under the influence: breathing life and spirit in/to a mediated world
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Under the Influence: Breathing Life and Spirit in/to
a Mediated World Rose Paca>e, MEd Media Studies Pauline Center for Media Studies
Los Angeles, CA PaulineCMS.com
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Our response in a noisy mediated world of stories
• The demands that are made on the human person, body, mind, spirit
• Asks of us personal, social and cultural responses
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What’s your story?
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Silence & the Word
A forgo>en aspect of communicaNon?
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RelaNonship between silence and the Word
• Alternate and balance • Integrate one with the other • To allow authenNc dialogue and achieve deep closeness between people
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CommunicaNon breaks down when
• Word & silence become mutually exclusive • Giving rise to confusion and coldness
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CommunicaNon acquires value and meaning when
The Word and silence compliment one another
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Silence is an integral part of human existence
When absent Words rich in content
cannot exist
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The word is all around us
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Who is my digital neighbor?
• Today we are living in a world which is growing ever “smaller” and where, as a result, it would seem to be easier for all of us to be neighbors.
• Though closer than ever deep divisions within our human family.
• On the global level we see a scandalous gap between the opulence of the wealthy and the u>er desNtuNon of the poor.
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• We have become so accustomed to these things that they no longer unse>le us.
• Our world suffers from many forms of exclusion, marginalizaNon and poverty,
• To say nothing of conflicts born of a combinaNon of economic, poliNcal, ideological, and, sadly, even religious moNves.
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Voices from the culture
• Movies about breathing, taking a breath • Listening • Silence • And someNmes … change
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From silence arises jusNce
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The word is all around us the word is us
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Personal silence
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In silence
We can listen and understand ourselves
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In silence
Ideas are born and deepen
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In Silence
We gain clarity and understanding of – What we want to say – What we expect from others – How we choose to express ourselves
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In silence
We allow others to speak
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In silence
We avoid being Ned to our own untested
point of view
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In silence
Space is created for mutual listening and deeper human relaNonships
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In silence we observe authenNc communicaNon
Facial expressions and body language are how people reveal themselves to one
another in love (or not)
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Silence is a powerful mode of expression
All human living is communicated
– Joy – Anxiety – Suffering
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Silence gives rise to acNve communicaNon
That requires – SensiNvity – A capacity to listen These manifest
• The true nature and measure of relaNonships
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In noise
• Silence is essenNal for discernment • To disNnguish what is important from what is insignificant or secondary.
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In silence
Deeper reflecNon helps us discover links between events
that at first seem unrelated
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In silence
We can become media mindful
• Evaluate informaNon
• Analyze messages
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The media mindful person
Then shares thoughaul and relevant opinions that give rise to an authenNc body of shared knowledge
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Create your own media environment, eco-‐system
A balance between – Silence – Words – Images – Sound
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Benefits of authenNc communicaNon
A culture of encounter, solidarity, good
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Search engines & social media
StarNng point for communicaNon
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Today the process of communicaNon is fueled by the search for answers
• Advice • Ideas • InformaNon • Answers
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People are bombarded by answers to quesNons
they have not asked
And needs they did not know they had
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Silence is precious
• So we can focus on important quesNons • Exercise discernment • In the informaNon surge and entertainment sNmuli in which we live
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The human condiNon sNll seeks existenNal meaning
• Who am I? • Why am I here? • What can I know? • What am I to do? • What may I hope?
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In silence
• We affirm those who ask these quesNons when we can give more than a hasty answer
• We then open the possibility for profound dialogue
• We call them to silent reflecNon • … and to reach into the depths of their being and open themselves to what God has wri>en on their hearts
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Constant flow of quesNons
• Demonstrates the restlessness of the human heart
• People constantly searching for truths of lesser or greater import
• … to give meaning to their lives
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We all yearn and search for truth
But we cannot rest content with a superficial
and unquesNoning exchange of skepNcal opinions
and experiences of life
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“When people exchange informaNon, they are already
sharing themselves, their view of the world, their hopes, their ideals”
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CommunicaNon is a human endeavor not technological – Pope
Francis • Who is my digitl neighbor? • The parable of the Good Samaritan, which is also a parable about
communicaNon. • Those who communicate, in effect, become neighbors. • The Good Samaritan not only draws nearer to the man he finds half dead
on the side of the road; he takes responsibility for him. • CommunicaNon is really about realizing that we are all human beings,
children of God. I like seeing this power of communicaNon as “neighborliness”.
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Pay a>enNon
Know where websites and social network sites are that can help
people find Nme for reflecNon
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Create
• Provide content for reflecNon • Prayer experiences • MeditaNon • Sharing the Word • Living the Word
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Tweet the Word
But concise phrases sNll need the context of a culNvated inner life
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World religious tradiNons: silence is a privileged state
For people to rediscover self and the Truth that gives meaning to all things
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The God of revelaNon needs no words
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In darkness God speaks in silence
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Eloquent, loving silence
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wHat we can discover in silence
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AuthenNc communicaNon = taking responsibility
• Whenever communicaNon is primarily aimed at promoNng consumpNon or manipulaNng others, we are dealing with a form of violent aggression
• like that suffered by the man in the parable, who was beaten by robbers and leh abandoned on the road.
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• The Levite and the priest do not regard him as a neighbour, but as a stranger to be kept at a distance.
• In those days, it was rules of ritual purity which condiNoned their response.
• Nowadays there is a danger that certain media so condiNon our responses that we fail to see our real neighbor.
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• EffecNve ChrisNan witness is not about bombarding people with religious messages,
• but about our willingness to be available to others “by paNently and respecaully engaging their quesNons and their doubts as they advance in their search for the truth and the meaning of human existence”
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learning to communicate anew is learning to listen and
contemplate -‐ as well as speak and act
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Along the way • Let our communicaNon be a balm which relieves pain and a fine wine
which gladdens hearts. • May the light we bring to others not be the result of cosmeNcs or special
effects, but rather of our being loving and merciful “neighbors” to those wounded and leh on the side of the road.
• Let us boldly become ciNzens of the digital world. • The Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of
communicaNon, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ.
• The Church needs to be a Church at the side of others, capable of
accompanying everyone along the way.
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Breathe, breathing, empowering others to breathe
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Silent contemplaNon
• Immerses us in the grandeur of God • And the source of Love • Who directs us to our neighbour • So we can feel their suffering • And as a response offer them
– The light of Christ – His message of life – His saving gih of the fullness of love
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Silent contemplaNon
• Leads us to the eternal Word, the Creator of the world
• Who becomes more present to us • Makes us aware of God’s plan being accomplished in history
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In silence we learn “to communicate that which we have seen and heard”
(1 Jn: 1-‐3)
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This mystery impels us
to become heralds of hope & salvaNon
and witnesses of that love which promotes human dignity
and builds jusNce and peace