Karmageddon

Product Description

Karmageddon captures the spiritual journey of 'Soulshaping' author Jeff Brown with 1960's counter-culture icon and guru Bhagavan Das, of 'Be Here Now' fame. Rivetingly personal and profoundly universal, Karmageddon is an unforgettable look at contemporary spirituality as east meets west, the 1960's meets the 21st century, spirituality meets psychology, and the sacred meets the profane. From tree-hugging and sacred chants to womanizing and the search for an authentic life, Brown is forced to confront the shortcomings of his teacher as he takes the viewer from light to shadow and back again. His journey includes interviews with some of the best known spiritual teachers, chanters and yogis of our time, including 'Be Here Now' author Ram Dass, Seane Corn, Deva Premal & Miten, David Newman (Durga Das), Robert Gass, and David Life. Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the Costa Rica International Film Festival, Karmageddon is a profound and unforgettable examination of the desire for healing, meaning and heartfelt connection in all of our lives. It is a truly courageous, no-holds-barred film that challenges long established patriarchal guru practices and also challenges some of the ideas of spirituality intrinsic to the spiritual bypass movement, including the alleged split between our emotional and spiritual lives. It asks many questions relevant to spiritual seekers and yogis, without soft-touching the response: Can we grow in our spirituality without working through our emotional issues? Can we be enlightened if we are not fully in integrity in all respects? Can we just do the witness bypass and pretend that our issues are cured, or must we get inside our unresolved hearts and work them through in order to be truly liberated? Is detachment a life, or is it just a tool to keep us afloat during difficult times? Why do we summon certain figures into our lives? What does 'spirituality' really mean?

Review

Brown s literary language as he describes his inner process is eloquent and captivating, and with the added irony of Bhagavan s chanting as a background score, often times haunting. Ultimately this film is less an expose of a capricious guru with a Pan complex as it is an inner exploration of Brown s spiritual journey, one where he pleads guilty to confusing his own self avoidance with enlightenment. Brown realizes that repressed emotions, especially anger, are the karmic field for my soul s expansion . In the end, Karmageddon s real message is about remembering that our humanness must walk hand in hand with our divinity. Bhagavan Das, a man of contradictions, shows us all that in our imperfection is the possibility for perfection. And in our messy mortal selves lies the grist for transformation. --~Elephant Journal Review

I watched some brilliant documentaries last year. Ai Wei Wei; Never Sorry, Searching for Sugarman and My Reincarnation to name a few. All of them are very powerful films, but none of them affected me as deeply as Karmageddon. Karmageddon is a film bursting with searing truth and incredible courage that affirmed the yearning of my heart and gave strength to the vulnerability of my soul. It contained more insight and wisdom about the challenges facing the spiritual journeyman living in the Western world than I've ever seen captured on film before. My life, in all ways is better for seeing it. --~Jamie King, actor (Tristan and Isolde, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy etc.)

A phenomenal film, a full spectrum journey into the potency of projections, wounding and the humanness of ALL beings. --~Makia Williams