Prose on The Culturium

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.
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 15 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

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

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Image: Public Domain

How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people

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

Prose on The Culturium

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

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

Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Image: Public Domain

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer. Image: Public Domain

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

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

Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Image: Public Domain

Marianne Werefkin, Prayer.
Image: Public Domain