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“Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the ‘overview effect’ as an experience that has transformed their perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it, and enabled them to perceive it as our shared home, without boundaries between nations or species,” the Planetary Collective explains about its exploration of astronauts’ experience of the ‘overview effect’ in this short film.

Imagine if we were led by people with this kind of awareness.

This is worth the 19 minutes. One of my favorite takeaways is the ancient term Salva Corpus Amanti, which is when “you see things as you see with your eyes but you experience it emotionally and viscerally as with ecstasy and with a sense of total unity and oneness.”

via Upworthy

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