by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
The Magnificent Cosmos Click image above to view in full screen In the background of this painting is the Hubble deep field that became visible for the first time in a most remarkable photograph taken of outer space by the Hubble telescope. The telescope, with the...
by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
A Many Centered Universe Click image above to view in full screen I find it encouraging to understand that the universe is about making centers of being; centers that include galaxies, stars, cells, starfish and people. The recognition that the universe makes centers...
by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
A Tree of Life Click image above to view in full screen Upon understanding our radical new understandings of the nature of matter, I understood the wisdom of the traditional image of the Tree of Life. The colorful interior design within the tree celebrates the sacred...
by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
A Celtic Knot Mandala Click image above to view in full screen Several of my paintings incorporate Celtic knots, sometimes called endless patterns, a design in various forms that are also found in ancient Syrian and Coptic manuscripts. The knot in this painting,...
by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
Awakening Human Consciousness Click image above to view in full screen Although disputed, there is much evidence that a basic sentience, a capacity for knowing — not by our rational thinking but by a non-rational (not irrational) knowing — is a fundamental property of...
by Jonathan Vogel-Borne | May 30, 2025 | Gate to the Garden
The Recovery of Wisdom Click image above to view in full screen As we now have knowledge of the earth and universe and know something of the millennial-long story of its unfolding to become what we know today, we can discern, in part, what the universe has been up to,...