Reviving the divine feminine and the innocent child in A Course in Miracles
A Course in Miracles skews masculine but Heaven on Earth needs the Divine Feminine, the Innocent Child, and the magic of our embodied experiences to exist.
Favourite lessons from A Course in Miracles
Somehow, life had enrolled me in an abstract version of A Course in Miracles before I had read the book. Here are some core lessons that I resonate with.
The reluctance of spirituality in professional settings, healing humanity, and an all-pervasive spirit
Healing humanity is a spiritual endeavour. Yet to look closer at our social traumas, we must get over our reluctance of spirituality in professional settings.
Finding place, shifting perception: From landscape as image to landscape as cosmology
We cannot physically transform the world through landscape design in ten days, but we can change the way we see the world and make place by shifting perception.
The poetry of things…according to Martin Heidegger
In Building, Dwelling, Thinking and The Thing, Heidegger shows how interpretations change our existential relationship with ourselves and the world.
To dwell poetically…according to Martin Heidegger
Heidegger addresses what it means to dwell poetically in his essays. The conclusion: we are all capable of being poetic because it is part of being human.
Between science and mystery: Representing the intangible in Romantic art
While Romantic science deliberated over nature’s purpose, the existence of souls, and Earth’s creation, Romantic art turned to these subjects for inspiration.
Romantic science, the existence of souls, and nature’s truth
Romantic science was sentimental and subjective and was simultaneously inseparable from and at tensions with religious faith. Art revealed this duality.
Introduction to the sublime in Romanticism and Luminism
This post discusses Burke and Kant’s sublime and shows examples of landscape paintings by Northern European Romantics, the Hudson River School and Luminists.
In search for truth: Science, faith, and the representation of nature in Romantic art
In Romantic landscape paintings we can find evidence of how science, faith, and the representation of nature shape the way we see landscapes and nature today.