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Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so Jane hopes. Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American police detective. There are witnesses, but they can recall almost nothing of the events, as though their...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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日本語
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How does one integrate lessons learned from nature in daily life? This feature documentary is an experiential journey into the mystical practices of Japanese mountain asceticism. In Shugendō (the way of acquiring power), practitioners perform ritual actions from shamanism, "Shintō," Daoism, and Tantric Buddhism. They seek experiential truth of the teachings during arduous climbs in sacred mountains. Through the peace and beauty of the natural...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Russian
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Long suppressed by missionaries and then by Soviet anti-religious campaigns, Siberian shamanism has experienced an unprecedented revival following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the number of shamans continues to rise. But who are these new shamans? Are they tricksters, magicians, businessmen, or cultural activists?
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Once brutally persecuted under the Soviet regime, Buddhism is back in Buryatia in Southern Siberia. But with a past where lamas were killed in prisons and temples burned to ashes, there are few masters left to pass on the tradition.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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日本語
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Ms. Taki Kudo says she has been able to connect with deities since she was six or seven years old. Even in modern Japan, mediums like Ms. Kudo are in demand, providing such traditional services as expelling a curse and invoking spirits for health and long life.
7) The bow
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Korean
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A crusty old man and a beautiful young girl live on a fishing boat, which has been floating at sea for over 10 years. The old man plans to marry the 16-year-old on her next birthday, and counts the days down on his calendar. In addition to the girl, the old man also cherishes his bow, which he uses predominantly as a weapon to fight off would-be admirers of his lovely shipmate. However, the bow is also a useful device for shamanistic fortune-telling...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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日本語
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Filmed between 1991 and 1997, Taki Kudo, Shamanic Medium of Tsugaru documents the final years of the charismatic Ms. Taki Kudo, a medium, healer and fortune teller. Every year she comes to Japan's sacred Mt. Osorozan, home of the Akakura grand shrine, where the mediums draw chopsticks for the best places to set up their booths.
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978 many more cremations than usual were carried out because of the great purification cermony, Eka Dasa Rudra, held at Bali's main temple, Besakih, in 1979. Religious officials recommended that all Balinese cleanse the island by cremating...
11) Magical Death
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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This film is an exceptionally vivid portrayal of shamanic activity, as well as an exploration of the close connection between politics and shamanism in Yanomamo culture.
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12 stories of miraculous healings using shamanistic tools and techniques.
One of the pioneers in energy healing and shamanism recounts twelve miraculous stories in which, through the use of shamanic energetic techniques, people experience extraordinary physical and emotional healings. Meet a dancer who could barely walk until a series of sessions with Alberto Villoldo, a businesswoman who is freed from headaches and discovers the benefits of an integrated...
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Llyn Roberts shares her years of experience with indigenous healers, shamans, and Elders who come from cultures that know how to shapeshift realities. She translates ancient techniques into easy to understand modern practices that you can use every day to transform personal imbalances, open to your life purpose, deepen your relationship with spirit and nature, and reclaim your power to make a positive difference in the world.
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Dr. Robert Ghost Wolf is not a singular formulated thought. God is the truth in all thought. There are those who would challange your right to live in the freedom of Being.They would try to pull you back into the murk and mire, only to justify their own struggles with owning their self-truth and worth.Daring to have your very own thought makes you different. It makes you in many ways the "Outcast" ... the "Misfit" ...Are you one of God's radical few...?Through...
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In order to practice the Four Agreements, before we can achieve the Mastery of Love, we must move Beyond Fear. Fear is the source of all the negative agreements we've made with life. It can alienate us from the joy that is our birthright. When we are able to look at our lives and our worlds without fear or judgments, we realize that this dream we are dreaming-reality-can be whatever we want it to be. Don Miguel Ruiz is a nagual initiated as a Master...
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The author uses first-hand life experiences to lay bare enduring truths. Four remarkable stories of evolutionary change are woven into a single journey down the river of time; One, a vision-filled canoe trip through Pennsylvania's Allegheny Forest; Two, a dramatic sequence of dreams documenting the saga of an Indigenous Caribbean family; Three, the 260-century evolutionary trek of global humanity envisioned by ancient Native wisdom; Four, the authors...
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Changing the Dream is a true story where two spiritual seekers drawn to Machu Picchu, Peru, to energetically save the world found among the beauty of the ancient ruins personal initiation, epiphany, and a sense of completion. Their pilgrimage to change the dream of the planet changed their own dream.
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Life is Struggle
We are in the time of the "Great Struggle."
Keep Love and Hope in your Heart
What does a broken-winged bat mean? What is the mystery of the Blue Apples? What is your birthright? Do emotions affect the immune system? What steps can you take to maintain your love and power during this pandemic? Is reincarnation a universal truth? Is the Other world a reality? You will discover the answers to these mysteries, and many others, within...
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