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Movie clip : Not really on spirituality but social psychology :
The Milgram experiment was a series of famous scientific studies of social psychology, intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant's personal conscience.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
Movie :
BK speak - how to be an Iron Age Royal.
(Sidenote : I happened to be in London on the weekend Princess Diana died, and laid flowers outside the Buckingham Palace gates on Sunday morning. At that time, there were about 10 bunches of flowers. I stayed the week, and was rather taken aback on the events and the flower carpets. Of course, this bit of "Bhakti" was before I became a BK. However I'll do it again.)
- • Obedience - The Milgram experiment by Stanley Milgram.
The Milgram experiment was a series of famous scientific studies of social psychology, intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant's personal conscience.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
Movie :
- • The Queen 2006, directed by Stephen Frears
BK speak - how to be an Iron Age Royal.
(Sidenote : I happened to be in London on the weekend Princess Diana died, and laid flowers outside the Buckingham Palace gates on Sunday morning. At that time, there were about 10 bunches of flowers. I stayed the week, and was rather taken aback on the events and the flower carpets. Of course, this bit of "Bhakti" was before I became a BK. However I'll do it again.)