“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell
Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Here we go!
Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations:
Reading: Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a censor.” - J. Krishnamurti, from Freedom from the Known
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Listening: Feria Gitane by Manitas de Plata
Looking: Thoth Tarot Deck by Lady Frieda Harris
Viewing: Moonhaven (AMC+)
Tasting: Tikveš Lozova Rakija
Ryan Elston’s Recommendations:
Reading: The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan
“I have written elsewhere that I am unbaptized, uninitiated, ungraduated, unanalyzed. I had in mind that my worship belonged to no church, that my mysteries belonged to no cult, that my learning belonged to no institution, that my imagination of my self belonged to no philosophic system. My thought must be without sanction. Yet to be a poet is to be reborn—to be baptized, initiated, graduated, analyzed.” - Robert Duncan, from The H.D. Book
Listening: The Sun Ra Arkestra (led by Marshall Allen)
Looking: The Art of Phil Jimenez in Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons
Phil Jimenez at Modern Mythology Comic Art
Viewing: Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (documentary)
Hilma af Klint and Theosophy at Wikipedia
Tasting: Yanni’s Finest Greek Early Harvest Extra Virgin Olive Oil
The Unstoppable Journey of Yanni’s Olive Grove by Ryan Elston
MICOIL Pilot Study results from The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD)
That’s it for this week! What are your reading, listening, looking, viewing and/or tasting recommendations?
Aesthetic Arrest Podcast: Flamenco, Theosophy, Rakija & Wonder Woman