Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Golden Ratio of Nature and Art
"Nature has a dominant proportional ratio that creates design and order, the approximate ratio is 1.618 to 1 . The Greek mathematician Pythagoras discovered this ratio, The Egyptians have known it for more than a thousand years and it has been proven by psychological tests that humans prefer shapes based Golden ratio over other shapes, since it mirrors the order and sequence found in nature. The Greeks and Renaissance artists understood this principle well and the golden ratio rectangle, golden ratio proportions became widely used for composition in art and architecture."
Friday, May 4, 2012
Mindfullness Therapy-lecture at Oxford
It's sad that there is such a strict division between secular and religious knowledge. Religious traditions are based on human experience, which is the study of science as well. Mindfulness, originally a Buddhist tradition is secularized science for treatment of depression and mental illnesses.
Great lecture series at Oxford University
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-new-approach-treating-depression-audio
Great lecture series at Oxford University
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-new-approach-treating-depression-audio
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Help Wanted: Searching for a guide.
I would like a spiritual hipster teacher like this dude. He would be my
guide and we'd go on a spiritual journeys together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VB2dHVNyds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VB2dHVNyds
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