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The Cure Is: mind over genetics empowers us to heal and be well

November 13, 2012 By

Beliefs and lifestyles – not genetics – govern our health, according to The Cure Is. Top doctors, authors and survivors of terminal disease are featured. David Scharps directs.

Epigenetics, a new understanding of gene expression, reveals that our thoughts and beliefs affect how our genes express. Epigenetics means “controlled above the genes.”

The Cure Is serves as a resource for anyone who wants to prevent or reverse disease. It melds science and spirituality in a clear, accessible way. The speakers are excellent. The website www.thecureismovie.com is currently down (3/10/13).

Belief and lifestyle cause disease

“When you love your life and body, miraculous things happen,” says Dr. Bernie Siegel, author and former Yale surgeon.

Probably less than 5 percent of disease is genetic, says Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., cell biologist and author. A gene is only a blueprint, he adds. Our beliefs and lifestyles drive disease. We have the power to change how we live and think.

If cancer were genetic, it would appear throughout human history, according to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author and nutrition authority. Fuhrman’s bestseller Eat to Live details the health benefits of eating natural plant foods.

Miracles are natural

The Cure Is introduces people who survived terminal cancer. With just days or weeks to live, they were told to make final arrangements. Each one recovered completely.

Rather than studying disease, we should study healing miracles, says spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson. “Every thought creates form on some level, and all that our physical experience is, is a reflection of our thoughts,” she notes.

“Just as negativity can short-circuit wellness and recovery, positive thought and emotions can ignite, strengthen and extend the protections afforded by your immune system,” Siegel explains. Lipton cites the “placebo effect” as proof that our beliefs drive healing.

Forgiveness transforms disease

The survivors began to heal as soon as they completely forgave people in their lives. One man read You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. Forgiveness softens the heart, says Williamson. It allows us to get rid of old baggage, Siegel adds.

Practice forgiveness now to prevent illness. Hurt feelings present an opportunity for nourishment and growth, Siegel notes. Communicate those feelings, even if it is within a journal. Then release them.

Embrace coherence, appreciation and gratitude, andyour world begins to operate according to these principles, according to author and scientist Gregg Braden. Focus on living and do what you love.

“We were intended to be whole and healthy and complete and strong and vital in the world,” says Dr. Sue Morter, founder of the Morter Institute for Bioenergetics.

Advanced forgiveness outlined

Lipton notes that the conscious mind controls only 5 percent of our lives. The subconscious mind is programmed with beliefs before we reach age six.

Through learned experience we develop habits. The subconscious causes us to act automatically, Lipton says. We can’t even see how it runs our lives.

Those who want to explore forgiveness and healing the subconscious more deeply can find information in The Marriage of Spirit.

Move from head to heart

Create positive statements of belief out of the areas of life that are not working for you, Lipton urges. Trust your intuition and be guided by love. “If you’re not extending love, you’re projecting fear,” Williamson explains.

Williamson stresses the value of serious spiritual practice that includes some form of meditation. That is the zone beyond the mind where destructive beliefs are dismantled, she says.

Love yourself

“Our hearts literally create a signal within our bodies that communicates with our brain to either affirm our health and our healing, or become the obstacle between us and our healing,” Braden notes.

“Love is what’s happening constantly. The question is, am I allowing myself to participate in it,” asks Morter. Self love signals our brains that, “I am safe. I am OK.” Love comes from within and empowers us.

If you like The Cure Is, you might enjoy: The Gerson Miracle; The Beautiful Truth; 3 Magic Words; To Your Health; Hungry for Change.

 

The Cure Is  /   2012  /  NR  /  1 hour, 16 min

Cast Overview:  Bruce Lipton, Bernie Siegel, Joel Fuhrman, Marianne Williamson, Sue Morter, Paul Chek, Tony Horton

Director:  David Scharps

Genres:  Documentary, Health, Spirituality

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A Course in Miracles unveils miracles of forgiveness

May 15, 2012 By

A Course in Miracles: The Movie unveils a unique way to forgive and be happy. Some of the world’s most respected teachers and authors appear.

The film is an excellent summary of A Course in Miracles for new and experienced students and teachers. It is scholarly and simplified. The DVD is now available from Avaiya.

What is the Course?

The Course is a “universal, self-study spiritual thought system that teaches that the way to Love and Inner Peace is through Forgiveness,” according to the Foundation for Inner Peace.

Columbia University professors Helen Schucman and William Thetford compiled the words of a Voice giving a “rapid, inner dictation” to Schucman in the late 1970s. Dr. Ken Wapnick, who appears in this film, helped editorially organize the Course.

The terms “Jesus” and “Holy Spirit” are symbolic of God’s love, experts say, and do not refer to the historical Jesus of Nazareth or to the Holy Spirit of Christianity.

Each student/teacher develops a unique relationship with the Course. Teacher Earl Purdy appreciates Jesus’ Seinfeld-like, ironic humor. Wapnick believes that Jesus is a Freudian.

It’s only a dream

“This whole game that we call life is just an illusion, just a projection of what’s going on within,” says the late Tomas Vieira, co-author of Take Me to Truth. “All the answers that we’re seeking are within.”

“Most of us spend this ‘life’ in this dream trying to fix the dream, when the only game in town is to wake up out of it,” Vieira adds.

Eventually we see that “all is well, all was always well. There is nothing to fix. And also there is nothing to be guilty of! All that we need to do is just gently wake up,” says Vieira.

Simply put, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God,” says the Course.

Changing our minds

The Course “doesn’t focus on love,” Wapnick explains. “It doesn’t focus on truth, it doesn’t focus on forgiveness in the usual sense of the word.”

“It really focuses on the resistance we have to accepting the love,” says Wapnick. “What the Course does is unveil for us our secret wish to be unfairly treated.”

“It’s about unlearning everything that we think is real,” says Nouk Sanchez, co-author of Take Me to Truth. “We find out that what is really real is love.”

From “me” to “we”

“What it’s really about is changing your perception, looking at the world differently and undoing the ego,” according to Gary Renard, teacher and author of The Disappearance of the Universe. The ego is “the ‘me’ that we think we are,” Vieira notes.

“According to the Course, [forgiveness] is a fast way to get home” and transcend suffering, Renard says. “Most of us are just experiencing a great deal of pain until we’ve had enough,” Vieira adds.

In the world, not of it

“Absolutely everything is happening within our mind, which means that your mind is not in your body. Your body is in your mind,” according to Rev. Tony Senf of the Unity Center of the Heights, Cleveland, Ohio. “Your body isn’t even in the world.”

“There really is no world out there,” says filmmaker and seminar leader Chad Cameron. “Much in the same way when you dream at night, there’s nobody in dreamland infringing on you.”

The world is “a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world,” according to Sai Baba. Jesus advised us to “be in the world but not of it.”

Heaven on Earth

The separation from God or Source never really happened, says the Course. We chose to be born “so that we could prove that the ego is right and God is wrong,” Wapnick notes.

“The Course teaches us that reality is perfect oneness, and that’s the definition of heaven. It’s an awareness of perfect oneness,” says Wapnick.

Author and teacher Tom Carpenter describes forgiveness as “undoing the judgments we have made in the past. . . . The payoff ultimately is that it will teach you the truth of who you are,” Carpenter adds.

“It looks like there are probably 6 billion people out there and 6 billion minds out there that need to be saved. There’s really just one,” says Renard.

A new way to forgive

Every time someone pushes our buttons, it’s an opportunity to forgive, says Sanchez. Basically, we are forgiving what never really happened. By blaming others, we project our own guilt onto them. Blaming only makes us feel better momentarily.

“If you forgive as you go along, then eventually you’re going to undo the ego, be more in the condition of Spirit, and because of that what will happen is that the unconscious guilt that is in your mind will be healed by the Holy Spirit,” Renard says.

“When I choose to forgive and let go of guilt, which means I let go of my belief in separation . . . . then all of my relationships become holy,” says Wapnick.

“Let forgiveness be the substitute for fear. This is the only rule for happy dreams,” says the Course.

 

Get happy and forgive

Renard urges us to forgive continually. “Do it now, get in the habit of doing it, and it can make all the difference in the world, both in terms of your immediate experience, and also in the long-term direction of the mind.”

“You don’t have to struggle to be what you already are,” says Renard. “All that you have to do is undo the false you, undo the ego, and eventually the experience of the real you will be there for you.” If you really want to change the world, change yourself, teachers advise.

Puppetji the puppet guru says: “Just enjoy your life. Here. Now. This is it. . . . It is all one big mystery.”

If you like A Course in Miracles, you might enjoy:  Three Magic Words; Dalai Lama: Renaissance.

 

A Course in Miracles: The Movie    2010  /  NR /  1 hour, 1 min

Cast Overview: Ken Wapnick, Nouk Sanchez, Tomas Vieira, Lyn Corona, Chad Cameron, Linda Carpenter, Earl Purdy, Gary Renard, Linda McNabb, iKE ALLEN, Susan Dugan, Tom Carpenter, Tony Senf, Puppetji

Director:  iKE ALLEN

Genre:  Documentary, Spirituality

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Timewave 2013: master time as you live in the present moment

March 3, 2012 By

We can master time in a world without limits, according to Timewave 2013: The Future is Now. Part two of director Sharron Rose’s documentary 2012: The Odyssey delves into Mayan prophecies and ideas of time.

As Rose visits the Q’ero, shamans and healers descended from the ancient Incans, you can hear their guidance. The DVD is available from Sacred Mysteries Productions.

Rare visit with the Q’ero

Rose meets the Q’ero in the Andes Mountains of Peru. They fled the Spanish Conquest some 500 years ago. The Q’ero live in the present moment. They do not own televisions, computers or cell phones.

With clear perception, the Q’ero have mastered time. This allows them to travel to the past and present. Seeing Earth’s future allows them to share prophecies. Anthropologist and psychologist Dr. Alberto Villoldo translates for the shamans.

Despacho ceremony purifies

Shamans Don Umberto Sonco and Dona Bernadina Sonco perform a Despacho ceremony to help release negativity and change the future. The Despacho is a mandala made with objects that symbolize beauty, endearment and humor. Cookies, candies, roots and flowers are used here.

The Q’ero place all negative thoughts and feelings into the objects. The shamans blow prayers into coca leaves and add them to the Despacho.

Vision of the future

The ceremony becomes a metaphor for purification and renewal throughout the film. Rose blows her prayers into the coca leaves “to dispel the wars and suffering that is the story of this age just ending.”

Rose sees a new world “built around the idea of partnership and cooperation” where “Nature would be restored and men and women live together in peace.”

Finally the bundle is thrown into a fire, symbolically burning up negativity and sending prayers into the world.

The Q’ero pray and prophesy

The Q’ero share wisdom from the ancient Incan prophet Pachacuti. “The world, which has gone into chaos, will be turned right side up again, and a new human will be born,” says Rose. New humans are seen in bodies of light.

Disasters will affect many areas of the world, says Don Umberto. “We must make our prayers to the feminine, to the Mother. We must come back to the ways of the feminine, of stewardship, of protection.”

“The United States has a great power, it has great brilliance, great resources. It is up to the United States to take leadership in the world. To bring peace, to bring balance back to the planet,” Don Umberto says.

Nature of time is changing

Western linear time is founded on cause and effect, says Villoldo. Time turns like a wheel for indigenous societies. Based on synchronicity, shamanic time allows us to influence the past and future.

“When we’re able to engage a different form of time, we’re not only the result of an earlier cause,” Villoldo explains. “The future can reach back like a giant hand and bring you forward into who you are becoming. So we can be informed by who we are becoming.”

Age of the Great Lie

“We live in the age of the great lie,” says Villoldo. We distrust politicians, medicine and the media. “It’s a conspiracy of mediocrity,” he believes. Philosopher and scholar Jean Houston adds, “It’s like every shadow that ever existed has risen to be faced so that we can make the next step.”

Author Whitley Strieber believes that extinction events will mark 2012. Others say that profound evolutionary shifts are unfolding within us. “What is probably more likely going on is that we are in the grip of a gigantic change” as “the old ways are dying,” explains producer and author Jay Weidner.

An Age of Peace

“Ancient texts and traditions say that we are preparing for 1,000 years of a peaceful coexistence in this world,” New York Times best-selling author Gregg Braden tells Rose. “Sometimes our greatest strengths become apparent when we face the greatest challenges together,” he adds.

“We have this window of opportunity to make a really radical and fast transition to a different social paradigm and a different sustainable infrastructure,” says author and producer Daniel Pinchbeck (2012: Time for Change).

“We are heading toward a singularity in history in which yesterday looks nothing like today, and today looks nothing like tomorrow,” says Houston.

A view of enlightenment

Enlightenment is a way to free ourselves from the “cultural trance” of the modern world. “The whole change of the world has to start with you,” Rose told Awareness Magazine. “If you want a world of beauty and connectivity, you have to start with yourself.”

“You will be firmly grounded in the material world, and from this place, bring your expanded knowledge and perception into your every action,” she noted. “As you bring this expanded energy into your physical body, your whole body will begin to become lighter. You will heal. This is what they mean by enlightenment.”

As in part one, Timewave 2013 includes esoteric discussions about alchemy and astronomy.

Living love the best way to prepare

We nurture life-affirming or life-denying feelings every day, says Braden. Western science has shown that feelings do change our body chemistry.

“If we can reconcile our fears and our judgments and our bias, our jealousy and our anger as well as all the love, and accept the forgiveness and the tolerance and the compassion that comes our way every day. . . . we have already prepared for whatever eventuality,” Braden maintains.

“Compassion and forgiveness are the path towards true liberation,” says Villoldo. “The year 2012 is not only a purging but also an embrace of all that is really important to us.” (4 out of 5 stars)

If you like Timewave 2013, you might enjoy: 2012: The Odyssey; 2012: Time for Change; Thrive.

 

Timewave 2013: The Future is Now /   2008  /  NR  /  1 hour, 28 min

Cast Overview:  Jose Arguelles, Gregg Braden, Riane Eisler, William Henry, Jean Houston, John Major Jenkins, Rick Levine, Dennis McKenna, Terence McKenna, Don Martine Pinedo, Vilma Pinedo, Daniel Pinchbeck, Sharron Rose, Umberto Sonco, Bernadina Sonco, Geoff Stray, Whitley Strieber, Alberto Villoldo, Jay Weidner

Director: Sharron Rose

Genres:  Documentary

 

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