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The Art of Seeing – Vision and Ekphrasis
The Art of Seeing Vision and Ekphrasis Thursday 28th September 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "Free-heartedness, and graciousness, and undisturbed trust, and requited love, and the sight of the peace of others, and the ministry to their pain; - these and the blue...
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The Art of Seeing – the Enchantment of Nature
The Art of Seeing the Enchantment of Nature Thursday 24th August 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 "I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks and I am ready to...

The Art of Seeing – the contemplation of Beauty
The Art of Seeing The contemplation of Beauty Thursday 20th July 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom £10 “At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or music, they would have replied ‘beauty’.” Sir Roger...

Awakening the Psyche through Carl Jung’s Active Imagination – May 2023
In this month’s Art of Seeing session, one work of art will become our focus as we awaken the psyche, or soul, with the framework of the active imagination as our guide.

The Passion of Christ – April 2023
Following on from Easter, this month’s Art of Seeing session will focus on one painting telling the story of the Passion of Christ. Scenes of the Passion came to the forefront of religious art from the 1200s, at a time when both Francis of Assisi and Ibn’ Arabi, in different parts of the world, emphasised a move from the intellectual pursuit of the mystical in the head, to the heart and imagination.

The Ancient Egyptian Goddess – March 2023
The Art of Seeing The Ancient Egyptian Goddess Thursday 30th March 2023 "The Egyptians lived with an awareness of what might be called the imaginal - a non-physical yet objective reality that we become aware of through the human faculty of the imagination. They...

Unfolding Ways of Wisdom – February 2023
Unfolding Ways of Wisdom Thursday 23rd February 2023 7-8pm UK time via Zoom "The philosopher, even in his passions, acts only after reflection; he walks in the night but he is preceded by a torch." Philosopher, The Encyclopedie, 1765 We often think of...