May 01, 2005

Cinematherapy

Films offer a mystical message and an opportunity for spiritual growth

"...a genre finally being recognized for what it is: "a metaphoric pathway to explore to explore such things as a nature of love, the meaning of life and death, the concept of of time and space, the vision of our future. Movies have become our windows to the universe. The sheer imaginative power of the screen has shaped the way humanity views itself, the world, and the cosmos."

"Film is a representational medium that, through both its style and content, is able to symbolize a variety of behavioral patterns (through character action, plot, theme, editing, etc.) that are analyzable from different psychological theories and teaching modalities."

via Monochrom