When people return from an NDE, “Things that used to bother them before are now irrelevant. Commercial interests and motivations move to the background and in their place come peace of mind, wholeness and serenity. There is a surrender that occurs. A lot of things an individual may have striven for, or clung to, melt away.”
With multiple time jumps, an abundance of mood lighting and interjected with brief passionate encounters with women, the biopic chronicles his journey from rebellious youth through his mystical initiation to author of 30 novels.
I don’t doubt that miracles happen among cancer patients. I’m one of them. But I find it hard to believe anyone would bypass chemo and surgery for affirmations or crystals or mangosteen.
When backlash in the press sent the yogi back to his homeland he noted with relief that, “It’s wonderful to walk among people who don’t need coaxing to be spiritual.”
Carl Lehrburger sidesteps the dusty drone of many a scholarly tome. He follows the diffusionist debate since the 1970s with compassionate, bilateral fairness that often convinced me (the eternal skeptic) of exactly what he argues against—only to turn again with the next wave of evidence and refined speculation.
Regardless of the art form, art allows us human beings to express a part of our inner selves. In a single expression of art many people can see themselves or relate to it, so art reaffirms our sense of oneness.
When we are physically ill or out of balance, western medicine addresses the body with a standard protocol of solutions. Tested methods of physical therapy, such as chiropractic, massage and acupuncture, can also be extremely useful, but there are other modalities that elude scientific research and go a step beyond.
With thoughtful insight, generous sharing and sometimes-awkward honesty, the author takes us through the vicissitudes of that difficult passage to a place of self-fulfillment and inner peace.
Unlearn what you’ve learned about how you’re unenlightened and unaware of the field of limitless potentiality that is your birthright.
The Illuminate Film Festival promises five days of inspirational viewing — metaphysical, sustainable and socially conscious films.