IONS at the Movies
The IONS NW Community Group Leaders recently had an online
discussion. Many of them shared the videos they had liked the
best for working with community groups. Some of them suggested
using Blockbuster or NetFlix, picking up movies and videos in a
store or having them delivered.
Some groups have a night like "A Night at the Meaningful
Movies." They use movies that are directed to social justice and
collective healing. Others use services like IONS partner
Spiritual Cinema, receiving several short and long movies on
spirituality and consciousness a monthly DVD delivery with
membership. It requires that a group have a means to project
videos.
As
the IONS NW Community Group Leaders began to recommend great
IONS type movies to each other, they began to gather quite a
list. When the discussion turned to where to get good movies, a
question came up around what happened to the IONS Video Library.
In
the last issue, we mentioned that
Kent Moline of
Spokane IONS Community was the new keeper of the IONS Video
Library. Kent chimed in and gave us a list of all the videos he
keeps for sharing with other IONS Community Group Coordinators.
If you send Kent $5 for the shipping with your address, he will
loan out a video.
Although some of the videos are fairly outdated, some of them
are real jewels, such as Metamorphosis which has been reproduced
under another name but features Rupert Sheldrake, David Bohm,
and David Abrams. The problem often is that videos are too long
for community group meetings, because it is great to be able to
discuss a movie collectively after viewing it and there is often
little time.
We
thought you might like to see the list of the IONS videos
archived in Kent Moline's home.
The current IONS video library
is published at this link. Beyond that here are some other
recommendations. We will provide more in the next issue.
DVD's available for preview and purchase on the IONS web
site.
Follow this
link if you are interested in purchasing some recently produced
DVD's from the Research and Education Department at IONS.
These videos and DVD's were produced for community group
discussions.
New Directions in PSI Research
(DVD/VHS)
Conversations with Fred Luskin, PhD
(DVD/VHS)
Conversations with Br. David
Steindl-Rast, PhD
(DVD/VHS)
Conversations with Jeff
Levin, PhD, and Frances Vaughan, PhD(DVD/VHS)
Videos are now available IONS Shift in Action web site
IONS Shift in Action site is beginning to feature videos for
download and The Essential Series included audios that are short
enough for community groups to listen to. Visit
www.shiftinaction.com
and click on Discover.
Some Hot Recommendations as of 3/01/07 by IONS CG Leaders.
More will be shared in the next issue of this newsletter.
DVD - The Primacy of Consciousness by Peter Russell
DVD of lecture I gave at Physics of Consciousness
Conference, which explores why consciousness may be the
fundamental essence of the cosmos. This is only time I have gone
into the subject in so much depth in a lecture. Excerpts of talk
(11 mins) available on site. Complete lecture (70 mins)
available on DVD.
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Film Zen Noir
- Reviewed by Linda Hassler, Memphis IONS Community
Noetic
Explorers December 10 meeting will be the most hilariously
entertaining of the year. We’re showing the zany, delightful,
laugh-your-way-to-the-lesson film “Zen Noir.” It has won several
film awards. It was released a few months ago and has been shown
in select cities around our country. It will not come to
Memphis. Here are some professional reviews:
- “Strange,
funny, sad, happy, moving, wonderful film.” Author of
“HardCore Zen."
- “Provocative, witty, & satisfying – visually rich &
stunning.” L.A. Times
- “Packed with laugh-out-loud moments and sharp dialogue.”
SF Chronicle
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DVD - the Mystery Of
Love - PBS Special
"Explore the many kinds of love that give shape and
meaning to life."
Many community groups are using this for study groups. It
comes with PDF guides and a supportive web site.
In
popular culture, one type of love, passionate sexual romance is
prized above all. But as you will see, there are many kinds of
love that weave us together as friends, family, community and
more. In popular culture, one type of
love - passionate sexual romance - is prized above all. But
there are many kinds of love that give shape and meaning to
life. This film explores real love stories of marriage, parents
and children, romance, brotherly love, altruism, divine love,
love of community, even the love of war. Actor, playwright and
author Anna Deavere Smith hosts the special.
Buy the DVD from the PBS online store.
Watch a preview for the TV special The Mystery of Love,
hosted by Anna Deavere Smith.
View the web
www.themysteryoflove.org
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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
Community Group Coordinator, Michael Ellis, Australia
submitted a link with a review of
Ervin Laszlo's work. He was recently featured on Dutch TV.
Michael is very excited about this
interview. Read about Ervin Laszlo here and read Michael's
review.
If you visit the Shift in Action web site you can download audio
of Ervin Laszlo's presentation at the last IONS Conference for
free. In addition there is a DVD of Science and the Akashic
Records which you can purchase from
Conference
Recordings. Some of the people here were at that
presentation and our group watched this video post conference
and it was very good with diagrams.
And you can
click on this link to find what we recommended in the last issue
of this newsletter.
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