Good morning cyber traders. Happy Tuesday November 12th has everybody doing good to see you Phil Mike Dorsey. Good to see you Ryan Chuck all you good great cyber traders. Welcome back. I Don't know where you are, but it's kind of raining. I heard we're having this big little freeze coming around I always find that bad weather always brings good trading and let me tell you it's I've got a pretty damn big list today So we're gonna have a lot of fun But before we get started everybody and go through the watch list I just want to kind of just go over a couple of upcoming events today is actually a very very big training class that Every single one of you if you're a student or non-student are allowed to come in we have the cyber expo that's coming up I mean the closing bell with trade station and book map. So for some of you, um, you know, we love using the book map And I had trade station You know Very interested in using that platform and we are going to be doing a an exclusive event That's gonna be broadcasted for the first time Anywhere not even on trade station and I do it on Cybertry University How they integrate the book map into the trade the trade station platform and what's also pretty cool Even if you're not a trade station client You could also just use the book map and get their data feed So you don't have to worry about all these, you know, how can I say it? Professional fees, you know, I'm saying, you know where we always everyone's complaining about those So, you know, like I said, let's just keep it as that but but you know That's gonna be this afternoon. So every single one of you make sure you registered for that event and also we have The all great class that we have today, which is a trader's talk So if everybody which is gonna be at 11 o'clock and everyone is invited to that one and then obviously in the bottom You know, we got all the classes that are coming up Hopefully everybody enjoyed phase one. We're gonna continue with phase two starting tomorrow. All right, so What we got going on for this morning the bull Can't go to that yet because I got to go through the watch list of what happened yesterday, right a couple of nice little stocks So some of you guys were not here earlier. Let's start off with the SPWR trade I just want to kind of bring that up that was actually one of the stocks was on the watch list yesterday had a nice little pop early and Which kind of gave it away was the Faustal flag right there right around 9 30 You should have got in right around got out at 9 49 30 if you didn't you could see where it dropped, but that was actually a really nice quick winner Everyone did pretty well on that one PRNX the other one that made our watch list That one was also A little better so that one had a really nice pop early in the morning Fuck 90 to 270 done by 11 o'clock and then sure enough come back here around three and a think tank So early bird gets the worm. That was a nice little early runner right there ETM Another one that was great early bird right there boom 430 right to $5 done at 11 o'clock Listen, I keep telling everybody, you know, this is not a full-time job. Just make your days pay make it early You don't got to make the full dollar You don't got to make the thousand dollars the quarter million if you don't have to just pull 50 cents on that deal. You've been fun The OBS last but not least yesterday Tanked from the run of last week off earnings and you could see that stock just literally just really no mercy That stock literally just kind of $90 stock just really getting killed right here. All right So, let me fix my time frame here and let's go out there and see what's going on this morning All right, what's going on Ken's already up 22 cents On the SL DB. All right, Ken nice way to start the early morning My volume needs to be a little bit louder. All right, hopefully that helps out a little bit long more Tim is that a little better? Okay, all right, so let's go through the watch list got a couple stocks We're gonna go we got going on first of all the AMR and which was early bird gets the worm right around 8 o'clock this morning Fix the time frame here. You can see that thing just really just popped up to 8 30 I mean $17 to $20. I don't know about I know some of you guys already done for the day on that one But AMR and that was a great mover that we did pretty already in pre-market Some of you guys already enjoyed that run, but some of them that are out there that if you missed the pre-market There's a couple of them that popping up out of the out of the blue right now This SNCR the stock tank from 660 down to $4 he's up a little bit She's testing right around resistance levels got some nice orders out here I got a 5,000 chair cell. It's gonna probably hold it right around here around 489 Which looks like kind of tested it and kind of backed off that one looks pretty good right there Lo and e by the way For some of you can't keep up with the writing on the stock symbols Don't worry gonna put it in as an announcement So we got this one right here also lo and e up 10% 22 dollop 22 Thousand shares already traded the chart doesn't look as pretty as I like but you know what for a beginner This might be up your alley by the way Greg just put in the link for the closing bell Just click on that link right there and get registered right guys So we got that link right there for you. All right. What else we got that's moving. We got the loans You've got the AC ST is another one that came on by the radar Cheap little stock had nice support levels right around here a buck 80. She's gapping up. Does she test this resistance levels right around? 220 ish Then it probably back off but that one's doing great SL DB This thing I mean just got destroyed 71% and Still going lower breaking all-time lows not a very good sign for this one which we all know These things sometimes don't ever come back by the way the nxtc I remember that one yesterday That one came back a little bit. That was one of the short squeezes which we made a killing on it You know typical $20 stock goes up to 110 what we do here, right? Well had to go up so high short squeeze But she did make a little bit of a comeback yesterday You could see it. She did come back a little bit So but I'm gonna put that on a watch list too. You never know sometimes these things do make a little bit of a comeback But it got resistance levels right here All right, what else we got going on here. We missed the DRR axe But right I did him wrong that one I know what happened with this one. This one just did a nasty shake And you could see it just one from $2 and 30 down a buck 40 back to a buck 70 So I don't know somebody came in there just try to shitload of shares of that thing I think just kind of like just went all over the place But love the volatility on that one want to keep an eye on it see on the open Another one that had a nice little gap up after hours of 24% KM or MN Now this one's nice because got a lot of volume the nice level one stock the only thing is kind of flat You know what rich I saw the brew You know the bruise of buyout the bruise of buyout so forget about that one And it's why it's not even on the list up 121% you could see from yesterday Somebody came out with news and that's why it's where it is. Okay, so forget don't even go there Se's another one that I found this one looks a little bit nicer a little bit more of a faster moving stock It's in a level three category, you know, you gotta be a little more advanced trader But it's breaking a higher highs nice little trend right there EGSE another one that came up on the radar 11% 88,000 shares Testing breaking a higher high got great volume great orders nice spread I think this could be good for a beginner trader to to make some a little bit of run-up right there I got two more right here at big list This one a little bit nicer up that 31% 31 bucks if it breaks and fills in the gap You can see the stock really took a nasty nasty hit made a really nice move After hours yesterday, and she is breaking a higher high from yesterday This one I like this one a little bit better than all of them But once again, not everyone's really qualified to trade all these stocks and I think that was it I think a DPLO I put in there. I think that was one more to another one. I got crushed down 45% Another pharmaceutical stock we tell you they don't come back these things So that pretty much does the brand name stocks I mean there are a couple of the stocks that are moving obviously everybody heard about Uber You know the CEO sold it a shitload of his shares one of the reasons why they come back I told you this is gonna happen when this company went public. I don't know if you guys remember You know Ben just put all everything that what's on the Benzinga, which you know that You know we use that as our data feed a lot of brand name stocks out there I know I saw the ROK Then a Rockwell automotive only issue is things just took off up huge But you know not trading a $200 stock, but yes, that was a really really nice move also a lot a nice little moving stock So there is a list out there of just Everybody should be in something okay, and if you don't do a trade today You better punish yourself and buy something just so you get into it You don't remember I always tell everybody this Our job here Cybertrain University is not to teach you how to make money It's how to teach how to stop losing it and you know, everyone's got these great formulas and you know crystal bowl Indicators stuff, but you know what if you don't know how to hit the button and buy the stock You're never gonna learn how to trade so listen a lot of good stocks at a trade a lot to share a lot to go around It is hump day this Tuesday So let's go out there and listen to everyone sure they made money this morning and you know in the AMRN So if you made your money on that one, you should pretty much be done right now for today AMRN. All right, so there's your watch list guys Spelt wrong There we go that pretty much does it for today and We'll be back once again at 11. We are gonna be doing Traders traders talk with Josh Which is one of the very most popular classes that we have here at Cybertrain University You all invited and don't forget every single one of you big big announcement the the integration of level four into trade station first of its kind and I think it's gonna be exciting when everyone should be in there Well, everybody knows so don't miss that event. All right guys go listen. Good luck today. Happy trading and remember make your money Turn the computer off and we'll see you back in class. All right Remember it's not a full-time job. Good. Look everyone happy trading


Breaking news and a huge step forward in AFER's case to overturn Prop 8. I'm Matt Baume at the American Foundation for Equal Rights and today we received confirmation that we will be arguing our case before the Supreme Court of the United States. This is the culmination of AFER's work, the opportunity to defend our two prior victories before the highest court in the country. Now it all comes down to the fundamental American freedom of equal protection, which requires that committed gay and lesbian couples be allowed the freedom to marry. AFER's already won this case, twice. Both the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Not only that, but the Supreme Court of the United States has itself ruled on 14 separate cases that marriage is a fundamental right. Now we can prove to the court that withholding rights from gay and lesbian Americans and their children is clearly harmful and irrational. The next step will be submitting briefs and presenting oral arguments before the court. Then they'll rule on our case no later than the end of June. So by next summer, we'll have a definitive ruling on the constitutionality of Prop 8. Visit AFER.org to learn more and to find out how you can help support the case. At the American Foundation for Equal Rights, I'm Matt Baume. Thanks for watching.


Hey everybody, this is Brian. If you're following along, this is video 17 in our HTML tutorial. Today we're going to be discussing styles with forms. A lot of people get confused and think that forms are an entity in themselves, but really you should stylize the content inside of a form. For example, you can see that I'm starting to, if I could type, create a table inside of a form. Now what this does is allows me to split the information in a manner that the user will be able to read and understand what they're supposed to do. For example, we will just simply copy from another page here. I'm cheating for the sake of time. We will just paste a field in here or an input called first name and then we will create a label for this. Get rid of that and that's our first row. We will create another row with last name. Whoops. Made some redundant work for myself, didn't I? And you're gonna want to do some minor stylizing. Save your work, flip over your web page, refresh, and you can see now you can put like a label, first name, and label last name. That way the user can specifically see what you're trying to get them to fill in. That's pretty typical. That's how the majority of the web pages in the world are really built. It would be helpful if we put a submit button in there. Now remember the submit always goes before the end of the form. One thing that we haven't talked about yet is the text area. The text area is just a big text box. Typically, this is where you want the user to enter a lot of information. So we're gonna go ahead and just paste one in here and you can see it's just, it's the start tag, text area. Give it a name. You're also going to give it the number of rows to display and the number of columns. Remember rows go across, columns go up and down, and then the value or text that you want to display. And then give it an intag of text area. We'll break that up so it's a little easier for you to understand.  And let's put a couple more hard returns between that and the submit button. Now what you can see, we have a table which contains our first name and last name plus some text to explaining what we're supposed to do, and we have this very big text box that we can now type in. And it comes complete with a scroll bar. There's our ever-faithful submit button. I hope you found this tutorial educational and entertaining. Unless I get a lot of demand for HTML tutorials, we're going to be moving on to visual basic in the next few tutorials. So stick around if you have any questions or comments drop me a line. Thanks.


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Yes, I get Like everywhere, I guess, you know, hey emotional support animals, I guess She's a huge delay Serial Okay, well apparently all we can make is cereal and tuna casserole We don't like spices Right spices and mayonnaise you guys use too much mayonnaise like mayonnaise. I do like Because I'm sorry, but I love Okay, so they got it on mayonnaise they got us on mayonnaise big Black people don't like mayonnaise and black women in the South could not live without it. I sure right. This is true That's true. What exactly a white people's superior smelling funky Santa Claus. It's good. What? Do you know it? What smelling funky?   I've heard those far. I'm like really Corn mazes white people are great at having fun. That's a function of white supremacy What? What is going on? What is this so what first of all? What is this man wearing on his face and second of all did he just say that having fun as a function of white supremacy? Yeah, he did their privilege in utilizing it.  What exactly are white people superior at? Not getting arrested. We always driving down the street with all right. All right. I got to stop again not getting arrested Guys, I've told the story before I got arrested a falsely for and it was wrongly accused of robbing an Arby's I'm white. It didn't save me.  I Like what is happening?    I'm gonna bring in I want to bring in my discord, but they better like All right guys. I want to bring you in don't all talk at once, please Are you guys do you guys see this? so apparently white people are superior at insecurity and We're a superior blaming people and we're fearful like It's like that's so judgmental. It's it's it's it's very hypocritical. Oh Yeah, I mean it's Here and again my problem is that I mean this whole video is just pure frickin racism like Like what I would take it out the ass, right?  Because it was built by black people or Chicago because it was built by white people and she didn't realize She posted the two pictures.    I'm not colorless. Are you guys colorless? No, I got I got tons of heritage going back into the Native Americans, man There you go, and we do have a Native American here. What do you think about all this? It's discourage is discouraging to see like people acting this way.   Yeah, you're not committed I mean that and I hate to say but that's really what they're pushing now is this idea that to prove how much you hate Yeah, you've got to avoid other white people, which is just the whole white Catching on the whole white like My issue with that is The elites don't practice that at all that that's only something that I see on Middle-class to lower class level. Yep. If you go. Oh, yeah Neighborhoods or whatever not talking about Brian worse. What's his name?  What exactly are white people superior at oppression gaslighting lack of empathy Intellectualizing oppression. Did I say oppression they're just creatively thinking of new ways of like always staying one step ahead of other People that black lady who said oppression was very white by the way Well, if you get a rid of slave catchers, let's just expand the police force like that stuff to me is wild What exactly are white people superior at making us believe that we don't matter believing that they're superior feeling superior Thinking they're superior thinking that they're superior. I I I just get this real feeling that they're just projecting their own like stereotypes and hatred on to us like I Don't I've never thought that I've never thought that once in my life. I mean The human race has been guilty of tons of atrocity not one Related race religion or creed has not been guilty of something one way Disgusting disturbing thing Yeah, you the one the one constant This is one thing I always talk about the one constant throughout human history is man's inhumanity to man And you cannot be like oh, we're gonna pin this all on one race whether you are Republican whether different whether conservative like white People are really good at upholding white supremacy. How about claiming that?  What like I don't even know how to unpack all that Like I'm from her so then what are we even talking about that means we're brother and sister.  So what exactly are white people? Honey lion stealing and cheating manipulation with lion stealing and cheating. That's what white people are superior at lion stealing and cheating. I Mean, I can't even imagine what would happen if I made a video where I Got on camera and said that black people were superior at lion stealing and cheating and they were all dicks Like that video would not last and I'm only saying that hypothetically by the way holding information lying till and last The lies of history they say that history was written by Victor But the Victor could be replaced by the colonizer. What are white people?


Mr. Frank Sinatra, Mr. Elia Kazan, Mr. Virgil Thompson. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Please be seated and good evening again. I'm very pleased to welcome you all to the White House, the home that belongs to all of us. President Kennedy once said that he looked forward to an America, not afraid of grace and beauty. An America respected throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. With today, we join the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in honoring five Americans who have taught us a great deal about grace and beauty. Five who have helped build a distinctive American civilization. Even as a little girl, Catherine Dunham loved to dance. When only eight, she created a neighborhood controversy by staging a cabaret to raise money for her church. At the University of Chicago, she founded her own dance troupe and discovered anthropology, a discipline that enabled her to study the dance of many cultures. In the decades since, Ms. Dunham has become a noted anthropologist, an author, a great choreographer, and a role model for an entire generation of dancers. Her studies have taken her to Brazil, the Caribbean, and Africa. I understand that in one Caribbean city, her startled host began to worry when she disappeared into the bush to study voodoo. But they calmed down when she gave them a concert and danced to the music of Debussy. In professional dance, Ms. Dunham became known for presenting black dances in their original context. She's renowned for the work with her company of dancers, singers, and musicians for her schools in New York, which have trained hundreds, and for her choreography of shows and films such as The Emperor of Jones, Cabin in the Sky, and Stormy Weather. Today, thanks in large measure to you, Ms. Dunham, we not only have dance in America, we have American dance, and all the world loves you for it. Virgil Thompson grew up in Kansas City but left America for Paris, where he lived until World War II. He decided that if he was going to starve as a composer, then in his words he, quote, preferred to starve where the food is good. He's composed symphonies, operas, motion picture scores, church music, over a hundred musical portraits, incidental music for theatrical productions, concertos, piano, sonatas, songs with English, French, Spanish, and Latin texts, and much more. His music reflects his love of European culture, but again and again it's unmistakably American. He wrote The Sane at Night in tribute to Paris, but he also wrote wheat field at noon in tribute to Missouri. Music critic for the New York Herald Tribune during the 40s and early 50s, Mr. Thompson has written eight books on music and has received the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, A Virgil Thompson Reader, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1982. No one has labored longer with greater integrity and determination or with more success to promote the cause of American music than this gentleman, Virgil Thompson. Ilya Kazan left Turkey for America with his family when he was four. He went to Williams College, majored in English, and said his only ambition was, quote, to stay out of my father's business. Well, Ilya, you succeeded. In your senior year, you turned to drama. And in the more than half century since, you've made millions of us mighty grateful that you did. Ilya has directed Death of a Salesman, J.B. and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He co-founded the actor's studio that trained Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, James Dean, and hundreds of others, and served as co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center. And he's pushed forward cinematic technique with the freely moving style of panic on the streets, the focus on brilliant individual performances in streetcar named Desire, and the realism of On the Waterfront. More recently, he's adapted two of his own novels for the screen, America, America, and The Arrangement. Ilya, with your boundless energy, your great talent and love of life, you have lifted American drama to a peak of excellence that inspires us all. And we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Now, the last two artists that we're honoring tonight are special friends of Nancy's and mine, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart. Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and started to like music when his uncle gave him a ukulele. And one day in 1936, he went to a Jersey City Voodville House to see Bing Crosby. After the show, Frank suddenly announced that he was becoming a singer. In 1937, his group, The Hoboken Four, won first prize on Major Bo's original amateur hour. And for the next year and a half, he sang at the Rusty Cabin, a North Jersey Roadhouse, for $15 a week. Let me repeat that. For a year and a half, Frank Sinatra worked for $15 a week. But it paid off. He got a $10 a week raise. After working with Harry James, Frank joined the Tommy Dorsey Band and started to develop a distinctive song style, long phrases and glissandi. That's technical talk for crooning. Today, Frank Sinatra has recorded more hits than just about anybody else. Hits like Night and Day, that old black magic, Strangers in the Night, New York, New York, and so many more. Through the years, Frank's been in a movie or two. It happened in Brooklyn, on the town. His Oscar-winning role in From Here to Eternity. And Frank got a chance to sing with his old hero, Bing Crosby, in one of the most enjoyable movies ever made, High Society. You know, Frank, if they'd only given me roles like that, I never would have left Hollywood. Except for the musical numbers that had to get you to dub the voice in.  You've given millions of us fond memories, immeasurable joy, and one other thing, Frank, you did it your way. James Stewart grew up in a town called Indiana, Pennsylvania. At Princeton, he acted in musicals, and after graduation, got a part in a summer production of Goodbye Again in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He played the chauffeur, spent three minutes on stage, and spoke exactly two lines. But he packed those lines with so much humor that he was noticed by visiting New York critics. In 1932, he went to New York, stayed for two and a half years, and appeared in eight plays. Jimmy was a fine stage actor, but there was a medium on the west coast he wanted to try. So in 1935, he took a train to Hollywood. During his first five years there, Jimmy made 24 movies. They included a classic of American film, The Philadelphia Story, and a movie about an idealistic senator that I wish everyone in this town would study, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. During World War II, Jimmy interrupted his career. After winning his wings in the Army Air Corps, he spent a year instructing cadets and then went to Europe, where he flew 25 missions over enemy territory. And if he looks like a patriot on the screen, that's because he is Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart of the Air Force Reserve. The war over, Jimmy plunged back into his work, and his credits now include more than 80 pictures. He's worked with all the greats, directors like Capron Hitchcock and actresses like Hepburn and actors like Henry Fonda and Clark Gable and Kerry Grant. He's fought row-hide outlaws in the far country, led pioneers in Bend of the River, flown the Atlantic in the spirit of St. Louis, and held long conversations with an invisible giant rabbit as the unforgettable L. Woodpeed Dowd in Harvey. We think of the Stewart character as open, kind, and honest, just like the boy next door. And Nancy and I and his friends can tell you that that's not just some screen character. That's the real Jimmy Stewart. You know, there's a story I have to tell when Jack Warner, head of Warner Brothers, first heard that I was running for governor of California. He said, no, no. Jimmy Stewart for governor, Reagan for best friend. But Jimmy, you once said, the great thing about the movies is you're giving people little tiny pieces of time that they never forget. Well, no one has given our nation more of those cherished moments than you have, my friend. Henry James, the American novelist, once wrote, art is the shadow of humanity. These five people have spent their lives casting those magnificent and powerful shadows. In dance, drama, and music, they've taught us what it means to be human. By drawing on and adding to the openness, verb, and color of life in our country, they've taught us what it means to be American. Catherine Dunham, Virgil Thompson, Leah Kazan, Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy Stewart on behalf of every American. Thank you and God bless you all.


I have not ridden a motorcycle for more than thirty years. Right. Thirty thousand kilometers after thirty years. Soil is the largest living system. This is a kind of a murder of life. That I liked when you used the word that of murder. People are saying war on climate change. Right. Climate change is bad enough. We don't need a war on top of it. Namaskaram, good morning, Ginger. Hello, how are you? Very well, thank you. How are you doing? I am fine. I am well. What time it is there? I am just saying good morning to you. Do you know what is so great about that? Is I work early mornings. So, no matter if I am on the evening shows or it doesn't, I always say good morning. So, you are right. It's really an honor to speak with you. So, I am here in Jordan. Just got here some time ago. I am sorry, where did you end up? I am here in Jordan in a Kaba. So, it's riding through the desert has been a tough ride.  Have you always been a person that likes to be on the move or is this truly just making sure that you get the message around? Or are you kind of a person who enjoys getting around? No, no. This is to get the message around. I have not ridden a motorcycle for more than 30 years. It's only now I am riding again. Last two years I am riding a bit. So, the 30 years, you figured you skipped 30 years, now 30 kilometers. 30,000. Yeah, 30,000. 30,000 kilometers after 30 years. So, let's just begin with the very simple part of what this journey is about and what saved the soil is about. Because our soil is not well. Yes, when you say not well, I am glad you are saying that. When you say not well, it's almost like a reference to your human being. I am not well means something is not good with me. So, soil is not well means you are recognizing that it's a living entity because soil is the largest living system, not just upon this planet, but in the known universe, it is the largest living system. There is no such magical material like topsoil on this planet anywhere in the known universe. And 87% of the life that you see around you, whether it's a worm, insect, bird, tree, man, woman, everybody comes from the soil. So, such a magical material, unfortunately in the last 70 to 100 years time, 52% of this topsoil is gone. We have destroyed it or degraded it to a point where it could be nearly useless. Above all, this is a kind of a murder of life. We are murdering the foundations of life, not realizing who we are today is a consequence of the soil or the organisms in the soil. A handful of soil has 8 to 10 billion organisms. These zillions of organisms is what manufactures life on this planet. Even in terms of evolutionary development of who we are, we are a consequence of this soil. If you give me a minute, I will put this into context. See, nearly a billion years ago before this phenomena called photosynthesis started, what photosynthesis means is plant life learned how to cook their food by using perpetual energy of the sun. Before that started, the atmospheric oxygen on this planet was approximately a little over one percent, a shade over one percent. That's all it was. Today it is 21%. That's why all of us are alive. We know that if we hold our nose, we cannot live. If we don't breathe, we cannot exist. So, photosynthesis has been the basis of enhancement of oxygen and that is the basis of all the complex life on this planet. There are many other aspects to it, but this is one key element. But in the last thousand years, we've brought down the photosynthesis on the planet by 85%. 85% drop in photosynthesis. What's our plan for life? It's really ridiculous. So, yes, please. I was going to say that I liked when you used the word that of murder, you know, to murder the soil because I always, I typically use the word bastardized, but murder is more correct because sometimes you cannot bring it back or there isn't an easy way to bring it back. But there actually is, right? It's like we're murdering it and then we had a chance to revive it and we haven't done that yet. Yes. So, right now we are in a cusp of time. As a generation, we are facing a great challenge. At the same time, we have this privilege that if we act now, we could be that generation which turned back from the brink of a disaster. Or we can sleep through this time and walk into the disaster which we may not be able to walk out of. Why I'm saying this is, according to NFAO, 27,000 species of organisms are going extinct per year. At this rate, in another somewhere between 25 to 40 years time, we will reach a place where even if we want to regenerate the soil, we will not be able to do it. It will become extremely hard or it will become impossible. So, right now we are in a cusp of time. If we act in 10 to 15 years time, we can make a significant turn around. This is why the urgency. And the urgency is different, I think. First of all, the timeframe is small, reading about and the regionality of it for someone here in the US, Chicago. I know that was one of the statistics that I was reading about or parts of Illinois having desertification to the point where we wouldn't have food source. By 2035, it's expected Illinois will go into famine kind of situations. You will not be able to grow much in that place. So, Illinois is one of the seriously threatened areas. Indiana and Ohio are not far behind. They are right there. See, what we need to look at is, across the world, across the world, there is not a single nation which has an average minimum 3% organic content in the soil. Individual plots may have, but average is like this. Northern Europe is 1.48, which is the highest in the world. Southern Europe is 1.1%. India is 0.68%. Africa is 0.3%. And that is almost near desert. United States is around 1.25 to 1.3%. Most of the South American nations are also suffering this because of forested land, the average is working out reasonably well. But otherwise, if you just take the agricultural land, South America also as a continent is pretty bad. So, not a single nation has a minimum organic content needed. So, this is a global crisis. This is not one nation. This is also one thing everybody should understand. When it comes to soil, when it comes to soil organic content or soil ecology, our national boundaries mean nothing because organisms thrive as one whole life system. It is not, it is in human minds that this is my piece of land, that is your piece of land. We've cut the planet as if it's a cake, that you can have one piece and I can have another piece. For administrative purposes, yes, we may divide the world. But if we believe these divisions are absolute, then how much damage we have caused to each other, how many wars we have fought in the name of nationality, race and religion, because constantly we are looking at what is the difference between you and me. I'm only scared, we will not start a gender war. It should not come because even that we're talking as if we're separate species. And every point difference, we are enhancing the points of difference. It is very important at a time like this when humanity is so empowered and so capable we find points which are common to us, a common ground, a common factor among ourselves. If we do not understand what is that all unifying cosmic consciousness, at least we must understand all of us come from the same soil. We are thriving on the same soil. When we die, we go back to the same soil. When the soil is stripped, the food is stripped. Our content of our food on top of not being able to potentially grow food, but the actual content of the food has changed, right? The micronutrient levels in the United States from early 20th century to now has dropped nearly 90%. So as I've been speaking about this, the statistics show that in 1920, if you ate one orange, what nutrients you were getting from that, if you want to get the same thing today in 2022, you need to eat eight oranges. Have you on any day eaten eight oranges? No, no. I wouldn't be able to do that. The fiber alone and the water content probably couldn't fit. And then the water, we should talk about water because that is something that people do understand and see happening quickly and can comprehend that desertification, water use, when you have soil that is stripped, it takes more water, correct? See, right now nearly 67% of the world's freshwater is used for agriculture. In India, 84% of the freshwater is used for agriculture, but we have demonstrated this clearly in our, with our farmers, where about 130,000 farmers we have converted into regenerative agriculture, which we call as tree-based agriculture. Here, if you raise the organic content to 8% to 10%, your irrigation requirement will come down to 30% of what it is right now. If you're using 100 liters of water, it will come down to 30 liters. This is very, very important. I'm glad that you raised that question because it is estimated by 2032, 3.5 billion people will be water stressed on the planet and this will be a major cause of migration and it is expected between 2032 to 2035, 1.2 billion people will migrate, unplanned forced migrations. Unplanned forced migrations cause enormous suffering to people, especially women and children take the brunt of that suffering, the brunt of that exploitation that happens out of that unplanned and forced migrations is mainly taken by the woman and then the children. So it's extremely important that people stay back where they belong and if enough food is growing there, if the soil is rich and the water content in the soil is rich, if the humidity is high in the soil and the humus is high in the soil, people will stay there if food is growing. Right now, when lands have become like desert, when there is no hope of finding food, naturally they move somewhere.  Then I moved to a city and got to see how most people live and now I'm back outside of the city and my children were composting, but I do realize that my individual action means nothing compared to a vote or a vote for with my dollar. I mean at the end of it, people who are living in these cities that you are going around and speaking to, what do you tell them to do? Because we have to have societal change and policy to make this happen. It is agriculture, number one. 70% of the world's land are agriculture lands. So the problem is there to provide food for 8 billion people is not going to happen out of any rich kitchen garden. Definitely, you're growing a little bit of your own food is a wonderful thing to do, no question about that, but that's not a solution. Solution will happen only when it is entrained in the policy. What should be the quality of the soil that you do? Because we are focusing on agricultural soil because it's fashionable to talk about rainforest. See, rainforest doesn't need you. If you keep out of it, it'll be fine. It's as simple as that. But agricultural land is part of our food system. It is a part of our economic system and this is the only piece of geography which is tended to by human hand every day. Men and women are working on this every day. If you can't fix that, how will you fix the rainforest or the ocean or something else? This is a place where every day human hand is on it. This is what we need to fix and because this is also connected to our nourishment and economic well-being of any nation. So how do I do it? I vote for people who will make soil a priority, I assume, but it feels very okay. I'll talk about it. I love it. This is important to me. It's purchasing, the purchase power, voting with your dollar of who's doing it right or shopping from people who are doing it right. But what can someone do coming away from this right now? See, as a citizen of a democratic nation, there are things that we need to understand. Suppose you were the president of your country and you are given a four-year mandate, tell me, would you take up something which will take 15, 20 years to yield results or would you try to do things which will bear fruit in four years or five years or something? Naturally, it is so. This is the case with every country. Political leadership is aiming to do something within the mandate period. They won't think too far off because in every country, resources are scarce. Once you do something long-term, short-term things will suffer and unfortunately, the citizenry in the world have been so short-term-ish that if some leader comes and thinks long-term, next time he's always voted out. This has been the case. So this is what I'm trying to change. Three to four billion adults means nearly 60% of the voting population on the planet should express their concern about soil, about long-term well-being of our nations, long-term well-being of our children, future well-being of future generations. We must express this. So this is the first time something like this is possible because now you are on the television, there are people on social media, this is the first time you can sit in your chair and talk to the whole world. Never before in the history of humanity such a thing was possible. When we have these capabilities, when we have these technologies and platforms to do this, if we don't do it now, if we do not manifest what we want in this world now, it simply shows that we don't care enough. So I thought before, I've been talking about this for the last 30 years, everybody claps their hands and says, Sathaguru, what you're doing is fantastic, wonderful work and they go to sleep. So I thought I need to do something to wake up everybody at the age of 65, 30,000 kilometers, he's not enjoying that.  Now they're sitting up, I wanted three to four billion, it is only day 45 and approximately from the numbers that I'm getting, we could have instigated or inspired nearly 1.2 to 1.3 billion people talking about soil and almost every other government has started talking about soil. In COP 15, the main theme is soil this time, not just that. In the World Economic Forum, we've got soil meetings going on. In the Economic Forum, soil was impossible, but this time there is space for soil in the Economic Forum. The narrative is changing. This is how human beings work. First, we need to think differently, then we need to feel for it, then we need to make systems for it, and then action. We must be patient enough to make that happen. Now we replaced microorganisms and the basis of what biodiversity on a farm was with machine and chemical. Is it wrong of me to think that we're also going to have to, after we think and then start taking action, fight a bit against an entity that has very, very big stakes in their companies making money off of the way that we do agriculture right now? See, if you fight, they will fight back. This is the nature of human beings, especially when their commercial interests are involved. But instead of that, if you give them incentives to transform their businesses, they will transform their businesses. There is no need to beat down any business. If some businesses are not suitable for our times, we must transform the business. Transformation will not come easy. It costs money. It takes time. Give them the time and the money. They will transform themselves. Why will they not do it? So first thing is, give the incentive to the farmer. The thing that I'm saying right now is there are many nations and like for example, European Union has worked out a very comprehensive plan for their common agricultural policy. I've been looking at that. What I see is, it is too complex ever to become a full-fledged reality because too many things are involved. Like you said, people are thinking about fertilizer, reduce the fertilizer, reduce the pesticide. For such people who are sitting in urban centers and thinking of organic farming and disforming, let me put it into context. If we take away all fertilizer and pesticide today from the world, our food production could come down to 25% of what it is right now. That will be a mega disaster that we can't fix. We cannot afford that. So how to reduce this? If you enhance the organic content, the use of fertilizer will start sliding down naturally. See, fertilizers cost a certain amount of money. Why would any farmer use a fertilizer that is not needed on his farm? He will naturally start reducing. But I'm never telling them, don't use it because from field to field, the soil is different. Different soils may need different amount of chemical additions, whatever. But if the soil is rich, the need for chemical will start coming down. This is the way to go. It is very important that we don't start a fight. There are enough fights going on in the world because when we say climate change, people are saying war on climate change. Climate change is bad enough. We don't need a war on top of it. People are angry on the streets and shouting. If you're getting angry, obviously you're causing global warming. Well, I like that. I like to think of an incentive does make sense to incentivize, to reduce tilling. There are so many things that you could make incentive, but that's also going to have to come from policy. It has to come from policy. See, if let us say you have a certain piece of land and I have my land, both of us are keeping our land really wonderful. What is the guarantee the next generation will keep it wow? Unless it's in the policy. The simple thing I'm saying is this, if you have 10,000 square feet of land in your city, you cannot build 10,000 square feet of building. There is a law. You can build 6-7,000. You have to allow some space for yourself, your neighbor, something. But if you have 100 acres of land, you can plow every inch of it, turn it into a desert in 10 years time. There is no law. Nobody will ask you why you did this. I'm saying if you own agricultural land, you must keep the organic content at the minimum level, which is 3% because soil is not our property. Soil is a legacy that's come to us from previous generations. Passing it on as living soil is most important and a fundamental responsibility that we owe to future generations. But today some generations are calling themselves Generation Z that scares me. It sounds like the last generation. Thank you so much for this. Let's make it happen. Then we must make this happen. You're in the media. You must raise the pitch because right now, as a citizen of a democratic country, our voice is the most valuable thing. We must voice our concern, not in anger, not in resentment. This is an expression of our love and responsibility for the life that we are and the life that is around us and the future life that must be on this planet beyond us. Thank you very much. Thank you. I think that this soil is the one that could get us through because I was saying to your colleagues. This is an infine factor also for us. And I've seen it and even across our party, the stories I've told, I went to what I would call a soil sermon about six years ago in Texas at a cattle ranch. And that really opened me into the world of seeing and these were from folks who would not usually be in a story that I was doing about environment and climate change. And it was a really beautiful moment. I think soil is maybe one of those topics and obviously incredibly important, but perhaps one that does unify. In this 45 days right across Europe, everywhere people's response has been nothing short of spectacular, spectacular response. And most agricultural ministries and others and 11 of these governments have signed MOUs with us. That means the narrative is shifting within the agriculture ministries and above all, they're beginning to recognize soil as a living entity, which is the most important thing. So we are moving in that way, but we must understand something of this scale will not change overnight. We must keep the throttle on till it is done. Please be with me and let's make this happen. Thank you. Stay safe on the road, enjoy the rest of the process. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Hello, hello, writers! I'm Kristen Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources, and you are listening to the Well-Sturried podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life, always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course! Ready for the show? Let's get talking! Hello again, writers! Come on in! Today we are tackling how to craft compelling character backstories. And in fact, we are going to tackle this topic of backstories from two different angles. First, we are going to talk about the tricky process of crafting years worth of history for your characters, and really we're going to break down how to make this process as simple as possible if you're a writer who's overwhelmed by the idea of crafting backstory. Then we're also going to talk about how you can weave backstory into your novel and really translate it onto the page. So this is especially helpful for writers who love crafting backstory, but really don't know how to get that onto the page, as well as for anyone who's just struggling with the entire concept of backstory in the first place. To be specific, in this episode I'm going to share 10 questions you can ask to craft your character's backstory and really get to the vital parts of their history that are going to have the biggest effect on the present story you're trying to tell. I will also share with you four tips for how to weave backstory into your novel and the three narrative elements you can use to do that weaving and get your backstory onto the page in a way that feels natural and immersive. But before we dive in, a quick behind-the-scenes update at what's happening at Well-Storied. Two very exciting things to share this week. First up, Monday was the deadline for my beta reader feedback for Build Your Best Writing Life, my upcoming book for writers. So all of my feedback is now in and this week I've been taking the time to work through all of that feedback and make a plan for how I will apply it to the third draft of Build Your Best Writing Life this July. So the feedback has been phenomenal. I am so overwhelmed and so blown away by the positive response to this book and I'm also very grateful that the few main suggestions that have come in have been made by a majority of beta readers which gives me a clear plan for what I need to change in this third draft. There have also been some critiques that have been more personal to specific beta readers and many of those I will be applying to the book as well because I agreed with them. So it's really been a great first beta reader experience for me. I have certainly received feedback on different projects before but never on this scale and never directly from beta readers in particular so this was my first time working with them and I couldn't be more overwhelmed and grateful for how the process has gone. So like I said this July I will be rewriting and revising the third draft of Build Your Best Writing Life and then come August this is where my second piece of exciting news comes into play. I can officially now announce that I will be working with Sarah Latterno of Heart of the Story Editorial on a line edit for this project come August. So that will be about a five week process actually it will will move into September as well but the more important thing is how thrilled I am to be working with Sarah. I have known Sarah as a friend and a fellow writer for several years now via the internet but Sarah had recently kicked off her own editorial business when I first announced back in January that I was going to be working on this project and so right away she sent me an email and said hey I don't know if you'll be looking for an editor somewhere down the line but I just want to let you know that I'm available and this is what I do at my new business and so Sarah and I had been in contact over the several months that it took me to draft and complete the first revision on this project and finally when I got around to looking for line editors Sarah was one of the people that I sent a sample edit to and her sample edit was phenomenal truly just so attentive so detailed all without losing my voice in the process I was in love with the edits that she did in the sample pages that I sent her and I am so very very excited to share that I will be working with her. If you would like to check out Sarah's work make sure to head on over to her website at heartofthestoryeditorial.com I'll leave that link for you in today's episode description as well. In other exciting news this week there is a brand new guest post on the Well Story blog that I am very thrilled to share with you all. This guest post comes from Brook Door and it is called How New Writers Can Conquer Six Common Creative Struggles. So if you are new to this writing life and you are struggling to find your creative footing this is the article that you want to pick up and read this week. You can find Brook's article at well-storyed.com slash newwriters. If you would like to submit your own article to the Well Story blog you can find our Well Storyed guest post submission guidelines at www.well-storyed.com slash guest. I would absolutely love to take a look at your work and possibly even host it on the blog. Before we dive in I would also love to give a quick social shout out to Alana Bolz who shared with me recently on Twitter just how much she was enjoying the podcast. She wrote, I just wanted to tell you how helpful your podcast has been to me. Like many writers I'm pretty much all self-taught so I'm always looking for ways to improve both my stories and my writing life. Thank you. Thank you Alana. I'm always blown away to know that the work that I create here both on the podcast and at Well Storyed is proving a help and is helping people grow and learn and live their best writing lives. So it always means a lot to me to receive comments like this and I really really appreciate it. So thank you once again. All right today's episode of the podcast translates the latest article from the Well Story blog into audio titled how to craft compelling character backstories. You can find the article that also serves as the episode transcript at www.well-storyed.com slash backstory. Now let's dive in. How to craft compelling character backstories. Part of crafting characters involves exploring their history. Just as your lived experiences have shaped the person you are today, a character's backstory has the power to provide depth and understanding to their characterization. It can even lend context to the conflicts taking place in your present story. Without that history, your characters' attitudes and actions have little foundation on which to stand. But crafting a rich and compelling character backstory is far from simple. What elements should you consider when weaving your character's history? Better yet, how do you translate that history onto the page without bogging down your story? Let's answer both of these questions and more in today's episode. Understanding the vital importance of backstory. Backstory consists of the series of past experiences that mark a character's life, giving that character a sense of history. It can also deepen readers' understanding of the character, highlighting the causes of their attitudes and beliefs, explaining their present day actions and motivations, and lending context to the inner and outer conflicts in which they're involved. Crafting rich and compelling backstories can be a world of fun for some writers, but others find themselves overwhelmed by the amount of detail seemingly involved in crafting years worth of history. If you're one such fighter, have no fear. There's no need to detail every last moment in your character's history. Instead, here are 10 key questions to ask about your character. 1. What circumstances defined my character's upbringing and early adulthood? 2. How was my character raised to act and believe? Did they accept or rebel against their upbringing? 3. What three relationships, healthy or unhealthy, have had the biggest impact on my character? 4. What are three of my character's happiest memories? 5. What are three of my character's most upsetting memories? 6. When did my character first experience grief? 7. What memories would my character most like to forget? 8. What memories would my character most like to relive? 9. What lessons has my character learned from memorable events in their past? 10. In what way has each of these events impacted the person my character is when their story begins? You can find all of these questions written down in today's episode transcript at well-storied.com slash backstory. How to weave backstory into your narrative? Backstory can be tricky to reveal on the page. If you share too little, your character may feel one-dimensional. If you share too much, you run the risk of boring readers or breaking up the pacing of a scene. And if you share without finesse, backstory can feel contrived, a sure hallmark of lazy or underdeveloped writing. To seamlessly weave a character's backstory into your narrative, consider the following tips. 1. Share backstory with purpose You may love knowing every last detail of your character's history, but that doesn't mean those details should show up on the page. Remember, readers didn't pick up your book to consume your character's biography. They're looking for a story that feels immediate and engaging. And backstory is of the past. When writing or revising, consider the purpose in any backstory you share. Does it fulfill one of the purposes we discussed a moment ago? If not, consider cutting that backstory from your manuscript. If readers no longer have the context they need to understand your story, you'll know the backstory served a purpose. 2. Stagger backstory throughout your novel Readers don't need to know everything about your characters by the end of the first chapter, or even the first half of your book. To avoid bogging down your story with info dumps, contrived explanations, and excessive flashbacks, reveal backstory only when it is natural or necessary to do so. It's okay if waiting to reveal backstory leaves readers with questions. Nothing turns pages like curiosity after all. Just make sure to answer those questions before you reach the end. 3. Avoid info dumping whenever possible An info dump is any large block of information shared in a story. Because they disrupt the natural flow of a scene, info dumps are often considered a sign of poor writing. The larger the block, the bigger the hurdle readers must overcome before they can return to the story at hand. Even info dumps designed to read as part of the narrative can prove disrupting. Backstory dumped via dialogue can feel contrived because people rarely monologue their own histories, while info dumping in a character's inner narrative can weigh your story down if the information is too detailed or lacks purpose. 4. Keep backstory brief Backstory is bygone information. Though it informs the present, it isn't part of the present story. Relaying backstory in too much detail will almost certainly disrupt the pacing of a scene. Even if you aren't info dumping, keep your backstory as trim as possible, sharing only the information readers need to know to better understand your characters and conflict. How can you weave backstory into your novel? You can use three main narrative elements to relay backstory, dialogue, inner dialogue, and flashbacks. When working with any of these elements, here are a few tips you'll want to bear in mind. Element number one, dialogue. As your characters interact, they're likely to share information about themselves, making dialogue a great place to relay backstory. However, it's important that any dialogue you craft feels natural and remains true to your character's voices. Forcing dialogue as a cheap way to share information will always feel contrived. Hey Jim, did you know I was once jilted at the altar? Let me tell you the story. Icky, right? Instead, consider your character's voices and craft a conversation that naturally allows for a bit of backstory. For example, Bob whistled, you've got their aim girl, who taught you to shoot so well? Your daddy? My mama, she replied with a smirk. Bob raised a curious brow. Her daddy was a drunk sea, so she learned to fend for herself growing up. Said she'd be damned if any daughter of hers couldn't do the same, daddy or no daddy? In this example, I staged an action that prompted curiosity in one character, Bob, creating a prime opportunity to share a few simple lines of dialogue that reveal insights into our sharpshooters history. Element number two, inner dialogue. Inner dialogue consists of your point of view character's intimate thoughts and experiences. If you're writing in deep point of view, a common technique used to immerse readers in modern novels, inner dialogue is nearly any part of your narrative that doesn't include verbal dialogue or action. Inner dialogue can be an effective way to share backstory, because backstory is, in effect, memory. What better way to weave memory into a narrative than throughout a character's thoughts? Take care to do so only when a scene presents the opportunity and your backstory will flow seamlessly. For example, I set the rifle aside and grinned. My aim was true and I knew mama would be proud. It was she who taught me after all. I was no more than a sapling when she first set three tin cans atop the tree stump in our backyard in Virginia and showed me how to raise my rifle high. I moved to inspect my target, feeling hopeful about my chances in the upcoming competition. In this example, I used a quick line of backstory to explain why our character grinned after lowering their rifle. Returning just as quickly to the present narrative ensures the backstory doesn't disrupt the pacing of my scene. Element number three, flashback. A flashback is a scene that breaks from the chronological timeline of a story to relay a past event. This may seem like a great way to share backstory, but as I explained in last week's episode, flashbacks often disrupt the pacing of a scene. If you're going to use this method, craft your flashback with care, keeping it as in line with the present narrative as possible. For example, the butt of the rifle sat firm and sure in the crook of my shoulder, just as it first had all those years ago in the backwoods of Virginia. There you are, sweet pea, mama said, readjusting the stock a little so it didn't dig into my shoulder. Heavy ain't it. You'll have to practice often, get good and strong. But how do I shoot? I asked, enthusiasm spilling into impatience. Ever since I'd first read that dime novel about Annie Oakley, I yearned to be the next great female sharpshooter. Mama laughed. You can't shoot if you don't know how to hold the thing, darling. Now let's adjust your grip.  Never seen you take so long to aim. Billy's voice jolted me from my reverie. I swallowed, cursing my lack of focus. Thinking if mama had made my knuckles go white around the barrel of my gun. I clicked my tongue and did as mama said, adjusting my grip. In this example, I drew upon some of my advice from last week's episode, keeping the flashback brief, using triggers to pull readers in and out of the past, and ensuring the flashback had consequences in the present. Crafting compelling backstories can add incredible depth to your characters, helping bring them to life on the page. But like so many elements of the craft, mastering backstory is no easy task. As you begin exploring your character's histories, be patient with yourself. Consider the most impactful events in your character's pasts, and work to weave them into your story when natural opportunities arise or when need demands. As always, practice makes perfect. As does studying how your favorite authors weave backstory into their own work. Take time to study the craft and review effective examples. Then get to work. It's time to give your characters the rich and compelling histories they deserve. Thank you for listening to today's episode of the podcast writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. If so, make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss a new episode, and to give the podcast a quick rating and review. Doing so goes a long way toward helping the podcast reach new writers, and lets me know that you're enjoying what I'm creating. You can also give me a shout out directly on Twitter at christen underscore keeper. For additional guidance as you work to craft sensational novels and build your best writing life, be sure to head on over to www.well-storied.com, where I share blog posts, workbooks, e-courses, and other helpful resources for writers. Again, that's w-e-l-l-s-t-o-r-i-e-d.com. Thank you again for tuning in to today's episode, my friend. Until next time, happy writing!


Grand Canyon, as grand as it can be. There are spirits working upon them and it's so sensitive to human presence. You know your thoughts on extraterrestrial life and if you've been in contact with any. If you want to explore such things, recently created what's called a Sadhguru Exclusive. Good luck with your motorcycle tour across America. Hope you mean peaceful. We'll recognize you by your new red beard. That'll happen when the time are reached. For the inner dimension of the human being, a thousand years ago, people had the wisdom and the strength and the determination to do this. I'm curious from your perspective, what is true spirituality? Well, let me give a very technical kind of answer to this because if you say anything more poetic, people will distort it again. So having said that, a technical, absolutely technical definition of spiritual process would be this. There is a physiological process which you call as the body. There is a psychological process of thought and emotion going on. If you transcend these two, if somehow your experience of life transcend these two, that an experience which is not body-based, an experience which is not of the psychological structure, if this happens, then you're spiritual because something beyond body and mind has happened. Why is it important that something beyond body and mind should happen is because both your body and mind are accumulations that you gathered and you're mistaking it for a cosmos. What you created is not the creation, per se. So there is a creation, there is a force called creation which is not that creation happened at some time, it's happening in a tremendous way every moment of our life. But only few people are conscious of it. Rest are busy with their physiological and psychological processes, hello? So spiritual process means something beyond body and mind became a living thing in your life, it became a living experience. Just switching gears just because of the limited time that we have, I, after reading Mystic Musings, I'm very interested and curious if one, you know, your thoughts on extraterrestrial life and if you've been in contact with any. Oh, maybe you are one, you know. Yeah, maybe that is a better question. Well, I have a repetition of being very logically cracked, which is important in this world today, though it's quite silly and limiting. So I don't want to destroy that repetition on your show for myself, but if you want to explore such things, we have just now recently created what's called an exclusive, Sadhguru, exclusive. This is to explore those dimensions which don't fit into your logic. Because right now, most human beings are being constipated by their own logic. Logic is a wonderful thing to survive, to understand the physical nature. Two polarities are needed for logic, otherwise there's no logic. But there are dimensions which don't belong to these polarities. Those dimensions cannot be explored in a logical way. If you're really keen on these things, then you must come, we'll put you through the works. But if I logically answer this question, that will be very cosmetic. It doesn't really get to the heart of the matter.  It's just for your information.  How it is it? Here you see some unique rock structures, very different. We are on interstate 40 east, going towards Grand Canyon. Oh wow, it should be nearly 350 miles I think today. We should be there in four hours, four and a half hours. Just entered Arizona in the Mojave Desert and just stopped for a few minutes to hydrate ourselves. But here I am, my speedometer reading 6666, four sixes. Don't think I'm the devil, one six more than the devil. So must be the divine, got me wrong now. Grand Canyon, 165 Williams Grand Canyon.  But we are a bit late for the sunset. Namaskaram. Namaskaram. Yeah baby, very good. And we got delayed because we had to meet chief looking horse of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota tribes. So because of that, it got delayed and we left only at two o'clock. So when really the heat was at its best, we were on the road. But anyway, we had a fantastic ride. The highway was beautiful and a lot of truck traffic. Still the ride was absolutely fantastic terrain. So we got here yesterday evening. We wanted to come here for sunset, but we got here a little late. So today night also we are staying here at the Grand Canyon. We're just outside the national park right now for this shoot. Then moving to Sedona tomorrow. Oh really? But does the Grand Canyon have any significance for them? Yes, for certain tribes it is held as a very sacred place. And I think wherever they were, if they found certain canyons or mountains or whatever they identified that that is the source of their birth. So this is also source of their origin for certain tribes. Okay, well I'll catch up with you in Sedona. Okay baby, if I'm covered with red dust, don't think I've become a red Indian. I'm still a same brown-black Indian, all right? We'll tell, we'll recognize you by your new red beard. That'll happen with the time I reach there. Okay baby, bye. Namaskaram. Here we are at the Grand Canyon, formed four millions of years exposing geological history of this place, which goes back to 1.8 billion years as they estimate. It's essentially Colorado River cutting down nearly a mile into the earth. And imagine this, Colorado was flowing here and now it's down there, a mile down into the earth. That's a kind of change that is happening on the planet at various levels. In our little lifespan, we may not notice these things, but here is a living proof of what kind of earth-moving happens over a million years or so. It's absolutely incredible, unimaginable. Grand Canyon, as grand as it can be. We've got a red rock here, just give me a small piece of rock from this formation. Pick one. Like that, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Waiter, Jennifer and Natalie, Jennifer leave your camera with somebody. Both of you go down there. This is rolling. Just close your eyes and see if you can take off your survive without the hats, back to back. Close your eyes, keep your hands open and just sit down. Can you see this? All this time it was going round and round. Can you see this now? Initially I thought it's the rocks, but it's the very space and it's so sensitive human presence and able to recognize certain things about what we're doing. It's quite incredible. Just natural forces. I'm sure those natives who are sensitive to this dungeon would definitely say there are spirits working upon them, which they're not very wrong in a way, it's the spirit of the earth. They're not very wrong, but not in the sense of some ghost functioning. But there's a phenomenal amount of energy flow and well, there are many places, natural features which have a certain amount of energy, but the important thing is the way it's responding to human presence. Unbelievable. Grand Canyon National Park towards Sedona, maybe a little over to our ride. We have about three meetings with Native American people. Please feel free to say whatever you wish to say about your tribe and its culture and its spirituality especially. Hopi means peaceful. Peaceful and right now our population is probably almost 25,000 and I was born and raised on the Hopi Reservation and when I was growing up, I would tell myself I will never leave the Hopi Reservation. I am Havasupai and Havasupai literally translates into the people of the blue green waters. The people of the blue green waters regional for my area were known as the guardians of the Grand Canyon. A small tribe we number all of about 650 plus people in the entire of the tribe. Though the people based in that bottom of the tribe in the canyon have become carriers of the medicine of what we refer to as the master altar. The master altar simply being the Grand Canyon. I have seen it, I have seen it.  That's just a sample of how our language flows. But it's not important that we understand the exact words of what is said. It is important that with all languages of how we impart that through our oratory, is what's going to be taken in by the vibrational frequency embrace of that heart that is within us. Let me hear the sounds from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Hey, sight gurus, me, Mike. And good luck with your motorcycle tour across America. And I had a question to ask you. I was wondering, the year 2020, with all this, you know, I mean, diversity and division and just all the controversy with the coronavirus, how do you think we're going to receive any peace from this crisis? About peace, about peace, we must understand peace will not happen in America, Africa, India, anywhere. Peace can only happen within us. This is the only way forward for humanity. If we are expecting, outside situations will be all wonderful for us. No, anytime they can turn around, as you see right now. But outside situation is not the real thing. What's happening within us is the real thing. And we can ensure that what happens within us happens the way we want it. It's my vision, my blessing. You must know peace and blissfulness, everything that's possible that we can do, we'll do it for you. You must ride with me, Mike. I'm exploring spiritual America on my motorcycle. Ride with me. I've got news to it. She fell down. A crater formed by a meteorite, millions of years old, just 150 foot. But look at the size of the crater it created. Just the velocity, what it can do. This is why I said don't go beyond speed limit, because what velocity can do, you know? Work here like this, up there. Where is the scaffolding? What is that, a circle? Do you see that one? This is absolutely amazing that in the middle of nowhere, they built this enormous structures all over. And they built roads, which you are not seeing here now, but they built roads 30 feet wide, actually road systems up to 400 miles, straight as an arrow. All this entire labor of building this in this kind of terrain, which is even survival is very harsh out here. But look at that, where they got the masonry. How can you say you understand human beings? This is what they do. So right now we are here in this place, which is called as Pablo Bonito, and a mile wide Chaco Canyon was a major center of flourishing civilization between 980 and 1280. What you see here is just a little bit of what's remaining. This was not necessarily largely a residential complex. This was more a ritual practice. This is more a religious complex or a spiritual complex or an occult complex. You must understand this, 250 years and a humongous amount of labor of cutting stone, building this, carrying the timber, bringing it here, creating waterplaces. All this for the inner dimension of the human being. A thousand years ago, people had the wisdom and the strength and the determination to do this. Well, these are the kivas that we are seeing here. These are round structures of different sizes. Some of them large enough to hold 400 people for a ceremony or a ritual. Some restoration work has been done, but still this is the original design, unbelievable. Whenever we build anything meditative, we always want to go into the earth and initially I will say twelve feet, then our architects will come and present their problems and say six feet, then our construction team will come and present more problems of drainage and ventilation. Then we will settle for four, four-and-a-half feet. All our meditation halls are about four to four-and-a-half feet below the earth, but here more courageous people, a thousand years ago. When we were in Grand Canyon, we saw one thing. Just with human presence, with a certain level of awareness, suddenly a certain movement of energy north-south alignment was happening. I'm just wondering either by observation they arrived at it or by their own energies they arrived at it. We can check it out right now. Somebody give me either a copper chain or a rudraksh. This is also too heavy, there's mercury in this. See this is a very heavy pendant loaded, loaded with solidified mercury, very heavy. Look at the way you're going. Please mark a line along this, somebody. What is this guy? This is how he goes straight on a motorcycle. You want to sit here somebody? Yeah.  Right there. This same direction. What is this? Can you see this? The wind is still blowing this way, going against the wind. Lock your right nostril. Well, of course people will say it is a wind, but if wind moved it, it should be moving it this way. This is where the wind is blowing, that it's moving this way. So it should be very easy to arrive at the alignment here for some reason. I don't know why. Are you ready for the enurement? Come on, get up now. Just shift in the direction, okay.