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Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.

A documentary about the study of plant sentience with original music by Stevie Wonder. Utilizing time-lapse photography, the film proposes that plants are able to experience emotions and communicate with the world around them.

What did Monk Seongcheol leave for us? Numerous anecdotes left behind by monks such as Jangjwabulwa and Samcheonbae were talked about, and a large number of people flocked to Haeinsa Temple to see the sarira. What is the meaning of the thought of Ven. Seongcheol, who tried to set Buddhism right by valiantly and diligently saying that the middle should be moderate, to modern people? Learn about the pure life at Baekryeonam Hermitage, including the content and meaning of the Baekil Method, the spirit of not possessing anything, and the strict life that the Sangha University students were told not to sleep and study. The position of Venerable Seongcheol, who insisted that Buddhist purification should be done internally rather than externally, and introduces the process of systematizing Korean Buddhism.

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

At a full-day meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 13th April 2019, Michael James discusses the seventeenth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 11th May 2019, Michael James discusses the eighteenth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 8th June 2019, Michael James discusses the nineteenth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 13th July 2019, Michael James discusses the twentieth and final paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

Three young ladies perform yoga without clothes in the open air of Cyprus. Another does the same in a studio. These visuals are interspersed with images of Eastern art, processed for "psychedelic" effect. The narrator relates the practice of yoga to Buddhist philosophy.

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 14th March 2020 Michael James discusses the meaning and implications of verse 4 of ஏகான்ம பஞ்சகம் (Ēkāṉma Pañcakam: Five Verses on Oneself, the One):

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ (via Zoom) on 11th April 2020 Michael James discusses the meaning and implications of verse 5 of ஏகான்ம பஞ்சகம் (Ēkāṉma Pañcakam: Five Verses on Oneself, the One):

In The Womb is a 2005 National Geographic Channel documentary that focus on studying and showing the development of the embryo in the uterus. The show makes extensive use of Computer-generated imagery to recreate the real stages of the process.

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 9th February 2019, Michael James discusses the fifteenth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

At a meeting of the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 9th March 2019, Michael James discusses the sixteenth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?:

Is building our own starship Enterprise possible? Will we ever travel between the stars as easily as they do in Star Trek? JJ Abrams' new feature, Star Trek Into Darkness, hits the screen in a golden age of scientific discoveries. HISTORY is there, giving viewers a deep look behind the scenes, on the set, and into the science–amazing new exoplanets, the physics of Warp drive, and the ideas behind how we might one day live in a Star Trek Universe.

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans were their "enemies" who couldn't be trusted. Somewhere in all this a young girl in Oklahoma named Shannon set her sights on becoming one of those space explorers, even though she was told "girls can't do that." But she did.

In a Zoom meeting with the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK on 12th August 2023, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings.

Follow astronaut Scott Kelly's 12-month mission on the International Space Station, from launch to landing, as NASA charts the effects of long-duration spaceflight by comparing him to his identical twin on Earth, astronaut Mark Kelly.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and extreme weather. Has Earth always been this way? Featuring footage of top geologic hot spots on every continent, the film traces the scientifically-based story of the 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, from the core to the crust and up into the atmosphere.