April 16 , 2005

Joan of Arcadia is a MUST adventure for seekers of enlightenment. It is a most interesting "reality". Joan is continually faced with "tasks" as God pops up in her life. God takes on different "forms" -- one moment a small girl, the next an old woman, the next a Rostafari Dredlock dude. The tasks are simple, mysterious, and much like Zen koans.

Joan questions God, gets angry, looses faith, and battles through the emotions and traumas of life. Her mom is a catholic who is falling back into faith, and dad, a detective, is mildly agnostic. The family individuals, and their interactions are positively in tuned with today's world.

Whoever writes the scripts is pulling from some very high teachings. While many who watch the show might see a Christian format, anyone who has entered the path of self-discovery as I know it will "get" the higher teachers and the zen mindset. God asks Joan to perform a task like completing a knitting project from childhood, and the impeccibility in the task completion leads to new understandings.

Writers and Actors present the complications of being in the human form and seeking enlightenment. It is a breath of very light air on a screen that has endless wastelands. Tune in and view something new and refreshing.