Documentary: Prisms of Light
From the film’s website:
Are people spiritual because they need a crutch, or do they sense something others don’t?
A film director with a burning question goes to India, where almost two million Westerners travel as spiritual tourists each year. Are they running away from something, or towards something?
A Swedish Tai Chi teacher who’s been living in India for 32 years, an Australian supermodel who became a monk, and a British anthropologist who married her guru, are some of the characters in this comic film about perception and delusion.
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