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Dalai Lama Renaissance: leaders and thinkers realize compassion

January 30, 2012 By

In Dalai Lama Renaissance, a synthesis group of world leaders meet with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to solve world problems like poverty and resource depletion. Khashyar Darvich directs.

The film is available at their website.

The mission

Some 40 leaders and activists travel to the Dalai Lama’s home in northern India for five days. They aim to transform their separate ideas into “a new and higher level of truth.”

New thought leaders

Participants represent “a tremendous synthesis of music, art, media, all the fields of knowledge, of spirituality,” says the late Brother Wayne Teasdale, a friend of the Dalai Lama who suggested the event.

A who’s who of spiritual superstars appear: quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (What the Bleep Do We Know); Dr. Michael Beckwith (The Secret); national radio host Thom Hartmann; conscious evolution author Barbara Marx Hubbard; revolutionary social scientist Jean Houston; and author and environmental activist Vandana Shiva (The Corporation).

Egos clash

A few champion their own ideas. The same happens in small groups. Unrest and division arise. It’s tempting not to take sides.

As the conference closes, tempers flare. They still have not achieved a synthesis of ideas, a grand plan to save the Earth.

Turning point

The Buddha of Compassion, as the Dalai Lama is called, leads the group in a one-minute meditation. Each one experiences being compassion.

The entire group changes. People cry, laugh and hug. They line up to give the Dalai Lama a personal gift and receive his blessing. Genuine personal transformation is captured on film.

What really happened

“What [the Dalai Lama] was really concerned about was, did people open their hearts?” says organizer Brian Muldoon. “That was his entire measure of success.”

His Holiness giggles and tells simple stories. “What people really want is to be happy,” he says. “Compassion will bring you happiness.” With a story about mosquitoes, His Holiness eases tensions. His childlike innocence touches many.

Compassion unfolding

Teasdale realizes that the group didn’t have to develop a single, grand plan. “That’s a task that we’re always working towards.”

As participants return to their countries and their work, he believes, Spirit “will start breaking down barriers between and among nations and cultures” as it impacts the “have/have not dichotomy.”

What can you do now?

“When you call upon that energy, that spiritual wisdom, that consciousness, it’s always available to us. It will come,” Teasdale notes. Spirit “will give you the insights and the vision.”

“Most extraordinary” experience

Meeting the Dalai Lama was “one of the most extraordinary experiences I have ever had,” says Muldoon. “He walks in this bubble of grace.… He sees you completely without any judgment.”

Renaissance: a new birth

Darvich distilled 140 hours of film into this 80 minute documentary with 105 minutes of special features. Harrison Ford’s narration and original music by Michael Tyabji, Henry Reid and others soothes anger and dissolution.

Teasdale maintains that spirituality is “who we are.” “We are not compassionate,” he says. “Human beings are compassion, they are love, they are mercy, they are kindness.” (5 out of 5 stars)

If you like Dalai Lama: Renaissance, you might also enjoy: Thrive; 2012: Time for Change; 2012: The Odyssey.

 

Dalai Lama Renaissance  2007  /  NR  /  1 hour, 20 min

Cast Overview: The Dalai Lama, Harrison Ford, Amit Goswami, Vicki Robin, Fred Alan Wolf, Michael Beckwith, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Vandana Shiva

Director:  Kashyar Darvich

Genre:  Documentary, Spirituality, New Thought

 

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Thrive follows the money to reclaim our future, wealth

January 9, 2012 By

Everyone can Thrive, according to a new, leading edge documentary impressively researched and organized by business executive Foster Gamble. Steve Gagne directs.

Thrive is now streaming free at the Thrive Movement website.

Wake-up call with a plan

Change is imperative. Nothing less than transformation – personal, social and global – will enable humanity to thrive, according to Gamble.

Daring to follow the money, Gamble and his wife Kimberly Carter Gamble analyze underlying causes of scarcity and suffering worldwide.

Old World order falling

The heads of three famous families have manipulated world wealth as part of a global domination agenda for centuries, Gamble asserts. Not everyone in these families is corrupt, he adds.

The Bank for International Settlements (called “the central bank of central banks”), international central banks, and national central banks control resources. Big banks, corporations and governments lie beneath central banks in a “pyramid of power.”

Elite central bankers control finance, energy, food supplies, education, the media and other systems.

Elite bankers harming economies

By keeping countries and citizens in debt, they effectively stifle human potential with the help of corporate-owned media, governments, major foundations, the IMF and the World Bank.

Many national economies have been harmed, according to the film. The elites are actively seeking to destroy the U.S. economy, experts say.

The number of global elites is tiny, says Gamble. In the U.S., the ratio of citizens to these elite bankers is a million to one, he maintains.

How to take back your power

Individuals can exercise power in many ways. Bank locally. Buy and invest responsibly. Seek out news from independent sources. Take part in mass, critical actions. The Thrive Movement website lists suggested actions.

Express your uniqueness, says British author David Icke. Fear of ridicule is one way the global elite gets us to impose its norms on one another.

Free energy based in science

Free, unlimited, clean energy is the film’s central, revolutionary theme. Two elegant designs, the torus and the Vector Equilibrium (VE), can be used to produce free energy and promote international well-being, Gamble explains.

The torus (or flower of life) is an energy pattern that appears in nature and across cultures. The VE is the underlying structure of the torus, a 64-sided pattern that is “the blueprint by which nature forms energy into matter.”

Hello, free energy!

What does all this mean? “Goodbye Exxon Mobil, goodbye oil, goodbye coal, goodbye linear transmission of electricity,” says Steven Greer, M.D., Director of The Disclosure Project.

Did you know that Dr. Royal Rife invented technology that cured cancer in the 1920s? Have you heard of Nikola Tesla, who invented a technology that produced free, unlimited energy in 1901?

The work of both men was destroyed, and their reputations were ruined. Archival footage shows government agents seizing revolutionary technologies.

Who’s Who of science, scholarship

For those who doubt futuristic exposes like this one, detailed information sources are listed on the film’s website.

Among the prominent scientists and thinkers interviewed are: Nassim Haramein, cosmologist and inventor; Paul Hawken, environmentalist and entrepreneur; Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and eco-feminist, and Elisabet Sahtouris, evolutionary biologist and futurist.

Thriving: you, me, everyone

Gamble integrates progressive, conservative and libertarian ideas into a model for change:

Stage 1 – Reform

Reform current systems to “bring integrity and healing to our current condition.”

Stage 2 – Limit Government Control

Enhance the “protection of individual rights and the commons.”

Stage 3 – Voluntary Cooperation

Voluntary cooperation would flourish as people live by “rules, but no rulers.”

Economic reform: an example

Economic reform in Stage 1, for example, includes: stop bailouts; dismantle the Federal Reserve; withdraw support from the IMF, World Bank, and Bank for International Settlements; refuse international taxes, and monetize debt.

Following these steps would transform the arts, economics, education, environment, governance, health, infrastructure, justice, media, relations, science, spirituality and word view.

Gamble’s background

Gamble acknowledges that he was born into the wealthy Procter & Gamble family, but has forged his own career path.

Integrity, freedom and compassion can become the world’s guiding principles, says Gamble. Bold and honest, this film offers hope and a blueprint for change. (5 out of 5 stars)

If you like Thrive, you might also enjoy: 2012: Time for Change; 2012: The Odyssey; Dalai Lama Renaissance.

 

Thrive   2011  /  PG-13  /  2 hours, 12 min

Cast Overview: Foster Gamble, Duane Elgin, Nassim Haramein, Steven Greer, Jack Kasher, Daniel Sheehan, Adam Trombly, Brian O’Leary, Vandana Shiva, John Gatto, John Robbins, Deepak Chopra, David Icke, Catherine Austin Fitts, Kimberly Carter Gamble, G. Edward Griffin, Bill Still, John Perkins, Paul Hawken, Aqeela Sherrills, Evon Peter, Angel Kyodo Williams, Elisabet Sahtouris, Amy Goodman, Barbara Marx Hubbard

Director:  Steve Gagne

Genre:  Documentary, Current Affairs, Science & Nature

 

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2012: Time for Change advocates “evolve to solve” strategies

January 9, 2012 By

In  2012: Time for Change, Daniel Pinchbeck investigates how to survive and thrive during changing times. Joao Amorim directs.

Thoughtful, visionary documentary

Pinchbeck walks his talk as he shares ways to live consciously so that all can thrive on earth. The founder of the Evolver social movement and editorial director of Reality Sandwich interviews scholars and leaders around the world.

Animation is also used to investigate spiritual practices, sacred activism and new technologies for surviving change with grace and ease.

Functional design, habitat restoration, ecological detoxification, intentional community, aquaponic agriculture, wind power, open source currency and diverse currency tools are among the ideas examined.

Time to take action

This film is similar to the post-modernist documentary Thrive and surpasses Armageddon dramas like Battle Los Angeles.

Amorim’s film transcends apocalypse hype by advocating action.  “Apocalypse” means “uncovering,” and doesn’t necessarily signal doom, according to Pinchbeck.

Asking forward-looking questions

“Focusing on what will happen in 2012 may just be the wrong question,” Pinchbeck told a meeting of the Left Forum in New York City.

Instead we should ask “‘What type of change can we bring about?’ It’s going to be up to individuals and then communities to make a profound shift,” he says.

Archival footage of the “Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century,” design scientist R. Buckminster Fuller, is shown.

New technologies emerge despite resistance

Groundbreaking technologies for sustainable energy, health and farming have already been developed, says Pinchbeck. These advances have been suppressed by powerful special interests time and again, he maintains.

Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard cites Fuller. “We now have the resources, technology and knowhow to make the world a 100% physical success for everyone without taking it away or destroying our environment,” she says.

Many cultural creatives have planted “seed ideas” to help humanity, Hubbard says. These are quietly growing and taking root.

Love one another

“The only way to get to the future [Fuller] was seeing was about completely transforming your consciousness, loving one another as yourself,” she says.

Hot button issues like water scarcity and depleted soil are reviewed. Michael Dorsey, Ph.D. of Dartmouth College notes that current economic and social systems do not deliver justice, environmental protection and human rights. “The system is broken,” he believes.

Water: the next oil

“Water’s the next oil,” warns Maude Barlow, Senior Advisor on Water Issues to the United Nations. “Water scarcity has already reached a dire limit for two billion people in the world,” she says.

“As water becomes more corporately controlled, as water becomes more expensive because it’s controlled for profit, it’s going to be denied to people who can’t afford it. It’s already happening now in communities in the global south where water metering is going on,” according to Barlow.

“Green Revolution” a scam

The “Green Revolution” has led to “dependency on corporations to supply seed, to supply chemicals,” says Penny Livingstone-Stark, a permaculture designer. Monoculture farming, she says, serves to “disconnect people from their land, pollute water systems, deforest the earth.”

Livingstone-Stark explains how using soil biology sustainably perpetuates living systems and increases crop yields.

Reclaiming our nature connection

Reclaiming our lost connection to nature is the key to healing individuals, societies and the planet, Pinchbeck concludes.

Policarpo Chaj, activist and executive director of Maya Vision, explains how past and future are cyclical in Mayan thought. The 2012 prophecy of earth changes and economic downturns is already happening, Chaj and other scholars say.

Spiritual practices endorsed

Filmmaker David Lynch, who has practiced Transcendental Meditation for almost 35 years, tells Pinchbeck that he overcame anger shortly after he began meditating. Looking within helped him “find infinite intelligence, creativity, bliss, energy, love, power,” he adds.

Pinchbeck uses the psychoactive root bark ayahuasca to more deeply perceive reality.

British rock singer Sting, who co-founded the Rainforest Foundation and practiced Ashtanga yoga, notes that he also took ayahuasca. Fasting and meditation are also effective ways to connect with the Divine, he adds.

Welcome to the global tribe

Pinchbeck sees an empowered “global tribe” replacing poor, suffering masses. This film is based on his book 2012: The Return to Quetzalcoatl. His essay collection Notes from the Edge Times has just been published.   (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like 2012: Time for Change, you might enjoy:  Thrive; 2012: The Odyssey; Dalai Lama Renaissance.

 

2012: Time for Change    2010  /  NR  /  1 hour, 40 min

Cast Overview:  Daniel Pinchbeck, Mitch Horowitz, Michael Dorsey, Ph.D., Gaspar P. Gonzalez, Penny Livingston, Maude Barlow, Bernard Lietaer, Joel Kovel, Michael D. Coe, Ph.D., Policarpo Chaj, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Terence McKena, Steven Colbert, Sting, Dennis McKenna, Barbara Marx Hubbard, R. Buckminster Fuller

Director:  Joao Amorim

Genre:  Documentary, Spirituality, Science & Nature, Current Affairs, Animation

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