The Defining Story of Our Time

About this video:
There has been an awakening within our collective unconsciousness, a sullen awareness that has been rising along the edges, and that is now slowly bleeding through, expressing itself in our cinema.

Music:
Carrousel - In Her Tomb By The Sounding Sea (slowed)
Bytheway-May - Latent (Morocco) (slowed)
Alaskan Tapes - Another Song to Stop the Spinning (slowed)
The Dandelion War - De Humo (slowed)
Slow Meadow - Palemote (slowed)

[DeltaQmp]

The deafening Burger King ad interrupting you mid sentence only helps highlight your point.

[ScottKnupp-fp]

The hope you are so eloquently describing in this wonderful essay is what Charles Eisenstein calls: "The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible."

[rainonwings]

“It’s not the grail we want, but to journey towards
our longing. We want to find the tomb empty.” -Traci Brimhall, “Sans Terre”

[grandadmiralzaarin]

"The world used to be a bigger place."-Hector Barbosa
""The world's the same size it always was...there's just...less in it."-Jack Sparrow

[BadNessie]

I spent some time in Sweden recently, and had my tiny kayak with me. Paddled around the island in the Baltic see that I stayed on. There was a tiny little island in its south, where there was some shade, so I paddled over there. Just before I made it to the shore, a deer slowly walked out of the shrubs. I stopped moving and let it pass. After it disappeared back into the woods, I turned back. Just felt wrong to interrupt the peace. It just wasn't my place. A few days later I went for a hike on "my" island and could see the small island just across the water. A motorboat was tied to the shore, loud party music blaring from mobile speakers and a boom box. It was that moment when I decided that some things should remain sacred in our world. Sacred not as in connection with any kind of religion or belief, but untouched by humans. I hope that I would have come to the same conclusion as Werner Herzog about the footage of that cave. This video really touched me. So thank you, Tom!

[tylercampbell]

Ah jeez, my soulmate and love of my life tragically passed away from an accident less than two months ago. In the blink of an eye I went from having a life full of love, true acceptance, and belonging with another person and the prospect of spending a lifetime discovering the world with them, to having nothing. The prospect of being a father to children with this person was what transformed my entire mindset, she opened my eyes to what life could be and now she's gone. I didn't expect this video to hit so close to home, but whoo boy this activated the water works hardcore. The search for meaning in life and a reason to keep going after having experienced true love is so devastating-there was not a chance we weren't spending the rest of our lives together-I just dont know how to move forward. She always told me if anything happened I have to keep going, but she saved my life so many times and to have to live the rest of it without her is something that feels so cruel and I really don't know how to live with this feeling in my heart and soul. I miss you Habiba all I want is to be re-united with you no matter how long it takes, i'll love you forever.

Beautiful, , amazing, captivating video. Touching on the very fabric of humanity in a very re way you hardly see on here.

[TriflinTroglodyte-pgqi]

“The truth doesn’t require our participation in order to exist, bullshit does.” - Terrence Mckenna

[systemsandhowtodestroythem]

There’s definitely something cathartic about being a 40-something year old man and having the freedom to shed some tears while enjoying your videos.

[Unbreathless]

So, you feel it too. That trudge towards this inevitable downfall, and the desperate urge to wrap yourself around something, anything, anyone, in order to protect the very essence of what it is to be alive and love.

It’s like an ache. Like we are bleeding. Some of us are thrashing in pain. Others are resigned to our own mortality. And some are struggling with the knowledge and contradiction in our heart; that need to keep going.

I feel it too.

[thisguy]

This was one of your best written scripts. 💙💙

The Painful Art Of Empathy was heartbreaking, almost too painful to get through, yet also beautiful to experience.
This one, however, while having it's own moments of heartbreak, is truly inspirational.

Thank you for the hard work you always put into your videos. ✌

[Splucked]

This one made me cry. I wish that I possessed the eloquence to describe just how deeply I appreciate these penetrating, impeccably written and beautifully delivered essays. Soul food.

[kispankum]

This is the pressing truth of not being able of stepping back behind the innocence of youth

[Nigredos_subjective_Tedtalks]

"No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith."

R.A. Salvatore

This quote from my favorite childhood author has followed me through my years.

[YannickHeym]

The sacred and the unknown aren't lost. You yourself are the greatest unknown. Have you ever truly looked at your hand without thinking about it? Have you ever looked in the mirror without believing in a story about yourself? Have you ever touched a tree or stone or anything else without interpreting what's happening? If you can remain in the silence without force you might find a spark of the sacred, the true unknown, your true nature. Let that spark then guide you back again and again to the great silence. Let the silence consume you.

Thanks again for another masterpiece!
🖤

[teakettle]

I was listening to this while jogging, staring at the ground moving below me, focused on the next few steps. Every so often I would glance up into the distance to experience an illusion most people are probably familiar with. Everything far away seemed to be moving away from me. I won’t try to make a metaphor but it felt distinctly relevant to the message…

[tiberiius]

"Here, 2 hours can be occupied by a lifetime." One of the major things that makes movies so powerful for me too. So much to observe, feel and learn from.

[BatSignalJammer]

Alberto Camus's existentialist thought made me find meaning in a world that just is.. not there because of some grand scheme but it just is and we have to find meaning. He doesn't belittle humans because they're a meaning finding machine in a inherently meaningless world but embraces it

[JoeArant]

I highly recommend reading JRR Tolkiens ‘On Fairy Stories’, and as a follow up, listening to Tim Keller’s talk at Belhaven on the power of stories to provide meaning in a progressively meaningless world.

[dethkon]

“Disenchantment” is the best word for what you’re talking about. It suggests the loss of, well, enchantment; loss of magic, mystification, wonder, awe, and so on. One of the only technics we have available to experience re-enchantment of our life-worlds are the “psychedelic” compounds and rituals.

[armedraptor]

The Gore Verbinski Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is ironically, also a great example of a story about this. At World's End especially. The image of the dead Kraken, Jack and Barbossa's talk there, Beckett's relentless pursuit to paint every corner of the map and drain the world of its magic. The immaterial becoming immaterial.