The Patterning Instinct: trailer
Selected Talks
Jeremy Lent & David Korten at Eagle Harbor Books
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A selection of brief videos featuring Jeremy Lent and David Korten in conversation at Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge, WA.
February 25, 2018 Watch the playlist of 13 brief videos |
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Patterns of Meaning: How Different Conceptions of the Universe Have Shaped History—and Will Shape Our Future.
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Jeremy Lent speaks at Seattle University's Search for Meaning Festival, showing how structural elements of Western dualistic thought have led to a crisis of sustainability where civilization’s survival is at stake.
February 24, 2018 45 minutes Seattle University, Seattle, WA |
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What Does Celebrating Columbus Day
Mean for the Future of Our Civilization?
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Jeremy Lent speaks at the Humanities Forum of the Commonwealth Club of California on Columbus Day about some core themes of The Patterning Instinct
October 9, 2017 1 hour (30 min video) Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco "What Does Celebrating Columbus Day Mean for the Future of Our Civilization?" Audio |
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The Great Transformation, Or How We (Just) Avoided
a Climate Catastrophe
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A historian in 2050 looks back at the first half of the century
October 6, 2016 31 minutes UC Santa Barbara The World In 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures |
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Jeremy Lent & Paul Ehrlich at Kepler's
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A selection of brief videos featuring Jeremy Lent and Paul Ehrlich in dialogue at Kepler's, Menlo Park
June 7, 2017 Watch the playlist of 8 brief videos |
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Jeremy Lent at Book Passage
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A selection of brief videos from Jeremy Lent's book launch talk at Book Passage, Corte Madera
June 17, 2017 Watch the playlist of 11 brief videos |
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Jeremy Lent & Satish Kumar at Schumacher College
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Satish Kumar and Jeremy Lent in dialogue at Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon, on the themes of The Patterning Instinct
July 22, 2017 Watch the playlist of 7 brief videos |
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Jeremy Lent in conversation
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A selection of brief videos in which Jeremy Lent discusses aspects of The Patterning Instinct
February 24, 2017 Watch the playlist of 10 brief videos |
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Liology and Climate Disruption
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An introduction to Liology and reflections of how this integrated worldview relates to our current crisis of climate disruption.
November 19, 2015 21 minutes Climate Compassion salon, Berkeley CA |
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The Conundrum of Admiral Zheng He
and Christopher Columbus
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The underlying cause for the different historical trajectories of China and Europe is to be found in the cognitive differences between the two cultural complexes, with two contrasting views of power.
February 28, 2014 19 minutes Joint Meeting of the California and Northwest World History Association at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
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Humanity's Changing Metaphors of Nature
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Explains the power of metaphor in human cognition, showing how humanity's metaphors of Nature—and their entailments—have changed through history.
August 2012 19 minutes World History Association, Midwest Branch, Grand Rapids, MI> |
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