The Painter's Dialectic

Dear Spiritual Friends,

• Topic: Precious Human Rebirth
• Time: October 12th 2025, 12 - 2 pm Eastern

This month, we’ll explore Precious Human Rebirth the rare and fortunate opportunity of being born as a human with the freedom and conditions necessary to practice the Dharma and progress toward enlightenment.

As always, our space is open to all sincere seekers and no artistic skill is needed. Also feel free to invite friends.

All donations for this month's group event will go toward establishing the IHS Collection at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton. This collection is an effort to preserve esoteric wisdom for future generations. You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mark-stavish-preserve-esoteric-wisdom

Sincerely,
Josh Green
Spiritual Friends Meditative Art Group

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Dear Spiritual Friends,

• Topic: The Path of Prayer
• Time: September 21th 2025, 12 - 2 pm Eastern
• Via Zoom : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84467063532 

This month, we’ll explore the six perfections, which are Buddhist virtues with Buddhist scholar Dylan Ngan. 

As always, our space is open to all sincere seekers and no artistic skill is needed. Also feel free to invite friends.

All donations for this month's group event will go toward establishing the IHS Collection at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton. This collection is an effort to preserve esoteric wisdom for future generations. You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mark-stavish-preserve-esoteric-wisdom

Sincerely,
Josh Green
Spiritual Friends Meditative Art Group

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This month, we’ll explore the practice of prayer in the Western traditions. Together we’ll consider how prayer has served as a bridge between the worldly and the divine. We will also explore art-making as prayer.

As always, our space is open to all sincere seekers and no artistic skill is needed. Also feel free to invite friends.

All donations for this month's group event will go toward establishing the IHS Collection at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton. This collection is an effort to preserve esoteric wisdom for future generations. You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mark-stavish-preserve-esoteric-wisdom

Sincerely,
Josh Green
Spiritual Friends Meditative Art Group

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Dear Spiritual Friends,

You’re warmly invited to the next gathering of the Artist-Errant: Spiritual Friends Meditative Art Group, titled:

 Monday, July 21, 2025
 6:00 – 8:00 PM Eastern Time

This month, we’ll journey into the great mystery — the ground of being that has been called Yahweh, God, Allah, Brahman, the Tao, the Dharmakāya, and, in physics, the Quantum Vacuum. Whether spoken of through sacred language or approached in secular terms, this ultimate ground has stirred awe, terror, silence, and ecstatic creativity across cultures and time.

All levels of artistic and meditative experience are welcome. Bring basic art materials (pen, pencil, paint, or anything you feel drawn to).

All donations for this month's group event will go toward establishing the IHS Collection at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton. This collection is an effort to preserve esoteric wisdom for future generations. You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mark-stavish-preserve-esoteric-wisdom

With reverence and creativity,
Josh Green
Founder, The Artist-Errant
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Dear Friends,

In these tumultuous times, when fear and uncertainty seem to fill the air, how can we remain grounded, positive, and clear-headed enough to accomplish what needs to be done?

This is the central question we’ll explore in our upcoming Artist-Errant gathering.

We’re honored to welcome Rheam El Ruby as our guest speaker — a child psychologist, clinical counselor, and Sufi mystic. Rheam brings a rare blend of psychological insight and spiritual wisdom to help us understand how to care for both the inner and outer dimensions of life during periods of instability.

All donations for this month's group event will go toward establishing the IHS Collection at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton. This collection is an effort to preserve esoteric wisdom for future generations. You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mark-stavish-preserve-esoteric-wisdom

Sincerely,

Josh Green

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5/19/2025 Artist-Errant Group- SpaciousnessFollow along at home to todays meditative art class on the concept of spaciousness. artisterrant.comJoshgreenart.com

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4/14/2025 Artist-Errant Group - Cultivating Unconditional Love

In a world as turbulent as ours, it can be exhausting to have our expectations, hopes, fears, and circumstances constantly shaken or broken. The ground keeps shifting—and so many of us are left searching for something steady, something real.

This meditative painting session is an invitation to begin cultivating eudaimonia—a form of inner wellness not dependent on external conditions. One of the most powerful paths to this deeper resilience is the practice of unconditional love: a love that doesn’t ask for anything in return, that radiates freely from within.

We’ll begin with a simple guided meditation, then move into intuitive painting as a contemplative act. This is not about making something “good”—it’s about becoming present, letting go, and painting from the space of the heart.

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This is a recording of an event for artisterrant.com . In today's episode, we will be having a dialog on cultivating attention as the foundation of living a good life, drawing from Buddhist and other philosophical traditions. This is an open conversation—everyone is welcome to participate, ask questions, and share insights.

First will will give a introduction and definition to attention, then I will invite Dylan Ngan to respond and speak on attention from the Buddhist perspective, then Dylan will guide us through a short meditation focused on the cultivation of attention, so that you can learn this technique and practice on your own, Then we will open up the conversation to the group.

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This is a free meditative art class recorded from a live event held by the esoteric art schoolartisterrant.com . If you would like to take the class, gather whatever art supplies you enjoy working with and a mirror. In this class we explore the concept of acceptance from a spiritual point of view.

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In today’s episode, I present a meditation on how to seed beneficial habits. Rheam and I have been doing this meditation together for the past several months and share our results. This meditation completes a group of 4 meditations that would be great for a beginner getting to know themselves with out a big commitment to a meditation practice. 

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