by Evan Dwan | Apr 13, 2020 | News |
Richard Tarnas makes the case that in order to understand the modern mind we must travel back in time and look through the different lenses upon which our worldview is built. We need to ‘recover our roots’ in order to more fully understand the values, views and ideas...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
Declan Kiberd writes that the aim of Ulysses was to create a different kind of reader, one who after reading it would experience the world in a very different way. He wanted to free people from all kinds of constriction, including passive readership. Joyce hoped that...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 7, 2020 | News |
Try reading the following passages slowly and deeply, paying attention to your inner experience as you do. “All things are changing; nothing dies. The spirit wanders, comes now here, now there, and occupies whatever frame it pleases…For that which once existed is no...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 2, 2020 | News |
Monastic readers would huddle over their parchment texts, reading aloud, immersing their whole being in the words and the text. Reading used to be understood as a remedy. According to Ivan Illich, reading brings light back into the world, by kindling the eye, and...
