What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these existential questions, this movie invites us to find out an universal wisdom, meeting shamans, healers, yogis, but also philosophers and doctors. From Mongolia plains to the Amazonian forest, it leads us far than we expected at first.
1962 erschien das Buch "Der stumme Frühling" der amerikanischen Meeresbiologin Rachel Carson. Der populärwissenschaftliche Bestseller hatte tiefgreifende Auswirkungen auf die US-Politik, weckte das kollektive Bewusstsein für die Natur und setzte letztendlich eine weltweite Umweltbewegung in Gang. Die Doku erzählt die Geschichte der engagierten Umweltschützerin.
In a not so distant future, humans can upload their individual consciousness to a sentient machine after they have died. This allows them one final day on earth to rebuild their memories through the eyes of a bionic vessel.
The argument with the soul becomes a crucial phase of the individuation process, since, after all, it is our most personal ambiguity that, with cunning and delusion, drags incredible things into life, as the desire of an inert body, convincing us of moving, touching the earth, getting tangled up and staying.