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Exploring Life: The Artistry of Being Alive embraces the ideal that we are all artists of life. The site is organized into five themes:
Body: The body is the integral physical substance of a living organism. Physiology is the study of the unified systems and functions of a living organism. By extension, the word body can also refer to the fundamental character, appearance, texture, or content of something. In each sense, the word body serves to focus our exploration on revealing the essence, integrity, unity and fundamental nature of a living organism or object.
Mind: The human mind embraces the illusive worlds of thought, intelligence, comprehension, apprehension, intuition, imagination, memory, judgement, reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving, perception, feelings and emotions. The mind is the element of a person that enables self-awareness, attention, concentration, contemplation, meditation and consciousness. It is the mind that defines the character of our experiences, intentions, direction, and purpose in life.
Spirit: The word spirit originates in the Latin spiritus meaning breath. Spirit is the breath of life. Spirituality directs our attention toward the fundamental questions of life: Why am I here? How should I live? What happens when I die? The path of spirituality embraces deeply personal investigation into the nature of truth, purpose and meaning. To be spiritual means to embrace the universal mystery and illusive nature of life itself.
Environment: Environment is our total surround. An environment can take many different forms including physical, mental, emotional, technological, and natural. We are all surrounded by range influences, situations and circumstance that directly influence the nature of our thoughts, feelings, and experiences in life. We are also creators of environments and therefore artists of cause and effect.
Experience: The word experience originates in the Latin experientia meaning an act of trying. In a general sense experience refers to the personal events, situations, and circumstances, that flow together throughout life and how those things are interpreted by the individual. We can also refer to collective experience, or an experience that is understood to be shared by a group of people. My interest is to explore the experience of learning from various perspectives in order to reveal its diversity and presence in various contexts.
A listing of articles in each theme is presented in the index.
Articles that develop a common idea are frequently organized into a series. A series contains articles that are not limited to one theme, but may instead be dispersed across two or more themes. An index of the various series can be found here.