Who Knows What?

A chat about yogic wisdom with Matthew Green

I first met

Matthew Green

when we trained at Reuters as foreign correspondents in the 1990s. He’d just got back from a trip watching U.S. missiles slam into Sudan, while I’d been getting slaphead stoned in the Himalayan foothills.

Much has changed for us both in the meantime, as we discuss in this video dialogue at

Resonant World

. Matthew explores ways of healing collective trauma, and new forms of media that make that more feasible. My main focus is yoga philosophy, along with how it relates to modern life. There are plenty of overlaps!

Stream the conversation at Resonant World

Here’s a brief snippet, bringing a yogic perspective to some of the challenges Matthew covers in his day job – as an investigate editor for the climate website DeSmog:

“Nothing lasts. Everything gets rearranged. In fact, the only thing that is standing outside of this never-ending cycle of change is the thing that the yoga sort of practice and philosophy is pointing towards, a way of being that can tolerate the fact that everything changes and falls to pieces and then gets rearranged again.

“And so being alive to the death of everything is part of facing our predicament as people in the 21st century. And that’s really what we’re looking at. And so, you know, I feel moved to make that connection. This is about everyday life for everybody, whether you want to think about it in yogic terms or not, these ideas are helpful.”