THE TRANSPERSONAL CINEMA PROJECT

Exploring the Cinema of Transformation and Transcendence

The Transpersonal and The Cinema

Transpersonal is that which is beyond the boundaries of the personal, beyond our normal everyday limited sense of self. Transpersonal experiences include dreams, peak experiences, religious experiences, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, ESP, psychic healing, and altered states of consciousness.

Cinema, from the Greek word Kinema "movement" and kinein "to move," is the art of the moving image in all its forms, from the flickering projections of celluloid images on a movie screen to digital moving images on a cellular phone.

Transpersonal Cinema is cinematic media that seeks to transcend the normally perceived boundaries of self and world, transporting creators and viewers to other realms both within and outside of themselves, and potentially inducing altered states of consciousness, healing, transformation, personal growth, and personal, social and cultural evolution.

The Transpersonal Cinema Project is a groundbreaking research and production initiative seeking to investigate and advance these powerful transformational potentials of the cinema by integrating the latest theories, practices, and technologies of cinematic media, creativity, human perception, and consciousness.

"Transpersonal means that some sort of process is occurring... that, in a sense, goes beyond the individual."

- Ken Wilber