Nouveau Shamanic Cinema

About Nouveau Shamanic Cinema

Welcome to the Nouveau Shamanic Cinema, where films are portals into the depths of being. For each episode, we watch a movie, immerse ourselves in its themes, and let it resonate as if it were a dream or an imaginal practice. We then explore the nature of reality from this perspective and discuss how this relates to dharma. This format unearths deep and precise insights into the nature of reality and is an invitation to engage with the world in a way where media can be a portal into the depths of truth.

Publisher

Rosa Lewis and Joost Vervoort

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Mar 2021

Latest episode

18 Sept 2025

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2025

   The Boy and the Heron: Yin Mysticism

   We watched this on the same evening as The Lion King. Both animated movies are about a mystical experience that was catalysed by the death of a parent, and we enjoyed the contrast of very different expressions of similar themes. This Studio Ghibli animation felt much more yin in its depiction of the mystical, and we enjoyed discussing the themes of undefinability, moral ambiguity, and strangeness. “Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.” Hayao Miyazaki

2. 

   26 Jul 2025

   The Lion King: Yang Mysticism

   We enjoy the imaginal richness that explodes out of this Disney classic and discuss how it depicts the weaving of the mystical and the physical in a timeless and beautiful way.

3. 

   17 Jun 2025

   I Saw the TV Glow: What is Real?

   Life emulates movies emulates life emulating movies in this multi-layered reality-bending episode. We watch the film I Saw the TV Glow, in which two characters get deeply absorbed into a TV show, and it starts to spill over into their lives, leaving questions about what is real. For the episode, we also watched two TV episodes and wove together themes and resonances from them all, including disconnection, connection, and what feels most real to us. (TV episodes: Season 3, Episode 1 of The White Lotus and the Euphoria Special Episode, ‘Trouble Don’t Last Always’)

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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