The Heart
Revolution
A poetic science documentary redefining the human heart to help you flourish
How can diverse cultures, religions and traditions
understand each other,
learn from each other,
and flourish together?
Your Heart is the Key
It takes a flowering heart
In absence of a flowering heart, our minds are easily misled by concepts like matter and soul, gender, race and god, sexual orientation, faith, education, wealth, …
… and hypnotized by what seems to divide us.
Hasn’t this caused suffering for long enough?
Could we have heaven on Earth if enough of us choose to awaken our flowering hearts?
Wisdom from the past
For millennia the saints, sages, and leaders of religions across the world have told us about the importance of our hearts.
They spoke of the heart in ways that nowadays is considered by most well-educated people to be purely metaphorical.
A Heart Revolution?
Today science is celebrated as the only reliable way to explore and answer life’s big questions.
And science declared that the heart’s sole purpose is to pump blood. It has no other function.
Everything we call soul or consciousness, thinking, emotions, creativity, etc., comes from our brain. The brain is what makes us humans unique.
But, a few undogmatic scientists have found evidence of the unbelievable. Our hearts are not not at all what we thought it was …
Cutting-edge scientific studies reflect what many saints and sages have told us about the heart a long time ago.
A Heart Question
After 7 years of researching the blood circulation, Prof. Pollack and Dr. Li summarize their ground-breaking research as “Something other than the heart is driving the blood circulation.”
Their findings might be the overture of a scientific revolution that could lead to a spiritual revolution.
The question now is, ‘What’s the purpose of the human heart?’
Could realizing the true nature and purpose of our hearts be
the key to Heaven on Earth?
Soul, Spirit, Higher Self
“Every culture has their word for it. Higher Self, spirit, soul. This research suggests that it’s quite real, and that the great religions and a lot of philosophers have been right all along–the heart is literally an access point to that deeper source of intelligence within us.”
Dr. Rollin McCraty and the HeartMath Institute have been conducting research for decades that’s revealing surprising insights into the human heart. The research reveals the profound impact our hearts have on one another and our interconnectedness with the Earth and our ‘soul’.
After Dr. Wendy Anne McCarty trained as a nurse she studied psychology and worked with hundreds of infants and their parents as a pre- and perinatal psychologist. What she discovered about babies’ consciousness put the currently accepted view on its head.
The heart-to-heart connection between mothers and babies is where it all starts. It is a major key to a blooming life for each and all of us.
“Babies are more conscious in some ways than we are because they’re functioning in two worlds very consciously, flipping back and forth between their transcendent self, and this little human body and human self. And that self-relationship, to me, is of primary importance. We want it to be as heart-centered as possible. Because it’s that flourishing heart that helps us be who we are.”
As we travel through the chapters of human life, we explore both the scientific and spiritual perspectives on the heart.
“What to do with the heart, how to develop it, how to awaken it? I think this is a very fundamental human question, if not the fundamental human question.”
Kabir Helminski has been learning, teaching, and embodying Sufism for about forty years. He has translated Rumi’s poetry, written books on Sufi wisdom, and travelled around the world with the whirling dervishes.
“I grew up in a Catholic working-class family, for which I’m grateful. I felt an interest in spirituality from an early age. In college, I became interested in Eastern religions, and that was my entry into the subject of consciousness.”
“How beautiful it would be if we could truly feel our oneness with all of humanity, and how things would change. Imagine realizing that at the heart of each human being, our felt inner experience of humanness is the same in me as it is in you.
Anita Moorjani, the best-selling author of ‘Dying to be me’, fell into a coma and died of cancer. ‘On the other side’ she had ‘life-changing’ realizations about love, her cancer, and death. After she woke up, her stage 4 cancer disappeared within weeks. 20 years later she still dances with life and her husband.
“To me, heaven is a state of being. That joyful state of being completely comfortable with yourself and knowing that you are at peace with who you are and where you are right now.”
“What’s really sad is that when we die, we realize that, 'Oh my gosh, I could have created heaven on Earth.'“
How we Relate to Our Hearts is of Existential Importance.
We are born with ten fingers. Imagine if we all used our fingers, hands, and feet like our beloved cats and dogs.
We would be sure that our hands exist to move around.
Until someone proposes the seemingly crazy idea that we could use our fingers to play piano, paint, or, most importantly, tickle each other.
We could continue to use our fingers to live like 'our' utterly cute cats and dogs. That's perfectly fine!
And, we could learn using our fingers to experience and express the wonders and beauty of life.
Could the same be true for our hearts? If the heart's primary purpose is not pumping blood – what is its purpose?
Was it made to be used in ways far beyond our current Western worldview?
Every moment, we leave footprints, fingerprints, and most important, heartprints.
This film is for you
The Heart Revolution is dedicated to all of us. The unicorns, the princesses and knights, misfits, and rebels.
The forever-young-at-heart, the helpers and healers, lovers and poets. The leaders and saints, scientists and artists. All who have felt that something was wrong or missing. And everyone who felt they did not fit in or belong here.
And, of course, everyone who longs to have a healthy, peaceful, just, and heartful world!
