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Subject: Stats, Facts, Figures on the emerging desire for people to Know Themselves?
Category: Relationships and Society > Religion
Asked by: satnam-ga
List Price: $75.00
Posted: 30 Nov 2004 20:39 PST
Expires: 30 Dec 2004 20:39 PST
Question ID: 436441
I am putting a proposal package for a film project about highly
evloved/ miraculous/spiritual people around the globe and need stats
to prove the audience is there.

Some of my thoughts are:
increase in people/society interest in the truth: Spirituality,
religion, Self-empowerment, increase in Awareness/Consciousness.
-People?s desire to find happiness within?knowing who they are more.
-Show the huge fascination with ?Teachers, Authorities, Gurus, Healers?
Why now?  Why this Program?

Show the Increase in:
1. Book Market-  Increase in sale of people buying these books
a. Self-help
b. Spirituality
c. Psychology
d. Philosophy

2. Films- Uplifting/Spiritual/Empowering in nature
a. Box office numbers
 i. Money
 ii. Attendance
 iii. Number of theaters
 iv. World distribution

b. ?The Passion?
c.  ?What the Bleep?
3. T.V.
a. Numbers from ?Reality Shows?- the huge increase in that type of viewing.
 i. ?Touched by an Angel?
 ii. Wayne Dwyers PBS Special ?Power of Intention?
 iii. James Campbell ?Power of Myth?
 iv. Michael Paylan?s show.


4. Radio- Desire for people to know
a. Bill Moyers Interviews
b. Public Radio

5. Increase in Alternative Methodologies
a. Figures on the amount of Studies being done on Alternative Healings
 i. Studies on the ?Power of Prayer?\
 ii. Noetics- Studying Consciousness-  What is THIS/LIFE all about?

b. Organizations for advancement of the Human Potential
 i. Number of new and emerging Schools
1. Meditation centers
2. Healing Centers
3. Spiritual Centers
a. Churches, temples, ashrams, yoga centers?, 
b. ?The Spiritual Cinema Circle?  Stephen Simon

6. Empowerment Events/Workshops/Retreats
a. How many?  
b. Increase from the past?

7. Anthropological Studies?

8. Quantum Mechanics
a. New Paradigms
b. Increase in Research
c. Close relationship to Ancient Wisdom

9. The Change in the U.S. from Christian to Spiritual but not
religious, from 1900-2004.

Request for Question Clarification by gentryunderwood-ga on 06 Dec 2004 09:26 PST
satnam, would it be useful for me to compile some stats from one or
more of the books i mentioned below (in the comments section)? how
much data are you looking for? or put another way, who are you trying
to sell? Maybe that would help clarify the kind of data you need?

-gentryunderwood

Clarification of Question by satnam-ga on 07 Dec 2004 14:35 PST
genrtyunderwood-
Thank you for your
Firstly, this info will be displayed a couple of different ways one is
in a proposal for investors showing the increase or growing trend in
people seeking empowerment/spirituality/truth through very hard facts
like studies on the power of thought, energy, healing, etc.
The second way we will present this is to have a opening montage of
these facts and figures flashed on a screen narratively speaking and
conveying these facts and figures to show or reveal the growing need
and desire of the power of the individual and collective beliefs and
intentions.  For example, the self-help book market went from
virtually nothing to 100's of millions of dollars in book sales in the
last 50 years.
For example, - Scientists have discovered that ?thought? is actually
pure energy and it is sent out or broadcast  from our bodies into the
universe.  Thoughts are actually transmitted from our bodies like a
radio  transmitter and then this ?energy? travels outward.
- And this ?thought energy?  has the ability to create reality.  And
science is now proving this point...

This is the type of info. I want to gather from a variety of sources
and many different angles.  My hope is to have a very comprehensive
and eye popping gathering of this trend of Self knowledge yearning in
collective population.

Does this help?
If those books have this type of info. then by all means extract what you can!

-Satnam
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Subject: Re: Stats, Facts, Figures on the emerging desire for people to Know Themselves?
From: gentryunderwood-ga on 01 Dec 2004 16:23 PST
 
Satnam,

this sounds like an interesting project! i'd love to hear more about it.

off-hand, you may want to look at the following for sociological and
theoretical research related to your inquiry:

_The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World_
by Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson. (also:
http://www.culturalcreatives.org/)

_Boomeritis_ by Ken Wilber (also: http://wilber.shambhala.com/)

_Bobos in Paradise_ by David Brooks

_The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western
Religious Tradition_ by James Herrick

_Stages of Faith_ by James Fowler

hope this helps! 

-gentryunderwood-ga

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