🙂 says :"i am surprised that you put mythology above PRAYER and FAITH !" faith, prayer, mythology gods and goddesses are all ways to keep going beyond your sense of the individual self - they enable you to break out of the prison of individuality, the prison of the mind, and allow something much deeper [...]
Will McCain decide between Obama and Clinton ?
Have you noticed how the Democratic party has shifted from 'Between Obama and Clinton, who will be the best next President of the United States' to 'which one of them can beat McCain' ?? Senator McCain has (as I previously predicted on this blog) come in from behind and taken advantage of the political bickering [...]
Mythology and Culture : Open Forum
Where do our fundamental roots lie ? In Culture or in Mythology. Is our culture defined by our Myths, or is it the other way round ? Or is one inseparable from the other ? Can I, for example, live in completely different culture, adapt to that culture, and yet my being is incomplete with [...]
Are Ghosts and Spirits real ?: Filming in the presence of Anthny Minghella’s Spirit
Koizen asked : you have opinions of Astrophysicist, gods, spirituality...why not Ghosts... spirits ? Koizen, I actually do not disbelieve in ghosts or spirits, nor do i subscribe to the fear factor associated with ghosts. I believe we live in the constant 'presence' of consciousness of all beings and thought, including our own consciousness too. [...]
left right left right, and so life marches on in two conflicting brains
As I look back at my life, I have been accused of being impractical (I am), a dreamer (I am) a wanderer (completely), the famous comment 'you treat life like it was just play' - yes I do. 'Act your age' - I can remember forever. People have said I have an over active imagination [...]
Shia Lebouf, Julie christie, John Hurt in New York I love you
So I finished filming my episode and have delivered the first rough cut. When I arrived in New York just a few days before the shoot, we had no cast. But as we went through the lists almost as if by some act of destiny or magic my first choices were not only available, but [...]
Priyanka visits Rajiv Gandhi assasination accused in prison
I was really surprised and would say moved when I read the Priyanka Vadera ( nee Gandhi) went to visit Nalini in prison- one of the accused in the assasination of Rajiv Gandhi. I have never met Priyanka nor do I know what transpired except that Nalini has made statements of how much she now [...]
Water Film Festival : support it if you can please
Dear Shekhar I have been volunteering as project co-ordinator for an international water film festival titled Voices From the Waters. The first edition was held in Bangalore in 2005. The second was held in June last year and it is still continuing as a travelling film festival across cities, small towns and institutions across the [...]
hey mr. time man
hey mr time man i got your number i took away your sickle and pulled off your hood and found myself staring back at me wanna dance mr time man ?
Larry King and the how to live longer. How about just play ?
Happened to catch bits of the Larry King show last night on how to live longer. My friend Deepak Chopra was on it - though he did not seem to get too much of a chance to speak. The one thing no one mentioned was community. That people that live in harmonious communities, or fulfilling [...]