DOWN to EARTH (English subtitles) Pay as You Like

moving out here is probably the most irrational decision we ever took in our life but now looking back it's amazing to see how one intuitive decision led to another we never set out to make a film we just felt like breaking away and not that our life wasn't good we had everything we ever wanted and more but that was kind of the problem i felt i was buying into a system that tells us that more is better i felt i was plodding along with everyone else as if in a state of hypnosis what changed me and my thinking was becoming a mother i ask myself what is it that i'm trying to achieve what do i contribute to the world they grow up in i knew i had to break the pattern [Music] i didn't just want to exchange the city life or life close to nature but i wanted to learn learn from people who live a connected life a life more down to earth [Music] hey [Music] i loved our years in the woods the simple uncomplicated life living a day at a time and living with the seasons at the time we had no idea that our move to the woods was only the start of a much bigger journey man in the four years we lived in the woods we learned so much from the native american way of life but what inspired us most was the way of thinking the way of being of some of the elders especially nowaton meeting this madison man had a profound impact on us he triggered something in us a longing to explore the ancient ways of looking at life and gaining a deeper understanding of the old teachings which seem now more relevant than ever it was meeting the watson that inspired us to go on a journey to find people like him people who have held on to a connection with the natural world wisdom keepers who might hold a key to renewal we decided to travel the world together with our children to find these keepers of wisdom the keepers of the earth [Music] me i'm concerned about all human life i find it sad for humans have not known who they really are and that's why i call it the illusion this is a change enough times it has been said that the people will start to arise and go against all the things that has been said and done and starting that change we had a beautiful way at one time how we viewed the world and all of the creation with it because either that we talk about creation what is it we don't like about creation because we're all things of creation as humans somewhere along the way i think the original teachings got lost among all people [Music] i woke up from a dream this morning i went to a place it was run down building it reminded me of an old army barrack somewhere long rooms upstairs floors were sunk from age anyway many many medicine people were arriving at the same place i decided i would go up downstairs [Music] because of the medicine men medicine people coming there to help it seemed so real that it was actually happening that i went upstairs and started looking around to see what needed to be done the floor was covered with litter so i started looking for brooms to start cleaning up [Music] that dream was telling me that those medicine people are willing to start helping all over now they are all emergent [Music] january 21st we are on our way on the road for a year one backpack and a camera each it's exciting but the first month has not been easy nothing has worked out to plan and despite the months of research we are not getting to the right people we feel we have wasted a lot of time and on top of that we've all been really sick levy is still refusing to eat after two weeks i worry is this really all worth it we wonder have we been too optimistic that we could pull this off by ourselves as a family without any crew or support left [Music] we knew that finding earthkeepers wouldn't be easy but i think we've been trying too hard trying to follow a plan i know we have to let go and stop worrying about the outcome we simply have to follow the stories and trust we will find the people we are looking for our only obstacle is our own worry and fear is these little voices coming in what if we don't find these people and what if it doesn't work out i wonder if these tribal communities have the same problem of fear [Music] and how do you see that the absence of fear is related to your people being content being happy foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] foreign what's up your way of life seems all centered around community our world is much more based on the individual which is also what has brought his progress how do you view this progress [Music] [Music] [Music] hello [Music] [Music] you know i remember things in my childhood days to me what became great teachings from my dad my mother simple little things that some people would not even consider as something great learning to live with the seasons and what them seasons produce sometimes there's an abundance with the seasons and other times not you simply learn to live with what is provided and living within that framework is a simple life of taking only with what you need it was giving thanks to that water so when we give thanks to the water we give thanks to ourselves because we're a people of water and it's a part of showing respect for creation [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] so oh you foreign foreign [Music] [Music] who speaks for those birds and animals in the trees they have the same rights we do they are part of creation mankind has messed up everything and how much more longer is it going to go before man will finally admit that that we the cause of all the troubles of the world [Music] [Music] an american dream is an illusion i see hear them old people long ago when i was a child they said talk about how high is up [Music] how high can things go where does it stop [Music] what's left for it to go once it peaks it can't go a little further it starts to come down [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] um [Music] people don't have passion in the city there's no patient i see a lot of people running running on time the time is very important for people that are running where you have to go to work you have to run come back home you have to run it's a city of people running you don't have to run there take your [Music] time [Laughter] [Music] you know we we don't run no well why should we run but there's nothing to run it is there we'll get there [Music] yes i know why these words of bargaining resonated so much with me because she was really talking about me when we moved to the woods it took me a long time before i really slowed down and was truly grounded but it's not the answer for all of us to go back and live in nature i think the real challenge is how do we live a connected life in a fast-paced world meeting these urban earth keepers made us see that it is possible even in an urban landscape the land is everything to me how i've been pulled up i carry that within me i feel like i'm a mother imitating mother her on the stage [Music] every day she's creating she's making new hills or fountains or small things like grass that is something so special everywhere i go i feel that energy because i am [Music] we come from northern territory in the north coast where people call animal land we call it that's where i was born we had beautiful parents not only loving us but sharing the knowledge and teaching the knowledge of survival to be aware what's around the land where not to go there or to go there not to eat to eat not to swim swim april 27th we are now on our way to a remote island of the north coast we have heard a story about lachlan an aboriginal medicine woman who has dedicated her life to racing troubled kids in the old ways we are excited to be allowed into the island which is normally sealed off to outsiders luck luck apparently made the exception when she heard we are family traveling with children [Music] the gatekeepers were strict about the conditions of the visit two nights only bring your own food and shelter and no filming but when we arrived on the island things turned out quite differently foreign foreign foreign you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] it was always a woman that to have total control of all the children they're already a witness in certain traits you can smell and if they saw that in one of them boys they would tell that to their elders keep your eye on this one he shows promise let's walk back that's how the the great leaders of the all the chiefs of the history here that that's how they were raised they were watched from that time they were little boys there was leadership among the women they were watched in the same way foreign [Music] but they're gonna open [Music] foreign foreign i feel but this is the first time that i met you here last two weeks ago is that two three or so we might meet in spirit or somewhere that would hard feeling probably [Applause] [Music] my mom june 21st i feel at home here on the island there is no yesterday no tomorrow only today one thing i'm learning from my aboriginal family is that time doesn't exist two nights have become two weeks two weeks have become two months [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] in the west where i grow up it's all about going to school to gain more knowledge but somehow i don't see people become wiser i've seen it a lot wise learning learning learning manga nothing comes out no maya better m me know the youth of today has the hardest task of ever one of us it is up to the youth to bring about a change it has been said that if they succeeded they would be the ones that created eternal peace i think that's what's happening now slowly if it catches on one place that's gonna catch all the other places people will follow suit [Music] july 13th traveling through asia one thought keeps coming back how is this change no wasn't talked about going to happen when the majority of the people on this planet are only just embarking on the journey of the american or european dream aspiring to prosperity in a similar way our parents and grandparents did but who are we to tell anyone that that aspiration doesn't lead to happiness and that the planet can't sustain a lifestyle of mass consumption [Music] what totally amazes me on this journey is how earth keepers in other parts of the world speak with the same voice as nawaten and how they all share the same rather optimistic vision about the current state of the world they all see the hardship and chaos in the world today as a sign that we on the brink of a huge global transformation brought about by the common people who start walking that through path and start working together [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] buddy foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] we see more and more people who want to take responsibility for their own faith including their own health what's the key to living life without major disease [Music] foreign [Music] foreign it's not only knowing the medicines best healer or doctor in the world can now totally heal anything without your help the patients furnish half through your own faith of believing foreign [Music] foreign we're all the same basically whether we plants or animals or what it seems like there's a kids ship there when when you look at things in a certain way well the difference is you know we look different some fly some crawl because we can never say that we are the only ones that we should be concerned about that's why life is really simple when it come right down to it life is simple but we make it complicated ourselves with our thought patterns and whatever people has put in place that controls all other people you know that that uh that changes individuals and how they think what that is done it is not free taking people anymore we're all under control of someone or we find ourselves in trouble foreign foreign i couldn't sleep last night everything is awake also my mind i am in awe of the abundance and total harmony of the forest the beauty but also the ugliness that goes on the destruction of it all but i'm just passing through observing have i become the tourist i wonder what it feels like to be truly part of it all like the oshawa our little ones are called tamarind monkeys okay little one i saw this little black thing i saw a little black thing jumping down me yeah and i didn't see anything the kids love the rainforest today they caught me off guard asking me about its destruction dad did you know that we lose 80 000 acres per day an area the size of england and that we lose more than 50 000 plant and animal species each year as well why dad why don't people get it why are people spoiling it for us can't anyone stop this how can i possibly answer these questions without being a hypocrite [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] is [Music] down my is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] taking part in the ceremony was one of the most powerful experiences of my life i deeply felt homecoming a deep feeling recognizing where i came from i see how the plant is like a portal to a whole different dimension connecting me with my subconscious mind [Music] [Music] the only gift given to human beings was the power to have dreams and visions [Music] i remember when i was on that hill fasting it came to me that faith is the most important thing about all other things and without that we have nothing it's the greatest force that can be had and from that i envisioned a man living way out in the woods somewhere that man never went anywhere but he had all the answers that i needed and i think there is a person such as that again that space that there is someone like that out there the whole thing what i'm saying we can create a base on our own without going to any book there's nothing that we cannot do with that ability it's a natural ability that we all have [Music] you [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] today as i was standing in front of these immense stones seeing the seamless way they've been put together it made me wonder how were the incas able to do this thousands of years ago something that seems impossible to us today [Music] the further we are getting into our journey the more i begin to understand what nawatan meant when he talked about the limitless possibilities of human potential could it be that those who are truly connected to the natural world and tuned into the different levels of energy are capable of working with the force of nature rather than against it foreign i've been to places but we're just as real as i am sitting here by traveling in spirit [Music] kind of makes me think sometimes knowing about that gift i can leave at any time which could be was what happened with great nations that they were highly spiritual people [Music] not like us we are common [Music] our spirit would probably have a blue light for the highly spiritual ones are totally white this is what i have learned [Music] this is all the world there is when you realize that you are not satisfied the way things are that you start being a seeker not somebody else's truth but your own what is it people are talking about when i talk about star people [Music] what's that sky world like around all the other planets known to man what is there [Music] it cannot be all blue sky the way we see it [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] m [Music] um [Music] october 7th driving through the kalahari desert feels like approaching the cradle of humanity we are on our way to the oldest living tribe on the planet the sun or bushmen [Music] [Music] even though medicine people around the world use different medicines and have different ceremonies i've come to see that underneath they are all doing the same thing they tap into the same source using their connection with spirit to understand this connection better we have come to see the sun because in this barren land where nothing grows they have nothing else to rely on than their direct connection to spirit what [Music] child in the foreign has fallen ill and the medicine men are preparing a healing that will take place tonight to the sun illness and therefore healing goes beyond the individual it involves the whole community including the ancestors what we are about to witness is probably one of the oldest forms of healing in the world [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] she foreign [Music] [Music] be [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign thank you in order to be a complete medicine person it must be a spiritual side or it's incomplete there's no healing without that i now see that healing goes way beyond curing a physical ailment but if healing takes place on the level of spirit and if it's our spirit that gets healed does that mean that the impact of that healing goes beyond our life beyond our death healing is removing an energy from events in the past collective past thus causing that person separation from their essence when i hear myself i hear the word and when i know myself i know the word because everyone is part of everyone else if someone's ill here it affects someone here everything affects everything we're not separate really when we go to the energy of all beings the love that goes with that there's a love that goes with being human and caring about other people where do i express that worldwide we won't have to feel that but i have to go out with no thoughts of prayer even but to have that thought in your mind of caring about others that's enough that's our potential to help others without ever knowing them who they are that is what has to be brought out among human beings i sometimes think that my thoughts are yours and your thoughts are mine without us ever knowing one another it comes down to human nature of how we all feel regardless of color male or female that we are one that's when you you see a great beauty and understanding when you can come to those terms i've seen it like that it makes you want to look forward to another cycle they're part of everything i mean it's the wave the sea is the seed the wave because to remember when you're a grain of sand we are the four elements and in some rites of passage people said thus you are and dust you will retire the rite of passage of death is beautiful because in that space once you've gone into a spirit journey you're not in the emotion you're not attached this is timelessness i learned that when they i learned that i died well i felt my heart kinda like it squeezed like this did it hurt i saw something like like a giant tube it came down all around me underneath me that went up as i was going up that's when my heart felt like it hurt three times that really hurt and i was taken to a place that looked like this silvery white that's the way that whole place looked like where i was where they took me [Music] and either way i'm kind of asked to take an extra step into another world which is on the other side i'm not scared of death i have no fear of it there's a reason for that okay [Applause] hey [Music] hey when naughton was here when he was here in this world i really really liked it i really liked us living together in this world but i also really like that i know he's over there watching out for all of us that there's no end there's not an end to our past aways being they're with us you know they it's just a different life um the connection that we have is like that we still continue to work together in a spiritual way it's not mystical folks it's not mystical it's to stand in the woods and you feel and hear the wind that's communication you know if you walk on the moss that really almost iridescent moss that's in those wetlands outside and you feel that that it's almost carrying you instead of you walking that's communication [Music] you need to trust your own self and trust you're not alone and that is a higher consciousness that's not dictated by any desires and no memory it'll always guide you some people call it ancestors some people call it the angels whatever it's within you shortly after we returned from the journey i lost four loved ones being confronted with death proved to be one of the biggest teachings [Music] i have realized that if i can accept death only then i can accept everything that comes with life death no longer carries the same weight to me death is more like the goodbyes on our journey not able to see these people any longer but knowing they are still there knowing i can still reach them [Music] our hearts have the truth when we see each other we see the heart of one another you know that's a that's a living in a prayerful way you know you know there's a physical form but you know we look at the heart and wow there's some amazing amazing people in this world and you want people to know themselves that's the deal and to be able to to connect with their own their own hearts i mean it's their own spirit how we live every day is a ceremony [Music] our journey of the past five years has given me a rock steady faith in the workings of life i feel part of an ever larger family and a true sense of belonging no longer do i worry for the future of my children because we have all the answers if only we dare to ask ourselves the right questions i know that if i stay connected i have access to an infinite source of wisdom and guidance in the end we are all keepers of the earth [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

Channel: DOWN to EARTH

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Keywords: Documentary, Earth Keepers, Wisdom, Down to Earth, Travel, inspiration, indigenous peoples, sustainability

Id: RoWgEOxoQy4

Length: 90min 32sec (5432 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 22 2020