Beauty is Freedom in Appearance. Friedrich Schiller's Aesthetics, Part I
This essay re-evaluates Schiller’s idea of beauty as “freedom in appearance,” as brought forward in his Kallias or On Beauty (1793), against the backdrop of early modern and modern thinking that based itself on a fundamental split between nature and freedom,...
The Power Of Grace. Transforming Karma The Western Way
Grace is a super important topic that is, of course, central to Christianity, and which in my experience is less discussed among...
The Buddhist Mandala Cosmos. The Kalachakra as an alchemic laboratory for the appropriation of life energies
The large number of shaktis, “daughters” of the mudras “sacrificed” in the ganachakra, is an indicator of how fundamentally the idea of...
Why Karma Sometimes Isn't Fair. How Your Soul Can Carry Woundings Over Lifetimes
Karma isn’t just about what we do; it is also created by what happens to us. Often times when something bad...
The White Tara. The Goddess of Compassion in beautiful Tibetan Artwork
There are a number of different stories about how Tara, the important female goddess of compassion in Buddhism, came into being. In one of these tales, she is...