A 13-part worldwide series Presented by Ronald Eyre 12: West Meets East
Ronald EYRE goes in search of some Californian alternatives to the prevailing urban life-style that many of us Westerners enjoy, know about, and suffer from. He visits a household of American first-generation Sikhs, a bio-feedback practitioner, a group of people learning to grow old vigorously, shoppers puncturing the mysteries of wholesale and retail, suburbanites taking on responsibility for the land they live off and the food they eat: a rapid tour of new Californian initiatives overseen by THEODORE ROSZAK.
' What I see around me is a great religious appetite reaching out into areas that are not traditionally considered religious - therapy, consciousness, research, healing; a wish to work with the Earth, but not to wound it. People trying to salvage something of the spiritual traditions of the past and to bring these into their lives as a living and daily reality.'
Photography JOHN MCGLASHAN
Sound recordist MALCOLM WEBBERLEY Film editor DAVID THOMAS
Associate producer MISCHA SCORER Producer PETER MONTAGNON
Directed by JONATHAN STEDALL