dr. jane goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Environmentalist, Humanitarian, Philosopher, Mystic,

Peace Maker

Part 1: BeginningDr. Jane was born April 3rd, 1934

Part 1: BeginningIn 1939, Brittan declares war on Germany.

Jane was five years old.

Part 1: BeginningThe Birches is still Jane’s primary residence.

Dr. Jane

• “How should the mind that can contemplate God relate to our fellow beings, the other life-forms of the world? What is our human responsibility? And what, ultimately, is our human destiny?”

Part 1: Beginnings • 1952 Jane receives

her higher certificate from school.

• 1956 Jane receives and invitation from a school friend to come to Kenya.

• 1957 Jane sails to Africa.

Part 1: Beginnings Jane meets famous anthropologist Louis Leaky and becomes his personal secretary.

Dr. Leaky Dr. Leaky was one of the first to postulate and prove that human evolutionary development began in Africa and not Asia.

He also mentored, Dian Fossey (Gorillas in the Mist) and Birute Galdikas (Born to be Wild).

Par 1: Beginnings 1960: “Ah! We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!”

--Dr. Louis Leaky

Par 1: Beginnings 60 Minutes Interview

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Q6-hh49mU

Part 2: The MysticTime Alone

“…those months at Gombe helped to shape the person I am today…All the time I was getting closer to the animals and nature, and as a result, closer to myself and more and more in tune with the spiritual power that I felt all around,” Dr. Jane

Part 2: The MysticThe Problem of Evil

1975: Kidnapping in Gombe

1976: Jane Goodall Institute was founded

1974 to 1978: 4 Year Chimpanzee War

Part 2: The MysticCultural Speciation“…the tendency to form select in-groups from which we exclude those who do not share our ethnic background, socioeconomic position, political persuasions, religious beliefs, and so on is one of the major causes of war, rioting, gang violence, and other kinds of conflict,” Dr. Jane

Part 2: The MysticCultural Speciation: The Barrier to World Peace

“Clearly, cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. And, provided we remained locked within these cultural mind prisons, all our fine ideas about the Family of Man, the Global Village, and the uniting of nations would be just rhetoric,” Dr. Jane

Part 3: SolutionsSpiritual and Moral Evolution “…the flame of pure spirit that is in each and every one of us, that is part of the creator; what the Buddhists call kernel. That which is loved, I realized, can grow. We had to learn to understand and love this Spirit within in order to find peace within. And only then could we reach out beyond the narrow prison of our own lives, seeking reunion with the Spiritual Power that we call God, or Allah, the Tao, Brahma, the creator, or whatever our personal beliefs prescribes. Once we had attained that goal, our power to connect with others, so that together we could create a better world, would be immeasurably greater,” Dr. Jane.

Part 3: Solutions1986: Harvard University Press publishes “Chimpanzees of Gombe.”

1987: Jane visits Federally funded lab SEMA, Inc.

Part 4: Solutions

• http://www.janegoodall.org/media/videos/uk-commonwealth-day-2012Video

Part 4: Reasons for Hope1. The Human Brain2. The Resilience of

Nature.3. The energy and

enthusiasm of young people

4. The indomitable human spirit.