Year: 2012

Think you know who you are? Are you sure? Find out by reading my latest VividLife post, ‘Total Recall’ challenges notions of identity, reality, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the movie, click here. Photo by Michael Gibson, courtesy of Columbia Pictures ...

Have you ever seen your dreams literally come to life? It can be a truly eye-opening experience and in more ways than one. To find out more, read my latest VividLife post, ‘Ruby Sparks’ explores the power to create, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the film, click here ...

Happy Second Anniversary, Master Heart Magazine! Congratulations on your monthly delivery of thoughtful, enlightening and informative content on the web! All the best on your “Best of Master Heart” issue this month, and thanks for reposting my submission, Integrity as a Way of Being, available by clicking here.New to Master Heart? Take a few minutes to check out the site’s August vlog by clicking here, featuring a celebration of Master Heart’s many talented and committed contributors. And be sure to click on the tab on the site’s home page to find out how to receive its free, downloadable ebook, HeartWorks.All the best for many more years of great content! ...

In a world beset by peril, resolving the prevailing issues depends on those stepping up who possess the requisite qualities for tackling them. Find out more about those attributes in my latest VividLife post, Choice, hope, service themes drive ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the movie, click here ...

Getting our intellect and intuition in order is essential to properly manifest the reality we desire. Find out more about this in my latest Master Heart Magazine post, “Conscious Creation’s Balancing Act,” available by clicking here. And be sure to check out Master Heart’s latest vlog on this month’s theme, Balance, available by clicking here ...

“We Need to Talk About Kevin” (2011). Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell, Rock Duer, Ashley Gerasimovich. Director: Lynne Ramsay. Screenplay: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear. Book: Lionel Shriver. http://kevin.oscilloscope.net/ Many practitioners of conscious creation (also known as the law of attraction) like to believe that it’s a purely positive force aimed only at improving the state of mankind. And, to be sure, it can be employed to work wondrous miracles. However, as those who are well-acquainted with it know, conscious creation is essentially a force based on one’s mindset, which essentially means that it can be put to use for manifesting our existence for better or worse, depending on the beliefs driving one’s worldview. A film that frankly and expertly explores this notion from conscious creation’s “dark” side is the gripping drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” now available on DVD and Blu-ray disk. Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton) is struggling to put her life back together after “the incident.” The once-successful travel writer now works as a file clerk in a travel agency and lives a dismal existence, haunted by the tragic events of her past. As for what got Eva to where she ...