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Special Cinema of the Spirit Edition

Dear Parabola Newsletter Subscriber, PARABOLA: The Search for Meaning invites you to come celebrate our 30th anniversary year with two final segments of the Cinema of the Spirit film festival:

Date:	December 9, 2005
Location:	The Lighthouse Theater, Manhattan Lighthouse International Headquarters 111 East 59th St
Schedule:	5:30 Wine / Cheese Reception 6:30 Live Persian Music 7:00 "Rumi: Turning Ecstatic," (Petrova and Roloff, 2005). A near-death experience in 1997 launches filmmaker Tina Petrova onto a journey involving the 13th century Sufi Mystic Rumi and forming the basis of this film. 8:30 "Circles of Remembrance," (Shems Friedlander, 2005). Produced, written and directed by Shems Friedlander of Zikr (remembrance) ceremonies performed throughout the Middle East.
Tickets:	$20, Parabola, 212.505.6200, x0

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NYC Premiere of "Rumi-Turning Ecstatic"

A new film by Tina Petrova and Stephen Roloff. Produced in association with VisionTV.

Six years ago, Tina Petrova drove off a cliff--both literally and figuratively. She had spent the morning driving to Buddhist chanting, at a monastery high in the mountains of Southern California's desert. Along the way, she gave a ride to a hitchhiker, an enigmatic woman standing beside a deserted stretch of road. When Tina dropped the hitchhiker off at her destination, she had offered a prophetic warning. Driving up the mountain, the words echoed in Tina's mind as her car hit a patch of black ice and started to skid: "don't drive off the cliff today…"

This life-changing event launched Tina on the journey that was to become the basis for this docudrama. In the midst of an ongoing struggle with pain and despair, she was visited by a phenomenal encounter with Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic. The incident opened up a path of healing and transformation that lead Tina to a remarkable array of individuals whose lives and work have been influenced by Rumi's philosophy, teachings and poetry.

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Produced, written and directed by Shems Friedlander.
"Zikr" (remembrance) ceremonies performed throughout the Middle East.

The secret zikr ceremony of the Sufis filmed in Cairo, Istanbul, Morocco, and the United States, along with interviews with some of the most prominent Sufi scholars and musicians on the outer and hidden meaning of the remembrance of God.