Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: What does a poem do that every person wants to do? How can the art of poetry—and an important poet of the 19th century, James Thomson—be a means of our knowing ourselves? Read “What Don’t We Know about Ourselves?,” the great, stirring new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Thursday, Nov. 2nd, from 6:30 PM to 8 PM, there will be a seminar that has answers parents, administrators, and teachers are desperate for—“The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Relates Self, Subject, World—& Students Learn!” Teachers of math, history, and science, from elementary through high school, will present lessons from… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: What does it mean to see another person truly? And the imagination that makes for authentic poetry—what can it teach us that we need tremendously to know? Read about this, and about one of the best and kindest poems in American literature, in “The Kindness of… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: A matter close to every woman is going to be taken up and explained newly at the Understanding Marriage! class on Saturday, October 14: “A Wife’s Insistence: What Makes It Right or Wrong?” Taught by Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, the class, which will… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: The largest question in our lives: Do we want to run things and people, or be fair to them, understand them? And—surprisingly—what does that question have to do with the art of the world? Read this thrilling issue, “A World to Be Just to—or Manage?,” which is a guide… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Women today can be determined in many fields. But often, even as a woman seems to get what she’s been after—a degree, a plum job, someone who seems to adore her—she feels gnawingly unsure, more doubtful of herself than ever. Why? Consultants with the… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Trust has been seen as the cornerstone of marriage, and every wife wants to feel she and her husband will be trusting of each other. But even with this hope, a wife or husband can feel about the other—often without putting it into words: “I don’t have confidence in… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: If you are a person who wants to understand yourself— If you are a person who wants to understand the big subject of imagination and be proud of how you use imagination— If you hope to make sense of seriousness and lightness, grandeur and smallness, importance… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Men want to be strong—everyone does. We also want—enormously—to feel we’re kind. But throughout history and right now, people have been mixed up about both strength and kindness, and have thought they can’t go together. Aesthetic Realism shows: not only can they go together… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: “What Makes Imagination Kind or Cruel?” The two parts of that title—1) imagination and 2) kindness and cruelty—have seemed very far apart to people. You’ll see that they’re inseparable. You’ll also see that imagination is related to science—and to the US Constitution—and to the confusion, mistakes, and hopes of people today. All… Read more