Art and Consciousness
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2010
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What moves me most profoundly about art as narrative (whether it’s literature or film or dance or theatre or music) is its ability to communicate our human experience, its ability to reflect our shared human experience, and its ability to raise our consciousness. What that means is every book I read, every film I watch, every piece of art I see has the potential to deepen my consciousness, to reflect a larger truth about who I am, to - in short - make me a better person. In this episode, I focus on the narrative of film and how it enables us to learn lessons, remember the lessons of the past, find heroes, see ourselves in the characters, and perhaps know ourselves better. As part of our individual and collective consciousness, stories tell us about our culture, our history. They reveal our strengths and weaknesses; they make the tragedies more palatable and the victories more epic. Join me for a discussion of this, for a summary of my favorite films that reflect a consciousness about animals, and for a description of what I think is the most beautiful and important movie ever made.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudreau from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.8 | I founded compassionate cooks to |
| 0:23.4 | empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about |
| 0:28.0 | veganism and animal rights. You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:34.9 | Compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:37.2 | Aaa technology, it took me about an hour to get things up and running to start |
| 0:41.9 | recording to talk to you today and it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:45.2 | Before we get started I just want to acknowledge some listener sponsors, some members |
| 0:49.8 | for our podcast and want to thank first Julia Kalish, K-A-L-I-S-H for her support. I didn't have an email from Julia |
| 0:59.0 | but I did have her support and I wanted to thank her profusely. I did find Julia has a blog called eat run yoga.com so I wanted to |
| 1:09.4 | give a shout out to that blog. |
| 1:13.0 | So thank you, Julia, for your support, for your membership |
| 1:16.0 | and for spreading the word and doing what you do. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you also to our next listener sponsor Dory Bixler who became a member and |
| 1:26.7 | sent an email and wrote I could go on and on about how you have influenced my life |
| 1:31.8 | but instead want to let you know that what you are |
| 1:35.2 | doing is making a bigger impact on the lives of others including those who have no |
| 1:39.9 | voice. I just want to say ditto to all that you've heard from others thanking you. I mean a real |
| 1:45.6 | big ditto. I'd like to dedicate my membership to Velcro, our feline companion, who left |
| 1:51.8 | us in January. I'm so sorry,ory, you know how hard that is. |
| 1:56.3 | And to John, who has been my advocate since the day I emailed him that I was giving up |
| 2:02.2 | Dairy. I was listening to your podcast back in 2007, December 2007. |
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