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Kimberly Nichols
Cinemashrink: Boyhood (2014)
Boyhood (2014) Written and Directed by Richard Linklater Starring Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater Last week, while re-watching the trailer for Richard Linklater’s new(ish) film Boyhood on YouTube, I began to scroll through the comments section. Most liked the film or maligned the few who’d down-voted the video. Others put forth more … Continue reading
Mama Ndolo’s Garden
For many modern people, a garden is a personal statement. It shows the owner’s relation with the earth like a wardrobe shows the wearer’s relation to society. The exploding growth of the gardening business suggests a popular dream, and the dream is of nature and culture growing together. Evan Eisenburg comments that, “For some people, … Continue reading
NewLiteratureLab: In Search of God
The whistle of the train lingered long enough to disturb the calm in the city. After being away for so many years, I felt like a stranger returning to my hometown. It was an early morning in January. I wrapped a scarf around my neck, headed out of the station and walked towards my home. … Continue reading
Kitchen Witch: Reviving the Still Room Tradition
One evening while riding the bus through the dampened streets of Santa Monica I was leafing through an old copy of Herb Quarterly Magazine and came across an article on “still-room” books. In the old days, before the advent of professional doctors and hospitals, women were the sole gatekeepers of their family’s health. If a … Continue reading
A Poet’s Progress: Religion Observance in Present-Day China and Tibet
Roadside Shrine, on Kora around Potala Palace, Lhasa Religious Observance in Present-Day China and Tibet Having visited the Sera Monastery today with hundreds of monks debating in the courtyard, and seeing all the pilgrims arriving at the monasteries and temples, I wonder about the religious persecution I was led to expect. Xi says there are … Continue reading
Symbolist Art and the French Occult Revival: The Esoteric-aesthetic vision of Sâr Péladan
Editor’s Note: Paper presented at the 3rd ESSWE Conference, Lux in Tenebris by Sasha Chaitow, founder of the Phoenix Rising Academy History has not been kind to Joséphin Péladan. Usually consigned to a footnote or a few lines in scholarly overviews of Rosicrucianism or the French occult revival, as a historical figure his defining characteristic … Continue reading
NewArtLab: Alfredo Barsuglia’s Social Pool
Social Pool, 2014, Alfredo Barsuglia, 5 x 4 x 12 feet, Wood, Fiberglass, Resin-Paint, Solar-Filter-Pump, Mojave Desert, CA, Cooperation with MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles I met Austrian artist Alfredo Barsuglia half a decade ago while working as the Director of Marketing for the Palm Springs Art Museum. A mutual European artist … Continue reading
Interview With Sasha Chaitow: Artist and Esoteric Scholar
Sasha Chaitow looks like she just stepped out of a Minoan or Mycenaean fresco. Her knowledge of esoteric history combined with her vocation of artist contributes to her oracular quality. She’s an extraordinary example of the new breed of academics in the young field of esoteric studies, and of a new generation of artist intellectuals … Continue reading
Cinemashrink: The Third Person, 2014
The Third Person, 2014 Writer and Director: Paul Haggis (Academy Award, Crash, 2004) Stars: Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Kim Basinger The Third Person draws us into a mythic realm of healing fiction where a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist deftly flays open the human darkness of a loss of trust in oneself – a … Continue reading
Tools of Transformation #29: The Healing Power of Psychotherapy Chapter 3: Opening the Doors to Our Inner World
(Toby Landesman, Copyright 2014) The experience of being in therapy leads to the awareness that there is more to us human beings than we might think. This first recognition of one’s complex dimensionality can be inspired by a therapist providing a verbal snap shot of how she sees you. This image may take you by … Continue reading
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