Everyone knows that countless East Side neighborhoods are falling apart, but few understand how or why. That’s why it’s so important that the people who are working daily to combat the problem get a wide audience. Now that’s possible, thanks to a new film documentary by Marc Odien, Flipped, which hopes to uncover one of the biggest problems, real estate flipping, and expose it to as many people as possible.

“The plan,” says John Buckley of the Maharishi Enlightment Center of Buffalo, “is to build centers, palaces, in all the major population centers around the world and offer the programs for enlightenment that Maharishi teaches. Basically as you meditate individually—your brain becomes more coherent and your actions become more in tune with nature and natural things in a more life-supporting way.”