Landscapes
The severance of people from the natural world was, in Jung’s view, a disaster, and led to a loss of balance ‘on all levels’, cosmic and social isolation and psychic injury. He called it a loss of the ‘bush-soul’ and laid the responsibility at the feet of ‘more than a thousand years of Christian training’, which he saw as an attack on the natural j
... See moreLucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
A filmic view of a landscape is not quite the same as a filmic view of a painting. The landscape is always charged with the possibility of usefulness. When you’re looking at a field, someone can always walk across that field. A painting, on the other hand, is settled. It is there to be looked at. It stills the frenzy of the human heart. It declares
... See moreTeju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
the fundamental problem in the modern era is that we seem to have lost touch with our more sensual side. The increasing amounts of time that those living an urban existence, which is the majority of people these days, spend indoors mean that we are all in danger of losing touch with nature, and the multisensory benefits that it provides. As Marc Tr
... See moreCharles Spence • Sensehacking: How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living
With this idea in mind, an unparalleled investment in culture followed in many ever-less faithful nations. Vast numbers of libraries, concert halls, university humanities departments and museums were constructed around the world with the conscious intention of filling the chasm left by religion.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The sense of communion with the divine, once horizontal and concrete, anchored to a spiritual connection to the natural world to which we and all living creatures belong, turned vertical and abstract, anchored instead to the supernatural notion of heavens above, the realm of God, detached from the human condition, from the hardships of a flesh-and-
... See moreMarcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
This balance was vital since the Celts were a rural, farming people. This mythological and spiritual perspective has had an immense subconscious effect on how landscape is viewed in Ireland. Landscape is not matter nor merely nature, rather it enjoys a luminosity. Landscape is numinous. Each field has a different name and in each place something di
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