Paul Brunton: Human Experience/The Arts in Culture

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Volume Nine

Human experience is our laboratory for higher experiment. The world is our school for spiritual discovery. The vicissitudes of personal circumstances are our field for ethical achievement.

When creative art is truly inspired, it comes close to being sacramental.

– Paul Brunton

Human Experience shows how to make everyday life into a process of spiritual discovery. It explores causes and purposes of suffering, problems of marriage and other relationships for spiritual seekers, needed reforms in education, special opportunities and problems of youth and old age, and the purpose of the modern world-crisis

The Arts in Culture reverently celebrates the role of the Beautiful in human culture. Its highlights are sections on the mission of inspired art, creativity, genius, and the relationship of art and mystical experience.