What do you know about Zen?
The Zen Mind is a fascinating journey across Japan to explore Zen in its natural habitat.
Since the video got removed, I can only present you the trailer:
Kohei Yoshiyuki
The Park
I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…
Auroville
A city in the making
Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
Problema
Who are we in the 21st Century?
A cinematic interpretation of this world’s largest round table gathering, Problema is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas.
Avishai Pearlson
The one breath
meditation
How would I want to breathe my one last breath?
Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
Der Körper den ich habe, Der Leib der ich bin
Dürckheim’s legacy is psychotherapy in the spirit of Zen. His books are classics of transpersonal psychology.
Emilie Conrad
Continuum Movement
Continuum Movement is a dynamic inquiry into what it is to be a human being, providing a method to consciously explore ourself as an unfolding biological and planetary process.
Richard Evans Schultes
Father of modern ethnobotany
Richard Evans Schultes is the father of modern ethnobotany and some of his scholars carry on his heritage.
Pavel Tchelitchew
Bodies seen and unseen
Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.
Theo Jansen
Kinetic automata
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
Jantar Mantar
The observatories of Jai Singh
In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.
Richard Feynman
The pleasure of finding things out
Richard Feynman is one of those rare scientists who win you over with more than their titles and awards.
Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
Judy Chicago
Visualizing Birth
Judy Chicago has continued to make art a vehicle for intellectual transformation and social change and to women’s right to engage in the highest level of art production.
Eyvind Earle
Master of the trees
Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising.
Terence McKenna
Global Perspectives
and Psychedelic Poetics
Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by.
René Laloux
La planète sauvage
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
Microcosmos
Le peuple de l’herbe
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
Dennis McKenna
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Dennis McKenna shared a life’s devotion to psychedelics with his better known brother. And he wrote a book about it.
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
