If you like to laugh, or play or be silly, or ever did as a child, you’ve got to get involved in helping spread the word about this film project that was brought to my attention yesterday.

Gwen Gordon, the film maker bouncing over there on the left, got her Masters Degree at CIIS with Brian Swimme. She is well-studied in all things cosmological taught by Brian and Thomas Berry. In class she was a most serious person, although she talked a lot about the cosmological power of play…  Now I get it! You’ve got to watch this delightful “trailer” promoting the film and her capital campaign on Kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/600627230/seriously-a-movie-about-play

The campaign runs through early October 2012. She has pledged to live in the computer until the campaign is complete and she has raised $25,000.oo. And she has her little dog Garbonzo in the computer with her. (Isn’t that a silly word? – Garbonzo?!) (Watch the trailer.)

What is the opposite of a performative contradiction? A performative diction? Well, that is her method of telling her story. She uses each opportunity, each moment that you are in her spell, to talk about play in a playful manner. Even the serious parts have playful aspects. Seriously! (Watch the trailer!) It is hilarious! I’d forgotten how good it feels to really laugh!

Besides intelligent and beautifully filmed interviews with leading “experts” about the role of play in human development and cosmic evolution we see various mammals bouncing around on a trampoline, and a turtle playing soccer. Seriously!

I’ll bet you my lunch money that this film starts a revolution of fun and games that saves the world.

Go to the website on Kickstarter.com. Give generously. Spread the word. Then go out and play!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/600627230/seriously-a-movie-about-play

The focus of Larry Glover’s writing and website, “wild resiliency!”, is to highlight the cosmological power of resiliency innate in all life, and thus the life force. He periodically highlights and writes about how the cosmological power of resiliency shapes our individual and collective lives.

For example he recently posted about a study by the Rockefeller Foundation “Resilience: A Literature Review” about scientific literature covering social, urban, institutional, personal and ecological resilience (September 4, 2012 post).

Resiliency is a type of “psychic energy”, like “love”, that organizes and directs our inner and outer life. “Psychic energy” is a primary organizing idea in the thought and writing of Thomas Berry, who elaborating on the idea from Teilhard de Chardin.

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