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FIFTY-FIRST VIDEO
Fall of the Republic
A Film by Alex Jones
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.
President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the US Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first US president to chair the world body.
A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet.
A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery.
The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan.
This film reveals the architecture of the New World Order and what the power elite have in store for humanity. More importantly it communicates how We The People can retake control of our government, turn the criminal tide and bring the tyrants to justice.
The Esoteric Agenda
A Film by Ben & Daniel Stewart
"In pre-Christian times, there were schools known as mystery schools or the mystery religions. The messages encoded in the scriptures and ancient archaeology came from adepts of spiritual science. The intent was to teach the initiates the deeper meaning of these myths. What became later termed as Lucifer, Satan, or the devil was representative of the ego which rivals the Lord, the representative of the self. The true self is the epicenter of a person’s entire being. It is the total sum of everything that we are. The false ego on the other hand is the idea and concept we create about ourselves in the course of our lives, which typically excludes any qualities we don’t wish to accept about ourselves. However, humanity has been endowed with the freedom to choose either to obey the true self, or to give in to the temptation of the vanity and materialism of the false ego. This is the most notable trait that separates man from animal. Our freedom of choice. The choice to follow our concepts and ideals, or our natural impulses. The choice to sustain nature, or to destroy it. This freedom of choice weighs on the fate of the entire organism that we call humanity. "
“It’s only important that you personally learn to conquer your innermost fears and learn to love. When you see your fears for what they are and master your emotions, then and only then, will you truly be free.”
God is the spiritual web that connects all things. Our bodies are merely vessels that contain our spirit to gather experience for the divine mind. This is how evolution is possible as all species evolve into more complex beings.
In the concentric development of dimensional consciousness humanity has moved through into 3D following a course of involution to reach the seed and primal root of individual sovereignty. The third dimension is analogous to the solar plexus where power is centered in negative space for the manifestation of positive creation. To manifest creation on the physical plane the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional and Astral Planes had to be segregated in order to install a program for intensity and focus within the extension of 3D experience. The relationship required a regulator or valve which would filter out the higher multi-dimensional timeless and infinite awareness and induce a finite temporal spatial separation from wholeness that allows for regeneration and intensification of seed generation.
Through energy deceleration from higher non-polarized timeless universal experience to physical duality and stabilized crystallization into manifested form one way valves where instituted upon the light or energy streams. This process is the basis of astrological theory wherein the Stars are communicators of energy and the Planets measure, manage, characterize and regulate between each other these energy fields for beings in residence within the solar systems. From a cosmic energetic perspective the Omni-centric root chakra is the basis of Dark Matter, the Black Hole or seed of all that comes into existence, the Void and the Oneness of All that is. Existence then expands into Atomic/Mineral/Elemental Structures which is the Second Dimensional domain of things and the building blocks of creativity, variety, contrast and abundance.
Upon the third dimension as held with the energy of the Solar System and the Solar Plexus it becomes the power control and focus for manifestation. It is herein that existence arrives at a spatial temporal mirror or reflection of what is communicated to be created from Cosmic Thought as exemplified by Light and Love. The Fourth Dimensional Matrix and the Heart Chakra work in the Quantum Field where all probabilities operate and upon the Astral Energies of Emotional Desire, Choice and Mental Probabilities. Advancing acceleration from the void raises the level of conscious awareness and the disappearance of space and time. The Fifth Dimension operates under concepts of unified field theory in cooperation with string or membrane topological fields of creation which loop the warp and weft as the ground of being. The Throat Chakra operates to assimilate and synthesize the elemental energies of diversity within the second dimensional field of the navel chakra through communication and formulation of feelings into expression. With the acceptance of the Sixth Dimensional energies of the Higher Mind the Focus of the Single Stream of Light known as the Third Eye and is connected and focused into the Third Dimension.
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Metropolis 2010
5 Things Cities Can Learn from Burning Man
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
— Jane Jacobs
Every year a dense metropolis arises in the Black Rock Desert; every year it disappears without a trace. Tumult and change, churning cycles of invention and destruction - these forces generate the pulse of urban life. Great cities are organic, spontaneous, heterogeneous, and untidy. They are, like Burning Man, magnetic hubs of social interaction. This year's theme will function as a micro and a macro-scope, an instrument through which we will inspect the daily course of city life and the future prospect of what we call civilization.
Lagos, Mumbai and Shenzhen - these places now are nearly household words. Throughout the developing world, a second Industrial Revolution is occurring. Rural hinterlands are emptying as millions stream toward smog enshrouded urban centers. In America, an exodus from central cities has begun to slacken and reverse. A world composed of six-lane highways, big box stores, and vast unpeopled parking lots no longer feels sustainable. Rising gas prices, submerging home loans and three-hour commutes have caused many to wonder: How can we make our cities livable?
This 28-minute, open-eyed meditation is a multi-sensory journey into the transformative beauty of the inner world. Follow Kundalini-Shakti, the mystical serpent of awakening, who drives the vital force that opens each chakra. As you journey from base to crown in this fantastic sound and light extravaganza, you will see and experience the elemental reality of each chakra as Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sound, Light, and Transcendent Consciousness. Animated art by Alex Wayne, original soundtrack by Robin Silver.
Director/animators Syd Garon and Paul Griswold, recently co-directed a music video for the band NASA (North America South America). The song, titled Money, features Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe winning singer/songwriter David Byrne and Chuck D, leader of the rap group Public Enemy. The music video features artwork by contemporary artist and designer Shepard Fairey, who recently gained national notoriety for his design of the Barack Obama “Hope” campaign poster.
Filmmaker Kate Churchill is determined to prove that yoga can transform anyone. Nick Rosen is skeptical but agrees to be her guinea pig. Kate immerses Nick in yoga, and follows him around the world as he examines the good, the bad and the ugly of yoga. The two encounter celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks and world-renowned gurus. Tensions run high as Nick’s transformational progress lags and Kate’s plan crumbles. What unfolds and what they discover is not what they expected.
Transcendence of Dualistic Mortal Paradigm and a Holomonic Model of Transcendence
Commune with the Earth and search through Sacred Geometry and the original soul prints of humans, space and time.
A journey of remembrance, forgiveness, resurrection and ultimately transcendence of the dualistic mortal paradigm.
Give and receive LOVE in all that you do.
FORTY-SECOND VIDEO
Meet the Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.
FORTY-FIRST VIDEO
Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within is a feature length documentary which invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos in the modern world by awakening to the divine within.
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the post-modern world that frames the following questions: How can a renewal of ancient initiatory rites of passage alleviate our ecological crisis? What do trance dancing and festivals celebrating unbridled artistic expression speak to in our collective psyche? How do we re-invent ourselves in a disenchanted world from which God has long ago withdrawn? Entheogen invites the viewer to consider that the answers to these questions lie within the consciousness of each and every human being, and are accessible if only we give ourselves permission to awaken to the divine within.
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.
THIRTY-NINTH VIDEO
The Gold Ring Game of Enlightenment and Abundance has a unified purpose - Collective Telepathic Alignment. We are a living vibrating energy field with soul rapport leading to telepathy and unified group functioning on all planes. Clear people, strongly committed to this unified focus on inner levels will draw through the law of resonance other dedicated people who respond to the group note. Having a strong sense of inner purpose creates a strong energy field of a specific frequency.
The critical understanding is in knowing the difference between individual and collective empowerment, and to operate in the dimensional folds of collective empowerment where you release ego-ownerships, ego-visions, and ego-rewards for the sake of 5th dimensional Oneness. To stay centered in alignment in the peaceful energy of balance we need a pure collective channel.
Within the Gold Ring are individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, who are on the path of awakening. In order to remain unbiased and neutral we do not promote any particular religion, philosophy or dogma. We accept all with loving arms into this harmonic frequency as each player adds to the beauty and resonance of our song and party of Light.
JaGoFF is absolutely THRILLED to announce that they have teamed-up with The Chicago Art Department for the WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING of our documentary "Chicago's Promoters' Ordinance Kills Independent Music", Saturday, December 20th, from 6:30 - 10PM. The movie screening will be followed by a Q&A panel discussion followed by DJs spinning well into the night.
If you are not hip to the proposed ordinance, this is a great starting point. If you are aware of it, this is a great time to voice your questions, concerns and for the creative community to come together, as this law, if passed would effect the entire creative community.
As written it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and should not pass in any form whatsoever.
For those of you who think that this is a local issue... it is not.
The war on independent artist has now crossed over the Atlantic and London now has a similar proposal entitled "Form 696".
The city of San Jose just passed it. This is very scary $h!t people, as this effects the future of our culture, our right to free speech and freedom of expression.
Please feel free to spread the word and repost. This information needs to be in as many hands as possible.
Did you ever wonder, Why do we even need to work? To earn money??? What if money didnt exist anymore? What type of work will we be doing in a peaceful, coexisting society? We were taught that we need money and have to work, yet most of our hard earned money goes to the 13 controlling bloodlines who rule this planet.
You can continue to follow the flock and remain with these bloodlines or begin your spiritual journey right now! This window of opportunity will not be open much longer. Our 3rd dimensional life is all about the decisions we make and how those decisions affect our daily lives. Lets face it, we all know somebody who seems to enjoy being miserable so its okay if that person decides to miss this opportunity and is content living on 3D Earth.
Don't worry about anyone who is evil or corrupted. Their vibrations will keep the locked in this reality. Their evil and darkness is actually needed to awaken people to their true spiritual purpose. You didn't incarnate to become rich and wealthy. You're here to make a difference on this planet and to witness the Golden Age. Before you agreed to come here, you knew you could make a difference in this world and that you wouldn't follow the flock.
If you're awakened at this point, life is truly beautiful. If you haven't, including the powers currently ruling this planet, there's still the opportunity to make this transition but the window is closing little by little each day.
The boat for 5-D Earth will be departing soon. There are 6.6 billion people on this planet and 6.6 billion reservations made. Everyone has the opportunity be part of this process which only comes around approximately once every 26,000 years.
Postmodern Times is a series of short animated films presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation. Our first episode, "Toward 2012", introduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice.
The Celestine Prophecy is one of the most popular new age spiritual books and heres the nine insights discovered within.
Sicko is not a movie about the 50 million Americans walking around without health insurance. Sicko is a movie about the other 250 million of us who have insurance, but are just as well and truly screwed. It’s also about freedom, real freedom, not the empty kind that gets thrown around as a buzzword; the freedom to live your life with the certainty that forces beyond your control won’t take away everything you have and everything you are. We don’t have that kind of freedom here in America, and Moore’s film makes that point by simply talking to real people. They’re your neighbors, your friends, your parents, some of them are even 9/11 heroes. Moore uses his camera to let them tell their stories of insurance company mistreatment and in the process paints a complete picture of a corrupt and fatally flawed system which isn’t just killing people but taking away their dignity and their liberty.
At first, he isn’t telling us anything we don’t already know. Anyone who’s spent any time dealing with insurance companies knows what a mess it is. You pay your premiums and then when you actually need them they go out of their way not to help you. They’re in the business of finding reasons not to spend money, and everyone knows it. What you may not know is just how far they’ll go. Having insurance doesn’t mean you’re protected, and the film covers both ends of the spectrum from people left to die because insurance companies refuse treatment, to people dropped from policies for bogus reasons, to an elderly couple driven to bankruptcy and made homeless by high deductibles. The film leaves no room for anyone to think it won’t happen to them. It will. It happens to everyone, just in varying degrees. When you walk out of Sicko, you’ll do it with the absolute certainty that if you ever encounter serious health trouble, you’re screwed.
Matt joins thousands in a celebration that brings together the human spirit. He shares a love of unity with everyone in this video and unites countries around the world in s atate of dance. Fourteen months in the making watch all the movements taking place.
The Pride Parade took center stage on Sunday, June 29th in Chicago. The Underground Music Channel 4 covered the event and shared this video of beautiful people and floats dedicated to opening up the love with everyone no matter what your preference is. The Boom Boom Room ended up winning the best float for the parade as they were dressed like Sesame Street.
Would you trade your car for a bike? Joe did along with others across the country as Tour De Fat raised money and inspired people to benefit the bike scene. This happened on June 21st just one week after the WNBR. We hope this inspires you to get on your bike and move away from the money and pollutants that come with driving a car.
The World Naked Bike Ride came through Chicago again on Saturday, June 14th and over 1700 people participated sharing nudity, bike power and people power and broke the record with the most people on this type of ride. The Underground Music Channel 4 did an excellent job covering this support of positive body image and freedom from oil dependency.
A beautiful story is developing in Toronto, where a homeless man named Slim is selling Jeff Brown's self-help book SOULSHAPING on the streets, empowering himself to re-join the world of human relatedness and bring his gifts back into humanifestation after many years on the outside. These events have inspired Jeff to initiate a homelessness challenge, inviting all of us to do something to bring a homeless person back into the world. The idea that are "all one" is only a concept until we bring it into authentic action. As spiritual activism rises to the forefront of consciousness, this is one way you can help.. But for the grace of God, there go I.. God is IN the people.. ALL ONE
Legendary journalist Bill Moyers address the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008. Presented by FreePress.net every year this video shares what needs to be changed with the media and what went wrong.
Rhymefest discusses his leadership role and why he is making music to change the world. Check out Rhymefest’s journey to Hong Kong as he sits down with reporters to discuss the basis of his new album El Che. This video was created and directed by Konee Rok.
Our “fast food nation” exposed in this fun animation. Before you take another bite, you should check out this video and maybe it will convince you to take action with the mental memes. Get the full story with the movie Fast Food Nation.
Here’s an interesting animation concerning our individualism vs the collectivism. Who are we and where do we go in this mess we have created throughout our society.
The Green Festival took place at Navy Pier this year and was another success. Thousands of people from all over participated with the green movement and shed their light on new ways to live in this world.
Last weekend at Looptopia had fire performance as well. Here’s a brief showcase from the Blaze, Spunn and Pyrotechniq fire crews.
For more info on Blaze click HERE For more info on Spunn click HERE
EIGHTEENTH VIDEO
During this weekend Chicago’s all night party Looptopia took place and we had tons of fun at the Underground Art School that took place in the Palmer House. Various workshops took place where everyone could participate while creating T-Shirts, animations, magazines and a variety of other things.
This week we share a video from the Chicago Burning Man Decompression from last year. It was wild night and the Environmental Encroachment tore it up like they always do. This marching band sure knows how to party.
Chicago performance art group EE uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments.
Find out about them and where they will be playing next at www.Encroach.net
SIXTEENTH VIDEO
The Story of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
The movie is just the beginning of the story. Watch it, learn more and get involved.
The War on Drugs is a failing idea that waste tax payer dollars and continues to place innocent people into jails. Our demand should be “What people do with their own bodies and their own minds is their business, providing they do not impose any harm to any individuals or society.” Let's expose a little bit of BULLSH*T from our good friends Penn and Teller. Enjoy all three parts.
FOURTEENTH VIDEO
"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late." -- Dr. Martin Luther King
(from the 1967 Speech by MLK: Beyond Vietnam--A Time to Break Silence
The Real News)
A year to the day before his assassination, King gave this speech at the Riverside Church in New York:
Starting with the deceptively simple story of an ant, Dan Dennett unleashes a dazzling sequence of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of "memes" -- a term coined by Richard Dawkins for mental concepts that are literally alive and capable of spreading from brain to brain.
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TWELFTH VIDEO
Dr. Deepak Chopra delivers a great meditation speaking to our sameness with the universe and each other. Tigerfire0013 creates this great piece with music by Beethoven with breathing footage borrowed from Greenpeace.
ELEVENTH VIDEO
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gill Scott Heron. Check out his collection of lyrics and poems, Now and Then, published by Canongate Book.
TENTH VIDEO
Let's bring the spotlight on the terrible news organizations running the world by sharing "Globalization and the Media" created by CoaNews.org.
Director, Paul O' Connor stated: "The various United States administrations has spent the last 50 years constructing the present New World Order. Aided by its powerful military resources, alongside the IMF, World Bank and the World Trade Organization, the rules of global trade have been largely imposed to serve its own interests. This documentary explores the role of the media in this corporate led take over of the Planets natural resources."
Unlocking the history of the world can be quite hard, especially when things aren't always as they appear. Take a look at this week's video to get a different perspective at the world and the messages that come at us daily. Zeitgeist takes a look at some of the history of this war of civilization.
Altering your state of consciousness happens to us through the ego and we perceive the world through many fragments. When we experience the awaking of ourselves we see that what we think we are is not true. This is simply what the ego has shown us. In this direct and practical satsang, Adyashanti opens the door into the clear seeing that is our natural state of enlightenment.
SEVENTH VIDEO
Knowing that our lifestyle is not sustainable is hard for most people to grasp. Our culture is based on acquiring stuff instead of building relationships. This video of the week shares an interview with Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson who produced the powerful and devastating video, "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire." This 72nd Peak Moment episode is hosted by Janaia Donaldson and is the "Community Responses for a Changing Energy Future." The full movie is highly recommended for everyone to see.
With "Super Tuesday" here this week we decided to choose a video with some political clout. At a 5-day Integral Institute seminar on Integral Business Leadership, Ken Wilber was asked, by a senior Zen teacher, "Is there value in watching the Republican convention?" If you have never heard of the Integral Vision now is a good time to do some research.
Well in order to see where we are headed we should first take a look at where we came from. Here's a video that seemed to be speaking right to us. In Tucson's own Loft Cinema, during October's First Friday Film Shorts contest, this is the video that might have won. It comes from IrreverentFilms on YouTube.
Here we are in the fourth week of the year and who better to speak about this unjust country, and to give respect to, than Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. We need to shout out from the mountain tops to let freedom ring and not forget what this country was meant for. It's time to break the silence.
This third week of January we bring you back to Chicago for the Motion Graphics Festival 2008. If you have ever been interested in graphic design of any sort you should come check out this festival that's in it's third year in the windy city.
This week we are diving into American politics with the disturbing news that a new "crime think" bill made it's way through the House of Representatives and how hangs in the Senate when it resumes in the next few weeks.
Please call your Senators and let them know what how you feel about this.
In the first week of 2008 we shared with you the The Synergy Project all the way from London, UK. They are part of the Commons Creation, which is a network of individuals and groups who pool resources and work together to raise funds and awareness for world changing land, money, and media projects.
As you may have heard, following an intellectual property dispute earlier this year with The Synergy Centre, The Synergy Project has agreed to change its name to Luminopolis (meaning "city of light"). Although often confused due their similar names and shared roots, The Synergy Project and The Synergy Centre were always separate organisations - our name change simply reflects this and clears up the confusion - The Synergy Project is dead! Long live Luminopolis!!
Watch The Lumiopolis Documentary Now!
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