Seminars About Long-term Thinking with Wade Davis

Wade Davis, “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World” (via EB)

Audio file of the talk given at Cowell Theatre in Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California on Wednesday January 13, 02010.

Is the West so bereft from the same kind of wisdom? Or people just alienated from it and Christianity?

Gathering the folk widsom of people around the world and banking it so that solutions to our current mess can be found seems like a good idea. (It's like banking all kinds of seeds in case of catastrophe.) But such a study can seem rather haphazard with respect to the sorting of what has been collected, until one has the scientia and sapientia to know what can be applied and what cannot. I'm not so enthusiastic about the collecting of false religions and spiritualities that are supposed to be more "natural" because they seem more "primitive," when in fact they are probably results of the fallen nature of man.

(An upcoming seminar will have Alan Weisman.)