HeyJaredTeddy Hamstra, Ph.D.
I'm an author & professional mythologist. "Creative Mysticism" is an unfolding & evolving project, applying the teachings of the great mystics with the realms of the imagination opened by creative artists. Let's re-enchant the world with care
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A Tarot's Journey Pt. VIII: The Ten of Swords; Or, the Lettuce is Trying to Kill You (opens the original)
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To the Wonder, Noli Me Tangere (opens the original)
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The Tree of Life (2011) changed my life. It was unlike any movie I had seen prior, and I vividly remember the way that reality in the minutes and hours after the end credits rolled felt pulsating and alive. If Disney’s Fantasia was my childhood exposure to wonderment and the sublime via the collage and clash of mythic images with masterpieces of classical music, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was a coming of age counterpart to that experience of symphonic, cosmic cinema. So, when I was a few
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