Interview with the director of the LIGHT documentary, Peter-Arthur Straubinger

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I am honored to introduce my client and good friend, Peter-Arthur Straubinger, the director of “In the Beginning There Was Light”, or for simplicity’s sake, the Light documentary, a mind expansive film, or as IMDB.com declared, “Mindblowing!” about “breatharianism.”

What is that, exactly? Let me give you a brief synopsis.

Breatharianism or “living on light” deals with human beings who allegedly can survive without food and fluid, over weeks, years and even decades.

As incredible as it may seem, the Light documentary provides certified reports of personal experiences, interviews and scientifically documented laboratory experiments as evidence that there are people living today who do not need food either to live or to sustain their metabolism. They live on “light” alone. Depending on the tradition this “light” may be called PRANA, CHI or ORGON.

Hello Peter!  Thank you for joining us today.  Please share with us what inspired you to make this extensive documentary film about Breatharianism?”

Actually, “In the Beginning, There Was Light” is about breatharianism only on the surface, as a kind of dramatic arc for telling about a deeper truth behind our visible reality – the “light of life”.  So, what it is truly about is the investigation and questioning of this materialistic worldview, which rules our society – that it’s only real if you can prove it, touch it, measure it.

I could have made this film with the same message about telepathy, faith healing, remote viewing or the wonder of life itself…

The reason why breatharianism became my chosen golden thread and message was due to a visit with a meditation teacher who I was told lived only on water and ‘light’.

I got to know him quite well, and he told me that he had not eaten for over a year, that he only drank water. I’d heard stories about this phenomenon before but did not really believe it. But meeting a person face to face had a much stronger impact!

He sounded very credible, but I asked myself, if this phenomenon really exists, why isn’t it taken seriously by scientific institutions? Why aren’t dozens of universities doing research on this?”

Now that is an excellent question! How much is going on that is NOT being studied due to scientists and others stating, matter-of-factly, “That’s impossible”!

“Yes, exactly! So this tension was the reason why I’ve been doing my own research for nearly five years. Through this, I discovered a lot of good arguments by classical medicine as to why this should not work, how people starve every day and others died trying to live as breatharians.

However, there are many records about this phenomenon in all cultures, throughout all times, and of course my Austrian friend who was living and breathing proof (pun intended ;).

I decided to seek first-hand information about this fascinating phenomenon and started my five-year journey, travelling around the world to China, India, Russia, the U.S., and many other countries. And I discovered some incredible knowledge, from ancient Eastern wisdom to the findings of modern physics…”

Please share with us how the showing of the Light documentary in at the Cinema Noesis Film Festival inspired you to take the time & investment to bring this controversial movie to the United States, with English narration?

When I participated in the Cinema Noesis Film Festival, organized by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, I was completely overwhelmed by the reactions of the crowd there. The people loved the film and asked why it was not available in the states….

That was my inspiration!  And I am proud to say that it is now available to rent or own, or you can just check out the trailer through Vimeo streaming.

Although the Light documentary was a big Box Office hit in cinemas through out Europe, especially in the German speaking countries, the U.S. distributor did not do any significant promotions, so almost no one knew about the film here.

Due to the reactions of the audience at the film festival, including yours, Wendy, I was definitely motivated to produce a new version of the film with English narration and some minor changes to bring it up to date.  And here we are today!

By the way, the English narration is spoken by me.  Though my English has an Austrian accent, many people gave me the advice to stick with my voice, like how it is in the original German version. This works out well because “Light” is actually my journey around the world, finding the truth behind breatharianism. Therefore, the text is written in the first person, and it just made sense that it is spoken by me ~ perhaps, it adds even more authenticity….

Yes, Peter, I believe I was one of your supporters to translate the film in your own voice, and yes, it most definitely adds to the authenticity!  So, what are your plans to spread the Light in the U.S. market?

Well, since I do not have the money for a big promotional campaign, I hope the word of mouth will help to spread the message of the film, which is, by the way, not to promote breatharianism but to open up minds for the possibilities of such.

As I mentioned earlier, “Light” is now available via Vimeo on demand, which can be easily spread via social media.  We also have an affiliate program through Distrify, where an Opinion Leader or a Group can offer the film to their supporters and receive 25% of the income.  Not bad for spreading the Light, huh?!  😉

Wow, Peter, this affiliate offering is truly a wonderful opportunity for the Light documentary and really, for any independent film, don’t you think?

Yes!  In my opinion, Distrify is a wonderful new instrument for sharing a film through social media, as well as a way to give back to the people who put so much work and love in their blogs and Facebook pages.

I sincerely hope many open-minded bloggers, webmasters and Facebook users will take this chance to see & share “The Light”, and to join us on Facebook and Twitter!

Since indie films like these are produced with deep passion to share deep messages, my follow-up question to Peter was, “How does the theme of your film affect your real life?”

I understood that mainstream science and the teachings I learned in school about nature are only a part of truth. They derive only from (materialistic) belief systems and it is necessary to question them because what made sense a few hundred years ago is now destroying our world and is a burden to creating an open, loving, and cooperative society….”

UPDATE: Peter, share with our readers what exciting happenings and milestones has happened for you and the Light film since we first interviewed together?

I am very happy that we could finally publish a DVD for the english speaking and found a few enthusiastic viewers with it. Last summer, I also made a promotional tour through California where I could give a talk in front of a wonderful crowd at the Pranic Festival in San Francisco. We just launched a new website and lightdocumentary blog. The next project will be a fully dubbed version and so I hope even more people will find their way to the “Light”.

Thank you so much for your time,  your work and your incredible dedication here.  And thank you for your very valid point that we all should take to heart: time to open our minds, to open our hearts, to go beyond what is dished out to us as “the truth.”

The Serendipitous Summer of ’13

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Welcome to my new blog space!

And what a space it is ~ stay tuned and subscribe, I promise to entertain and enlighten you.

I’ve just completed a whirlwind of a summer with my tribe of 5 home for 2 1/2 months. There was 7 weeks of camp, which provided some sense of normality, but, as you can imagine, it was very busy and overwhelming much of the time.

So they started school this week, and this is my first time sitting down to write since June! Yes, I write for clients’ blogs and such, but I mean to write for me, which includes moving forward with a book I’ve been working on.

Yet, with all of this craziness, I must tell you the truth. This was one of my best Summers EVER! How so, you wonder?!

Let me list the serendipitous adventures for you:

~ The Summer started with a Divine unconditional love hug from Saint Amma, which not only filled me up with love and comfort, but gave me great hope for our Planet.

~ A good friend who was always there to help me with my kids, Kim, was packing up to move to Florida. I wanted to offer her a special thanks and goodbye gift, but had no idea what that looked like. Then came the Facebook post from a good friend that if any of his LA friends’ were interested, he could get us into the exclusive The World Famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, an invite ONLY excursion.

So I jumped on it, and hooked up with a well-known Magician who was performing there that weekend, and who put me and Kim on his guest list! I found a last -minute babysitter, and we had a most exciting magical evening.

The main door to the inside of the Castle is a bookshelf with no doorknob, and the only way it opens is when you say, “Open Sesame”! Emoji

~ My tribe and I were invited to a friend’s beach party in Venice, which is literally his front yard, as his home is also his beach ashram.

Not only did the kids have a blast splashing around in the ocean, but we made new friends that have already blessed our lives tremendously.

One is Ken Weingart, a very talented professional photographer, who has done a complimentary photo shoot of Torah to expand his portfolio and for me to approach Agents with –> check it out at: http://www.kenweingart.com/gallery/torah/

Our other new friend, Fanny, is also Jewish, and has invited us to several home cooked Shabbat dinners in her lovely beach home –> actually, we are going to be there tonight, as well!

~ It just keeps getting better! The last weekend of summer, Bonnie and her son, Nathan, who are a part of our Spiritual Family, invited us to go camping overnight at a local Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach. Now it is nothing like I am used to when I hear “wilderness”, but for a beach and concrete city, it is definitely reasonable!

They so lovingly brought all the food, tents, stove, etc., and we all had our first family camping experience! For me, it’s been almost 20 years, prior to marriage and motherhood, so it was a REAL Divine treat! Pictures of our trip can be found here. Enjoy!

~ Last, but most definitely not least, I had myself a romantic dinner and passionate moonlit beach kiss. No more information here, so don’t even think of asking! It just was what it was, and I look forward to more yin / yang interactions, which is like a red plump cherry on my already delicious sundae of life… Emoji

So, how was your Summer? Please share with me in the comment section here. Life is all about sharing and caring.

Big hugs to you,

Wendy Sue

Intimate Interview with Robert Strock, Founder of Humanistic Spirituality

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Allow me to introduce one of my very first “Social Media with a Conscience” clients, Robert Strock, Founder of Humanistic Spirituality, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Minister, and President of The Global Bridge Foundation .  It is truly an honor to work with such a deep, loving, spiritual teacher and real down-to-earth human being.

What really blew me away was when I was interviewing for this Social Media position with Robert. There I was, Ms. Marketeer, discussing the many ways we could offer a value proposition to generate revenue, and Robert politely informed me that making a profit is not his goal.

What is his goal, then, you ask incredulously?!  Good question…

Robert’s sincere heart-felt goal is to inspire purposeful living and compassion for our human condition by offering us contemplative practices for self-transformation, available for free on the Humanistic Spirituality web site, where you will find a plethora of Guided Meditations, audio downloads, readings, and more.

And lucky me!  I get to step off the “make a profit” treadmill for a few hours each work day, and share this Divine content and guidance to the masses through social media!

Please make yourself comfortable, and join me for an intimate interview with Robert.

Robert, will you share with our readers how your spiritual path inspired you to form Humanistic Spirituality?

When I was a psychology major in college, I had a recurring dream that I forgot to take my final exams, until the last minute. In the dream, I’d rush into the classroom and stare at the teacher, who looked depressed and more like a caricature than a human being. I’d say to myself, “This person is supposed to teach me how to live a fulfilling life???”

I’d walk out of the classroom laughing at the absurdity of it all and never took the exam in the dream. Then I would wake up. Our supposed mentor had not found her own source of love, inspiration and tenderness. How could she inspire that in her students?

My psychology studies like my dream, felt limited, since they only partially guided me toward my heart and soul. When it came to a fundamentally healthy individual, most of the field of psychology seemed to develop only half of our human potential. That which helps us with personal insight and communication, grounds us in seeing own ego more clarity.  It also supports deeper intimacy.

And still, I asked myself over and over, “What other ways are there to find greater happiness and fulfillment?”

It was leaving me half empty.

I had a similar experience in my personal therapy. It was helpful in supporting certain aspects of my growth, but I kept feeling like there was so much more. When I was lucky enough to find a counselor with an open heart and substantial life experience, I felt inspired. But most of the time, I still felt hungry. Was it possible to find fulfillment, or was I living in a dream world?

My longing to find satisfaction motivated me, over a four-decade span, to conduct experiments with human and spiritual potential. When I began the search, I was heartened that these new approaches addressed the central questions that psychology seemed to consider secondary:

  • How do I connect to a higher power and potential?
  • What does it mean to be truly compassionate? Is a lasting peace possible?
  • What can I learn from studying the great masters like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed and a host of others?

I experimented with a variety of approaches that valued the interconnectedness of life, our relationship to death, and the fulfillment of the human soul. It was a relief to finally address a calling I’d always felt deep inside!

Sounds like we are getting closer to the creation of Humanistic Spirituality, yes?

Yes!  However, most of these approaches seemed to minimize the importance of appreciating our humanness. If afraid, we were encouraged to have faith or understanding. If we had doubt, we were encouraged to surrender to a higher power.

In theory, these approaches acknowledged the importance of the human experience, but in a limited way. They espoused that once you had “developed, evolved, and found faith,” you had arrived at peace, lightness, equanimity, understanding and compassion.

I was concerned that most teachers didn’t give rich personal examples of the challenges they faced in their own lives. After all, I thought, we are all human beings, even if we walk a path of faith. Why don’t these religious and spiritual teachers expose their humanness by showing us how they fail and how they integrate their healing practices into daily life?

Instead, so many have unwittingly taught their students or followers to idealize the teacher and suppress their suffering.

Thankfully, there have been exceptions. A standout example is Pema Chodron, a highly respected Buddhist nun and teacher, who is clear in valuing the human experience by exposing her own humanness in her talks. At the same time, she teaches the values of heart, compassion, silence, and meditation.

When we are not concerned with bridging the human and the divine, we may tend to focus solely on the ego and our feelings, or put all of our attention on our soul and spirit.

Either way, we are leaving out the other crucial part of ourselves. I understood this inherently as I attempted to help my clients balance whichever tendency was dominant. I would ask someone who was suffering, “How can you take care of yourself?” This would release their fixation on their feelings.

They would choose a method that they felt would best support them. For example, if they had embraced meditation, they might meditate, pray or do some other contemplative practice. If they lived in a more mainstream world, they might choose a more practical approach. In both cases, they were shifting the focus from suffering to asking for relief.

Consistent with movement towards balance, as I saw clients or friends that were spiritual teachers, ministers, and devoted practitioners of certain approaches, I would typically ask them about their greatest challenges and difficult feelings that they were still dealing with.

My instinctive desire to find balance led me to develop an approach I call “Bridging the Human and the Divine” or “Holding of Opposites.” This involves holding our personal, human feelings, just as they are, while we also dedicate ourselves to a chosen practice to support our spirit.

As the Beatles sang, “Whisper words of wisdom—Let It Be.” If we judge ourselves, we are encouraged to be in touch with another side of ourselves that is aware of it and leaves it alone. If we are sad, we do not interfere.

We stay content to simply see things as they are, as we hold two states at the same time.

In closing, can you provide us with a common example of holding these two states at the same time?

Sure, a common example may be: I’m angry with my lover. And, I want to open my heart, not act out, and also discover my needs, which is a prayer and contemplation practice.

Which also happens to be the topic of our most recent blog, “Prayer for Love Relationships“.

Thank you, dear Robert, for you and for your generous heart.  I greatly appreciate you sharing your spiritual journey here with us, which helps to give us more of an understanding of Humanistic Spirituality’s roots.

Namaste.

Interview with director of ‘Occupy Love’, Velcrow Ripper

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Indie films are usually created by visionaries who also play director. They use the powerful mass medium of film to explore and expand our ideals and our mind and, at times, to help create a new paradigm of reality.

Velcrow Ripper is just that kind of visionary director. He has started a movement, a revolution if you will, with his new indie film release, Occupy Love, which we are proud to have as the closing feature in our exhilarating film fest, Cinema Noēsis: IONS 2013 Film Event

I had the honor of interviewing Velcrow and am truly inspired by him and his mission, which he states with deep passion: “We want to help transform the world. More than a film, Occupy Love is a meme, a self-replicating understanding that Love is at the core of our movements for change.”

With that in mind, I asked Velcrow, “What inspired you to make this activist film about a global awakening that takes viewers deep inside the ‘revolutions of the heart?’”

Occupy Love is part of the “Fierce Love Trilogy” – three films that take the pulse of the planet from the year 2000 to the year 2012.

The first was Scared Sacred, my journey to the ground zero’s of the world, searching for hope in the face of crisis. The second was Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action, about stories of spiritual activism all over the world in the spirit of Gandhi or Martin Luther King. The final film in the trilogy is Occupy Love, which asks the question: How could the crisis on the planet become a love story?

Did I hear that right, a global crisis becoming a love story?! How embracing, how extraordinary…

I believe we are in a crucial, epic, evolutionary time in human history, and our role at Fierce Love Films is to help reflect and to be a catalyst of the emergence of a new paradigm ~ to inspire the movements of our times to come from a place of depth and love.

Are we ready to reach that deep place of love and to share it with others, with our community, with our planet, all while amidst a crisis? Love is the only healing force, and we all possess it. The time to share it is NOW.

To get a bit more personal, I asked Velcrow, “How does the theme of your film affect your real life?”

As I delve deeper and deeper into the dimensions of true universal love, I find myself increasingly living from that place. My partner and co-producer in the film, Nova Ami, said that when I began shooting Occupy Love, I was “Mr. Love,” and now I’ve become “Dr. Love”!

Only time will tell if I have truly earned the degree, but I’ve certainly been transformed, utterly, by my complete immersion in love and from being a first-hand witness and participant in the history-making hotspots of the world.

The key is to continue living love and evolving love.

“Thank you, Velcrow, for your powerful message and encompassing heart. But what are the challenges of making independent ‘message’ movies like yours?”

The challenge is to be in sync with the evolutionary zeitgeist [the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era], so that when your film comes out, it’s part of the leading wave of transformation. Things are changing fast, and feature documentaries can take years to create, so being in sync takes foresight and connection.

Funding, of course, is always a challenge. Cutting through the cynicism, despair, and nihilism that Western culture promotes can be a challenge.

I can only imagine the huge challenges that face indie film directors in raising funds AND getting a message out that is out-of-the-box, transformative, and promotes true change instead of the usual fear and cynicism that exudes from the media at large today.

“So, Velcrow, once the movie is funded and ready for release, is it getting easier (more awareness) or more difficult (more competition) to attract eyeballs?” 

I have been doing this work for decades now, and I would say getting the word out on a global scale has never been easier, thanks to the power of social media. We are interconnected in a way that was never possible before, and our networks are expanding day by day.

The currency of today is authenticity, and the more corporate approach lacks this. People on social media can intuit whether you are coming from the heart or not. So for us, it’s a great time to be making conscious cinema.

I find this description of social media to be irresistible ~ ‘the currency as authenticity.’

“There has been a lot of change, as you detailed above, with marketing and getting the word out there, but have the distribution models been evolving as well?”

We are now looking at bottom-up, decentralized distribution, which cuts through the top-down models of traditional distributors, the gatekeepers of the past.

We do a hybrid of conventional distribution (television, online venues like iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) and unconventional, leading-edge techniques such as the revolutionary online distributor Yekra. It created a strategy for the movie Thrive which operates through a decentralized affiliate system that encourages an entire community to take part in the online distribution process.

We’ve also created our own community screening model, which makes it very easy for people all over the world to host screenings of the film.

Impressive! The hybrid distribution makes good sense, though the community screening model seems quite revolutionary for its ability to develop real community around your theme and goal of worldwide LOVE.

“With high expectations of wanting to change the world, how are your other expectations (e.g., financial, educational, distribution) being met?”

Our Facebook page often has close to one million individual views a week, and 5.6 millions friends of fans. The film has had hundreds of screenings around the world and is spreading like wildfire. Most of these screenings are self organized – people are coming to us to set them up.

Our reach has been incredibly global. There have been screenings in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Liberia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S., and others!

 

This crowd-sourced, social media-driven approach to distribution is consistent with the theme of the film, which was partially funded through the crowd-funding platforms IndieGoGo and Kickstarter.

The largest community screening to date took place in Porto Allegre, Brazil, on April 11, attracting over 1,500 attendees. The fact that we had dozens of screenings in Brazil, Turkey and Bulgaria, all of which are now in the midst of popular uprisings, is significant.

The film and the meme Occupy Love are playing a part in inspiring these movements to come from a place of non-violence, creativity, and love. It’s incredible to feel like we are part of history unfolding…

Yes, it’s most definitely incredible, Velcrow!

“So what’s your next film?”

It will focus on the pillars of the new paradigm – what it will look like to reinvent every level of society from a new-paradigm perspective – and be co-created by the three of us here at Fierce Love Films, Nova Ami, Ian MacKenzie, and me along with our larger team and our community at large. We plan to crowdsource and collaborate on the process of deciding just what exactly these core new paradigm approaches are, from justice, to ecology, to economy, to social organization…

We’re very excited about continuing to help evolve the global zeitgeist at this historical time of chaos, transformation, and transition.

We thank you, Velcrow, from the bottom of our hearts to the top of our soul for you, your work, your vision, and your amazing service to our planet at this time of crisis and need.

Meet fascinating indie film directors’ from the Cinema Noēsis Film Festival

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Like transformative indie films? Me, too! I’ve always enjoyed any medium or conversation that takes me out of the box and into the limitless realm of possibility.  So as you can imagine, it has been an honor to be the social media arm behind the up-coming Cinema Noēsis: IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences) 2013 Film Event

The movie lineup is guaranteed to open your mind and expand your consciousness to new levels of understanding and appreciating the mysteries of life.

What really hit me in my work here, though, is the strong passion and commitment driving the directors of these provocative, inspirational movies. So I picked the brains of a few of these remarkable people to introduce you to the great minds behind the films. But first I want to present the man who created this unique event for us, Festival Director (and former editor of Shift magazine) Matthew Gilbert.



“Matthew,” I asked, “why do you have such a deep passion for indie movies”?

“First of all, I love the originality of them and their focus on people and topics and issues that don’t get much coverage anywhere else. I get especially excited when they address subjects that are close to my heart and my spirit, for example, ecological wisdom, frontier science, human potential, and spiritual transformation.

(Now I fully understand why Matthew chose the films, as they all contain at least one of these examples.)

“I easily surrender to good storytelling on the screen,” he continued, “to being swallowed up by the images and the dialogue and the tensions and those unexpected moments when something happens that takes me ‘out of the box’ of my conditioned thinking.

“Indie filmmakers take risks. They go places that most of us will never see, and what they bring back has changed my world.”

Like to take risks and go to places you’ve never been before? There are still a few tickets left, just waiting for you to click here…

Are you titillated yet? Great! It just gets better. Please allow me to introduce Peter-Arthur Straubinger, the director of In the Beginning There Was Light, a film about “breatharianism.” What is that, exactly? I’ll let Peter explain.



“What inspired you to make this film about Breatharianism?”

“Actually, In the Beginning, There Was Light only touches upon the surface of ‘breatharianism.’ It was really about questioning the materialistic worldview that it’s only real if you can prove it or see it. I could have made this film with the same message about telepathy, faith healing, or homeopathy.

“The reason why breatharianism became my chosen golden thread and message was due to a visit with a meditation teacher who I was told lived only on water and ‘light.‘

“I got to know him quite well, and he told me that he had not eaten for over a year, that he only drank water. I’d heard stories about this phenomenon before but did not really believe it. But meeting a person face to face had a much stronger impact!

“He sounded very credible, but I asked myself, if this phenomenon really exists, why isn’t it taken seriously by scientific institutions? Why aren’t dozens of universities doing research on this?”

Now that is an excellent question, don’t you think? How much is going on that is NOT being studied due to scientists and others stating, matter-of-factly, “That’s impossible”!

“So this tension was the reason why I’ve been doing my own research for nearly five years. Through this, I discovered a lot of good arguments by classical medicine as to why this should not work, how people starve every day and others died trying to live as breatharians.

“However, there are many records about this phenomenon in all cultures, throughout all times, and of course my Austrian friend who was living and breathing proof (pun intended ;).

“I decided to seek first-hand information about this fascinating phenomenon and started my five-year journey, travelling around the world to China, India, Russia, the U.S., and many other countries. And I discovered some incredible knowledge, from ancient Eastern wisdom to the findings of modern physics…”

You’ve got to come see the movie and meet Peter in person to find out for yourself, just click here!

Since indie films are produced with deep passion to share deep messages, my follow-up question to Peter was, “How does the theme of your film affect your real life?”

“I understood that mainstream science and the teachings I learned in school about nature are only a part of truth. They derive only from (materialistic) belief systems and it is necessary to question them because what made sense a few hundred years ago is now destroying our world and is a burden to creating an open, loving, and cooperative society….”

Anyone want to join me here in, like, Wow! Well said and a valid point we all should take to heart: Time to open our minds, to open our hearts, to go beyond what is dished out to us as “the truth.”

A picture of Peter & I at the film festival



Which leads to my interview with Victor Goss, the pioneering founder of Starving Film Students and director of Apocalypse, According To Doris, the only fiction movie on the Cinema Noesis program.

“Victor, what inspired you to make this film?”



“I started out with a vague sense of writing about a woman with limited education and cultural support who had involuntary psychic experiences. I wanted to investigate what her psychic life experiences might be like, such as where they came from, what they meant, and if they had any potential value to humans.

“And I wanted to stage this discussion because I wanted to hear what others thought about it.”

Oh, yes, you’ve got to love indie movies, always striving to make a point to discuss, digest, or contemplate in some fashion.

“But also, I had an axe to grind. I wanted to dip my toe into the water of mysterious events ignored by the powers that be and the mainstream media, which has let us down by falling prey to monopolistic corporate motivations and by its subtle, constant need to create an agitation and a reactionary, fearful state in their audiences.

Audience = the mainstream population who choose to live in this reactionary, fearful place and the media that chooses themes to keep audiences in this deplorable state. “Ain’t nobody got time for that!” Especially now…

“I wanted to peel back questions about this “Apocalypse” meme that swept the New Age world. I wanted to talk about the fallacies of all religion, for that matter. I kept wondering when we were going to talk about the TEN ELEPHANTS in the room we are not supposed to see.

Is he referring to the TEN PURPLE ELEPHANTS in the room? I don’t see them, do you?!

“But additionally, in the realm of science, I wanted to ask questions about our physical world that belies what we are taught about reality. I wanted us to ask, ’What are psychic events? Is human consciousness on the cusp of awakening? Is there a direct form of obtaining knowledge?’

“However, in a simple sentence to explain my motive for making this film, I always must remember the words of the prolific and famous French director, Claude Chabrol, who said, “A woman is subject matter enough.”

I must agree with that quote! “Victor, please share with our readers how the theme of your film affects your real life?”

“Oddly enough, after living in Los Angeles most of my life, I suddenly looked around and realized I had moved to Ojai, to a street and house that looks remarkably the same as the one Doris lives in in the movie! Turns out that my next door neighbor is a famous channel, and we have become the best of friends!

“On a personal level, although there was nothing autobiographical about Apocalypse, According To Doris, I constantly find myself repeating lines Doris said in the movie without realizing it. It’s always good for a self-deprecating laugh, because the words usually fit the situation. Maybe I’m becoming Doris, but I haven’t bought any Victoria’s Secret underwear yet…”

I bet his wife is happy about that… 😉

Come join us, not only to be thoroughly entertained by the movies Festival Director Matthew Gilbert hand-selected for consciously expansive entertainment but to share the company of those interviewed above and many other fans and innovators in this magical world of transformative filmmaking!

There are a few spaces left at the Cinema Noēsis: IONS 2013 Film Event ~ see you there!

The Super Hero in me knows the Super Hero in you!

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As a child, I dreamt frequently of the super powers I wished I had, or that I believed I had, as I jumped off my parent’s car roof with an umbrella in hand, waiting to float away like Mary Poppins…
The reality is, we all do have super powers.  Love is the most Super, as is the power to care, to share, and to do something to help someone life improve in some way.
To me, this is the true Super power that we all possess, and I believe we are all willing to utilize them if we are given the right outlets to do so.
On this note, my dream of a way to use my Super Power came true recently, in the form of designing a video game that will literally transform the user into a real life Hero.  Really!
The Creator and Visionary of the game, Dr. Dana Klisanin, has brought me on to help spread the good word of the CyberHero League, and the great potential it has to help give our children (and us adults) a way to actually become a Hero, while having fun.
You gotta see it for yourself ~ please check out the video trailer to get the full scope of what we are talking about here!:
Please come by and support and share our campaign, support the rise of the CyberHero and the demise of the cyber-bully…
With great appreciation for you,
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“Walk The Talk”, my blog article

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Hello and welcome to my new blog space!

I am honored to be a contributor to “Mothering In The Middle”, and have my first blog posted today, called “Walk The Talk”, something I try hard to do, at:

http://www.motheringinthemiddle.com/?p=4319

Please give it a read, and share with me your thoughts, opinions, ideas, inspirations, whatever!  Right here… or feel free to email me at:  email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Big hugs to you,

Wendy Sue

Martin Luther King Poem, by Ocean Noah (age 14)

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Who was Martin Luther King?

Martin Luther King was a man who had a dream
he saw a bright future no one else could see
he said, no matter what color, which race
whatever religion, whatever troubles you face
all should be treated fairly
though it was scary
to introduce something new
he knew it was the right thing to do
so he changed the world
made everything different
because a few important people sat down and listened
later on he was shot and dead
but we all to this day remember the revolutionary words he said

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Wow, thank you Ocean!  We love your words and Martin Luther King’s dream and service to humanity!

“Who looks outside, dreams.  Who looks inside, awakens.”
 –  Carl Jung