Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: “The Drama in Marriage about Secrecy & Being Known” will be the subject of the Understanding Marriage! class on Saturday, July 8th, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM. Aesthetic Realism consultants Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman conduct this class, the basis of which is in the following statement by Eli… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Imagination has made for some of the greatest expression in art and life. But people also use their imagination in ways that are hurtful and mean. This seminar, presented by Aesthetic Realism consultant Dale Laurin and associates Edward Green and Steven Weiner, will have… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: When we read a book—are we hoping to know and honestly like the world? In marriage, should we have the same hope? But is there also another, warring hope we have: to dislike things, people, the world itself? Our biggest inward battle is described and made sense of in “About Books and Marriage,”… Read more

Steven Weiner, Computer Specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes: The subjects of Reading and Anger seem so different. But Aesthetic Realism explains both. And that explanation includes something humanity needs desperately to know: what makes any anger—including yours—either good or bad? You can learn the answer to this question, and more, in “Reading, Anger, & Beauty,” the great… Read more

Lauren Phillips, NYC middle school teacher, writes: Everyone is looking for love. Yet, as I know personally, there is much confusion and tumult on the subject. As two people look into each other’s eyes, they need to know what makes love grow and thrive—or fail. What Eli Siegel writes in “Love and Reality” has the… Read more

Devorah Tarrow, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: Many a wife has married hoping—sometimes consciously, sometimes not—that somehow she and her husband could encourage each other to be better people. Yet many a wife has found herself not encouraging but managing that same man: chidingly correcting his speech, pointing out what he ought to do, how he… Read more

Jeffrey Carduner, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, writes: The smartphone we’re so attached to; the books that have lasted many centuries; and our relation to a person close to us: what do all these have to do with the nature of self, with art, and with the fight going on in each of us every day? The answer… Read more

Leila Rosen, Aesthetic Realism associate, writes about this upcoming Public Seminar: Aesthetic Realism explains, as nothing else does: 1) what the purpose of love and marriage is, and 2) what, in both women and men, interferes and makes for so much unnecessary pain. The Aesthetic Realism consultation trio There Are Wives—Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Meryl… Read more

Nancy Huntting, Aesthetic Realism consultant, writes: As you see these words—you are reading. Find out tremendous new things about why reading matters, and what it has to do with art, and the world itself, in “Reading, Our Lives, & the Opposites,” the magnificent current issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.  The commentary by… Read more

Carol Driscoll, Aesthetic Realism consultant to women, writes: In the late ’60s I was a member of the Boston Women’s Health Collective, and this sentence by Ellen Reiss was true of me: “There’s…a tendency to say that men and women are after fundamentally different things.” I thought I knew what men were after—they were insensitive,… Read more