Opening the Eye of the Heart

This course explores the ways that words relate to images/symbols and imagination in order to understand how poetic language moves us. We will consider the role of the poet and poetry in traditional societies on the individual and communal levels. Great visionary and mystical poets of the East and West are explored as a means to reflect on our relationship to language and imagination and the symbiosis between creativity and spirituality.

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Curriculum Overview:

    1. Welcome

    2. Eye of The Heart Syllabus 2020

    1. 1 |The Heart's Language

    2. 1 | A Poetic Self-Reflection

    3. 1 | Opening the Eye of the Heart Reader

    4. 1 | Poetry Commentary

    5. 1 | Commentary

    6. The Daily Poems

    1. 2 | Reader

    2. 2 | A Poetic Self-Reflection

    3. 2 | Lesson A Universe of Meaning The Sacred Nostalgia

    4. 2 | Video Exercise The Garden & The Dream

    5. 2 | Poetry Commentary Video Things That Can't Be Taught

    1. 3 | 99 Names Exercise

    2. 3 | Opening the Eye of the Heart Reader

    3. 3 | A Poetic Self-Reflection

    4. 3 | Exercise Nature & The 99 Names

    5. 3 | Lesson The Divine Mirror Nature & the Names

    6. 3 | Poetry Commentary She Wrote Poems in Secret

    1. 4 | Lesson:The Beloved & The Beyond: Poetic Perception

    2. 4 | Poetry Commentary Beyond

    3. 4 | Video Exercise: Letters to the Beloved

    4. 4 | Reader

    5. 4 | A Poetic Self-Reflection

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 24 lessons
  • 5 hours of video content
  • Instructor: Baraka Blue

Course Summary:

Opening the Eye of the Heart is a course in writing as spiritual practice. In addition to daily writings, this course will include daily readings and poems by Rumi, Oliver, Dickinson, Whitman, William Chittick, Hafiz, Basho, and Blake to name a few. Through the discipline of daily poetry writing and reading, supplemented by exercises and lessons, you will have the opportunity to deepen you writing practice and explore the intersection of self-expression and self-discovery. The course is broken up into 4 sections and is designed for you to move through at your own pace.