Shinzen talks about Pythagoras and his notion from the 6th century B.C. that the nature of the material world, the nature of number and the inner world of thought, emotion and spirit were connected in a way that if understood could lead to fulfilling the needs of humanity. What Pythagoras and the ancient Greeks needed but didn't have, we have. The confluence of the experimental method, the focus techniques from the east, and the ability to mathematically model these experiments might lead to the achievement of the Pythagorean agenda - the human condition changing in the next century globally and rapidly for the better. Filmed in Santa Barbara in January 2009.