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The Gratitude Effect: practicing the power of thank you

July 4, 2012 By

The Gratitude Effect defines the power of thank you in a short, inspiring film from Avaiya Media. It combines insights from spirituality, business and psychology.

Law of attraction

Speakers include Bob Proctor, Marci Shimoff and Joe Vitale, all motivational success teachers who appear in the hit film The Secret.

The film is beautifully produced with lovely music, and filled with images of smiling kids and adults.

Pathway to an extraordinary life

“When times are tough, that’s when gratitude matters the most,” says Vi “The Fiddler” Wickam. “The opportunities are out there. When you live in gratitude, you can see them.”

Jean Trebek comments, “I think gratitude is putting no expectation on what is. It’s a place of surrender and allowance. Even when there is something in your life that appears to not be going great, you can use your imagination to cultivate a feeling of gratitude.”

Giving thanks empowers you because “you fill yourself up and you’re more able then to give from a place of fullness,” says Shimoff (Chicken Soup for the Soul; Happy for No Reason).

Active practice is key

As a tool for growth and learning, this uplifting film reminds you to give thanks every day.

Gratitude transforms your life when you actively share it, says Avaiya co-founder Ashley “Ande” Anderson. Tell others why you appreciate them. Write thank you notes to clients. Keep a gratitude journal.

Quotes from prominent leaders are incorporated into the 15 minute film. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more,” Oprah Winfrey says. “If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

If you like this film, you might enjoy:  A Course in Miracles; Three Magic Words.

 

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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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This Sacred Earth: how to reconnect with Nature and one another

April 22, 2012 By

This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon shows you simple ways to reconnect with Nature and others as humanity’s Golden Age unfolds. Shamans and scholars participate. Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch direct this uplifting documentary.

The film is now streaming on various platforms as 2012: This Sacred Earth. The DVD is available at the film’s website.

Befriending Nature

“Nature is really, fundamentally, a relationship,” says Andras Corban Arthen, founder of the EarthSpirit Community.

It’s crucial to heal our relationship with Nature, Arthen says. Humankind’s problems originate in “the deliberate separation of human beings from direct participation in the natural world,” he believes.

“Mother Nature is yearning for us and we are yearning for her,” says Karen Ward, author and Irish-Celtic shaman. “We just have to get out and be. It’s that simple.”

Walking outdoors every day, sending love to the sun every morning and evening, and thanking the plants and animals that make up our meals are simple ways to begin. Irish-Celtic shaman John Cantwell notes that Nature can help us heal depression, stress and overweight.

Down to earth

Connecting with tree, animal and plant spirits has been “incredibly practical and useful,” says scholar and Celtic shaman Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen. She feels she’s become a better mother, wife and friend.

Living simply doesn’t mean moving into a cave. It means living with less. Buying more “stuff” doesn’t bring happiness or fulfillment, insists author and past life regressionist Dolores Cannon. Watch less television, advises druid author Philip Carr-Gomm.

Grow a garden and share with others, suggests Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for us to fall back in love with this planet, our home, to fall back in love with each other,” she adds.

The New Human arrives

“Homo Luminous is the new human that’s appearing today. We’re taking a quantum evolutionary leap,” shaman and author Dr. Alberto Villoldo believes.

He sees our natural human lifespan as 150-200 years. The new species will grow, heal and die differently. We will create “psychosomatic health” rather than psychosomatic illness, he says. Extraordinary relationships, spirituality and psychic abilities will become commonplace.

Villoldo recommends that we live peace and joy as a daily practice. “You act from courage not from fear. You act from love not from reactivity or rage. You act from truth, and not from a set of lies that we’ve internalized and confused with reality,” he explains.

“For me it’s like being rewired,” says Ward. The way we think, feel, live and love are continuously evolving.

 Preview of the Golden Age

The world after December 21, 2012 will still contain horror and beauty, says Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, a Hawaiian Kahuna. We each decide what to tune into. It’s a time when “our true priorities will be brought forth,” she says.

“Inner change is happening today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow,” says Villoldo. The New World will be as different from this world as this world is from Neanderthal times, he notes.

The Golden Age will be filled with “spontaneous mind-to-mind, heart-to-heart communication, anticipating events before they occur, living synchronistically so you’re living in the symphony of creation,” he notes. Negativity and trauma will be replaced with beauty and wonder, says Cannon.

Co-creating a new world

The 2012 turning point gives us “a deadline to make important changes, and to change how we’re relating to the Earth,” says Lucy Cavendish, Australian author and white witch.

“With awareness, I think this truly is the Golden Age,” says Trevarthen. “What we focus on expands,” according to Billie Dean, shaman, author and co-director of the film. “So if we want a different kind of world, then we have to think about the sort of world we really want.”

Spiritual practice

Ward envisions accessing our ancestors’ wisdom, knowledge and ancient ways. “Bring it into a modern context, evolving as a spiritual community.”

Praise and bless what’s true and beautiful in the world now, advises Trevarthen. Shamanic ceremonies are shown in beautiful, natural surroundings.

Embrace and create change

We can turn our world around with a light heart, creativity, imagination, pride and audacity, Cantwell notes. Optimism and hope comprise this world view.

Grassroots people create change by following their hearts. World people are already standing up to injustice by saying: “We won’t allow this.”

Life as spiritual art form

“Doing your work is about forgiveness,” Dean notes. It’s about loving yourself, loving others and the Earth. It means walking the Earth with impeccability and “making life a spiritual art form.”

Aliens won’t be swooping in to save us, says photojournalist and investigative reporter Paola Harris. Meaningful change must come from within.

We must live with intention and reverence. Those who don’t change will simply become extinct, Villoldo cautions.

 

Be peace

Overall This Sacred Earth is very mature, heartfelt and insightful. It simplifies spirituality with humor. It opens with a remarkably clear summary of the 2012 galactic alignment and related issues. Excellent music includes the song Spiral Dance by David Pendragon and Tribe World Ensemble.

“Be peace. Be love. Be beauty. And walk in beauty,” says Dean. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like This Sacred Earth: The 2012 Phenomenon, you might enjoy:  Earth Whisperers; 2012: The Odyssey; Anima Mundi.

 

This Sacred Earth  /   2009  /  NR  /  53 min

Cast Overview:  Dr. William Bloom, Dolores Cannon, John Cantwell, Philip Carr-Gomm, Lucy Cavendish, Andras Corben Arthen, Billie Dean, Haleaka Solari Pule Dooley, Paola Harris, Anne Hassett, Minmia, Janet Ossebaard, Dr. Geo Athena Trevarthen, Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Karen Ward, Robert Wakeley Wheeler, Angelika Whitecliff

Directors: Billie Dean and Andrew Einspruch

Genres:  Documentary, Nature, Spirituality

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3 Magic Words: love, divinity, oneness spark new ways of being

March 25, 2012 By

It’s time to wake up to love, divinity and oneness, says 3 Magic Words, an enlightening mix of insights from authors, artists, scientists, philosophers and children. Michael Perlin writes and directs.

Based on the book Three Magic Words by U.S. Andersen, the film is now streaming on many VOD platforms. You can also pre-order the DVD.

Who are you?

The film explores our essential oneness. Spiritual insights about love and oneness may be familiar. More complex ideas about the ego, and forgiving ourselves and others, are woven in seamlessly.

Our connection to the universe

Modern physics has discovered that all matter is actually energy. Nassim Haramein, renowned theoretical quantum physicist, says the atom is made up of 99.99999% space.

“Everything is a hologram,” spiritual teacher Max Christensen explains. “Everything is an illusion. Matter doesn’t exist. It’s pure energy.”

In other words, we are all one. We live in a sea of energy. Our minds are energy.

Nature and humans

The Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers that reveals harmony and governs creation itself, is seen as a spiral everywhere in nature. “Our bodies are filled with this golden mean proportion,” says Theresa Ibis, physicist and alchemist.

We are one with nature, the film tells us. We are nature. “By harming nature, by harming the planet and the ecosystem, we’re harming ourselves,” says Dolores Canon, author, publisher and past life therapist.

Marley Oyen, a child from Los Angeles, puts it simply: “If you love nature, there will be no pollution. If you love people, there will be no killing. If you love everything, love will just be spread around the whole world.”

Pure consciousness

Author Susan Shumsky notes that “inside everyone is a center of being, pure consciousness, love, life, truth.” Science, biology, nature and consciousness studies all reach this conclusion. Shumsky believes that meditation is the best and perhaps the only way to connect with our inner divinity.

“If the presidents and leaders of countries on this planet today would know that they are God, and know that each person in their country was god, they would not send God to war,” says Gudni Gudnason, founder of the Modern Mystery School.

Changing minds, changing the world

Separation has prompted great destruction, says Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations With God. “That single shift of perception – separate or all one – changes everything. It changes our beliefs, which alters our behaviors, which creates an extraordinary new reality.”

“We are all one,” says Canon. “Once you realize this there can be no prejudice, there can be no judging, we each have our own purpose that we’re playing out.”

While original religions embodied oneness, Canon says, religious rules and regulations added afterwards reinforce the idea of separation.

Illusion and reality

Gary Renard, author of The Disappearance of the Universe and speaker on A Course in Miracles, reveals that everything we see in the world is us. “You’re all of it,” he says.

“When the Buddha said ‘I am awake,’ he realized he is the maker of the entire dream,” Renard explains. “What we need to do is get back in touch with what we really are,” he adds. This means undoing the ego.

How to live as one

Ancient Buddhists say that there is only one ego appearing as many. The Hindus call this “multiplicity.” The Buddhists call it “impermanence.” Albert Einstein termed this an “optical delusion of consciousness.”

“The fastest way to undo that is to change the way you think about others,” Renard says, “to see others as being Divine and whole and perfect.” Love and forgiveness always lead to good things, he emphasizes.

We may as well enjoy the play of illusion around us, Renard believes. “Don’t ever worry. That’s against the rules from now on.”

Unraveling the war mentality

Perlin told Lilou Mace that he left his 9-to-5 job and began making the film after 20 years of metaphysical studies.  “People are still fighting wars,” he noted. “I’m surprised people still think we need to fight wars.” Perlin began searching for a common theme in spiritual teachings that everyone could understand.

Bite size pieces

Although the film suffers from choppy editing (20 to 30 second sound bites throughout), its broad, expansive message comes through. Perhaps this simple approach was designed for the world’s war-hungry leaders.

Surprise ending

By the end of 3 Magic Words, you’ll be compelled to live life from unity consciousness. Fascinating speakers, along with moving art, photography and animation, make the film enlightening and moving.

If everyone remembers the three magic words, our new era of consciousness might unfold more smoothly. The three words are revealed at the end of the film. Like a mantra, they can be repeated whenever we forget. (4.5 out of 5 stars)

If you like 3 Magic Words, you might enjoy:  Thrive; 2012: The Odyssey; Dalai Lama Renaissance.

 

3 Magic Words  /   2010  /  NR  /  1 hour, 10 min

Cast Overview:  Dolores Cannon, Max Christensen, Neale Donald Walsch, Gudni Gudnason, Nassim Haramein, Theresa Ibis, Ishmael Tetteh, Gary Renard, Debbie Ford, Susan Shumsky, Cameron W. Smith (Narrator)

Directors: Michael Perlin

Genres:  Documentary, Spirituality, New Thought

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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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Enlightenment lives in Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience

February 13, 2012 By

True peace in a world without limits is unfolding, says The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience. This documentary about our evolution into enlightenment is filled with narration, interviews and beautiful visuals.

Who are we? Why are we here? Why are things the way they are? Get ready to look behind the curtain.

CE2 is now streaming on YouTube or you can purchase the DVD.

Life is no accident

In the beginning was Source, which burst into billions of tiny fragments. Each one of us is a fragment, says this film. The Collective Evolution Team directs, writes and edits. Helena Cortez narrates.

The purpose of our lives is “experiencing, learning and remembering who we truly are.” We are “all one in a unified field of consciousness.” In the dualistic world of good and bad, right and wrong, we have forgotten this.

We chose our life experiences before incarnating. All experiences, whether “good” or “bad,” are seen as neutral by our souls, which yearn to experience and learn.

For money’s sake

We use fuel oil despite alternatives “for the sake of the economy.” We wage wars “for the sake of the economy.” We indebt the poor and tout superficial values for money’s sake.

Daily life in an industrialist system is governed by education, career performance, debt management, and retirement. Ransacking our resources, which makes possible consumer-driven lifestyles, is not sustainable.

As many enter enlightenment, these old habits are already dissolving.

New values emerge

Values such as “a vibrant planet, respect for all life forms, healthy foods, peaceful ways and conscious actions” are often an afterthought.

We are moving into an economy of sharing rather than ownership, says Franco DeNicola, a member of the Collective Evolution Team.

Return from enlightenment

Franco says he is “a soul that came back” after a lifetime where he achieved enlightenment. He’s dedicated to helping humanity with the current evolutionary shift.

Awakening to our interconnectedness with each other, the Earth and all life forms is now needed.

Imagine someone carrying heavy luggage as he walks through rising water, says Franco. Eventually, we must choose: keep holding on and drown, or let go and begin to float.

Bodies on Earth

Our bodies are chosen by us, but we are not our bodies. Like an automobile, the human body is a vehicle that the soul travels in. Once we’re done with life, “we step out,” says Franco. “There is no tragedy. There is no death.” Consciousness continues, moving on to new experiences.

Earth reflects our consciousness. Everything is the stage, and will respond as we change our consciousness, according to the film.

Limitations like disease and aging are programmed beliefs which we can change, we are told. One way people shift is by sun-gazing.

Sun gazers thrive

Hira Ratan Manek (HRM) practices a form of yoga called sun-gazing to promote peace and good health. Since 1995, he reportedly has eaten no food, and drinks only boiled water.

Sun-gazing is practiced at sunrise and sunset to avoid UV rays. Starting with 10 seconds, and increasing that by 10 second increments each day up to 44 minutes, sun gazers take nourishment directly from the sun, according to Matthew Christodoulou, a co-director of the film.

Sun gazers find that they need to eat less, and their immune systems are boosted, he adds.

The Ego wages chaos

The ego is a software program implanted in our subconscious mind. Thoughts and stories collect and fill it over time.

“We are trapped, trapped in a multi-layered system of thoughts. We are in a prison we do not even realize exists, a prison so well designed that we have become the prison, and are willing to fight to protect it,” says the film.

The ego generates thoughts and belief systems based on anything we encounter throughout our lives. As souls, we agreed to use this program so we could forget who we truly are and fully engage in human experience.

The powerful few challenge us

A small group of souls wield power to disconnect our world from divinity even further. These individuals engineer systems to manipulate our thoughts and beliefs. Affected are the economy, our education system, religious institutions, food providers, the medical industry, and the ego itself.

These souls make our experience more challenging. We agreed to this before incarnating.

Movies and television often perpetuate ideas and stories to keep us believing in separation, strife and struggle. The fear of not having enough money is a common story.

You are not your thoughts

The only way out is to become aware of your true self, and to see the ego and all its madness for what it is: experience.

“We do have an awareness beyond our programming. We’re just unconscious of it. We’ve forgotten,” says Christodoulou.

“We’ve convinced ourselves that we are these programs, these auto-responsive emotions, and that we have no power over them,” Christodoulou adds. “And this is why we find ourselves constantly responding in the same manner over and over, repeating the same cycle. We are none of these thoughts.”

“True feeling is very, very peaceful, very clear inside, and it is our guiding system,” says Franco. It is tempting to identify with passing emotions such as happiness, sadness and anger.

Beginning to shift

“Freedom can only come by bypassing this program.” The key is to become aware of the ego, and know that you are the one observing it.

A shift is happening already in all the universe, says Franco. We experience and choose collectively, so that when one of us becomes more conscious, it affects the consciousness of all of us.

You can choose

“You now have a choice: do I go with the program and repeat the same cycle . . . or do I go with what I truly feel inside of me?” asks the film.

You can choose to be a true observer and creator, to go with what you truly feel. This means changing within, dissolving old habits of thought, and realigning with our Divine nature.

“We are pure potentiality,” says Franco. (5 out of 5 stars)

If you like The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience, you might enjoy: The Collective Evolution; Thrive; 2012: Time for Change.

 

The Collective Evolution II: The Human Experience    2011  /  NR /  1 hour, 34 min

Cast Overview: Collective Evolution Team – Tara Carpino, Matthew Christodoulou, Franco DeNicola, Mark DeNicola, Alanna Ketler, Joe Martino, Elina St-Onge

Directors:  Matthew Christodoulou, Mark DeNicola, Joe Martino, Elina St-Onge

Genre:  Documentary, New Thought

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