all kinds of different herbs were used to help with the-- because otherwise the malt can be very sweet and sugary.
how ancient wisdom and practices could be revived in modern times while still using technology.
An ancient lady leaning heavily on a cane hobbled out of the aerodrome.
An ancient awning hung over the entrance decks.
of Ancient Classical Languages as a downtrodden and exploited adjunct faculty member when she met a young man named Tristan,
of ancient Greece and then the Roman Empire into the Islamic world, that's certainly true.
And ancient fields, ancient hedges, and it's like a patchwork-- all very small and cozy.
other ancient peoples. In Plato's dialogues, there are a lot of-- very simple number theory is often used as an example of something
In ancient China, they often have three, four generations underneath the same roof.
The ancient Romans also used a lot of concrete.
of ancient practices, mindfulness practice that have been refined over the last 2,500 years or so, turned out to be extremely useful for helping us to work
in ancient Greece and Rome.
the ancient illuminated manuscripts.