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Dec 10 2015

E. M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus

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Dora Carrington, E. M. Forster.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The triumph of experience over knowledge

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: e m forster, english, fiction, gustave doré, prose, short story, the celestial omnibus

Dec 08 2015

Paul Cézanne: La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

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Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir (1904–06).
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a mountain became a painter’s creative muse

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Visual Arts · Tagged: french, montagne sainte-victoire, painting, paul cézanne, post-impressionism

Dec 03 2015

Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali

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Rabindranath Tagore.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the power of solitude inspired a poetic genius

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: bengali, gitanjali, indian, nobel prize, poetry, rabindranath tagore, visva bharati

Dec 01 2015

Alain Resnais: Last Year in Marienbad

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Alain Resnais, Last Year in Marienbad.
Photograph: Amazon

Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film · Tagged: alain resnais, alain robbe-grillet, french, last year in marienbad, left bank, modernism, movie, new wave, rené descartes, rive gauche, video

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

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