THE LAST DALAI LAMA? For over two thousand years, Buddhist psychology has taught the techniques for over coming negative, afflictive emotions, such as anger, greed, jealousy, sloth, ignorance, etc. In the film, THE LAST DALAI LAMA?, he explains that Tibetan Buddhism is both a religion and also a “science of the mind.” Anyone, from any tradition, can benefit from experiencing the Dalai Lama’s crystallized understanding of the nature of mind, and its part in the creation, and alleviation of all of our suffering... Continue Reading and View Trailer or visit www.TheLastDalaiLamaFilm.com
RAM DASS FIERCE GRACE is a feature-length documentary that shows the wisdom of Ram Dass (aka Richard Alpert), the man who’s been at the forefront of studies in consciousness for over 55 years, as he uses his own practices to deal with the effects of a massive stroke he suffered in 1997.
While at Harvard, Alpert’s explorations of human consciousness led him, in collaboration with Timothy Leary, Ralph, Metzner, Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, and others, to pursue intensive research... Continue Reading and View Trailer
COMPASSION IN EXILE is an intimate portrait of Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. The film explores the remarkable arch of how a child, born in a cow barn to uneducated peasant parents, has become the moral voice on the planet, and perhaps the world’s most conscious human being. Inherent in the story of this 1989 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is the plight of the Tibetan people, and the brutal genocide they have endured since the Communist Chinese invasion in 1950. In this film, the Dalai Lama personally granted unprecedented access and cooperation. Many Tibetans who were imprisoned... Continue Reading and View Trailer
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON features eight Apollo astronauts who intimately share their experience going to the moon, describing what happened to them while they were there, and how their lives have been shaped by the experience in the 20 years after. The program to land a man on the moon became one of the greatest achievements of our civilization. Some of these astronauts went through amazing transformations... Continue Reading and View Trailer
OUR PLANET EARTH is love poem to the planet commissioned by the United Nations. Five decades ago, human life first pierced the sky and stepped out, into the unknown of space. Seventeen Astronauts and Cosmonauts from ten countries share the excitement of space travel and eloquently describe how going into space changed their relationship to our planet Earth. Ecological damage, now visible from space, concerns them all... Continue Reading and View Trailer
In HASTEN SLOWLY, Sir Laurens van der Post tells stories about the key moments of his extraordinary life: childhood in the Bush of South Africa; lifelong struggles against Apartheid; three-and-a-half years in a Japanese POW camp which he transformed into a university; author of 26 books; student and preserver of the Kalahari Bushman’s culture; friend and biographer of Carl Jung; advisor to Prince Charles and godfather of Prince William, the future King of England... Continue Reading and View Trailer