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Katabasis and Return: A Conversation With Mari Otsu About Her Time at Ralston College

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Mari Otsu joins Stephen Blackwood for a deeply personal conversation about her journey through the wounds of materialism, ideology, and spiritual forgetting, and her return to the soul through the beauty of the humanities. Reflecting on her years at NYU and the Grand Central Atelier, Mari speaks of a longing that nothing in the modern, politicized worldview could satisfy, and how she found healing in therapy, classical painting, and, most profoundly, the living philosophical community of Ralston College. Engaging with the works of Plotinus, Boethius, and Dante, she discovered a path of purification and ascent that restored her sense of meaning and inspired her to share these treasures with others. This conversation explores the roots of today’s meaning crisis and the redemptive power of beauty, thought, and imagination to heal the soul.

Subscribe to receive the latest Ralston College updates at www.ralston.ac/sign-up.

Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:
  • Plotinus’ Enneads
  • Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
  • Augustine’s Confessions
  • Plato
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • Monique Wittig’s The Straight Mind

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 01:29 - Conversation Begins
  • 02:18 - About Mari
  • 6:00 - Βrief Review of Mari’s time at Ralston
  • 8:00 - Mari’s Descent into Anguish and Fragmentation
  • 15:20 - The Ideological Component: NYU
  • 23:30 - Leaving Blame Behind
  • 27:20 - Fear as a Symptom of a Spiritual Pathology
  • 29:00 - The Role of Therapy and Right Relationship
  • 34:00 - The Power of Art
  • 44:16 - Moving from Beauty to Contemplation
  • 46:51 - Beginning at Ralston
  • 1:00:00 - Plotinus Moving Beyond Beauty
  • 1:08:00 - Wrapping It All Up
  • 01:11:01 - Exit Music and Fade

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63 episodes

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Mari Otsu joins Stephen Blackwood for a deeply personal conversation about her journey through the wounds of materialism, ideology, and spiritual forgetting, and her return to the soul through the beauty of the humanities. Reflecting on her years at NYU and the Grand Central Atelier, Mari speaks of a longing that nothing in the modern, politicized worldview could satisfy, and how she found healing in therapy, classical painting, and, most profoundly, the living philosophical community of Ralston College. Engaging with the works of Plotinus, Boethius, and Dante, she discovered a path of purification and ascent that restored her sense of meaning and inspired her to share these treasures with others. This conversation explores the roots of today’s meaning crisis and the redemptive power of beauty, thought, and imagination to heal the soul.

Subscribe to receive the latest Ralston College updates at www.ralston.ac/sign-up.

Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:
  • Plotinus’ Enneads
  • Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
  • Augustine’s Confessions
  • Plato
  • Dante’s Divine Comedy
  • Monique Wittig’s The Straight Mind

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 01:29 - Conversation Begins
  • 02:18 - About Mari
  • 6:00 - Βrief Review of Mari’s time at Ralston
  • 8:00 - Mari’s Descent into Anguish and Fragmentation
  • 15:20 - The Ideological Component: NYU
  • 23:30 - Leaving Blame Behind
  • 27:20 - Fear as a Symptom of a Spiritual Pathology
  • 29:00 - The Role of Therapy and Right Relationship
  • 34:00 - The Power of Art
  • 44:16 - Moving from Beauty to Contemplation
  • 46:51 - Beginning at Ralston
  • 1:00:00 - Plotinus Moving Beyond Beauty
  • 1:08:00 - Wrapping It All Up
  • 01:11:01 - Exit Music and Fade

  continue reading

63 episodes

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