Dr. Richard Alpert on the unity of humans, The Venus Project, Zeitgeist (subtitles)

In our culture we ve been trained for individual differences to stand out. So you look at each person and immediately you think brighter, dumber, older, younger, richer, poorer, and we make all these dimensional distinctions, put them into categories and treat them that way. And we get so we only see others as separate from ourselves and the ways in which they re separate. And one of the dramatic characteristics of experience is being with another person and suddenly seeing the ways they are like you, not different from you. And experiencing the fact that that which is essence in you, and is essence in you, is indeed one. The understanding that there is no other. It is all one. I wasn t born Richard Alpert, I was just born a human being and then I learned this whole business of who I am, whether I m good or bad, achieving or not, all that s learned along the way Dr. Richard Ram Dass Alpert Harvard Psychologist , TheVenusProject, Zeitgeist