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Lies come to each person on a constant basis, and oftentimes it is hard to know what is true. You have to compare it to your concept of reality and confirm its verity. To understand that you're being lied to in this case has to be prefaced by this suspension because the lie is rooted in the realm of belief, not simple empirical data or personal experience.
There is a whole story, behind Slumdog Millionaire, the greatest triumph of the last months. A UK-USA production that blinks at Bollywood tones and colours, Slumdog Millionaire is a modern times fairytale and contains all typical elements of this literary genre
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defining depths, scaling heights. to upgrade our world, to new version - with new vision. feeling this world thinking of that future join to begin. here & now.
The Real Challenge of Our Times:The Need for a New Worldview
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The threat of global warming, the urgent need to free ourselves from dependency on oil and the current financial crisis could be the triple catalyst that offers us the opportunity of bringing about a profound shift in our values, relinquishing an old story and defining a new one. Instead of treating our planetary home as the endless supplier of all our needs, without consideration for Her needs, we could rethink beliefs and attitudes which have influenced our behavior for millennia. Many people are defining a new kind of relationship with the Earth, based not on dominance but on respect, responsibility and conscious service.
Anne Baring | 25.JAN.2012
What is the emerging vision of our time which could offer a template for a new civilization? I believe it is a vision which takes us beyond an outdated paradigm or worldview where we are held in bondage to beliefs and habits specific to race, nation, religion or gender, which have led us to exclude and devalue those who are different from ourselves and neglect our relationship with the Earth, our planetary home. It is a vision which offers us a totally new concept of spirit as an energy field — a limitless sea of being — as well as the creative consciousness or organizing intelligence active within that sea or field, and a totally new concept of ourselves as belonging to and participating in that incandescent ground or sea of consciousness.... Read More
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Rhetorical Dimensions of Native American Documentary
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The real question in indigenous film and video is not who is behind the camera but how that person visually structures his or her perception of the world. This perspective allows for the potential that some indigenous filmmakers have created and will continue to create ways of viewing and understanding the world that are different from non-Native views. As an expression of a culture as well as a record about a culture, the process of indigenous documentary springs from social relations and worldviews found in Native American communities, and, in many cases, these relations differ markedly from those of non-Native communities. When studying indigenous media, then, we should not primarily ask whether there is a style, outlook, or code that is characteristically Native in approach, but whether indigenous media emerge from social processes and worldviews that point to alternative possibilities for structuring and knowing our world. This ability of Native media to invite or urge viewers to empathize with alternative points of view demonstrates its rhetorical importance for Native and non-Native viewers alike.
Steve Leuthold | 12.JAN.2012
Video's decreasing cost, ease of use, and resulting accessibility make it a convenient medium for establishing an alternative ideological framework to that of the dominant culture. The increasing use of video technology by indigenous peoples points to alternative scenarios for media production and use. This scenario runs counter to dominant culture assumptions about the inevitable demise of Native cultures in the face of Euro-American progress, assumptions that have been ingrained by centuries of imagery portraying Indians as enemies, then vanquished foes, and currently relegating Indians in the popular imagination to movies, curio shops, and museum exhibits. In the United States, Native Americans have been actively making videos based on an initial focus of "helping to enhance the survival of their own communities," in their own production facilities and through coproduction arrangements with non-Native videographers and filmmakers...... Read More
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Seandor Szeles, a graduate student at New School University encountered foreign film in a Theology in Cinema class where he studied the Italian Neo-Realist movement, an interest that grew when he spent a semester in Italy. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, he moved to New York and splits his time between school, writing and working for a multimedia production company in Chelsea.
Richard Tarnas was born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents. He grew up in Michigan, where he studied Greek, Latin, and the classics under the Jesuits. In 1968 he entered Harvard, where he studied Western intellectual and cultural history and depth psychology, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. For ten years he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, studying with Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, James Hillman, and Stanislav Grof, and later served as director of programs and education. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought which became a best seller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. He is the founding director of the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he currently teaches.
For twenty years Erica Briggs was a traveling gypsy in America, moving from coast-to-coast and back again, including trips both north and south of the borders as well as a brief stay in Florencia, Cuba. She studied people of color in film at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her master's thesis from Cornell University explored the social construction of race in America. She taught creative writing at a correctional facility for girls in Lansing, New York and general education at a program for adjudicated youth in Micanopy, Florida. She had an extended tenure in the Black Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach where she taught creative writing and Black Theater. Erica writes regularly on tothemthatlovegod.blogspot.com. Her favorite ministry is that of motherhood; her daughters, a four-year-old and an 18 year-old now in college, are a source of both pride and humility. The latter is how she seeks to live, a simple, highly spiritual life committed to learning through cultural exchange and healing through the power of the word. www.ericaabriggs.blogspot.com
My name is Eliana Velez, I am Colombian-American, which entails I have Colombian parents but I was born in the United States. I’ve lived the majority of my life in sunny Orlando, Florida. I have spent many years traveling, learning new languages, and ultimately developing into a global cosmopolitan. My education and international experience are surpassed only by my enthusiasm to effectively meet any challenge before me. I am currently at the threshold of my career, with an expected Master’s degree in Media and Communication, at Uppsala University. My writing consists of power, ethics and culture, but ultimately they are personal reflection of my life and experiences.
Nidhi Zakaria is a flâneuse, artist and dreamer, given to occasional insurrection. Born in India, she spent her childhood in the Middle East, and later roamed through Europe and the Americas in search of the sun. She works for a number of international humanitarian organizations with a special emphasis on child protection, spiritual development and youth empowerment. Currently, she is focusing her efforts on creating a cross-cultural collective of young artists while pursuing graduate studies and making up wor(l)ds.
Miss Anderson considers herself a third-culture adult who was brought up in and educated among varying cultures. National and international travel experiences groomed her communication and interpersonal skills. Twenty years of the cross-cultural life on Guam birthed her dream of living on a tropical island and becoming a writer. There she wrote for local newspapers and business magazines and owned her own training and development company. Her university graduate and post-graduate degrees in Sociology, Human Relations, and Theology complement each other in her current project, which is filming a documentary—Looking for God in America.
A graduate of the University of the Arts and Otis College of Art and Design, Aaron Philip Clark is a writer, poet, filmmaker and half of the musical duo, SOUL PHUZIOMATI. Their debut Spoken Word/ Jazz album: Serpents in Graffiti has garnered critical acclaim from writers and musicians alike. He has also received numerous awards at film festivals, such as, the Hollywood Underground as associate producer of the groundbreaking documentary series, Death of a Preacher. In May 2008, Aaron Clark founded the online publishing press Domanda Media and Publishing. And most recently, he’s completed his novel, The Science of Paul, the first installment in a literary crime series set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and rural North Carolina. To learn more about Aaron Philip Clark, please visit: www.AaronPClark.com and www.Domandamedia.com
Dr. Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where she teaches inter-American literature, women’s world literature, media studies, and comparative cultural studies. Her first book, The Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time Language and Space in Hispanic Literature (Purdue 2004), is a comparative study of exile literature from Spain and Latin America. Her second book, Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has also co-edited, with Earl E. Fitz, a volume on Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (Purdue 2004) and with Henry James Morello, a volume entitled Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror (available on-line and forthcoming in book format from Purdue 2009). She has published and presented widely on comparative cultural studies and Latin America in journals such as College Literature, CR: The New Centennial Review, Comparative American Studies, MELUS, World Literature Today, A contracorriente, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Revista de estudios hispánicos, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Cultural Logic, and the ADFL Bulletin.
A firm believer in the potential of free-access websites to promote critical dialogue and advance scholarly and political engagement, McClennen has long been committed to using the Internet to advance the study of cinema and she hosts a website, Cinergía, dedicated to the study of Spanish, Latin American, and Latino cinema. The website includes a number of “movie files” that are useful teaching guides for films. The resources on the site are used by students and scholars across the globe. Her website, which also includes a number of resources, can be accessed here:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/s/a/sam50/.
She welcomes comments on this essay, on her websites, or on any aspect of her work at: sam50@psu.edu.
Analisa Lee is a healer, poet, lover of beauty, and student of the psyche and heart. She has an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Counseling Psychology. She is interested in the interplay of the psyche, the imagination, creativity, and ritual in psychological and spiritual healing. You can read more on her blog: theheartcaughtfire.blogspot.com
Steve Leuthold is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at Northern Michigan University where he teaches courses on Native American art and architecture. He is the author of Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, and Identity.
