The spider brings forth its own web. This image from the Upanishad invites deep meditation on how nature brings out a thread that it forms into a complex symmetry. Looking at the spider, the thread, and the web—its function and the source of the complex pattern—we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, […]
Retinal Art and the Ruins of Representation: Revisiting Plato’s Cave and the Notion of Rasa in the Natyashastra Christoph Kluetsch “Something in the world forces us to think. This something is not an object of recognition, but a fundamental encounter.” Gilles Deleuze – Difference and repetition p. 139 “Minds exist only in relation to other […]
During the Chola Empire, the layout of Shiva temples was formalized to a great degree. Based on the Agamas and Shastras, the temple was fully developed into a place in space, time, and consciousness where the microcosm and macrocosm mirror each other. When a temple is built, a site will be chosen, and it has […]
Was heißt es, einen anderen zu verstehen? Es ist leicht, ein Gegenüber zu verstehen, wenn man einer Meinung ist, denn dann stimmt man sich einfach selbst zu, genießt es vielleicht sogar, das eigene Denken im anderen gespiegelt zu sehen, angereichert durch eine etwas andere Perspektive, bunter, lebendiger, energetischer, weil beide sich freuen, jemanden gefunden zu […]