Waking Life – Movie Review
by Bob Crawford

Waking Life - a movie review

“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream… Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”

Life can certainly seem dream-like at times. But at other times your dreams can feel eerily life-like.  You know that one is real and the other is an illusion, but which is the illusion and which is the reality? Is reality the same for everyone? Does your reality affect your illusions? Or do your illusions affect your reality? Where exactly is the line between reality and illusion?

Is there a line at all?

That line between reality and illusion is not just blurred, but totally blended, in Waking Life, an award-winning film (read more…)

Let’s start out by saying that The Shift is a fun movie to watch. I truly enjoyed it. Part interview, part drama, The Shift is Dr. Wayne Dyer’s enlightening look at the changes we all go through as we move from the morning of our lives to the afternoon of our lives. Time marches on, and as it does, so do we, growing and changing along the way.

In his classic, warm and friendly style, Dr. Dyer manages to educate and entertain at the same time, sharing his thoughts about one of the biggest changes that occur as you approach the afternoon of your life. Your priorities change. What was once important may be less so now, and what was unimportant before may now mean the world to you.

This transition in your life is summed up by the film’s original title, “From Ambition to Meaning”, referring to the key change that happens as your priorities shift from living a life of ambition and drive, to a life that now derives satisfaction from (read more…)