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“I really believe that the Mahabharata is the greatest story ever,
and it is my honor to tell it to you.” - Hari Meyers, Storyteller
The Mahabharata DVD set (3 DVDs - 4.5 hrs)
Storytelling by Hari Meyers
Performed February 2019 at the dhyana Center, Sebastopol, CA
Musicians: Kim Atkinson & Gordon Pugh
Videographer: Alan Fitch - Visual Story Media
Editing: Daniel Narayan Meyers
Brilliantly chronicled in this timeless epic are the conflicts and actions which moved our world from a more noble age to this debased period, from which we pray and aspire to awaken. It is a tale not only of the affairs of men and kings but also of the unseen force we call “the Will of Time,” revealing the struggle in every soul as individual dreams come up against the collective reality of this world.
Disc 1: Prologue: The Contest in Heaven
between Veda Vyasa and Lord
Ganesha
Part 1: Of Lineage, Youthful
Promise and Adult Betrayal
Disc 2: Marriage, the Dice Game and Exile
Disc 3: The War, the World After and the
Path to Heaven
Teachers have claimed for millennia that “Understanding even a portion of the Mahabharata will loosen the knots of karma, advance and enhance your life.”
What people are saying....
"We really enjoyed it and found it to be very well done-- great editing plus the gorgeous illustrations that were added in."
"The music could not have been better and created a real ground to the story."
"You have created something that will last a long time ... it really is a gift."
"The richness of Hindu/Vedic mythology is outstanding. We thank you so much for great entertainment and wisdom! "
Ramayana
This timeless tale from ancient India is beloved the world over and is the quintessential tale of love and loss. It presents a paragon of devotion in its many forms: to one’s truth, to honest action, to love and
ultimately to God. This tale is not only vibrantly told but is accompanied by three splendid musicians and the tales is illustrated throughout with 178 images from classical Indian art.
Ramayana
(1 DVD, 1 hour and 55 minutes)
$15 plus $5 S&H
The Body-Snatcher's
Graveyard Tales
This delightful series of 25 stories and an interconnecting tale should be as famous as the “Arabian Nights” but is virtually unknown in the west. Hari Meyers re-tells the tales from an ancient Indian classic, “Vetala Panchiavinshatika”, with tremendous enthusiasm and charm. Noble King Vikram must carry a corpse inhabited by a Body-snatcher across a graveyard on a moonless night. The Body-Snatcher tells one tale or riddle after another (25 in all) leading ultimately to an awakening that saves the king’s life.
390 pages with over 40 original illustrations by the gifted Marlene Jacob
$20 plus $5 shipping and handling
442 pages……….$20 plus $5 shipping and handling.
Our Shadows Spread Like Stains
The stories in this collection move from specific mid-life crises and challenges encountered by various characters to an archetypal and universal understanding of the inevitable arc of the life-passage and an acceptance of the ephemerality of it all. The stories move progressively towards a timeless mythology. Each story presents a transformation that occurs when a specific hope or dream shatters against one or more of life’s inescapable hard edges.
The Norse Saga (1 DVD, 1 hour and 40 minutes)
$15 plus $5 S&H
Three Excerpts from the Norse Saga:
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The Norse Saga
I begin the saga with All-Father Odin's thirst for knowledge. Every morning he would send forth the Ravens, Memory and Thought, to fly over the world of Asgard and report to him all they saw. But he wanted to know more than current events; he desired to know of the word’s beginning. To learn of this he traded his right eye for one drink from Mimir’s Spring, the Fount of Knowledge. He learned more than he wanted to know; he learned of the world’s foreordained ending as well as its timeless beginning and became obsessed with finding some way to ward off the inevitable doom. Through these tales weave as well the fabulous figures of mighty Thor, of cunning Loki, of innocent Freya, the Keeper of the Apples of Immortality, and many others.
My version of the Norse Saga is 1 hour and 40 minutes and is in four sections:
Part 1 —Odin ad the Desire for Knowledge
Part 2 — Loki and the Desire for Power
Part 3 —Thor and the Desire for Renown
Part 4 — All Things Come Round; Desire for Peace, Love and Justice
Hariyana
Originally published in 1979, the narrative memoir “Hariyana,” the tale of one man’s search for God in the India of the late ’60s, has become something of an underground classic amidst the literature that chronicles the hippie road scene (the hashish trail) in its “heyday.” The discourses of the colorful Bengalu sage, known as “Father,” are beautifully woven into this fascinating narrative.
248 pages with illustrations……$20 + $5 shipping
