Sacred Wisdom: A Video Documentary

Several years ago I began a video documentary project that I am now calling, Sacred Wisdom. And though I always had the intention to share it with others, I never held to a schedule for when it should be completed. I knew the documentary project as originally conceived would be in several parts and about 10 hours or more in length. After working on it for about 10 years I realized that it was going to be much longer than 10 hours and it was an important spiritual research and development project for me as well as for others. So I let go of my idea of producing something for others constrained by any time deadlines and it became my own personal journey and study of Sacred Wisdom.

In my journey I've visited many sacred sites from around the world. Some natural and some made by men and women. I've researched and explored many books, texts and sacred documents. I've interviewed scores of healers, teachers, gurus, shaman, witches, yogis and yoginis for this project. They graciously and willingly shared their teachings, practices, experiences and sacred wisdom with me.

For many years the video footage and audio interviews were accumulating on my shelves. I was the only one who got to see and appreciate them. People who knew about this project were asking me when it would be complete so they could see it. I knew it was a project that was never going to be 'complete' in the ordinary sense, particularly because I was always adding video footage to it.

Recently it dawned in my consciousness to create small segments rather than a COMPLETED Hollywood style master piece that I originally conceived in my consciousness. I'm not a film maker. I'm just me. An ordinary guy. And if I'm anything, in the ordinary sense of the word, I'm a communicator. And if any of this work was going to 'get out there' and be communicated, then it would only happen if smaller video segments were produced, rather than a lengthy production.

So that is what I am now going to do. Let's see where it goes and what unfold.

Blessings and Love

The Eternal Way of Truth to Sacred Wisdom

The Beginning
The video documentary, Sacred Wisdom, began its life as the slide show, The Eternal Way of Truth. The EWT (Eternal Way of Truth) was created in the late 1970’s by Charles Berner. It was an audio slide show of over 700 photographs, drawings, paintings and diagrams that explored the philosophy, metaphysics and practices of yoga.
It was divided into four parts:



Part 1: Divine Order

Part 2: Cycle of Life

Part 3: Transformation

Part 4: Transcendence



In about 1990 I began the project of converting the slide show into a video. I added music, animation and digital graphs. It took me about a year to complete and in that time I learned a lot about video, computers and video production. I've begun to upload that video slide show project to YouTube. There will be about 36 ten minute segments. Here is the URL to Part 1 of 36. < v="KyOZ4jDVzZs">. You can find the other parts that I've uploaded on my YouTube channel.

I'm also going to put it on the web in its original still image and text form.
Here is Part 1 of 36.




While working on the conversion from a photographic slide show to a video slide show I was inspired to develop the project further. Instead of photographs, I wanted moving images. Instead of a photograph of the Taj Mahal or the Egyptian Sphinx, I wanted moving images. It was at that point I committed myself to travel the world taking video footage of the paintings, statues, temples and sacred sites found in The Eternal Way of Truth.

As I continued to work on The Eternal Way of Truth video project I found myself researching and re-writing the original script. I was going into more depth and detail than the original. For example, when Charles would talk about the concept of Prana or life force, he would only say a few brief words. I wanted to explore the subject further. But doing that meant the project would be MUCH longer in length. When completed, the video slide show of his original Eternal Way of Truth was 6 hours in length. The expanded version that I had begun to work on could easily be 20 or more hours in length.

When I spoke to Charles about the expanded version, he agreed it would be a good thing to do. It was at that point that I realized the project was no longer going to simply be an expanded version of The Eternal Way of Truth. It would be something entirely new. So, inspired by the original slide show, the documentary, Sacred Wisdom, was conceived.

Here is the treatment or description that I use to introduce people to the Sacred Wisdom documentary project.

Sacred Wisdom is a video documentary project that I’m currently working on that explores the golden thread of sacred wisdom that weaves a tapestry of truth through the world’s diverse spiritual and religions traditions.

It reveals both modern and ancient philosophies and practises for achieving a quiet mind, a healthy body, a loving heart, an enlightened soul and a happy and prosperous life.

It tells the universal story of spiritual awakening through art, science, cosmology, architecture, painting, sculpture, myth, music, dance, ceremony, spiritual psychology and the sacred esoteric sciences.

The genre of the video/DVD will be documentary in style and will include interviews with experts in the fields of religion, health, yoga, mythology, philosophy, biology, the creative arts and the occult sciences. It features video imagery, photographs, animation and dramatic recreations to help illustrate the philosophy, practices and principles of Sacred Wisdom.

This documentary is a self funded project inspired by love and service to the legacy of our common ancestry of Sacred Wisdom. Contributions of your skills, knowledge, time and money is generously appreciated.

India Journey: Mother Teresa

The Beatitudes: Yoga of Christ

About 4 years ago I experienced the love for a women like I had never experienced it before.


It took me by surprise and opened places in me that I didn’t even know were there. Love reached down into my being and began to shift who and what I thought of as me. What I thought of as me was dissolving in the experience of this Love. All the paradigms that held my life together began to crumble. It was at that point I recognized that I am not a teacher, I am not a guru. I am nothing and that Love is Everything. Love is the Teacher. Love is the Guru. Love is the Guiding Force. The Love that was blossoming in and through me began to transform my life and ways of being in the world.

But this story of Love for a woman is only the introduction for the short video clip that I’m showing you below. More about this love affair and this beautiful woman another time.

It was about four years ago, on a pleasantly warm and beautiful day on the Indonesian island of Bali that l went to visit the women I was in love with. She was visiting and studying at the Ashram of a man calling himself Jayem. When Jayem (John Marc Hammer) walked up to greet me, I instantly felt that I liked him. He teaches about Christ Consciousness and became known for channeling Jesus. He calls Jesus by his Aramaic name, Jeshua, which was the ancient language at the time he lived. Jesus is the Greek translation of the original Aramic. Soon he began telling me about the Beatitudes. He was excited and inspired about the Beatitudes and wanted to make them focus of his teaching.

When he told me about the Beatitudes I said, “This is the yoga of Christ.” It is just like Patanjali’s Yoga Sutres. I was excited too.

The Beatitudes are the opening words that Jesus is said to have spoken in his Sermon on the Mount as recorded in the Gospel of St. Matthew. The Gospel of St. Luke also records some of the Beatitudes in a slightly different form.

The word ‘beatitude’ itself, comes from the Latin and it means happiness or blessedness.

The Beatitudes or blessings, as they have been recorded in the English language King James version of the Bible are not the exact words of Jesus. He didn’t speak English. He spoke the language of the common people, Aramaic. Even his name, Jesus, is not the name that he was called by. In Aramaic, his name is Yeshua. The Aramaic words that he spoke and that we read in English were first translated from Aramaic into Latin, then Greek and later English. It doesn’t take much reflection to realize that the English words said to be his have probably been distorted, at least, through translation and then interpretation

Have you ever played the game of sitting in a circle and whispering a phrase into a friends ear. They then repeat it into the ear of the person sitting next to them and that person repeats it to another and another until it goes around the circle and is repeated into your ear. The original phrase is quite changed when it gets back to you, isn’t it. Imagine if the phrase was translated into different languages as it moved around the circle. You might hardly recognize the phrase that you originally spoke. I suspect Yeshua would feel the same about what he was teaching his friends and disciples when he spoke to them on the hill over looking the Sea of Galilee.

When I first heard a translation of the Beatitudes based upon the original Aramaic language and an interpretation infused with a modern understanding of psychology, pre-natal and early childhood development, the neuro-bio-chemistry of the bodymind connection and the process of breath transformation found in many spiritual traditions, I began to really understand what he was teaching.

He was teaching a path to the enlightened state of God Consciousness or Christ Mind. His teaching was a step by step description of the way to experience blessedness, happiness, inward contentedness and joy.

I loved the way Jayem articulated his understanding of Chirist Consciousness and Dvine Awakening. I asked him if I could interview him and include him in the documentary, Sacred Wisdom. He said yes. The next day we then did a two hour video shoot on his Balinese balcony overlooking the canyon and rice fields of Ubud, Bali.

I created the short video introduction on the Beatitudes one afternoon in Bali while waiting for my beloved to return home from participating in a Women’s Healing Retreat. Wait till you see some of that video footage I took of the Women’s Retreat. Wow!

The short video entitled, The Beatitudes, was put together from a few images I had on my computer, excerpts from the interview Jayem did with me and the recording of my beloved singing the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic.



Sources for further study:

• Jayem
• Colleen de Winton
• Neil Douglas Klotz