1 00:00:14,08 --> 00:00:19,17 It's Trimboli pleased and honored to be speaking to you I've had 2 00:00:19,18 --> 00:00:25,92 a long term relationship with the Fellowship of Reconciliation partly because we 3 00:00:25,96 --> 00:00:32,78 both have this intense interest in spiritual nonviolence and as you may be 4 00:00:32,79 --> 00:00:39,72 aware. Two thousand. And I put on the spiritual activism 5 00:00:39,73 --> 00:00:45,80 conference in Berkeley Fourteen hundred people came to and there was considered to 6 00:00:45,81 --> 00:00:45,93 be 7 00:00:45,94 --> 00:00:52,67 a really big launch. At that event I told the following story to Jim Forrest when he 8 00:00:52,68 --> 00:00:55,18 was the head of I.F.O.R. 9 00:00:55,76 --> 00:00:59,21 In. This part of the sound and light show. 10 00:01:04,20 --> 00:01:10,98 Jim was he came back from international peace meeting in Italy and he was kind of 11 00:01:10,99 --> 00:01:17,88 shaken and I said Jim and he said Well I finally figured out the purpose of the 12 00:01:17,89 --> 00:01:23,83 peace movement I said For heaven's sakes tell me you know I've been doing this now 13 00:01:23,84 --> 00:01:24,45 for a quarter of 14 00:01:24,46 --> 00:01:29,25 a century what are we here for and he said the purpose of the peace movement is to 15 00:01:29,26 --> 00:01:32,73 take the angriest people in the world and keep them out of the military. 16 00:01:37,55 --> 00:01:43,08 And. Really I was so pleased with for that I did do 17 00:01:43,09 --> 00:01:48,74 a pilgrimage when I was in Kowloon Germany about eight years ago I went to the 18 00:01:48,75 --> 00:01:50,21 railway station and I went to 19 00:01:50,22 --> 00:01:57,15 a famous bunch to. Track seven and stood there where Mr Hodgkinson 20 00:01:57,16 --> 00:02:03,04 Mr secretly chilled had done the famous handshake that started this August 21 00:02:03,05 --> 00:02:03,83 organisation 22 00:02:03,84 --> 00:02:10,35 a hundred years ago and I'm also pleased to say that it was 23 00:02:10,91 --> 00:02:17,48 for the published. First version of this book it was called steps of nonviolence 24 00:02:17,79 --> 00:02:22,96 it wasn't nearly as handsome as it is now and I want to say 25 00:02:22,97 --> 00:02:27,45 a little bit about it because once I get started with my talk I forget to do the 26 00:02:27,59 --> 00:02:34,58 advertisements. With the word from our sponsor. And this book 27 00:02:34,59 --> 00:02:36,32 is sure to which is 28 00:02:36,62 --> 00:02:42,40 a great advantage it's inexpensive which is an incredible advantage and it 29 00:02:42,41 --> 00:02:46,61 represents the distillation of everything that I've been able to kind of put 30 00:02:46,62 --> 00:02:52,97 together about the basic strategies of nonviolence in my whole you know career of 31 00:02:52,98 --> 00:02:59,34 working on this so intensely the reason for this book really came about in June of 32 00:02:59,35 --> 00:03:03,29 one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when the terrible massacre of students took 33 00:03:03,30 --> 00:03:09,50 place in Tiananmen Square I was sitting with some colleagues and we knew that they 34 00:03:09,51 --> 00:03:14,65 were making some mistakes and we knew that they were endangering their lives and 35 00:03:14,69 --> 00:03:19,05 there was nothing we can do about it there was no internet at that time we had to 36 00:03:19,06 --> 00:03:22,92 sit there and watch the tanks roll in and kill all of the. 37 00:03:26,51 --> 00:03:31,55 Story and kill all of those young people and I was so active professor at the time 38 00:03:31,56 --> 00:03:36,44 students who were and still are very dear to me and the incredible frustration of 39 00:03:36,45 --> 00:03:40,65 knowing that we could have helped if only we had somehow been able to reach them as 40 00:03:40,66 --> 00:03:46,68 led to this lifelong search to distill the best practices of nonviolence in the 41 00:03:46,69 --> 00:03:51,64 motto of the medicine tr is to help people practice nonviolence more safely and 42 00:03:51,65 --> 00:03:56,64 more effectively. So we sat let me launch into my talk I feel 43 00:03:56,65 --> 00:04:02,96 a little bit like Richard Nixon. You know Anyway he he once got 44 00:04:02,97 --> 00:04:09,02 a sense I know I don't look like him here. But he once got up he said before I give 45 00:04:09,03 --> 00:04:11,89 my speech I'd like to say something I. 46 00:04:18,87 --> 00:04:24,11 So there I said it in there let me begin my speech I really don't have much of an 47 00:04:24,12 --> 00:04:30,84 excuse for showing this beautiful little full on. But I have to I was 48 00:04:30,88 --> 00:04:32,97 asked to give a TED X. 49 00:04:32,98 --> 00:04:37,35 Talk on the subject that we're going to be talking about today the new story where 50 00:04:37,36 --> 00:04:41,96 does it come from the central idea of nonviolence and I had to reduce everything 51 00:04:41,97 --> 00:04:46,95 I've been working on for the last thirty years into eighteen minutes how am I going 52 00:04:46,96 --> 00:04:50,28 to do this I looked out the window and there was a dove acting 53 00:04:50,29 --> 00:04:55,34 a little strangely and I walked over and sure enough this little guy just been born 54 00:04:55,38 --> 00:05:00,55 and so inspired me and I thought it might put us all in the right mood for this 55 00:05:00,56 --> 00:05:04,32 talk. Well let me begin with 56 00:05:04,33 --> 00:05:10,84 a story how many of you know who this lady is we should we should all know this 57 00:05:10,85 --> 00:05:14,35 woman and we should know the story is name is Antoinette Tuff she's with 58 00:05:15,16 --> 00:05:20,25 proximately the most appropriately named human being the planet she was 59 00:05:20,26 --> 00:05:26,12 a book keeper in a school with about eight hundred students in Decatur Georgia 60 00:05:27,07 --> 00:05:34,06 a very deranged young man who was off his psycho tropic medicines came into 61 00:05:34,07 --> 00:05:38,64 the school with very heavy weapons assault rifles and so forth well the stuff which 62 00:05:38,65 --> 00:05:45,31 is so easy to come by in this country and planning mayhem he snuck through 63 00:05:45,79 --> 00:05:52,75 the security door and he was confronted by Antoinette who looked at him 64 00:05:52,76 --> 00:05:58,38 and said. Gee I'm so sorry you you really look troubled I have troubles too you 65 00:05:58,39 --> 00:06:03,51 want to hear about my recent divorce you know everyone has to go through trouble in 66 00:06:03,52 --> 00:06:07,89 this life and I think you're going to be fine I think you're going to make it and I 67 00:06:07,90 --> 00:06:14,63 love you she said and she gradually talked him down. And told him 68 00:06:14,88 --> 00:06:20,71 please why don't you put your weapons up here on my desk so he did and he said. 69 00:06:22,11 --> 00:06:28,90 Live down and tell me when you're ready and I'll call the police. Which he 70 00:06:28,91 --> 00:06:32,77 did he he lay down put his hands behind his back and she called 71 00:06:32,78 --> 00:06:37,37 a SWAT team which was standing outside and they came running and you can actually 72 00:06:37,38 --> 00:06:42,95 hear the nine eleven tapes where they come in making absolute ass of themselves All 73 00:06:42,96 --> 00:06:48,86 right everybody get down here which he's already done so she became 74 00:06:48,87 --> 00:06:50,50 a hero and she's writing 75 00:06:50,51 --> 00:06:58,86 a book that's what heroes do professors also right. Now 76 00:06:58,90 --> 00:07:05,08 this story was covered in the newspapers but the meaning of it was not and so this 77 00:07:05,09 --> 00:07:09,97 is part of what we're doing at medicine or we've recently trained thirteen hundred 78 00:07:10,27 --> 00:07:16,11 young people in South Africa to interpret news and to make their own news so that 79 00:07:16,12 --> 00:07:21,42 the meaning of these stories gets out the meaning of the story is in my humble 80 00:07:21,43 --> 00:07:28,01 opinion. We had two security systems in place at that school that morning 81 00:07:28,74 --> 00:07:29,87 one was 82 00:07:29,88 --> 00:07:35,81 a very expensive system that failed that system consisted of an electronic security 83 00:07:35,82 --> 00:07:36,67 gate and 84 00:07:36,68 --> 00:07:42,40 a SWAT team. The SWAT team actually made matters worse when they showed up and 85 00:07:42,41 --> 00:07:47,78 started shouting and firing outside they almost destroyed what Antoinette Tuff was 86 00:07:47,79 --> 00:07:53,87 doing. The other. Security system was Antoinette 87 00:07:54,86 --> 00:07:59,86 a human being who was trained to recognize another suffering human being she had 88 00:07:59,87 --> 00:08:02,62 a minister who had told her given her 89 00:08:02,63 --> 00:08:09,34 a grounding technique at that helped her do this and it the story if you 90 00:08:09,35 --> 00:08:13,26 ask me is that we're spending millions and millions of dollars on 91 00:08:13,27 --> 00:08:19,21 a failed system and we're doing nothing to develop an appropriate system beautiful 92 00:08:19,22 --> 00:08:24,90 system which worked to give you another story really quickly this was in 93 00:08:24,91 --> 00:08:30,53 a Walgreens parking lot. Two years ago I think it was an elderly woman 94 00:08:30,89 --> 00:08:35,37 a little bit disabled got into her car and 95 00:08:35,38 --> 00:08:37,21 a young man jumped into the car and pointed 96 00:08:37,22 --> 00:08:44,11 a gun at her and said Give me all your money. She said young man. Jesus is with 97 00:08:44,13 --> 00:08:50,96 me in this car. If you shoot me I'm going straight to heaven and you're going 98 00:08:50,96 --> 00:08:54,65 straight to hell. And the conversation continued 99 00:08:54,81 --> 00:09:01,66 a little while longer and finally the fellow started crying which is actually 100 00:09:01,67 --> 00:09:06,09 fairly common in these cognitive dissonance situations that are caused by 101 00:09:06,39 --> 00:09:11,88 nonviolence actors he started crying and he put the gun away and started to get out 102 00:09:11,89 --> 00:09:13,58 of the car she said Wait 103 00:09:13,59 --> 00:09:18,96 a minute young man had reached in her wallet and gave him all the money she had. 104 00:09:20,14 --> 00:09:25,99 Ten dollars or something and again the story was reported but the meaning was lost 105 00:09:26,26 --> 00:09:31,37 the point of the story was that this woman who had not had the opportunity to take 106 00:09:31,38 --> 00:09:38,37 my course as far as I know she. And incidentally when that that course was 107 00:09:38,38 --> 00:09:42,99 seven shows you what kind of hunger there is for nonviolence when their course went 108 00:09:43,00 --> 00:09:47,88 up on line in the first six months or more than one hundred thousand people had 109 00:09:47,92 --> 00:09:52,64 Washoe and say they watched the whole course but they had tuned into it and it's 110 00:09:52,65 --> 00:09:57,04 still available on our website and actually in August we're going to do the course 111 00:09:57,05 --> 00:10:01,83 again but this time not at the university Oh no we're going to do it at the 112 00:10:01,84 --> 00:10:07,57 medicine tr and webcast it from there so I love teaching but I hate the University 113 00:10:07,57 --> 00:10:11,39 . But where we are this is 114 00:10:11,40 --> 00:10:17,46 a terrific cliffhanger waiting to hear the meaning of the story of Lady she as I 115 00:10:17,47 --> 00:10:22,49 say she had not taken my course but she did the perfect nonviolent thing 116 00:10:22,75 --> 00:10:28,81 spontaneously again it shows we have this capacity within us in fact the more I 117 00:10:28,82 --> 00:10:33,26 deal with nonviolence the more I've begun to realize that it really is only become 118 00:10:33,27 --> 00:10:38,00 clear for me in the last few years that nonviolence is the absolute core of what we 119 00:10:38,01 --> 00:10:44,75 are as human beings so she had this spontaneous where news and ability. 120 00:10:45,75 --> 00:10:52,54 And what she did if we can only have somebody interpret it for us which he did was 121 00:10:52,55 --> 00:10:58,22 she absolutely refused to accept the model of reality that this young man was 122 00:10:58,23 --> 00:11:04,23 offering her namely he was saying we are radically separate my happiness can be 123 00:11:04,24 --> 00:11:09,63 built on your suffering. And she was saying absolutely not we are radically 124 00:11:09,64 --> 00:11:15,70 connected your happiness and mine are united they are interconnected and I'm happy 125 00:11:15,71 --> 00:11:22,69 to help you but not under coercion not accepting that model of separateness but 126 00:11:22,73 --> 00:11:28,86 affirming the model of connectedness. So if we ask ourselves 127 00:11:28,87 --> 00:11:34,81 why the journalism is so bad if you're OK We're not going to be so terrifically 128 00:11:34,82 --> 00:11:39,09 surprised as this I had a student of mine at Berkeley who became 129 00:11:39,10 --> 00:11:44,17 a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle and she told me that their motto is If 130 00:11:44,18 --> 00:11:46,64 it's news it's news to us. 131 00:11:53,03 --> 00:11:53,56 But there is 132 00:11:53,57 --> 00:12:02,37 a deeper reason behind all of this and that the reported is. Lacking 133 00:12:02,38 --> 00:12:07,59 I guess is the word I'm looking for because we're living in the wrong story we're 134 00:12:07,60 --> 00:12:08,65 living in 135 00:12:08,66 --> 00:12:15,40 a story of reality which says that the world consists of matter and because it 136 00:12:15,41 --> 00:12:22,28 consists of matter it consists of limited resources and because we also consist of 137 00:12:22,29 --> 00:12:28,15 matter we are radically separate from one another and we are doomed to compete for 138 00:12:28,16 --> 00:12:34,47 those ever scarcer resources and therefore the devastation of the planet and war 139 00:12:34,73 --> 00:12:40,97 and the economic imbalance and all the rest of it all comes from this wrong story 140 00:12:41,48 --> 00:12:44,72 and there are people who have begun to realize that it's the story that's the 141 00:12:44,73 --> 00:12:50,66 problem they've been working on getting a new story. This is 142 00:12:50,67 --> 00:12:53,85 a quote from one of those people Thomas Barry. 143 00:12:57,47 --> 00:13:01,85 Obviously going through the deep crisis of the kind that Barry describes where our 144 00:13:01,86 --> 00:13:07,15 story is inadequate for the present situation in fact I would say that it's worse 145 00:13:07,16 --> 00:13:13,48 than inadequate it's devastatingly misleading this story of materialism and 146 00:13:13,49 --> 00:13:19,48 separate and it's not hard at all to tell where that story is coming from this is 147 00:13:19,49 --> 00:13:24,45 an advertisement I picked almost at random see this young dude in the sports car 148 00:13:24,46 --> 00:13:28,23 here I'm trying not to be jealous he had 149 00:13:28,60 --> 00:13:33,36 a nice just look at the look on his face he's got the look of an action hero and 150 00:13:33,37 --> 00:13:37,31 he's driving some kind of very slick car I've cut out the brand name of the car so 151 00:13:37,32 --> 00:13:44,27 I won't be sued. And you can see the exciting thing about this is that his heart 152 00:13:44,28 --> 00:13:47,58 beat is matching the engine R.P.M. 153 00:13:48,04 --> 00:13:53,99 And just in case you don't get the point don't just drive the car be the car. 154 00:13:55,96 --> 00:14:00,47 Be a machine and lest you think that this is just 155 00:14:00,48 --> 00:14:06,33 a one off according to recent studies we're exposed to somewhere between three and 156 00:14:06,34 --> 00:14:08,33 five thousand commercial messages 157 00:14:08,34 --> 00:14:15,11 a day. Be it be less than one thousand in c back Washington more than six 158 00:14:15,12 --> 00:14:20,63 thousand in Tokyo but somewhere in between most of us see three or so thousand 159 00:14:20,64 --> 00:14:21,14 messages 160 00:14:21,15 --> 00:14:26,40 a day that are telling us we are empty we are separate from one another we need to 161 00:14:26,41 --> 00:14:31,45 compete we need to buy more stuff and so on and so forth so that's where what we 162 00:14:31,46 --> 00:14:36,30 call the old story is coming from now you might have noticed I put quote marks 163 00:14:36,48 --> 00:14:41,63 around old story because really it's fairly new it started in the industrial 164 00:14:41,87 --> 00:14:47,20 revolution which in in geological times was just an eyeblink ago. 165 00:14:49,73 --> 00:14:56,66 The new story is him and intimately bound up with nonviolence. Again I 166 00:14:56,75 --> 00:15:01,52 don't have much of an excuse for showing this picture of it here's what Luther King 167 00:15:01,53 --> 00:15:01,85 being 168 00:15:01,86 --> 00:15:09,03 a very human human being with his family and it was he who said we must rapidly 169 00:15:09,04 --> 00:15:10,51 begin the shift from 170 00:15:10,52 --> 00:15:16,15 a thing oriented civilization which is what we have become primarily through the 171 00:15:16,51 --> 00:15:19,77 advertising mode ality of the mass media to 172 00:15:19,81 --> 00:15:25,98 a person oriented civilization and as I say I've noticed over and over again 173 00:15:25,99 --> 00:15:32,86 recently how personhood is identified with the capacity for nonviolence recently 174 00:15:32,87 --> 00:15:38,95 Christian Peacemaker Teams was talking with and Kurdish activists in Iraqi 175 00:15:38,96 --> 00:15:45,64 Kurdistan who said he wanted to mount a major nonviolent campaign the C.P.T. 176 00:15:45,65 --> 00:15:49,27 Person said you know I guess he wasn't as well trained as F. 177 00:15:49,28 --> 00:15:55,46 Or it seems or he said yes you can do that but you know it's difficult 178 00:15:56,51 --> 00:16:03,44 which is true it's devolve some risk which is true it takes longer which isn't 179 00:16:03,45 --> 00:16:05,75 true we just discovered that it's about 180 00:16:05,76 --> 00:16:11,46 a third the time if you do things through nonviolence but they didn't know that and 181 00:16:11,47 --> 00:16:14,84 the Kurdish gentleman said yes all of that is true I know it's going to be more 182 00:16:14,85 --> 00:16:19,31 difficult more risky take more time but he said you don't lose your humanity in the 183 00:16:19,32 --> 00:16:26,09 process. And while he was saying that we were recently passing that barrier 184 00:16:26,24 --> 00:16:32,08 that landmark where more American servicemen and women have committed suicide then 185 00:16:32,09 --> 00:16:37,79 have been killed in combat. And again we are clueless as to the reason oh my gosh 186 00:16:37,80 --> 00:16:42,32 they must be under stress or something like that. Like we're not under stress Come 187 00:16:42,33 --> 00:16:45,65 on no the reason is that a friend of mine 188 00:16:45,66 --> 00:16:50,35 a psychologist named Mary McNair some of you may know as discovered 189 00:16:50,51 --> 00:16:56,17 a concept called perpetration induced traumatic stress it's the pits 190 00:16:56,98 --> 00:17:03,40 perpetration duce dramatic stress and it's States that we are much more devastated 191 00:17:03,41 --> 00:17:09,10 by what we what we do to other people than what other people do to us and it's 192 00:17:09,11 --> 00:17:15,65 taken us as the army will refuse to acknowledge that this phenomenon exists because 193 00:17:15,66 --> 00:17:21,25 it puts them in an impossible quandary we ought to be shaking it in their face 194 00:17:21,29 --> 00:17:22,07 every time we get 195 00:17:22,08 --> 00:17:27,59 a chance look at what we're doing with basic training is basic dehumanization. 196 00:17:29,04 --> 00:17:35,03 So where are we going to go for quote a new story actually this is 197 00:17:35,04 --> 00:17:41,61 a fairly easy question to ask because the new story has been around forever if you 198 00:17:41,62 --> 00:17:42,86 will and we even have 199 00:17:42,87 --> 00:17:47,69 a name these days for the tradition that it comes from it's called the wisdom 200 00:17:47,70 --> 00:17:51,09 tradition. And if you need turn 201 00:17:51,10 --> 00:17:58,03 a little inheritance that every one of us can claim it's the vision 202 00:17:58,41 --> 00:18:05,02 of these great sages and mystics and this is just one testimony from an anonymous 203 00:18:05,03 --> 00:18:10,48 document from the fourteenth century England called the Cloud of Unknowing beneath 204 00:18:10,49 --> 00:18:16,03 you and external to you that's an important point external to you lies the entire 205 00:18:16,04 --> 00:18:22,29 created universe even the sun moon and stars they cannot compare to your 206 00:18:22,30 --> 00:18:24,38 exalted dignity as 207 00:18:24,39 --> 00:18:30,90 a human being. So this is the stories that we need and just to show you that it's 208 00:18:30,91 --> 00:18:34,15 not only an ancient story this is 209 00:18:34,16 --> 00:18:40,29 a statement very fairly recently from an Indian sage Swami who actually came to 210 00:18:40,30 --> 00:18:42,86 this country in the one nine hundred fifty S. 211 00:18:42,87 --> 00:18:49,52 In order to help us not have the third world war. This is this is really 212 00:18:49,56 --> 00:18:53,92 such an important summary of who we are that I'd like to dwell on it for just 213 00:18:53,93 --> 00:18:59,78 a minute on the physical plane man is but an animal OK let me stop here for 214 00:18:59,79 --> 00:19:01,43 a second I've had 215 00:19:01,47 --> 00:19:07,76 a couple of conversations with very prominent creative brilliant people 216 00:19:08,28 --> 00:19:14,79 much more successful in their fields well then I am for example 217 00:19:15,63 --> 00:19:16,36 one of them is 218 00:19:16,37 --> 00:19:21,20 a well known economist who runs or organization in Bainbridge Island not far from 219 00:19:21,21 --> 00:19:26,54 here No names please. The other. Is 220 00:19:26,58 --> 00:19:30,41 a colleague of mine from Berkeley he was a very very well known linguist in 221 00:19:30,42 --> 00:19:36,61 a lot of books and they have both said to me new story conferences and we're trying 222 00:19:36,62 --> 00:19:42,16 to get this this quote ancient news story out they both said well look we are 223 00:19:42,17 --> 00:19:49,07 animals. And. Fortunately I mean nonviolent person and I 224 00:19:49,08 --> 00:19:56,01 would have wanted to shake them up except one of them at least is much bigger 225 00:19:56,02 --> 00:20:02,51 than me so I didn't try to shake him and say our bodies are the bodies of 226 00:20:02,52 --> 00:20:08,24 animals but we are mind body and spirit and when you just keep saying we're animals 227 00:20:08,69 --> 00:20:13,15 you are saying they were back in the old paradigm which is to say they were 228 00:20:13,16 --> 00:20:20,03 physical beings trapped in this competition for scarce resources etc etc but look 229 00:20:20,04 --> 00:20:25,80 how much further around us will go. The intellectual plane the human being she or 230 00:20:25,81 --> 00:20:30,83 he is a rational being that's that's nice you know I made my living that way for 231 00:20:30,84 --> 00:20:37,60 a number of years people would ask me or Professor what do you do and I said well I 232 00:20:37,61 --> 00:20:41,76 take simple ideas and make them complicated enough so that intellectuals can 233 00:20:41,77 --> 00:20:48,44 understand. You know you can make 234 00:20:48,45 --> 00:20:55,45 a living at anything my grandmother used to say. On the moral plane we 235 00:20:55,46 --> 00:20:55,63 are 236 00:20:55,64 --> 00:21:00,29 a power for good and he goes even further than that on the spiritual plane we are 237 00:21:00,30 --> 00:21:06,90 radiant being full of divine light love and bliss and he goes on to add that we are 238 00:21:06,91 --> 00:21:13,48 not finished yet humanity's ascent from one plane to another is its natural 239 00:21:13,52 --> 00:21:19,63 movement. So this is the quote new story it's already there it's in every 240 00:21:19,64 --> 00:21:25,68 imaginable language and all kinds of different mediums and images the problem is 241 00:21:26,04 --> 00:21:32,91 that we don't believe it so we need we need to do two things we need 242 00:21:32,92 --> 00:21:35,53 and this is going to this is 243 00:21:35,54 --> 00:21:41,54 a kind of mnemonic it can be easy for us to remember this we need to adapt and 244 00:21:41,55 --> 00:21:46,13 adopt we need to adapt the old story and put it into 245 00:21:46,14 --> 00:21:52,25 a language that we can assimilate we modern people for whom as my friend Willis 246 00:21:52,26 --> 00:21:58,10 Harmon used to say science is the knowledge validating system for us. 247 00:21:59,31 --> 00:22:06,28 In the US we belong to the Tea Party and we know but if you don't think 248 00:22:06,29 --> 00:22:09,44 that Jesus rode into Jerusalem monitoring 249 00:22:09,45 --> 00:22:15,93 a serious wrecks. You mostly believe in science and if something cannot be 250 00:22:15,94 --> 00:22:18,11 validated by science it we're going to have 251 00:22:18,12 --> 00:22:21,87 a hard time accepting it so we need to adapt it to 252 00:22:21,88 --> 00:22:27,15 a language we can understand and then which is an even harder part we need to adopt 253 00:22:27,16 --> 00:22:33,09 it we need to make it the worldview through which most people see the world so that 254 00:22:33,09 --> 00:22:37,67 when and Antoinette Tuff does which he does we can interpret that we can understand 255 00:22:37,67 --> 00:22:43,92 it we can build upon it we can institutionalize it and then in our problems will be 256 00:22:43,92 --> 00:22:50,84 over. So. It just so happens unless he you believe in God In which 257 00:22:50,85 --> 00:22:57,81 case you would say by God's grace we have just the two things that we need 258 00:22:58,19 --> 00:23:05,19 to do the ad and the adopting to do the adapting we have this incredible 259 00:23:05,23 --> 00:23:11,21 revolution in science that's taken place in about the last thirty thirty five years 260 00:23:11,61 --> 00:23:16,87 and to do the adopting to make the new story real to make it how we see the world 261 00:23:17,06 --> 00:23:22,06 that's where nonviolence comes in because three years I've been saying that the new 262 00:23:22,07 --> 00:23:28,83 science and the new story are helping us to establish and explain nonviolence 263 00:23:28,93 --> 00:23:34,77 but it's also the other way around that the fact that nonviolence works shows that 264 00:23:34,78 --> 00:23:39,66 we must be having the wrong image of the human being if we were just material 265 00:23:39,67 --> 00:23:45,22 objects separate from one another etc etc on that animal plane there is no way to 266 00:23:45,23 --> 00:23:50,35 explain why nonviolence is so effective so I want to talk just 267 00:23:50,36 --> 00:23:55,23 a little bit about what the new science is and some of the newest developments in. 268 00:23:56,67 --> 00:24:01,26 Nonviolence which mostly you're probably aware of. I've got 269 00:24:01,27 --> 00:24:08,08 a few experiments I'd like to tell you about. Incidentally we're trying to 270 00:24:08,09 --> 00:24:08,61 build 271 00:24:08,65 --> 00:24:13,39 a page on the medicine or website which will summarize some of the most important 272 00:24:13,40 --> 00:24:18,52 findings of the new science because it's extremely valuable resource but one of the 273 00:24:18,85 --> 00:24:22,22 best researchers from steel wall is 274 00:24:22,23 --> 00:24:25,85 a Dutch primate ologist he wrote 275 00:24:25,86 --> 00:24:29,91 a book called chimpanzee politics which I thought was 276 00:24:29,92 --> 00:24:35,86 a description of the White House but actually. Description of his chimpanzee is 277 00:24:35,87 --> 00:24:40,84 that the our names do and they did the following experiment they had 278 00:24:40,85 --> 00:24:45,93 a colony of rhesus monkeys know rhesus monkeys are pretty aggressive critters as 279 00:24:45,94 --> 00:24:50,16 you can see from this picture of course I've chosen the picture to show this but 280 00:24:50,17 --> 00:24:54,75 never mind. Here's another I think I recognize this one. 281 00:24:58,88 --> 00:25:05,16 I missed this one in Brooklyn. So they had these really aggressive 282 00:25:05,17 --> 00:25:08,74 monkeys and they introduced that's going to sound 283 00:25:08,75 --> 00:25:15,37 a little bit on car and. They introduced Stumptail monkeys much more 284 00:25:15,96 --> 00:25:16,56 like F. 285 00:25:16,57 --> 00:25:23,25 Or monkeys. You can see there 286 00:25:23,52 --> 00:25:30,17 they love their kids they're kind and gentle and the their fear was that you know 287 00:25:30,18 --> 00:25:35,57 the rhesus monkey is just going to wipe up the cages with his stump tails Well the 288 00:25:35,58 --> 00:25:41,23 first of three big surprises was that the stump tails actually prevailed 289 00:25:42,53 --> 00:25:44,47 rhesus monkey would kind of come up to 290 00:25:44,48 --> 00:25:52,87 a stump to say. Get off of my branch. Would 291 00:25:52,88 --> 00:25:56,77 say I'm not leaving I was here first if you have 292 00:25:56,78 --> 00:26:02,11 a real problem you can run it by my finger guide. But I'm not getting off the 293 00:26:02,12 --> 00:26:07,29 branch you know nonviolence one o one and in 294 00:26:07,30 --> 00:26:12,57 a short period of time to the amazement of the researchers the stump tails have 295 00:26:12,58 --> 00:26:17,10 established themselves and refuse to be cowed down by the quote more aggressive 296 00:26:17,49 --> 00:26:24,13 rhesus monkeys then. This is incredible the rhesus monkeys actually 297 00:26:24,14 --> 00:26:30,28 started imitating the stump tails so Stumptail culture prison in their 298 00:26:31,09 --> 00:26:37,38 cultural nonviolence right Stumptail culture prevailed over Reese's culture and 299 00:26:37,39 --> 00:26:41,39 they thought wow this is incredible We're going to get at least three Ph D.'s out 300 00:26:41,40 --> 00:26:47,53 of this. Now let's pull the stump tails out and see how long it takes for the 301 00:26:47,54 --> 00:26:53,17 rhesus to go back to their bad old ways so they took pull all the stump tails out 302 00:26:53,49 --> 00:26:59,98 and the rhesus monkeys are still being Stumptail like the last we heard so 303 00:27:00,29 --> 00:27:06,69 peace culture is not only more potent but more robust the nonviolent violent 304 00:27:06,70 --> 00:27:11,81 culture and this is also been shown from games theory and many other places on 305 00:27:11,82 --> 00:27:18,08 mention just one of their experiments just to get show you the how this is opening 306 00:27:18,09 --> 00:27:23,06 up new vistas. The fact is that if you sit in front of 307 00:27:23,07 --> 00:27:28,39 a computer screen and they flash a face on that screen and that face is 308 00:27:28,40 --> 00:27:33,34 a person from a different race you're limbic system will get activated That's 309 00:27:33,35 --> 00:27:38,75 a system way down in the animal brain in the reptilian brain actually and as 310 00:27:38,76 --> 00:27:44,02 a little almond shaped entity in there call the image the Lloyd nucleus and when it 311 00:27:44,03 --> 00:27:46,00 fires up you go into 312 00:27:46,01 --> 00:27:52,65 a fight or flight response so this is an unfortunate fact of evolutionary 313 00:27:52,69 --> 00:27:55,75 life for I am sitting in front of a screen they show me 314 00:27:55,76 --> 00:27:57,62 a picture of someone that I don't know from 315 00:27:57,63 --> 00:28:03,58 a different race the image. Gets hyperactive. You know the two researchers at 316 00:28:03,59 --> 00:28:09,72 Princeton who probably not by coincidence were two women Mary Wheeler and Susan 317 00:28:09,73 --> 00:28:11,95 Fiske decided there's got to be 318 00:28:11,96 --> 00:28:17,63 a way around this and they thought of something that was incredibly brilliant and 319 00:28:17,64 --> 00:28:21,80 I'm surprised that as professors they were able to come up with something so simple 320 00:28:22,54 --> 00:28:28,87 and. You were there was this they said to the subject OK this is 321 00:28:28,88 --> 00:28:34,50 a test we want to test your accusation here we want you to tell us does this person 322 00:28:34,51 --> 00:28:40,71 like crunchy peanut butter or smooth peanut butter. And credibly stupid question 323 00:28:41,40 --> 00:28:44,35 and they said they would do this over and over again and you know what it 324 00:28:44,36 --> 00:28:50,85 completely suppressed the response it went that deep it went back 325 00:28:51,23 --> 00:28:56,88 three hundred million years in evolution and and stifle that response and the 326 00:28:56,89 --> 00:29:01,06 explanation for this is is pretty simple when you ask yourself 327 00:29:01,07 --> 00:29:05,17 a question like that you're looking at the person as 328 00:29:05,18 --> 00:29:08,11 a human being as an individual not as a member of 329 00:29:08,12 --> 00:29:14,79 a threat category other than me different compete so forth so once again changing 330 00:29:14,80 --> 00:29:15,11 to 331 00:29:15,15 --> 00:29:20,96 a human person oriented civilization in this process incidentally is what psychologists 332 00:29:20,97 --> 00:29:24,46 call priming you prime the subject with 333 00:29:24,47 --> 00:29:30,02 a particular question change his or her mental set and that changes the result of 334 00:29:30,03 --> 00:29:36,29 the experiments and so you might look at advertising as incredibly bad priming that 335 00:29:36,30 --> 00:29:37,32 we're giving ourselves on 336 00:29:37,33 --> 00:29:44,22 a social level. So. I guess I don't need to say much more about 337 00:29:44,23 --> 00:29:50,92 that particular experiment but there are incredible results now coming 338 00:29:50,93 --> 00:29:57,90 in in many many fields to the point where we have new fields of science 339 00:29:57,91 --> 00:30:02,84 altogether positive psychology and so forth and I. I would really urge that all of 340 00:30:02,85 --> 00:30:07,49 us become familiar with this because it's extremely useful material if you haven't 341 00:30:07,50 --> 00:30:13,33 guessed by now I My purpose here today is to recruit you into the new storytellers 342 00:30:14,11 --> 00:30:20,60 this is the one of the ways that we're going to do it so. Let's go over now to 343 00:30:20,61 --> 00:30:26,45 the nonviolence side of the equation and ask ourselves what's what's new since 344 00:30:26,46 --> 00:30:30,36 Gandhi in King in other words roughly contemporaneous with this explosion of 345 00:30:30,60 --> 00:30:35,22 positive science in the last thirty thirty five years the discovery of mirror 346 00:30:35,23 --> 00:30:41,97 neurons and all of those things. The same time parallel discoveries are going on in 347 00:30:41,98 --> 00:30:48,19 nonviolence first of all there's an enormous quantitative spread of nonviolence as 348 00:30:48,23 --> 00:30:53,09 all of us in this room know very well because Walter wink and Richard Dietz wrote 349 00:30:53,10 --> 00:30:57,97 about it in pieces of the way and in fellowship magazine there was 350 00:30:57,98 --> 00:31:03,05 a very important article called the global spread of active nonviolence which 351 00:31:03,06 --> 00:31:08,30 showed that if you just do population counts slightly more than half the world at 352 00:31:08,31 --> 00:31:10,35 that time had experienced 353 00:31:10,36 --> 00:31:16,48 a major nonviolent event or campaign of some kind many of which had been 354 00:31:16,64 --> 00:31:22,11 successful even by worldly standards but in this book I argue that we need 355 00:31:22,12 --> 00:31:27,66 a different set of criteria to discover to evaluate whether something is successful 356 00:31:27,67 --> 00:31:34,11 or not but even by worldly standards most of them succeeded and that was written 357 00:31:34,12 --> 00:31:39,84 before our of spring so I used to go around saying by now it's probably two thirds 358 00:31:39,85 --> 00:31:45,68 of the world and just last week I read an article by Jack Duvall from the 359 00:31:45,69 --> 00:31:50,08 International Center for now and found conflict saying there is hardly And he is 360 00:31:50,09 --> 00:31:55,38 not. Magic Jack to volley you know him he's not 361 00:31:55,39 --> 00:32:01,83 a resists but he's not. A sop either. He said there is 362 00:32:01,84 --> 00:32:02,43 hardly 363 00:32:02,44 --> 00:32:07,65 a society in the world today that has not experienced some kind of at least strategic 364 00:32:07,66 --> 00:32:14,25 non violent episodes so it's everywhere the term is coming up though 365 00:32:14,44 --> 00:32:20,73 not as much as we might like in Petaluma when I was starting to look around for the 366 00:32:20,74 --> 00:32:24,77 Met Office I went into a lawyers office and they had 367 00:32:24,78 --> 00:32:28,48 a room to spare and they weren't paying much attention to me and I just walked into 368 00:32:28,49 --> 00:32:35,05 the room I looked at it came out as I was walking out. And behind the desk said so 369 00:32:35,06 --> 00:32:38,27 what do you do what do you want this office where I said well we have 370 00:32:38,28 --> 00:32:44,25 a nonprofit she said That's nice still looking down at her paper. What do you do 371 00:32:44,26 --> 00:32:50,67 there say well we promote nonviolence to what. What what kind of 372 00:32:50,68 --> 00:32:57,44 violence. So we're 373 00:32:57,45 --> 00:33:04,08 really not quite there yet but the phenomenon. At least is growing and 374 00:33:04,12 --> 00:33:10,80 there are at least five qualitative things that are different and helpful the 375 00:33:10,81 --> 00:33:15,44 first is that there's an enormous amount of research not just the new science 376 00:33:15,45 --> 00:33:19,96 research that I was just referring to but I'm sure most of you are familiar with 377 00:33:19,97 --> 00:33:26,65 this book by Erica Chenowith and Maria Stephan documenting that of 378 00:33:26,80 --> 00:33:28,79 almost three hundred with 379 00:33:28,80 --> 00:33:33,62 a call transitions to democracy we used to call them revolutions but now 380 00:33:34,32 --> 00:33:40,84 transitions to democracy fifty six percent of the nonviolent ones were 381 00:33:40,85 --> 00:33:47,82 successful and twenty three percent of the violent ones were successful so we 382 00:33:47,83 --> 00:33:52,61 are now starting to ground this scientifically more important than that I believe 383 00:33:52,62 --> 00:33:52,79 as 384 00:33:52,80 --> 00:34:00,14 a frustrated activist is the phenomenon of transmission. Read any book from the seventy's 385 00:34:00,15 --> 00:34:03,46 eighty's about the pieces. Movement and they will tell you the problem with the 386 00:34:03,47 --> 00:34:07,37 peace movement is that it has to reinvent the wheel every time there's an event 387 00:34:07,38 --> 00:34:12,18 because there's no way of learning from one event to the next that is now changing 388 00:34:12,78 --> 00:34:17,30 and for example there's an organization called Center for Advanced nonviolent 389 00:34:17,31 --> 00:34:23,64 actions and strategies which took the successful student led uprising leaders from 390 00:34:23,65 --> 00:34:28,88 Serbia from the year two thousand and have them bundle up with they had learned and 391 00:34:28,89 --> 00:34:29,26 make that 392 00:34:29,27 --> 00:34:33,50 a fail they were in Egypt they were they were I think they were even some of them 393 00:34:33,51 --> 00:34:38,44 in Iran there's some difficulties with that organization but the fact is we're now 394 00:34:38,45 --> 00:34:39,99 beginning to realize that this is 395 00:34:40,00 --> 00:34:46,90 a human capacity. We are all potential Antoinette Tuff so human capacity 396 00:34:46,91 --> 00:34:50,70 and we can learn it and develop it and so this is 397 00:34:50,71 --> 00:34:57,36 a really big breakthrough. There are also new institutions which again you know 398 00:34:58,07 --> 00:35:03,94 about as well as I. Here are two fellows Derek Oakley from the U.K. 399 00:35:03,95 --> 00:35:10,20 And Andreas Gutierrez from Central America are part of nonviolent peace force team 400 00:35:10,21 --> 00:35:12,60 in jungle a state in South Sudan 401 00:35:13,17 --> 00:35:19,47 a they don't pick easy conflicts to go into they were in 402 00:35:19,48 --> 00:35:21,71 a UN I.D.P. 403 00:35:21,75 --> 00:35:28,17 Camp you know internal displaced persons it was attacked by militia they went took 404 00:35:28,18 --> 00:35:28,83 shelter in 405 00:35:28,84 --> 00:35:33,19 a little hut they discovered that there were four women and nine children in that. 406 00:35:34,21 --> 00:35:40,92 The militia burst in with their. Forty seven's and axes and sticks 407 00:35:41,27 --> 00:35:46,76 and saw these two you know obviously non Sudanese they are somewhat uniformed 408 00:35:47,36 --> 00:35:54,03 fairly official looking people and said get out of here Derek and Andras were well 409 00:35:54,04 --> 00:35:59,47 trained they had done their teamwork they all had to do was glance at one another 410 00:35:59,48 --> 00:36:02,100 they knew exactly what they were going to do they simply looked at these people 411 00:36:03,01 --> 00:36:07,77 very calmly and said we are not leaving the militia threaten them three times and 412 00:36:07,78 --> 00:36:12,52 three times they said I'm sorry we're not leaving the militia turned and went away 413 00:36:12,52 --> 00:36:18,38 . And so if you look at this picture you ask yourself why are these men smiling. 414 00:36:19,70 --> 00:36:24,42 They're smiling because they just saved the lives of eleven people but they're also 415 00:36:24,43 --> 00:36:26,17 smiling because they have just shown 416 00:36:26,18 --> 00:36:31,04 a way out of the war system and they're also smiling at the deepest level because 417 00:36:31,05 --> 00:36:32,04 they have upheld 418 00:36:32,58 --> 00:36:39,18 a deeper newer image of the human being who are people going to country where 419 00:36:39,19 --> 00:36:44,56 they're not even in the same race as the people there and risking their life soley 420 00:36:44,57 --> 00:36:46,18 for peace that's 421 00:36:46,22 --> 00:36:50,47 a different image of the human being than what we've known before so to go back to 422 00:36:50,48 --> 00:36:56,05 our story we also have new demographics and new actors women's movement has been 423 00:36:56,06 --> 00:37:01,33 incredibly helpful and indigenous people now have networks by which they are able 424 00:37:01,34 --> 00:37:08,16 to. Get involved in global events without losing their diversity 425 00:37:08,17 --> 00:37:11,97 without losing identity and finally we have the creation of 426 00:37:11,98 --> 00:37:18,75 a new story which I've been talking about. This is I hope this is the right 427 00:37:18,76 --> 00:37:24,95 slide this is part of our road map project which we'll be talking about in our 428 00:37:24,96 --> 00:37:31,87 workshop this afternoon we have attempted to bring nonviolent Gandhian 429 00:37:31,88 --> 00:37:36,46 principles to bear on the present movement and see if there's 430 00:37:36,47 --> 00:37:41,20 a way where without losing our diversity we could get the energy of 431 00:37:41,70 --> 00:37:48,03 a single concerted movement and. There's. A 432 00:37:48,04 --> 00:37:54,64 trajectory from person power or term for personal empowerment to construct 433 00:37:54,65 --> 00:38:00,15 a program to nonviolent resistance to programs such as. 434 00:38:01,76 --> 00:38:06,81 We stumbled on this ourselves and then we went to Birmingham Alabama and had 435 00:38:06,82 --> 00:38:13,59 a three day workshop with I. Who grew up in Uganda. And the 436 00:38:13,60 --> 00:38:19,41 first day was on the personal practices and meditation stuff in the from the second 437 00:38:19,42 --> 00:38:24,98 day was on constructive program and the third day was on such Alcoa So he said we 438 00:38:25,02 --> 00:38:31,75 must have stumbled on something and this person power area we have settled on five 439 00:38:31,76 --> 00:38:37,79 practices which anyone can do which we believe would make us more effective 440 00:38:38,17 --> 00:38:43,03 peacemakers and nonviolent actors and therefore in a way get us 441 00:38:43,04 --> 00:38:49,09 a step closer to our own personal fulfillment as human beings and the first one is 442 00:38:49,10 --> 00:38:53,43 the most unpopular by far and that is avoid the mass media. 443 00:38:57,70 --> 00:38:58,28 If you want to get 444 00:38:58,29 --> 00:39:05,28 a little bit more finessed you can say don't expose yourself to images 445 00:39:05,29 --> 00:39:11,00 of human degradation but it amounts to the same thing. This will create 446 00:39:11,01 --> 00:39:17,87 a vacuum in your mind which the medicine to will then come. Come over the hill 447 00:39:18,10 --> 00:39:18,55 waving 448 00:39:18,56 --> 00:39:23,06 a spanner and say hey we can help you learn about learn everything you can about 449 00:39:23,07 --> 00:39:28,86 nonviolence it's actually a substitute culture an alternative culture get 450 00:39:28,87 --> 00:39:31,68 a spiritual practice a little bit more about that in 451 00:39:31,69 --> 00:39:38,58 a second. Try to relate to everyone personally our civilization has caused us 452 00:39:38,59 --> 00:39:44,17 to be so isolated from one another in fact even those who are big fans of social 453 00:39:44,18 --> 00:39:48,83 media and started pointing out that you know you walk down the street and people 454 00:39:48,84 --> 00:39:55,31 are listening to somebody else. Thinking that you. OK I don't want to dilate too 455 00:39:55,32 --> 00:40:00,70 much on that story but and then finally this is I think it's very important tell 456 00:40:00,90 --> 00:40:07,21 the story now Nick Rockefeller once tried to recruit 457 00:40:08,21 --> 00:40:15,21 a very wealthy friend of his into being an Economic Hit Man. Come with me we'll go 458 00:40:15,22 --> 00:40:19,75 down to Guatemala we can destroy the economy of the whole country just to snap you 459 00:40:19,76 --> 00:40:25,43 know and we'll make millions and to his surprise this wealthy friend of his who had 460 00:40:25,44 --> 00:40:32,07 been investing with him and so forth said no I don't want to do that and 461 00:40:32,11 --> 00:40:38,74 Rockefeller said to him Why do you care about those people. Now by and large when 462 00:40:38,75 --> 00:40:43,88 we hear something like that. So you know OK if you don't if you have to ask 463 00:40:43,89 --> 00:40:48,80 a question then I can't explain it. You know but I'm thinking that we should be 464 00:40:48,81 --> 00:40:53,93 able to explain it because people complain you know that the Republicans have their 465 00:40:53,94 --> 00:40:58,53 own story they have this horrible little story they keep telling it over and over 466 00:40:58,54 --> 00:41:04,50 again and it matters that counts so we also should be able to articulate and this 467 00:41:04,51 --> 00:41:06,01 is what we're going to be practicing 468 00:41:06,21 --> 00:41:10,73 a little bit at the workshop Well OK if someone says Why do you care about these 469 00:41:10,74 --> 00:41:16,28 people because who are all interrelated life it turns out is not made up of 470 00:41:16,29 --> 00:41:20,38 separate material particles as I was taught in high school 471 00:41:20,59 --> 00:41:25,80 a long time ago but rather because we are body mind and spirit we are all 472 00:41:25,81 --> 00:41:29,64 interconnected and if I hurt you I'm hurting myself you may not believe me but 473 00:41:29,65 --> 00:41:34,54 anyway that's where I stand that's why I'm not going to do this with you. So. 474 00:41:36,45 --> 00:41:40,53 Ghandi obviously was one who had 475 00:41:40,54 --> 00:41:47,13 a very deep spiritual practice he called it prayer meeting but. My spiritual 476 00:41:47,14 --> 00:41:49,63 teacher actually got started as 477 00:41:49,64 --> 00:41:54,34 a seeker by going to one of these quote prayer meetings and seeing Gandhi go into 478 00:41:54,35 --> 00:42:01,02 a state like this of complete absorption and it was because of that that he was 479 00:42:01,03 --> 00:42:04,41 able to hit on this incredible scheme of picking up 480 00:42:04,42 --> 00:42:09,71 a pinch of salt in April one thousand nine hundred thirty and bringing down the 481 00:42:09,72 --> 00:42:16,14 British Empire on the level but he had the insight to do that and it's because of 482 00:42:16,15 --> 00:42:21,78 that that he had the ability to win people over the wives and workers of the 483 00:42:21,79 --> 00:42:24,95 Lancashire steel mills he had put them out of 484 00:42:24,96 --> 00:42:31,11 a job by boycotting British cloth and they warned him don't go there in one 485 00:42:31,12 --> 00:42:35,21 thousand nine hundred thirty one in Lancashire and he said where I want to meet 486 00:42:35,22 --> 00:42:41,76 these people. And he took him about half an hour to explain what he was doing you 487 00:42:41,77 --> 00:42:45,92 know he said you have three hundred thousand unemployed I have three hundred 488 00:42:45,93 --> 00:42:51,06 million unemployed and things like that and at the end of it you have this scene 489 00:42:51,07 --> 00:42:57,21 which I call it. And. So 490 00:42:57,66 --> 00:43:04,58 we. Also said that you may believe in nonviolence but unless you have 491 00:43:04,59 --> 00:43:08,77 some meditation practice when you're facing the dogs and when they're hitting you 492 00:43:08,78 --> 00:43:13,45 with the sticks that belief is going to go out the window it's relatively 493 00:43:13,81 --> 00:43:17,26 superficial you need to ground it every day in 494 00:43:17,27 --> 00:43:23,98 a practice and if you're looking for one we may have some suggestions help you. The 495 00:43:23,99 --> 00:43:29,05 deepest wisdom doesn't come either from scientists or their wisdom or their wisdom 496 00:43:29,06 --> 00:43:32,57 traditions sages said it comes from bumper stickers. 497 00:43:36,95 --> 00:43:38,45 And this one was tacked on to 498 00:43:38,46 --> 00:43:44,09 a good guitar that was hanging on this fence or friend of mine front yard and Tamal 499 00:43:44,10 --> 00:43:46,34 us we are not human beings having 500 00:43:46,35 --> 00:43:52,30 a spiritual experience which is very Californian thing to believe we are actually 501 00:43:52,31 --> 00:43:53,75 spiritual beings having 502 00:43:53,76 --> 00:44:00,15 a human experience. I will say no more about that just now but we have developed 503 00:44:00,22 --> 00:44:05,58 what we call Charkha points used to be called Bullet points but that's too violent 504 00:44:05,59 --> 00:44:06,22 for us so. 505 00:44:12,62 --> 00:44:19,59 These are spinning wheel points which we propose that if we were to assimilate. 506 00:44:21,10 --> 00:44:26,48 Make it our own and use it whenever we get an opportunity even sometimes we don't 507 00:44:26,49 --> 00:44:29,35 get into it get an opportunity and I just walk into 508 00:44:29,36 --> 00:44:36,36 a bar and say You realize they were body mind and spirit. And 509 00:44:36,37 --> 00:44:40,06 they're forcing So I think that would probably and this is 510 00:44:40,07 --> 00:44:45,46 a work in progress if you have other suggestions about what are the basic Charkha 511 00:44:45,47 --> 00:44:50,02 points that we should be promoting. I would be more than happy to hear them we 512 00:44:50,03 --> 00:44:55,22 really are I really feel that if we get people talking about why we're doing what 513 00:44:55,23 --> 00:44:56,64 we're doing it's 514 00:44:56,65 --> 00:45:01,92 a combination of the effective nonviolent action and the plausible explanation 515 00:45:02,07 --> 00:45:08,16 could be very very powerful. So those points are the unity of life I think 516 00:45:08,66 --> 00:45:13,69 Christian you were saying last night about tech not on taking that we enter our I 517 00:45:13,70 --> 00:45:18,99 didn't make up the slide after I heard your talk I heard you have this and that we 518 00:45:19,54 --> 00:45:21,97 are not determined by our D.N.A. 519 00:45:22,01 --> 00:45:28,83 A or neurons or hormones or anything else but this is with the newspapers 520 00:45:29,05 --> 00:45:32,07 just about once a day they will report on 521 00:45:32,08 --> 00:45:39,03 a scientific. Experiment that says that you are Republican because of this gene 522 00:45:39,04 --> 00:45:45,85 or you like crunchy peanut butter because of that hormone and it's totally untrue 523 00:45:46,08 --> 00:45:52,89 we have this irreducible free will as the priming experiment of we learn 524 00:45:52,90 --> 00:45:58,60 Fiske are able to demonstrate we have tremendous inner resources which are 525 00:45:58,61 --> 00:46:05,02 constantly. Concealed from us by this advertising that we need things from the 526 00:46:05,03 --> 00:46:10,96 outside world and of all of those inner resources I would say the capacity to be 527 00:46:10,97 --> 00:46:17,68 nonviolent and to respond to nonviolence when we encounter it is 528 00:46:17,82 --> 00:46:23,86 a Deep the deepest perhaps the deepest part of our human nature so I put this 529 00:46:23,87 --> 00:46:25,31 before you as 530 00:46:25,84 --> 00:46:30,13 a version of the new story which if you feel comfortable with it you might want to 531 00:46:30,65 --> 00:46:36,45 adopt and I'll just close with. A little anecdote if I can get through it often 532 00:46:36,46 --> 00:46:41,37 causes me to get emotional professors are not supposed to do that but. 533 00:46:43,36 --> 00:46:49,57 The day after Gandhi's assassination nine hundred forty eight there was an American 534 00:46:49,58 --> 00:46:55,34 journalist in the south of India who was overwhelmed B. 535 00:46:55,38 --> 00:46:56,57 Imagine being in 536 00:46:56,58 --> 00:47:01,77 a subcontinent with nearly four hundred million people every one of whom was going 537 00:47:01,78 --> 00:47:01,96 through 538 00:47:01,97 --> 00:47:08,29 a power of grief it never experienced anything like it he went to one of his Indian 539 00:47:08,30 --> 00:47:13,74 Francis said what is going on here and the man said Well the people believe that 540 00:47:13,75 --> 00:47:14,12 there was 541 00:47:14,13 --> 00:47:19,90 a mirror in the Mojave in which was reflected the greatest that we are capable of 542 00:47:20,32 --> 00:47:27,02 and we are now afraid that that mirror has been shattered. So the story that I have 543 00:47:27,03 --> 00:47:29,73 been trying to share with you this morning is that The Mirror has not been 544 00:47:29,74 --> 00:47:34,44 shattered it's been covered over with a lot of dust. And perhaps this will be 545 00:47:34,49 --> 00:47:39,06 a way for us to blow away some of that dust and realize who we are thank you very 546 00:47:39,07 --> 00:47:45,70 much with by 547 00:47:45,71 --> 00:47:49,17 with so what is roadmap as 548 00:47:49,18 --> 00:47:56,11 a project roadmap has three phases and we are about about in the 549 00:47:56,12 --> 00:47:57,10 middle or about one and 550 00:47:57,11 --> 00:48:02,52 a half ways into the project the first part of the project which came directly out 551 00:48:02,53 --> 00:48:08,30 of hope tank conversations was to develop this beautiful Mandela that you see 552 00:48:08,31 --> 00:48:14,87 behind me which is the schematic representation of the entire progressive movement 553 00:48:15,30 --> 00:48:21,26 as you can see and the second part of the project was to create 554 00:48:21,30 --> 00:48:28,05 a web based tool through which people working on any part of the road map 555 00:48:28,60 --> 00:48:34,61 could connect with people working on that issue so let's say let's just take by you 556 00:48:34,62 --> 00:48:39,12 know arbitrarily you're interested in peace. Why should anyone be interested in 557 00:48:39,13 --> 00:48:45,29 peace but you are so you click on that little dof. Icon and that 558 00:48:45,85 --> 00:48:50,14 clicks you through well right now what you'll find is 559 00:48:50,28 --> 00:48:56,63 a Facebook based blog of people who are interested in that issue but 560 00:48:56,64 --> 00:48:59,62 eventually what we'd like to do is to make it 561 00:48:59,63 --> 00:49:05,85 a kind of visual database of other groups working in that issues so people who have 562 00:49:05,86 --> 00:49:10,07 signed up and said they don't mind being contacted by others who will appear there 563 00:49:10,08 --> 00:49:10,21 on 564 00:49:10,22 --> 00:49:15,67 a kind of map and you'll be able to get in touch with them and share resources like 565 00:49:15,68 --> 00:49:16,58 you say OK I'm 566 00:49:16,59 --> 00:49:22,41 a terrific Web designer someone in the group in this area needs web design you can 567 00:49:22,68 --> 00:49:28,92 connect up that way and more importantly even then that I think start to share 568 00:49:28,93 --> 00:49:35,01 resources so here are the best practices for promoting peace work 569 00:49:35,98 --> 00:49:41,52 here's things that we found don't work here's things we want to wait on. And cetera 570 00:49:41,85 --> 00:49:47,45 so that will be face to and were almost there and we need to raise 571 00:49:47,46 --> 00:49:53,36 a little more money and get another phase of the web design completed so we working 572 00:49:53,37 --> 00:49:53,60 with 573 00:49:53,89 --> 00:49:59,36 a group called Look at Shakti that has almost this functionality already I can't 574 00:49:59,37 --> 00:50:03,55 tell you exactly when but I think that before long you'll be able to go on and 575 00:50:03,56 --> 00:50:07,54 connect through to other people who are working in the area that you know certainly 576 00:50:07,55 --> 00:50:13,38 interested in it understood we're all interested in different areas and different 577 00:50:13,39 --> 00:50:18,17 times you may want to connect up with other groups that's fine so that's face to 578 00:50:18,21 --> 00:50:24,41 face three this is where it gets really exciting 579 00:50:24,81 --> 00:50:30,27 and I guess I don't I know the least about how this phase is going to work but the 580 00:50:30,28 --> 00:50:35,04 point of phase three. Is to come up with 581 00:50:35,39 --> 00:50:37,17 a long term strategy 582 00:50:37,59 --> 00:50:44,59 a strategy for the entire movement and. Just keep it 583 00:50:44,60 --> 00:50:45,32 on hold for 584 00:50:45,33 --> 00:50:48,87 a little bit I'm going to go back to the beginning work my way up to that and I'll 585 00:50:48,88 --> 00:50:55,20 tell you how we think that that might work OK so any question so far I mean what I 586 00:50:55,21 --> 00:50:58,71 was going to do next is kind of go up to the model and show you what the different 587 00:50:58,72 --> 00:51:05,47 sectors are why it's designed the way it is so here is how this thing 588 00:51:05,48 --> 00:51:11,73 works the issues that we need to address to change the world to get the great 589 00:51:11,74 --> 00:51:17,12 turning to happen to get to the new paradigm whatever we want to call it we spent 590 00:51:17,13 --> 00:51:23,95 a lot of time filtering that down to six basic areas and the area that we put 591 00:51:23,96 --> 00:51:29,31 top dead center can speak as we consider it the most important is what I was 592 00:51:29,32 --> 00:51:34,80 talking about this morning the creation of a new story creation an ad opting of 593 00:51:34,81 --> 00:51:39,68 a new vision of who we are and what the world is what we're supposed to be doing 594 00:51:39,69 --> 00:51:46,43 here at cetera Now each of these six sectors is divided into three subsectors 595 00:51:46,70 --> 00:51:52,26 those are only for example there are many many. Projects that you could put in 596 00:51:52,27 --> 00:51:58,79 there Gandhi had eighteen projects in his constructed program so we thought this is 597 00:51:58,80 --> 00:52:03,73 a magic number we want to have eighteen also so we do but that was just you know 598 00:52:03,74 --> 00:52:08,58 our self indulgence and you don't have to pay too much attention to that part. But 599 00:52:08,59 --> 00:52:15,36 we feel that peace democracy and social justice the economy and then climate and 600 00:52:15,37 --> 00:52:21,62 the environment we gave separate sectors to because of the extreme urgency of the 601 00:52:21,63 --> 00:52:26,28 climate issue I mean one thing that all of us agree on is that if we don't resolve 602 00:52:26,29 --> 00:52:33,06 that one very soon and even in my lifetime there will be no more issues for us to 603 00:52:33,07 --> 00:52:39,00 resolve so for that reason we broke it out into two. Now 604 00:52:39,55 --> 00:52:46,30 the this is where it starts to be very Gandhian. We propose that this be 605 00:52:46,31 --> 00:52:47,12 regarded as 606 00:52:47,13 --> 00:52:53,96 a centrifugal trajectory that all of us are going to do something about 607 00:52:53,97 --> 00:52:59,08 our own personal empowerment and peace through Here's where we suggested those five 608 00:52:59,09 --> 00:53:04,67 points this morning of avoiding the mass media learning everything you can about 609 00:53:04,68 --> 00:53:11,61 nonviolence get a spiritual practice relate very personally to others create 610 00:53:11,62 --> 00:53:17,02 a person based civilization and then finally find your passion is the way we put it 611 00:53:17,03 --> 00:53:22,85 in this region here where do your strengths and weaknesses most closely match the 612 00:53:22,86 --> 00:53:29,49 needs of the world and what we would now add to that is to use every opportunity 613 00:53:29,75 --> 00:53:34,29 to tell the news story and we're going to be doing an exercise about that shortly. 614 00:53:35,61 --> 00:53:42,22 So at this point we actually numbered these stages we don't necessarily mean 615 00:53:42,62 --> 00:53:47,33 that these things have to be chronological if you're working on something urgent 616 00:53:47,84 --> 00:53:53,30 like climate change we're not saying drop everything start meditating go to Tibet 617 00:53:53,74 --> 00:53:55,46 you know Hank come back when you're 618 00:53:55,47 --> 00:54:00,83 a loom and it's not like that but above all we should never neglect personal 619 00:54:00,84 --> 00:54:05,53 development because that's how we lead to burnout lack of discrimination and so 620 00:54:05,54 --> 00:54:12,27 forth so. Yeah I think that's all I need to tell you about 621 00:54:12,28 --> 00:54:18,69 how. MONDELLO works oh no that isn't. I forgot one of the neatest things. 622 00:54:19,100 --> 00:54:23,39 And that is that Gandhi had a concept called sw 623 00:54:23,40 --> 00:54:28,73 a day she which meant I suppose you could roughly translate that as 624 00:54:28,74 --> 00:54:35,00 a localism and it meant working within your own sphere and when you had done your 625 00:54:35,01 --> 00:54:40,59 job correctly in your sphere your capacities would expand and you'd find yourself 626 00:54:40,60 --> 00:54:41,84 able to work in 627 00:54:41,85 --> 00:54:48,59 a broader sphere but he was very very serious about sweaty people come to him and 628 00:54:48,60 --> 00:54:53,74 say I want to join the movement he would say where do you come from and the person 629 00:54:53,75 --> 00:54:54,16 would name 630 00:54:54,17 --> 00:54:58,23 a village and Gandhi would be familiar with that village because he had visited so 631 00:54:58,24 --> 00:55:02,50 many of them he would say your village is a mess your village is 632 00:55:02,51 --> 00:55:07,57 a cesspool for you to come and join the National Movement and leave your village 633 00:55:07,58 --> 00:55:09,55 and that can condition would be 634 00:55:09,56 --> 00:55:15,47 a sin you go back and work in your village and the same could be applied and he did 635 00:55:15,48 --> 00:55:21,94 apply it to our personal capacities could we have strengths and weaknesses we 636 00:55:21,95 --> 00:55:27,00 should be aware of them working on them when we do our job in that circle however 637 00:55:27,01 --> 00:55:33,90 small it may be our capacities will expand and without being conscious of it this. 638 00:55:35,37 --> 00:55:37,62 Centrifugal model is 639 00:55:37,63 --> 00:55:41,96 a very good say she model because here and we're actually going to imitate that in 640 00:55:41,97 --> 00:55:43,08 our workshops starting in 641 00:55:43,09 --> 00:55:49,11 a little while here in person power you're working on yourself. It's very sweet 642 00:55:49,12 --> 00:55:56,07 a she in constructive program you're working with your friends to build the 643 00:55:56,08 --> 00:56:00,30 things that you need getting together with your community members and so forth when 644 00:56:00,31 --> 00:56:05,82 you've done those two things then you are ready to confront the powers that be. And 645 00:56:05,83 --> 00:56:07,30 of course we designed this as 646 00:56:07,31 --> 00:56:14,13 a kind of reaction to occupy which went exactly the other way so let's start by 647 00:56:14,14 --> 00:56:18,37 protesting at the biggest scale possible and then when we were thrown off the 648 00:56:18,38 --> 00:56:22,28 street then they discovered constructive program at least they did that much 649 00:56:22,55 --> 00:56:24,80 because a lot of people when they fail at 650 00:56:24,81 --> 00:56:30,24 a big outside circle at it they fail when they start by means of protest they often 651 00:56:30,43 --> 00:56:32,40 give up and many many 652 00:56:32,41 --> 00:56:36,18 a movement has gone through that cycle so it did much to their credit that they 653 00:56:36,19 --> 00:56:43,12 went on to discover. Occupy Sandy and occupy Jubilee 654 00:56:43,56 --> 00:56:46,05 and things like that but there's 655 00:56:46,06 --> 00:56:50,52 a great strength that comes from starting with the smallest possible circle and the 656 00:56:50,53 --> 00:56:57,45 nobody can prevent us from self empowerment it's entirely within our purview 657 00:56:57,70 --> 00:57:00,35 you don't have to join an organization form 658 00:57:00,36 --> 00:57:05,18 a new five zero one c three because of Michael Nagler improvement projects or 659 00:57:05,19 --> 00:57:12,12 whatever and then to get together with people to build the things that we want is 660 00:57:12,13 --> 00:57:18,05 a very powerful predecessor to saying we don't want to things that you have built 661 00:57:18,86 --> 00:57:24,85 and if you get a hold of my book you'll see that I devoted a chapter to construct 662 00:57:24,86 --> 00:57:29,05 a program because it is so often overlooked and is so powerful.