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Ethical Self-Awareness & Personal Transformation
With humor and humility the Dalai Lama speaks on the importance of awareness in overcoming anger and other negative emotions. He further discusses ethical leadership for a new millennium and promotes dialogue and cross-cultural understanding around the world.

Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: 'War Is Over! (If You Want It)'
Yoko Ono says... Let's: Think Peace, Act Peace, and Spread Peace. John worked for it all his life. He said, "There's no problem, only solutions." Remember, we are all together. We can do it, we must. More at Imagine Peace.

Paul Whittington: 'Hero'
Paul Whittington's moving short (published by the brilliant independent film service Jaman) tells the story of a young soldier who returns from the Falkland's War emotionally scarred by what he has seen. That the tale is told through the eyes of his adoring younger brother makes it all the more heartbreaking. Says a Jaman community reviewer: "My heart aches for all the Marks and their moms and little brothers that we're making in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Should be seen by anyone who thinks war is glamorous or that all soldiers who come home alive come home whole."

Free Hugs Campaign
Sometimes, a hug is all what we need. Free Hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal. As this symbol of human hope spread across the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign banned. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring.

Ken Wilber - Interpreting the Singularity
Inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, who often talks about a point sometime in the next 50 years when our rate of technological progress begins to approach the infinite - an event he calls "the Singularity." This essentially represents the event horizon of our own technological evolution, beyond which we simply cannot imagine. Is there actually something to the concept of the Singularity, or is it just a sort of mythical Rapture for tech geeks? What are the implications of such exponential advancement of technology to human consciousness? As data becomes more and more free, and therefore more and more ubiquitous, how can the Integral vision help us navigate the "global brain" currently under construction? More about the Integral vision at Holons.

Ken Wilber - Integral "Third-Way" Politics
While surveying the current American political landscape, it can be easy to feel as though the country is divided into two radically opposing populations: the Left and the Right. When watching the speeches, interviews, and debates on either side of the fence, there is such an incredible difference between the tone, rhetoric, and messages coming from the two major political parties that many pundits have commented that it is as though we live in two utterly different Americas, with very little overlap between the two. But the truth is, we do not live in two Americas, but in a single America composed of at least four or five different sets of values, all crammed together into a two-party political system that is becoming increasingly incapable of representing these wildly different perspectives. More about the Integral vision at Holons.

Patrick Sweeney - Realizing Ordinary Mind
Patrick offers a beautiful discussion of nondual consciousness, the nameless, effortless, self-liberating quality of awareness in which all distinctions between self and other, this and that, inside and outside fall away completely, leaving only the brilliant clarity of this very Moment, exactly as it is. More about the Integral vision at Holons.

The Future of Food
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America -- a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. This film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

Please support Lily Films by logging onto www.thefutureoffood.com to purchase the entire 88 minute film and ensure that this vital message is spread throughout the world.

Infinity Miles Per Gallon: Art Haines and the Solar Car
Want a solar car? Mechanical designer Art Haines, of Maine, built one from scratch with the help of high school students. If they can do it, why can't Detroit?

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part I
Interview with John Perkins author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." A bullet or a Swiss bank account? That's the choice Third World leaders of resource rich countries have been offered since at least post-World War II.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - Part II

From the Wilderness - by Michael Ruppert
The Rockefeller family - CFC - Bush - 9/11 - Bin Laden - Carlyle Group - the CIA - investment banks - patriot act - internment camps - financial fraud - iran contra - cocaine - heroin - Wall Street - the drug trade - S & L crisis - the DEA - Iraq - Iran - Pakistan - nuclear weapons - looting social security - smallpox vaccine - Citibank - and more. It's all connected and Ruppert shows how. After having his life threatened numerous times, Michael Ruppert has left the United States and says he will no longer engage in investigative reporting.

Psychiatry in Schools
Protest film about the widespread practice of psychiatric drugs being prescribed to schoolchildren.

Zeitgeist - the full Movie
In three parts, Zeitgeist (which has no credits) attempts to show that 1) Christianity is rehashed pagan sun-worship and is used by the rich and powerful to control people, 2) the 9/11 tragedies were part of an elite conspiracy, and 3) ever since World War I, the ultra-rich have been secretly manufacturing wars and financial collapses to control the populace and to get richer and more powerful. Some alternative commentary see here. For a better understanding of the Gnostic religion and it's background I suggest you read Timothy Freke's book, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians.

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
This is an interview on CBC's 'The Hour' with author Chris Hedges. Hedges examines the growing right-wing fundamentalist movement in America and argues that it resembles the early fascist, cult-like movements of Germany and Italy in the 1920's and 30's.

Phony Conservatives
"They are destroying the Constitution" --Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out.

Peter Dale Scott Interview
Peter Dale Scott, author of "The Road to 9-11," points out that there are really two USA governments: the public state and the deep state. The public state is elected and accountable. Then there's the deep state, which is hidden, runs behind the scenes and has its own agenda.

Narrowing Media Perspective
"Americans the best entertained but least informed" --Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks out.

Who killed JFK Jr? - Complete Documentary
They killed his father. They killed his uncle. How did he die? We know he died in a plane wreck, but this video shows the bizarre media manipulation surrounding the details of the story. Why would somebody kill JFK Jr? Who had the motive? Who had the means? [I'm sorry, this is pretty damn shocking.]

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JFKII - The Bush Connection - Complete Documentary
The sequel to Oliver Stone's JFK, you won't see in the cinema. A thoroughly documented criminal indictment establishing beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of George HW Bush as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. The evidence relies primarily on governement documents and public records. The center piece of the evidence is a memo entitled "Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," signed by J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, 5 days after the assassination, which names Bush as a supervisor of CIA-trained assassins.

Myths about the developing world
With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks a few myths about the 'developing' world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. (More TED Talks)

Al Gore talks about preventing a climate crisis
Al Gore, in his own words, "used to be the next President of the United States of America" but has since changed professions. This talk is a follow-up to his now-famous presentation, featured in the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth." In it, he outlines what we can do to avert a global climate crisis. (More TED Talks)

Why too much choice can be a BAD thing
Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable. (More TED Talks)

Queerer than We Suppose: The Strangeness of Science
Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe. He suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe. (More TED Talks)

Bound
Bound is a striking word, meaning both action and restraint. Are we bound to this earth? Can anyone be bound for glory? How bound and determined do we have to be? Is everyone eventually bound to find out? This is about being bound to the quantum.

Please support Lily Films by logging onto www.thefutureoffood.com to purchase the entire 88 minute film and ensure that this vital message is spread throughout the world.

Deconstructing The Myth Of AIDS (Gary Null)
In 1984 we were told that HIV was the cause of AIDS. In his provocative documentary film, Gary Null, Ph.D. challenges virtually every statement ever made by the American medical industrial complex on the virus. While presenting the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the start. For example, there are experts who believe that AIDS is the result of multiple factors, including drug use, stress and nutritional deficiency, but that government agencies made a politically strategic decision to de-emphasize these hypotheses and thus discourage certain researchers and their funding. Meanwhile, AZT, an infamously failed treatment for cancer, and now the primary FDA-approved approach to treating AIDS, is highly toxic and can produce the very symptoms of the illness it is prescribed to treat. Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS goes beyond medicine and science to question the very foundation of our reliance on government bureaucracies where it concerns matters of life and death.

Mercury in vaccines causes autism
Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations. A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations, children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA. Why is this going on? Politics and corruption.

The Drugging of our Children (Gary Null)
In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while their diagnosis leaves little room for other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence, diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven. Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first without making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate.