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Archives for November 2015

Nov 26 2015

Irina Tweedie: The Daughter of Fire

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Irina Tweedie.
Photograph: © 2016, The Golden Sufi Center

How the loss of a spouse led to the love of a Sufi Master

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: autobiography, irina tweedie, naqshbandiyya mujaddidiyya, russian, spirituality, sufism, the chasm of fire, the daughter of fire, the golden sufi center, video, women

Nov 24 2015

Jordan Belson: Sentience in Celluloid

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Jordan Belson, 5 Essential Films.
Photograph: Center For Visual Music

The alchemical art of depicting mystical states of the mind

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Visual Arts · Tagged: american, center for visual music, jordan belson, moving image, video

Nov 19 2015

Andrew Marvell: On a Drop of Dew

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Godfrey Kneller, Andrew Marvell.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a dewdrop personifies the human soul

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: andrew marvell, english, metaphysical poet, on a drop of dew, poetry

Nov 17 2015

J. D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey

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J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey.
Typeface: Seb Lester

How a young woman’s spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of familial love

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: advaita vedanta, american, fiction, franny and zooey, j d salinger, prose, short story, the way of a pilgrim, zen buddhism

Nov 12 2015

Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine

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Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias:
The True Trinity in True Unity
.
Photograph: The Yorck Project,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Polymath and mystic whose artistic and intellectual output was unsurpassed

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Wisdom · Tagged: christian mysticism, german, hildegard of bingen, liber divinorum operum, liber vitae meritorum, music, painting, prose, rupertsberg codex, scivias, spirituality, women

Nov 10 2015

Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life

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Arseny Tarkovsky.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: andrei tarkovsky, arseny tarkovsky, life, poetry, russian

Nov 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

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Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature · Tagged: blood of a poet, french, jean cocteau, jean marais, le sang d'un poète, le testament d'orphée, movie, orphée, orpheus, poetry, prose, the art of cinema, the testament of orpheus, video

Nov 03 2015

Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question

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Paula Marvelly, Sri V. Ganesan.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

Sri Ramana Maharshi’s great-nephew expounds the teachings of India’s greatest guru

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Wisdom · Tagged: advaita vedanta, arunachala, bhagavan sri ramana maharshi, ganesan, hinduism, indian, interview, spirituality, tiruvannamalai, video, who am i?

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