Spirit Space; A Journey Into Your Consciousness explores unanswered questions about the nature of the soul, life after death, and consciousness from a scientific and spiritual perspective.  This movie attempts to go beyone faith to prove the existence of a soul by offering analysis by quantum physicists and anecdotes from doctors who try to explain certain phenomenon such as out of body experiences, hypnotic regressions and near death experiences.  Additionally, one of the experts in Spirit Space, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, an Apollo 14  astronaut who spent nine hours walking on the moon, recounts a compelling experience of awe he had from outer space looking out at the Cosmos.

      None of the these accounts conclusively prove the validity of these phenomenons.  However, they offer strong evidence in favor of their occurrence and also provide hope for those looking for answers to the big questions about life and death.

      Another refreshing aspect of this film is that its focus on consciousness is approached with reverence without being dogmatic.  Unlike some metaphysical films that tell us how to use the law of attraction to get stuff from life, this movie points out that our life can be viewed as an opportunity to learn valuable lessons that help us to progress spiritually.  Overall, it is an interesting film that fearlessly takes on the tough questions that other movies have left untouched.

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Holocaust survivor and bestselling author Viktor Frankl once wrote that a person needs just three things in life to be happy: something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to!

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It’s because every month, I get 4 inspirational movies delivered to my door. And no matter what challenges I’m currently facing, I always find happiness and inspiration in these special films. They give me something to do, something to look forward to, and then I get to share them with someone I love!

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The year was 1957. And something spectacular happened. Something IMPOSSIBLE.

9 boys from an impoverished industrial town in Mexico came to America with a dream of playing baseball, and against all the odds, they actually made it to the Little League World Series!

The Perfect Game is a brilliant film that captures the personal stories of the legendary coach and players. This heart-warming movie is a true testament to faith, dedication and resilience. These boys were half the size of their opponents. When they arrived in Texas they had never before seen real grass on a baseball diamond. And they had to deal with the constant racism of the era. This game became legendary, making history!

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Afterlife delves into the current research about near-death experiences with enthralling in-depth discussions with noted scientists Dr. Raymond Moody, author of Life After Life, and Dr. Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, authors of Evidence of the Afterlife.

Paul Perry, also a noted documentary filmmaker and best-selling author, skillfully weaves in 6 emotional interviews from the 2500 he has documented over the years with people who have had near-death experiences. It’s a fascinating documentary, and one of those films you’ll want to share in the years to come.

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I went to the theater with high hopes and low expectations: A movie about the afterlife from mainstream Hollywood? How much could I expect? I loved the movie. It was almost more than I could have hoped for: a solid cast, brilliant director, and understated realism. Hereafter didn’t fall into the sensational traps that make stories about the afterlife either ridiculously spooky or impossibly sentimental. It was, like its subject, real. The leading characters encounter the ridicule and rejection that seem to come up whenever the subject of life after death is broached. So the millions of family members, hospice workers, and ordinary individuals who experience such phenomena keep silent, just as Matt Damon’s protagonist in Clint Eastwood’s film did. They keep the secrets to themselves.

The astonishing thing is that we put up with this conspiracy of silence. The experiences of forgiveness, hope and healing that emerge from contact with the afterlife deserve to be shouted from the roof-tops. This is the good news we long to hear: My brother who has died forgives me from the Other Side; I can still say the things I need to articulate to someone I love who has passed on.… Our lives do not end with the death of the body. Why have we been keeping silent about these things?

I have a little theory that the conspiracy has been brewing for a long time. Yes, we are a materialistic culture whose system of consumerism depends to a great extent on fear and dissatisfaction to fuel the addiction for more. But there’s another thing that happened right around the Second World War. We baby boomers can remember. Our fathers didn’t talk about their war. They’d gone from the Great Depression to the Great War and when it was over and our nation was faced with a new future, the veterans and their generation wanted to create something entirely new. The Madmen of Madison Avenue, Donna Reid and My Three Sons…. They were on a fast elevator to a world with endless new gadgetry to bring ease and pleasure, and nobody wanted to look back to the sad days of depression and war. Who needed ancient customs and beliefs when the television gave us a magic reality of happiness and plenty?

What I’m driving at is that between the miracles of technology, newfound affluence and mass enculturation we lost something BIG. We lost the ability to relate to loss and see it through to the other side. In fearing that the grief would envelop us we lost the gift of healing into wholeness. We learned to compartmentalize. Death was the unspoken. Grief was hidden; the old and infirm were institutionalized. We could create eternal life and happiness right here in consumer heaven.

But we’re still not satisfied: that’s the thing. The remedies aren’t working. We’re still longing for our lost wholeness. All we need to do is to sit by the bedside of a dying friend or elderly relative and see, in the midst of the grieving, a special light, and a warm presence, to be reminded that there is really nothing to run away from so fast and furiously. Death, the Bogey Man, can be a portal into unspeakable wonders and unimaginable frontiers.

So I’m really on board with this new movie. I’m forgiving Clint Eastwood his formulaic ending because he’s given us back a vital piece of ourselves: the knowledge of the wonders that await us beyond this life. My only objection to Hereafter, the movie, is that it could go so much further. Maybe there will be a sequel – one that will draw from the thousands of stories and descriptions that have come from the Other Side. Those are the stories the world is hungry to hear. For those who’ve experienced communications from the afterlife there’s an endless fascination. Here’s the secret: the Holy Grail is right under our noses after all.

This article is a guest post written by Jane Smith Bernhardt. Jane is an artist, performer and writer. She is a graduate of the interfaith Guild for Spiritual Guidance. Her book, WE ARE HERE: Love Never Dies, chronicles an extraordinary period of three family deaths and many miracles of joy and forgiveness. This “Beyond Hereafter” piece was originally written for the ABC/Good Morning America spirituality web page. For more information see www.janebernhardt.com.

What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material — all shot on July 24, 2010 — and created Life in a Day, a groundbreaking, feature-length documentary that portrays this kaleidoscope of images we call life. National Geographic is bringing it to theaters starting July 24, 2011.

This unique film shows just how connected and similar people from all countries are and that we all share the same hopes, fears and experiences of love.

The Tree of Life Movie Review by Stephen Simon

When I was 22 years old, the last 15 minutes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey introduced me to a cinematic concept of the vast wonder of the cycle of life and death that I had never even imagined before. At that time, I thought no one would ever again attain that kind of symbolic representation of spirituality on film.

And then I saw The Tree of Life, which is so mind-bogglingly original and breathtaking that it truly defies description and categorization. The film is so majestically and subjectively emotional that seeing it feels more like a deeply personal and spiritual experience than it is the viewing of a film. One gets the sense that each one of us in the theater embarks on our own internal journey during the film and, as such, we experience the images on the screen in a completely individual manner.

Contrary to some other reviews, while the style of the film is indeed groundbreaking and dazzling, there most definitely is a story at the core of The Tree of Life. In it, Brad Pitt plays the father of three young boys growing up in Waco, Texas in the 1950s. His relationship with his sons (and his wife, played with great humanity and compassion by Jessica Chastain) is one of extreme complexity, love, strict discipline, affection, reproach, fear, respect, and rebellion. Mr. Pitt’s performance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button firmly established him as brilliant actor. Now, in The Tree of Life, Mr. Pitt has elevated his craft to a new league of brilliance as he gives one of the most nuanced, frightening, evocative, and haunting portrayals of a father in recent memory.

The true magic of the film, however, does indeed lie in the imagination, spirituality, and visual artistry of its reclusive and visionary writer/director director Terrence Malick. The word “genius” is thrown around so much in film nowadays that the word unfortunately loses some of its power when the real thing comes along. And Mr. Malick is unquestionably the real thing…to the Nth power.

Amazingly, The Tree of Life is only Mr. Malick’s fifth film since Badlands, his brilliant 1973 debut. Mr. Malick does not give interviews and does no publicity for his films. Even when The Tree of Life was given the distinct honor of being the opening night presentation (and ultimately winner of the Palme D’Or Award for best film) at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Mr. Malick was nowhere to be seen or heard. In that, he shares an eerie kinship with Stanley Kubrick who directed 2001 and really wanted his films to speak for themselves. The Tree of Life certainly does do that.

The style and images of the film (including the very birth of life itself) are so unique and awe-inspiring that words truly cannot describe them. In a way, that lack of appropriate words is the entire key to the film and its title. How can anyone truly describe in words a spiritual experience of the very essence of nature, life, and death? Visually and emotionally, The Tree of Life propels us headlong into that journey in such a deeply pervasive way that I do feel the need to say here that the film is most definitely not for everyone.

While I was personally exhilarated and mesmerized by The Tree of Life, I can also completely understand and respect those who have said that they found the film to be depressing and even deeply disturbing. In Cannes, for instance, most audience members reportedly stood and cheered at the end of the screening there, but there were also a substantial number of people who booed mightily. As such, I strongly suggest that those who have real misgivings about seeing the film should respect those feelings and indeed stay away. If, however, you feel drawn to the film, you are in for the visual, emotional, and spiritual experience of a lifetime.

The Tree of Life is truly one of the most profoundly original, moving, and engrossing films that I have ever seen.

This is a guest post written by Stephen Simon, co-founder of Spiritual Cinema Circle. Spiritual Cinema Circle is the only DVD club dedicated to the heart and soul of cinema. For more information, please click here .

Beyond Me is a very profound film that is frequently compared to “The Secret” and “What the #$%#%$ do We Know?” and takes the viewer on a journey into one’s own mind and how our consciousness, evolution, animal instincts, reincarnation, personality disorders, cellular biology, computer science and the cosmos are all tied in together. You can watch the film in its entirety below.

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Beyond Me was made by Frank Huguenard. Frank received a BS/CS from Purdue University in Computer Science in 1982 and has spent decades in silicon valley as a software engineer. For more information on the project please click here.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a movie is based on the true story of a French man, Jean Dominque Bauby, who suffers a massive stroke at age 43 leaving him to experience locked-in syndrome, a condition that paralyzes all of Bauby except his eyelids.  His only form of communication is blinking with his left eye. 

Prior to his stroke, Bauby was an editor of a popular French fashion magazine, Elle, and had a book deal.  The movie shows Bauby writing his book using an exhausting form of communication that requires him to blink his left eye when his nurse speaks a particular letter.  The cinematography for the film is quite ambitious as it depicts Bauby remembering what his life use to be like.  Some scenes give the viewer the perspective of the main character as he sees his eyelid opening and closing.  Then, it switches to a scene of Bauby imaging a mountain, feast or past social occasions. 

 This movie achieved great critical acclaim.  It was a four-time Academy Award nominated 2007 film.  The director Julian Schnabel won best director at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.  Many critics listed it as their top ten favorite films of 2007.  One small downside is that the movie is spoken in French and has English subtitles. 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly shows that we are far greater than our bodies and the human Spirit is capable of filling our life with meaning, joy and purpose even if our body is in a debilitated state.  

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A glimpse into the subtle, but intense possibilities of the human spirit, this metaphysical drama encompasses the very powerful themes of life, death and rebirth within the subtext of aging parents, sibling rivalry, and the possibility of life after death.

Old, unresolved issues spring forth when three grown brothers return to their small Texas home town to face their bitter father, who is approaching death from a terminal illness. The three generations of the Ward family face an uphill battle in undoing their past and present situation.

A terrible tragedy buried forty years in the past has set in motion a chain of events which the present seems completely unable to change. But an eight-year old boy and his father, the oldest Ward son, may have within their power, in a single moment in time, the chance to change the direction of the future for the betterment of them all.

(One Hand Clapping is currently in development. Planned production in early 2013 in the Austin, TX area. Planned release in late 2013 or early 2014.)

Larry Crowne is about a middle-aged man who loses his job and then reinvents himself by going back to college. It stars Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts and opens in theaters tomorrow. I haven’t seen it yet, but it looks really interesting. Check out the trailer posted below.

TUNING IN is a truly unique feature-length spiritual documentary, the result of 10 years of inquiry into the phenomenon of spirit channeling by filmmaker David Thomas. Channeling is a practice dating back to antiquity wherein an individual, usually in a trance state, makes a psychic connection with a spirit being. The “channeler” is then able to act as a dimensional go-between in bringing other humans in contact with the entity, as well as interpreting messages from the entity. The trailer is posted below.

The entities coming through—each with a strong and distinct personality—were interviewed at length by the filmmaker and the result is remarkable: across space and time it appears the entities are speaking as one, delivering a clear and profound message of empowerment for humankind

The first 10 minutes of Tuning In movie is posted below.