John Anthony West and Robert Bauval visit the temple of Abu Simbel, discussing how the site employs "talismanic technology".

Explorer Bruce Parry joins the Babongo tribe in Gabon, living and hunting with them. At the end of his stay, he is initiated into the tribe via a dose of Iboga, a powerful hallucinogenic which lies at the heart of Babongo culture, which provides a haunting, introspective look at one's own life. (58min 58sec)

Anthropologist Wade Davis, author of the well-known book on Haitian voodoo The Serpent and the Rainbow, celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. Davis argues that we should be concerned not only for preserving the biosphere, but also the "ethnosphere," which he describes as "the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness."

A short little Google Earth animation showing a number of the pyramids of China.