Ever question your spiritual assumptions? It can be a daunting prospect as a newly selected pontiff discovers in the new Italian comedy, "We Have a Pope." Read more about it in my latest VividLife review, Spiritual assumptions challenged in 'We Have a Pope', available by clicking here. And to find out more about the movie, click here.

We like to think we're on top of our perceptive abilities, but are they all they can be? Can we improve them to help us more effectively create the reality we experience? Find out more by reading Supercharging the Power of Perception, my latest FengSHe post, available by clicking here.An exciting change is coming to FengSHe in the near future, too, when the site adopts its new name, Master Heart Magazine. To find out more about the organization that inspired this change, click here.

Hopes and fears -- two staples behind the beliefs driving our existence. They also provide the basis of the narrative of a new movie blockbuster. Read more about it in Hopes, fears probed in 'The Hunger Games', my latest VividLife post, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the movie, click here.

Spring has sprung, a time of new beginnings. Make the most of it by reading Rebirth and the Pregnancy of Possibilities, my latest post at www.FengSHe.org.

"Game Change" (2012, TV). Cast: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Peter MacNicol, Jamey Sheridan, Sarah Paulson, David Barry Gray, Austin Pendleton, Alex Hyde-White. Director: Jay Roach. Teleplay: Danny Strong. Book: Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. http://www.hbo.com/movies/game-change/Creating a reality that lives up to our hopes and expectations starts with the formation of beliefs and intents that honor those hopes and expectations with honesty and integrity. However, when we allow those reality-generating elements to go astray, we can set ourselves up for disappointment and disillusionment. Such was apparently the case with the 2008 Republican presidential campaign, as portrayed in the new made-for-cable docudrama, "Game Change," now [...]

Several weeks ago, I posted a blog about what to expect out of this year's Oscars, including my projected winners and my picks on who I thought deserved to win. So how'd I do? Here's a wrap-up.I correctly picked the winners of best picture ("The Artist"), best director (Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"), best supporting actor (Christopher Plummer, "Beginners") and actress (Octavia Spencer, "The Help"), best original screenplay (Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"), and best foreign language film ("A Separation"). I also correctly picked the winner for best original song (no one cares, and the Oscar broadcast's lampooning presentation of the award, I believe, says it all).And my misses? I didn't pick the winner in the best actress category (Meryl Streep, [...]

Think you've got the answer you're looking for about a particular dilemma? Are you sure? Maybe you need to go deeper than you thought. Find out more about this in my latest FengShe post, Getting to the Heart of the Heart of the Matter, now available by clicking here.

Think the recession is just about money? In actuality, it has as much to do with human nature and conscious creation as it does with economics, as the Oscar-nominated movie "Margin Call" helps illustrate. Read more about this in my latest VividLife post, 'Margin Call' dissects the financial meltdown with keen precision, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the movie, click here.

How do we see ourselves and what we want out of life, and do those perceptions limit or inspire us? Such ideas are among those explored in Dreams, preconceptions, identity under review in 'Albert Nobbs', my latest VividLife post, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the film, click here.

How much power is there in an apology and its subsequent acceptance? Find out in the inspiring documentary "Fambul Tok," the subject of my latest VividLife review, 'Fambul Tok' reveals the power of forgiveness, available by clicking here. And to find out more about the film, click here.