Wrestling With The Angelthe book by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, beckoned me with renewed intensity after it knocked over my figure of Lǚ Dòngbīn. Kauffmann’s personal brush with death during his long captivity in the Lebanon made his choice of Délacroix’s painting as his subject more poignant than books by other Délacroix biographers, scholars and critics. Kauffmann...
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The Sacred Promise As I mentioned in an earlier post, Dr. Gary Schwartz has continued his studies of the possibility of the survival of consciousness after physical death. There have been numerous books published over the past 30 years or so on the subject of ‘life after death’ but Dr. Schwartz took a unique...
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Wrestling With The Angel Archangel Uriel seems to have me in thrall at the moment. Just when I thought I might turn my attention to another topic, he slipped back into my consciousness when a book I had bought a while back but had not yet read fell sideways on my bookcase and knocked...
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A Home For The Soul Today I’d like to take a peek into the wild, whacky, weird, but wonderful world of Freidensreich Hundertwasser. It doesn’t entirely flow trippingly from the tongue but it’s a name worth knowing if you value eco-friendly, imaginative, idiosyncratic living. Hundertwasser is another one of those quirky geniuses who cannot...
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Spirit of Place In my previous posts on the relationship between human well-being and our living spaces, I made the point that we are affected at the deepest levels of awareness by our home environment yet most people today live in psychically toxic environments, spaces that are designed and decorated without regard to the...
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Living Outside The Box You know by now that I have a problem with houses and offices that limit people in un-necessary ways. The dwelling in which we spend our early years, the school buildings, the churches or temples we frequent growing up either stimulate our uniqueness or contribute to repressing it. This is...
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Psychic Spaces Sacred Places 2 I started to make the case in my last post that the house we live in affects us at our deepest levels of awareness, or more accurately, un-awareness. The space in which we dwell makes a psychic impact on us from the moment of conception. The womb is, in...
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Psychic Spaces Sacred Places Do places/buildings affect our physical, emotional and psychic awareness? I’m going to say yes to that. I believe the spaces we live, play, and work in, affect us profoundly at the most subtle levels of awareness. In fact, this is a subject I am passionate about. Not only do I...
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