by Anne Skyvington | Aug 22, 2023 | Writing Spirit
The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it was designed that way. Some artists and architects believe the Golden Ratio makes the most...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 20, 2023 | Writing Spirit
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. The beautiful Manjushri Temple is in the Conishead Priory near the Lakes...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 1, 2023 | Writing Spirit
But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a cure for low self-esteem and depression. True, this pragmatic change did occur, over a decade or so,...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 27, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. Numinous ( /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/) is a concept derived from the Latin...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 19, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
Appropriating the American way while writing for Medium 1. Keep physically fit and eat well Fitness: There are so many ways one can manage to do this these days: go to the gym; find a lifestyle clinic; go bush walking; swim every day; jog; walk; go up and down stairs...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 13, 2020 | Ecology, Writing Spirit
The Myth Linked to the Earth Today We earthlings are being jolted by human damage to our natural home. Climate Change is causing huge shock waves to register throughout the globe. Fierce fires have broken out this summer here, and recently in California and even in...
