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Holy Wars (Trailer)
Holy Wars (Trailer)
Shot over a four year period in America, Britain, Lebanon, and Pakistan, Holy Wars follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Irish Muslim convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world.
2 min · 3,577 views · 4.5 stars
Kosovo: Can You Imagine? | Boris Malagurski
Kosovo: Can You Imagine? | Boris Malagurski (2009)
From the author: Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is a documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Boris Malagurski, about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century.
30 min · 3,420 views · 5 stars
The Israeli Lobby
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the U.S. relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer...
50 min · 27,479 views · 4.2 stars
What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) (trailer)
Religion aside for a moment, there’s a terrible addiction that has swept across this country, and it’s one of the nation’s best kept secrets. Mostly everyone will tell you that it’s a really bad thing, but nobody can seem to stop doing it. And it doesn’t come cheap, nearly...
2 min · 59,719 views · 4.7 stars
The Power of Stories
The Power of Stories
I am reading a book by Professor Yuval Noah Harari called Sapiens-A Brief History of Human Kind. 
Mariavittoria Scala · 236 views · unrated
Do Animals have Consciousness, Emotions & a sense of Fairness? | Interview with Frans De Waal
Do Animals have Consciousness, Emotions & a sense of Fairness? | Interview with Frans De Waal
In this interview we talk to primatologist and best selling author, Frans De Waal, about his personal journey and how the field of animal studies has evolved since he began his practice. Furthermore, we examine his most notable studies and findings and whether animals have...
29 min · 251 views · unrated
Sustainability: Beyond Political Categorization - Peter Joseph, ZDay 2019
Sustainability: Beyond Political Categorization - Peter Joseph, ZDay 2019
This presentation addresses the problem of communication, categorical associations, the rise of anti-intellectualism and other issues related to discussions surrounding social progress. It works to address the tendency to view all ideas as ideologies, as if the foundation of...
31 min · 2,133 views · 5 stars
Men's Madness
Men's Madness (1991)
A provocative critique of man’s technological progress.
52 min · 4,172 views · 4 stars
Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr
Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr
The experience of god inside oneself is often called Franciscan Mysticism. It's about becoming what you already are, and the profound wisdom St. Francis imparted for living in harmony with both ourselves as well as others around us can be seen throughout this lecture by...
62 min · 3,258 views · 5 stars
INVISIBLE REBELS: Facing Fear | A reading from "The Magic in your Mind" by U.S. Andersen
INVISIBLE REBELS: Facing Fear | A reading from "The Magic in your Mind" by U.S. Andersen
From The Magic in your Mind, Chapter two, Discovering the Secret Self, by U.S. Andersen
14 min · 58 views · unrated
The Invention of Whiteness: the Long History of a Dangerous Idea
The Invention of Whiteness: the Long History of a Dangerous Idea
Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world
Robert P Baird · 703 views · unrated
Do You Feel Nature’s Pain?
Do You Feel Nature’s Pain?
Centuries ago, we collectively experienced nature as a living and spiritual presence. Today, nature is in danger of becoming merely a utilitarian means to an end. Believing nature to be psychologically dead allows industry to freely consume and destroy it. We no longer feel...
Terence Sexton · 34 views · unrated
On Self-Wholeness
On Self-Wholeness
Hard to feel bad when I think good thoughts. Hard to feel good when I think bad thoughts.
Sam Yang · 120 views · unrated
Propaganda and Language of the State
Propaganda and Language of the State
Language is powerful. Language is deceptive. Propaganda is pumped into U.S. citizens heads daily without question or critical evaluation. The rhetoric  is chosen and the connotations as well as the implied half truths are more powerful than what is directly said. We see this...
Punk Johnny Cash · 5,999 views · 5 stars
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.  
Bruce E. Levine · 1,142,873 views · 4.6 stars
This Is the Worst Time for Society to Go on Psychopathic Autopilot
This Is the Worst Time for Society to Go on Psychopathic Autopilot
From authoritarian power grabs to Andrew Neil’s nonsensical eulogy, the reaction to the Paris attacks proves that we haven’t learned from our past mistakes
Frankie Boyle · 5,837 views · 5 stars
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
The Left Is the New Right, the Right Is the Old Right
I didn’t pay much attention to Jordan Peterson when I first heard about him. The standard line on Peterson among liberals and leftists was that he is yet another right-wing hero of young, white men, but less extreme than those on the full-fledged alt-right. While this may be...
Vincent Kelley · 2,814 views · 4.8 stars
What is Freedom?
What is Freedom?
“Know the truth and the truth will set you free!” Freedom, a paradox of our world
Advaita Mihai Stoian · 1,652 views · 3.2 stars
The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation
The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation
The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and...
97 min · 14,539 views · 3.7 stars
The Next Time Someone Responds to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" Send Them This
The Next Time Someone Responds to "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" Send Them This
Imagine that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair...
GeekAesthete · 236,926 views · 4.7 stars
A Time For Prayer: An Exchange Between Christians And Muslims
A Time For Prayer: An Exchange Between Christians And Muslims
When I was first introduced to Islam several years ago, it amazed me how many teachings parall
Cynthia Ritchie · 441 views · unrated
Watch John Oliver Explain Perfectly Why You Should Hate FIFA
Watch John Oliver Explain Perfectly Why You Should Hate FIFA
John Oliver has for the second consecutive week issued a hilarious, brutal, and elucidatory rant about a galling but sometimes tedious issue. On last week’s episode of Oliver’s new HBO show Last Week Tonight, it was his brilliant takedown of the FCC’s newly...
13 min · 12,225 views · 5 stars
Exciting Fairs and Festivals of State of Rajasthan
Exciting Fairs and Festivals of State of Rajasthan
Colors and Rajasthan are one they cannot be separated.  Uncontrolled enjoyment is the part of Fairs and Festivals of Rajasthan. Here you will find the colors of all religion dissolving together to become one, which also shows that the Fairs and festivals unites people. Every...
Piyush Gupta · 194 views · unrated
Language Is Art
Language Is Art (2017)
Language is Art is a movie worth watching. Featuring over 600 people from all walks of life,  this documentary style film presents a creative exploration into issues commonly disregarded by the mainstream media. Topics include free energy, war, revolution, mind control, slave...
97 min · 421 views · unrated
BARE-HANDED - Clip #01 - Confession
BARE-HANDED - Clip #01 - Confession (trailer)
“I'm Mustafa and I'm currently imprisoned in the juvenile prison of Wiesbaden. Here in Germany you can't pray in peace, you are discriminated. I have met many recruiters myself. They say it's wonderful there, you can live according to your Islamic religion, you can fight for...
1 min · 91 views · unrated
Today I Marched
Today I Marched
Today I marched for Europe. I marched with babies in slings and buggies and toddlers on shoulders. I marched with teenagers and 20-somethings who bristled with betrayal. I marched with flat-capped socialists and hippies blowing bubbles. I marched with people in wheelchairs...
N Smith · 2,281 views · unrated
Time for a Tipping Point: the Power of the Panama Papers
Time for a Tipping Point: the Power of the Panama Papers
“There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant. This description of “metaphysical...
Megan Northey · 91 views · unrated
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and...
Unitarian Universalist Association · 311 views · unrated
Noam Chomsky - Values, Abortion, and Preserving Life
Noam Chomsky - Values, Abortion, and Preserving Life
In an edited interview from the Tony Kaye documentary "Lake of Fire", Chomsky is asked about decisions regarding the morality of abortion, and how individuals and society must take a hard look at specifics when discussing topics that deal with contradictory social values.
6 min · 988 views · 5 stars
Thomas Berry: The New Story
Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)
A video excerpt of Thomas Berry discussing his 1978 monograph entitled "The New Story" at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1984.
41 min · 2,204 views · unrated
Lost In Carranza
Lost In Carranza
In the night of October 12th 2015, Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love.
22 min · 8,843 views · 4 stars
Christian School Teacher Arrested After Speaking Out for Animal Rights at St Patrick's Easter Mass
Christian School Teacher Arrested After Speaking Out for Animal Rights at St Patrick's Easter Mass
#‎CF Organizer gets arrested for speaking out against the violent Easter tradition of eating the bodies of animals. Saint Patrick's Cathedral - New York St. Patrick's Cathedral For full op-ed please read: http://www.collective...
120 min · 87 views · unrated
The Oneness Is the Greatest - #SanctumBristol
The Oneness Is the Greatest - #SanctumBristol
A reflection on religion, spirituality, connection and destruction.
E Mizon · 951 views · 5 stars
Why Our Conversations About Paris Have Been Broken From the Start
Why Our Conversations About Paris Have Been Broken From the Start
The rush to fit the horrors of Paris into convenient neo-imperial narratives shows a disturbing lack of empathy
Zoe Samudzi · 22,284 views · 4.2 stars
Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice
Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice
In early September, a huge delegation of the Buddhist teacher and author Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's monks and nuns will arrive in New York City to lead retreats, book launches, and outdoor meditations and I will be driving from Baltimore to join them. In more than 20 years...
Marisela B. Gomez, MD, PhD · 2,101 views · 4 stars
Surviving Capitalist Depression
Surviving Capitalist Depression
We live in a toxic society filled with toxic people. Even the ones with the best hearts- including ourselves- have been raised in ignorance, with disinformation. Our examples of happiness are fake, sponsored, and used to sell products. Typical relationship standards...
Michael Emero · 26,687 views · 4.8 stars
The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)
The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)
We are in strife as a species because our theologies are all wrong. Fundamentalists and atheists alike, either proclaim or reject a supreme being who is separate from you, from me, and from the rest of creation. But the term "separate God" is an oxymoron. Any image of God...
Mark Ellison · 617 views · 5 stars
What Is The Ultimate Truth? - Russell Brand
What Is The Ultimate Truth? - Russell Brand
Russell Brand answers the question "What Is The Ultimate Truth?" 
2 min · 3,146 views · 4.5 stars
The Theft of Our Values
The Theft of Our Values
Upon what is so-called "Western civilization" based? What is a threat to it? What is not? We have been raised to believe that the very ideology that fought against Western values and advancements is actually responsible for them. Stop believing that lie.
40 min · 173 views · 4 stars
What Happened When Two Students, One Black and One White, Participated in a Peaceful Protest
What Happened When Two Students, One Black and One White, Participated in a Peaceful Protest
We are two students -- one black, one white -- at Union Theological Seminary, an institution historically and presently committed to fighting against injustice through faith and action. We were outraged by the non-indictment in the case of Eric Garner, which is only the most...
Rev. Shawn Torres and Benjamin Perry · 5,121 views · 5 stars
Spirituality and Mind-altering Substances
Spirituality and Mind-altering Substances
There is an inconvenient truth which countless politicians and religious leaders have tried time and time again to either ignore or deny; all human societies throughout history have had an app
Chris Breen · 501 views · unrated
The Founding Fathers, Jesus, and Rome
The Founding Fathers, Jesus, and Rome
There are many people who claim that the United States was founded as a "Christian Nation". They couldn't be more wrong. In fact the biggest influences were all pagan, Roman to be specific...
4 min · 228 views · unrated
Banished Catholic Priest Helps Abuse Survivor Recover
Banished Catholic Priest Helps Abuse Survivor Recover
Bob Hoatson was kicked out of his ministry when he spoke up too loudly against cover-ups of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. But then he found his true calling - working with survivors of clerical abuse.
2 min · 244 views · unrated
Forget Your Lines. What Do You Want to say?
Forget Your Lines. What Do You Want to say?
It takes courage to step away from the crowd and voice your own opinion, but the reward is there if your voice is the one the world needs to hear.
Sarah George · 84 views · unrated
The Social Status of Jesus
The Social Status of Jesus
Why wasn't Jesus a woman? Or Trans? Or disabled? - An article written from a Christian perspective.
Class unity · 1,233 views · 5 stars
Pope Francis: The Earth, Our Home, Is Beginning To Look Like An Immense Pile of Filth
Pope Francis: The Earth, Our Home, Is Beginning To Look Like An Immense Pile of Filth
An extract from Pope Francis’s 180 page encyclical on climate change, the environment and inequality
Pope Francis · 2,170 views · 4 stars
The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad
The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad
Unless you're on long retreat in a Himalayan cave, it's becoming more difficult to overlook the fact that our world is beset by interacting ecological, economic and social crises. Climate breakdown, species extinction, a dysfunctional economic system, corporate domination of...
David Loy · 10,991 views · 4.5 stars
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Embracing 'Radical Hope' in Our Fight to Save the Earth
Radical hope is not just about determination and courage in the face of darkness, writes Paul Hoggett - it is also about love and a re-finding of all that is benign in the world. And this is the spirit we need to muster to confront the serious challenges that lie before us.
Paul Hoggett · 3,208 views · 4.5 stars
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the "elitist theory of democracy" and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
99 min · 42,073 views · 4.6 stars
How to Die in Oregon (trailer)
How to Die in Oregon (trailer)
Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians...
3 min · 2,514 views · unrated
Politics of The Soul – A Manifest to The Modern World
Politics of The Soul – A Manifest to The Modern World
The ecology of the SOUL for an updated perspective on politics and politicians In the modern society, a
Advaita Mihai Stoian · 725 views · unrated
Seven Words That Can Change The World
Seven Words That Can Change The World (2012)
My life experiences have enabled me to have rich experiences in a broad range of fields: military officer (U.S. Army, artillery), professional sports (tennis), business (entrepreneur), politics (U.S. congressional candidate), architecture (masters degree), religion (Harvard...
79 min · 2,368 views · unrated
This Woman Broke A 3,000-Year-Old Glass Ceiling. No Wonder There Was Such A Firestorm.
This Woman Broke A 3,000-Year-Old Glass Ceiling. No Wonder There Was Such A Firestorm.
3,000 years of Orthodox Judaism and no female rabbi - until now. Sara faced a firestorm within the Jewish community in the Bronx, New York - and throughout the world - when she became a "Rabba."
2 min · 2,430 views · 2.7 stars
La charte des distractions
La charte des distractions
"The Charter of Distractions" proposes a critical view on the proposed bill 60 of the Parti Québécois, that is being discussed in the public space. The complexity of the many issues raised during the debate is explored by speakers affected in various ways by the draft Charter.
52 min · 3,587 views · 3.5 stars
He's A Muslim Cleric Who Condemns Anti-Semitism. But That's Just The First Surprise In His Story.
He's A Muslim Cleric Who Condemns Anti-Semitism. But That's Just The First Surprise In His Story.
He's the imam of a town in France that once deported Jews. That history - and his own humanity - makes Imam Hassen Chalghoumi speak out against fanaticism. This is the voice of reformist clerics that we've all been waiting to hear.
2 min · 953 views · unrated
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer)
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer)
NEURONS TO NIRVANA is a feature documentary about the resurgence of psychedelics as medicine. Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, the film explores the history of five powerful psychedelic...
2 min · 5,566 views · 3.8 stars
Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions
Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions
Why do pantheists believe in pantheism? What's the evidence for pantheism? How do you know the universe is worthy of reverence? If I accept
Paul Harrison · 51,934 views · 4.7 stars
Eternal Fascism and the Southern Ideology
Eternal Fascism and the Southern Ideology
Umberto Eco's 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism" informally outlines the most striking qualities of fascistic theory and practice. It remains one of the most popular tool-kits for intellectuals in discovering where the barbarity of fascism might once again materialize
Jeremy Brunger · 1,321 views · 4 stars
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal
When you take a moment and look around at the world, things can appear pretty messed up. Take 5 or 10 minutes and watch the 6 o’clock news. Chances are, the entire time, all you are going to see is war, conflict, death, illness, etc. Sure, this is part of the mainstream...
Joe Martino · 99,088 views · 4.4 stars
Hate On The Rise: Could a So Called 'Religious Freedom' Bill Become Law in North Carolina?
Hate On The Rise: Could a So Called 'Religious Freedom' Bill Become Law in North Carolina?
Could North Carolina become the next Indiana or the next Arizona when it comes to a so-called "religious freedom" bill? This week, Republican Rep. Paul Stam (R-Apex) filed a bill similar to 20 others in the nation and modeled on the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration...
3 min · 82 views · unrated