TurquoiseB wrote: >As input for a book idea, I was wondering whether >folks here have favorite films that they consider >spiritual. > >What I'm looking for is movies that, for you, >capture or express something valuable about some >aspect of the overall spiritual process. It could >be bhakti, or courage (being a spiritual warrior), >or psychic powers, or self analysis, or death and >dying, or reincarnation, or making breakthroughs >in one's own spiritual development, or the teacher- >student relationship, or pretty much anything if >it turned you on and inspired you. > >For the record, my list of such films would include >weird shit like Conan The Barbarian, Risky Business, >Gandhi, Alien, Groundhog Day, Highlander, The Last >Wave, The Road Warrior, The Last Temptation of Christ, >Little Buddha, The Life of Brian, Seven Years in >Tibet, Jacob's Ladder, Don Juan de Marco, Seven >Samurai, Thief, Dune, Excalibur, Pow Wow Highway, >Cool Runnings, L.A. Story, The Milagro Beanfield >War, The Princess Bride, Picnic At Hanging Rock, >Being There, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The >Razor's Edge, Schindler's List, Witness, The Hitcher, >It, Back To School, Big Trouble in Little China, >The Crow, Shaolin vs. Lama, Spiritual Kung Fu, >Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, The Terminator, Windhorse, >Legend, Gladiator, Searching For Debra Winger, >Million Dollar Baby, Spy Game, The Stepford Wives, >Bubba Ho-Tep, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Eternal >Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cup, Travelers >and Magicians, Immortal Beloved, Tous les Matins du >Monde, The Matrix, Dirty Pretty Things, Crouching >Tiger Hidden Dragon, Spirited Away, and American >Beauty. > >You get the picture. Anything goes. Violence and >blood and horror don't rule a movie out from being >spiritual, nor does the subject matter, however in- >your-face it might be, if it triggers some revelation >in you and turns you on spiritually. Given the >potential theme of this book, the more Tantric >the better. > >Thanks in advance... > >Unc > > > "The Mechanic" with Christian Bale.
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