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Profiles in Ecstasy: Vaslav Nijinsky
Dance is among the most ephemeral of the arts. Brilliant moments by great artists happen spontaneously and one must be present at the performance in order to experience the magical morphing of movement, sound and time. Contemporary video technology has made it...
Anomalous Phenomena as Bellwethers of the Next Scientific Revolution
Consciousness is ineffable and difficult to picture or imagine, yet we tend to live our lives within the parameters of what we believe consciousness to be. Anomalous phenomena occur at the intersection of normal waking consciousness and the vast unconscious....
CONNECTING WITH THE WONDER OF THE NIGHT SKY
“The heavens themselves, the planet, and this center Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.” (William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 3)One of the detriments to urban...
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE
Have you noticed that all of the gods and heroes we meet in the fantasy realms of myths, legends, fairy tales and science fiction seem to possess superpowers and can use them to perform wondrous feats and miracles? The Bible too is filled with tales of miraculous...
Do You Have Super Power?
How many of us have experienced déjà vu, or known something before it happens? How many of us have sensed the presence of a deceased loved one, communicated via telepathy with another person on an animal, or had a prophetic dream? How many times have you heard a voice...
MARIAN APPARITIONS: MANIFESTATION, MYTH OR MIRAGE
For centuries the Virgin Mary has been a key figure in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. According to Christian beliefs the mother of Jesus Christ was with her son throughout his life from his birth in the Bethlehem stable to his crucifixion, and witnessed the...
MYTHIC AND MUNDANE
Mythologies speak to us because in many ways they represent our own lives writ large. The loves, failures, and passions of the gods and heroes who populate the world of cross-cultural mythology are in many respects symbols of our own lives and avatars of the sacred....
OUR OLYMPIAN ASPECTS
How did you first become acquainted with the Olympian gods? Was it from someone reading you tales from The Iliad or The Odyssey? Or was it something that you discovered in your early schooling? You likely heard the counterintuitive argument that these fascinating gods...
KEEPING AN OPEN MIND
“Ancient Apocalypse” is a controversial series currently running on Netflix. Author and investigative journalist Graham Hancock is the creator and narrator of this remarkable visual exploration of ancient ruins in Indonesia, Mexico, Malta, Turkey, the Bahamas and...
ALCHEMICAL TAROT MEDITATION
The archetypal symbols depicted on tarot cards have fascinated us for centuries. As unlikely as it may sound, tarot cards and psychology can work together beautifully to help people access their unconscious by evoking deep insights. Carl Jung’s associate Marie-Louise...