Listen to the panel discussion from the online Premiere of The Edge | Bruce Anderson - Natural Humanship. This project quickly evolved from a short video promo to an award winning documentary on humans as stewards of the earth.
Featuring:
Hugh Blanc
James O’Connor
Bruce Anderson
Hosted by Julianne Neal
I met Bruce once briefly in Trinidad working. I was actually now taking a look at the film which was actually filming and so on before my time. Just put in perspective, I've worked with AOS as a video editor, so I was just taking a look at it and Bruce happened to be in the country - he popped by and I'm not sure what you're waiting for, James to do something. And because we were all waiting, you had a brief chat with us, and in that brief moment you shared a little bit about your philosophy and the thing that I remember you telling me in in that time 'cause we only had a brief time…
It was in discussing the idea of of how we how we form at a young age, we form reactions to things. And our mind, almost like an energy saver... our mind doesn't necessarily create brand new reactions for every scenario, but rather will reference. Similar incidents and sometimes those reference reactions don't match the current scenario. And so we don't even realize that we're sort of reacting with a pre-programmed response to something, when in fact the scenario doesn't call for that response, but we are actually just being sort of triggered to an old response to something which may have been inappropriate response that we developed in the 1st place.
So this was in about probably I would say 15 to 20 minute conversation that I had with Bruce the one time we met and the one conversation I had with Bruce, and that's a takeaway that that stuck with me so well. You know, just to put in perspective my viewpoint of Bruce is somebody that you you can speak to for a brief time and learn a hell of a lot that you can take away from it. You know it's kind of... You take away what you can. You can hold on to that type of stuff so
Thanks, it was a pleasure and I'll ask you a question: So here's my question: in sharing that with you - Did that information help you, any? At anytime along your journey from then to now?
I think certainly... I can be honest, I can't necessarily tell you a specific example of overnight, and then I thought this at that point in time, but I think that it's... I won't say either that I think it wasn't something that I wasn't aware of on some level, but by bringing it to the forefront it makes it that much more impactful. And yes, it does make you It does make you take a second to consider your responses even in terms of how you feel about something, and I liken it as a writer. I liken it to credit to when you do a can you get criticism on your writing. Your instinct is to get defensive about it. Or for some people, their instinct is to automatically change what they've done, when in fact what you need to do is you need to listen to the criticism... Understand where it's coming from... Examine what you've done, and then you make the decision whether that is right for you to do that or not.
Meeting Bruce and hearing this is one thing, but Bruce doing the work with the horses, I think, is the is the key. And I like you had an awareness of these things, you know, and having awareness and and could say, yeah, I know where Bruce is coming from, but I sort of secondhand did this work in the round pen. Because I was in it with the subject that we would work with. You know, some amazing. I mean, I've made so many friends on this on this journey. But what Bruce talks about muscle memory, and and the horse, really is such an imposing way to have that muscle memory taught to you...
