WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:08.880 Hello and welcome. I'm so glad you're here tonight. Before 2 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:12.880 we begin. If these stories bring you peace, I'd be 3 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:15.519 grateful if you'd take a moment to like this video 4 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:19.800 and subscribe to the channel. It helps others find their 5 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:24.920 way here too. But for now, let everything else fade away. 6 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.640 Tonight we're somewhere extraordinary, somewhere rare. The evening, Far North, 7 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:38.479 cabin in wilderness porch, beneath you, sky above, the time 8 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:43.920 to watch northern lights dance. You standing on wooden porch 9 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:49.039 looking up at night sky, watching a boy else appear, 10 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:54.520 shift dance with the ancient lights of Far North, the 11 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.679 cosmic display of color and wonder, the timeless practice of 12 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:05.239 watch sky transform. Nothing much happens, and that's exactly perfect. 13 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:13.159 Let's prepare your body for rest. Find your most comfortable position, 14 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:20.840 adjust anything you need. You're safe here, You're exactly where 15 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:25.400 you need to be. Take a gentle breath in through 16 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:33.519 your nose, hold it softly, and release it slowly through 17 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:45.159 your mouth. Good again, Breathe in slowly and deeply, hold 18 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:52.239 for a moment and let it go, releasing any tension 19 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:00.200 from your day. Your shoulders drop away from your ears, 20 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:11.000 your jaw relaxes, teeth slightly apart, your tongue rests softly 21 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:17.360 in your mouth. Your eyes are gently closed. There's nothing 22 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:22.560 you need to see right now, just my voice, just 23 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:28.919 the story, just the peace. Feel your body becoming heavy, 24 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:36.319 sinking into comfort, supported and safe. There's no hurry here, 25 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:42.319 no rushing, just standing, just watching, just being present, the 26 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.759 rhythm of sky, transforming of lights, dancing of cosmic wonder, perfect, 27 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:56.520 perfect peace. And now, when you're ready, come with me. 28 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:03.759 We're watching the northern lights this evening. The place far north, 29 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:12.800 very far north. The place Alaska, perhaps more northern Canada, Iceland, Norway, Finland, 30 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:19.960 somewhere in Arctic circle. Perfect place, perfect north. The cabin, small, 31 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:24.159 wooden cabin, The cabin remote, isolated in wilderness, the cabin 32 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.960 miles from nearest town, from light, pollution, from anything man made. 33 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.199 Perfect cabin, perfect remote. 34 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:37.080 The porch, wooden porch outside cabin. The porch facing north, 35 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:42.719 best view of the sky. The porch where you stand now, 36 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.400 looking up, waiting. 37 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:50.280 Perfect porch, perfect wooden. The time evening, late evening, the 38 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:56.039 time after dinner, after dark fell, the time when northern 39 00:03:56.280 --> 00:04:01.919 lights most likely to appear, perfect time, perfect evening. The 40 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:08.599 temperature cold, very cold, the cold below freezing, perhaps zero 41 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:15.159 degrees or lower. The cold, but you dressed warmly, heavy coat, hat, gloves, boots, 42 00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:20.959 perfect cold, perfect dressed. Your breath visible in air, the air, 43 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:26.600 white clouds with each exhale, the air cold enough to 44 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:31.879 see your breathing, proof of life in frozen night, perfect air, 45 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:39.120 perfect visible. The silence, profound, complete silence, the silence, no cars, 46 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.079 no planes, no human sounds at all, just wilderness quiet, perfect, 47 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:49.959 perfect silence, perfect profound. The sky above you, clear, the clear, 48 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:56.519 no clouds, tonight, the clear, perfect conditions for viewing Aurora, 49 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:02.600 for seeing lights dance, perfect clear, perfect sky. The stars 50 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:08.120 visible everywhere, the everywhere, thousands of stars, the everywhere, no 51 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:14.160 light pollution here, so stars brilliant, bright, more than you've 52 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:20.360 ever seen, perfect everywhere, perfect stars. The milky way visible 53 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.720 to the two stretching across the sky, the two, river 54 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.600 of the stars, band of light, galaxy, the wee live 55 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:34.759 in visible from Earth, perfect to perfect milky. You stand 56 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:39.399 still on porch, the porch, looking north, looking up the porch, 57 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:43.199 waiting for lights to begin to appear, to dance across 58 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:49.040 dark sky, perfect porch, perfect waiting. Then you see it, 59 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:55.480 the first sign the it. Faint green glow on northern horizon, 60 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:01.000 barely visible at first, like dawn, but wrong, perfect it 61 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:06.399 perfect first, the glow strengthening slowly, the slowly getting brighter, 62 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:12.920 more visible, the slowly green color becoming clearer, more defined, 63 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:19.720 more obviously not natural horizon light, perfect, slowly, perfect strengthening. 64 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:26.319 Your heart beats faster, slightly, the faster, excitement building, the faster, 65 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:33.759 This is it, northern lights beginning, Aurora starting to appear, perfect, faster, 66 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:39.680 perfect heart. The green spreading upward, the upward, from horizon 67 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:45.680 into sky, the upward, like curtain rising like veil, lifting 68 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:52.240 color moving up into darkness, perfect upward, perfect spreading. The 69 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:57.720 color ethereal green, the green not like any green on Earth, 70 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:03.720 the green glowing, luminous, pale green, mint green, sometimes brighter 71 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:09.160 emerald green, shifting, perfect green, perfect ethereal. The lights beginning 72 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:13.560 to move, the move not aesthetic, not still, but flowing. 73 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:20.319 The move like fabric blowing in wind, like curtains, swaying, dancing, alive, 74 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:26.560 perfect move, perfect beginning. You watch, mesmerized, the mesmerized, can't 75 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:32.399 look away, the mesmerized, most beautiful thing you've ever seen, 76 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:40.000 perhaps cosmic dance, just for you tonight, perfect mesmerized, perfect watch. 77 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:44.800 The aurora forms arc, the arc stretching east to west, 78 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:50.319 the arc band of green light curving across northern sky, 79 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:56.560 like rainbow made of single color. Perfect arc, perfect forms 80 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:01.319 the lights intensifying now, the now brighter, more vibrant, the 81 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.399 now green, glowing, stronger, pulsing, almost waves of light moving 82 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:13.279 through sky perfect now, perfect, testifying. Purple appears at edges, 83 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:18.319 the edges, faint purple tint the edges top of green, 84 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:24.439 curtain bottom, sometimes purple mixing with green, creating new beauty, 85 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.759 perfect edges, perfect purple. The colors dancing together now, the together, 86 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:36.559 green and purple, swirling, the together, moving, shifting, flowing like 87 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:43.440 northern wind, made visible, made color, made light, perfect together, 88 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:49.879 perfect dancing. The aurora forms ribbons. Now the ribbons vertical 89 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:54.519 bands of light, the ribbons hanging from the sky, like 90 00:08:54.840 --> 00:09:01.639 curtains from Heaven, streaming down toward Earth. Perfect perfect forms, 91 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:06.360 the ribbons moving sideways, the sideways drifting across the sky. 92 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:12.039 The sideways slow graceful movement, like dancers on stage performing 93 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.960 for audience of one. Perfect sideways, perfect moving, then faster 94 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:23.919 moving suddenly, the suddenly lights pulsing brighter, the suddenly ribbons 95 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:34.120 waving rapidly like flags in strong wind, energy increasing, display, intensifying, perfect, suddenly, perfect, faster. 96 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.639 You gasp slightly, the gasp at beauty, at wonder. The 97 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:44.879 gasp can't help it, too magnificent, too extraordinary for silence, 98 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:52.080 even though alone perfect gasp perfect slightly. Bloom appears at top, 99 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:57.279 the top, very top of aurora, the top faint blue edge, 100 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:02.759 rare color special when it appears sign of strong aurora 101 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:08.200 perfect top, perfect blue. The colors now three layers, the 102 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:14.240 layers blue at top, green in middle, purple at bottom. 103 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:19.279 The layers like cosmic layer cake made of light, perfect layers, 104 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:24.360 perfect three. Pink flashes briefly the briefly very bottom edge, 105 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:29.639 the briefly rare pink Aurora special, precious, most beautiful color 106 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:36.840 when appears perfect briefly perfect pink. You feel tears in eyes, 107 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:42.240 the eyes from beauty from cold, perhaps the eyes both, 108 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:46.360 probably overcome by wonder of this moment, this display, perfect eyes, 109 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:51.000 perfect tears. The aurora fills entire northern sky. Now the 110 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:56.120 now from horizon two directly overhead, the now dome of 111 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.519 color light above you, surrounding you, almost perfect now, perfect 112 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:09.600 fills the movement, constant, never still, the still, always shifting, flowing, dancing, 113 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:15.080 the still like living thing breathing, moving alive in sky 114 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:20.919 above perfect still, perfect never. You understand the science, the 115 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:26.240 science solar wind from the Sun, the science charged particles 116 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:32.480 traveling through space, hitting Earth's magnetic field, being funneled to poles, 117 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:39.799 perfect science, perfect understand the magnetosphere protecting Earth, the Earth 118 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:46.960 invisible shield around planet, the Earth deflecting most solar wind, 119 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:53.080 but some gets through at poles, creating aurora. Perfect Earth, 120 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:59.679 perfect protecting the particles colliding with atmosphere, the atmosphere hitting 121 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:06.679 oxygen and nitrogen molecules, the atmosphere exciting atoms, making them glow, 122 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:13.039 creating colors we see perfect atmosphere perfect Colliding oxygen creates 123 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:18.120 green and red, the red different altitudes, different colors. The 124 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:23.519 red green most common from oxygen at lower altitude, red 125 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:29.679 higher up rare perfect red. Perfect oxygen. Nitrogen creates blue 126 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.080 and purple, the purple purples at lower edges, the purple 127 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:39.519 blues at top when strong aurora, both from nitrogen glowing 128 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.879 perfect purple, perfect nitrogen. This science doesn't diminish wonder. The 129 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:51.879 wonder understanding how doesn't make less beautiful The wonder maybe 130 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:59.080 makes more amazing that nature does this, perfect wonder, perfect science. 131 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:07.480 Indigenous peoples have other explanations, the explanations, stories, past, down generations, 132 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.759 the explanations different cultures, different meanings, all beautiful, all true 133 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:23.639 in their way, perfect explanations, perfect Indigenous. Some say spirits dancing, 134 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.360 the dancing ancestors playing in sky, the dancing, celebrating happy, 135 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:35.240 free in afterlife, visible to living below, perfect dancing, perfect spirits. 136 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:42.919 Some say lights are messages, the messages from those who passed, 137 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:48.159 the messages communicating with living, sending signs saying we're here, 138 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:53.759 We're will perfect messages, perfect lights. Some say ball game 139 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:59.360 in sky, the sky ancestors playing with walrus skull the sky, 140 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:02.639 kicking it back and forth, creating lights as they play. 141 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:08.000 Perfect sky, perfect game. Norse mythology had explanation two, the 142 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:12.039 two by Frost rainbow bridge, the two connecting Earth two 143 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:16.799 asgard home of God's aurora, reflecting off bridge, perfect two. 144 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.519 Perfect Norse or valkyries riding across the sky, the sky 145 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:27.840 warrior maidens choosing the slain the sky, their armor reflecting light, 146 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:33.039 creating aurora as they ride perfect sky, perfect valkyries, all 147 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:39.320 these stories beautiful, the beautiful, humans trying to explain wonder, 148 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:45.480 the beautiful before science knew how, creating meaning, creating connection 149 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:53.440 to mystery, perfect, beautiful, perfect stories. You don't have to choose. 150 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:58.559 The choose can appreciate both the choose. Scientific explanation and 151 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:06.600 spiritual story, both valid, both add to experience. Perfect, Choose perfect, don't. 152 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:12.799 The aurora calming slightly now the now still visible, still beautiful, 153 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:18.240 the now, but less intense than moment ago, gentler, flowing, 154 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.000 more peaceful, perfect now, perfect, calming, the green returning two 155 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:29.960 pale glow, the glow softer, quieter, almost the glow, gentle 156 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:36.320 wash of color across sky, peaceful after intense display, perfect glow, 157 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:40.480 perfect pale, but not ending, the ending, not disappearing, the ending, 158 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:46.879 just resting, between pulses, between waves of intensity. Aurora breathing 159 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:53.480 almost perfect, ending, perfect not. You stand completely still, the still, 160 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:58.279 don't want to move, still, don't want to miss anything, 161 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:03.519 any moment, any color, any dance, perfect, still, perfect, completely. 162 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:09.600 The silence around you profound, the profound, no sound at all, 163 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:14.840 the profound except your breathing, your heartbeat. That's all, just 164 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:20.600 you and a perfect, profound, perfect silence, This moment rare, 165 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:26.039 so rare, the rare. Not everyone sees northern lights, the rare, 166 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:32.759 many dream of it, travel far for chance, never see them, perfect, rare, 167 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:38.639 perfect this. You are lucky, blessed, the blessed to be 168 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.120 here now, the blessed to witness this cosmic display, this 169 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.679 natural wonder, this dancing light, perfect, blessed, perfect you. How 170 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:53.200 many people on Earth right now, the now, seven billion 171 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:58.600 perhaps the now? How many seeing aurora tonight? Thousand, maybe 172 00:16:58.840 --> 00:17:03.360 few thousand. That's a perfect now, perfect view. You are 173 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:09.640 one of them, for them, one of lucky ones tonight, 174 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:14.359 for them, standing under dancing lights, experiencing what most people 175 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.880 never will, perfect them, perfect one. The cold forgotten now, 176 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:25.240 the forgotten two focused on lights. The forgotten don't feel cold, 177 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:32.200 don't feel anything except wonder except awe, perfect forgotten, perfect cold, 178 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:37.599 Your neck tilted back, looking up. The up might hurt tomorrow, 179 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:42.079 the up, don't care. You're worth it, every second, worth 180 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:47.160 any discomfort to see this, perfect up, perfect looking. The 181 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:57.000 aurora intensifying again, the again, building toward another peak, the again, green, brightening, purple, deepening, movement, 182 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:02.440 increasing speed, energy, returning, perfect again, perfect intensifying, the curtains 183 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:08.880 waving faster now the now like storm wind blowing the now, 184 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:16.480 ribbons streaming, flowing, dancing wildly across sky, magnificent display, perfect now, 185 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:22.440 perfect faster corona forms overhead, the overhead directly above you, 186 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:28.480 the overhead lights radiating from single point, like flower blooming 187 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:34.240 in the sky, rare special formation, perfect overhead, perfect corona. 188 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:40.720 You spin slowly, looking all around the around. Aurora visible 189 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:46.440 in all directions, the around, not just north, but everywhere, 190 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:52.480 sky filled with light, perfect around, perfect all this strong aurora, 191 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.559 very strong, the strong KP index high tonight, the strong 192 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:03.920 solar activity intense reading, powerful display visible far south of 193 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:10.640 Arctic circle, perfect, strong, perfect, very. The sun has cycles, 194 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:16.319 the cycles eleven year cycle of activity, the cycles solar maximum, 195 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:21.240 solar minimum, different sunspot levels, different aurora frequency, perfect cycles 196 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:28.640 perfect sunwere near solar maximum now perhaps the perhaps more auroras, 197 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:33.400 more often, more intense, the perhaps best time to see 198 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:38.160 northern lights in decade, perfect, perhaps perfect near. You feel 199 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:44.319 small under this sky, the sky, tiny human on tiny porch, 200 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:50.480 sky on tiny planet, under vast cosmos, under dancing lights 201 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:56.920 stretching miles high, perfect sky, perfect, small, but not insignificant, 202 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:01.519 the insignificant, not meaningless, the insignificant. You're part of this, 203 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:05.799 connected to this, witness to this cosmic event, perfect, insignificant, 204 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:11.920 perfect not You are Universe observing itself, the itself. Cosmos 205 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:17.519 become conscious, thee itself through you, through your eyes, Universe 206 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:24.599 sees its own beauty, perfect itself, perfect universe. This thought 207 00:20:25.319 --> 00:20:34.799 profound makes you feel connected, the connected, two everything, two stars, 208 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:41.519 two earth, the connected to solar wind, two magnetic field, 209 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:48.839 two atoms glowing above, perfect connected, perfect feel. The lights 210 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:54.799 shift to red briefly, the briefly rare red Aurora, the 211 00:20:54.799 --> 00:21:00.839 briefly high altitude oxygen glowing red instead of green, special, 212 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.400 precious moment, perfect, briefly perfect red. The red mixed with 213 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.759 green creates yellow, almost the almost brief flash off golden light, 214 00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:16.400 the almost then back to green and purple, constantly changing, 215 00:21:16.519 --> 00:21:26.720 never same, perfect, almost perfect yellow. You think about Aurora chasers, 216 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:34.279 the chasers, people who dedicate lives to this, The chasers 217 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:43.720 traveling world, following solar forecasts, chasing lights every winter, perfect chasers. 218 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:49.640 Perfect Aurora. Photographers set up cameras here, the here, in 219 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:55.279 far North, every night, the here, hoping for display like this, 220 00:21:55.759 --> 00:22:01.599 trying to capture beauty in image perfect here perfect photographers, 221 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:06.960 but photos never quite capture it. The it can't show movement, dancing, 222 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.559 the it can't show how it feels to stand under 223 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:16.680 this sky, to witness directly, perfect it, perfect photos. This 224 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:22.680 must be experienced, the experienced, not through screen, not through lens, 225 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:27.359 the experienced, with own eyes, own heart, own presence, Here 226 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:33.640 now perfect, experienced perfect. Must you wonder who else seeing 227 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:40.440 this tonight, the tonight somewhere in Alaska, someone looking up 228 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.720 the tonight in Iceland, in Norway, in fillin in Northern Canada, 229 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:49.119 all seeing same display, perfect tonight, Perfect Who all connected 230 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:54.359 by this moment, the moment, Strangers across thousands of miles, 231 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:59.759 the moment, all looking up, all witnessing same solar wind, 232 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:07.200 same aurora, same wonder, perfect moment, perfect connected. Some traveled 233 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:13.480 far for this, This saved money, booked flights. This came 234 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:19.160 too far north just for chance to see northern lights, 235 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:25.400 bucket list dream perfect, this perfect traveled Some lucky like you, 236 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:29.799 perhaps the perhaps just here, right place, right time, that 237 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:36.359 perhaps didn't plan, didn't travel far, just fortunate to be here, perfect, 238 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:41.880 perhaps perfect, lucky either way, blessed to witness, the witness, 239 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:47.880 this natural wonder, this cosmic display, the witness, gift from universe, 240 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:53.319 from Sun, from Earth's magnetic field. Perfect witness, perfect blessed. 241 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:59.599 This memory will last forever, the forever you know this, 242 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:05.960 the forever we'll remember this night, this sky, these dancing lights, 243 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:11.720 for rest of life, perfect forever, perfect memory. Years from now, decades, 244 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:16.519 perhaps the perhaps you'll tell stories, the perhaps I saw 245 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.079 northern lights once in far north, most beautiful thing I 246 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:24.160 ever saw. Perfect, perhaps perfect years the aurora forming patches now, 247 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:29.240 the now discrete areas of light, the now scattered across sky, 248 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:35.039 like clouds made of color, glowing, floating, moving slowly, perfect now, 249 00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:39.720 perfect patches. The patches drift east to west, the west, 250 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:46.279 following Earth's magnetic field lines the west invisible force made 251 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:52.519 visible by glowing particles, nature showing hidden structures, perfect West, 252 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:58.400 perfect drift and arc forms again low on horizon, the 253 00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:03.880 horizon starting point for new display, the horizon building from 254 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:10.680 bottom up, green band, emerging, growing, spreading, perfect horizon, perfect arc. 255 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:17.000 This could go on all night, the night. Aurora can 256 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:23.759 last hours the night, sometimes all night, sometimes just minutes, unpredictable, 257 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:29.880 wild natural phenomenon, perfect night perfect. Could you've been standing here? 258 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.599 How long? The long? Don't know exactly the long time 259 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:40.079 disappeared lost in wonder, could be hour, could be two, 260 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:45.440 perfect long, perfect? How your feet cold now the now 261 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:50.680 notice finally the now standing still so long, cold, seeping 262 00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:56.640 through boots, through players, but still don't want leave? Perfect now, 263 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:02.400 perfect cold. Just few more minutes, you think, the think 264 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:08.119 just a little longer, the think, don't want to miss anything, 265 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:13.559 don't want this to end ever, perfect think, perfect, view, 266 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:21.359 the Aurora, your companion, Tonight, the tonight dancing for you, 267 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:28.759 the tonight private show, cosmic performance, universe saying, look at 268 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:36.079 this beauty. I can create perfect tonight, perfect companion. You 269 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:42.240 feel gratitude, deep gratitude, the gratitude for being alive now, 270 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:47.759 the gratitude for being here, for having eyes to see, 271 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:53.440 heart to feel mine, to understand, perfect gratitude, perfect deep. 272 00:26:54.359 --> 00:27:01.640 You've seen wonders before, the before Grand canyon, perhaps ocean 273 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:07.160 at sunset, mountains covered in snow, the before, nature's beauties. 274 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:12.720 Many varied spectacular, perfect before perfect wonders. But this different, somehow, 275 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:18.519 the somehow more rare, more special, the somehow cosmic, not 276 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:26.559 just earthly, involving sun, space, magnetic fields, atmosphere, everything coming together, perfect, 277 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:32.319 somehow perfect. This the northern lights, her mind, you, the 278 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:37.480 ew of forces beyond Earth, the ue of Sun ninety 279 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:42.880 three million miles away affecting us here, of space, not 280 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:47.480 empty but full, perfect u perfect her mind. The aurora 281 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.400 calming again, slowly, the slowly intensity decreasing gradually, the slowly 282 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:59.279 display winding down, perhaps for now, for tonight, coming to pause, perfect, slowly, 283 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:04.759 perfect calming, the lights fading to faint glow, the glow 284 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:11.359 still visible, but dimmer, the glow pale green wash across horizon, 285 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:17.079 gentle reminder of spectacular display just witnessed, perfect glow, perfect fading, 286 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:23.519 the stars visible again more clearly, the clearly aurora dimmer 287 00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:29.440 now not outshining stars, the clearly thousands of stars bright 288 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:35.920 in dark sky, milky way, brilliant, perfect, clearly perfect stars. 289 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:42.400 You take deep breath, the breath, cold air, filling lungs, 290 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:47.480 the breath, feeling alive, feeling present, feeling connected to this moment, 291 00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:52.119 this place, this sky, perfect breath, perfect, deep. The aurora 292 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:58.200 might return tonight, the tonight might brighten again tonight, What 293 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:03.359 might be done? Finished four this evening, sleeping until tomorrow 294 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:10.039 night perfect tonight, perfect night. But you've seen enough, perhaps 295 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:16.599 the perhaps more than enough, that perhaps spectacular display, already witnessed, 296 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:23.319 memory already made perfect, already enough, perfect scene. You should 297 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:28.759 go inside, the inside, Warm up the inside, feet very 298 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:35.839 cold now, hands too even in gloves, cold, sleeping in need, warmth, 299 00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:40.559 perfect inside, perfect should but hard to leave the leaf? 300 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:47.720 What if or returns the leaf? What if miss something beautiful, 301 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.960 something special? I don't want to miss perfect, leave perfect hard. 302 00:29:51.400 --> 00:30:01.880 You compromise with yourself, yourself, go inside, but stay near window, 303 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:09.279 see yourself, watch sky from inside. If Aurora returns, strong, 304 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:16.079 can come back out perfect yourself, perfect comprise. You turn 305 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:20.759 toward cabin door, the door, one last look at sky, 306 00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:26.279 the door faint green glow still there on horizon, peaceful, 307 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:31.759 gentle light, perfect door, perfect last inside cabin warm, the 308 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:37.680 warm fire in woodstove burning the warm heat immediate, wonderful 309 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:42.799 after cold outside, tingling in fingers toes, perfect warm, perfect inside. 310 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:48.720 You sit by window, the window, still able to see north, 311 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:54.400 the window, sky visible through glass, can watch for Aurora 312 00:30:54.440 --> 00:31:00.240 from here, perfect window, perfect sit The warmth feels good, 313 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.440 the good, but miss being outside, the good, being under 314 00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:09.200 sky directly, not through glass, different experience separated by window, 315 00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:15.440 perfect good, perfect warmth. You think about Indigenous peoples, the 316 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:20.680 peoples who lived here for millennia, the peoples seeing Aurora 317 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:24.920 every winter, part of life, part of sky, normal, almost 318 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.960 perfect people's perfect indigenous, but not normal, really there really 319 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.759 never normal. They really each display different, unique, special, even 320 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:41.480 if seen one hundred times thousand times, perfect, really perfect. 321 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:46.920 Not the Inuit, the Sami, the many tribes, the tribes 322 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:52.240 all with stories about lights, the tribes all watching same sky, 323 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:57.640 same Aurora for thousands of years. Perfect tribes, perfect many 324 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:03.279 They knew Aurora intimately, the intimately new, when more likely 325 00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:10.480 the intimately clear cold nights, dark moon, winter months, new patterns, 326 00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:18.680 new sky, perfectly perfect, intimately perfect new. You visitor here, 327 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:24.240 a brief visitor, the visitor, few days in cabin, the visitor, 328 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:31.359 they lived, whole lives here, generation after generation under these skies. 329 00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:37.240 Perfect visitor, perfect brief. The Aurora winter phenomenon mostly the 330 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:41.200 mostly because winter nights long dark, the mostly summer too 331 00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:46.079 bright midnight sun can't see Aurora even if they're perfect 332 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.359 mostly perfect winter. The seasons here extreme, the extreme summer 333 00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:58.200 sun never sets, the extreme winter sun barely rises months 334 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:03.680 of darkness, months of light perfect extreme perfect seasons. But 335 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.599 darkness brings gift, the gift of Aurora, of stars, the 336 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.119 gift of seeing cosmos clearly winter darkness, not empty but 337 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:17.559 full of light. Perfect gift, perfect darkness. You look out 338 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.839 window at the sky, the sky, checking four Aurora, the 339 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:26.799 sky still faint, glow on the horizon, not getting brighter, 340 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:32.680 not building, just steady, dim presence, perfect sky, perfect checking. 341 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:38.799 You wait watching patient, the patient Aurora. Watching requires patience, 342 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:45.400 the patient, can't force it, can't rush it, just wait, watch, hope, 343 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:51.240 perfect patient, perfect weight. Minutes pass five, ten, fifteen, The 344 00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:57.359 fifteen glow on horizon stays same, the fifteen dim pale green, 345 00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:04.400 not changing, not growing, not fading either, perfect fifteen, perfect minutes. 346 00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:15.400 Then movement, sudden movement, the movement glow brightening quickly, the 347 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:23.719 movement green, intensifying, spreading upward, building again, Aurora returning for 348 00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:31.800 encore performance, perfect movement, perfect sudden. You stand quickly, the 349 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:38.119 quickly moving to door, the quickly grabbing coat again, hat gloves, 350 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:44.360 going back outside. Can't miss this perfect quickly perfect stand 351 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:49.000 outside again, cold again, the again, but don't care, the 352 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:55.360 again Aurora bright now brighter, then before even final display, 353 00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:03.039 grand finale, perfect again perfect outside. The sky explodes with color, 354 00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:09.519 the color green, purple, blue, all at once, the color brighter, 355 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.719 more vibrant, more intense than any moment before, perfect color, 356 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:19.719 perfect explodes, the lights dancing wildly, the wildly, faster than before, 357 00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:26.039 the wildly, ribbons, streaming, curtains, waving energy, incredible, pulsing through 358 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:32.679 the sky, perfect, wildly, perfect dancing Corona overhead again, the again, 359 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:38.039 directly above the again, radiating from zenith point, flower of 360 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:44.280 light blooming in sky, spectacular, perfect, perfect again, Perfect Corona. 361 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:49.199 This is it, the it peak display, the it everything 362 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:55.159 Aurora can be, showing itself now all beauty, all power, 363 00:35:55.480 --> 00:36:00.920 all glory, perfect it perfect, this new state and frozen 364 00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:05.880 in awe, the awe. Can't move, can't speak, can't think 365 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.679 the awe, Just experience, justness, just be present with this 366 00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:15.760 perfect awe perfect frozen tears on cheeks now the now, 367 00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:21.000 freezing in cold air, the now don't care, too overwhelmed 368 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:26.519 by beauty, too moved to care about tears, perfect now, 369 00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:32.599 perfect tears, This moment, everything, the everything, this moment, why 370 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:38.679 came here, the everything, this moment gift Universe giving you 371 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:46.440 tonight perfect, everything, perfect moment, the lights begin to fade slowly, slowly, 372 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.840 intensity decreasing, gradually, slowly, final display ending now coming to 373 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:58.400 close for real, this time perfect, slowly, perfect fade, with 374 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:02.800 the green paling again, the again, purple disappearing, the again, 375 00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:08.920 blue gone, just faint, green wash remaining getting dimmer, dimmer, 376 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:15.599 almost gone, perfect again, perfect paling, and then nothing, then nothing, 377 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:23.519 Aurora gone, the nothing, sky dark again except stars, just stars, brilliant, 378 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:28.199 beautiful stars. Aurora finished for tonight, perfect nothing, perfect. Then 379 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:33.960 the stars seem brighter now, the now after Aurora faded, 380 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:40.320 the now, thousands of them, millions, perhaps filling sky completely 381 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:46.639 milky way, glowing perfect now perfect, brighter. You Stan in silence, 382 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:53.880 the silence under stars, under dark sky, the silence, Aurora gone, 383 00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:58.639 but memory remains, experience preserved in heart, in mind, perfect silence, 384 00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:08.199 perfect Stan. You feel changed somehow, the somehow different than before, 385 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:19.280 the somehow witnessed something extraordinary, something rare, something beautiful, beyond words, 386 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:26.800 changed by it, perfect, somehow perfect changed. You understand now 387 00:38:27.119 --> 00:38:31.840 the now why people chase Aurora, the now, why they 388 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:37.519 travel far, spend money, wait in cold, because this worth 389 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:44.159 it all, worth it, perfect now, perfect, understand. You understand smallness, 390 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:51.480 your smallness, the smallness under cosmic display, under forces from sun, 391 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:56.519 the smallness tiny human on tiny planet. Witnessing solar wind 392 00:38:56.679 --> 00:39:02.559 made visible perfect smallness, perfect your but also significance, your significance, 393 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:08.639 the significance you are here. You witnessed, you experienced the 394 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:16.239 significance You are Universe observing itself, Cosmos become conscious through you. 395 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:22.599 Perfect significance. Perfect Also, nothing much happened. You stood on 396 00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:28.880 cabin porch in far north, cold night. You watched northern 397 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:34.920 lights appear, dance fade. You saw green light glow on horizon, 398 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:40.320 then spread upward. You watched ribbons form, curtains, wave colors 399 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:44.880 shift green, purple, blue, pink, red, all appearing changing. You 400 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:51.519 saw corona overhead radiating from zenith point. You felt small 401 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:58.559