
More Thoughts and Thinkers on Art as Meditation and Our Prophetic Vocations
What if Ornstein and Naranjo were right forty years ago when they informed us that art as meditation is the way of the prophets? And
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What if Ornstein and Naranjo were right forty years ago when they informed us that art as meditation is the way of the prophets? And
In this series of Daily Meditations we have been attempting to lay down the groundwork for what constitutes true practice and true training for making
Along with contemplation and emptying comes play, fantasy, and creativity. Creativity is utterly natural to our species—indeed it is the very working definition of humanity
Walter Brueggemann, one of the great Hebrew Bible scholars of our time, in his important book on The Prophetic Imagination, speaks to the prophet Jeremiah’s
Navajo painter David Paladin was put in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of fifteen during WWII. When he was liberated two and a
We are discussing ” Art as Meditation: the Way of the Prophets.” Following is a personal story that woke me up to the power of
Eckhart does not get trapped in the contemplation vs. action dualistic dilemma. He also endorses art as meditation, which is centering by way of giving birth.
Continuing our discussion on “art as meditation, the way of the prophets,” Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, connects imagination to the prophetic role when
Eckhart insists that it is better to bear fruit than merely to receive God. “It is good for a person to receive God into himself
M. C. Richards tells the story of being at a beach in North Carolina and awakening to racism when she saw segregation at the water
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