Author: Ben Wolfe

discovering lascaux

wellcome library, london (wikimedia commons)

shed your skins,
their undersides
are covered with art

you have been making
in the dark,
your own lascaux

how deep
will you dare to go ¿

— march 2, 2007

Conscious Closure (Vanessa Reid)

In this TEDx talk of unusual scope and beauty (Toronto, May 2015) Vanessa Reid, a pioneering social innovator, explores the wildness and creativity in life that are possible only in the embrace of the full cycle of existence — which includes dying. Our organizations, our parents, ourselves — all of us are on a journey that has an end, and the ability to “kiss the joy as it flies” has much to do with our capacity for conscious closure.

 

Joseph Campbell (35 hours of free audio)

Here are nearly 35 free hours of The Lectures of Joseph Campbell as a Spotify playlist.

(If you don’t have Spotify’s software already, you can download it free here. Where I found this: openculture.com.)

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