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Below are Global Oneness Project films that deal with spirituality. Join a discussion about spirituality in the Discussion Forum.

 

The Heart of Religion

 

Fr. Alberto Luna, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Cuenca, Ecuador, calls for a sincere turning toward the "true and authentic" God, who resides deep in the human heart. Fr. Alberto says that that sacred depth is available to everyone; it is the place where all religions meet, and it provides the strength needed to walk the path of relationship and to put "we" above "you" and "I."

 

 

 

Words from the Karmapa

 

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness begins as an internal experience , explaining that Tibetan Buddhists have studied and meditated a great deal on this ultimate truth. While traditional practices do foster a consciousness of oneness, His Holiness says that religions must also adapt to the changing needs of people.

 

 

 

Living Service (Part 1)

 

Jayesh Patel, founder of the Indian NGO Manav Sadhna, shows us how the Gandhian principles inspiring the organization are put into practice in the vast slums of Ahmedabad. There are enough good ideas, says Jayesh; what is needed to make real change is the commitment to one another through humble service. Ultimately, it is heartfelt compassion and sincere spirituality that motivates effective service to humanity.

 

 

 

Living Service (Part 2)

 

 

 

 

Intuition

 

 

L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains that oneness is the source of intuition, which allows us to touch a common truth beyond our memory, culture and conditioned responses. By choosing to reflect on the reality "behind thinking," human beings have access to incredible freedom.

 

 

 

Return to Wholeness

 

Community leader, psychologist and Zen teacher Dr. Vera Kohn explains how oneness is both the origin and the destiny of all things, which arise and return like a wave on the ocean… and also a new manifestation that creatively unites opposites.

 

 

 

Awakening the World

 

Sufi teacher and dreamworker Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee tells us that, for an individual, the spiritual path begins once there has been an experience of oneness through grace. Likewise, on the global scale there must be a moment of collective grace to awaken humanity. But how can the foundation be prepared to make the most of such a moment?

 

 

 

An Attitude of Service

 

Environmentalist and artist Juan Manuel Carrion answers our question about his core message with a heartfelt appeal to live life in service to creation.

 

 

 

The Convergence of Science and "Spirituality"

 

Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains how science tends to give rise to a fractured system of disciplines, while spirituality connects an individual to the rest of the universe in a meaningful way. He suggests that systems science may be the best example we currently have of how science can begin to embrace something as vaguely defined as connectivity and still remain science.

 

 

 

Complete Interview with Don Alverto Taxo (Part 1)

 

Don Alverto Taxo, a Quichua elder and Iachak (community leader/healer), shares his indigenous Andean perspective on the crises and potential of the current pachacuti (thousand-year cycle).

 

 

 

 

Complete Interview with Don Alverto Taxo (Part 2)

 

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Complete Interview with Don Alverto Taxo (Part 3)

 

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What Is Sacred?

 

Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains why Aboriginal understandings of the land have no credibility in wider Australian society.

 

 

 

How Is Oneness Experienced?

 

Tibetan Buddhist leader His Holiness the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa describes how oneness is experienced, first as a breadth of vision cultivated through meditation and contemplation, and second as the harmony arising from mutual support and self-sacrifice of the individual and society.