Vic Compher will be joining us via Zoom for his talk: “When Spirit Meets Science — Viewing and Discussion of short film: “The Eagle and Condor Unite—A Story of Climate Restoration”

We will discuss how care and respect for the environment can join emerging sciences and technology to restore the climate.

Bio: Vic Compher is a filmmaker, poet, clinical social worker, workshop trainer, and author. Vic’s documentaries address a broad range of challenging social issues which often confound our modern world. A wide variety of topics are explored in these films, including global warming, sexual and religious trauma, secondary or vicarious trauma of professional helpers, or the sometimes troubling gap between older and younger generations. What these very diverse films have in common, however, is that each one offers unique, thoughtful routes to wholeness and healing which are reflected in vivid, wise, and often dramatic interviews of the persons Vic features around these topics.

Uniquely, each of these documentaries combines the artistry of music, visual arts and montage, animation and poetry with contemporary psychology, science or technology. Realizing that we all perceive the world in many different ways, Vic communicates in a fluid manner through both metaphorical or “right brain” techniques as well as through more analytical “left brain communication”! Vic is particularly interested in how we as humans can learn to appreciate our genetic and emotional connection to Mother Nature — and how we learn from her and from one another how to heal ourselves and our world.

Indeed, Vic addresses a key environmental theme in his most recent film, “The Eagle and the Condor Unite–A Story of Climate Restoration“, which advocates for the restoration of our climate to its preindustrial condition. This recovery and sustenance of our atmosphere and human life itself can occur through the deepening of our appreciation for Mother Nature AND through our use of the remarkable and rapidly emerging environmentally friendly technologies, depicted in the film. These scientific breakthroughs, which are based usually on biomimicry can enable the removal and capture of legacy CO2 from the atmosphere, while our use of sustainable energies is transitioning away from fossil fuels.

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