Beauty is utterly necessary for life, for health, for holiness. If we do not have entry into the realm of beauty then we live, first in longing, then in inner deadness, and finally in unhealthy terror, both inwardly and in the world at large. Beauty is terror, too, and if we do not have this creative terror then we get its substitute in the terror of terrorism. We must, the soul must, be turned inside out, upside down, not just once, but this rotating, inverse motion characterizes soul life. And if there is nothing in the world around us, nothing in our lives that turns us upside down and inside out, then the soul not only stagnates, we are also immediately overcome by harsh, dead, commercial images, by mass consciousness and constant inner anger. In our small way, the small way we do things at the School of Spiritual Psychology, we offer this issue of really extraordinary articles by truly extraordinary people as an entry into the healthy terror that beauty always takes us into.

---Robert Sardello