Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Painter | The Culturium
Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Letters to a Young Painter" explores how art, cats and the paradox of possession illuminate the creative life.| The Culturium
A contemplative sanctuary exploring nonduality, art and spiritual insight.| The Culturium
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Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Letters to a Young Painter" explores how art, cats and the paradox of possession illuminate the creative life.| The Culturium
Dennis Gallagher, writer, programmer, futurist and flâneur, explores his passion for composing poetry and the way in which it is a portal to the One.| The Culturium
Dean Fraser offers us an insight into the truths he has discovered in daily living and the integrity he has intuited on his journey through life.| The Culturium
Abhay K.'s "100 Great Indian Poems" forms inspiration for Sarah Thilykou's Greek translation, a literary bridge between India and Greece.| The Culturium
'I Am' by John Clare is a powerful expression of the abject disintegration of self and the yearning for communion with the divine.| The Culturium
Paul G. Chandler explores Rembrandt’s "Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem", a meditation on art, sorrow, faith and divine hope.| The Culturium
The Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, believed there to be a supreme, transcendent reality, which he called the "One", inherent in us all.| The Culturium
In a multilingual collaboration by Gabriel Rosenstock and Masood Hussain, Gandhi's life is honoured through a series of haiku and watercolour vignettes.| The Culturium
'The Harvest Bow', included in Field Work (1979), Seamus Heaney’s fifth collection of poetry, is a highly Wordsworthian master lyric of bucolic remembrance.| The Culturium
The spirituality of writers and artists living in the south of England.| The Culturium
Paula Marvelly's anthology is a fascinating exploration of female spirituality from the beginning of recorded time up to the present day.| The Culturium
Mason Currey's compelling compendium of the working habits of over 140 female writers and artists on how they create and work.| The Culturium
Photographer unidentified, Three Archers, Japan, 1860-ca. 1900 Training the mind and body to become one The post Eugen Herrigel: Zen in the Art of Archery appeared first on The Culturium.| The Culturium
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Charles Darwin & Down House| The Culturium
Rafail Levitsky, Bridge in the Woods. Paradoxical revelations The post Dennis Gallagher: Poetic Fragments appeared first on The Culturium.| The Culturium
Hiroshi Teshigahara's "The Face of Another" is a stylish and haunting meditation on illusion and the sense of self.| The Culturium
© Paula Marvelly, Charleston. Success in life The post Robert Louis Stevenson: An Apology for Idlers appeared first on The Culturium.| The Culturium
An artistic exploration by 3 contemporary artists from the faith traditions of Judaism, Christianity & Islam inspired by the story of Noah.| The Culturium
Carol Raphael examines the nature of beauty, specifically the pulchritudinous aesthetic of the visual arts, so wanting in our current age.| The Culturium
Rashid Maxwell recounts how transcending thinking allows deeper creativity to shine and produce art that is authentic, timeless and imbued with wisdom.| The Culturium
Rashid Maxwell shares his beautiful series of verse and drawings inspired by his spiritual master, Osho, in The Culturium's latest guest post.| The Culturium
A eulogy for Alan Jacobs (9th September 1929–25th July 2020).| The Culturium
Roberta Pyx Sutherland details her passion for painting and the visual arts and the way in which they help our understanding of the mystical realm.| The Culturium
Brazilian director, screenwriter, producer and photographer, Rodrigo Thome, shares his stunning photographs and award-winning feature, "The Ocean Voice".| The Culturium
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Thomas Hardy, Bockhampton & Dorchester, Dorset| The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Creator & Editor of The Culturium, recounts her very first spiritual journey to India in a quest to find the Self.| The Culturium
In J. D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey", a young woman's spiritual crisis is redeemed by the power of love.| The Culturium
Mukherjee & Rosenstock's beautiful collaboration is a moving and deeply profound meditation on the soul's journey from this life to the next.| The Culturium
'Life, Life', the selected poems of Arseny Tarkovsky and translated by Virginia Rounding, are a beautiful collection from one of Russia's finest poets.| The Culturium
Brian Taylor is a poet and philosopher based in Cornwall and the Far East, who explores the unity of all things timeless, wise and beautiful.| The Culturium
Contemporary Indian poet, Abhay K., explores the raison d'être behind his art and the way in which poetry has the power to transform the destiny of man.| The Culturium
Dennis Gallagher, writer, programmer, futurist and flâneur, explores his love of writing verse and the metaphysical insights that permeate his pen.| The Culturium
Scott Guyon, architect and composer, outlines his guide to why Beauty matters and how it acts as a sacred portal to the divine.| The Culturium
Sappho's sacred and erotic poetry led the Greek philosopher, Plato, to call her the "Tenth Muse".| The Culturium
Leo Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich wrestles with man’s most dreaded fear, i.e. coming to terms with one's very own death.| The Culturium
Laura Emerson's stunning photographs are a continuing contemplation on the beauty of sub-aquatic nature and the cosmology of the cerulean depths.| The Culturium
Mystical tanka composed by Irish poet, Gabriel Rosenstock, in response to the glorious art of French symbolist painter, Odilon Redon.| The Culturium
Glowing images from photographer, Jason Symes, with haiku responses in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock. Absolutely beautiful.| The Culturium
Duncan Grant's murals, specifically "Christ in Glory", at Berwick Church, East Sussex, are a stunning contemplative fusion of spirituality and art.| The Culturium
Sacra di San Michele in the Piemonte region of Italy is a spectacular monastery located atop Mount Pirchiriano and home to the Rosminian fathers.| The Culturium
Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet, situated in the French valley region of Nice, is rivalled only by Lourdes as a place of divine deliverance for the infirm.| The Culturium
All Saints' Tudeley is home to Marc Chagall's stained glass windows, commissioned to commemorate the life of Sarah d'Avigdor-Goldsmid.| The Culturium
Jean Cocteau's magnificent Chapelle Saint Pierre de Villefranche-sur-Mer is the breathtaking fusion between spirituality and art.| The Culturium
Henri Matisse's Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence is a visually stunning homage to the inner light of divinity and all that is artistically sacred.| The Culturium
Rashid Maxwell, writer, poet and artist, poetizes his artistic process and points to how it can be a means for accessing universal Consciousness.| The Culturium
Laurie Stern's visceral paintings reconnect artist and viewer with an experience of unbounded stillness and love for the natural world.| The Culturium
"Line of Descent" is CARAVAN's latest virtual exhibition featuring the visually striking paintings of Egyptian artist, Hady Boraey.| The Culturium
An artistic exploration of living harmoniously inspired by Abraham, the common ancestor of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish traditions.| The Culturium
Roy Whenary is a writer, poet, electronic music composer and creative photographer. He is currently based in the ancient town of Totnes.| The Culturium
The hermits of Danila Tkachenko's "Escape" series live deep within the forests of the Ukraine and Russia, merged with the very life force of the forest.| The Culturium
A stunning collaboration of haiku & photograph, featuring visceral portraits of the human condition at its most glorious, raw & humbled.| The Culturium
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Jane Austen, Chawton, Hampshire| The Culturium
Celebrated photographer, Michael Kenna, outlines the raison d'être of his stunning work, developed over the course of a fifty-year career.| The Culturium
Kon Markogiannis & Gabriel Rosenstock offer a collaboration of image and word focusing on the fragility of life, with Greek translations by Sarah Thilykou.| The Culturium
A personal eulogy for Rashid Maxwell (1937–15th February 2025).| The Culturium
Roberta Pyx Sutherland outlines her creative process as it manifests through the sacred and timeless execution of the ensō.| The Culturium
American photographic artist & filmmaker, Chris Jordan, showcases "Beauty Emerging", which explores directly the subtle beauty of the Chilean landscape.| The Culturium
Armen Agop is a multi-award-winning Egyptian artist of Armenian origin, who is best known for his spiritually charged paintings and sculptures.| The Culturium
Flautist Upahar performs the poetry of Saint Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore, in Aum Amma's Cave, Mount Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, India.| The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Creator & Editor of The Culturium, recounts her very first spiritual journey to India in a quest to find the Self.| The Culturium
'Hymns To The Beloved' is a collection of devotional poems to the Divine, including Ramana Maharshi, Arunachula, Our Lady, Amma and Anandamayi Ma.| The Culturium
"A Singular Man" is the moving portrait of Alan Jacobs, poet and mystic, shot in stunning black and white in south-east England and Tiruvannamalai, India.| The Culturium
"Serpent in the Wilderness" is a beautiful monograph of the holy path of yoga, from ashrams and caves throughout India to living rooms across America.| The Culturium
"The Three Hermits" by Leo Tolstoy is a perfectly formed tale conveyed in a simple, charming narrative, revealing the profoundest of truths.| The Culturium
Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Ordet" is a tale of miraculous resurrection brought about by the power of human love.| The Culturium
Carlos Reygadas' "Japón" is an enigmatic and mesmerising meditation of the themes of death and rebirth, human strength and frailty, and love and faith.| The Culturium
In honour of International Women's Day and World Poetry Day, Archana Bahadur Zutshi offers us a selection of verse from her collection, "Poetic Candour".| The Culturium
JNANI is a feature-length documentary focusing on the life and teachings of the great Indian sage, Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi.| The Culturium
All materials on The Culturium, unless otherwise stated, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.| The Culturium
Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist tract, "A Room of One's Own" justifies the need for women to possess intellectual freedom & financial independence.| The Culturium
Sri V. Ganesan, interviewed by Paula Marvelly in Tiruvannamalai, talks about life with Sri Ramana Maharshi & the practice of Who Am I?| The Culturium
The 'Meditations' of Marcus Aurelius reflect on the nature of self and what it is to live a Stoic life.| The Culturium
Andrei Tarkovsky's "Instant Light" is a collection of 60 Polaroids, imbued with an appreciation of the beauty & transitoriness of life.| The Culturium
Ten extraordinary poems, along with incisive essays, bringing heartfelt insight both to our personal challenges and our cultural and collective malaise.| The Culturium
Rabindranath Tagore's exquisite volume of poetry, the Gitanjali, won the Bengali polymath the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.| The Culturium
A collection of reflective, contemplative poems written by Irish poet, Liam Ó Muirthile, as he walked the Camino de Santiago in the autumn of 2015.| The Culturium
"Markings" by Dag Hammarskjöld is the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the via activa and the via contemplativa.| The Culturium
Mystical poet, Alan Jacobs, discusses his latest poetry anthology, "Heart of Heart's Chalice of Love's Fire".| The Culturium
The nature of reality itself—beyond the "supreme fiction" of epistemology, ontology and linguistics— preoccupies this lyrical masterpiece by Wallace Stevens.| The Culturium
"The Soul's Superior Instants" by Emily Dickinson speaks of that rare, inner state wherein the very mystery of the universe is revealed.| The Culturium
Anonymous fourteenth-century text, "The Cloud of Unknowing", is the glory of English mysticism and a useful guide to finding union with God.| The Culturium
The writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila are a potent and passionate testament to the inner workings of the human heart.| The Culturium
Seneca's "On Tranquillity of Mind" is a profound examination of the nature of the mental realm, offering practical remedies to find transcendence and peace.| The Culturium
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in collaboration with sculptor Antony Gormley presents a dance work inspired by the spirituality of the Shaolin monks.| The Culturium
Plato's 'Phaedrus', the 'Katha Upanishad' and the 'Bhagavad Gita' expound the allegory of the charioteer and how it symbolizes the senses, mind and soul.| The Culturium
Marsilio Ficino's Letter 41 reminds us that the only issue we should ultimately concern ourselves with is the meaning of our individual existence.| The Culturium
Paolo Sorrentino's 'The Great Beauty', about a Roman looking for emotional & intellectual fulfilment, is a majestic & stunning tour de force.| The Culturium
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" is the first modern essay to appreciate the outdoors as an expression of the divine spirit of God.| The Culturium
Describing Leo Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, "A Confession" is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty.| The Culturium
A beautifully photographed crime drama transpires over the course of a single night, wherein a dead body and repressed thoughts are systematically exhumed.| The Culturium
Marie Menken's "Arabesque for Kenneth Anger" pays homage to her fellow cinematographer filmed in one single day at the Alhambra, Andalusia, southern Spain.| The Culturium
Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy examines the torturous journey of the poet looking for his inner being & authentic, artistic self.| The Culturium
Poignant, reflective and beautifully shot, Ben Rivers' "Two Years at Sea" is an intimate portrait of the solitary life.| The Culturium
Photographer, Ron Rosenstock, expounds his creative vision, his love for infrared photography and how art is a portal to recognizing our truest selves.| The Culturium
"Love Letter to Kashmir" is the creative collaboration of Masood Hussain & Gabriel Rosenstock, both inspired by the landscapes of Kashmir.| The Culturium
Steeped in mindfulness practice, the beautiful photography of Laura Emerson emerges from a deep calling for the sea, drenching us in the sublime.| The Culturium
Jerry Katz explores his "nondual" pursuit of photography, which spontaneously arose one day whilst sitting on a rock on a beach in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.| The Culturium
Gabriel Rosenstock discusses the art of transcreating poetry, his Celtic upbringing and how the appreciation of haiku may be a gateway to enlightenment.| The Culturium
