Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Does every person have both a desire for knowledge—and a desire that’s against knowing? How can the first desire win? And how, through the great Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method, do students—even those who had much difficulty—really come to love learning, and stop being prejudiced against others? Read “The Fight about Knowledge—in Schools… 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

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Everyone imagines—about people and things we see, meet, remember, make up. But what is the purpose of imagination? Are there two kinds—good and bad? How can we distinguish? Read “How Do We Want to Imagine?,” the kind, thrilling new issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known! The… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: On Saturday, August 12th, 11 AM-12:30  PM, the Understanding Marriage! Class will discuss “Complaint in Marriage; or, Can We Be Both Critical & Kind?” and the eminently practical answer to that question. The class, taught by Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, is based on… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: I’m proud to take part in this important public seminar with my colleagues, consultant Marcia Rackow and associate Harriet Bernstein. Come and learn about a fight that’s deep and constant in everyone: Do we want to understand people, situations, the world itself, OR do we want to run things… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: We all have imaginations. But what does it really mean to imagine? Is there a type of imagination that does our lives and the world good, and another type that weakens us and others? The clear, thrilling, important answers to these questions are in “What Kind of… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: Read a thrilling, deep, groundbreaking discussion of a subject that’s a five-alarm matter for men and women everywhere. It’s from an Aesthetic Realism lesson in which Eli Siegel asked and answered questions about the real criterion for being proud as to love. “Yes—Love, Pleasure, & Self-Respect!” is the great… Read more