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Alternative Therapies: Meditation and Neuroscience

Join Kathy Sykes on a personal journey of exploration into the controversial world of alternative therapies. Are there lessons for mainstream medicine to be learned from these increasingly popular therapies?
In a journey that takes her from Buddhist monks in Nepal, to brain labs in America – via yogic flying – Kathy investigates what cutting edge [...]

February 5, 2011 Spirituality 0 Comments

Meetings With Remarkable Men: Gurdjieff

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes.
He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
In 1920, an unknown man appeared in Europe, having lived through some extraordinary [...]

August 21, 2010 Spirituality 0 Comments

God On The Brain

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.
Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why [...]

June 13, 2010 Spirituality 0 Comments

Carlos Castaneda and The Yaqi Indian Shamans

An interesting documentary about Charlos Castaneda who Time Magazine called the “Grandfather of the New Age movement” and who led thousands of fascinated readers to travel to Mexico in search of drugs, nirvana and enlightenment.
This film investigates the controversy that surrounded Castaneda’s book “Teachings of don Juan” and explores the practices of today’s Yaqui Indians [...]

June 13, 2010 Spirituality 0 Comments

The Finger Of God

Hundreds raised from the dead. Manna appearing in the Pentagon. Gemstones falling from the sky. Teenagers healing perfect strangers on the street. This isn’t old time religion. This is a new beginning. A spiritual revolution. This is the Finger of God. Prepare to go on a dizzying journey around the world – from the [...]

June 5, 2010 Spirituality 0 Comments

The Illuminated Chakras

The Illuminated Chakras is a breathtaking 28 minute open-eyed journey through the seven chakras, offering a visual and musical experience of each level of consciousness. Innovative animation of great beauty by 3D artist Alex Wayne works synergistically with a magnificent original soundtrack by Robin Silver to bring the viewer directly to a subjective experience of [...]

May 27, 2010 Spirituality 0 Comments

One: The Movie

One: The Movie’s filmmakers asked 20 questions of religious and spiritual teachers as well as artists, authors, atheists, and people on the street. The answers are intertwined with the image of a “nameless traveler” who has grown weary with the suffering and negativity of the world, and who begins a search for meaning and truth.
The [...]

April 3, 2010 Spirituality 2 Comments

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