Infinity: The Ultimate Trip

Hardly a month goes by where we lose one of our friends and co-workers as they move on to the world of spirit. What happens when one leaves the physical world and enters the world of the spiritual dimension? Filmmakers Sharron Rose and Jay Weidner have presented answers to these and other questions in their latest DVD, Infinity: the Ultimate Trip which contains interviews with some of the worlds most renowned thought leaders on death and dying. Featuring Gregg Braden, Dannion Brinkley, Renate Dollinger, Stanislav Grof, John Holland, Dzogchen Ponlop, Robert Thurman, Alberto Villoldo , Neale Donald Walsch and Brian Weiss, the film takes viewers on a journey into the rich and compelling notion that we are all part of an intricately connected greater existence. It addresses the deep questions that many are asking personally now as global changes and challenges have affected all walks of humanity and life.

Bob: In regards to the name of this film, which is dealing with Infinity, could you please tell us a little about Infinity: the Ultimate Trip. What really is infinity?

Sharron: Alberto Villoldo who is in the film and also one of its producers describes Infinity in this way," "The point of all the great spiritual teachings is that you can step into Infinity today, reside in Infinity consciously and source from there. Within Infinity, you become the architect and the dreamer of the great matrix of expression and creation. If you don't do that then you are caught in someone else's dream, in someone else's nightmare. The practice of infinity is really about dreaming your world into being."

Bob: Isn't that an incredible statement about dreaming your world into being. Of course he also noted that there is a difference between infinity and eternity which is the stuff from Western religions especially eternity which is an infinite number of moments. Infinity is before time, after time, unbound by time, in other words it's boundless. Villoldo also noted that non-linear time is informed by past and future. Linear time is only informed by the past. That's an extraordinary statement.

Sharron: I think that it is part of the reason why people in the West are so afraid of death. Because we are taught from the moment we are born to think that this is it. There is a beginning and there is an end and that is all there is, after death it's just oblivion. One of the main problems of this time period, the Kali Yuga, is that in dealing with all of the stress, confusion and nightmares that we have to deal with from day to day, we cannot see ourselves beyond this material concrete realm. When we cannot see how much greater we are, that we are spiritual beings in material form then we get caught in these nightmares.

Bob: Is that what motivated you to create this film, Infinity?

Sharron: There were a number of motivations. One is that the mother of my husband Jay Weidner who is my partner in Sacred Mysteries and director of Infinity, passed away of cancer. He felt so sad that there was no way for him to tell her about all that he knew concerning the relationship between reality, death and life. That our journey it is so much greater than we ever imagined. Due to her upbringing and conditioning, he was unable to talk to her about these things. Therefore, as filmmaking is our medium, we chose to create Infinity: The Ultimate Trip as a means to bring this knowledge of our greater existence to others.

Also we had been interviewing Alberto Villoldo and the Qero Shamans of Peru for our film, Timewave 2013, talking about 2012 and their prophecies concerning the end of time. At the end of 2012 the Odyssey I express that every person experiences their own end of time. Each and every one of us will be faced with that moment, the end of time as we know it, and that moment is when we die. So this subject was very much in our consciousness. Alberto in his school, The Four Winds has a whole program for learning the art of dying consciously. So he was very interested in the concept for the film and decided to sign on as a producer.

We very much wanted this film to be of benefit to humanity. This has been a motivating factor in all of our work, opening people up to the possibility that we are so much more than we have been led to believe. Creating films that provide them with a mechanism for understanding this larger reality so they can re-empower their lives and feel that they are not just the victims of circumstances has been our goal. We feel that this is very important, especially these days with what we are seeing all around us. All the suffering, we are living in a world of so much suffering. What can each individual do to go beyond suffering to find the joy and bliss that is our true heritage. So we decided to speak to the experts and explore these realms of death and dying, of reincarnation, the life review, out of body experiences, near death experiences and the concept of infinity. Four people in the film talk about their near death and out of body experiences.