Luminescence of the Ordinary
Luminescence of the Ordinary
by Rick Haltermann
Rick Haltermann’s follow-up to Curriculum of the Soul explores diminishment of the sacred through personal essays and observations. He elaborates on how this loss appears through decreased civility, lack of imagination, and an abandonment of our innate intuition, instincts and common sense for the illusion found at the alters of technology.
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"What are you doing to share your gifts with the world? The opportunities are unlimited. Through those gifts, a sphere of influence is created that impacts more than any of us can ever know. Even if we can’t see immediate results, seeds are being planted all of the time. I have great faith in those seeds and their potential to blossom into spheres of connection, blooms of loving.”
— Rick Haltermann, from the essay Our Sphere of Influence
"Maybe we are looking from the wrong direction in terms of obsessively fueling a capitalist culture. Instead, teaching an appreciation of aesthetics, which usually expands through creativity, would enrich the individual while creating a society not based on money and its dark sides of theft and inequality but on beauty and, with it, a shift back to a true democracy. Bring poetry to elementary schools, let every child have a chance to create with their hands, allow kids to play freely again without necessarily a screen or adult involved, visit the Grand Canyon, dance to live music regardless of your age, read to each other, support local art organizations, write your partner a poem and, most importantly, seek and create beauty incessantly, knowing your life depends on it.”
— Rick Haltermann, from the essay Aesthetic Considerations
About Rick
Rick Haltermann is a writer, photographer, musician, Director of the Association of Noetic Practitioners and lives in northern New Mexico. His previous book was the award-winning Curriculum of the Soul.
