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Alleluia-
Verse for the Virgin
Alleluia! light
burst from your untouched
womb like a flower
on the farther side
of death. The world-tree
is blossoming. Two
realms become one.
-Hildegard of Bingen
(Trans. Barbara Newman from Women »»
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I am speechless with excitement because I just discovered that one of my favorite poets, Dorothy Walters, has her own blog: Kundalini Splendor. It is filled with »»
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Annunciation
We know the scene: the room, variously furnished,
almost always a lectern, a book; always
the tall lily.
Arrived on solemn grandeur »»
Filed under: Annunciation, Art, Denise Levertov, Poetry, Sculpture, Video, Virgin Mary, Women Mystics, clay, womb | Annunciation, Art, clay, Denise Levertov, Poetry, Sculpture, Video, Virgin Mary, womb|1 Comment
Christine over at Abby of the Arts (one of my favorite blogs) posted this Meister Eckhart quote last week, and I can’t stop thinking about it:
All beings
are »»
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I needed this this week. I have been pushing like mad to complete a few computer projects and, surprise, no artwork was made. I most strenuously object »»
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Post Updated: I’ve bumped up this post from last month because I added photos of the sculpture it inspired at the end.
This poem by Thomas Merton »»
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So today I’m allowed to lift my arm for the first time in a week. I still have to wait to lift it above my shoulder, but »»
Filed under: Alchemy, Creation Myths, Earth, Georgia O'Keefe, Goddess, Healing, Illness, Jesus, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Virgin Mary, creation, womb | Alchemy, creation, Creation Myths, Earth, Garden, Goddess, Healing, Illness, Jesus, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Virgin Mary, womb|1 Comment
I thought the new year could do with some color. I am an artist after all! So I’ve updated my blog’s look. I welcome any comments »»
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Since yesterday I quoted a mystic who has such a strong sense of the masculine aspect of God, I thought a little balance was in order:
God is »»
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The greatest spiritual crisis facing humanity today is rectifying our relationship to the Earth. Sadly, our culture has taught us that physicality »»
Filed under: Birth, Boneventure, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Thomas Berry, Women Mystics, creation, fear, surrender, via negativa, womb | Birth, Bonaventure, creation, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, fear, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, surrender, The One, Thomas Berry, via negativa, womb, Women Mystics|2 Comments
A cantilena formerly ascribed to Johannes Tauler 14th century German Mystic:
I will sing of bareness a new song,
for true purity is without thought.
Thoughts may not be there,
so »»
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I have been inspired by so many who have shared their own mystical experiences, Hildegard of Bingen, Alex Grey, Meinrad Craighead, & Gartenfische to name a few, »»
Filed under: Annunciation, Art, Artists, Blogs, Christianity, Hildegard of Bingen, Illness, Mysticism, Pain & Suffering, Prayer, Scleroderma, Spiritual Path, Virgin Mary, artist as vessel, womb | Annunciation, Art, Artists, Blogroll, Chistianity, Hildegard of Bingen, Illness, Mysticism, Pain & Suffering, Prayer, Scleroderma, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Virgin Mary, womb|7 Comments
Iconographers say that icons are written, not painted. They are believed to embody the Word, God, in physical form. Icons act as physical windows into Heaven and »»
Filed under: Art, Mysticism, Prayer, Sacred Art, School of the Sacred Arts, Spiritual Path, creation, via negativa, womb | Art, creation, Mysticism, Prayer, Sacred Art, School of Sacred Arts, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, via negativa, womb|5 Comments
Sometimes when I get in my head too much (which is often!) I have trouble working. I get disconnected from my materials and the physical world. When »»
Filed under: Birth, Poetry, Theodore Roethke, creation, womb | Birth, creation, Poetry, Roethke, womb|3 Comments
A couple of people have asked me to post about Hildegard of Bingen, 12th century German mystic and visionary. Today I’ll post about some of my artwork »»
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