Based on his best selling book ’The Master and his Emissary’ this is the question that leading neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist explores in a challenging and controversial new FILM.
why is our brain DIVIDED?
22 05 2017Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Dr. Leroy Little Bear, Iain McGilchrist, Jill Bolte Taylor, John Cleese, Manfred Becker, Master and His Emissary, Rowan Williams, The Divided Brain, Vanessa Dylyn
Categories : Agape, consciousness, Film, Free Will, Freedom, Governance, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Health, in pursuit of truth, Wholeness
The indivisble UNIVERSE
6 12 2016“The earth is one household, and we’re not treating it that way.” – David Bohm
Paul Howard (Imagine Films, Ireland) and David Peat (Bohm’s former colleague and biographer) are working on a 90-minute feature documentary on the Life and Ideas of David Bohm titled Infinite Potential. They hope to premiere the documentary in the latter part of the Bohm centennial celebrations in 2017, which also happens to be the 25th anniversary of Bohm’s death. Imagine Films Ireland have raised 75% of the film’s budget. They are now looking for the final 25% of funding and welcome donations from individuals and organisations.
Click here for more info on the documentary.
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Tags: Compassion, David Bohm, David Peat, Implicate Order, Paul Howard, Wholeness and Fragmentation
Categories : consciousness, Film, God, in pursuit of truth, Philosophy of Mind, Relativity, Science
WE are WATER
2 02 2016“Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is a blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you’re open to it.” – Masaru Emoto
“Water is not only an inheritance from our ancestors; it is, above all, a loan from those that will come after us.” – Universal Declaration on the Right to Water
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Tags: Gabriel Mascaro, Mirrored Waters, Rachel Ellis
Categories : Agape, consciousness, Film, Governance, Water
calling OLD souls
2 11 2015
Atardecer en el Cementerio de La Balanza, foto por Walter Domínguez
Mujer de Mirada Triste
Mujer de mirada triste
¿Dime qué ves en las velas,
son espectros de la noche
o son flores de la tierra?
¿Qué guardas en tu regazo,
llena de luz, transparente,
si hasta el aire del espacio
tu piel morena parece?
Doble llama en el sentido,
doble dolor, doble ausencia,
las flores se han vuelto ríos
y los perfumes se quejan.
Contemplación de la noche,
velación de la quimera,
manojo de luces, ecos,
trasnochándome la espera…
Mujer de mirada dulce,
las llamas sacan sus lenguas
¿Se están burlando del tiempo
o están latiendo las treguas?
En tu rostro iluminado
la vida rejuvenece,
noche de oro en la mirada
para los que aman la muerte.
Para los que aman la vida
es noche de desconcierto,
la cera besa las flores
y la llama el sentimiento.
– Julie Sopetrán
Invictus
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Tags: Bradley. J Ross, Cartel Land, Dr. Jose Manuel Mireles, Kathryn Bigelow, Matthew Heineman, Michoacan, Molly Thompson, Pax Wassermann, Tom Yellin
Categories : Agape, Americas, Choice, Death, Film, Freedom, Governance, Heroes, Mexico
tapping the spirit of wonder
13 10 2015“There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that’s best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.”
-Daisy from Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
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Tags: Eugene Ionesco, Gregory Colbert, Rhinoceros
Categories : consciousness, Creatures Great & Small, Film, Senses
HAPPINESS pills
18 12 2014Mummy: If you could take a pill that always made you happy, would you?
Santiago (age 8): No, because it’s important to feel bad about things you do.
Mummy: So do you think happiness is something you go out and find or something you just have?
Santiago: Happiness is something you have. In my head it’s like a battle. Goodies against baddies. When you’re born you have happy and sad but then as you grow older, you have to chose. I’m still young so I haven’t chosen yet. Right now the good side has taken over a little bit. It’s hard to say what will happen next.
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Tags: Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli
Categories : Creativity, Film, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Imagination, Japan
FREEDOM through music
29 11 2014“It [music] gives me the feeling of love, of romance. I figure right now the world needs to come into music, singing.” – Henry (Film: Alive Inside)
Michael Rossato-Bennett, WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
ALIVE INSIDE – winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for U.S. Documentary. Through the film, Michael strives to incite conversations that interrogate issues related to cultural consciousness and collective human change towards the greater good.
Want to get involved? See here: http://musicandmemory.org
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Tags: Alive Inside, Michael Rossato-Bennett
Categories : consciousness, Film, Freedom, Music, Uncategorized
Happiness: the MUSIC pill
27 11 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Alive Inside, Michael Rossato-Bennett, Music's capacity to reawaken the soul
Categories : consciousness, Film, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit)
GOVERNANCE: are kids better than their worst acts?
20 11 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: 15 to Life: Kenneth's Story, Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative, juvenile justice system, PBS
Categories : Agape, consciousness, Film, Governance
Gorillas in the Crossfire
10 11 2014You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
– Jane Goodall
The soul is the same in all livening creatures although the body of each is different.
– Hippocrates
Orlando von Einsiedel is a filmmaker who lives in London. This Op-Doc is adapted from “Virunga,” his first feature documentary, which is being released in theaters and on Netflix.
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Tags: Andre Bauma, Britdoc Foundation, Mountain Gorillas, New York Times, Orlando von Einsiedel, Virunga
Categories : Congo, Creatures, Film, Nature
Being Human Festival: White Flags
10 10 2014The documentary explores current issues in Lebanon relating to conflictual post-war memory, ideological and sectarian divisions, socio-economic problems, and peacebuilding initiatives by individuals and organisations who seek to actively intervene in their society and rebuild trust amid the challenges and dangers of ongoing crises. It conceptually and artistically explores the importance of white flags in a country where the national flag has oftentimes had its significance stolen and where the variously coloured flags of embattled political parties have heightened tensions and divisions.
The film features interviews with psychoanalyst Chawki Azouri, journalist Jeanine Jalkh, president of ‘Memory for the Future’ association Amal Makarem, and artists-activists Raouf Rifai and Aurelien Zouki. It was completed with the participation of cinematographer and second unit director Johnny Hchaime and the production management team at The Media Trust, London. It was funded by Research Councils UK.
A discussion with the audience will follow the screening. The directors of the film, Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr, will attend the screening to answer questions on how and why the film was made.
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Tags: Aurelien Zouki, Being Human Festival, Chawki Azouri, Institue of Philosophy, Jeanine Jalkh, Lebanon, Raouf Rifai, School of Advanced Studies, The Media Trust London, University of Kent, White Flags
Categories : consciousness, Film, Governance
An escape from FREEDOM: the men who don’t fit in
3 10 2014“He characterizes the progress toward the overman as proceeding through three stages. First is the stage of the camel, where we renounce comfort and discipline ourselves harshly. Second is the stage of the lion, where we defiantly assert our independence. Third is the stage of the child, where we find a new innocence and creativity. Achieving this stage is like reaching the summit of a mountain: we can look down on everything around us and find lightness and laughter rather than seriousness and struggle. To become overmen, we must isolate ourselves from the mob.”
– Thus Spake Zarathustra
“Every man must think after his own fashion; for on his own path he finds a truth, or a kind of truth, which helps him through life. But he must not give himself the rein; he must control himself; mere naked instinct does not become him.”
– Goethe
The Men Who Don’t Fit In
By Robert W. Service
There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they’re always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: “Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!”
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that’s dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life’s been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone;
He’s a man who won’t fit in.
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Tags: Galapagos, Goethe, Nietzsche, Ritter, Robert W. Service, Wittmer
Categories : Film, Free Will, Freedom, Governance, Poetry, Uncategorized
AGAPE: Dancing a Waltz of Peace
18 09 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Dancing in Jaffa, Pierre Dulaine
Categories : consciousness, Creativity, Dance, Education, Film, God, Governance, Love, Morality, Uncategorized