00:00In the previous video, we talked about Chi in Iqbo ethnography, the idea that every person
00:05has a personal spirit that is connected to their destiny.
00:09What I find fascinating is this idea comes across in many different cultures.
00:15For example, in ancient Greek thought, there's this idea called as daemon, an inner guiding
00:21spirit that shapes a person's life and character.
00:24In modern day spirituality, some people talk about the idea of the higher self, a part
00:29of you that knows who you truly are deep within, beneath the everyday noise of life.
00:37Even philosophers like Socrates said something similar, an inner voice that warned him when
00:42he was about to make the wrong decision.
00:44Of course, this is not scientific interpretation.
00:48These are not things that we can measure in a lab.
00:51These are beliefs, interpretations and the ways in which humans try to make sense of themselves.
00:58But what I find interesting is across different places and different times, people keep coming
01:03back to the same intuition that there is something deep within us guiding us.
01:09You can call this your destiny, your intuition or spirit.
01:12You can even completely disregard this too.
01:15It's your prerogative.
01:16What I find always fascinating is different people at different times who had no connection
01:22to one another, have similar stories to say and held very similar beliefs.
01:28The idea that there is some thread connecting us to something larger.
01:33In psychology, Carl Jung calls this the collective unconscious.
01:36That we all of us as humans share some deep pattern of thought and meaning.
01:42Now, of course, these ideas are something that we need to critically engage in.
01:48Ethnography is not the same as philosophy and neither of them are the same to science.
01:54But at the end of the day, I think one thing we can all agree on is that this gives
01:59people hope.
02:00hope that your life has meaning, hope that the path you feel drawn towards might matter.
02:07Have you ever had that calling?
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