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Uncommon Videos of Common Interest

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Cosmology ~ The Biggest Picture

Brian Swimme: "The New Story": A superb video presentation of this new cosmological perspective. His documentary, "The Journey of the Universe " is available on Netflix and DVD.

Kendrick Smith: Cosmology in the 21st Century

Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else (1988) Fascinating to listen to 3 cosmic visionaries early in their journeys.

Origins Project: The Great Debate--Parallel Realities A remarkable gathering of physicists share research and theories on the nature of the universe.

Joel Primack & Nancy Abrams On "The View from the Center of the Universe Enjoy some spectacular views of galaxies with commentary by a by an astrophysicist and his wife on our place in the universe's unfolding.

This New Telescope Might Show Us the Beginning of the Universe In this TED talk, Wendy Freedman, head of the Magellan Telescope Project describes the capacity of the largest telescope ever, which is now being built.

Stephen Hawking Master of the Universe (2008) Pt.1 & Pt.2 This excellent 2-part program tells Hawking's own story as one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century, now completely paralyzed by ALS, while following the development of his thought on black holes, gravity and the origin of the universe. Other leading scientists appear to describe their discoveries of "Supersymmetry."

NOTE: Hawking and others eagerly awaited results from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to confirm the standard model or provide evidence for supersymmetry. Here is a 9-9-15 Scientific American article on recent results.

Duane Elgin on "The Living Universe" Educator, futurist, lecturer and author of the best-selling book Voluntary Simplicity, Elgin takes a new look at the nature of the universe and the human position within it.

The Living Universe, Elisabet Sahtouris An evolutionary biologist, Sahtouris questions some of the basic assumptions of Western cosmology and offers a different perspective on the nature of the universe.

The Human View ~ Origins, Myth & Dreams

Spencer Wells: The Journey of Man tells the fascinating story of the beginnings of the human genome project. Wells travels the world, following genetic spoor in search of the origins of the human.

Joseph Campbell: From "The Power of Myth" series with Bill Moyers - 3. The First Storytellers This was a series, not to be missed, from 1988, which brilliantly framed our mythological story through many cultures up to the present.

Carl Jung: A Matter of Heart Despite its poor quality here, this is a fine presentation of the life and thought the pioneering Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. There is valuable footage of a personal interview with Jung from 1957 at Carl Gustav Jung - The Interview.

Carl Jung The World Within This film goes more deeply into the inner world of dreams and fantasy. The Wisdom of the Dream is a 3-part PBS program that explores Jung's life and work on dreams.

Marie-Louise von Franz, introduced by Marion Woodman The Way of the Dream This is an in-depth look at th dream process by Jung's foremost student and colleague.

Stephen LaBerge Perception, Dreaming and Awakening
LaBerge has been a research associate for many years at the Stanford University sleep laboratory and has written and lectured extensively on "lucid dreaming." Also interesting are his comments on the Deep dream state and dying .

Fritz Perls (1893-1970) Awareness
Rare footage of the psychiatrist who developed Gestalt Therapy.

Stanislav Grof , M.D., Ph.D introduces himself and his work. Grof is a founder of transpersonal psychology who has spent over 50 years researching the healing and transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. (See detailed article in the Reading Room)

Spiritual Life & Practice

Fr. Bede Griffiths Fr. Bede Griffiths attended Oxford University and was a student and friend of C.S. Lewis. He became a Benedictine monk and established his monastery/ashram in India.

Ninetta Sombart This Swiss artist speaks of her art as a spiritual practice and revelation.

Lauren Artress Introduction to "Rediscovering the Labyrinth" Lauren Artress was one of the first to reintroduce this walking meditation from medieval Christianity.

Br. David Stendl-Rast A Good Day A short and inspiring video by another Dominican monk and well-known spiritual figure.

The Story of a Course in Miracles Although this "received work" has remained below the radar, its impact has been widespread and well-known people like Wayne Dyer, Jerry Jampolsky and Marianne Williamson acknowledge the impact of its teachings. A fine film in poor quality but available on DVD.

Eckhart Tolle Enjoying Every Moment Eckhart Tolle has had a world-wide impact since the publication of his first book, The Power of Now. He teamed up with Oprah Winfrey in a webinar course with a huge international audience over several weeks. These are available from a Chinese source--poor quality excellent content. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.

Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn An MIT graduate and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, he was the first to introduce meditation into mainstream medicine.

Jack Kornfield Meditation for Beginners

Pema Chodron "This Lousy World" A very short excerpt from a very wise woman. Told with humor. Also "Fully Alive" excerpt.

Consciousness, Meaning and Spirit

Conversations on the Meaning of Life
Robert Wright interviews twenty-one leading thinkers from diverse backgrounds
on questions about science, religion, consciousness and personal meaning.

Ken Wilber and Brother Wayne Teasdale on "The Mystic Heart"
Part 1- The Supreme Identity Part 3 - Intellectual Illumination
Part 4 - All of Reality in One Moment
Part 7 - Out of the Self, into the Light

How do you explain consciousness? In this TED talk, philosopher David Chalmers explores the questions of consciousness.

Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight Remarkable account of a neuroscientist who has a major stroke that dramatically alters her view of life and consciousness. Longer interview with Oprah is here.

Stuart Hammerof: Consciousness-A Conversation with Deepak Chopra Hammerof, an MD, is working with physicist Sir Roger Penrose at the frontier of quantum biology. Their work suggests that consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain but exists outside of it. Penrose, professor of physics at Oxford, speaks briefly on the subject here: The Quantum Nature of Consciousness.

Richard Tarnas Humanity's Rite of Passage Seattle 2015. Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, has a rare gift for articulating the crisis of meaning in contemporary human life and its relation to an emerging worldview.

Barbara Marx Hubbard Speaking at the 2015 IONS conference [starts at 6:40 min] At 84, she continues to communicate her vision of Conscious Evolution with verve and vitality.

Dalai Lama at Stanford On a Meaningful Life This is a half hour talk followed by an hour of questions.

Wayne Dyer   Manifesting Your Soul's Purpose
                        Divine Purpose

Leo Buscaglia What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye

Krishnamurti, David Bohm, Rupert Sheldrake and John Hidley The Nature of the Mind   This 1982 series of videos brings together remarkable people who will later become important figures in their fields. Historic!

Rupert Sheldrake Science and Spiritual Practices
                                Morpic Resonance
                                Rediscovering God

On Death and Dying

Dr. Atul Gawande Being Mortal

Stuart Hammerof Tracking souls through the afterlife A scientist's view of the soul.

B.J. Miller What Really Matters at the End of Life
Using empathy and a clear-eyed view of mortality, a physician and hospice director shines a light on healthcare’s most ignored facet: preparing for death.

FROM THE BIOETHICS FORUM ON FINAL PASSAGES 2012
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Dr. Pim van Lommel Consciousness and the Near-Death Experience

Penny Sarton Research on Near-Death Experience An intensive care nurse undertakes a research program with her patients.

William Richards, Ph.D Understanding Death Bill Richard has worked for years as part of a research team at Johns Hopkins, exploring "the frontier where science meets the sacred."

Stanislov Grof, M.D., Ph.D. The Experience of Death and Dying: Psychological, Philosophical and Spiritual Dimensions Grof is one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness in healing.

Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D Death Makes Life Possible Former CEO of the Institute for Noetic Sciences speaks on cosmologies of death and dying. Takes a few moments to load.

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Dr. Eben Alexander Interview with Lilou Mace A neuroscientist describes how his near-death experience changed his view of the brain and consciousness.

Dr. Mary Neal Mary Neal's near death experience An orthopedic surgeon dies in a kayak experience, remarkably returns and tells her story.

Anita Moorjani's Near-Death Experience A remarkable healing story at many levels.

Conversations with God The near-death experiences and their impact are looked at from several perspectives and years of research done by Raymond Moody and Dr. Larry Dossey.

A Time to Laugh

Victor Borge "plays" Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2

3-year-old Jonathan conducts Beethoven's 5th This is my favorite video! We should all love music so much.

Andre Rieu & 3 year old violinist, Akim Camara
Delightful! Don't miss this one.

Anna Russell Wagner's Ring Pt. 1 1984

And speaking of singing... You mustn't miss this (it's short).

Bill Irwin The Regard of Flight - 1983 Incomparable comic performer, a postmodern Charlie Chaplin.

Some rare philosophical humor! Western philosophers meet Monte Python.

Lucy and Ethel in the Chocolate Factory from "I Love Lucy"

Lily Tomlin as telephone operator Ernestine

Lily Tomlin as 5-year old Edith Ann in her swing

Carol Burnett as Eunice with her mother

John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - Beekeeping

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