Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

From Microcosm to Macrocosm - Complete Documentary

Well it is Sunday once again. A day when religious fanatics all over the world get a bit holier than on any other day of the week. Here at AStv we also like to set this day aside to examine the mysterious realm of spirituality. We at AStv do NOT adhere to any specific religious pratices or any certain spiritual beliefs, but would rather present different beliefs and practices throughout the world for you to examine for yourself.

So without any further ado we bring you..
From Microcosm to Macrocosm - the Complete Documentary.




One-hour documentary Maurice and the Pharaoh The Bucaille Report.
Written, produced and directed by Farouq Abdul-Aziz.
A M a n a r a Communications Inc., release (2010).

From the airport, the mummy had been transferred to the Museum of Anthropology for "hospitalization" and examination. On June 29, 1977, Paris Match reported that the truck containing the packing case and its occupant was ordered to pass by one of his two Luxor obelisks at the Place de la Concorde "so that the ancient monarch's soul could contemplate his glory inscribed on the stone in dithyrambic terms."
For Bucaille that was a crowning moment. A yield of two grueling years, aided by presidents Sadat and DEstaing, to launch Operation Ramses has finally materialized.

The outcome of Bucailles team work on the Egyptian mummies was made public in lectures at the Egyptian Antiquities Department at the Louvre, the Museum of Human Paleontology and at the French Academy of Medicine. In appreciation of his scientific findings the Academie Francaise had awarded Bucailles book Mummies of the Pharaohs; Modern Medical Investigations its 1988 History Prize. The Academie Nationale de Medicine had held Bucaille in high esteem for the bulk of his scientific contributions in 1991. Bucailles final scientific contribution was published in his book; Moses and Pharaoh: Hebrews in Egypt in 1995.
It seemed that a scientific answer to the ancient question has finally come into existence.


Sunday, November 21, 2010

What is an empath, and are you one?


An empath is someone who picks up on the emotions and / or feelings around them. It may be the feelings of someone they are close to. It might be the general feelings in a room or even when there is a very strong emotion around the world, such as fear.






Have you ever been feeling good, but suddenly, for no apparent reason, you experience a drop in your emotions? This might be due to a friend or partner dropping in their emotions and you are picking up on this. This is a sympathetic attachment, and it's not unusual for someone to feel down or depressed in sympathy with another. Unfortunately, it's not healthy, either.

Many, like myself, who pick up feelings like a sponge, tend to do so because they are ungrounded. This means, part of them does not want to actually be here on this planet,  and so their spirit is 'out there' rather than in their body. This becomes a vicious cycle, as the more ungrounded you are, the more negativity you can pick up, and the less you wish to return to your body.

Empaths often suffer greatly because they do not understand what is happening to them. I know that as a youth, when I first began to take notice of my empathic capabilities, that I was confused by what I was experiencing and FEELING. They, like myself at the time, are not aware that their feelings are not their own. They do not understand why they are feeling depressed, anxious, desponded, etc, and rarely will they actually connect it to others.

Most high level empaths are prone to clinical depression and are prone to take on the problems and pain of others, as a way of lessining it. This is dangerous and unhealthy for the empath.

Many are driven by feelings of guilt, feeling bad if they feel good, and others don't. They will attempt to match their moods in order to show solidarity and sympathy, however, this ends up making things worse for both you and the one you are trying to console.

Being an empath doesn't have to be all bad, though. It can be a very powerful and potent tool for connecting with others and helping them to heal. It can also bring an incredible amount of joy if you are able to control it.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Death. (a short documentary)

Death is the termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. The word refers both to the particular processes of life's cessation as well as to the condition or state of a formerly living body.




The nature of death has been for millennia a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry, and belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth has been a central aspect of religious belief. In modern scientific enquiry, the origin and nature of consciousness has yet to be fully understood; any such view about the existence or non-existence of consciousness after death therefore remains speculative. This short, independant documentary explores what people think about the subject of death.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

That Jesus Guy (2007)

Director Sean Tracey traces the enigmatic odyssey of the anonymous, barefoot preacher known as The Jesus Guy.





Some say he’s a kook. Others, a blessing from God. Clad in a white robe, he’s walked through 47 states [and 13 countries] on a 16-year mission that’s captured media attention from 20/20, Time and the Wall Street Journal. Yet who is this solitary figure who inspires faith and attracts controversy?

Director Sean Tracey traces the enigmatic odyssey of the anonymous, barefoot preacher known as The Jesus Guy. With the intimacy of single-camera filmmaking, we walk in his steps as he encounters both skeptics and believers, changing themfor better, for worse, forever.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Religion and Spirituality (The Burning Times Documentary)

This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film advances the theory that widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.






This was one of our darkest periods, one that brought out the very worst in people -- our morbid sadistic bloodthirst that thrilled in the power of life and death over others -- and it is, I think, fair to say that we still struggle with this now. Perhaps we always did. Even today, almost all women live with a distinct but unarticulated fear and uncertainty of their place in society, but perhaps in understanding what happened to bring that about -- that it was a specific series of events that really happened, and her fear is that awful legacy -- women may come to feel less isolated and more willing to move past that fear to find their own sense of purpose that they define for themselves. If this video plays any positive part in that, I am very happy for it.