Special thanks to John Manley of MetaphysicalSF for this guest post!
  
Whether intentional or not, James Cameron’s film Avatar contains many spiritual analogies. Here are seven examples I observed:

The Na’vi race have a striking similarity to depictions of Hindu avatars like Krishna and Rama. Coincidence? Apparently not. James Cameron admitted to Entertainment Weekly that he made [...]

 
I feel seriously challenged about how to review this movie. Of course, whenever I notice something like that what I’m really saying is “WOW! There’s a lot here and I have no clue where to start. So I’ll start typing and see what happens…” It also means there’s enough to the movie that I don’t [...]

 
This is just a quick heads up that I’m going to be featured as a guest member on this month’s Spiritual Cinema Circle volume. Basically what that means is that you’ll get to hear me chat with Lisa Garr (radio show host) and Stephen Simon (Hollywood producter and co-founder of Spiritual Cinema Circle) about our [...]

 
Many many months ago, my friend Christopher Westra sent out his usual weekly update letter to his friends and family and mentioned that they had watched the miniseries “Dinotopia” and that it was surprisingly spiritual in nature.
I took note of that, but it wasn’t until recently (about a month ago) that I finally decided to [...]

  
Cold Souls was recommended by Stephen Simon of Spiritual Cinema Circle, and I don’t know how much I can share about it without revealing too much of both the plot and the essence. The main character of Cold Souls is Paul Giamatti, who is actually playing himself - and he has a mid-life crisis and [...]

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Imagine the following: You are a single, thirty-something professional…and you discover you have a very serious, life-threatening case of leukemia even though you are symptom-free. The next day you meet the love of your life at a nightclub and begin a relationship, knowing you haven’t long to [...]

Traditionally, movies make it to your local theater by way of studios that see enough financial potential to make money on them. Smaller filmmakers-or just filmmakers with non-mainstream films-usually don’t get their movies shown in a theater outside of a film festival. Spiritual Cinema Circle travels to film festivals all over the world and encourage [...]

 
A few years back, I went through a phase where I watched a lot of movies all the time. There was something delightful about immersing myself in a new world for a little while, whether it was to let go of the stresses of the day, or to feel a surge of adrenaline from [...]