“Global Spirit” is a new series from Link TV, with weekly episodes on topics such as The Spiritual Quest, The Journey Towards Oneness, Art and the Creative Spirit, Earth Wisdom and more. Each program features in-depth discussions with knowledgeable guests from around the world, together with compelling film segments or live performances. “Global Spirit” will offer insights into some of mankind's deepest existential questions, tracing our collective human journey in the timeless quest for truth, wisdom and understanding. Each Global Spirit program will highlight the trans-cultural, transcendent dimensions of human inquiry, from the ancient or indigenous wisdom traditions to the latest advances in scienti¹c knowledge. “Global Spirit” will do for the ¹rst time on national television what the Mars Rover did for space: beam back a celestial wonder, a glimmer of what is possible in the realm of human consciousness, spirit and the mind.
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“Global Spirit” continues in June with CUNY-TV premieres of three long-form programs featuring documentary films and interviews with the filmmakers: “Breaking Bows and Arrows,” “From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning,” and “Rumi, Poet of the Heart.”


June 15
#10: “The Journey Towards Oneness”
Guests: Dr. Ravi Ravindra, a physicist with a close association with Krishnamurti and the Gurdjieff teachings; Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, a Naqshbandi Sufi teacher. Host: Phil Cousineau. (60 min.)

June 22
#5: “Breaking Bows and Arrows”
Documentary about a reconciliation ceremony on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, in which former enemies “break bows and arrows” in a traditional gesture of peace. The film is followed by a discussion with guests Edward Tick, Kate Dahlstedt and Azim Khamisa. Host: Phil Cousineau. Prod.: Link TV. (69 min.)


June 29
#4: “Forgiveness and Healing”
Guests: Azim Noordin Khamisa, anti-violence activist; Edward Tick, Founding Director and Senior Clinician of Soldier's Heart: Veterans' Safe Return Programs; Kate Dahlstedt, co-director of Soldier's Heart: Veterans' Safe Return Programs. Host: Phil Cousineau. Prod.: Link TV. (60 min.)

July 6
#7: “From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning”
BBC filmmaker Alan Ereira visits the Kogi people in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern Colombia, the last surviving pre-Colombian civilization, who offer a prophetic warning to the industrialized world. Ereira is interviewed after the film by Phil Cousineau. Prod.: Link TV. (111 min.)


July 13
#9: “Rumi, Poet of the Heart”
Explores the continuing influence of the 13th century Sufi poet and mystic, Jalaluddin Rumi. Featured speakers in the film include Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Deepak Chopra, Michael Meade and Huston Smith. Following the film, Phil Cousineau interviews the filmmaker, Haydn Reiss. Prod.: Link TV. (74 min.)

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Phil Cousineau, host of "Global Spirit"

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"The Spiritual Quest," April 13, May 11