Joan Halifax

Joan Halifax

Birthday: 1942-07-30

Place of Birth: Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Biography: Joan Jiko Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990.

Movies

Wake Up
Wake Up

Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over ...

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Aside From That
Aside From That

How do we live, knowing we are going to die? In search of answers, we probed the minds of atheists, ...

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Crazywise
Crazywise

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil...

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The Occult Experience
The Occult Experience

An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world....

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