Trailer of the wonderful movie – The Shadow Effect
We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are
- Anaïs Nin
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you’ll forget the pose, and then where are you?
Little Soul and the Sun DVD – The animated version of the book. When a young boy encounters a bully at school, it forces him to ponder why bad things happen to good people and what forgiving is really about.
A beutiful film on who we are – “Free”
An open source film in the making about a positive future for Humanity. For a change. Want to contribute to the script? Check out the website and find out how!
Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, Finding Joe shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life – or as Campbell would simply state, how to “follow your bliss”.
In 15th century north India, the mystic weaver Kabir spoke his poems in the market place, his spirituality firmly grounded in the public square. 600 years after his time, Kabir is found in both spaces — sacred and secular.
For more details, check - http://www.kabirproject.org/
1. Kabeera khada bazaar main
Kabeera khada bazaar main liye lukhati haath,
Jo ghar phoonke apna, chale hamare saath
In the market stands Kabir, flaming torch in hand.
Burn down your home, then come and walk with me.
Meaning:
Here, home is the symbolism for
1. Attachments
2. Desires
3. Identities
4. Persona(s)
5. Shadow(s)
6. Past conditionings ( Deep rooted – childhood )
7. Boundaries ( Seema ) – Had
8. Limits ( thoughts )
9. Fear
10. Prison
11. Walls of identity
12. Self image
13. Walls / Deewars of identity ( Carefully constructed )
14. Houses – very fragile and arbitrary
15. Ego
16. Cocoon
Others:
The list above is the opposite of instinct ( essence )…..this is how babies live.
Once we burn down our homes, then only we can live with our ( basic human ) instincts – one way is to learn muscle testing.
Our basic human instinct is to love, but we’re living constantly in fear. This proves that we have lost our instincts…shown very powerfully in the following movies:
So, Kabir is telling us that first burn your attachments and then you can come with me. This is only possible when we have a purpose higher than ourselves ( higher purpose……living for God’s purpose……going beyond yourself )
Conditional happiness – If I was / had_______ , then I would accept myself / be happy )
Places of Conditioning:
When you do this, you will be free ( True freedom ). You’ll be in a state of:
Following is an excerpt from an interview of Shabnam Virmani:
The metaphor of a ‘home’ unfolds in deeper and deeper ways, but one immediate reading points to the walls of identity we build to separate us from them. Kabir pushes us out of these comfort zones, our carefully constructed identities and self-images, which quite like our houses, are material, located and very fragile. They need to be constantly defended and protected from the quakes and storms of change and time. We don’t have to jettison all our frameworks or forms, but surely we should be able to step out of them from time to time and with a certain lightness, wonder and even humour, observe our own particularity within a multiplicity of others. Evidently, this is not an easy task, and it’s not surprising that Kabir claims his home is a tough one to reach.
This is a speech by Jim Carrey given at the inaugration of the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment ( GATE )
GATE is an evolving community of creative, business and technical professionals in entertainment, media, and the arts, who realize the vital and expanding role media and entertainment play in creating our lives, and who aspire to consciously transform those domains for the benefit of all.
Check the following website for more details:
www.gatecommunity.org
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.
- Buddha, Dhammapada
Psychotherapist, grief counselor and hypnotherapist Dr. Birgit Wolz, PhD, MFT has created an exciting method of helping others. Along with her patented Cinema Alchemy techniques, psychoanalysis is entering a new era of application.
Dr Birgit Wolz is present in a movie which is about how she helps a person with cancer to heal himself completely who uses cinema therapy as one of the tools. Following is the website for the movie:
http://www.fullscale.webs.com/
