This weekend thousands around world are enjoying premiere of sensational new feature film, Indigo. Following in footsteps of films like What Bleep, Indigo is already creating an excitement that’s spreading like wildfire.

It’s not often I recommend to you anything not directly related to my work with Chief Joseph. And then only if I believe what I’m recommending is of highest quality and integrity. The Spiritual Cinema Circle fits that requirement perfectly.

I heartily endorse The Spiritual Cinema Circle, as I know it will make a huge difference in your life. It already has in mine.

Membership in The Spiritual Cinema Circle is growing at an incredible rate. You'll see why when you take a peek at it.

Please read on for a special message from Stephen Simon, producer of films Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come. Stephen is also producer and director of Indigo, and co-founder of The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

In Joy, John

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Greetings,

Before now, hardly anyone got to see best movies made each year. Now, by joining The Spiritual Cinema Circle, you'll see movies that will warm your heart, expand your mind, and stir your soul -- without leaving home.

I invite you to join me, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, James Tywman, Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, Sylvia Browne, and others in a very special program: The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

The program is very simple!

Here's how it works:

Each month you receive 3 to 5 features and shorts on DVD. The movies are personally selected by me and my team. These movies represent best of spiritual cinema and art.

The movies are new films you're unlikely to see anywhere else.

The DVDs are yours to keep. You don't have to return them. In fact, you're encouraged to share them with friends and family, to help broaden worldwide Spiritual Cinema community.

The cost of service is kept deliberately low, so maximum number of people can participate. If you join now, instead of regular $29 fee, you pay new member rate of only $21 per month (plus $2.95 shipping, and a bit more outside USA).

There's no risk -- you may cancel your membership any time. And remember, you never have to return any of your DVDs, even if you cancel your membership.

If, like me, you love movies, but you find it harder and harder to go to theaters because of violence, emptiness, and overall lack of quality and imagination that most of current crop represents, The CIRCLE is a wonderful opportunity.

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Did You Enjoy WHALERIDER or WHAT THE BLEEP?

I loved these films, and felt grateful that so many people got to enjoy them. There are many films as beautiful as WHALERIDER and as thought-provoking as WHAT THE BLEEP made each year, but almost nobody gets to see them.

Remember how you felt when you saw FIELD OF DREAMS, GHOST or TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY? I want you to see hidden treasures, films that are just as moving as those classics of spiritual cinema.

As a result of my connections in film industry and my talks at film festivals and venues around world, every year I get to see wonderful movies that hardly anybody else gets to enjoy. I'm not exaggerating when I say that some of best movies made every year go virtually unseen.

The major distributors won't touch most heartfelt, soul-satisfying movies because they don't think there's enough money in it for them. Even independent distributors often overlook quality films.

Remember, mainstream movie business literally runs as much on popcorn sales as ticket sales. Big, violent action movies bring in audiences that eat those huge $7 boxes of popcorn and those 32-ounce $4 cups of soft drinks. That's why theater owners want these movies, and that's why Hollywood makes them.

The movies you'll see as a member of The CIRCLE are made with love and passion. They're not made to sell popcorn.

It may seem incredible to those who do not know that Churchians created Devil as a means of keeping their flock in fear - who also think Devil is a Pagan concept. The fear of death was not a Keltic concept and they weren't moved to assign all their wealth to some rich church when they approached death in order to avoid joining Devil. Some Christian fundamentalists sell idea that age of rocks was a way that Devil sought to lead Christians astray and these same people would have you teach your children "Rock of Ages" has more veracity than geology that proves we've had a long time on this earth to develop and learn what kind of Divine soul we are blessed with.

ASIATIC LAWS OF UNIVERSALITY IN THE 'STUPAS':

In other books I have explored Dolmen and Round Towers of ancient megalith Builders which resemble symbolism of Man as represented in steeple. They are part of era after truly great megaliths were built in places like Stonehenge and Poverty Point. The real meaning behind form and structure may be similar though. Mircae Eliade was one of Eranos Conference attendees with Jung and Campbell who I draw much insight from, in my studies. His scholarship is open and elucidative for me and I sincerely hope reader will enjoy taking a journey with him to Barabudur. It is not easy for those of us in present intellect-focused or faith oriented theology to integrate all aspects of how we might learn. Perhaps a simple suggestion to leave all preconceptions aside will suffice. So take off your 'thinking caps' and put your heart and soul on front burner while rose-coloured glasses of ego or faith diminish into distance.

"On subject of Barabudur, famous temple on island of Java and most beautiful monument in Asia, whole libraries have been written. Purely technical explanations have been attempted taking account only of laws of architecture; endless controversies have been joined over religious and magical meanings hidden in that colossal monument. Dutch Orientalists and architects have published over past fifteen years books of great value on Barabudur. The names of Krom, Van Erp, and Stutterheim must be mentioned. The last of these, in a work of 1927, laid foundation for a true interpretation of temple: 'Barabudur is nothing less than a symbolic representation of Universe'. From this intuition Paul Mus's investigations start. The beginning of his book consists of a history of controversy, an exposition of principle hypotheses, and a critique of methods. Examined in turn are theories of most illustrious India specialists, art historians and architects. Then Mus undertakes to discuss problem. It must be remembered that this gigantic volume is preceded by an 'avant-propos' of 302 pages in which author establishes validity of his methodology. In order to justify symbolic function of Javanese temple, Mus emphasizes a truth often remarked by Orientalists: that if Buddha was not represented iconographically for several centuries, it was not due to incapability on part of Indian artists, but to fact that a type of representation superior to images was essayed. 'That would not have been a defeat of plastic art, but rather triumph of a magical art.' When an iconography of Buddha was adopted, symbolism was poor by comparison. The 'aniconic symbol' of Enlightenment (the wheel, etc.) was much more powerful, more 'pure', than statue. Ananda Coomaraswamy also has published evidence for this thesis in his 'Elements of Buddhist Iconography'. (12) The conclusion to be drawn from this is that Buddhists, as well as Hindus (and Asians in general) {As well as Sauk Indians we showed are from area of Great Wall and were Buddhists before loss of magic represented by change to graven images or iconography.} before Buddhism, used symbolism more effectively, precisely because symbol was more comprehensive and 'Active' in magical sense than plastic representation. If Buddha was considered to be a god (as he was, in fact, immediately after his demise), then his magical 'presence' was preserved in anything emanating from him." (13)