1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,360 My definition of freedom, that's very good question, but to put it in the briefest and 2 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:31,160 simplest, it's to be able to truly be what you are. 3 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:43,720 We're born in cultures, in our case in the 20th century, that predetermined the way that we are 4 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:51,320 going to live. Everything is preset. And yet, what everybody tends to forget, it takes 5 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:59,200 a while for people to wake up, is that this artificial culture that they're born in, I mean, 6 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,160 they could easily have been born. There's no reason at all why they wouldn't have been born 7 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:11,880 3,000, 5,000, 50,000 years ago. And had they been born 50,000 years ago, they would have been 8 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:21,320 in the real natural world with the total freedom that is available. As a natural creature, it 9 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:31,360 is a very dangerous life, of course. But that's freedom. Freedom to be entirely master and 10 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:43,560 victim of your existence. 11 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:50,760 I think it comes to, I mean, if one has to go to the root of this, some people and I'm one of them, 12 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:57,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 13 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:05,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 14 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:10,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 15 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:15,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 16 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:22,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 17 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:30,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 18 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:40,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 19 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:55,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 20 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:05,760 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, 21 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:14,760 it's very strange to explain, I felt it was something that if I didn't do it, my life would have been unfulfilled, 22 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:30,760 I had to bring out this this theory, and I did it, and I'm glad I did, because I feel, I feel I fulfilled my mission, 23 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:42,760 and it's not just satisfaction, it is a sense of having reached a point where you, I mean, I'm not finished with my life, 24 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:49,760 but I feel that my mission, my real mission has been done, and I think everybody has a mission. 25 00:03:49,760 --> 00:04:07,760 Sadly, many people do not identify it or they suppress it, worse, they don't have the courage to implement it, but if you don't, for most people, 26 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:21,760 they live the life in a semi-contacted, protected environment, and that suits them, for some people, 27 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:35,760 if they don't do it, they literally destroy themselves, they would literally destroy themselves, so it's an obligation in a sense. 28 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:50,760 I've been very puzzled about what we call coincidence, what we call fate, what we call luck, what we call synchronicity. 29 00:04:50,760 --> 00:05:04,760 These are words, and the words that are used, might we cannot possibly explain an event that does not seem to be normal. 30 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:20,760 Things happen in our lives, and our minds refuses to acknowledge them as normal happenings, but because we cannot explain them, then we will call them coincidence, 31 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:36,760 and I think everybody knows this, feels this rather, and I've had so many things happen to me that I've come to the conclusion that what we call coincidence, 32 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:57,760 most of the time, is some identified law that governs our existence, I call it the law of chaos, because it's so seem so chaotic, and yet occasionally it shows itself. 33 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:13,760 So what are the coincidences of not only me coming up with the correlation theory at that time in my life, but at the very very same time, 34 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:33,760 Rudolf Gantabrik explores the shafts that are a key factor in my theory, at that same time after 4,500 years there is a conjunction of two events, and what are the coincidences of us meeting? 35 00:06:33,760 --> 00:07:00,760 It's very odd to think about it. In my case, I remained puzzled as to why of all the generations that have looked at the pyramids, certainly from the 1960s, where it was well known that there was a link between those pyramids and the bell stars overriding, that had been shown in articles in Egyptology, 36 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:13,760 when it was well known from the pyramid text, there was a link between the kings, rituals of rebirth and those particular stars, why no one noticed this correlation? 37 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:32,760 And therefore there is this feeling that there is some sort of totally misunderstood way that your life is being controlled. 38 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:51,760 We like to say synchronicity because we have no idea what it means, but I begin to believe that there is something like that, and things will not happen because there is simply happened, there is a very very complex law that put things together, but it's so complex, there is a piece to us as chaos. 39 00:07:51,760 --> 00:08:17,760 What has been interesting other than the theory is that I developed in ancient Egyptian history, is that certainly at the early stage of its development. 40 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:41,760 Do you want this? Actually it does look good. We were doing once, but the way to interview with Jacques Hauwass in the cafe, and a black cat came and jumped on me, and his view says, he even said, it looks very good, so we talked to the cat with us, gave it a mood. 41 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,760 Okay, so I carry on. 42 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,760 You have done about how to study on page and the... 43 00:08:48,760 --> 00:09:00,760 Yes, well I was going to say is that there is an interface between natural existence and suddenly becoming a social existence. 44 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:16,760 There is a line that can be... Now, according to conventional anthropology and archaeology, in Egypt, that line appears somewhere around the fourth millennium. 45 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:34,760 There is a kind of prehistory where we have people emerging from hunter-gatherers, from bring literally primitive, to become a more complex and eventually becoming the faronic civilization. 46 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:45,760 And therefore, I was very interested in this interface, because there is a need of a thing that we can see as a kind of window into what is natural man. 47 00:09:45,760 --> 00:10:01,760 Things were converted from the natural world into a artificial world, like language, like sign writing, like ideas being symbolized by religious ideas and so forth. 48 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:17,760 So that part of it, it got me very interested. In other words, that the early civilization of Egypt is a social model, that reflects natural man. 49 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,760 And that's what to me was very interesting. And it was very beautiful. 50 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:44,760 You know, with that very early stage of social complex existence, one of the things happened. I mean, the art is at its most humbleness, the built pyramids, they had wonderful ideologies related to life and after life and everything about it, glitters. 51 00:10:44,760 --> 00:11:00,760 And to me, that was a nice model. I do not believe, although it will be very nice, but I do not believe that it is possible to bring man back to his natural state as a vortar and russo, as a vocating, particularly in the Jonsar Crusoe. 52 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:11,760 But I do believe that we can bring man to a social condition. And that's where russo becomes interesting, that we can have a social contract with nature. 53 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:25,760 In other words, that our social existence is modeled on nature, rather than modeled on bizarre religious ideas or bizarre laws that do not suit our nature. 54 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:38,760 So that is, I think, the future of the human race is to redefine what is human nature and and devise a constitution that fits its nature. 55 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:49,760 For example, you know, we have a problem with the American constitution. The first thing it starts is that all men are created equal. Well, the hard fact is that all men are not created equal. 56 00:11:49,760 --> 00:12:00,760 We see this in nature. We see this in human existence. The fact is that there are intelligent people and not intelligent people, there are smart people, not smart people. 57 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:10,760 I agree that we all have the same human rights, but we are not created equal and therefore to impose a constitutional that kind brings us away from our nature. 58 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:29,760 The democracy is another one. We really need wise men to make wise decisions. If we have a democratic system, which is happening in Egypt, by the way, where we're going to vote in a country that is highly educated for that kind of sophisticated system, we're going to have a problem. 59 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:41,760 So I very much believe that the Egyptian model is something to study because it might show us the way as to what the future is. 60 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:59,760 I mean, this year has been rather unusual here. We're seeing what is loosely called the Arab Spring. 61 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:07,760 Basically what it is is, and that is very interesting and needs to be studied. It will be studied for generations. 62 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:28,760 That something brought the Arab world into critical mass. It's like having a magnifying glass trying to light a fire and you keep it and you keep it until that moment comes. 63 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:37,760 Some of the common comes where it will ignite. Something brought the Arab world there, it's very clear and literally ignition. Somebody burned himself. 64 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:48,760 But in reality, that's not it. Although it was the catalyst, if you like, the relevant is world communication, the social network. 65 00:13:48,760 --> 00:14:06,760 The Dintri lies this was happening, but it was. And it's kind of linked an idea, like a giant octopus, touching everybody who was in contact with a computer or a mobile phone or a Twitter. 66 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:22,760 And the government didn't see it happening. It's literally sparked. To me, that's very interesting because the governments are waking up to the realization that you just can't hide things from people. 67 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:42,760 And what people are waking up to is that they do have a right to the freedom that is natural to them. They've been held down. I mean, I live in Spain as you know, coming here to England. 68 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:59,760 One of the supposedly freest society in the world when I came here in 1967, the great pleasure of freedom of speech. I mean, anybody could take a carton box and go to Hyde Park on and say, what everyone wants to say. 69 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:14,760 Well, that freedom is gone. Our freedom in, we live a very safe life, admittedly. Everybody has their little home and a partner and so forth. But the freedom of speech has gone. You cannot say what you want to say. 70 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:30,760 Freedom of action has gone and regulations have become so intense that you regulated to the most extreme thing. So to me, there isn't a awakening here. 71 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:43,760 We wanted freedom to be able to express ourselves. But when we do express ourselves, then we're told we don't have that freedom. There's a paradox going on. 72 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:56,760 So to me, there is an awakening and how we wake up whether it's going to be a violent awakening, like it did in the Middle East, or whether the governments will come to realize that you cannot suppress people to that extent. 73 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,760 We cannot control people to that extent. We can't tell them what to do all the time. 74 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:14,760 We know what other things that is so important in human existence is to take one's life and be responsible for it. I want to be responsible for my own life. 75 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:30,760 I know there is danger out there. I know that it is bad to smoke, but I want to have the freedom to decide. This is, we have created a kind of protection state that is giving us a theoretical freedom. 76 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:40,760 But when we want to practice it, we cannot. And so to me, this is the big question that we'd be resolved perhaps in the next few years, perhaps in the next century. 77 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:59,760 But resolve it we must because man is born free. And when governments find equalizes. I love the first phrase in Jean Jacques Rousseau's social contract. He starts with man is born free, but everywhere I see him in chains. 78 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:12,760 Man is born free. He has to be allowed to live his life with the freedom that is natural to him. And that freedom extends very far. 79 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:24,760 The freedom to be able to take his clothes off if he's so wishes. To me, that's one of the strange things, by the way, very often when I bring this point out people say, oh, you are too rebellious. 80 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:40,760 But it's the most extraordinary thing that we as natural creatures cannot even take our shoes off in the restaurant. You'll be asked to leave the place. This is an incredible paradox in our so-called freedom society. 81 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:48,760 I remember in the 60s when we had the streakers, they wanted to express the total freedom. Now take the clothes off and walk around the park. 82 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:58,760 No, they were grabbed by the police, put them trucks and taken away. How absurd is this? Well, man is actually born naked and free. 83 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:06,760 I know a lot of people will contest this, but this is freedom. If you want freedom, this is freedom. 84 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:28,760 Well, that's how freedom is unfortunately controlled. You know, we're told that you want that kind of freedom. But if we allow you that kind of freedom, we can't protect you. 85 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:36,760 You've got to, I remember, I've tell you what, because I like to use parables. 86 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:42,760 I, in 1986, decided to immigrate to Australia with my family. 87 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:50,760 And quite frankly, I, one of the things that attracted me, my family, my sister and my mother, were already living there. 88 00:18:51,760 --> 00:19:04,760 Was that I thought I would be going to a land where there was still a lot of this kind of natural freedom about, you know, open spaces and beaches. 89 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:13,760 I was stunned when I got, I was exactly the reverse. I remember very, very well, the first week I was there. I actually bought a house straight out. 90 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:23,760 And, uh, came to visit me, the local council inspector. And realized incredible. 91 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:33,760 He demanded that I do silly things like, my house was fenced, my garden was fenced properly. And I had a pool. He insisted that we put a secondary fence around. 92 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:39,760 And I said, this is the trickles we don't need a second fence. But I had to put it in my own property. 93 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:48,760 I wasn't free in my own garden. There was a branch that I wanted to remove from a tree because it was polluting my swimming pool. 94 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,760 And there was giving permission. And I finally said, what, what is my freedom? 95 00:19:53,760 --> 00:20:04,760 If I can't exercise my freedom in my own garden. So, I know a lot of people sort of fall for this kind of argument that we're doing it for your own protection. 96 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:12,760 I was capable enough to decide what was dangerous or not dangerous for my children. I didn't need a committee to come and tell me. 97 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:24,760 So, this, I'll tell you a very good one that I use as an example. Next door to us, a few houses down was an old lady who held a cockatoo parrot as a pet. 98 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:34,760 Now, I was living in Sydney at the time. Sydney is literally overwhelmed with these cockatoo. They fly all over the place like sparrows in Europe. 99 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:43,760 They're nice big white birds that do a very crackling noise. And in the morning, although I enjoyed it, but they do make a lot of noise. 100 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:57,760 Now, that's fine. The free bird, the flying, nobody can complain. But she had a pet. And the neighbor complained that her cockatoo was making a lot of noise in the morning. Although there were the others, but hers was a pet. 101 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:11,760 So the council came to inspect. And they actually measured with a machine, with a, with a, with a, with a sound counter, the decibels. And a part of the cockatoo was above the acceptable decibels. 102 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:23,760 And she was given the choice of either getting rid of the cockatoo or facing a court action. She went for the court action. They put it a weekend jail with a fine. 103 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:38,760 To me, that was it. I mean, to me, if you can't, if you can't reason that one out. So, I'm puzzled as to how we want to control freedom. 104 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:46,760 You know, we, we were supposed to be in the free world. You know, I can't take, you know, straight, I couldn't take my kids on the beach without being fined if they were a hat. 105 00:21:46,760 --> 00:22:03,760 Oh, yes. They tell me that if my kids do not wear a hat, there is a law that I get fined. I have to decide, I don't need the nanny state to tell me what is good or bad. There is laws that are, are acceptable. There are silly laws. 106 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:14,760 But we're coming up with them all the time. Every day there is something new in our free society that impinges on that liberty and freedom that you naturally have. 107 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:31,760 So, the future of the human race is to wake up. The future of the human race is to realize that true happiness is living one's life in a state of responsibility and freedom of choice. 108 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:57,760 The choices are being removed. You know, being a writer, I'm very aware that we use language to describe what is, in fact, very complex feelings and they're not as separate as we think. 109 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:07,760 You know, we say joy, we say happiness, we say fear, we say loyalty and we have defined them. 110 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:19,760 But in fact, I see them as one unit that responds in different circumstances. In other words, joy is part of fear and fear is part of joy. 111 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:34,760 They're all a, they're all a paste in us that responds to given circumstances, which is processed, of course, by our brain. If something good happens to us, the sensation of joy happens. 112 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:47,760 To define happiness is very, very difficult. You've got a hundred people and you ask them what happiness is and you're getting some very silly things that happiness is eating a ice cream and others happiness is being in love. 113 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:55,760 And then you get the reverse. Some people think that the most awful thing is happy to use being in love for them. So it's very difficult to define. 114 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:02,760 So when we have in a constitution the rights to pursue happiness, what do we mean by this? If we haven't defined happiness. 115 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:16,760 But let me tell you what I think happiness is and how we misunderstand it. And I will quote or paraphrase the author called in Wilson, 116 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:25,760 who wrote the outsider in 1954, calling it a very good friend of mine. And he once explained to me how the idea of writing is booked the outsider came. 117 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:39,760 The outsider was a response to the very depressive existentialism that was going around in the 1950s in France. He was actually working as a waiter in a cafe in Paris. 118 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:51,760 And this particular cafe came all these very high ranking philosophers, writers, Berkha Mewi, Simandubov, R. Jean-Paul Sard, 119 00:24:51,760 --> 00:25:03,760 who would come and discuss the very deep philosophies of life, which generally were very depressive, basically life had no meaning and so forth. 120 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:14,760 And he was very intrigued and he wanted to learn from them and as a waiter he would go and serve coffee and sort of get a little glimpse as to what they were saying. 121 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:26,760 And he says on one occasion around the table they were all in a heated discussion and one of the ladies was apparently very pretty lady, dropped her spoon. 122 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:37,760 But in the heat of the conversation she didn't realize she had done this. And so he, while they were talking and ignoring him, went under the table to pick it up. 123 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:55,760 And he describes what he saw. She had a legs crossed and she was exposing a very pretty foot. She was wearing a pair of sandals, he says. She was and she had lovely nail polish. 124 00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:06,760 And she was wearing a lanclet. And when he looked at this he felt an intense happiness. He felt like he wanted to stay under the table. 125 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:15,760 And he realized something in a flash it was in a piphany which led him to write the book that this is happiness. It can be very simple. 126 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:39,760 The sensation of happiness that not required buying a new car does not require buying a house. It sometimes can be the touching of a leaf. The feel of the breeze on your face, the warmth of the sun, the taste of fruit. 127 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:57,760 But we are so busy. We are so taken by the complexity of our existence that when these moments of happiness occur, we don't, we seek happiness somewhere else. 128 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:05,760 And we don't find it. And people are very often come and tell me this and I've done everything about a house. I've got married, I have children, I have a lovely job. 129 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:18,760 And I don't feel happy. So I usually tell them what makes you feel happy. I think what makes you feel happy. I feel happy when I'm sitting in my garden and drinking coffee. 130 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:34,760 And I want to do that then. I mean that's happiness. It's happiness is when you, let me try to find, when your senses make you feel alive. 131 00:27:34,760 --> 00:28:02,760 When you feel it's good to be alive. That feeling of saying to yourself, I'm grateful to be alive at that moment. And that's what Colin Wilson said. And he knew that it's not permanent. You will find these moments if you allow them to express themselves throughout the day and you will feel happy. But if you bypass them, you will end today without feeling happy. 132 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:20,760 I want to write, I want to express these ideas I have related to ancient Egypt and the Star Religion and so forth. That was an ambition. 133 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:27,760 But it was part of what happened to me. What happened to me was that I began to allow myself more and more. 134 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:41,760 I was going to say the pleasure because it is a pleasure. To allow myself to enjoy moments. 135 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:48,760 Nowadays, for example, I'm very aware of this. When I go and have a shower, I don't simply have a shower. 136 00:28:48,760 --> 00:29:04,760 I will allow myself to enjoy it. I will take my time, I will feel the water, I will enjoy the soap, I will enjoy the smell and I realize that by allowing yourself this. 137 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:23,760 In other words, stepping out of this complexity. You know, I have to say something about human existence, because I've written a book called Black Genesis, which has taken me to look at, not just prehistory, it's taken me to look at the very origins of modern man, 138 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:29,760 when man literally emerges from his natural state and somehow becomes social. 139 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:37,760 That all that has really happened from that point to now is that our life has become more complex. 140 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:46,760 But now it is so complex, just the mere fact of making a cup of coffee. 141 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:52,760 To early man, to natural man, that would have been an extremely complex thing. 142 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:59,760 To light a flame, to actually have the coffee grind, it's very very complex thing. 143 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:13,760 But we don't realize that this complexity is keeping us away from the way that we should really commune with life and nature. 144 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,760 We spend our life in this complexity. Our days are spending this complexity. 145 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:31,760 Whereas in fact, our true nature demands us to feel and enjoy the context of our surroundings. 146 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:45,760 People go on the beach and instead of feeling the sand and feeling the breeze and enjoying the touch of the water, you see them notering to each other. 147 00:30:45,760 --> 00:31:00,760 And reading books and listening to music and they are not allowing themselves to connect with the world that is in which is what they are supposed to do. 148 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:08,760 And to me, this is the ironic thing is that we think that we are extremely sophisticated and evolved. 149 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:14,760 All we have done is that we have made our existence complex. 150 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:24,760 And that's where I have worked and up and changed because I realize that what I should do is detach myself from this complex existence. 151 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,760 I do not suggest that it's possible to do it entirely. You have to survive, you have to pay your bills, you have to do it enough. 152 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,760 But to be aware of it. 153 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,760 So that occasionally you do step out. 154 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:43,760 Step out of that racing train that takes you from waking up to your moment where you go to bed. 155 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:53,760 Step out and allow yourself to be reconnected if only temporarily when you are natural existence. 156 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:58,760 In sitting a garden just like your mind. 157 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:04,760 People say it's meditation. I don't go much from meditation. I don't think you want to shut ourselves completely. 158 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:10,760 There is a world there. There is bird singing. There is plants. There is that's our world. 159 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:23,760 And to connect with it is change me. So in many ways it's not finding more complex things to do that has changed me. 160 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,760 It's actually getting out of this way of living. That has changed me. 161 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,760 And now I look at the world very very differently. 162 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:37,760 When I see people rushing about and I actually feel sorry for them. 163 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:44,760 I feel like saying but get out of this car and go and allow the grass a bit. 164 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:52,760 There is anything else you would like to say. 165 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,760 And the same theme. 166 00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:06,760 Yes. Well, I think finally what one has to say is like my friend Graham Hancock says. 167 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:14,760 Is this it or is there something beyond our life on this planet? 168 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,760 Well, the conclusion is that it's a 50-50. 169 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:23,760 It's either there is or either there is and nobody has come back to confirm it. 170 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:35,760 So with that in mind, I am acutely aware that I've been born. 171 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:39,760 I exist in an extraordinary place. 172 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,760 I mean it's an amazing adventure that we have here. 173 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:58,760 A planet that is a teaming with life and teaming with variety and seize and rivers and mountains and deserts. 174 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:06,760 It's an incredible gift to be not only on this planet but to be alive and healthy. 175 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:20,760 So if you're alive and healthy to enjoy this gift because if you don't that might be the ultimate sin. 176 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:33,760 The ultimate sin is to ignore this gift and focus on the artificial world focus on getting more money or buying another house or getting a new car because that's the sin. 177 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:43,760 There is 13 and a half billion years of evolution to produce this amazing jewel that you are existing in. 178 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:51,760 And if you ignore it you are committed in my view the ultimate sin. 179 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:57,760 So to wake up to it and to enjoy it. 180 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:08,760 Sometimes not to question it, to embrace the mystery as many people say and to be grateful. 181 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,760 I mean I'm grateful every day that I have another day. 182 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:17,760 You know at my age I think in those terms. 183 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:27,760 And every day that comes is the first thing I say, to whoever is up there or whatever is up there is thanks. 184 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:33,760 I'm grateful to be alive. 185 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:45,760 The gift of life is an extraordinary thing and the gift of life in a human existence is the most wonderful thing. 186 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:50,760 To throw it away is the ultimate sin. 187 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:58,760 And those who not only throw it away that they destroy it are committing the ultimate sin. 188 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:11,760 The word sin to become in mind because that's what it's about an extraordinarily gift to be a human existing now being alive on this planet. 189 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:21,760 I don't know if I'm describing it well but this is I remember the phrase in the Hermetic A were the god-tooth says to us, 190 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:28,760 oh what a wonderful thing man is, what an extraordinary thing. 191 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,760 We are extraordinary things. 192 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:43,760 If you don't realize it and be grateful for this gift instead of complaining and worrying about our social structure and what we're going to see on television tonight. 193 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:50,760 Not aware of this gift then whoever is going to judge us will say you've committed the ultimate sin. 194 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,760 You didn't deserve to be a human.