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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine Bateson to help us understand the puzzle of being ourselves, of rising to our best capacities and gifts, in all of our complexity and strangeness. She is the daughter of the great anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and she is a linguist and anthropologist herself.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build

0:04.3

the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

0:07.1

Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force

0:11.7

for our lives.

0:13.1

A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and

0:17.8

the natural world.

0:19.1

Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

0:22.2

I'm Christa Tippett.

0:23.3

Up next, my unedited conversation with the wise, linguist and anthropologist Mary

0:29.3

Catherine Bateson.

0:31.1

There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

0:36.3

Okay.

0:37.3

So, Christa is on the line now.

0:40.9

If you were hearing her, just give her a shout back.

0:43.5

Hello?

0:44.5

Christa, are you there?

0:45.5

I am.

0:46.5

Can you hear me?

0:47.5

Ah, and I can hear you now.

0:48.9

Well, hello.

0:50.3

I was adjusting the wrong volume now.

0:53.7

You can be forgiven for that.

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