With One Voice

Featuring 30 mystics from 14 spiritual traditions, With One Voice offers a spiritual message of universal love and compassion. Narrator Peter Coyote notes that—in reference to centuries of religious history, strife, and intolerance—“perhaps we've been looking for answers in the wrong places.” In With One Voice—produced by Matthew and Carol Flickstein, and directed by Eric Temple—the filmmakers traveled the world to interview a swami and a Sufi; several Buddhists from various traditions; rabbis and Catholic monks; shamans and yogis; a professor of Islamic studies (the only voice from Islam); a Quaker (the sole Protestant interviewed); a Native American elder; and others—all of whom are seeking, by different names and through different traditions, God. The documentary concludes with the participants' pithy messages to the world (“there is only one power,” “stop being fearful,” “be ruthlessly sincere”) along with shots of them in trance or meditation, each within his or her own tradition. “In the end,” says Coyote, “we are all mystics.” Bundled with a companion CD of meditation music by Michael Josephs, this is recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Gardner)