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On art, humanity, the self, and society.

[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy

[POEM] Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence by F Kevin Murphy

These poems are drawn from a sequence entitled “Ancient Whispers” that utilize themes from classical or Slavic myth. Each poem deals with the irony and vicissitudes of human experience.

On Nature Rewritten

On Nature Rewritten

This piece explores humanity’s enduring tension between reverence and reason, and the impulse to shape life itself. Drawing on Aristotle, Spinoza, and the Romantics, it argues that creation is not a trespass against nature but the highest expression of our rational and divine curiosity.

Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self

Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self

Great art can help us experience our most fundamental humanity.

Six Pieces by GUSKY

Six Pieces by GUSKY

A series of evocative pieces by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Gusky.

Stillness Between Pages

Stillness Between Pages

A reflection on daily reading

The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented

The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented

As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?

Respecting Antigone

Respecting Antigone

This is the commiserating heart that is both rare and common: common as in all men and women possess it; rare as in few bring it to finality. Antigone was able to maintain her original heart and develop her virtue, immortalising herself and her love for her loved ones.

Our purpose

Our purpose

Ninth Heaven exists to bring to light the good things of the world and to inspire the human spirit to the good.

The Ascension, and Will of Heaven

The Ascension, and Will of Heaven

We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.