Meditation's Incredible Potential (3 min)

The extraordinary findings of 2 consciousness researchers from their studies of longtime monk meditators, and what it means in terms of each person's amazing potential.

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What is the Ego? (from the movie Revolver, 1 min 42 sec)

An impressively profound and insightful clip from the end of a film called "Revolver" by Guy Ritchie. In Indian mythology King Janaka said after he became enlightened - "Now I know who the thief is that was stealing my life from me!" This video cl...

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The Power of Silence (7 min) - Ramana Maharshi (1880-1950)

This is a remarkable teaching on the power of silence to expand our awareness of who we are, by the great Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1880-1950) who hardly spoke 5 words a day, according to many people who met him.    

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Screw the Box - Stig Pryds, impressive life change (3 min)

Impressive and inspiring video featuring a Danish free-dive record holder named Stig Pryds, who was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2008, thus he became wheelchair bound, and had to take many medicines.  But 5 years later he somehow tri...

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Words that cut through illusion by Nisargadatta Maharaj (25min)

This is a 25 minute meditation with the words of a simple Indian sage named Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 to 1981).  It's beautifully read by a Buddhist nun named Samaneri Jayasara who lives in a monastery in the mountains of New South Wales in ...

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Amazing Samurai - Beyond Science (3 min)

This impressive modern-day Japanese samurai does what science would predict is totally impossible, a testament of each of our incredible potential.  An eye-opener for all of us.

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Meditation transformed 2 violent schools in San Francisco (3 min 11 sec)

This is an inspiring newscast of how meditation was able to transform 2 violent schools in San Francisco.  Imagine the effect of this worldwide.

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Vipassana Meditation transforms an awful Indian prison (52 min)

I was so moved when I saw this video in late 1999.  It really inspired me, especially coming from a psychology background and being aware of its limitations.

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Wim Hof - The Iceman, Ted Talk

Wim Hof can withstand extremely cold temperatures for long periods of time, and also has a scientifically-tested boosted immune system.  The scientists who tested him said he was an exception, but he countered them by saying he could teach it...

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"Fierce Grace" documentary about Richard Alpert aka Ram Das (1hr 33min)

The almost unbelievable adventure of how Richard Alpert, a Harvard psychologist and one of the movers of the LSD revolution in the 1960's, went to India, had several unbelievable adventures with an old mystic and became Ram Das, Americal spiritual...

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Rupert Sheldrake - "The Science Delusion" banned Ted Talk (18 min)

Another banned Ted Talk by the brilliant biologist Rupert Sheldrake.  Such an out-of-the-box explorer, reveals how scientific constants are not really constant.  Wow, I had never even contemplated such a possibility.

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Graham Hancock - "The War on Consciousness" banned Ted Talk (18 min)

Graham Hancock is an out-of-the-box thinker.  His books and lectures have been so mind-opening for me.  Here is a Ted Talk that was banned due to what he said about society purposely dumbing down its citizens.  This is what I have a...

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Who are you really? (9 min)

A lovely and healthy reminder of what we are not, and that we are much more than the person we see in the mirror.  Reminds me of the American poet e.e. cummings quote - "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and ...

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DSM 5: Psychiatry's Deadliest Scam (4 min)

This is the manual used to categorize mental disorders.  But is it legitimate?  When I studied it in graduate school (Master's program in Marriage & Family Therapy) I intuitively felt that the DSM is not legitimate, it's put together...

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