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Every living system on our beloved planet

is an eloquent expression of the universe's astonishing ability

to come into perfect balance.

And then to do what life is meant to do.

To thrive.

Thriving is the natural flow of life.

Consider what is surely on of the greatest wonders of all...

How a tiny egg and a single irrepressibly plucky sperm

can unleash a process that brings forth in the end, another one of us.

A being of vast ability and unlimited potential,

with a brain capable of complex and soaring self-reflection,

legs made to dance and run,

fingers nimble enough to weave a basket,

play a violin,

caress a face.

If nature teaches us anything

it is that Life is meant to work.

And that like every living thing, our purpose is to thrive.

And yet, for the majority of people on the planet,

life is not about thriving...

It's about surviving,

just trying to hang on.

Is this really the best we can do?

Did the universe labor for nearly 14 billion years

only to bring forth a species that would end up as an enemy to life itself,

and to its own Home?

I don't think so.

My name is Foster Gamble,

and I have spent nearly a lifetime trying to figure out what happened -

what is happening that could account

for the staggering agony and deprivation on this planet?

As a young man, driven by the misery I saw

and by my fear for our survival,

I set out on a journey

seeking to answer questions like:

Is it even possible for humans to thrive?

If so, why aren't we?

My research led me to places I never expected to go,

revealing surprising discoveries that seemed unrelated at first,

but which turned out to be crucially connected, as you'll see.

I found a code -

a pattern in nature that's been embedded in arts and icons throughout the centuries.

I believe this code holds the key to a new source of clean, sustainable energy

that could completely revolutionize the way all people live.

I came to understand how our economic system is rigged.

And I found out what we can do about it.

My journey revealed ways we can claim our power

to create liberating, healthy systems everywhere on Earth.

I have realized that we are not a mistake. We are simply mistaken.

We've been blinded to our brilliance,

shorn of our strength,

ignorant of our genius,

unaware of our true power and magnificence.

But all that…is about to change.

I invite you to share with me the highlights of my unlikely journey.

I've created this Navigator

to take us through time and space.

Let me show you around...

On this screen we can access what I call our Vitals

It's the critical data we don't get from the corporate media,

which in the U.S. has consolidated from 50 companies

down to 5 in just over 25 years.

We'll use this to check on how we are really doing.

The right screen tracks how to chart a healthy, sustainable course

for living on planet Earth.

I call these the Navigating Insights.

And this will be our compass.

Instead of a needle seeking North in our Earth's magnetic field,

our compass is the shape of the field itself.

And that shape, as you will soon see,

has amazing technological and social ramifications.

After a lifetime quest,

I have come to believe that this pattern actually holds the key to a world that works for everyone.

So let's go...

"THRIVE"

"What on Earth will it take?"

I grew up in a world of privilege and power,

attending elite private schools and then Princeton University.

As a direct descendant of one of the founders of Procter and Gamble,

I was groomed to be a leader in the establishment.

But I chose a different path.

"Uncovering The Code"

I began to wake up when I was in elementary school.

Adults were teaching me that the way to protect myself from a nuclear explosion

was to duck under my desk and cover my head.

That's when my serious questioning began.

A couple of years later I had a direct experience of universal energy.

It happened one day, when I was riding on a school bus, gazing out the window...

I had a vision of a whirlpool pattern

and I just knew that the flow of energy I was seeing

was the same in an atom as in our entire solar system.

I felt deeply that, I too, was somehow made of that same pattern.

This vision was what originally got me into science -

into trying to figure out how the universe works

and how we humans fit into the overall pattern of life energy.

Years later I learned that the pattern I saw

is known by some in the scientific world.

It turns out that in 1921 Albert Einstein got a Nobel Prize for discovering

that when energy is released in the Universe,

there are little packets of wholeness that emerge.

This pattern actually tells us a lot about how life evolves.

Considering the enduring wonders of creation throughout the universe,

and how unsustainable so many of our human systems are,

I figured learning how the universe creates and sustains life

would actually be quite useful.

Each of these little packets of wholeness that Einstein discovered,

called a quantum,

is made out of its surroundings but is distinct within it.

Like a whirlpool in water.

These packets are always the same pattern, no matter what size.

And they are surprisingly relevant to issues as seemingly disconnected

as the wars in the Middle East, the global financial collapse

and how we achieve justice for everyone.

We are about to explore how.

Mathematicians call this pattern the torus.

The energy in a torus flows in through one end,

circulates around the center

and exits out the other side.

It's balanced, self-regulating and always whole.

I was first officially introduced to the torus by scientist and inventor Arthur Young.

Futurist Duane Elgin explains

how the torus is the primary pattern that nature uses for life

at every scale.

Evolution means to unfold, to roll out.

So the question is: What is the universe rolling out?

And what the universe is rolling out is self-organizing systems,

and you can see this at every scale.

A self-organizing system is a technical term

for just a system getting ahold of itself,

knowing itself essentially.

And if we go to nature

we can look and we can see these self-organizing forms throughout.

We can see it in the cross section of an orange,

the cross section of an apple.

We can see it in the dynamic nature of a tornado.

We can see it in the magnetic field around the Earth,

a similar magnetic field around an individual.

We can see it in the structure of an entire whirlpool galaxy.

We can see it in the structure of a small atom.

At every scale throughout its entire history,

the universe has one single project.

It is growing toruses!

The universe is a torus-growing factory.

These toroidal dynamics are visible at various scales.

One of them is at the galactic level,

which are huge spinning structures with billions of stars in it.

It looks like, typically, big arms of galaxies

spinning around,

and they have vortices that go from the center out

to the edge of the galactic halo

that surrounds them.

Stars move from this galactic disc out to the halo,

down the vortices and back out again.

Stars, like Arcturus for instance, we know have done that path already.

That's the appropriate description even for the atmosphere of our planet.

The weather goes from the north pole down to the equator and then back up;

and the South Pole, up to the equator and then back down.

Even the dynamics on the surface of the Sun are very similar.

Of course, here we're looking at it from an external perspective

on a small scale model.

When we look at the Solar System embedded in the galaxy,

embedded in the cluster,

embedded in the super-cluster,

we are traveling in this boundless sea of infinite torus flow.

The torus is like the breath of the universe:

it's the form that the flow of energy takes at every scale of existence.

But there is also underlying structure in how the flow fits together -

sort of like a skeleton.