Just watched it.
A real mixed bag. All in all, pretty OK, but they played fast and loose with some facts about Buddhism and the re-creations were sometimes just flat-out embarrassing to watch.
The “60’s” footage that accompanied the part about Timothy Leary’s translation of the Book of the Dead, “The Psychedelic Experience” — one of the great Dharma-Burgers of all time! — was especially, even pricelessly, hoky.
Still, some really cool teachers and scholars were part of it, including Alan Wallace, Arjia Rinpoche, Robert Thurman, and more.
Click here for info on the next viewing.
But you can also rent a great DVD of the same name (you can find it on Netflix), narrated by Leonard Cohen. Douglas J. Penick was a consultant on it, having written the narration. Good stuff.
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