Video Lectures
Join us as we synthesize Art and Religion in this series of video-lectures. In each episode we articulate Daniel’s metaphysical teachings, and then investigate works of Art as they relate to the texts, traditions, archetypes, and symbols of religions, spiritualities, mythologies, and God-systems. During this guided cross-analysis we discover concepts pervading and so connecting all such creations, thereby illuminating their source and nature. In doing this, we give every individual the tools they need to more readily express uniquely through Art’s abstract world, to comprehend all such creation, and so to approach the world around them most beneficially by meaningful understanding and engagement of the messages which these vast resources of information Artistic and Spiritual pass onto us. We find the teachings of one to be inherent in the behavior of the other.
"Vitruvian Man, Transformation Myth, and Limitless in the Specific, with Ovid and Da Vinci" (Image: Vitruvian Man, by Leonardo Da Vinci) Student Access
" 'GEB' and 'Man and His Symbols' act 'Artistically'." Student Access
"Sonnet 71, Hermes, and Daniel's Metaphysics" (Image: Sonnet 71, by William Shakespeare) Student Access
"An Introduction to the Greek Transformation Myth Archetype" Hermes' Message and Unification of the Antagonist through The Transition and Trickster Deity (Image: Caduceus, Hermes' Staff) Student Access
"The Cross and The Fruit, Picasso and Miró" Student Access
"Paths to Justification, Abstract-Relationships and Isomorphism-Metaphysics, Style, and Cubism" Metaphysical Light Birthing Artistic Movement and Style; Means to Limitless Expression. (Image: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, by Pablo Picasso) Student Access
"Apollo and Daphne, Part 2: The Opening Dialogue" (Image: Piero del Pollaiuolo's "Apollo and Daphne") Student Access
"The Bell" Student Access
"Where Ovid's Metamorphoses and Cezanne's Process Meet in Metaphysics"(Image: Transformation of Kyparissos into the Cypress) Student Access
"Star-Crossed Lovers, The Breathe of Life in Bach, Life and death in Art." (Image: Pyramus and Thisbe, by JW Waterhouse) Student Access
"Puck, The Shadow, and Interaction; Greek Word Construction, the Psychological Dark, and A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Image: Daphne becomes the Laurel; pendant of Apollo who loved her) Student Access
"Attributes/Pendants in the Greek God-System, The Brygos Painter, and Borromean Rings" (Image: Athena, Athena Noctua, and Gorgon, by The Brygos Painter) Student Access
"Transformation, Truth, and New Life; Kyparissos Myth, Vitruvian Man, and Sonnet 55" (Image: Sonnet 55, William Shakespeare) Student Access
"Introduction to Interpreting Sonnet 116" (Image: Acorn -Fruit of the Unenclosed Land-) Student Access
"Sonnet 116, My Metaphysics, Abrahamic Religions, and Hermes -The Transition Deity's Path to Justification of the Message-" (Image: Shakespeare's Sonnet 116) Student Access
Ceyx and Alcyone, Live Interpretation: Part 2 Student Access
Ceyx and Alcyone, Live Interpretation: Part 3 Student Access
An endless set of objects, subjects, archetypes, symbols, traditions, concepts, and creations synthesized in this video-lecture series create a sympathetic multiplicity by which all can find meaningful identification with and usable comprehension of these teachings about the Art and Religion which embody and express the metaphysical premises regarding the Universe and the very Human condition which qualifies those premises as beneficial, and even crucial. Videos are created by Daniel daily - addressing arising interests, inquiries, lackings, noticings, and unforeseen didactic opportunity -, a means to bolster, develop, confirm, and clarify his offering. They give the listener and potential student a taste of what an in-person lecture/seminar or online-lesson might include. Click on any of the images above to watch the video-lecture mentioned in the picture’s caption.
Visit my Youtube Channel for more video-lectures, live-readings, and interpretations: https://www.youtube.com/@Daniel-SOS
Note: Episodes of “Synthesis with the School of Smirk” are long, unscripted discourses regarding what are often complex and abstract concepts, and how those concepts relate to creations which themselves share these demanding attributes. Nevertheless, they organize creations into digestible structures and make them and the metaphysical concepts synthesized with them approachable by analogy, relationship, and comparison clarifying the integral properties of their substance.
While these and all variety of media by which my work is conveyed is but another manner of documenting a message for posterity, these video-lectures may function as a sympathetic and even enjoyable manner of receiving valuable information today…one which must otherwise be comprehended from dense written text, or abstract creation.
Although these videos are not the height of concision nor high fidelity, I share them as an undeniable source of additional, approachable instances of my teaching. They contain valuable information, explanation, new didactic example, and confirmation of the synthesis of Art and Religion -their individual and shared natures- which reveal of and give foundation to metaphysical information, and then integrate my teachings into all of these.