Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song contains some very insightful, powerful writing. Dylan can raise topics of everyday life to a higher level in an instant.
Bob Dylan: The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm: Spiritual Interpretation in a Video
To me, Shelter from the Storm highlights the contrast between the material world with all its struggles and suffering, and the realm of the immortal soul. The latter invites us constantly to enter.
Revolver: A Spiritual Movie
Casino milieu, loads of money, violence - and a surprisingly profound spiritual message in this 2005 masterpiece by Guy Ritchie.
Bob Dylan: Abandoned Love – Relationship and Spiritual Process
I count Bob Dylan's Abandoned Love among his love songs that invite to a spiritual perspective. The love to be abandoned may be earthly ties and the ego.
Bob Dylan: Shelter from the Storm
Bob Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm, to me, signifies two fields of life: on the one hand, our well-known world of opposites, struggles, and desperation, and on the other hand the world of the living soul. I see a path described in the song from experiencing the borderline in our physical world up to a new state of being, based on the immortal soul.
Leonard Cohen’s Avalanche: Spiritual Interpretation in a Video
This video interpretation of Leonard Cohen's Avalanche sees the song as the Divine Soul within speaking to the human seeker.
Leonard Cohen’s Avalanche: A Spiritual Perspective
Listening to Leonard Cohen's Avalanche, I used to feel uneasy, at the mercy of a power beyond my scope. Now I see it as crucial advice on a spiritual path.
Bob Dylan’s Saving Grace: Interpretation in a Video
Dylan received a lot of criticism for his Christian period. Here, we look at “Saving Grace” from a spiritual perspective – a song released in 1980 on side two of “Saved”, the second album of the so-called “Christian Trilogy”. Its predecessor was “Slow Train Coming” in 1979, its successor “Shot of Love” in 1981.
Bob Dylan’s Señor (Tales of Yankee Power): Interpretation in a Video
It was not long ago that I became aware of the spiritual context of Bob Dylan's Senor - even though I had regarded Love in Vain from the same 1978 Street Legal album as very spiritual for a long time.
Bob Dylan’s Love in Vain: Spiritual Interpretation in a Video
Love songs are well suited to relate to several levels of understanding: from erotic references to the longing for a companion, a soul mate, up to inner processes of soul and spirit that use worldly love merely as an analogy.