The Director’s Cut

The Dream Bus Tours: Director’s Cut

What if everything you’ve been told about enlightenment is… just another story? In this irreverent and insightful Director’s Cut, filmmaker Clare Cherikoff takes us on a wildly original ride through the myths, memes, and quite posssibly some misunderstandings of non-duality. With forensic curiosity and a good dose of dry wit, she gently dismantles the spiritual cliché that “man’s consciousness is God’s consciousness,” revealing a far more grounded (and oddly freeing) perspective. Featuring animated oddballs, brain science, philosophical sucker punches, and a suspiciously driverless bus, this film is both a satire and a fresh take on the age-old search for awakening. Watch slowly rather than in one go! Below are the chapter markers to make it easier. You may laugh. You may question everything. Or you may just enjoy the ride.

00:00 Welcome to the Directors Cut of the Dream Bus – A questionable timetable for enlightenment

00:00:55 Clare welcomes you to the beginning of the illusion

00:03:44 Episode 1: Official Intro to Dream Bus Tours (The original dilemma of Duality is revealed)

00:07:16 Clare Speaks on Satsang Circus 00:12:24 Episode 2: Satsang Circus – An industrial complex of enlightenment

00:20:25 Clare Speaks: On Advaita Alley - teachers wrapping Oneness in twoness

00:21:35 Episode 3: Advaita Alley – Where Non-Duality Teachers Sell You Homework

00:31:20 Clare Speaks: On Therapy theatre

00:32:00 Episode 4: Therapy Theatre – Healing the Self You Don’t Have

00:41:30 Clare Speaks: On gurus bathing in Awareness

00:44:00 Episode 5: Awareness Arcade – Insert Coin to Watch the Watcher

00:57:00 Clare Speaks: The long path and there Gateless way

00:57:00 Episode 6: Tibet – Now with 50% Less Incense!

01:14:00 Clare Speaks: Seekers in straight jackets

01:15:25 Episode 7: Seeker’s Sickness Psych Ward – The Diagnosis Is: Seeking!

01:28:30 Clare Speaks: On prison pretending to be freedom

01:30:40 Episode 8: Prison of Presence – Welcome to the Mindfulness Maximum Security Wing

01:39:20 Clare Speaks: When “No One” Cheats on Their Wife

01:40:50 Episode 9: Gurus Behaving Badly – Warning: May Contain puppets looking for transcendence

01:52:30 Clare Speaks: Introducing the Radicals on Safari

01:54:00 Episode 10: Advaita Amusement Park – Enlightenment Has a Fast Pass

02:06:20 Clare Speaks: Intro to an Advaita poem

02:06:40 Episode 11: Advaita Island – Shipwrecked With the Selfless

02:12:50 Clare Speaks: Awards for Best Actor in a Role of No Role

02:13:30 Episode 12: NondualityWood – Where Fame Meets Formlessness

02:20:30 Clare Speaks: James Bond on Crete with Andreas Müller

02:21:20 Episode 13: Non-duality in Crete – Ruins and Realisations

02:31:10 Clare Speaks: Dr Who to the rescue

02:34:30 Episode 14: A Ride in the TARDIS – Time is Just a Concept, But We’re going to India anyway

02:41:09 Clare Speaks: Right Hemisphere Take the Wheel

02:43:08 Bonus Track: The Code of Non-Duality is Cracked – Two Brains Walk Into a Bar

02:55:07 Love is the Punchline – Final Reflections, Fewer Instructions