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Twelve Powers of Entertainment

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Original air date: Monday, July 28, 2014
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Oh the lights that shine!

We at Pop Conscious believe in the power of pop culture and the media to influence people positively, so we‘re going to find ways to illustrate the connection between entertainment and enlightenment using the Twelve Powers: Faith, Strength, Wisdom, Love, Power, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, Elimination, and Life. Can we do it? Tune in and find out!

Pre-Show Notes:
Each one has a human positive, and a human negative, as well as a spiritual expression.Wizard of Oz – Faith, Wisdom/Understanding, Heart, Will & Strength & Power,As Hero’s Journey –

  • Faith –
    • Music: George Michael “Faith”
    • Movie: Steve Martin – Leap of Faith
      • Count of Monte Cristo – “God believes in you” , Strength, (Revenge)
      • “If you build it, they will come” Field of Dreams
  • Strength – Perseverance
    • Music: “Strong Strong man to ever let you go,” – Rick Astley
    • Movie: Hulk, Avengers, Superheroes, Mutants – within us, but unknown – superherodb.com
    • TV: Wrestling, Bionics, Mutants
  • Wisdom
    • Music: Schoolhouse rock, It’s in Every One of Us – David Pomeranz, Don’t Eat Yellow Snow – Pop Music Wisdom
    • Movie: harry Potter’s Dumbledore, Gandalf in the LOTR
    • TV: Oprah, Daily Show, Perception & Eli Stone – visions,
    • Mentors: Jiminy Cricket, Fairy Godmother, Merlin, Obi Wan
  • Love – Harmonizing Force
    • Music: Higher Love – Steve Winwood, Divine Love Chant – Unity North Choir,
    • Movie: Butcher’s Wife – “Love is the leap that won’t be denied.” Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, (…& Malayna Dawn!)
    • Broadway: Wicked (For Good), Frozen
  • Power / Mastery of Self
    • Music: M-Pact, acapella
    • Movie: The Color Purple,
    • TV: Downton Abbey, Grey’s Anatomy, talent shows
  • Imagination
    • Music: With Imagination, I’ll Get There – Harry Connick Jr. (When Harry Met Sally – 25th Anniversary!) John Lennon – Imagine
    • Movie: Lego Movie, Life is Beautiful
    • Other: Disney, Broadway, Cirque du Soleil ! Read the rest of this entry

God, Jesus, and the Bible in the Media

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Click to listen to this episode on Unity Online Radio: God, Jesus, and the Bible in the Media

Original air date: Monday, April 07, 2014

Steve Carell as a modern-day Noah in Evan Almighty

Stacy and Malayna look at the creative ways in which the entertainment industry depicts Biblical characters and the stars of the Big Book: God and Jesus. From the flood with Russell Crowe as Noah or Steve Carell in Evan Almighty, Jim Caviezel as Jesus, or his animated South Park counterpart, to George Burns and Morgan Freeman as God, they’ll compare and contrast and look for the metaphysical Truth behind it all.
SHOW NOTES:
About the movie NOAH:

 

The cast includes representatives from the best of mythological and symbolic films!
Russell Crowe    …            Noah     (Gladiator)
Jennifer Connelly …        Naameh (Labyrinth)
Ray Winstone    …            Tubal-cain (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Beowulf, Hugo)
Anthony Hopkins …        Methuselah (Thor, Beowulf)
Emma Watson   …            Ila (Hermione in Harry Potter)
Logan Lerman    …            Ham (Percy Jackson)
Douglas Booth   …            Shem (Romeo & Juliet — with the girl from True Grit)

 

Biblical:
·         Charlton Heston – 10 Commandments as Moses, Ben-Hur as a Gladiator, The Greatest Story Ever Told as John the Baptist – a lot of Caesar related films too.
·         Steve Carrel in Evan Almighty Read the rest of this entry