Kasangga mo ang Langit
(hosted by Rey Langit and Reyster Langit, RPN Channel 9 – special feature on Ganap, a Filipino spiritual practice. July, 2002).
Filming of the event took place in Mount Banahaw followed by interviews in Manila.
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Premier showing on San Diego’s KCLA – Channel 14 and Cox Cable – Channel 95. This show included an introduction into Apostol's healing arts clinic and demonstration of the Filipino martial arts. Healthy Trends: Alternative Radio for the Mind, Body, and Spirit After Ina Facucad (right) placed her hands over the hands of her apprentice, Jeff Cohen, during a treatment, he was able to "see" the inner structures throught the transfer of a higher vision. Bontoc, Mountain Province. Photo © copyright Jeff Cohen.
Executive Producer: Robert Sprowls
Producer / Host: Agnes Tate
Director: Art Camacho
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Hosted by Dr. Romel Axibral, August 2005
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The Nature of Healing
(Documentary in the making – produced by Jeffrey Cohen.)
Synopsis of film:
Two young brothers from the affluent hills of Marin County California in their search to survive a confrontation with the grim face of crippling tragedy and the simultaneous loss of their father, lose their innocence over the subsequent 20 years yet gain a measure of illumination in their climb back to the light.
The dramatic journey that Jeff and Gordon Cohen have been on since Jan 1978 when Gordon suffered a paralyzing automobile accident and two weeks later their father died which inspired Jeff to take the reins of the tragic situation and seek out the opportunity embodied in the need to find relief and hope for his brother, himself, their family and – as providence would have it – others in need of the same.
Eventually, exhausting the offerings of modern medicine to seek help from an unlikely source in the Philippines…. Ina Facucad, a native female shaman from a primitive yet complex and closed agrarian society practicing a form of healing as old as time is measured in that culture. A people of proud warriors who practiced ancestor worship along with healing arts, cultivated rice in stone terraces with complex gravity irrigation systems while practicing head hunting and animal sacrifice.
This film, which started out as an archival library about the oral traditions of the healing arts in the Philippines, morphed into the chronicling of the reuniting between The Cohen Brothers and Ina Facucad who together had spent ten years 1980-1990 working to make Gordon able to function normally again. In fact the opportunity to go back to the Philippines to continue filming re-started all over again for the initial goal of helping Gordon to be healed and rehabilitated.
As life teaches, we weave and are woven into a web of experiences and therefore interactions with unexpected outcomes. Gordon is yet to be walking though he has become an accomplished practicing doctor of Chinese medicine, author, and authority on native herbs. As for Jeff, he has evolved from a promising musician in the Hendrix era to becoming a renowned pioneer in bridging the gap between indigenous healing arts and the modern medical model.
For further information, please contact:
Jeffrey Cohen jefcoh8@yahoo.com
Hilot Therapy Clinic (415) 250-1777
Rest-a-Head Therapeutics www.restaheadinc.com
The Hands of Time is a short overview of more than 90 hours of footage shot in the Philippines over the past 30 years. What started out as two brothers' journey to find help for Gordon Cohen's condition after suffering a paralyzing automobile accident, turned into a collection of encounters with many traditional folk healers, who have shared their knowledge and experience with the Cohen Brothers' quest. Still to be crafted into their story, the amazing footage serves as archival video footage preserving some of the invaluable oral traditions of the Philippine healing arts.
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