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 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 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
Jun 10 2016 Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].Photograph: Wikimedia Commons How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition
May 27 2016 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Image: Public Domain The joys of the reclusive life