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Human.
Pov's on evolution of consciousness: spiritual/philosophical/Jungian.
Resist the human/machine merger; go analog & in-person whenever possible.
If all this is accurate, any writer willing to ponder the accord between Beauty & Truth can evolve their craft. . . and their soul life. In this digital frontier, it'll be like panning for gold.

We need those prospectors more than ever now.
December 10, 2024 at 2:21 PM
“If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends."
December 10, 2024 at 2:21 PM
This part is especially useful for those tasked with writing about the ugly:

"Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory-disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.”
December 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
"The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world."

"All genuine art seeks the spirit."
December 10, 2024 at 2:20 PM
"What we apprehend with our senses does not need to shine for us; it exists. It is the spiritual that shines, radiating into the sensory, proclaiming its being even in the sensory."
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
"Thus, the genius of language reveals itself.

And we should ask. . .what is our goal?"
December 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
In lecture GA276 (1923), "The Arts & Their Mission-Lecture VI," Rudolf Steiner writes more on this subtle relationship between Beauty and Truth in the context of the ugly.
He writes,

"[B]eauty reveals inwardness through outer form; a shining radiates outward into the world. . . ."
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Even if you toil in an industry led by algorithms, maybe, after undergoing an inner process of your own cultivating Beauty, Truth emerges--effortlessly, as art.

Maybe Beauty is the way, and Truth, like the dawn, is what follows.
December 10, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Truth is elusive when sought for outwardly in a race against Time and one’s own better nature.
The Romantics got this. Didn't Keats write, "‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"?
December 10, 2024 at 2:15 PM
A lot of empty theorizing in a cascade of tacit one-upmanship. Post after post after post, a sputtering black cloud of exhaust fumes.

Where's the Truth? Where's the Beauty?
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Let's say you're an honest writer in pursuit of the Truth, grinding for the media machine. Your industry is tough & soul-killing. Newsworthy events = fresh kill & blow flies. Your spin on any story quickly dogpiles w/ others' louder voices.

The result?
December 10, 2024 at 2:13 PM
🧵 So much online writing hooks up w/ ugliness when it could be courting Beauty.

If Beauty were the muse, there'd be a lot more Truth to consider as we scrolled our daily screens.
December 10, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Day 12: The Archetype of the Apocalypse--by Edward F. Edinger

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
#BookSky
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#20daybookchallenge
#BookChallenge
November 27, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Day 11: Till We Have Faces--C.S. Lewis

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#20daybookchallenge
#BookChallenge
November 26, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Day 10: Gnosis I, II, III--by Boris Mouravieff

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#Books
#20daybookchallenge
#BookChallenge
November 25, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Day 9: The Philosophy of Freedom--by Rudolf Steiner

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#20daybookchallenge
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November 24, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Day 8: Spiritual Alchemy--by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#20daybookchallenge
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November 23, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Day 7: Teaching a Stone to Talk--by Annie Diillard

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
#BookSky
#Books
#20daybookchallenge
#BookChallenge
November 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Day 6: The Great Transformation--by Karen Armstrong

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#20daybookchallenge
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November 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Day 5: Nature's Open Secret (by R. Steiner)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#20daybookchallenge
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November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
“The fulfillment of every activity is in its balance.”

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

--in Gayan, Vadan, Nirtan (Suluk P, 2015)
(artwork by Abbas/Aftab/Khan, 2022)
#Sufi
#balance
November 19, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Day 4: The Essential Rumi (trans. Barks)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.

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#20daybookchallenge
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November 19, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Day 3: Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.
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#20daybookchallenge
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November 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Day 2: Man and His Symbols

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, just covers.

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#20daybookchallenge
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November 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Happy, busy #Caturday from Esme.
November 16, 2024 at 9:34 PM