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HEALING SPIRIT


57 minutes/Grades 7-Adult, Closed Captioned

Produced by The National Film Board of Canada/ A film by
Hubert Schuurman

HEALING SPIRIT explores the human journey through life and
death, illness and healing. It poses the idea that wellness is
more than just the absence of disease and that healing goes
deeper than simply curing symptoms.

Disillusioned with the technological approach to health care,
people are rediscovering spiritual traditions. They search
for, and find solace in, methods that enable them to be healed
by connecting with their inner spirit. Without exception, the
patients in this film have used their pain as a pathway to
healing rather than as an excuse to sink into self-pity and
bitterness that might come with AIDS, Alzheimer's, cancer and
depression. And, they have found release in viewing death as
simply a completion of life.

HEALING SPIRIT features several prominent physicians and
healers, including Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Bernie Siegel and
Marian Woodman. For the patients portrayed here,
their healing has taken place: their spirit is whole even
though their body may be ravaged. The testimony of these
patients challenges our comfortable definitions of health and
healing, and presents us with powerful alternatives.

Awards: Gold Apple, National Educational Film & Video
Festival; Bronze Plaque Award, Columbus International Film &
Video Festival; American Psychological Association Film
Festival

Subject Areas: HEALTH, DEATH & DYING, RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

ISBN: 0-7722-0469-1


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