SAMSARA: The Movie

[RMorgan]

Thanks Bill,

I´ll watch it this weekend.

If it´s from the director of Baraka, which is one of the best movies of this style along with the Qatsi trilogy, it surely must be an outstanding visual experience.

Cheers,

Raf.

[aranuk]

My server is Virgin Media and it has banned that torrent site. Boo hoo.

Stan

[InCiDeR]

Posted by aranuk (here)
My server is Virgin Media and it has banned that torrent site. Boo hoo.

Stan

Would this help if you go via this site?

http://www.hidemyass.com/


EDIT: Otherwise I might upload it to a place where everyone can "borrow" it.

[WhiteFeather]

Hey Bill. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from this movie. Try and Stay in this Bliss you have felt. And not be distracted by the daily disturbances if any by living in 3d. Sounds like you have touched Utopia or New Earth my friend. Watching it now.

Peace

W.f.

[RunningDeer]

Thanks, Bill. I'm downloading now.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I watched it last night. At once multi-sensory, beautiful, impactful and disturbing. I may say more a little further down this thread, because I woke up still thinking about it, and the dust has not yet settled.

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Hey Bill. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from this movie. Try and Stay in this Bliss you have felt.

Actually, I really didn't feel bliss at all. I found it quite disturbing.

Some of the beautiful natural images were simply breathtaking (mostly towards the first quarter of the movie). Then it got more 'real' -- a deliberate contrast by the director -- and I was left thinking:

Jeez, we'll never fix this place. It all needs to come down. ALL of it.
Then we can rebuild.

[DeDukshyn]

Thanks for the torrent link.


A comment on your above comment here Bill. I learned in the Landmark Forum; you can't fix major problems. They must be thoroughly removed to allow a proper plan to take it's place.

A solution that references a problem is always created around the problem. But ... I think I'm preaching to the converted

[ghostrider]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I watched it last night. At once multi-sensory, beautiful, impactful and disturbing. I may say more a little further down this thread, because I woke up still thinking about it, and the dust has not yet settled.

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Hey Bill. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from this movie. Try and Stay in this Bliss you have felt.

Actually, I really didn't feel bliss at all. I found it quite disturbing.

Some of the beautiful natural images were simply breathtaking (mostly towards the first quarter of the movie). Then it got more 'real' -- a deliberate contrast by the director -- and I was left thinking:

Jeez, we'll never fix this place. It all needs to come down. ALL of it.
Then we can rebuild.

I wrestle with that thought every day, the only fix, is bring it all down, start over , and have smart people in leadership , instead of rich people, everyone works for the good of everyone, everyone doing what they naturally are gifted to do as their job, working for the collective , in return the things they need are taken care of ... war, hunger, the homeless, all gone... our climate and our planet takes presedence over everything ...

[Bill Ryan]

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Yes. Members following my posts over time will know that I've often said (usually in response to someone's voiced 'Ascension' hope) -- Look, you need to travel in India and Africa, and then you can see the reality on this planet.

This film does that for the viewer. (And adds China into the mix, as well.) You really get it.

Like: Wow -- what a screwup this place is. A stupendously beautiful, stupendously tragic, really-mixed-grab-bag of an immense godawful screwup.

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by ghostrider (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I watched it last night. At once multi-sensory, beautiful, impactful and disturbing. I may say more a little further down this thread, because I woke up still thinking about it, and the dust has not yet settled.

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Hey Bill. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from this movie. Try and Stay in this Bliss you have felt.

Actually, I really didn't feel bliss at all. I found it quite disturbing.

Some of the beautiful natural images were simply breathtaking (mostly towards the first quarter of the movie). Then it got more 'real' -- a deliberate contrast by the director -- and I was left thinking:

Jeez, we'll never fix this place. It all needs to come down. ALL of it.
Then we can rebuild.

I wrestle with that thought every day, the only fix, is bring it all down, start over , and have smart people in leadership , instead of rich people, everyone works for the good of everyone, everyone doing what they naturally are gifted to do as their job, working for the collective , in return the things they need are taken care of ... war, hunger, the homeless, all gone... our climate and our planet takes presedence over everything ...

If one thinks from the perspective of the whole of humanity as opposed to an individual point of view, it is hard to not come to this realization. Something I accepted already. If it needs to come down to get fixed, give me a pry bar and sledgehammer ...

[Billy]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Then we can rebuild.[/I]

Did you not know that you are already rebuilding Bill.

[Harley]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
and I was left thinking:

Jeez, we'll never fix this place. It all needs to come down. ALL of it.
Then we can rebuild.

This may sound sad, but it's been on my mind more and more as each day passes by.

The human race has been hinted to and/or warned about this throughout history (present incarnation) and yet the race has chosen to ignore it.

"We have been tested and found wanting. [...] and now the reckoning is at hand." - Victor

"Sometimes to create, one must first destroy" - Prometheus

And hundreds more could be cited here.

According to the records the human race has been restarted many times. And judging from what I see the present iteration is still far from what we should be.

Sorry to say.

Edit to add:

Posted by DeDukshyn (here)
I learned in the Landmark Forum; you can't fix major problems. They must be thoroughly removed to allow a proper plan to take it's place.

Exactly

[mosquito]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Wow -- what a screwup this place is. A stupendously beautiful, stupendously tragic, really-mixed-grab-bag of an immense godawful screwup.[/I]

With 30 countries under my belt, a variety of jobs in and out of the rat race, a wide range of salaries (and therefore different economic perspectives) to boot, I can safely say that the above statement sums it all up nicely.

After writing that, I just went to have a look out of my window while contemplating our situation. I saw the neighbour's cat and dog playing together - why oh why can't we just get back to the simple things, like having fun with each other, helping, co-operating, supporting ? It's not that bloody hard is it ?!

[jagman]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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Yes. Members following my posts over time will know that I've often said (usually in response to someone's voiced 'Ascension' hope) -- Look, you need to travel in India and Africa, and then you can see the reality on this planet.

This film does that for the viewer. (And adds China into the mix, as well.) You really get it.

Like: Wow -- what a screwup this place is. A stupendously beautiful, stupendously tragic, really-mixed-grab-bag of an immense godawful screwup.

Good to see, you still have passion.Bill

[gripreaper]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
I wonder if anyone has seen SAMSARA, the visually stunning 2012 documentary by Ron Fricke.

My torrent XBMC says Samsara was done in 2001? Starts with three dancers and then a volcano?

[edit to add] Wikipedia says 2011

[GlassSteagallfan]

Here it is in 2 parts: (and maybe a few pop-ups)

http://cosmos-documentaries.blogspot...tary-film.html

[Houman]

well... the full movie is here
http://www.letmewatchthis.ch/externa...29t&loggedin=0

[bennycog]

The message that was actually sent into space was the Arecibo message.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

1.The numbers one (1) to ten (10)
2.The atomic numbers of the elements hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus, which make up deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
3.The formulas for the sugars and bases in the nucleotides of DNA
4.The number of nucleotides in DNA, and a graphic of the double helix structure of DNA
5.A graphic figure of a human, the dimension (physical height) of an average man, and the human population of Earth
6.A graphic of the Solar System
7.A graphic of the Arecibo radio telescope and the dimension (the physical diameter) of the transmitting antenna dish


" there is also the golden records on Voyager 1 and 2 "



http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.

"scenes from earth"
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/scenes.html
"greetings from earth"
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html
"music from earth"
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html
"and finally sounds from earth"
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sounds.html

Imagine if they had their decisions to make all over again..
We could add..
" wealth of earth"

"the spread of healthy lifestyle and living on earth"



" stage of earth "


could keep going and going.. but I still love the most beautiful thing we have here

[christian]

I'm sure this is a great movie, just like Baraka, Chronos, and the Qatsi trilogy. I used to describe them as documentaries about humanity in the style that resembles animal documentaries. You can't hear them speaking and there's little to no narration, but the images are so powerful.

In regard to how messed up this whole place is and how to deal with that... Well, I don't intend to analyze every last document that has been produced in this system... It's cancerous. It's like a balancing act between removing and understanding it.

In the bigger pictures, I have no worries whatsoever, I'm absolutely sure that all the big and small events that bring about change will unfold most magnificiently—because there's an army of light warriors focused on that.

And just because Samsara and this whole talk of getting rid of the old and started with the new gives me goosebumps, here's more material for that...

Some say it was a warning
Some say it was a sign
I was standing right there
When it came down from the sky
The way it spoke to us
We felt it from inside
Said it was up to us
Up to us to decide

You've become a virus
That's eating up its host
We've been watching you with all of our eyes
And what you seem to value most
"So much potential" or so we used to say
Your greed, self-importance, and your arrogance
You piss it all away

We heard a cry
We've come to intervene
You will change your ways and you will make amends
Or we will wipe this place clean

Your time is tick-tick-ticking away...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X3Gq1iLd7jg

[Timreh]

I took a close friend to see it at an independent cinema here in Sydney a few months ago.. the cinema was completely packed, knowing how incredible Baraka was I assured her she would love it!

She was in for a suprise..

After ten or fifteen minutes she stood up in tears, deeply distressed and left, I soon followed to comfort her.
Had I been alone I may have stayed to see it through but what I did see was very disappointing and nowhere near the magnificence of Baraka.
Maybe that was my mistake? Expecting something of that caliber to be reproduced?
I appreciate the story it may have been trying to portray but to me it was poorly done, I found it had no coherence, like a jigsaw puzzle scattered all over the floor
Graphic and depressing can be ok to tell a story.. If it works!

The coherence issue aside what I did see depicted life rather accurately.