The 21st Century Journey into the heart of darkness “…It’s Hell in Earth” a headline in the Washington Times read this morning, estimating a U.N. employee on the ground in Haiti after the catastrophic 7.0 quake last Monday, which laid waste materials to the poorest country on this planet. Equally apocalyptic headlines plaster every important news source from art print to the internet this morning: “…It’s the pitch-dark day for Port-au-Prince,” claimed Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive in another document. One hundred thousand are presumed inactive, as the count mounts body-by-body stacked in mass graves with the literal truck-loads, while crude hospitals will be set up in school yards. Your wounded are lined up on make-shift beds of cardboard and blue tarp as two-by-fours splint cracked limbs and I.V.Is actually dangle from tree offices like bird feeders. Survivors desperate for drinking water rip conduits from walls to siphon exactly what little moisture remains for their galvanized veins. The headers and images coming out of Haiti this week read like Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” and not Wednesday morning news, as I sift through the heartbreaking headlines plus sip my warm Starbucks decaf Americano with cream.Dancing With Destiny is a feature-length documented film by Bruce Weaver, due to launch later this year. Though the illustrations or photos from Haiti are devastating, they are certainly not surprising to Weaver. His excited, if not painful first picture is a journey into the coronary heart of darkness that Weaver asserts is the inevitable outcome of some sort of planet out of balance and perilously all around a point of no return, according to the films’ solar panel of expert witnesses. The video is both a personal process of one man’s radical passion for the earth, of indigenous parents, of all things wild and unindustrialized, and an uncomfortable wake-up-call all at once. The dread playing out in Haiti this week is definitely but a shrill “…cymbal crashing despite a back story involving global events playing such as one of Beethoven’s turbulent symphonies,” because Weaver has said:  recent tsunamis in Indonesia, the levy break in Innovative Orleans, the polar caps melting including ice cream on a sweltering summer day into an water presently being Hoovered of 90% of that species—– the largest mass extinction given that “The Great Dying,” 241 million years ago, when 96% of all underwater life went extinct, in addition to 70% of terrestrial vertebrates. Conditions in Sudan create Dante’s Inferno read like a Nostradamus prophecy as well as the routine rape of the Planet’s precious rainforest bio-diversity closely resemble the psychotic serial rapist who holds their victim captive, and returns over and over again to satisfy an insatiable desire for more. Though probably none of these events come to be a surprise to Weaver, given just about all he has studied on the topic connected with Earth-Changes, and his travels of the earth, the heartbreak he feels is definitely palpable throughout his film.”…This is a fantastic drama unfolding in front of our eye, and it’s of mythic size.”  -Dr. John Todd  From the time Bruce ended up being eight years old he has were built with a recurring dream, filled with photographs of atomic plumes rising over the Earth, the barren surroundings below stripped of green and blue and living (save a few unenviable survivors scavenging for food and water) something like reruns of Soylent Eco-friendly on late-night T.V. Disturbing images for anyone, let alone an adolescent boy who had no enterprise dreaming such dreams, preferably, free to be follow his / her exuberant curiosity, undisturbed, that will lured him like the Pied Piper all day into the woods behind his or her rural Missouri home exactly where he could be found skipping stones and turning them too, to help marvel at nature’s countless supply of mysteries. The natural planet held Bruce captive and not Sizzling Wheels or G.When i. Joes as with other boys their age.  Later in life, Bruce took the way that many young men without indicates do, of joining mid-air Force at the earliest possible age in order to explore the earth beyond rural Missouri and start his initiation into manhood. Seeing that fate would have it, he located himself outfitted in full chemical-warfare tools, complete with gas mask, accomplishing drills under the cover of darkness, loading nuclear war-heads about F-4 nuclear fighter jets, as well as B-52 bombers. It was then that Bruce’s apocalyptic goal images transformed into a horrific reality: personally hand-holding hundreds of fischer warheads, positioning them to execute their particular unholy mission as if loading United parcel service packages onto a vehicle for holiday deliveries. This individual repeatedly asked to be released from this duty and fulfill his / her commitment to his country with electronics or computer technological know-how. Finally, an accident that virtually severed a finger with his fantastic repeated requests to be repositioned stumbled him an early discharge, within “honorable conditions.”  This event at 20 years of age profoundly altered the course of his life, and encouraged him to the realization in which human beings are engaged in a very real dance with fate, increasingly divorced from as well as out-of-step with what should be an ongoing as well as intimate relationship with the natural community.”…The only real danger that exists is man himself. They are the great danger, and we will be pitifully unaware of it. We know absolutely nothing of man, far too little. Their psyche should be studied, since we are the origin of all arriving evil.”   – Carl Jung Were this not for these disturbing yet formative images and ordeals however dark and straight-up depressing they were Bruce may not have come to health care so deeply for the The planet, nor would he have got traveled the world to finally meet remarkable men and women whom share this same love and love. Others like Dr. John Todd or Father Thomas Berry, similarly motivated to preserve nature, habitats, local peoples and sacred traditions to right injustices where the discover them, and regard The Wisdom of Nature as holy. These meetings with like-minded Earth-stewards was crowned seeds of the film gripping him to tell a modern-day tale of the Earth in peril, and allow a voice to these additional great minds, each word of caution of our collective destiny need to we fail to heed these kind of multiple warning signs.           ”…We’ve already attack the iceberg. We’re the proverbial frog in the pail on the wood stove (boiled to death after failing to jump out because the temperature rose only incrementally). We are a flood, we are the asteroid. We better learn how to be the ark”.   -Thomas Friedman Chapter One in Dance with Destiny, is titled “Prophesy”: prophetic stories connected with indigenous peoples the world-over, foretelling this events of today with an unsettling montage of images that bring us directly into the broken cardiovascular of the filmmaker, for humans’ disregard of nature: disturbing, in a word, but when you have the stomach for it, touch on. The second chapter, “Face regarding Darkness” is no less uncomfortable, simply because it urges us to look at the actual mirrored reflection of our individual darkness, a necessary first step the real deal change. The intellect is implicated here, as the seed starting of mans contempt regarding nature, numbing our discomfort to the violence perpetrated against the Soil, in fact encouraging us to celebrate mans victories over nature. In Chapter About three: “Sleepwalking into the Apocalypse,” as Papa Thomas Berry says hence humbly, “…We thought we were creating a ask yourself world for our children,Inches when in fact what we are coming up with for our children and grandbabies is a future perilously close to fischer war, wide-spread water and food shortages, unprecedented loss of bio-diversity, and a weight of toxic waste products we are deferring to future generations. Chapter Several audaciously proclaims, “its Too Late,” in which we meet the Mamos or Kogi seniors who issue to you, “Younger Brother” an urgent warning, “…make the payment and ready ones soul.” If we help to make our way through this specific dark passage that leads us all to chapter five, “Gaia’s Give back,” we may sense generally there, the presence of a tiny flame playful in us; a flames that protects all that is definitely wild and natural in addition to sacred, until we go to the sixth and closing chapter titled, “Hokahey!” Your way is a heroes journey; one who brings us full-circle to our accurate obligation as human beings, to live passionately, with dignity as well as nobility on the Earth, in victorious celebration of The Wisdom regarding Nature. Single-handedly crafted, Dance With Destiny defines “guerilla filmmaking.”  Bruce Weaver is filmmaker, sound-man along with editor. His journey had taken two years, and with his photographic camera on his back, he / she traveled the globe from the Sierra Nv mountains of Columbia the place he met the Kogi folks, then dotted a option to the Himalayas and on into Southerly India where he attained the “madmen” of Bengal, the Bauls, whoever primitive earth-center spiritual practices fueled his work with The Sacred. The grandeur of the Canadian Rockies plus the wisdom of the Native United states traditions continued to really encourage his work, leading them to post-Katrina New Orleans and Tn, where he met together with the late pioneer of the strong ecology movement, Father Thomas Berries, who at ninety-two, inspired the actual film with his wisdom as well as undying love of the earth, transferring it like a torch so that you can Bruce as a grandfather passes his / her legacy to the next generation. Just like a conductor of a symphony, Bruce unifies each one of a kind voice in one passionate shout for the future of our planet and also our shared humanity. Inside the true spirit of independent filmmaking, Dance with Destiny is man’s heartfelt devotion in addition to prayer for the Earth. Bruce Weaver is a 2008 scholarship winner and graduate of the prestigious Vancouver Flick School, and director/filmmaker of numerous shorter films on the subject of sustainability, permaculture, hallowed traditions and Earth-centered practices. Check out his website to see distinctive features an more about her film:  Bruce maybe be approached via    filmmaker.dharma@gmail.com