How many movies have you seen where you had to pause after thirty minutes just to cry? If the answer is anything but zero, how many of those movies made you cry not because something was sad, but just because it was so outrageously beautiful? This is such a movie.

“The Lives of Others” takes place in Germany under Soviet occupation. We meet a surveillance specialist of the Stasi police, and the couple he is ordered to keep watch over. As the man in the couple, a poet named Georg, decides to take action against the suppressing system they are under, the tension rises, and all characters involved must make difficult choices about which part they will play.

Although a surveillance thriller on the surface, “The Lives of Others” captures not only the difficulties of being human, but also just how wonderful these little battles of ours really are. It shows the choices we make between Love and fear so clearly, and with a poetry of Shakespearian magnitude. The movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2007, and is the closest thing I have to a favorite movie of all time. I’m kind of enthusiastic about this, can you tell? Anyway, you can see the trailer here, and the film itself can be found here.

To quote another reviewer, this is “137 minutes of the best entertainment imaginable”, and highly relevant not only to those seeking Spiritual Enlightenment, but to all feeling human beings. I genuinly hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.

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And now for something rather strange! Channeling is a process in which a person lets himself be “taken over” by another being, channeling that being through his own body, so to speak. There are many who claim to do this, producing various, often spiritual teachings coming from the channeled being. Some of them make a little more sense than others, and Bashar is one that makes very much sense indeed. His teachings concerns topics such as Law of Attraction, Abundance and Creation, basically how to best create the life you want. These are some free talks he has given on these subjects:

The 4 Laws of Creation

Finding Your Highest Excitement

Abundance and Trusting What Is

Now, Bashar is supposedly an extra-terrestial being, channeled by Darryl Anka. If that turns you off, then focus instead on what he has to say about your world, and how it works. As for me, I choose to just be neutral to the claim. I simply don’t know. But since what he has to say about alien species sounds absolutely GREAT, I would be very happy if it is so!

If you would like to know more about Bashar and his teachings, you can check out his official site here.

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