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Film: 3 Magic Words

Directed by Michael Perlin 3 Magic Words starts with an interesting concept. If you woke up in a hospital having lost your memory and had no clue about your life, your first question would be, “Who am I?” You would know you exist, but not much more. With that as its basis, the film sets […]

Film: Bitter Seeds

Indian farmer begging Monsanto

Monsanto’s war against conventional farmers and other sentient beings

Hot Off the Press June 2012

Summer is a great time for reading. These two books are polar opposites: One is about sorting through complexity, the other is about finding joy in simplicity.

Film: Entanglement

Directed by Michael Goorjian On a dark and stormy night, a group of young artists is happily partying when one of them—Jack Franklin (Randy J. Blair)—suddenly has a premonition: Jack’s twin brother, serving in Afghanistan, is in danger. What to do? He tries desperately to Skype his brother, but one of his party-animal roomies has […]

Film: Kumaré

Kumaré Directed by Vikram Gandhi Most of us want to believe in something larger than ourselves, something that connects us to God, the Great Beyond or whatever we might call it. But do we want to belong so badly that, given the right trappings, we’ll believe anything or anyone? Vikram Gandhi was born in New […]

Yogananda and the Gangsters

By Swami Kriyananda One evening, at Carnegie Hall in New York, Yogananda inspired a full house to chant Guru Nanak’s song, “He Hari Sundara” (O God beautiful). For one hour and a half they chanted that song, uplifted by Yogananda’s magnetism to a state that verged on ecstasy. Later, streaming out into the streets, their […]