Experience Conscious Cinema in Sacred Sedona

The mystical red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, will provide the beautiful backdrop for 22 inspirational and thought-provoking films that will be screened at the Illuminate Film Festival from May 25 – 31.

Featuring Emma Thompson’s “Sold”, Paulo Coelho’s “The Pilgrim,” and the Timothy Leary/Ram Dass documentary “Dying to Know,” the festival will give audiences an opportunity to ponder their existence, experience radical transformation and access some of the leaders in the emerging genre of conscious cinema.

Festival highlights include Landfill Harmonic, Plant Pure Nation, On Meditation 2 and appearances by Immaculée Ilibagiza, featured in “Power of the Heart,” actress Gillian Anderson and more. 

Science of Mind magazine is a proud media sponsor of the five days of life-affirming, evocative and engaging cinematic works. For more information, visit illuminatefilmfestival.com

How Hollywood Paved
the Way for the Rise of Conscious Film
—Miguel Montoya

What do “Shawshank Redemption” “Forest Gump,” “Avatar,” “Contact,” and The Pursuit of Happyness” have in common? Yes, they are big hits. Yes, they have A-list stars. But those aren’t their most important features. Think back to when you first watched each film. How did you feel when you exited the theater? Were you elated? Loving? Hopeful? If so, then you’ve just received a dose of consciousness! Most would agree that these films fit the bill as heart-opening gems, but with one kicker — these films get you stoked about living! Who can forget Morgan Freeman’s character Red uttering the now-immortalized line, “You either get busy livin’ or you get busy dying”? These films are but a few in the genre of “conscious films” that change lives, inspire choices, and elevate human consciousness. READ MORE

You Are Now Entering an Unenlightened Zone
—Scott Stabile

I used to want to be enlightened more than anything else. It’s what mattered the most to me. I spent years working with a spiritual teacher and hours and hours and hours of time talking and thinking about enlightenment. It was my main goal, the only end result I cared about.

Not anymore. READ MORE

We Are Allowed to Choose
—Ernest Holmes

Man has the ability to choose what he will do with his life, and is unified with a Law which automatically produces his choice. While he does not have the ability to destroy the idea of himself, he does have the ability to deface it, to make it appear discordant, but he cannot destroy the Divine Image. Man is an individual and does with himself what he wills.

The Scriptures say: “God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” Individuality cannot be automatically produced; it must be spontaneous. It would not be individuality without the ability to think as it chose. We live in a Universe of Love as well as a Universe of Law. One is the complement of the other – the Universe of Love pulsating with feeling, with emotion, and the Universe of Law, the Executor of all feeling and all emotion. In this lesson on healing, then, let us remember that back of the man which we see is the Divine Image. There is a Perfect Concept of Man, held in the Mind of the Universe as an already accomplished fact, but man is subject to the law of his own choice.

Ernest Holmes,“The Science of Mind” Definitive edition, page 195.

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