Karma (Part 4)

Karma (Part 4)[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
5/14/2000
Cast
Joe Frank, Larry Block, Zak Block, Jack Kornfield
Format
Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Karma (Part 3)
Followed by:	Karma (Part 5)

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Karma (Part 4) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on May 14, 2000.

Synopsis

• Joe: back at the psychiatrist; Kate wants to see Joe torn to pieces; carrying the past with us. New age teaching that the past is irrelevant. More on the relationship as a baby. A list of nice things to do every day. Smiling while unhappy.
• Jack Kornfield: gods disguised as a dove and a hawk test a wise king.
• Larry Block: a romantic relationship with the bicycle riding older woman down the hall is discovered by his daughter. The family plans for a breakup which never happens.
• Joe: silly new age teachings at Science of Mind Church, would be Hollywood types, LA as a den of poseurs.
• Kornfield: right speech, the power of words. A prince is asked to give up his children.
• Larry: taking LSD and watching a new age speaker Eric Butterworth say that you can change you life by changing your thoughts. The futility of talking therapy. Larry critiques Kornfield.
• Joe: Joe asks the audience why they're listening. He joins Kate for dinner while exhausted, she picks on a Korean couple. He visits her house later. They drive to Mt. Wilson. They argue about sex. Kate attacks Joe.
• Kornfield: a teacher slaps a student who is hung up on a past relationship.

Music

• "Spacebeach" - Arling & Cameron (from Music for Imaginary Films, 1999) | YouTube

• "Brazil" - Antonio Carlos Jobim (from Stone Flower, 1970) | YouTube

• "Re-arrange" - Cinematic Orchestra (from Talkin Inside The Beat, 1999) | YouTube

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