The ground of reality is spirit
"Art and religion are the same thing," said Yeats, according to a Times obituary that introduced me to Kathleen Raine, who died Sunday at age 95. The Times says she was a "mystically inclined British poet and a scholar of Yeats and Blake" who was a "grande dame of European letters." She founded the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, a "teaching institution [which] preached a universalist theme, braiding the mystical strains of Buddhism and Hinduism with Judaism, Christianity and Islam." Here's an excerpt from her book Transition to a Global Society. Godspeed, Kathleen.