Product Description
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Karmageddon captures the spiritual journey of 'Soulshaping'
author Jeff Brown with 1960's counter-culture icon and guru
Bhagavan Das, of 'Be Here Now' fame. Rivetingly personal and
profoundly universal, Karmageddon is an unforgettable look at
contemporary spirituality as east meets west, the 1960's meets
the 21st century, spirituality meets psychology, and the sacred
meets the profane. From tree-hugging and sacred chants to
womanizing and the search for an authentic life, Brown is forced
to confront the shortcomings of his teacher as he takes the
viewer from light to shadow and back again. His journey includes
interviews with some of the best known spiritual teachers,
chanters and yogis of our time, including 'Be Here Now' author
Ram Dass, Seane Corn, Deva Premal & Miten, David Newman (Durga
Das), Robert s, and David Life. Winner of the Audience Choice
Award at the Costa Rica International Film Festival, Karmageddon
is a profound and unforgettable examination of the desire for
healing, meaning and heartfelt connection in all of our lives. It
is a truly courageous, no-holds-barred film that challenges long
established patriarchal guru practices and also challenges some
of the ideas of spirituality intrinsic to the spiritual bypass
movement, including the alleged split between our emotional and
spiritual lives. It asks many questions relevant to spiritual
seekers and yogis, without soft-touching the response: Can we
grow in our spirituality without working through our emotional
issues? Can we be enlightened if we are not fully in integrity in
all respects? Can we just do the witness bypass and pretend that
our issues are cured, or must we get inside our unresolved hearts
and work them through in order to be truly liberated? Is
detachment a life, or is it just a tool to keep us afloat during
difficult times? Why do we summon certain figures into our lives?
What does 'spirituality' really mean?
Review
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Brown s literary language as he describes his inner process is
eloquent and captivating, and with the added irony of Bhagavan s
chanting as a background score, often times haunting. Ultimately
this film is less an expose of a capricious guru with a Pan
complex as it is an inner exploration of Brown s spiritual
journey, one where he pleads guilty to confusing his own self
avoidance with enlightenment. Brown realizes that repressed
emotions, especially anger, are the karmic field for my soul s
expansion . In the end, Karmageddon s real message is about
remembering that our humanness must walk hand in hand with our
divinity. Bhagavan Das, a man of contradictions, shows us all
that in our imperfection is the possibility for perfection. And
in our messy mortal selves lies the grist for transformation.
--~Elephant Journal Review
I watched some brilliant documentaries last year. Ai Wei Wei;
Never Sorry, Searching for Sugarman and My Reincarnation to name
a few. All of them are very powerful films, but none of them
affected me as deeply as Karmageddon. Karmageddon is a film
bursting with searing truth and incredible courage that affirmed
the yearning of my heart and gave strength to the vulnerability
of my soul. It contained more in and wisdom about the
challenges facing the spiritual journeyman living in the Western
world than I've ever seen captured on film before. My life, in
all ways is better for seeing it. --~Jamie King, actor (Tristan
and Isolde, Tinker Tailor Soldier etc.)
A phenomenal film, a full spectrum journey into the potency of
projections, wounding and the humanness of ALL beings. --~Makia
Williams