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Resurrecting the Champ (DVD)
Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Hartnett, Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Alan Alda, …
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R18
Discovery Miles 180
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Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson star in this drama about a
journalist whose life changes after he writes an article about a
homeless man who was once a boxing legend. Reporter Erik Kernan Jr.
(Hartnett) finds the opportunity to prove himself to his boss (Alan
Alda) and his family by writing a heartfelt piece about a former
professional boxer (Jackson) who has since fallen into homelessness
and destitution and now spends his days raking through the rubbish
bins of Denver. Writing the article leads to a soul-searching
personal journey for Erik as he finds himself re-examining his own
past and his relationship with his family.
Reveals how to use masks, meditation, and improvisation to free
yourself from overthinking, self-doubt, and fixed ideas of who you
think you are Sharing a series of mindfulness techniques and acting
exercises that show how malleable the self can be, award-winning
actor, narrator, and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote reveals how
to use masks, meditation, and improvisation to free yourself from
fixed ideas of who you think you are and help you release your ego
from constant defensive strategizing, calm the mind's overactivity,
and allow spontaneous playfulness to arise out of your deepest
nature. Developed through 40 years of research and personal study,
Coyote's synthesis of mask-based improv games and Zen practices is
specifically designed to create an ego-suppressed state akin to the
mystical experiences of meditation or the spiritual awakenings of
psychedelics. After preparatory exercises, seeing yourself in a
mask will temporarily displace your familiar self and the spirit of
the mask will take over. Likening the liberated state induced by
mask work to "Enlightenment-lite," Coyote draws on Buddhist
philosophy to describe how and why the exercises work as well as
how to make your newly awakened and confident self part of daily
life. In true Zen form, woven throughout the narrative is a
lighthearted parable of an out-of-work Lone Ranger and Tonto, who
meet Buddha and experience spiritual awakening. Illuminating the
lessons of mask work, the transformation of the Lone Ranger mirrors
that of the individual pursuing this practice, revealing how you
will come to realize that the world is more magical and vaster than
you thought possible.
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston and raised on secular Judaism,
Cocoa Puffs, and Gilligan's Island, Peter Bebergal was barely in
his teens when the ancient desire to finding higher spiritual
meaning in the universe struck. Already schooled in mysticism by
way of comic books, Dungeons & Dragons, and Carlos Castaneda,
he turned to hallucinogens, convinced they would provide a path to
illumination. Was this profound desire for God--a god he believed
that could only be apprehended by an extreme state of altered
consciousness--simply a side effect of the drugs? Or was it a
deeper human longing that was manifesting itself, even on a country
club golf course at the edge of a strip mall? Too Much to Dream
places Bebergal's story within the cultural history of
hallucinogens, American fascination with mysticism, and the complex
relationship between drug addiction, popular culture, rock 'n'
roll, occultism, and psychology. With a captivating foreword by
Peter Coyote, and interviews with writers, artists, and
psychologists such as Dennis McKenna, James Fadima, Arik Roper, Jim
Woodring, and Mark Tulin, Bebergal offers a groundbreaking
exploration of drugs, religion, and the craving for spirituality
entrenched in America's youth.
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