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Podcast: A Quest for Well-Being
Episode: A Second Conscious Revolution Based On Love & Art
Description: — Over the long-term history of humanity, there have been four cognitive revolutions which jumpstarted our human evolution and success. About 70,000 years ago, primitive, stone-age Homo sapiens were beset by climate change and unable to compete successfully on the harsh African savanna. They almost became extinct. Then our big-brained ancestors discovered art and ceremony, and presumably dance, music, and song. And these puny two-legged creatures thrived and proliferated. It is essential to understand that it was art, not sophisticated tools and weaponry, that was the driving force behind the first cognitive revolution: the Consciousness Revo...