Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes:

How does Aesthetic Realism differ fundamentally from other ways of seeing mind? What does it understand about the human self that people everywhere want and need to know? Is there such a thing as our largest desire, the thing we most need to go after in order to like ourselves? Does art (including the art of film) illustrate the structure of reality? And—what is the chief hindrance from within ourselves to our happiness? For answers to these questions—for the comprehension of yourself you’ve been longing for—read “Knowledge for This Time—& All Time,” the so very hopeful issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known!

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

We are publishing, in this issue and the next, portions of a lecture Eli Siegel gave in 1974. He titled it What Are We Going After? And I am immensely grateful that what he described then can meet people now, at a time when there is so much turbulence and worry and even shock in America and elsewhere.

In that talk of nearly 51 years ago, Mr. Siegel discussed passages from an article in the April 1973 number of Psychology Today. He spoke on something absent from that article, something explained by Aesthetic Realism alone: What is the central purpose of a human being, whether that person is a child just born, or a man of 99 now looking out a window and thinking of his past?

In them and everyone, is there a deepest desire we have by being human and alive? Is it with us though we may not know what this fundamental purpose is, and though we may be untrue to it day after day? And does our betraying that purpose weaken our lives, make us ashamed and ill-natured, and give a certain emptiness to the hours?

I believe there’s nothing more necessary at this time than for people to want to see what is true about the largest matters in themselves and humanity. And in seeing this, there will be a longed-for greater clarity about oneself and the world we are of. It was always the time, but now it is ever so keenly the time, to see how Aesthetic Realism explains the most fundamental matters about everyone….Read more