Films and Some References to Literature on Gurus in America (for Undergraduate Teaching)Contributed by Tamar C. Reich, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Swami
Satchidananda Film
"Living Yoga: The Life and Teachings of Swami Satchidananda."
Available from the Integral Yoga Institute at www.livingyogamovie.org. Rajneesh "Ashram."
Source? Rajneeshpuram:
An Experiment to Provoke God (1995) 57 minutes http://www.filmakers.com/index.php?a=filmDetail&filmID=601 A.C.
Bhaktvedanta Swamin Prabhpada and the International Society for Krishna
Consciousmess Ram
Dass Film:
“Fierce Grace,” produced and directed by Mickey Lemle, 93
minutes, Lemle Pictures, 2001. Source: Amazon? Seva Foundation?.
Film:
"Evolution of a Yogi." Meher
Baba There
are a couple of films available on Meher Baba The
Jain Guru Chitrabhanu video
about a Jain guru Chitrabhanu who takes several students to India's Jain
temples: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57495517&referer=brief_results Recent
film inspired by some Hindu gurus to the west might be interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Guru-Jimi-Mistry/dp/B000092OME Female
Gurus Ammachi “River
of Love” - Ammachi's biography, scenes from which are dramatically
reenacted. Gurumayi Siddha
Yoga videos on Gurumayi's delivery and discussion of the Yearly Message.
1995-99 are packaged in one video, Sadhana of the Heart Vol. 1. Books
Cynthia
Hume and Thomas Forsthoefel' Gurus in America. Kripal,
Jeffrey and Glenn Shuck. Eds, On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the
Evolution of American Culture
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