If you are like millions of us out there, your investigation of your inner spirituality began with books and scriptures and other descriptions of the spiritual life. Yet what you already know somewhere inside you--and what I believe will be looked upon as the grand insight of our time--is that spirituality is first and foremost a set of elusive and transcendent experiences.
Descriptions are important, and we can look back and appreciate thousands of key testimonies by the mystics of every religion. They after all get our attention, open the door of interest, and tell us what to expect. They take us to the brink, one might say, but in the end we all have to walk though the door ourselves, and open up personally to the real thing.
When we contemplated how to make the Celestine Prophecy Movie, we knew we wanted to show as much of this direct experience as possible in the way only live action cinema can do. In movies, one can not only show emotional looks and reactions in real life situations, one can also to some degree show how characters learn to see the world differently--in our case, how their actual perception changes as a result of a deeper spiritual awareness they've discovered.
You'll notice right away that this movie is different. View it as a typical adventure and you&quo;ll see it all at one level, but begin to feel it, first with the music, and by grasping what the characters are sensing intuitively, and you'll see what I mean. It's one thing to go on a search for a lost scroll. It's quite another to perceive a whole set of enhanced perceptions and intuitive ability that comes from a deeper spiritual consciousness.
If you believe we need a new world view, one that cherishes our best spiritual traditions --but at the same time takes them to a deeper level--we believe this movie is for you. |
