STONE RIDGE -- The monthly Movies With Spirit community film series will show the humorous and inspirational film “Being in Heaven” -- about turns of life, improving awareness and realizing dreams and aspirations -- at 7 p.m. June 16 at Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely, 101 Leggett Road in Stone Ridge.
Called a spiritual “My Dinner With Andre,” about an eye-opening conversation between two men in a restaurant, “Being in Heaven” -- never before screened in the Hudson Valley -- tells the story of Jason Masterman (Daniel Whyte), a young, successful New York stockbroker whose career comes to a bitter and humiliating end with the onset of the global financial crisis.
Waking one morning to receivers knocking on his door, Jason is ordered out of his home immediately, taking only what he can carry with him. Losing everything, he retreats to the other side of the globe, to his Australian hometown of Sydney.
Jason takes a casual job writing articles for a magazine, and his first assignment is to interview a mysterious author named Michael (Michael Domeyko Rowland), who changes the way Jason will live the rest of his life -- not through philosophy or beliefs or fantasy, but by developing a new understanding of innate yet rarely used powers of being human.
Jason returns to New York with a fresh vision for the future and a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
But did his fall from grace ever really happen?
“A unique, very poignant, very powerful, very thought-provoking film,” says Spiritual Cinema Circle founder and film producer Stephen Simon.
The trailer for “Being in Heaven” can be seen here. Audience reactions can be seen at this link.
The 2009 independent film, rated G, runs 93 minutes and is appropriate for children as well as adults.
The screening will be followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served.
The monthly Movies With Spirit series, organized by Gerry Harrington of Kingston, seeks to stimulate people's sense of joy and wonder, inspire love and compassion, evoke a deepened sense of connection with the universe around us and support individual cultures, faith paths and beliefs while simultaneously transcending them.
The films are screened in diverse houses of worship and reverence across Ulster County at 7 p.m. on the third Saturday every month. The series has no religious affiliation.
Attendees over age 12 are asked to contribute a suggested $5 a person to offset series expenses.
For more information about "Being in Heaven" or the series, contact Harrington at (845) 389-9201 or at gerryharrington@mindspring.com. Details are also available on Movies With Spirit's Facebook page.
STONE RIDGE -- The monthly Movies With Spirit community film series will show the humorous and inspirational film “Being in Heaven” -- about turns of life, improving awareness and realizing dreams and aspirations -- at 7 p.m. June 16 at Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely, 101 Leggett Road in Stone Ridge.
Called a spiritual “My Dinner With Andre,” about an eye-opening conversation between two men in a restaurant, “Being in Heaven” -- never before screened in the Hudson Valley -- tells the story of Jason Masterman (Daniel Whyte), a young, successful New York stockbroker whose career comes to a bitter and humiliating end with the onset of the global financial crisis.
Waking one morning to receivers knocking on his door, Jason is ordered out of his home immediately, taking only what he can carry with him. Losing everything, he retreats to the other side of the globe, to his Australian hometown of Sydney.
Jason takes a casual job writing articles for a magazine, and his first assignment is to interview a mysterious author named Michael (Michael Domeyko Rowland), who changes the way Jason will live the rest of his life -- not through philosophy or beliefs or fantasy, but by developing a new understanding of innate yet rarely used powers of being human.
Jason returns to New York with a fresh vision for the future and a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
But did his fall from grace ever really happen?
“A unique, very poignant, very powerful, very thought-provoking film,” says Spiritual Cinema Circle founder and film producer Stephen Simon.
The trailer for “Being in Heaven” can be seen here. Audience reactions can be seen at this link.
The 2009 independent film, rated G, runs 93 minutes and is appropriate for children as well as adults.
The screening will be followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served.
The monthly Movies With Spirit series, organized by Gerry Harrington of Kingston, seeks to stimulate people's sense of joy and wonder, inspire love and compassion, evoke a deepened sense of connection with the universe around us and support individual cultures, faith paths and beliefs while simultaneously transcending them.
The films are screened in diverse houses of worship and reverence across Ulster County at 7 p.m. on the third Saturday every month. The series has no religious affiliation.
Attendees over age 12 are asked to contribute a suggested $5 a person to offset series expenses.
For more information about "Being in Heaven" or the series, contact Harrington at (845) 389-9201 or at gerryharrington@mindspring.com. Details are also available on Movies With Spirit's Facebook page.
