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Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time

Nov 24, 2011

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, his masterpiece, Stalker, being one of the finest metaphysical and spiritual films ever made.

Hakim Sanai: The Walled Garden of Truth

Nov 24, 2011

Rumi acknowledged Hakim Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, "Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar." Sanai wrote an enormous quantity of mystical verse, of which From The Walled Garden of Truth or The Hadiqat al...

William Blake: The Greatest Visionary Artist of All

Sep 22, 2011

A wonderful surrealist art video on the poetry of William Blake, including music by the Verve, and recitations by British actors, Mark Rylance and Derek Jacobi, as well as animation from the 1970’s London Tate William Blake Exhibition.

Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

Sep 16, 2011

Ai Weiwei discusses “Sunflower Seeds,” which was installed at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, in October 2010.

Eckhart Tolle & Chris Hebard: The Dark Night of the Soul

Jun 21, 2011

In a profoundly honest interaction, Chris Hebard talks with Eckhart Tolle about how a dark night of the soul experience, culminating in a 'catastrophic breakdown,' led in turn to a moment of complete surrender. Going on to explain how he then began to observe his...

Chuck Surface: Playing by “Heart”

Feb 8, 2011

Chuck Surface remembers the path from playing by ear, to Playing by Heart. Forgive me, my schooled friends. I make no excuses, and offer no apologies. I’m too drunk, lazy, and stupid, And can’t lift myself up and study. Here… in the arms of Bliss. Click here to join Chuck in words written from the Heart.

The Nondual Wisdom of Karlfried Graf Durckheim

Jul 19, 2010

Becoming Transparent to the Transcendent: Karlfried Graf Durckhein While visiting with Francis Lucille during his retreat outside of Munich, Germany this summer, he stunned me with a quote from Karlfield Graf Durckheim, the German diplomat, psychotherapist, Zen "master" and deeply enchanting Christian mystic. Enjoyed by Jean Klein, Graf died in 1988 at the age of 92. "Suddenly it happened! I was listening and lightning went through me. The veil was torn asunder, I was awake! I had just experienced 'It'. Everything existed and nothing existed. Another Reality had broken through this world. I myself existed and did not exist…" "I had experienced that which is spoken of in all centuries: individuals, in whatever stage of their lives, have had an experience which struck them with the force of lightning and linked them once and for all to the circuits of True Life." Click here to see a rare video of Karlfried Graf Durckheim and to download a free and rich biography regarding his work, entitled "Becoming Real."

Atmananda Krishna Menon’s Teachings

Jun 22, 2010

"By reducing objects into consciousness or happiness, you come only to the brink of experience. Reduce them further into the 'I' principle; then,'it', the object, and 'you', the subject, both merge into experience itself. Thus, when you find that what you see is only...