http://www.comfortqueen.com/loudenclear-comfortcast-the-power-of-story Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.comfortqueen.com/loudenclear-comfortcast-the-power-of-story/comment-page-1#comment-863 IRENE Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:13:59 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/loudenclear-comfortcast-the-power-of-story/#comment-863 Hello Jennifer, I listened to your podcast and visited Ms. Baldwin's web site. She is an inspiring person. I was particularly impressed by her story of the South African tribe. Our Western society is so much away from that "primitive" way of thinking, and into an ever growing disciplinary, high-tech structure that reproduces violence and criminality. Our society is also far away from the storytelling process. It relies so much on TV and cinema and song writers for its entertainment.And what kind of entertainment this is! Guided, prefabricated, clonated. It is also worth thinking of the concept of entertainment in our times: it is no longer the "education of the soul" that the Ancient Greek "psychagogia" ment, when the great poems of antiquity were creating their stories that we still admire. Let us think that the great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey were narrated down through generations of people, before being put to writing. Just think about it: so many people involved, so much human experience, art, heart and soul. So, the Storycatcher idea is definitively a work worth studying, and a process worth following. Thank you Jennifer for bringing it to our attention in such a sweet way, introducing us to this special writer. Hello Jennifer,
I listened to your podcast and visited Ms. Baldwin’s web site. She is an inspiring person. I was particularly impressed by her story of the South African tribe. Our Western society is so much away from that “primitive” way of thinking, and into an ever growing disciplinary, high-tech structure that reproduces violence and criminality.
Our society is also far away from the storytelling process. It relies so much on TV and cinema and song writers for its entertainment.And what kind of entertainment this is! Guided, prefabricated, clonated.
It is also worth thinking of the concept of entertainment in our times: it is no longer the “education of the soul” that the Ancient Greek “psychagogia” ment, when the great poems of antiquity were creating their stories that we still admire.
Let us think that the great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey were narrated down through generations of people, before being put to writing. Just think about it: so many people involved, so much human experience, art, heart and soul.
So, the Storycatcher idea is definitively a work worth studying, and a process worth following.
Thank you Jennifer for bringing it to our attention in such a sweet way, introducing us to this special writer.

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