Go to Aesthetic Realism Podcasts Hear a talk—vibrant, thought-
provoking, immediately practical—
by Aesthetic Realism associate & actress Carol McCluer.more
Aesthetic Realism Consultations In consultations, a person’s individual life questions are understood and explained, through the principles of Aesthetic Realism....more
These feature dramatic readings of some of the great lectures on literature, ethics, economics, history, everyday life, and art given by Eli Siegel. There are reenactments of Aesthetic Realism lessons he taught, upon which Aesthetic Realism consultations today are based. And there are groundbreaking talks by artists and scholars in many fields—including jazz, architecture, photography, film—on this new way of seeing the arts, sciences, and reality itself.
Saturday, May 19, 8 PM
About Humanity, Money, & Love
Wow! Public & PrivateIn this historic lecture of December 4, 1970, one of the
Goodbye Profit System series, Eli Siegel said:
“Is it the abuses, corruptions, excesses of the profit system that are bad, while the profit system is a good thing, subject to abuse? The profit system has to make profit either through the persons employed or consumers. As soon as you have to make such a profit, you have to take an antagonistic attitude to the employee and buyer. To say that you don’t have to is unconscious hooey.”
A Man, a Woman, Romance, & MoneyA reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Every person’s dissatisfaction is a feeling that 'I’m getting more than I deserve and also less than I deserve.' A woman could say, 'Kisses I get aplenty, but esteem too little.'
...Money happens to be a very deep evoker of the worst in us and the best." —Eli Siegel
Simplicity & Complexity in The Temptations' "My Girl!"by singer Kevin Fennell
“In its casual and easygoing way, this song has amazing richness of structure with its syncopated rhythms, risings and fallings. And I think the message is:Through this one person, the whole world looks good to you!”
We are serializing the lecture Philosophy Begins with That, which Eli Siegel gave in 1970. It is about something no philosophy but Aesthetic Realism has shown: that every object, every thing, every aspect of every thing, is fundamentally and completely philosophic, because the structure of reality itself is in it. That structure is the oneness of opposites. The objects that surround us, an incident, our own feelings, a kiss, a sneeze, a running dog, a cloud, a grammatical error, a map (online or off), the eyes of a loved one, a memory—all are composed (in different ways) of reality’s motion and rest, awryness and symmetry, particularity and relation, definiteness and nuance, perfection and imperfection. That means every thing, every person, is related centrally and richly to every other thing and person, however apart these seem. Put personally it means, in Mr. Siegel’s beautiful words: the world and every item in it is the other half of yourself.
In this lecture Mr. Siegel uses as text the 1929 journal of novelist Arnold Bennett. And as he comments on Bennett’s descriptions of daily happenings, Mr. Siegel’s manner mingles casualness, scholarship, humor, depth, exactitude.
We print here too part of a paper by Aesthetic Realism consultant Ernest DeFilippis. It’s from a recent public seminar, titled “Acquisition vs. Understanding: The Big Debate in Every Man....” more
On the first Thursday of every month the Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates present public seminars. Representative subjects include: “Real Communication in Marriage—How Can We Have It?”; “What's the Difference between Wowing People & Liking Yourself?”; “Kindness: Is It Strong ?”; “The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Succeeds: Knowledge Wins, Prejudice Loses!”
Thursday, June 7, 6:30 PM
The Mistakes Daughters Make about Fathers; or,
What Do We Really Want from Dad?
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