Wisdom on The Culturium

Mar 04 2016

Philip Jacobs: Dance of the Dervishes

Paula Marvelly, Whirling Dervishes at The Study Society.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How Rumi’s spontaneous turning led to a centuries-old tradition

Feb 19 2016

Philip Gröning: Into Great Silence

Photograph: © 2016, Philip Gröning, Zeitgeist Films

The power of now

Jan 22 2016

Jean R. Dedieu: Jnani, The Silent Sage of Arunachala

Jean R. Dedieu, Jnani, The Silent Sage of Arunachala.
Photograph: © 2016, Cinefx Productions

The only way out is within

Nov 26 2015

Irina Tweedie: The Daughter of Fire

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

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

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 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

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

Detail of the portrait of a young woman
(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets.
Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos