Cinema with Soul – Helping Human Evolution


By Theresa Hulme

The Institute for Spiritual Entertainment recently held an awards festival honoring supporters who have lead the group now recognized as a major presence in modern cinema. “Spiritual Cinema” is the best description of a film genre that promises to grace us with goodness in the decades to come.


Spiritual Cinema pioneer, director Stephen Simon received a special award for his contributions to the cultivation of the higher self. Simon’s early films include “What Dreams May Come” and “Somewhere in Time,” now both classics. The organization supports films that elevate consciousness. Smart films. Deep films. Films that help us poor humans to evolve. We certainly need it.

The mission of the group known as ISELA (Institute of Spiritual Entertainment-Los Angeles) is to inspire individual and social transformation by awakening the light within. The ‘circle’ creates films which present a foundation of ‘oneness,’ rousing the heart, soul and mind, reflecting one another as intricate parts of the same whole. Instead of division, separation and violence, the cinema circle works to promote unity, human goodness, love, awareness and infinite growth, with universal appeal.

With the current tidal wave of corporatized, soulless entertainment, major media outlets are advertising and profit driven, rather than heart and mind centered. American media is especially infamous for polluting the world with gratuitous violence, cold and empty sexuality, mindlessness, brazen aggression and very poor taste. Spiritual Cinema reflects the shadow side of this human condition. In the spirit of the late great Carl Jung, we should thank the person who shows us our shadow side. In darkness, we see the light.
The universal themes illuminate insight and healing through a multitude of human thought fields: philosophy, science, religion, sociology, technology, psychology, quantum physics, etc.

Social evolution and truth seeking are essential cravings of the human soul. The personal growth that can occur just from seeing one movie can profoundly influence human evolution. The cinema circle seeks to transmit the good vibes to the masses. The Information Age brings this access, across cultural and geographic lines, facilitating transmission of our highest selves, shared with the world.

Recommended Films evoking the Spirit:

What The Bleep Do We Know?
Kumba Mela
Indigo
The Corporation
Karma (by Teri Rose)

Not surprisingly, over 100 Spiritual Cinema groups exist worldwide. Mass media is one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Connecting people through entertainment is very influential. Not money motivated nor the movie of the week yet, this genre of cinema will be increasingly popular as the times get darker. When the student is ready, the teacher will come. And we starving students, especially in the Western hemisphere, could certainly use some social evolution.

The Institute provides support to those who wish to exercise a craving to ‘break on through to the other side.’ The ‘other side” flirts with lightness, human triumph, enlightenment and evolution. The vibration of the universe emanates from each of us. If we can awaken the light within each other, our collective vibration grows stronger and brighter and enlivens Mother Earth.

The group encourages new members and welcomes donations as tax-deductible. They meet regularly to discuss creative endeavors, share insight and develop synergy towards a theme that, though overdue, has come in to its own.

For more information/becoming a member, visit www.ise-la.org. Namaste!

Posted: Fri - July 1, 2005 at 05:17 AM          


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