Archive for the 'Films' Category

The Quantum Revelation Movie.

August 2, 2010

This blog entry sounds a lot like an ad and I guess it is, but it’s a good movie too. The copy is from the website for the movie.

The Quantum Revelation! Unleashing The Power Of Your True Nature

Are you ready for a Quantum Revelation in your personal awakening?

If you’ve seen Leap! and loved it, The Quantum Revelation is a completely new movie that takes an in depth look at Leap! concepts specifically from the scientific point of view.

Perhaps, you’re simply inspired to learn more about Quantum Mechanics?

Join with several of today’s greatest minds as they explore the nature of reality and pierce the veil of our mechanistic world.

This incredible new movie features:

Fred Alan Wolf: Featured in Leap! and What The Bleep!?
Joe Dispenza: Featured in What The Bleep!?
Chad Cameron: Creator of Leap!
Will Arntz: Creator of What The Bleep!?
Peter Russell: Featured in Leap!
Stuart Hameroff: Featured in What The Bleep!?

In The Quantum Revelation! Unleashing The Power Of Your True Nature, these guides share an eye opening and mind expanding view of Science and Spirituality merging.

Are you ready to:
* Accelerate your “Journey of Self-Discovery” beyond your physical time – space reality.
* Support your existing lifestyle by enhancing awareness and mental focus.
* Experience deeper levels of “Truth Realization.”
* Develop creative insights to dissolve your inauthentic fears.
* Navigate expanded states of consciousness.
* Truly understand that YOU are the Ultimate Observer.
* Reach new potentials in thought and action as you unlock a gateway into profound forms of perception.
* Discover the difference between “Reality” vs. “Actuality.”
* Experience a life filled with Joy, Trust and Adventure.

Order it now and let your accelerated expansion begin.

A Course in Miracles: The Movie

July 12, 2010

A Course In Miracles The Movie, is a new feature length film (2010) that blends interviews from Guides in the ACIM community such as Dr. Kenneth Wapnick, Gary Renard, Nouk Sanchez, iKE ALLEN, Tomas Vieira, Chad Cameron, and others, with the story of Kate, a woman learning to use A Course In Miracles to understand what special relationships are truly for.

Click here for details.

The Lost Satsang with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

May 6, 2010


The Lost Satsang – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Watch the Trailer

http://netinetifilms.com/films-satsang.shtml

Excerpts from Nisargadatta’s Lost Satsang:

The whole manifestation of this world is an expression of the same Consciousness that you are.

You should not love anything other than your true nature, Consciousness. Deep desires, deep expectations: How can that be love?

Your body identity is attracted to objects. It creates desires and you treat them as high priorities. Understanding yourself should be your only priority.

Your body desires will lead you nowhere.

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If you don’t understand the “I Am” how can you understand the rest?

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To abide in consciousness is the true religion. The human brain creates religions.

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Consciousness has to appear in this form, so this form can recognize Consciousness.

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How can words explain that from which words originate?

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Everything depends upon your form, but you are formless.

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Don’t ask me practical questions. I cannot relate to them. I never talk to the body identity level. Stay in the “I am”. That’s all there is to do.

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Without food there is death and the idea “I am” vanishes. Consciousness is beyond any idea.

You can only watch events happen. You can’t use Consciousness to do or undo anything.

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Your body identity is like a very tight screw. Your idea of being an individual, is a screw. You must loosen it up. Let go of your personal identity and the screw will open as much as needed.

You are full of concepts. Just do as I say.

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If you wish to use your intellect dwell on your nine months in the womb. What is in the womb is not different from what is happening now.

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Anything that can show you what you are is actually pointing out what you are not.

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Questions only exist as long as you think you are the body and the individual.

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What I am saying is very simple.

You listen to me or you can go.

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Grasp the knowingness principle and move ahead in life. Like a swimmer caught in a vortex has to dive to the bottom of the river, then has to swim to the surface, outside of the vortex, and only then he is free.

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We live like worms in hot sand, always needing help, but I am not a worm. I am the manifested and the unmanifested.

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Before death comes it is necessary to follow a Sage or a Guru.

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My Guru’s Guru clapped while his vital breath was leaving his body. Will you?

The Lost Satsang – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Watch the trailer:

http://netinetifilms.com/films-satsang.shtml

Nisargadatta Maharaj: The Lost Satsang

April 18, 2010

THE LOST SATSANG
Archival Film 1979, Mumbai, India

Be in the presence of Maharaj for 90 minutes while the camera remains on his expressions, observe his gestures, listen to his voice while looking in his eyes. In this DVD Maharaj is covering most of the core essence of his teachings. An AMAZING document… You are in Maharaj presence!

This film was given to us by S.K. Mullarpattan, the translator you will see in the film, who was Maharaj’s primary translator from 1976 to 1981.

Contained in this video are one and a half hours of questions and responses taking place between Maharaj and some of his devotees.

The footage was taken from an old, low quality, VHS tape. The camera stays on Nisargadatta even when questions are asked providing us with a chance to observe his expressions for most of the time. We have not been able to identify the people who have created this amazing document, but we are grateful and extremely thankful for their effort.

To accurately translate this important historical document, we used three different translations, the main one from Mohan Gaitonde, (Maharaj’s part time evening translator). The “Lost Satsang” is now fully subtitled in English while the original video material has not been edited.

* The original unedited 91 minutes fully translated and subtitled from Marathi.
* DVD, 91 minutes, 0 All codes (playable worldwide), NTSC Video

Watch the movie trailer

The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

March 29, 2010

The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

Premiering April 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. EST (check local listings)

This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Join the conversation and learn more about meditation, the history of Buddhism, and how to incorporate the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and mindfulness into daily life.

The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

Science and Nonduality Anthology: Loibon Le Baaba

March 9, 2010

Science and Nonduality Anthology, Volume 1
Interviews of participants at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2009.

3-DVD set, 21 interviews, 600 minutes

These are crystal clear nuggets of essential nondual teachings relevant to each speaker’s background. The responses to the question, What is nonduality? are alone worth the price.

There are 21 interviews. Here are notes from the interview with Loibon Le Baaba

Loibon brings you literally to the bone of death via the cycle of life, oneness, ecology, inseparateness of I, me, you, yours. Headhunting and murder in tribal warfare are discussed intelligently and as part of the cycle of life. Are you or are you not expendable? Find out. Loibon is a powerful and challenging teacher.

Introduction: Loibon is a title meaning shaman, teacher, or medicine keeper. It refers to a fount of consciousness from the ancestor, or God. Loibon tries to help people see things from a primitive tribal way of thinking, which incorporates every possible way of thinking, yet transcends doctrine or dogma.

What is nonduality? There is no difference that’s real. There is a difference that’s relative. One is not to avoid being attached. The problem is being attached to an attachment.

What is the tribal perspective of nonduality? Everything is alive, intelligent, and sentient, for everything is part of what is. There is no time of creation or destruction; there are cycles, hence peace, no death, only change, no birth, only change.

I am the carrier of what has come before me; the ego is necessary but is not our being. There is no sense of equality or inequality in tribal culture. The sense of balance includes imbalance.

You are I are different as day and night but our life is one, our soul is one. Is there enlightenment? In the true sense of being in the light, all there is, is the light, which is not separate from darkness, so nothing to achieve or accomplish, we are that.

The only process is to be aware of that, to accept it, and to live it. Those that refuse to live or learn or be it, they’re expendable. “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem,” said Malcolm X, who also said, “If you are to liberate you need to educate.”

What is the context of headhunting in tribal society? In tribal culture the way of thinking is very primal. The survival of the whole is most important and every individual is a potential sacrifice for the well being and health of the whole. In tribal conflicts they go into conflict without trying to avoid death, but for the purpose of killing. If they are killed the exhilaration of acceptance is greater than doing the killing because when they are killed they are sacrificing individuality to become one with the ancestor which sustains everything. It’s an honor to join the ancestors. The head is taken back to the village of the taker and is decorated and kept in the main living space of the family of the taker. The head elder may sleep on the skull as a pillow to absorb the life energy. The liver and heart is also eaten to carry on the strength of the great warrior who sacrifices his physical being. Loibon: “It’s an honor, whatever we do to each other. It’s a privilege. Totally different way of thinking.”

Science and Nonduality Anthology, Volume 1
Interviews of participants at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2009

Click here for further information.

Awareness Itself: New Film May Be Missing Link in the Nonduality Movement

March 1, 2010

“I never really thought about awareness, because I know that I am.”

Could this film in-progress by James Hebert be the missing link in the nonduality movement, in the global transformation phenomenon? It takes the most profound knowing held in the hands of the “enlightenment pros” and shows that it is already in the hands of everyone.

Avatar, reviewed by Jerry Katz

January 12, 2010

Avatar

A review by Jerry Katz

I’m reading a book on conducting interviews and one suggestion for a print magazine interview is to hold the interview at the home of the subject. It’s an older book and an example is given of Fred Astaire. An interviewer noted that in Astaire’s home there were no photographs, mementos, keepsakes, or other reminders of Astaire’s past. Except for two Oscar statues quietly on display, Astaire lived in an ordinary home. You would never know it was the home of one of Hollywood’s most revered and appreciated stars.

The point was that one should note the surroundings of the interviewee, as they often say more than words. Clearly, Astaire lived in the present and must have felt burdened by tokens from the past. Anyone seeing him dance sees at once that Astaire was all about lightness and ease. Check him out here:

The advice of observing the surroundings I carry to this review. Maybe that makes this no review at all, but this is Avatar I’m reviewing so I think it’s okay to stretch and reach and see if I can pull everything together. Let’s look at certain surroundings of this film, surroundings I happen to encounter and notice.

I saw this film in IMAX 3D. IMAX is a Canadian invention begun in 1967. The first IMAX film was shown in 1970 and first IMAX 3D film was shown at the Expo in Japan in 1985. It was We Are Born of Stars:

“Using computer graphics, the film traces the development of life from the formation of atomic nuclei in stars to the molecular structure of water and DNA, zooming the audience through the five-billion-year evolution of our solar system.” [http://www.bigmoviezone.com/filmsearch/movies/index.html?uniq=124]

The history of IMAX 3D, therefore, is rooted in a film which connects the audience to their cosmic self, their biological self, their molecular self and which would, I imagine (I haven’t seen the film), give the viewer a sense of interconnectedness with literally everything. That interconnectedness and the intelligence associated with it, is what Avatar is about.

But let’s look at more of the surroundings of this film. I’m really indulging myself here as this review should have been finished by now. So on we go. Interconnections. Surroundings.

I had heard so much about Avatar, especially within nonduality circles, and had talked to several friends who had seen it, that I figured I better see it. I went on the Internet to find out the times it was playing. Then I bought my ticket online and printed it out at home. Surroundings. Interconnections.

Then I checked my bus schedule and walked to the bus stop and got on the bus which picked me up on time. Interconnections, interconnections.

The bus delivered me early, so I stopped into Chapters (aka Borders Books in the U.S.) and strolled amongst tens of thousands of books and accessories associated with books, the scent of Starbucks permeating one end of the store. Books are interconnections of themes and stories within interconnections of stores interconnected by computers, and all of it pulsing within an interconnection of interconnected supporting businesses and industries.

I haven’t stepped into the theatre yet but I feel I’m living the movie at some level. Avatar is about seeing interconnections and also the failure to see interconnections. The theme of Avatar is told in three words: “I see you.” Someone once sent me a book and inscribed it, “I see you.” The question is, who is this you? It’s the interconnectedness, the vast and deep interconnectedness, and the unknowable knowing that one is That.

It’s not hard to see interconnectedness. Anyone can see it in the Internet or a bus schedule or a military takeover. Avatar requires you to look at another person and to see interconnectedness as it was depicted in the first IMAX 3D movie. It requires the seeing of intelligence immeasurable and incomparable. I see you: I see nonseparateness; I see the immeasurable, the incomparable, the unknowable. That’s what the guy was saying when he inscribed that book to me. He’s a sage. What else is he going to see?

That’s the theme and message of Avatar. How was it delivered? Pretty well. Fact is, it was IMAX 3D. You could show an old sneaker in IMAX 3D and it would hold your attention for about 8 minutes. The movie was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, but not a great film.

There is one more layer to Avatar. After the story was over I watched the credits and listened to Leona Lewis sing I See You:

There were about 3000 names listed in the credits. For me that was a back story worth seeing on the screen, a story in names. Here was yet another layer of interconnectedness, another sheath of intelligence.

And so I left the theatre and walked to the bus stop, my awareness filled with certain surroundings of the day. The most impressive and notable layer of interconnectedness wasn’t the movie itself. It wasn’t the rolling credits or the bookstore or the Internet. What was it? The running of the buses, the meetings of passengers, buses, and destinations. The coming, the going, the waiting, the sitting, the departing and arriving, that meant interconnectedness to me more than anything else.

However, seeing interconnectedness doesn’t require a display of buses or anything else. It requires seeing something, which in this movie is called “you.” This “you” is the other — whatever the other is — and you, at once. Our surroundings are deeply interconnected and saturated with intelligence and wonder. Those themes are what Avatar is about and they are delivered in a very entertaining way. The same could be said for the day, any day.

-Jerry Katz

Avatar, reviewed by Pradheep Chhalliyil

January 11, 2010

Avatar

A movie review by Pradheep Chhalliyil

“Our Great Mother does not take sides.

She protects only the balance of life.

She comes to him, intertwining her long fingers with his”.

The above are the golden words spoken by NEYTIRI, in the magnificent celluloid by James Cameron. These words winnow out the chaff that cover the spiritual message of all the religions. Ignorance of this fundamental Truth by all religions is the cause for all religious wars and corporate greediness wiping out wisdom-rich primitive societies of the world. Internally Individuals also dis-connect their spirit from the Cosmic spirit (Nature) lacking this understanding.

Religious wars are fought ironically by both the groups with a fanatic belief that they are fighting for their “God” without the knowledge that God does not take both the sides. Nature is interested only in protecting “Dharma” the balance of life. This is why like when Tsunami happened (like shown in Cameroon’s movie Abyss“), all beings were washed without the bias of species, race or gender or religious background. Nature is only interested in protecting the balance of life. This is the law of karma.

Similarly, through our prayers, when most of our desired wishes do not get fulfilled, out of frustration we do not hesitate to change sides by getting converted into another religious group. This is due to our ignorance that Nature does not cater much to the individual’s carnal desires, but provide opportunities to strengthen the inner power of the individual. This continues till the individuality dissolves to a Universal Cosmic identity. This is how the life-style and laws of life was formulated by all primitive or native societies. Modern corporate societies have adopted the stressful life style of paying attention only in fulfilling carnal desires and hence have far moved from the “Spiritual” nature. There is nothing bad in fulfilling materialistic desire with Conscious-Awareness of our “True Spiritual Nature”.

By the greed for material wealth we have destroyed not externally the native cultures, but inferentially, our own inner Soul-culture. Instead of being connected like the cells in the human body we are cancerous nuclear cells threatening the existence of the our existence.

As Jake says

” Sooner or later though, you always have to wake up…”

Symbolic of Avatar: We are not aware that our real body , the “Consciousness” is activating our bodies on Earth. Only in deep sleep we forget our Avatar” body on Earth. This is why sleep is blissful for everyone, when we refresh our “True Being”. With this Avatar Body we can bring reality by integrating with Nature, but instead we are being mere “corporate” (bodily) and so function as Egoistic beings.

“Everything is backwards now. Like out there is the true world,

and in here is the dream”.

Like Matrix, the Avatar body of Jake undergoes a birth and growth shown as …

…Blood circulating through a synthetic UMBILICAL in the abdomen. As the figure turns in the amniotic fluid, we see that it has a lemur-like TAIL. The skin is cyan-blue…

Blueness is the color of Vishnu, the symbolic expression of the protector aspect of Nature (Consciousness) in Vedic Spiritual tradition. The whole creation of Universe bangs out from Vishnu’s cosmic slumber as shown as…

…Jake’s eyes moving under the lids, like a dreamer in REM sleep …

Though the name and the theme of the movie is from the Vedic Spiritual tradition, the director protects the sentiments of other religions by making the characters utter words like “Jesus” and naming the Hallelujah Mountains. He beautifully intertwines the spiritual message of primitive cultures of the Native Indians, Aboriginals and world Spiritual traditions into one Universal spiritual theme of the movie, because all Spiritual traditions speak the same Truth.

In all spiritual traditions, there is a concept of “Second birth” or “Enlightenment”, through a Shamanic ritual. NeiTri smears the white paste over Jake’s body. This ritual externally activates in the Inner Energy.

They see a network of energy that flows through all living things. They know that

all energy is only borrowed– JAKE (V.O.)

– and one day you have to give it back.

The movie tries to project this Universal spiritual message hidden in symbolic messages, may be not to the extent of the Matrix movies. Still Avatar with its overwhelming artistic and stunning entertaining visuals in 3D, successfully delivers the message to the audience.

Highlight of the movie:
In all movies we wish a happy ending when Human Beings win the war over aliens. Only in Avatar, we wish for the defeat of Human beings and pray finally triumph over the victory of Nu vi’s. We forget we are Human Beings and identify with Nu vis, because our real “Self” is not the Human body. We are all only Avatars , which in Sanskrit means incarnate (in carnal body form). This is the success of James Cameroon’s Avatar. It has kindled and reminded us not of our corporeal-human nature but the Inter-connecting (all pervading) Divinity of our “Being”

Let us continue to maintain that Conscious-Awareness eternally in living our life on Earth.

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–Pradheep Chhalliyil

DVD: Science and Nonduality Anthology

January 8, 2010

New DVD:

SCIENCE AND NONDUALITY ANTHOLOGY
Volume 1

What is nonduality? How does the “I” arise? Who is the doer? If everything is truly nothing, why do we perceive so much complexity? If everything is unfolding as it should, can we have free will? Is nondual awareness the end point for the evolution of consciousness?

Take twenty one of the finest thinkers in the fields of neuroscience, quantum physics, psychotherapy, art, Vedanta, Sufism, Judaism, and Buddhism and ask them some of the toughest questions known to humankind and this is what you get: A groundbreaking anthology of interviews that illuminate the deepest and most compelling mysteries of the human experience.

This DVD is the first of its kind to explore the convergence between science and nonduality. Rather than being heavily edited to direct the viewer according to a particular opinion, each of the interviews is a stand alone piece that allows us to fully experience the depth of the speaker. Each interview is a unique journey that ultimately brings us back to the source of all, beyond concepts and words. Enjoy!

View clips from the interviews:

3 DVDs, 21 interviews, 600 minutes, 0 All codes (playable worldwide), NTSC Video

The DVDs contain interviews with: Stuart Hameroff, Stephen Wolinksy, Peter Fenner Loibon Le Baaba, Rupert Spira, Jeremy Hayward, Rabbi Hoffman, Amit Goswami, Francis Lucille, Robert Dittler, Henry Stapp, Nahid Angha, Jeff Foster, Kebir Helminski, Peter Russell, John Prendergast, Bernie Baars, Olga Louchakova, Vijai Kapoor, Thomas Ray, Tim Freke

Here are a few clips:

More info here.