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.
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.
A Love Poem to the Wisdom of Autumn
To celebrate the Fall Season and the wisdom that it has to offer, I’m sharing this poem I wrote for Earl Bales Park, a large park in the north end of Toronto.
Nature and Nurture: An Ethic of Flourishing
Every living being has different needs. An ethic of flourishing provides a non-judgmental framework for autonomous choice-making within constrained systems.
The Nature of Culture: Moving Beyond Binaries
Within the nature of culture is a choice to self-judge or self-love. To move beyond the destructiveness of human society, we must heal our shame of being human.
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.
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.