Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group on Sunday, June 24 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT.  The film explores deep concepts of time, the universe, mortality, memory, and humanity. Mr. Nobody is a tale about choice. Nemo, a nine year old boy, has been thrust into a position where he must make an impossible decision – to choose between his mother and father. In the seconds preceding the rest of his life he wonders where each choice will take him. The dilemma that causes the film’s main problem (not knowing the future) once solved makes it all the more difficult – “I don’t know the future, therefore I cannot make a decision. Now that I know the future I still cannot make one”. The movie takes a four-dimensionalists view of the nature and existence of life in the universe. Each decision thus branching off creating an entirely separate alternative universe. The film also makes good use of chaos theory, string theory and the butterfly effect to accentuate the lack of control we as individuals possess. The film portrays a life where we are all subject to chance, to the dimensions by which we construct our reality (height, length, width and time), and to the imagination of our former selves. Please note, one critic describes this movie as one “that constantly engages the mind and rewards repeated viewings.”

You can find the movie playsheet, which provides helpful questions designed to facilitate a spirit centered movie watching experience, at this link:  Mr. Nobody Playsheet.

Remember to ask for Guidance prior to watching the movie and bring your insights to the Movie Watcher’s Discussion Group.

The movie is available to rent on Itunes, Amazon, Netflix and Vudu. 

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviews James Swartz in a pre-recorded Satsang.

Vedanta, “The knowledge that ends the quest for knowledge” is not a philosophy or a mystical path. It is a proven means of self-knowledge compiled over thousands of years by countless Indian Seers that systematically reveals the nature of reality and our place and purpose in it.  For the inquirer, it irrevocably removes the ignorance that causes suffering, leaving only the awareness of who we are: limitless consciousness, whole and complete. Once this knowledge is assimilated and the Self is revealed, all existential suffering comes to an end, you are set free.

Coming from an impeccable lineage and endowed with 40 plus years of teaching experience, James unveils this timeless knowledge with clarity, candor and humor.  He has become one of Vedanta’s most powerful voices for East and West alike. His website Shiningworld.com is a major resource of non-dual wisdom and his best-selling book “How to Attain Enlightenment” has taken the spiritual world by storm.

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group on Sunday, June 24 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT.  The film explores deep concepts of time, the universe, mortality, memory, and humanity. Mr. Nobody is a tale about choice. Nemo, a nine year old boy, has been thrust into a position where he must make an impossible decision – to choose between his mother and father. In the seconds preceding the rest of his life he wonders where each choice will take him. The dilemma that causes the film’s main problem (not knowing the future) once solved makes it all the more difficult – “I don’t know the future, therefore I cannot make a decision. Now that I know the future I still cannot make one”. The movie takes a four-dimensionalists view of the nature and existence of life in the universe. Each decision thus branching off creating an entirely separate alternative universe. The film also makes good use of chaos theory, string theory and the butterfly effect to accentuate the lack of control we as individuals possess. The film portrays a life where we are all subject to chance, to the dimensions by which we construct our reality (height, length, width and time), and to the imagination of our former selves. Please note, one critic describes this movie as one “that constantly engages the mind and rewards repeated viewings.”

You can find the movie playsheet, which provides helpful questions designed to facilitate a spirit centered movie watching experience, at this link:  Mr. Nobody Playsheet.

Remember to ask for Guidance prior to watching the movie and bring your insights to the Movie Watcher’s Discussion Group.

The movie is available to rent on Itunes, Amazon, Netflix and Vudu. 

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group on Sunday, May 27 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT.  This inspiring true story of a rugged South African farmer, Angus Buchan, is set in the turbulent hills of the KZN Midlands. Angus’ manic quest for material success is slowly transformed into a wild love for God and people, as he wrestles with faith, hope, natural disasters and tragic personal loss.

You can find the movie playsheet, which provides helpful questions designed to facilitate a spirit centered movie watching experience, at this link:  Faith Like Potatoes Playsheet.

Remember to ask for Guidance prior to watching the movie andbring your insights to the Movie Watcher’s Discussion Group.

The movie is available to rent on Amazon, YouTube and Vudu. 

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert interviews Joan Tollifson in a pre-recorded Satsang.

Joan Tollifson has roots in Buddhism and Advaita, but she belongs to no formal tradition. She is interested in seeing through the imaginary problems that we think are binding us and waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Joan’s bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites a meditative exploration that is non-methodical and awareness-based, encouraging people to look and listen for themselves and to question all second-hand ideas and beliefs.

Joan is the author of 4 books: Nothing to Grasp; Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogs about Nonduality;Awake in the Heartland: The Ecstasy of What Is; and Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life. 

Joan offers private sessions and other meetings. For more information, visit her website at JoanTollifson.com. 

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group this Sunday, March 25 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT.   This month’s movie,”The Matrix”, is a metaphysical masterpiece of the transcendence of belief. Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a computer hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans’ body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.  Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

You can find the movie playsheet, which provides helpful questions designed to facilitate a spirit centered movie watching experience, at this link:  The Matrix Playsheet.

Remember to ask for Guidance prior to watching the movie and bring your insights to the Movie Watcher’s Discussion Group.

The movie is available to rent on ITunes, Amazon, YouTube and Vudu. 

Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert will interview Floyd Henderson.

The Realisation of SELF means the shattering of the shell of separation so that the non-dual nature of Reality is directly known. How can this be different from person to person? Only in the ABSENCE of the person is this nature revealed. In this way, Floyd Henderson invites us to strip away all that is personal, all that is dualistic, all that separates us from this understanding of Oneness from our True Selves.

The summative statement I AM THAT; I AM describes that understanding of SELF in absolute terms as well as its expression in the relative. Floyd Henderson is THAT just like all human beings; however, Floyd is fixed unshakably in this understanding, so all functioning, relatively speaking, flows directly from this SELF-Knowledge.

In this way, the biographical details (such as, born in Louisiana; moved to Texas; worked as a teacher and business owner over several decades before taking early retirement to write; father of a daughter named Ashley; current resident in the community of Walden on Lake Conroe in Texas; years of seeking followed by twenty-five months in the forest dweller stage and experiencing a vision that resulted in the dramatic peripetia or flash of Realization; functioning as a Direct Path, Nisargan teacher; and author of over forty Advaita books) are the attributes or flavourings which coloured the pure consciousness in the particular shape and form at the relative level.

Yet, these attributes are false ingredients. They cannot provide a true answer to the question Who is Floyd Henderson? because he recognizes no who-ness at all … believes in no who that is living here at all. (From the forward by Louise Sterling for the book, The Advanced Seekers Series, Vol 1).

Floyd shares this additional information about his life:

during my early years I lived eight months out of the year with my parents in a dangerous part of a city on a street with two gang leaders and where I witnessed a stabbing on that same street before I was eight years old. The other four months of the year, I lived with my Cherokee / Medicine Woman Grandmother in her cabin in the piney woods of East Texas. Thus it was that by the ages of 5 and 6, I did not know either the term “duality” or the term “non-duality” but I had already witnessed both at play. In the part of the city where my parents lived – called “the slum” –  the misery and suffering generated by duality-based thinking and talking  and behaving was observed. By contrast, I had witnessed the type of existence which Grandmother enjoyed – and which she and I shared – because it unfolded in a non-dual style which allowed her to model peace and Love and contentment and independence and freedom from concepts.

Floyd’s books, including The Advanced Seekers Series for those seeking Realization via the Advaita teachings, can be found on his website: FloydHenderson.com