http://mysticism-mystiek-ahank...pages.com/page7.html

Whaddyathink about a mystical art thread? Wanna post some of Hildegarde Von Bingen's music and paintings or some Bach or some Eastern Orthodox iconography.
Great cathedrals or Mount Athos monasteries and statuary from Rome. hhmmmm....

caritas,

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I think it would be cool. I especially intriqued by the prayer and thoughtfulness that goes into Eastern Orthodox icons and love Benedictine chant.

Here is an icon site:

http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/icons/icons.html

shanti

Thank you stephen and shanti,

http://www.iconsexplained.com/iec/iec_idb2g.htm

http://www.love2learn.net/art/artlink.htm

I remember when I learned about 9/11. I wanted to be there in New York where this was happening. I wondered if anything happened to the Metropolitan.
Spent hours looking at them, and that seemed to bring God's spirit into all of the confusion surrounding the tragedy.

caritas,

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Just spent some time today in a coffee house run by an Orthodox church. It was very peaceful and the walls were adorned with icons, which I'm told are the "gateway" to greater ecstacy in prayer.

The coffee wasn't bad, either.

shanti

We'll need to start a thread/topic on the ladder of John Climacus. Here is a visual:

http://www.iconsexplained.com/iec/02102.htm

caritas,

mm <*)))))><

This one is quite striking.

To see the world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower,

To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake

http://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_209.html

A little about chanting and it's healing power.

http://www.swbynw.com/art-paintings/16.htm#1

Shaman!