Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal - Three Films By Ken Burns
2010
Documentary, Self: William Segal
Documentary
William Segal (1904-2000) was a philosopher, publisher, writer, and painter who searched relentlessly and compassionately for meaning in the chaotic and distracted time we call the 20th Century. The student of such diverse masters as G.I. Gurdjieff and D.T. Suzuki, Segal helped bring Eastern and Western spiritual traditions together, always stressing what connected humanity rather than what differentiated it. In the last decade of his ... [+]