Hello Alive Mind Friends,

We are so pleased about the excitement brewing for our latest release Hair: Let the Sun Shine In. Following our joint event with Bottlerocket Spirit & Wine in New York City earlier this month, Playbill announced Hair: The Musical’s return to Broadway in 2009! On October 14th the folks that bring you the Emmys, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will host a “Meet the Filmmaker” screening with filmmaker Pola Rapaport hosting a pre-screening Q&A. Not in the area and you want to support the Meet the Filmmaker series? Alive Mind will donate $3 to NYEmmys.org from every purchase of Hair: Let the Sun Shine In throughout October (simply enter coupon code AMFILM10 during check-out and you will ALSO receive a 10% discount). Check out our list of events to see if Hair: Let the Sun Shine In will be screening in your area soon.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. As part of the awareness campaign, Alive Mind is presenting the release of Absolutely Safe, a documentary which takes a stark look at the controversial issues surrounding breast implants. Filmmaker Carol Cianetti-Leyva, an active advocate for women’s health and rights, joins our blog team at Alive Mind Woman. See her latest post “Eat Beautiful, Feel Beautiful?” Absolutely Safe will make it’s home DVD debut in October and chances to screen this film are now available nationwide. Visit www.absolutelysafe.com for screening dates near you.

An interesting news item came up on Yahoo News last week about a new study by the Human Consciousness Project which focusing on examining the brain and consciousness of patients who have had near death experiences. Bringing science and spirituality to answer the question what happens when we die, we invite you to watch Secrets of the Soul and comment on Alive Mind and Spirit on your personal experience. Be among the first ten to post your answer and get a free DVD of your choice from Alive Mind.

The world has had their collective eye on the state of America’s recent financial crisis. To help us make sense of it all our Secular Philosophy blogger Massimo Pigliucci poses a logical debate on whether evolutionary theory favors government regulation or not in his piece “Wilson vs. Arnhart on Darwinism and the economy”. Check it out and while you’re at it, also read the essay series on Religion and science with some of today’s sharpest minds such as Michael Shermer, Christian de Duve and John Haught.

All is not gloom and doom, even if it is election season. Alive Mind invites you to lighten your load with a bit of sexual healing with our latest on-line community, Sex Tête. Here you will discover films and writings that explore how the sensual and erotic connect with the spirit and intellect through sex. Look for our November releases: The Workshop and Sacred Lovemaking. In the meantime spend some time with our guest blogger and filmmaker Karinna Kittles-Karsten where she has posted the very informative piece: “What is Sacred Lovemaking?”

Congratulations from the Alive Mind team to Beth Murphy, the producer of Beyond Belief, who was awarded the Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries at IFP. Beth is off to an auspicious start for her next film. Purchase your copy of Beyond Belief and Alive Mind will donate $3 to Beth Murphy and her next film.

Also newsworthy…Walden House and the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto will present a screening of Protagonist at the Grand Lake Theatre on October 16th. For more than 40 years Walden House has been transforming the lives of people with alcohol and other drug addictions in San Francisco and throughout California. In honor of the work Walden House has done through the years, Alive Mind will donate $3 from each sale of the Protagonist to directly support women with children re-entering society after prison.

Allbest,
Elizabeth, The Editor