I wish I could say that this notion of Beauty as an applied philosophy and daily practice was my brainchild. I can’t. True Beauty, as a society’s central tenet, is not new, just ancient and mostly forgotten now. I am ringing the bell. What The Way of Beauty, as I put it forth, is … Read More
Random Musings
Practice Seeing
This first and basic Practice of True Beauty might best be titled “Practice Perceiving,” but I got into a, er, discussion with one of my professors about the differences between “sensing” and “perceiving,” and in the end, I just left this Beauty Practice titled “Seeing.” Seeing is a metaphor for all senses, both of the … Read More
An Experience of The One-ness?
There is no time or space. These are our illusions to help keep a sense of order. That’s what science is telling us this week. (I say “this week” because who knows what will be touted as The Truth next week, month, year… Remember when the earth was flat and was the center of the … Read More
Science vs. Beauty – 2
There is a prevailing and ubiquitous disregard for Beauty and the sacredness of nature. Nature, the “natural world,” is the primary manifestation of our universe’s luminous matter in this time/space/place we know as the planet Earth. Rare, precious matter. I find it of further interest to consider that currently, a popular scientific theory posits that … Read More
Science v. Beauty – 1
A Wee Bit of Science Dark energy, a substance of the Universe not currently completely understood, is currently believed to constitute of said Universe. Dark matter, Luminous matter, made up of photons, the stuff we understand best and from which all matter is constructed – is merely Four percent of the Universe! Luminous matter is what … Read More