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World of Secrets is where untold stories are exposed.
And in this new series, we investigate the dark side of the wellness industry, following the story of a woman who.
Joined a yoga school only to uncover.
A world she never expected.
I feel that I have no other choice.
The only thing I can do is to speak about this,
where the hope of spiritual breakthroughs leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.
You just get sucked in so gradually, and it's done so skillfully that you don't realize.
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Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the year 2000, this is a meeting of Earth scientists, and Paul Crutzen is getting cross.
He's already a Nobel Prize winner, known for his breakthrough work on the ozone layer.
He's doing his best to listen, but the speakers are referring over and over again to something called the Holocene,
the geological time period stretching back about 12,000 years.
But Paul believes that the world is now radically different.
Talking as if it isn't is missing something fundamental, something really urgent.
He shoots up.
Stop saying the Holocene.
He barks.
We're not in the Holocene anymore.