Recommended Movies for Midlife Transition and Spirituality

The Game (Michael Douglas)
The Matrix Movie 1 (Keanu Reeves)
What The Bleep Do We Know?
The Thirteenth Floor (Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol)
The Legend Of Bagger Vance (Will Smith)
Purple Rose Of Cairo (Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels)
Field Of Dreams (Kevin Costner)
National Treasure (Nicholas Cage)
City Of Angels (Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan)
The Truman Show (Jim Carrey)
Pleasantville (Tobey Maguire)
Touching The Void (Joe Simpson and Simon Yates)
Starman (Jeff Bridges)
August Rush (Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
Groundhog Day (Bill Murray)
Noble House (Pierce Brosnan, TV Mini-Series on DVD)
Sliding Doors (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Illusion (Kirk Douglas)
Wag The Dog (Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro)
Capricorn One (James Brolin and Elliott Gould)
Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
The Lathe Of Heaven (2 versions: 1 with Bruce Davison, 2000; 2nd with James Caan,
2002 — both are interesting and supportive)
Noble House (Pierce Brosnan, TV mini-series on DVD — book by same name by James
Clavell is also supportive)
Vanilla Sky (Tom Cruise)
Powder (Mary Steenburgen and Sean Patrick Flattery)
The Nines (Hope Davis, Ryan Reynolds)… Read the rest

Midlife Transition:From Ambition to Meaning – Living in the Now

“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning – for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.”… Read the rest