Prose on The Culturium

Oct 07 2016

Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude

Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.
Image: Public Domain

How seclusion from the active life is the only peaceful way to live

Sep 16 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits

Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.
Image: Public Domain

How individual belief triumphs over religious dogma

Sep 09 2016

Teresa of Ávila: The Ecstasy of Love

Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the interior life is the only path to rhapsodic bliss

Aug 26 2016

Carl Gustav Jung: The Red Book, Liber Novus

C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.
Image: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece

Aug 12 2016

Alicia Torres: Darshan

Mother Meera.
Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

A homage to Mother Meera

Jul 22 2016

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinematic Genius

Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How Russian filmmaker turned movie making into transcendental art

Jul 01 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Jun 10 2016

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition

Apr 22 2016

Michel de Montaigne: On Solitude

Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.
Image: Public Domain

How seclusion from the active life is the only peaceful way to live

Leo Tolstoy: The Three Hermits

Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.
Image: Public Domain

How individual belief triumphs over religious dogma

Teresa of Ávila: The Ecstasy of Love

Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How the interior life is the only path to rhapsodic bliss

Carl Gustav Jung: The Red Book, Liber Novus

C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.
Image: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece

Alicia Torres: Darshan

Mother Meera.
Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

A homage to Mother Meera

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinematic Genius

Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How Russian filmmaker turned movie making into transcendental art

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition

William Blake: All Religions Are One

William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam.
Image: Public Domain

The art of the poetic genius

Prose on The Culturium

Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.Image: Public Domain

Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.Image: Public Domain

Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.Image: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

Mother Meera. Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

Andrei Tarkovsky. Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer. Image: Public Domain

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam.Image: Public Domain

Alphonse Mucha, Woman in the Wilderness.
Image: Public Domain

Mikhail Nesterov, Hermit Fathers and Immaculate Women.
Image: Public Domain

Fray Juan de la Miseria, Teresa de Jesús.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

C. G. Jung, The Red Book, Liber Novus.
Image: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

Mother Meera.
Photograph: Mother Meera: Darshan in Silence

Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam.
Image: Public Domain