Film explores Science & Consciousness

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In her self-funded, 10,000-mile spiritual journey from South Africa to the United States, Dutch filmmaker Renee Scheltema challenges scientists for straight answers about psychic and paranormal experiences: Can we predict the future? Can our thoughts and intentions affect the physical world? Can we be spontaneously healed? Are we "mysteriously" connected? The result is a moving documentary film in an "everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask" style that concludes science and … [Read more...]

Excerpts from “Healing the Rift”

Many non-spiritual people subscribe to the belief that our world is the result of matter - composed of tiny billiard ball-like entities. Do they really believe that life is merely a succession of vignettes of memories, feelings, and experiences that vanish when we die? Is that it - nothing survives death? "I learned that she'd died a month earlier. The details of her death did not register - just the fact that she had died...I decided that I wanted to understand the definition of life … [Read more...]

Healing the Rift

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality" - Carl Sagan Summer was in its glory in the Central Valley of California. Leo Kim, who would grow up to become a biochemist and work to find ways to stimulate the body's own defense system to fight cancer, was only a young boy, a Cub Scout. His best friend, Stanley, was planning to take a ride with his uncle, a crop duster, and Leo was invited. His parents said no, that it was too dangerous. … [Read more...]

Two What the Bleep scientists presenting talks in Twin Cities

Two scientists featured in the film, What the Bleep, will be presented in the Twin Cities this summer by the Continuum Center. William Tiller, Ph.D., author of two seminal books exploring the interactions of mind and matter and the possibilities of biological transformation, and Candace Pert, Ph.D., author of Molecules of Emotion: the Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, will speak in July and August. Dr. William Tiller Dr. Tiller will present "The Science of Interconnectedness: Mind, Matter … [Read more...]