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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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In Search for Truth: Science, Faith, and the Representation of Nature in Romantic Art

In Romantic landscape paintings we can find evidence of how science, faith, and the representation of nature shape the way we see landscapes and nature today.

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