Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes:  What would it mean to value and use our senses—touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing—wisely? What is their fundamental purpose, and their relation to our intellect? These big questions are answered—magnificently, truly—in “The Grand Everyday Drama,” the new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known! The commentary by… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Even in our “you can have it all” era, a woman can feel that her life at home—how she is with her spouse or family—is in a different world from her job, studies, cultural interests. She can feel her home is cozier than the large, puzzling world outside, yet… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Our senses—we’re born with them and use them every day, to taste, touch, smell, see, hear. But do our senses have an urgent ethical meaning that we need to know? What is that meaning? And is there a hurtful way of seeing we can have that opposes the very purpose of… Read more

Sally Ross, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: Millions of Americans walk around every day, as I did when I was in college, feeling heavy, depressed, stuck—and wondering, “Will I ever get out of this?” In issue 1759 of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known is The Philosophy of Depression, a great lecture Eli Siegel… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: There is nothing Americans need more urgently to know than what is in “For Humanity to Be Truly Civilized.” It does—magnificently—two great things. It explains feelings in people that perturb and pain them. And it answers truly a question nothing else has answered, about certain horrible… Read more

Marion Fennell, singer with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, writes: As a person who once worried about my lack of attention to things, I love what Aesthetic Realism explains about why so many people, including children, have trouble giving full attention. In her commentary in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known issue 1339,… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Praise: wives have looked for it, angled for it, relished it, and seen it as the measure of their spouse’s love! Why, though, even as the desired praise is gotten and seems so pleasing, does many a wife feel deeply unsure of herself, and feel something is still missing?… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What is mental health, really—for each of us? And what in a person works against it and stops it from being? In “Perfection, Imperfection, & Our Minds” you’ll read about that. And you’ll read Eli Siegel’s powerful discussion—so needed today—of the way of mind behind a mass shooting. There… Read more

Bruce Blaustein, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Growing up on Long Island, I couldn’t understand why the devotion that people in my family showed one another could suddenly turn into heated, angry arguments and later, uncomfortable silences. I know that through Aesthetic Realism, the painful see-saw between devotion and anger in a family can really change!… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Parents, educators, and students across our nation are desperate for what’s told of in “The Teaching Method That Meets America’s Hope.” It’s about the method that reaches even the most discouraged of young people: the method that enables students to see meaning in their subjects, to learn successfully, with authentic excitement—and also to really… Read more