The Spiritual Progression of Western Art, Part 2

In the previous article I presented an overview of The History of Art and Consciousness from prehistory through the medieval period.

Nov 7 • Jim Bennett

The Spiritual Progression of Western Art

An Overview of Art from Prehistory through the Medieval Era

Nov 1 • Jim Bennett

October 2026

An Extraordinary Collection of Books

Riverflow Books

Oct 25 • Jim Bennett

Visions of Metaphysical Truth & Purity

Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint

Oct 24 • Jim Bennett

4-Dimensional Art? What’s That?

What if a simple drawing could help you see the invisible?

Oct 22 • Jim Bennett

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Authenticity in Artistic Expression

Steiner and Kandinsky: the Trailblazers

Oct 17 • Jim Bennett

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September 2026

Flea Market Viewers

How a Lot of People View Art

Sep 29 • Jim Bennett

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The Boy Genius and the Machine Genius

A Lesson from William James Sidis

Sep 20 • Jim Bennett

August 2026

PART VI — The Third Flowering (2000–Present): The Digital Metaphysics of the Information Age

How the invisible architecture of the digital world creates a new frontier of creativity.

Aug 29 • Jim Bennett

NOTICE

I’ll be taking a short vacation from Substack as I prepare for a major exhibition, a public demonstration of calligraphy, an artist talk about my…

Aug 22 • Jim Bennett

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PART V — The Metaphysical Imagination of the 1960s

Consciousness as frontier: psychedelia, meditation, archetypes, and inner exploration.

Aug 15 • Jim Bennett

PART IV — The Second Flowering (The 1960s): Rebuilding After World War II

How postwar rebuilding set the stage for the cultural explosion of the 1960s.

Aug 8 • Jim Bennett