The path of disbelief
Thomas Struth, Rothko Chapel, Houston, 2007. Look here for a nice retrospective of Struth’s works; here for an overview of Mark Rothko‘s career; and here for information about the Rothko Chapel In the end, all of us are looking for God. Jesuit priest James Martin has a wonderful little piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post. It [...]
William James considers the M word
Roy Behrens, William James (2001). Source: William James Cybrery. Used by permission of the artist THE FIRST THING TO KNOW: Mysticism is not a very nice word. In a recent post I said that you will not find that word mentioned very often at psnt.net. This is true, despite the fact that negative theology and [...]
It’s about time someone noticed: the Solar System as art
Io, the innermost satellite of Jupiter. It is the most geologically active body in the Solar System and is covered with hundreds of active volcanoes. The bluish object on Io’s limb is a plume from the volcano known as Prometheus. The plume is 86 miles high. Image taken by the Galileo mission. Source: NASA/JPL The [...]
Behold the Void
The Zen enso, a symbol of the interplay between Form and Void Sitting meditation is not, as is often supposed, a spiritual “exercise,” a practice followed for some ulterior object. From a Buddhist standpoint, it is simply the proper way to sit, and it seems perfectly natural to remain sitting so long as there is [...]
Mark Rothko recovers the sparrow
Mark Rothko. No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953 I have just finished reading a book called Buddhism is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen. There is a double meaning in the title because the book is about not-thinking and really seeing. In it Hagen writes of Foyan, an ancient Chinese [...]
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