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

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