Thirteen years ago Randy Klinger, artist and teacher, held a vision for a creative arts centre. He had a very particular vision: Uplifting the Soul and Spirit through beauty, to help people regain their sensation of beauty physically, so that we, as a culture, move into the next Golden Age. He says:
“I wanted people to be able to engage with art in its many forms, the aim being to raise their curiosity and inspire them to an intellectual appreciation of art and the significance of beauty in their own lives – art as an ‘anti-depressant.
Only this high dream existed and a ‘promise’ that all would be fulfilled. To start, we had nothing; no money, no land, no skills. All else was added (more...)
RichThinker of the Month: Satish Kumar
satishWhen he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from his path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he left the monastic order and became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi’s vision of a peaceful world into reality. Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. It was an adventure during which he was thrown into jail in France, faced a loaded gun in America – and delivered packets of ‘peace tea’ to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. In 1973, (more...)