Nov 24 2015 Jordan Belson: Sentience in Celluloid Jordan Belson, 5 Essential Films. Photograph: Center For Visual Music The alchemical art of depicting mystical states of the mind
Nov 19 2015 Andrew Marvell: On a Drop of Dew Godfrey Kneller, Andrew Marvell. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How a dewdrop personifies the human soul
Nov 17 2015 J. D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey. Typeface: Seb Lester How a young woman’s spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of familial love
Nov 12 2015 Hildegard of Bingen: Sibyl of the Rhine 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
Nov 10 2015 Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life Arseny Tarkovsky. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art
Nov 05 2015 Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema Jean Cocteau. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid
Nov 03 2015 Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question 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
Oct 29 2015 John Cage: Silence Rob Bogaerts, John Cage. Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief, [CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing
Oct 27 2015 Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa Alexandra David Néel.Photograph: Preus Museum, [CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city