Shūsaku Endō's "Silence" explores the theme of a silent God, who accompanies a believer into extreme adversity & religious persecution.| The Culturium
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Waldeinsamkeit", meaning "forest loneliness", describes the poet's feelings of solitude & deep connection to nature.| The Culturium
"The Naked Island", written and directed by Japanese auteur, Kaneto Shindo, is an elegiac meditation on human endurance in the face of poverty and hardship.| The Culturium
Gabriel Rosenstock reveals the literary and transcendental essence of haiku, beautifully illustrated by the photography of Ron Rosenstock.| The Culturium
Together, the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden and the poetry of Zen Master Ryokan form an exquisite complement of nature and art.| The Culturium
Thoreau's "Walking" is an exquisite distillation of his ideas regarding the relationship between civilized existence & the natural world.| The Culturium
Written in the foothills of Mt Tamalpais, "Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown" is Alan Watts' journal meditation on the watercourse way of the Tao.| The Culturium
Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" is a timeless guide to the art of living, beautifully illustrated and transcreated by American scholar, Stephen Mitchell.| The Culturium
Jack Kerouac's "Alone on a Mountaintop" beautifully explores the art of being on one's own atop Desolation Peak, Washington State.| The Culturium
Fifty years after Thomas Merton’s pilgrimage to the American West, Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson retrace the monk’s journey.| Emergence Magazine