Category: aesthetic theory
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Shinrin Yoku III: The Way of Shugendo
In 1991, 23 year old Ryojun Shionuma, embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage that would take him nine years to complete by running up and down the sacred Mt. Omine in Japan for one thousand days. This unique spiritual discipline was started by “a mountain priest named En-no-Gyoja, who, in the late 600s, meditated for a…
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Shinrin Yoku II: An Invitation to Wander
What have we gained, and what have we lost in the relentless pursuit of “civilization?” We have lost our silence, we have lost our darkness, and we have lost our peace. Finally, as we are collectively losing our humanity, we are turning back to nature for solace, for healing, and reconciliation.
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Money Manifesto
Money is energy. I have learned over my 20+ years of spiritual work and life as a performance artist that the exchange of money is not contractural, it is an energetic balancing, opening to possibilities of relationship. My teachers never required payment! But I was more than happy to offer whatever I had with so…
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The only book I ever stole…
I left the University of Utah in 2008 with a Bachelors degree, $20k in student loans, and one book that I never checked out…and never returned: Art as Experience by John Dewey.