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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Through the Eastern gate is about three young Westerners who follow three different eastern spiritual traditions. This intimate and compelling film delves into the worlds of people who have turned their backs on Western traditions to discover new paths and meaning in their lives.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Caregiving involves not just the body and mind but also the spirit. Religious communities pay particular attention to enriching the spiritual component of their caregiving programs, each in its own way. Perhaps no other aspect of caregiving is as infinitely varied as the spiritual, and there is much to learn from every religious community - whether it is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or nondoctrinal. The groundbreaking PBS special And Thou Shalt...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Begin by exploring the origins of human settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. Learn how the rich spiritual life of early hunter/gatherers in Spain is reflected in magnificent cave paintings. Study the geography of the peninsula, and how it drew peoples from Africa and the Middle East. Finally, discover the extraordinary megalithic tombs of early Copper and Bronze Age builders.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Wai'á ceremony, young Xavante men undergo suffering as an initiation into spiritual life and a way to make contact with supernatural forces. The boys are divided into groups, and under the supervision of past initiates they perform weeks of physical trials in the hot sun.
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Frederick Wiseman's new documentary explores a small town in rural America and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting stereotypes. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This audio-only course teaches the heart-opening techniques of forgiveness meditation to help you move beyond blame.
It’s a simple fact of life that at some point, we’ve been harmed or betrayed, and at other times we have betrayed others or ourselves. But one of the greatest gifts of a spiritual life is that of forgiveness. In this audio-only course, mediation expert Jack Kornfield shows how forgiveness can transform your life and release you...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This audio-only courses teaches the gratitude and joy meditation, which nourishes an innocent rejoicing in life itself.
In this audio-only course, instructor Jack Kornfield leads you through a gratitude meditation aimed at awakening a joyful freedom, one of the goals of a spiritual life. As Jack explains, feeling gratitude for the blessings in your life—and even for the suffering—can awaken compassion and wisdom. As gratitude grows and gives...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Balinese cremation ceremony, or ngaben, has primarily been known in the West as either a major tourist attraction that dazzles visitors with the splendor, intricacy, and drama of its performance, or as fodder for long-standing anthropological arguments about personhood and emotion on the island that debated whether or not Balinese people expressed, or even experienced, grief. According to Balinese Hindu beliefs, cremation is one of the most important...
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