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    Searching for Place in an Increasingly Hyper-Digital and Disembodied World

    Internet dependency and the growth of AI reveal a choice-point about place and belonging: to be natural or remain in programmed states of collective trauma.

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    Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees: Forest Therapy as a Spiritual Philosophy

    Paradoxically, the philosophy that supports forest therapy can remind us that we can trust in life and trust in our nature even when we are not in a forest.

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    Authority, Justice, and the Paradox of Human Freedom and Free Will

    In a capitalist world, free will is a paradox. Only on a spiritual journey do we realize that freedom is the willingness to surrender to our divine purpose.

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    Reviving the Divine Feminine and the Innocent Child in A Course in Miracles

    A Course in Miracles skews masculine but Heaven on Earth needs the Divine Feminine, the Innocent Child, and the magic of our embodied experiences to exist.

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    Favourite Lessons From A Course in Miracles

    Somehow, life had enrolled me in an abstract version of A Course in Miracles before I had read the book. Here are some core lessons that I resonate with.

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    The Reluctance of Spirituality in Professional Settings, Healing Humanity, and an All-Pervasive Spirit

    Healing humanity is a spiritual endeavour. Yet to look closer at our social traumas, we must get over our reluctance of spirituality in professional settings.

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    Finding Place, Shifting Perception: From Landscape as Image to Landscape as Cosmology

    We cannot physically transform the world through landscape design in ten days, but we can change the way we see the world and make place by shifting perception.

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    To Dwell Poetically…According to Martin Heidegger

    Heidegger addresses what it means to dwell poetically in his essays. The conclusion: we are all capable of being poetic because it is part of being human.

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    Romantic Science, the Existence of Souls, and Nature’s Truth

    Romantic science was sentimental and subjective and was simultaneously inseparable from and at tensions with religious faith. Art revealed this duality.

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    Introduction to the Sublime in Romanticism and Luminism

    This post discusses Burke and Kant’s sublime and shows examples of landscape paintings by Northern European Romantics, the Hudson River School and Luminists.

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