What makes our civilized world, for me, barbaric, is that we have chosen to control our environment rather than ourselves – we are decadent. If you ask the average Westerner to stop thinking and quieten their mind, they'd look at you blankly. As one of my students said to me recently: "How on Earth can I stop thinking – that's all that the mind does!" Yet ask a hunter-gatherer, like an Australian aboriginal, to do the same and they would have no problem, because there is nothing in their mind that is not natural. Our noisy and full minds are indications of arrogance and disconnexion, both of which are products of fear.