Wisdom on The Culturium

Nov 28 2016

Paula Marvelly: A Singular Man

Paula Marvelly, A Singular Man.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

A portrait of Alan Jacobs

Nov 13 2016

Mahapajapati Gotami: Mother of All

Abanindranath Tagore, Buddha and Sujata.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Art of Legend India

The power of the sacred feminine

Nov 04 2016

Pavel Lungin: The Island

Pavel Lungin, The Island.
Photograph: © 2017, Curzon Artificial Eye

There is no sanctuary from sin

Oct 28 2016

Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love

Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Woman With a Winged Bonnet.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How love is the only meaning to life

Oct 14 2016

Ray Brooks: The Shadow That Seeks the Sun

Edwin Lord Weeks, The Last Voyage.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

A story of yogis, bhogis and an unexpected encounter

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.
Photograph: [Public Domain] WikiArt

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.
Photograph: Philemon Foundation and W. W. Norton & Company

How an existential crisis precipitated an artistic masterpiece