Brian Cotnoir | Alchemical Art, Ensouling Statues, & The Underrated Value Of Going Inward
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Greg Carlwood
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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About Today's Guest: Brian Cotnoir is an alchemist, artist and award-winning filmmaker. His books include Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter, Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work, Alchemical Meditations, On the Quintessence of Wine and the Emerald Table. His film work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, HBO, PBS and other international venues.
His latest book is On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy and all of his work can be found at khepripress.com
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| 1:00.0 | we have ancestors, ancestors, ancestors, ancestors, ancestors thousand , billions of people beast, |
| 1:15.9 | thousand ... |
| 1:23.0 | Six ... |
| 1:24.1 | six ... |
| 1:25.0 | six is marriage, West call out will attend, those are extraordinary |
| 1:28.9 | to take the path less traveled |
| 1:30.5 | and cultivate a practice of appreciation for deeper meaning, |
| 1:33.9 | exploration of the inner world, |
| 1:35.5 | and bringing forth the truly inspired works of art |
| 1:38.3 | the numb, depressed, and desperate masses |
| 1:40.6 | don't even realize they need. |
| 1:42.9 | It is a trope of troubled times |
| 1:44.8 | that an aggressive authoritarian state |
| 1:46.7 | will destroy great works and burn true art |
| 1:49.3 | because their inspirational and emotional impact |
| 1:51.8 | could be a threat to said system. |
| 1:54.2 | But another path is to degrade the culture |
| 1:56.2 | to such a degree that nothing worth burning |
| 1:58.2 | even gets made anymore. |
| 2:00.3 | Might we ourselves be circling around a reality |
| 2:03.1 | of cheap plastic, mass production, endless scrolling |
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