Ep279: The Missing Peace - Miles Neale & Matthew Freidell
I am joined by Miles Neale & Matthew Freidell to discuss their documentary film “Missing Peace”.
Available on Youtube, iTunes, SoundCloud & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.
The film’s description states: “Borobudur is a 1250-year old Buddhist monument located on the island of Java, Indonesia. It was designed as a kind of ancient technology to broadcast the frequency of peace across the world. The only problem is---Borobudur is missing its most important piece. Follow along as two masters, from two different traditions, come together with the goal of reactivating this powerful relic at a time when the Earth needs it most.”
Miles and Matthew share the remarkable story of the making of the film, including the powerful life lessons both men learned along the way,
Miles and Matthew also reflect on the power of pilgrimage, learning to trust intuition in life and the creative process, and the strategies they employed in dealing with local land spirits on location.
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Chance meeting in Kathmandu
01:57 - Matthew’s creativity
03:39 - Synchronistic moments
04:07 - Origin story of the collaboration
05:22 - Matthew’s ontological suicide through plant medicines
06:42 - Embracing good and evil, coming to Bali
08:04 - Meeting of minds
09:54 - Thin veils since pandemic
10:43 - Miles’ stagnation and facing a choice
12:45 - Going to Bali during lockdown to follow an intuitive call
15:09 - Synergy and how to find courage and clarity
17:21 - Waypoints in learning to trust intuition
18:05 - Costly decisions and visions of Asclepius
21:25 - Healing temples of Ancient Greece
22:41 - From hyper-rationality to the mythopoetic
24:30 - Contact with discarnate entities
26:10 - Matthew’s experiences in the Amazon & encountering Chenrezig
29:57 - Spirit encounters in Bali
32:21 - Holistic perspective of wisdom cultures
36:03 - Turning off connection to the unseen world
38:10 - Borobudur monument has been turned off
38:57 - Strategies for dealing with entities
41:39 - The Missing Piece documentary
42:47 - Stupas are ancient technologies
44:46 - The power of pilgrimage
46:46 - Uniting Geshe Tenzin Zopa with a Javanese tantrika Mangku Jitho
51:45 - Shiva Buddha prophecy with global import
55:21 - Who is Geshe Tenzin Zopa?
55:52 - Who is Mangku Jitho?
56:38 - Mangku Jitho’s collection of cursed kris knives
57:43 - Reflections on the Shiva Buddha
59:14 - The joint ceremony to reactivate Borobudur
01:04:25 - The chatra and what do we worship?
01:06:50 - Challenges of filming in remote locations
01:08:49 - Style, the artistic process, and AI
01:11:44 - Matthew’s hero’s journey
01:16:06 - Invitation to the viewer
Watch “The Missing Peace”:
Watch previous episode with Miles Neale:
Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James