Five books and an award-winning body of film exploring the outer edges of consciousness — built on firsthand accounts and true collaboration with leading thinkers. And now, that same rigor turns to political power. A Project Shift original — launching soon.
Politics runs on money, influence, and votes — but the receipts are scattered across a dozen government databases nobody reads. Focus Report pulls them together. The Senate, the House, the executive branch — scored on Integrity, Effectiveness, and Alignment using nothing but the public record: campaign finance filings, voting history, financial disclosures, legislative output. No pundits. No spin. No accusations — just the math, shown.
In this arena, a picture really is worth a thousand words. A single chart can reveal what a hundred news cycles bury — who funds whom, who shows up, who delivers. Focus Report lays it all out in clean, easy-to-read visuals anyone can understand in seconds. We don't tell you who the good guys are. We show you what the data says and let you decide. That's the shift: from being told what to think about power, to seeing exactly how it works.
Near-death experience research, the historical Jesus, Rumi for children, and grief made into art — written and edited with Dr. Pim van Lommel, Gregory Shushan, Richard Rohr, Huston Smith, Allen Dwight Callahan, and Coleman Barks. Available on Kindle, in print, and as an audiobook.
A raw, self‑deprecating, darkly comic memoir of childhood trauma and its long aftermath. Caught between an unhinged mother in the U.S. and a cold, calculating father in Germany — free spirits, as in free from empathy, whose whole child‑rearing philosophy was “every man for himself.” Most people hit rock bottom and look for a way back up. DJ Kadagian kept going. A hero’s journey for anyone who found that normal was never going to be enough.
An Amazon best‑seller. One hundred of the most extraordinary near‑death experiences ever recorded, drawn from a review of more than 4,000 firsthand accounts — evidence of the afterlife examined by a cardiologist, a historian of religion, and a filmmaker. Beyond the familiar tunnel and light, the subtler details of the NDE point somewhere stranger: that consciousness is not produced by the brain, and death is a transition rather than an end. Includes a bonus section on quantum physics and the near‑death experience.
Originally a documentary on Hallmark and the Discovery Channel, now expanded into a book carrying every uncut interview the film left out. A Franciscan friar, a comparative‑religion scholar, and a New Testament biblical scholar read the historical Jesus from three vantage points — the desert journey, the role of women in his ministry, and the radical, deliberately overlooked politics of his mission. Illustrated throughout with Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt, each work footnoted to a biography of the artist.
Persian mystic poetry for children, in the translations that brought Rumi to the English‑speaking world. Built for adults and children six and over to read aloud together, far from the digital clamor: each poem opens onto a conversation about love, kindness, and the soul, with a guide at the back offering an interpretation and questions for every one. Illustrated throughout — a screen‑free book for ages 5 to 12 and the grown‑ups reading with them.
After the death of her son Sean, artist and integration psychotherapist Deborah Kadagian began to paint. What started as an instinctive act of survival became a way of healing — grief documented brushstroke by brushstroke. Journal entries and vibrant paintings trace the path from unimaginable loss to a bond that outlasts it: art as therapy, love as the thing that does not end, and the beauty that can be pulled out of the depths of sorrow.
Project Shift's most innovative work reaches back in time, fusing moving poetry from renowned poets and film shot by skilled cinematographers, creating a complex brew that nourishes the soul as it stimulates the mind.
Designed to challenge, provoke, and inspire, these films hit on a broad spectrum of social, political, and spiritual issues while cutting across traditional lines of gender, race, religion, and ethnicity.
This collection of 21 short films helped launch a genre that has since found large, enthusiastic audiences worldwide.
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An award-winning documentary filmmaker, best-selling author, political researcher, and quantum economist. His films have aired on PBS, Gaia TV, the Discovery Channel, and Hallmark, and been featured at over 120 international film festivals. His work moves across near-death experience, radical spirituality, grief, and the outer edges of consciousness — built in collaboration with leading philosophers, academics, activists, poets, researchers, and theologians. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Authors Guild of America.
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