http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:53:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Copy this code to your website to display this banner!Make your own banner at MyBannerMaker.com! http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2009/09/pre-orders-now-available/ http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2009/09/subscribe-to-the-mailing-list/ After an amazing evening launching my new CD 'The Secret Garden' at The Vanguard on Thursday 27 August 2009, I am so looking forward to releasing it in a couple of weeks. Pre-orders will be soon available from this site and in the meantime, I hope you enjoy some beautiful ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2009/09/the-secret-garden-launch/ A couple of articles from the year that passed many moons ago: OPHELIA OF THE SPIRITS EP - DRUM MEDIA REVIEW By Michael Smith: 1 July 2008: Issue 912: P44 Here's a piano-playing female singer/songwriter who hasn't resorted to the contemporary penchant for emphasising her Australian accent, yet isn't singing with an ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2009/09/some-oldies-but-goodies/ Every artform is a reflection of another, and all art is a mirror which reflects not only ourselves and our lives but the experiences of all humanity. To truly appreciate art we must understand its symbolic significance, its past and its present, its history and its future, its connection to ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2008/05/what-is-art/ Cambodia is a melting pot of aching, heartbreaking hope and sorrow. A place of strange serenity and spirituality which echos with the distant cries of French Colonialism and the brutal violence and bloodshed of the Khmer Rouge. A visit to the mountaintop village of Bokor Hill is a reminder of the contradictions which define the history of this place. Built ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2008/05/ophelias-moments-in-cambodia/ Ophelia's musings on the meaning of truth: What is truth? Are religious or spiritual beliefs different in kind from scientific or commonsense beliefs? Is truth absolute? (And if not, is that an absolute truth?) It is interesting that every person who offers me an opinion on the question of what truth ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2008/05/the-notion-of-truth-2/ Ophelia asks: What is the significance of the monster in the horror film? What does the monster represent and has this changed over the course of the development of the horror film genre? I first became interested in the monster of the horror film not long ago, when I was speaking ... http://www.opheliaofthespirits.com/2008/04/modern-society-the-horror-film-monster/