Marco Polo
"a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295." --wikipedia
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transcendence
"existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level" --google
holy water
"water that has been blessed by a member of the clergy or a religious figure. The use for cleansing prior to a baptism and spiritual cleansing is common in several religions, from Christianity to Sikhism."
Stan Grof (Stanislav Grof)
"one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of exploring, healing, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche." --wikipedia
Ali al-Sistani
Ayatolla Sistani is "the leading spiritual leader of Iraqi Shia Muslims...In 2005 and 2014, he was also nominated for Nobel Prize Award." --wikipedia
Jimmy Lai
Hong Kong billionaire jailed and persecuted by the Chinese government for his pro-democracy views.
Art of Refik Anadol
"Turkish-American new media artist and designer. His projects consist of data-driven machine learning algorithms that create abstract, dream-alike environments." --wikipedia
Art of Francis Bacon
"Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures." --wikipedia
The Red Book (of Carl Jung)
"recounts and comments upon the author's psychological experiments between 1913 and 1916... not published or made otherwise accessible for study until 2009." --wikipedia
Art of Anselm Kiefer
by request. "Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor... His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac." --wikipedia
Art of Rothko
"best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970." --wikipedia
Art of Kandinsky
"Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art." --wikipedia
Art of Goya
"considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries." --wikipedia
samurai
"hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century to their abolition in 1876." --wikipedia
Albert Camus
works of this French philosopher (public), personal calibration (paid-subscriber access)