Abstract
Baraka: A World Beyond Words (1992) is a guided meditation that aims to induce the transcendent experience in the viewer. Through the eyes of a Zen Buddhist monk, the viewer is invited to meditate on the various phenomena that testify to the existence of the transcendent (the first eight chapters), to experience the everyday world where the transcendent is painfully absent (the next eleven chapters), and to finally arrive at stasis (the last two chapters). This paper is a description of and commentary on each of the 21 chapters of the film.
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Avila, Wanda E.
(2023)
"Baraka: A World Without Words: A Guided Meditation,"
Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 27:
Iss.
1, Article 57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.27.01.57
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol27/iss1/57
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