The secret society/mystery school of the Positive Humans

Ancient Egypt & Mystery Schools 1

2010-01-04T15:08:00.000-08:00

Let's edumacate ourselves & or entertain ourselves with some very interesting ideas about ancient Egypt:

Reads nice, not exactly sure what it means

2010-01-02T14:15:00.001-08:00

The Mystery of Time doc, a Buddhism oriented perspective.

The Mystery of Money Creation

2010-01-02T13:56:00.000-08:00

A lot of people, myself included, cannot clearly point out what money is, why some people get to create it, why - if it is created from thin air there is so much poverty in the world, etc. (there are answers to all those questions, but, at the end of the day, we have a situation in the world where money does not flow everywhere in order to sustain everyone well) - anyway, a very BIG mystery to solve - the exact nature of money & how to use it to eradicate global poverty. Here is an interesting document, can't attest to its value, but perhaps something that needs to be read - for its perspective, might be useful: The Mystery of Money Creation/Naked Banker.

Egyptian mystery schools - what exactly were they? What, if anything, from them may be useful to us now?

2010-01-02T13:39:00.000-08:00

Well, the following items are accepted as accurate:

1 - Egypt did evolve into an advanced society earlier than many of their ancient peers

2 - The so called foundation of western knowledge - the Greeks - gives credit to Egypt as a source of their wisdom

So what did the Egyptians know? Was there something of value there or is it all modern fantasy? I guess much research is needed. Here's one interesting document: Egyptian Mystery Schools.

From the page:

"The Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c. 580– c. 500 B.C.E.) learned the secret doctrine of numbers, the heliocentric system of the universe, music, astrology, astronomy, mathematics, and geometry from the powerful Egyptian Magi. Before he established his own school of philosophy in southern Italy, Pythagoras spent 22 years in the temples of Egypt as an initiate in the ancient mysteries."

Read more here.

Buddhism before the Buddha, Christianity before Jesus

2009-12-31T00:03:00.000-08:00

Consider this: Is it possible that the Buddha (believed to have lived around 2500 years ago) was merely the most recent & well known practitioner/wise & skillful teacher of a far more ancient order of wisdom? Yes. Also the same for Jesus & Christianity; what if Jesus (believed to have lived around 2000 years ago) did not invent Christianity but is the latest messenger, the latest famous personality to learn the mysteries of that wisdom school well & practice them & teach them well? Yes, quite possibly. So, could the ancient Egyptians & even older ancestors of ours have known about Buddhism & Christianity - but under different names & with different famous teachers at the center of those wisdom schools/practices? Yes, I think so.

The modern human, being at least 100,000 years old, could have discovered the greatest positive mysteries & secrets that lay within us far earlier than 2500 or so years ago. What we call Buddhism & Christianity today could have been known, under different names, to our ancestors for tens of thousands of years, maybe even 90,000 years or more. Since, unlike modern technological inventions, the heart & soul of the human & positive ways to relate to existence & the universe could have been discovered by any humans like us - any modern humans/humans with our brain capacity & capabilities - who stopped long enough to contemplate themselves & their existence & their world & were capable enough & lucky enough to connect the dots well - as the priest or priests who invented what we now call Buddhism & Christianity did around 2000 - 2500 years or so ago.

Where might we find some clues re: this event, or events, occurring in human history? Stay tuned, the answers are coming.

Getting Things Done

2009-12-06T00:24:00.000-08:00

Interesting, check it out.

Kickstarter project for "Date Number One" December screenings

2009-11-08T12:03:00.000-08:00

Sujewa on The Obenson Report podcast on Mon 2/9

2009-02-09T01:32:00.001-08:00

I will be one of the guests on The Obenson Report podcast on Mon 2/9 night - show starts at 8 PM (i am on at 8:40 PM). I'll be discussing my new documentary Indie Film Blogger Road Trip (podcast host Tambay Obenson is featured in the doc) & D.I.Y. filmmaking/self-distribution. Tune in, check it out!

Current Blog

2009-02-05T17:53:00.000-08:00

Busy with a couple of film distribution things in Feb, will be back after that. In the meantime, I am at DIY Filmmaker Sujewa blog - mostly.

- Sujewa

DIY end world poverty project

2009-01-15T16:54:00.000-08:00

At DIY Filmmaker Sujewa blog.

Post-Tribal Thinking & Action

2008-12-05T20:43:00.000-08:00

The ancient idea of tribes - people joining together for survival - still plays out on Earth today; now the tribes are marked by ethnic group labels, race labels, religion labels, national boundary labels. All such labels are generally temporary (potent in any one form for a couple of generations at most) & political in purpose (created & maintained by self-appointed leaders in order to draw power, support from a group of people in order to achieve certain goals - including that of general survival of the group). The maintenance of tribes in modern guises still leads to competition, & sometimes war, among the tribes, and blocks positive & useful ideas invented & in use in one part of the world from reaching individuals in another part, in another tribe, in the world.

Long term, a better option - better than maintaining perpetual conflict generated by idea of separate tribes - is to promote the uniqueness & value of each individual & also to promote the general & ultimate group that all individuals belong to - the human race.

Shifting fully from a tribal competition based planet to a post-tribal, pro-individual planet where being human is elevated above allegiances to local tribes may take a while - but the work can be done anytime, and by any individual. Above all you are an individual human being, and beneath all the political, time & place created layers of identity that you deal with everyday lies your ultimate group membership identity - that of being a part of humanity. Those two items - reflecting on how best to be an excellent individual & an excellent human - of value & use to all of humanity - & basing your actions on that perspective - should help you lead a positive life & move the planet towards a Post-Tribal & better state of being.

Facebook group link

2008-12-05T20:35:00.001-08:00

I created a Facebook group called Positive Humans on Earth, here is the link.

several impressive human things on display in one piece of video

2008-02-21T02:46:00.000-08:00

so what do we have? proof of satellite technology, film & video, computers, mapping, & the old temple Angkor Wat, to mention just a few things that are on display through the clip below.

check it out:

see more of Angkor Wat here:

Democratic peace theory

2008-02-09T00:32:00.000-08:00

From an interesting Wikipedia page that I stumbled on to:

"The democratic peace theory, liberal peace theory,[1] or simply the democratic peace is a theory and related empirical research in international relations, political science, and philosophy which holds that democracies — usually, liberal democracies — never or almost never go to war with one another."

Read the rest of the Democratic peace theory article here.

- Sujewa

All problems can be solved, and if not...

2008-01-18T06:05:00.000-08:00

1) All problems (including that of death) can be solved OR they have already been solved in some form during the 200,000 or so years we humans have been living on this planet, and or, 2) if a completely original problem shows up we can enthusiastically engage the problem and attempt to solve it; most likely we will succeed sooner or later.

That's a positive human attitude.

- Sujewa

Now blogging at the new Wild Diner Films blog

2007-09-05T17:33:00.000-07:00

Right here. See ya.

- Sujewa

Date Number One, 7/12 - 18, 2007, Kensington, MD!

2007-07-11T20:10:00.001-07:00

D A T E ** N U M B E R ** O N E
http://www.wilddiner.com/
a comedy about several first dates
a movie by sujewa ekanayake

Thu July 12 - Wed July 18, 2007
Armory Building
3710 Mitchell Street
Kensington, MD 20895 :: map
7:30 PM daily
$7

Film's Description: "Date Number One", a comedy about several first dates, is made up of 5 different stories: Story 1 - Just Another Ninja Searching For Love, about a ninja who goes on a blind date (ninja is played by John Stabb Schroeder from the DC punk band G.I.), Story 2 - A Romantic Dinner For 3, about a woman attempting to add a third partner to a romantic relationship, Story 3 - Washington "City Of Love" DC/Start Over, about a writer who tries to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Story 4 - Air Quotes Woman, about a woman who always uses air quotes, and her search for a new boyfriend, Story 5 - The Superdelicious French Lesson, about a first date where a character learns a little bit of French in an unusual way. The movie has been discovered to be: "Witty" (GreenCine Daily), "Funny" (The Chutry Experiment), and "Sexy, Sexy, Sexy" (Hollywood Is Talking).

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Featuring Hot DC Indie Film Stars John Stabb Schroeder, Julia Stemper, Jennifer Blakemore, Shervin Boloorian, Dele Williams, Steve Lee, Kelly Ham, Christine D. Lee, Fritz Flad, Subodh Samudre, Jewel Greenberg

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Not Rated * 115 Minutes * yummy

SCREENED AT: Goethe-Institut - Washington, DC (World Premiere, May 2006), Northwest Film Forum - Seattle (May 2006), Capital City Microcinema - Kensington, MD (June, October 2006 & March 2007), Sangha - Takoma Park, MD (July 2006), Pioneer Theater, New York City (August 2006), Warehouse Screening Room - Washington, DC (November 2006).
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Director will attend the screenings. Brief discussion, Q & A period after each screening for those audience members who are interested in such things.

"The film is about as charming as they come...presents a world in which cultures don't clash, they mesh. It's refreshing to see characters who all appear to have a natural optimism, as opposed to the typical indie-film predilection for bitterness and cruelty. "
- Michael Tully, Rotterdam & SXSW film festivals selected filmmaker & indieWIRE blogger
http://blogs.indiewire.com/tully/archives/010529.html

"I found the characters and the premise sexy, sexy, sexy."
- Jerry Brewington, Hollywood Is Talking blog, on Story 2 of Date Number One
http://hollywoodistalking.com/Blog/508/

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"...witty...often inventive...and, even better, airy: characters are given time and space to spell out their views...views that never bear the artificial markings of a Hollywood screenwriter's compulsion to reduce them to sound-bites."
- David Hudson, Editor, GreenCine Daily blog
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/002353.html

"FIVE really entertaining, fully realized romantic interludes...a shamefully rare achievement"
- Tom Kipp, Seattle audience member, former film reviewer for Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger
http://diyfilmmaker.blogspot.com/2006/05/interview-with-seattle-audience-member.html

"Heartfelt...poignant...I loved it!"
- Jon Moritsugu, award winning filmmaker

"...somehow, someway, in the end, the love of the characters, the positiveness of the film, and Sujewa’s disregard for conventions wins you over. The act of making this film wins you over. There is only a positive through line in this film, and that is rare to see, especially when dealing with characters in their late to early thirties."

- Amir Motlagh, director of the popular '04 Atom Films' short Still Lover & upcoming feature Whale
http://stilllover.blogspot.com/2006/10/date-number-one-review.html

"Date Number One is quite funny...twentysomethings and occasional thirtysomethings looking for romance recall Richard Linklater's philosopher slackers and Jim Jarmusch's minimalist attention to conversation...also a subtle, thoughtful film...might be understood as the anti-Crash depiction of life in the city...depicts a comfortably multi-ethnic community...I'd happily recommend it."
- Chuck Tryon, media professor & blogger, The Chutry Experiment blog
http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/005873.html

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Date Number One website: http://www.wilddiner.com/
blog: http://www.diyfilmmaker.blogspot.com/
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punk activist group Positive Force DC

2006-08-07T11:58:00.000-07:00

Several years ago in DC I discovered a curious grassroots activist situation: young punk bands playing in church basements & other community spaces to raise money & awareness for humanitarian, social service & political causes. The organizers of these events were the musicians & fans themselves - under the name Positive Force DC. PFDC is an exciting marriage between rhetoric & action. Mark Andersen, a DC based punk & author (Dance of Days, All The Power) has been one of the key members of the group for several years. Ian MacKaye's bands: Fugazi, The Evens, have participated often in PFDC benefit concerts.

Here's the link to the PFDC site.

Here's a bit from the groups description from the front page:

" Revolution starts now with you...

Positive Force DC is a Washington DC-area activist group that works for fundamental social change and youth empowerment. We organize benefit and free concerts, demonstrations and teach-ins and also do direct work with needy people.

We believe in the power of young people to change the world and in the right of all to live as they wish, provided that they are not preventing others from being able to do so..."

Check out the rest of it here.

Go Positive Force DC! Very inspirational.

- Sujewa

An inspirational human artifact: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2006-08-06T01:26:00.000-07:00

Here is how the document begins:

" Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, "

Read the rest of the progressive document here.

The existence of the UDHR alone has not prevented certain great evils in this world, but the UDHR is a very firm & useful foundation for positive actions.

- Sujewa

Nonviolent Peaceforce

2006-08-06T00:49:00.000-07:00

The mission of Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), as I understand it, is to help groups at war resolve their issues in a nonviolent manner & to help protect civilians who are caught in battle grounds, violent situations. NP is active in Sri Lanka at the moment: working with both the Sri Lankan government & the LTTE rebels to try to bring the conflict to an end & specially to protect innocent civilians. Here is the NP website. Go NP! Your mission is bold, work daring & deeply necessary in this trigger-happy world, & you are overall a very positive & inspirational group, as far as I can tell now.

- Sujewa