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e19 reality – quotes and composition
Season 2 Episode 19
(episode script)
[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]
Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer.
Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and action.
I produced 3 episodes in French, 15 in English as well as a series of bilingual blogs and videos. You can see and hear them at https://www.conscient.ca/.
Season 2 is about accepting reality, working through ecological grief and charting a path forward.
Today you’ll hear episode 1, called reality. It touches upon our perception of reality, the possibility of human extinction, eco anxiety and eco grief, hope, arts, storytelling and the wisdom of indigenous cultures.
The episode mixes quotations from 28 authors with field recordings from my simplesoundscapescollection and from my soundscape composition, Au dernier vivant les biens.
This poetic layering of ideas and sound is how I make sense of life and the world around me.
A complete transcript of this episode, including weblinks to the source each of quotation and field recording, can be found in the episode notes.
The rest of season 2 will feature interviews with thought leaders, in English ou en francais, about their responses and reactions to episode 1.
This is where I will be fleshing out some of the questions I raise in the episode with experts and thought leaders. Please stay tuned.
Veuillez noter que cette émission est également disponible en français.
[e11 Arrival 2017 09 19, Dash-8, Ottawa Airport, ON]
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Journalist Jack Miles, If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- Reality, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” Instead of being the method through which we observe a thing, reality is the nature or truth of this thing.
[e55 crôute, 2018 01 28, Duhamel QC]
Definition of Reality in Buddhism,Wikipedia
- Buddhism seeks to address any disparity between a person’s view of reality and the actual state of things.
[e97 raven 2018 07 24 Saturna Island, BC]
Writer Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
- We must tune in to our ability to see beyond the physical reality that surrounds us and awaken to the vast unseen world that exists.
[e169 chorus 2018 05 26 Duhamel, QC]
Cultural theorist Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
- Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and value.
Historian Paul Krause (also known as Hesiod),Francis Bacon’s Philosophy of Scientific Conquest
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