You Are a Part of the Body of Humanity | Alice Frank | TEDxPacific Avenue
NOTE FROM TED: This talk only represents the speaker’s personal spiritual views and understanding of healing, the body, and the immune system. Claims are not intended to serve as any type of health or medical advice. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdfWe are not separate. Humanity is, in all practicality, one body.The illusion of “enemy” is killing us. Every act of hatred toward the “other” is an act of self-harm to the body we all belong to.In this talk, spiritual teacher and poet Alice Frank offers a radical reframe: war is an autoimmune disease, and we are the cells who choose whether to harm or heal. Drawing on mysticism, biology, and the anatomy of peace, she invites us to see conflict not merely as a failure of diplomacy, but as a fundamental misunderstanding of how the cancer of terrorism develops- and how the immune system of the human body offers a hopeful model for healing.You are not watching others suffer. You are watching your own body bleed. This talk is a call to us to become the white blood cells of humanity.
It’s time. Alice Frank is a Poet, Performance Artist, and Rabbi of the Mystical Tradition whose work chronicles spiritual awakening. She is the author of My Real Name is You (praised by Eckhart Tolle), creator of the upcoming short film God Porn, and the founder of Grateful Already Spiritual Center in Quebec. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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