PERMACULTURE FILM CLUB: Mindwalk - 50 year celebration
Event description
For the passionate thinker... come along to our screening of Mindwalk - a rich tapestry of ideas, weaving together philosophy, science, and art in a captivating narrative that will challenge our perspectives and inspire profound insights.
As we follow a poet, a politican and a scientist on their philosophical journey through Mont Saint-Michel, we are invited to contemplate the nature of reality, the power of systems thinking, and the potential for perception transformation.
Whether you're a seeker of knowledge, a lover of deep conversation, or simply someone who enjoys a cinematic experience that leaves a lasting impression, Mindwalk promises to feed your mind and nourish your soul.
ABOUT THE FILM
Patterned after Galileo Galilei’s classic Dialogue Concerning the Two Principal World Systems, the film features a physicist (Liv Ullmann), a politician (Sam Waterston), and a poet (John Heard) who meet on the tidal island of Mont Saint Michel in France and spend a day in scientific, philosophical, and political discussions. The implications of the profound change of paradigms from a mechanistic to a systemic and ecological worldview, which lies at the heart of Mindwalk, are even more relevant today than they were thirty years ago when we made the film.
Since its release in 1991, Mindwalk has become a cult classic, showing not only in theaters, but in college courses and business seminars. Written by Bernt Capra, it turns his brother's, Fritjof Capra, book The Turning Point into a narrative dialogue. Social and environmental concerns are at the heart of the film, which proposes alternative solutions based on Systems Theory, along with insights into Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics.
ABOUT FRITJOF CAPRA
A Vienna-born physicist and systems theorist, Capra first became popularly known for his book, The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics was changing our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Published in 1975, it is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva in the courtyard of one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research: CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva.
Over the past 30 years, Capra has been engaged in a systematic exploration of how other sciences and society are ushering in a similar shift in worldview, or paradigms, leading to a new vision of reality and a new understanding of the social implications of this cultural transformation.
His textbook, The Systems View of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014), presents a grand new synthesis of this work—integrating the biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified vision. Several critics have suggested that The Systems View of Life, which Capra coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi, Professor of Biology at the University of Rome, is destined to become another classic.
Capra was a founding director (1995–2020) of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy, which is dedicated to advancing ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education, and serves on the faculty of the Amana-Key executive education program in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Fellow of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in the UK, and serves on the Council of Earth Charter International.
He is the author of The Turning Point (1982), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002), The Science of Leonardo (2007), Learning from Leonardo (2013), and Patterns of Connection (2021). He coauthored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), EcoManagement (1993), and The Ecology of Law (2015), and coedited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995). He also cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk (1990), a film starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, created and directed by Bernt Capra.
The main focus of Capra’s environmental education and activism has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to do so, we can learn valuable lessons from the study of ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
COST - PAY WHAT YOU CAN
All tickets are offered pay-as-you-like, thanks and the Permaculture Education Institute. All payments are collected by our registered charity, Ethos Foundation, and Morag sends 100% to support fair share permaculture design education - mostly led by and for women and youth. Morag also offers free permaculture mentoring to all these teams through the Permaculture Education Institute.
HOST: MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE
ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE
Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators and designers on six continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage. Morag has also created Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed millions of times. She hosted the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship alongside Schumacher College Fellow, Fritjof Capra, and Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees.
ABOUT PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE
Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers and leaders of permaculture programs and to activate permaculture communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcasts, masterclasses, discussion forums, and many courses.
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