Earth in the Balance

After Arlene had what she calls her cosmic experience at Big Sur, she and her husband returned to New York.

She began reading books, esoteric works on mysticism and theosophy, and couldn't make much sense out of them.

But then at night when she went to bed, she started having what she calls sleep travel experiences.

Now, I'm not calling them dreams because they were not dreams.

The biopic of Gandhi was released in 1982, won multiple Oscars, and sparked a revival of interest in him, and in the West, a kind of veneration.

The complexities of his life were being sanded down into the figure of a saint whose every word dripped with wisdom.

By the late '80s, this Gandhi misquote began to show up very occasionally in some books, and one of those books was cited by Al Gore in his book, Earth in the Balance, published in the middle of the 1992 presidential campaign.

And the Gandhi quote he had borrowed became a part of his stump speech on the campaign trail.

I want to ask both, what worries you and what excites you about the space we're in now compared to 10 years ago?

so what worries me um is the same things that worried me when i started studying this issue when i was in yeah probably 16 17 years old or something like that i remember Reading, I think it was Al Gore's first book, one of the first ones I read, Earth, Other Balance, that terrified me.

But at that time, there was still some discussion.

Is this real? Is it not? Is it man-made? How bad is it? But then, as years have gone by, the science has just become more and more conclusive.