English is to create a world beyond borders to help you connect your English learning to the life changing realization.

No matter what our nation, our culture or our language, no matter what divides us, what unites us is far greater.

Today we're gonna guide you through one of the most epic YouTube videos about this exact topic ever.

It's called the Big Picture.

A Jason Silva from a YouTube channel called Shots of Off.

To look at the big picture is to zoom out and look at things from a higher perspective.

The English Jason uses in this video is quite poetic but very advanced.

But to help, we created a free, downloadable PdF lesson that not only provides a transcript, but it also breaks down all the most important vocabulary.

We've also linked some other phenomenal shots of our videos.

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There's a great anecdote about the very first photograph taken of earth from the vantage point of space.

The idea was that this photograph occasioned a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves.

You see, for the first time in human history, we could look back in our planet in its entirety and see the big picture.

This provided a non tha logical awakening.

It changed our story, our narrative.

It upgraded our self image.

It expanded our consciousness.

New Maps for new Realities There's a great anecdote about the very first photograph taken of earth from the vantage point of space.

An anecdote is a popular story.

Well, vantage point means point of view.

So he's saying there's a story about the first photograph taken from the perspective of space.

The idea was that this photograph occasion, the profound shift in our understanding of ourselves to occasion, is a very poetic way to say to cause.

While to shift is to pass through sudden and unilateral change.

For example, the Common term paradigm shift is a rapid, fundamental change in your perspective.

This'll video definitely causes a paradigm shift for people.

This provided an ontological awakening.

It changed our story, our narrative, it upgraded of self image.

Ontological is a very academic term that signifies the fundamental nature of be nor human nature, and upgrade is a systematic improvement on something.

For example, you can upgrade your computer operating system.

But here he is saying that when humans looked at the Earth from space for the first time, we human race upgraded our self image the way we see and understand ourselves.

There's a great anecdote about the very first photograph taken of earth from the vantage point of space.

The idea was that this photograph occasioned a profound shift in our understanding of ourselves.

You see, for the first time in human history, we could look back in our planet in its entirety and see the big picture.

This'll provided an ontological awakening.

It changed our story, our narrative.

It upgraded our self image.

It expanded our consciousness.

New maps for new realities.

They astronauts in orbit call this experience the overview effect, a boundary shattering sense of revelation and global interconnectivity way shake off our petty differences and emerge with a sense of global responsibility.

Global consciousness, global citizenship.

Astronauts in orbit called this experience the overview effect.

To be in orbit is to move on a path around an object in space.

And while the literal meaning of overview is a review or summary, the overview effect is the profound change in consciousness that happens when astronauts see the planet as one without borders from the outside, a boundary shattering sense of revelation and global interconnectedness, he describes.

This experience is boundary shattering to shatter us to break all at once.

For example, a glass shatters when it hits.

The ground in boundary is like a limit or border that separates things a boundary shattering sense of global interconnectedness where we shake off or petty differences in this case, shake off means to remove.

For example, a dog shakes off water after getting wet and petty means small and not important.

Astronauts in orbit call this experience the overview effect.

A boundary shattering sense of revelation and global interconnectivity way shake off our petty differences and emerge with a sense of global responsibility.

Global consciousness, global citizenship.

Carl Sagan's famous pale blue dot film echoed the same idea.

From the vantage point of space.

There are no lines dividing nations, no geographical subdivisions, no flags or racial divides or disputed territory.

There is only Earth, a single celestial body teeming with life, the womb in which we dwell.

Carl Sagan's famous pale blue dot film equity, the same idea.

Pale blue dot is a famous photograph of the earth taken from the Voyager space probe in 1990 from the rings of Saturn.

As you can see, it shows our planet as a pale blue dot in the vast expanse of the universe.

The pale dot is a small mark that lacks color.

In this video, Jason is referring to Carl Sagan's up short poem, which you can find on YouTube, and we will share it at the end of this video.

Echo is to repeat, reflect a sound or an idea.

For example, my voice echoes.

In the Grand Canyon.

There's only Earth, a single celestial body teeming with life.

The womb in which we dwell, Celeste show means to be positioned in the sky relative to space.

Into team means to be filled with something and overflowing, teeming with life.

A womb is the place that something is generated.

The part of a woman's body with the baby develops before birth.

It's it's well is a more poetic senator them for the verb toe live.

Carl Sagan's famous pale blue dot film echoed the same idea.

From the vantage point of space, there are no lines, dividing nations, no geographical subdivisions, no flags or racial divides or disputed territory.

There is only Earth, a single celestial body teeming with life, the womb in which we dwell.

Yet the fact is, our historically myopic point of you most certainly are limited.

Perspective has resulted in much animosity.

We have all too often organized ourselves into competing hostile tribes, subject gating each other for land and resource is and misrepresenting the big picture into a story of borders, subdivisions and dividing lines.

Too much hostility, not enough empathy and compassion.

Cultural differences, religion, tribes, nation race, thes air, creative expressions and variations that should and could be celebrated.

Instead, they become symbols that are all too often used to create suffocating boundaries.

And they are increasingly ill conceived.

Toe address challenges of a hyper connected global world.

As advancements in technology and information enabled greater mobility of ideas, goods and people, the role of the physical border is shifting on due for an upgrade.

Conflicts remain, and too many people are restricted access to the increasingly fluid means of migration, transportation and movement.

Migration has always been a defining factor of the human experience.

Migration has and continues to touch all nations, cultures and regions, all peoples on the planet.

Migration has been the seed a TTE the heart of thriving societies, accelerating the dissemination of knowledge and ideas.

Restricting migration is ultimately like restricting the flow of ideas in much the same way that we don't tolerate censorship or book burning way might consider the ways in which restricting the free movement of people can be equally punishing to the idea of human flourish.

The desire to become a global citizen is human.

We all haven't.

We all share the same goals for safety, comfort and prosperity for our family.

Some are fortunate enough to be able to invest in the second residence and citizenship, while others are forced to seek asylum for their survival.

Being a global citizen is also about the strong and the wealthy helping the weak and the poor, as we saw with the global Citizen Tax initiative, border disputes, conflict zones, armed borders, thes air, things that persist and need to be addressed way need a new story, a new lens with which to address these inconsistencies way need to scale up toe, unleash a truly global citizen, exchanging ideas, beliefs goods and service is, it has been said that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

And so perhaps it is.

By extending our games, we need a new story, a new lens with which to address these inconsistencies.

A lens is literally the class you see through to improve your vision, but cameras and telescopes also have lenses.

Your lens for the world could be considered your world view or belief system.

We need to scale up to unleash a truly global citizen unleashes to release something powerful for me and restrained or captive.

Quite literally.

Here's a dog wearing a leash.

This is maybe where the words come from, because take a leash off would be to unleash it.

Global citizenry's of believe that we're all part of a shared global community, almost like a nation that contains the entire planet.

It has been said that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

And so perhaps it is by extending our gaze beyond is on the other side of something.

For example, our grand vision and real life English is to create a world beyond borders.

Your line of sight is what you can see physically in the world with the vision of your eyes gazes a fixed, intent, conscious look.

For example, she gazed out into the horizon, waiting for the sun to rise.

We need a new story, a new lens with which to address these inconsistencies way need to scale up toe unleash a truly global citizen.

Exchanging ideas, beliefs, goods and service is it has been said that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

And so perhaps it is by extending our gaze using marvelous new storytelling tools like virtual reality that Weaken Bridge Division's and Bring Worlds together, ushering in a form of radical empathy to see the other is ourselves.

Where boundaries are dissolved in compassion reigns massive transformation of consciousness, a software upgrade for mankind birthing a new kind of global citizen waken do this using marvelous his storytelling tools virtual reality that weaken bridge division to bring worlds together.

Two bridges to join two separate things in the same way that a bridge joins two pieces of land, for example, English is a way to bridge communication between different countries, ushering and a form of radical empathy to see the other as ourselves.

The usher is to cause or mark the start of something new, for example, ushered in the new year with a party.

Compassion reigns supreme to rain.

So rule over something.

For example, under the king's leadership peace reign for centuries, a software upgrade for mankind birthing a new kind of global citizen.

We can do this birth to give birth or life, and in this case he's talking about the birth of a new consciousness.

It has been said that empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.

And so perhaps it is by extending our gaze using marvelous new storytelling tools like virtual reality that Weaken Bridge Division's and Bring worlds together, ushering in a form of radical empath to see the other is ourselves.

Where boundaries are dissolved in compassion reigns massive transformation of consciousness, a software upgrade for mankind birthing a new kind of global citizen.

We can do this.

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