Meditative ASMR: Caves of Stillness (softspoken sci-fi)
95The planetary surveyor tells us how she decided her path in life.
This video is like a calm meditation, but with a story weaved into it. Softspoken ASMR.
This is part of an ongoing ASMR Science Fiction series. Full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSpyyP09i7mNtqCDDfx1_HOqR7IyuoBJA
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00:00 Intro
01:37 Arrival
04:00 The Astocan way of life
07:35 Philosophy and meditation
11:23 Having doubts and letting go
15:08 Through the caves
18:53 The concert
23:18 Outro
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Quotes & Inspiration
This video was inspired by what little I know about Zen, and by my favorite author Ursula K. Le Guin and the frequent references to Taoism in her books, specifically The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven.
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak” is a quote from Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati.
“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment” is a quite from Chuang Tzu.
Auio not mentioned below was either recorded my me, or copyright free from Freesound.
Desert ambience is by Michael Ghelfi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-_Xpj0Mgo
Music is from the YouTube Audio Library (Voices by Patrick Patrikios)
Best hypnotic windchimes is by DudeAwsome on freesound: https://freesound.org/people/DudeAwesome/sounds/386470/
Ding. Soft. is by dobroide on freesound: https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/436976/ Attribution license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Photos and video clips are copyright free from Unsplash, Videezy and Pixabay.
Greenscreen clouds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN7cGnb_qM
Greenscreen torches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcN7cGnb_qM
3D environments were made by me in Unreal Engine 4, with assets from Quixel Bridge.