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The Film "Fierce Light" continues the quest for a fusion between spirituality and activism previously explored in Velcrow Ripper's award-winning feature documentary ScaredSacred (Special Jury Prize, Toronto International Film Festival).

The 2006 demise of friend and fellow media-activist Brad Will in protest-torn Oaxaca, Mexico, is the impetus for Ripper's journey, which takes him to the flash points of spiritual activism around the world, including Montgomery, Alabama; Robben Island, South Africa; Andrah, India; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and South Central Los Angeles, where a months-long protest against the razing of a vital community garden provides a highly dramatic spine for the wide-ranging film.

En route, Ripper encounters a number of eloquent icons, including American Civil Rights legend Congressman John Lewis, actor turned activist Daryl Hannah, Nobel prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Alice Walker, Buddhist peace activist monk Thich Nhat Hahn, famed tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill, and dharma punk, Noah Levine. Ripper discovers what Paul Hawken (author “Blessed Unrest”) describes as the largest global movement in history - thousands of individuals and organizations connected by a shared commitment to compassionate, positive action.
Alice Walker calls it "a human sunrise" - Ripper calls it "Fierce Light." With stunning cinematography, a compelling soundtrack, and dramatic stories of resistance and transformation, FIERCE LIGHT: When Spirit Meets Action reveals what is possible when human beings, faced with a world in crisis, rise to their absolute best.
Spiritual Activism is the coming together of spirituality, and activism. It is not about any form of dogma, it is simply activism that comes from the heart, not just the head, activism that is compassionate, positive, kind, fierce and transformative. It focuses as much on what we are for, as on what we are against. It is rooted in an understanding of interdependence, and works to end of the suffering of all beings, even our opponents. Nothing could be more inspiring and more rewarding than being the change we want to see in the world, within and without.
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"Something Unknown Is Doing ... We Don't Know What" is a fascinating spiritual journey into the science behind psychic sciences, an award winning documentary by Renée Scheltema.

Is it possible that some people can read your mind, "Telepathy" ? or look into the future, "Clairvoyance" ? Why is it that some people can cure themselves while in the last stages of a deadly cancer, "Healing" ? Does mind over matter really exist, and if so, how do we explain this "Telekinesis" ?

In the US millions of people claim to ‘see’ distant objects or places "Remote Viewing". Where is the boundary between 'real' magical powers and fraud ? Can these ‘miracles of the mind’ be explained ?

These and more questions will be answered in the quirky feature award winning, documentary “Something Unknown is doing we don't know what ” by Dutch filmmaker Renée Scheltema, who was inspired to explore the realms of psychic phenomena after a series of curious and unexplainable events happened around her all in a short period of time.



She travelled to the US to meet up with the top scientists, para-psychologists, psychologists, physicians, and doctors within the field of research, like Prof Charles Tart, Prof Gary Schwartz, Dr Larry Dossey and Dr Dean Radin. Along the way she collects anecdotal stories from celebrities within the field, such as psychic detective Nancy Myer, author Arielle Ford, astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell and intuitive Catherine Yunt.

Renée found that experiments of today reveal how science is verifying numerous kinds of connections : 'mind to mind'; 'mind to body' and 'mind to world', demonstrating that psychic abilities are part of our inherent nature.


Source : Something Unknown


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'One The Movie' is a spiritual documentary film featuring Deepak Chopra, Father Richard Rohr, Ram Dass, Riane Eisler, Thich Nhat Hahn, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Robert Thurman, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Hasan Quasdini, Father Thomas Keating, Scott Carter, Mantak Chia and many others.

One : The Movie was created to increase awareness of the connections we all share. To remind us of our similarities and celebrate our differences.

To allow the positive energy of Oneness to emerge in a world that too often seems disconnected and broken.


The film's concept is simple : Ask the ultimate questions of life to the great masters and to everyday people. Then let the dialog flow. The result is a movie that has sparkled dialog on six continents and in hundreds of venues - from barns to prisons to universities to theaters. One reminds us that we are all on a journey to better understand ourselves, our connections with others and our ultimate meaning and destiny. Watch The Complete Documentary Film : "One ~ The Movie" ...



Source : One - The Movie

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Pulse ( P•U•L•S•E ) is a live concert video of Pink Floyd playing at Earl's Court on October 20th, 1994 part of 'The Division Bell' Tour. Pulse is considered by many to be one of the greatest light and sound concerts ever with Pink Floyd playing some of their greatest songs ever from 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'Wish You Were Here', 'Meddle', 'The Wall', 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason', 'The Division Bell' ... It also features "Astronomy Domine", a Syd Barrett song not performed since the early 1970s, as a tribute to the original Pink Floyd guitarist and song writer, one of the founding members of 'Pink Floyd'.

The original CD cover of Pulse, the live double album released on 29 May 1995 features an "eye-like" machine that has clock pieces inside, there is a planet in its centre, and on the outside it shows evolution as it moves backwards. It starts in the sea, moves to the bacteria which evolve into fishes, then into egg type creatures, then into eggs that hatch birds, and birds follow the trail of an aeroplane. There are six pyramids in the desert, and in the bottom of the sea, one can observe a city in the shore.


Disc One :


1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Concert version) (Gilmour/Waters/Wright)
2. "Learning to Fly" (Gilmour/Moore/Ezrin/Carin)
3. "High Hopes" (Gilmour/Samson)
4. "Take It Back" (Gilmour/Ezrin/Samson/Laird-Clowes)
5. "Coming Back to Life" (Gilmour)
6. "Sorrow" (Gilmour)
7. "Keep Talking" (Gilmour/Wright/Samson)
8. "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" (Waters)
9. "One of These Days" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright)


Disc Two :
1. "Speak to Me" (Mason) 2. "Breathe" (Gilmour/Waters/Wright) 3. "On the Run" (Gilmour/Waters) 4. "Time" (Gilmour/Mason/Waters/Wright) 5. "The Great Gig in the Sky" (Wright/Clare Torry) 6. "Money" (Waters) 7. "Us and Them" (Waters/Wright) 8. "Any Colour You Like" (Gilmour/Mason/Wright) 9. "Brain Damage" (Waters) 10. "Eclipse" (Waters) 11. "Wish You Were Here" (Gilmour/Waters) 12. "Comfortably Numb" (Gilmour/Waters) 13. "Run Like Hell" (Gilmour/Waters)
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Thunderbolts of the Gods is a paradigm rattling documentary from a modern cosmology perspective which sees the physical universe connected through Electricity, introducing the Electric Universe ... based on the book by the same name written by Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott, who suggest that popular astronomy gives a distorted view of the universe.

The modern vision evokes a sense of lonely bodies in space—isolated galaxies, self-immolating stars drifting like dust moats in the blackness, and the clockwork solitude of planets. In challenging this idea, the authors emphasize connectivity. The electric force, they contend, influences matter at all levels, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, leaving little room for the disconnected fragments of modern theory.

Primary subjects include: an introduction to the plasma universe; electrical challenges to Big Bang cosmology; discovery of the electric sun; and the electrical nature of comets. In language designed for scientists and non-scientists alike, the authors show that even the greatest surprises of the space age are predictable patterns in an electric universe. In the wake of recent discoveries, a new way of seeing the physical universe is emerging. The new vantage point emphasizes the role of electricity in space and shows the negligible contribution of gravity in cosmic events.



Images returned by high-powered telescopes and recent space probes have challenged astronomers’ long-standing assumptions about galaxies and their constituent stars, about the evolution of our solar system, and about the nature and history of Earth.

The new discoveries also suggest that our early ancestors may have witnessed awe inspiring electrical events in the heavens—the source of myths and symbols around the world.

The Thunderbolts Project calls into question not only countless modern scientific assumptions, but also the billions of dollars of big-science government and corporate funding that continues to preserve and entrench questionable theories - elevating them to the status of doctrine - while systematically excluding legitimate alternatives that threaten the status-quo. Alternatives that may represent the future of science.

The Thunderbolts Project offers remarkably simple explanations for 'black holes', 'dark matter', the electric sun, comets that are not made of ice, planetary scarring and many other 'mysterious' phenomena. It proposes that much of the currently observable phenomena of deep space can be intelligently explained by already known principles of electricity. High school students get it immediately. A doctorate in higher math is not required.

This extraordinary new theory also redefines ancient history, linking rock art images carved in basalt 5,000 years ago with identical images found only in Hubble photographs of deep space or in photographs of recently declassified high-energy plasma discharge experiments generated in a billion dollar lab.

Cosmology

Today, we are seeing things in space that were never imagined. We detect magnetic fields everywhere, even in the "empty" depths of intergalactic space. Magnetic fields cannot exist without causative electric currents.

The naked electric force is 39 orders of magnitude (a thousand billion billion billion billion times) stronger than gravity. The visible universe is constituted almost entirely of electrically active plasma.

In the twentieth century the pioneers of plasma science inspired a new school of investigation called plasma cosmology. Plasma cosmologists suggest that electricity is the primary force organizing spiral galaxies and the astonishing galactic clusters now seen in deep space.

Plasma cosmology has achieved surprising success in predicting major discoveries of the space age. This new perspective does not require purely theoretical inventions like the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, or Black Holes.


Stars

The "Electric Universe" extends the findings of plasma cosmology to the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary satellites.

Proponents of the Electric Universe suggest that there are no isolated islands in the universe. All objects in space, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, are connected by manifestations of the electric force acting in real time.

Stars are formed at the intersections of galactic current filaments in dusty space plasma.

It is electricity that continues to energize the stars in a form of glow discharge, our Sun included. This external power source explains why the temperature of the Sun increases above the photosphere, to coronal temperatures of 2 million degrees.

Powerful plasma feedback effects maintain a steady output of visible solar radiation while variations in power input show up in the familiar sunspot cycle. It is in the nature of a glow discharge that all stars possess a weak electric field beyond the corona.

As charged particles of the solar wind move away from the Sun, they continue to be accelerated due to the Sun's electric field.

The size of a star and its color are determined electrically and may change suddenly. Novae and supernovae are the explosive response of stars to a power surge in their galactic circuit.

Source : Thunderbolts Project


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Josh Gates returns to the Himalayas in search of the Yeti, this time to the Kingdom of Bhutan or "Druk Yul" as the local Bhutanese people call their country which means, "Land of the Thunder Dragon". Some also know Bhutan as the Land of the Peaceful Dragon ! Bhutan is also known as the last Shangri La of the Himalayas rooted in deep mysticism and ancient wisdom passed down through the generations.


The Kingdom of Bhutan has set aside an area specifically for the Yeti, the Sakten Wildlife Sanctuary. A sanctuary for a creature that local lore claims is invisible ! Josh Gates and the rest of the Destination Truth team set out for their most recent adventure in Yeti Land, this time they manage to get affirmative DNA evidence taken from the hair samples found on their Yeti chase, which are believed to be of an unknown primate !



Source : SyFy Channel : Destination Truth

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Wish You Were Here is one of Pink Floyd's best albums ever with the classics "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "Have A Cigar" & one of my top floyd favorites ever, "Welcome To The Machine" ... extremely well written about our machine like modern society where we love following patterns and trends much like programmed machines ...

The concept behind "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar" suggested the use of a handshake (an often empty gesture), and George Hardie designed a sticker containing the album's logo of two mechanical hands engaged in a handshake, to be placed on the opaque sleeve. The album's cover image was inspired by the idea that people tend to conceal their true feelings, for fear of "getting burned", and thus two businessmen were pictured shaking hands, one man on fire.

"Getting burned" was also a common phrase in the music industry, used often by artists denied royalty payments. Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at the Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles.

Here is a documentary all about the making of Wish You Were Here ... the film starts with a brief background on Floyd's Epic release, The Dark Side of the Moon following which came their next mega album "Wish You Were Here" capturing the imagination of millions all over ... as always ... :)




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Mexico is always abuzz with UFO activity among many other South American countries such as Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina ... Here is a video compilation of some amazing UFO sightings in Mexico from 2009 ...

Mexico's Jaime Maussan shows and narrates never-before-seen UFO footage from Mexico and all over the world at the International UFO Congress 2009. The entire dvd can be purchased at UFO Congress Store.
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Chasing Daylight : The Crop Circles of 2009 is a brilliantly woven documentary film by Steve Alexander, Rob Luckins & Karen Alexander ... Temporary Temple Productions 2009.

"Recording the crop circles as we do is not just a technical exercise. It is not a joy ride in a helicopter. It is a mysterious shamanic journey where inspirational images of the circles are exchanged for creative energy, imagination, and dreams and sleep. An intimacy is achieved between photographer and subject that transcends consciousness parameters, until by the height of the season, with long hours, early mornings, late nights, and accumulated sleep deprivation an altered state of consciousness is inspired and a channel of communication opens.

We are often asked how we manage to take the pictures we do. We consider that we record the circles with the cooperation and guidance of whatever lies behind their creation. To consider the formations mere objects to be snapped at by a camera is to fail to fully respond to the depth of the phenomenon. For a short while each summer we give ourselves over to a measure of intoxication with the circles that allows us to do our work."

This is a brand new film from the Temporary Temple Productions team who bring an artistic sensibility to their reportage of the crop circle phenomenon. Stunning aerial helicopter footage, ground footage, woven together with an atmospheric soundtrack. There is no narrative or voice over, just a beautiful tapestry of images and sound. Be transported into the fields of Southern England, into and around the magnificent crop circles of 2009 - the next best thing to being there yourself ! Better still buy the Companion Book - Crop Circle Year Book 2009 to read about all the circles in the film ! Source : Temporary Temples Related Articles :
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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Director: Carter Emmart Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer Producer: Michael Hoffman Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott Music: Suke Cerulo Source : American Musuem of Natural History Related Articles :

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