Pop Conscious
Pop Conscious: Connecting Entertainment and Enlightenment! **These are archived episodes that were shared on the former Unity Online Radio, also known as Unity.FM.** We talk about how we can find inspiration, spiritual themes and a deeper meaning in television, films, music, books, comic books, the internet and the arts. We look at how it affects our culture, ways our lives are enriched by all of it. Pop culture is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “modern popular culture transmitted via mass media and aimed particularly at younger people.” But can it be meaningful? Spiritual, even? The hosts of “Pop Conscious” think it can be, and that it can be fun to explore too! Malayna Dawn and Stacy Macris Ros will be your amateur cultural anthropologists, examining pop culture and spirituality. Where Pop Culture & Spirituality Unite!
Episodes
January 28, 2014 • 60 mins
Our Pop Conscious gals, Stacy and Malayna, offer steps and examples about how to be the consumer, but not be consumed by movies, television, music, and online entertainment. Take control and let it all enrich your life rather than letting it take control of your brain.
We can be in the world but not of the world and make everything a reflection of spiritual principle!
Guilty pop pleasures like The Bachelor or Twilight lead us to ex...
We can be in the world but not of the world and make everything a reflection of spiritual principle!
Guilty pop pleasures like The Bachelor or Twilight lead us to ex...
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February 4, 2014 • 60 mins
Malayna and Stacy are looking back on an action-packed February 2 in which we celebrate Super Bowl Sunday to find more than might be expected behind the sports, advertising, and half-time performances and reflect on the lessons of the movie Groundhog Day.
As a fan of Bruno Mars, Stacy had to share her love, and that the country is certainly now on board. Malayna talked about inspiring sports films, which is her main way of watching...
As a fan of Bruno Mars, Stacy had to share her love, and that the country is certainly now on board. Malayna talked about inspiring sports films, which is her main way of watching...
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February 11, 2014 • 60 mins
Love and Olympics: Games People Play
In the adventure in duality called life, we use contrast to remember our oneness. Join us as we talk about experiencing the spiritual principle of Love through Valentine's Day and the Olympics!
Stacy, a big Olympics fan, put together how each of Charles Fillmore’s 12 Powers were expressed by each of the winter olympic sports and athletes.
Malayna talked about the symbolism of the rings in compari...
In the adventure in duality called life, we use contrast to remember our oneness. Join us as we talk about experiencing the spiritual principle of Love through Valentine's Day and the Olympics!
Stacy, a big Olympics fan, put together how each of Charles Fillmore’s 12 Powers were expressed by each of the winter olympic sports and athletes.
Malayna talked about the symbolism of the rings in compari...
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February 18, 2014 • 59 mins
Pop culture pals Stacy and Malayna discuss an enlightened way to approach Presidents' Day and how this archetypal role plays out in pop culture.
Original air date: Monday, February 17, 2014
Original air date: Monday, February 17, 2014
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February 25, 2014 • 60 mins
Global and Generational Pop Consciousness
with celebrity guest Erika Eleniak
This week, with celebrity guest Erika Eleniak, the Pop Conscious gals will be discussing pop culture that goes global and what captures the attention of young people. Do movies like E.T., (in which Erika was a cast member) still resonate with young people today? What subcultures and conventions have been built around various pop influences? And how are young...
with celebrity guest Erika Eleniak
This week, with celebrity guest Erika Eleniak, the Pop Conscious gals will be discussing pop culture that goes global and what captures the attention of young people. Do movies like E.T., (in which Erika was a cast member) still resonate with young people today? What subcultures and conventions have been built around various pop influences? And how are young...
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March 3, 2014 • 60 mins
Pop Conscious gal pals, Stacy and Malayna, welcome Juan Ros for our show about the Academy Awards. Juan has a degree in film and worked in the entertainment industry for many years, and has an amazing knowledge of Best Picture winners! Join them as they explore why good stories evoke a Hero's Journey through challenges based in fear toward an ultimate goal of love and oneness. And see if the girls can stump Juan! (Original airdate...
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March 10, 2014 • 60 mins
Pop Conscious hosts Stacy and Malayna (broadcasting from Sri Lanka) talk with their friend and minister Rev. Molly Rockey about what pop culture influences helped to shape her life path and what tools she uses now. Also, how ministers are depicted in pop culture and how it shapes our culture's expectations of the role they play.
(Originally aired March 10, 2014)
(Originally aired March 10, 2014)
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March 17, 2014 • 59 mins
Stacy and Malayna discuss how LOVE is the force that makes the world go round and is the proverbial pot of gold at the end of every rainbow. Stacy shares the five redeeming lessons she learned from watching the TV show The Bachelor, and Malayna shares the messages she gleaned from an international wedding and media that entertained her on her long journey home. Let these Pop Conscious pals be your leprechauns and guide you to find ...
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March 24, 2014 • 60 mins
What do you get when you put two millennials with two gen-Xers? Informative fun on the latest pop culture sensations! Join Malayna and Stacy as they interview some Unity tweens! (Originally aired March 24. 2014)
Guests: Julian Ros and Graham Ros
Guests: Julian Ros and Graham Ros
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March 31, 2014 • 59 mins
This week, Malayna and Stacy will talk about the different ways that spirituality can be interpreted and portrayed in the media. From mutated superheroes and vampires to angels and the voice of God, we look at TV shows and films that will give you reason to examine your beliefs and also help you find inspiration! And we even find a way to connect April Fool's Day and The Hero's Journey, all with the help of their celebrity guest, ...
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April 7, 2014 • 60 mins
Stacy and Malayna will be looking 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. (Origina...
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April 14, 2014 • 60 mins
Fresh from a Youth of Unity rally that explored how superheroes can guide us to be our best selves, Stacy and Malayna share what Unity teens have taught them! Learn how pop-conscious young people are getting metaphysical with their entertainment choices. Meta-fizzy fun for the whole family! (Originally aired April 14, 2014)
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April 21, 2014 • 59 mins
Tour with your Pop Conscious friends Malayna and Stacy, with Pop Culture as your eco-friendly vehicle through the sustainable past and the future possible. We'll talk about cartoons (yay!) like Bambi, Pocahontas, Fern Gully, Happy Feet, and Wall-E. We'll We'll also see what Unity cofounder Charles Fillmore said about conservation, all in time to celebrate Earth Day! (Originally aired April 21, 2014)
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April 29, 2014 • 59 mins
Join Malayna and Stacy as they laugh and learn with their friend and special guest Adam Chester! He has a colorful musical career--Unity musician on Sundays, and the "surrogate Elton John" whenever Sir Elton and the band need him. He uses music and a sense of humor to connect with the people in the pews and make Sunday services fun. He also put the offering blessing of Unity to music so we can all sing along. Get ideas for your pla...
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May 5, 2014 • 60 mins
In celebration of 5/5, Malayna and Stacy explore all kinds of great things that come in fivess. Like the five basic Unity Principles, for example! Five senses, five fingers and toes, Pentacost, pentagrams, Panchakarma and Cinco de Mayo, numerology, quintuplets, Metaphysical interpretation, Ben Folds Five, and The Fifth Element! Hawaii 5-0, Party of Five, and movies that make it to the fifth in a series: Rocky, Star Wars Episode V (...
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May 12, 2014 • 60 mins
In honor of Mother's Day, Stacy and Malayna look at TV moms and other goddesses of the silver screen, as well as goddesses from all cultures. And speaking of the Divine Feminine, we'll take a look at Biblical moms as well, from a Unity perspective as well as the ideas presented in The Da Vinci Code. What can we learn about these feminine ideals that anyone can apply to life today? Listen and find out! (Originally aired May 12, 2014...
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May 19, 2014 • 60 mins
Life is full of graduations, transitions, endings, and new beginnings, which are all phases and stages in life's journey. In this episode, Stacy ponders graduations and season finales, while Malayna gushes about Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey. Together they discuss how these resonant themes from world myths and folktales have found their way into Pop Culture. Then we'll apply them to our own life stories, where we are the h...
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June 2, 2014 • 59 mins
June is LGBT Pride month, and Malayna and Stacy are proud that Unity honors our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered friends. The Pop Conscious gals will look to pop culture and the media to examine the depiction of LGBT characters and then look at the Unity loving and inclusive approach to the diversity of all people! Viva la difference! Join us! (Originally aired June 2, 2014)
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June 9, 2014 • 60 mins
Stacy and Malayna welcome Charles Holt, to talk about father-themed media. As a longtime member of the cast of the musical The Lion King, and the author of Between Me and Dad: A Journey Through Forgiveness to Freedom, he has some insights. Between his tales of song, stage and screen, and our pop culture Dad references, you'll enjoy a spiritual adventure! (Originally aired June 9, 2014)
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June 16, 2014 • 59 mins
This episode begins with the continuation of our talk with Charles Holt, Broadway performer-turned-inspirational-speaker-singer-author, talking about The Lion King, and continues with our special guest Bennett Quintard. Bennett is one of the International Youth of Unity representatives for this year, and he is about to embark upon a Global Citizen Bridge Year in Ecuador. He's also a talented guitarist and singer, so we'll talk abou...
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