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In the context of a holiday with religious dimensions, here’s something you may find ‘spiritual’. The #OverviewEffect
“The overview effect is a cognitive and emotional shift in a person's awareness, their consciousness and their identity when they see the Earth from space” 🎅🧵
“The overview effect is a cognitive and emotional shift in a person's awareness, their consciousness and their identity when they see the Earth from space” 🎅🧵
It’s impossible for anyone of my generation in the U.K. not to have been thrilled by the #StarTrek series in the 70s. So it is stunning to read of the response that #WilliamShatner or ‘Captain Kirk’ had when he actually did go into space npr.org/2022/10/23/113…
"It was the death that I saw in space and the lifeforce that I saw coming from the planet — the blue, the beige and the white," he said. "And I realized one was death and the other was life."
We are honoured to present this thread 🧵 to you. Eight films on the lives of eight of the #Sortition chosen assembly members and their experiences of the #GlobalAssembly of 2021 #GA2021. The world’s first ever global citizens’ assembly on the climate and ecological emergency. 
We are deeply grateful to the local film teams, community hosts and facilitators who worked so hard to present these amazing pieces of work. Please do share these films as we see this as an opportunity to understand the human experiences behind the #GlobalAssembly process
This is the first film that was finished, by a team in the Peoples’ Republic of China 🇨🇳Telling the story of young student Li Shimao from Wuhan. 我们希望您和我们一起过生日愉快!
