Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Tuesdays, June 16 - July 21, 2026
7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$180 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Professor Dixa Ramirez for a six‑week course exploring the tension between lives shaped by social scripts and lives guided by an inner flame. Together, we’ll look at those who follow the rules, those who quietly burn from within while remaining part of the world, and those who burn without apology.
Many of you may feel an unnamed longing to release your inner flame — the part that remains even without a witness, the still burning beneath all masks — from the weight of expectations that once promised belonging. Tired of having to feel, act, and think a certain way to be accepted, you sense something stirring beneath that fatigue: deeper, steadier, more alive. This course invites you to make space for that depth and coherence to take root.
Through lectures and discussions of films, fiction, and spiritual and philosophical writings, we’ll explore ideas spanning sacred geometry and desire, AI and the scripted human, repression and release, and the difference between an embodied flame and its aesthetic imitation.
This course grows out of the instructor’s own metamorphosis — encounters with the luminous void, archetypal intelligences, and sacred geometries that forever changed how she perceives consciousness. What she shares does not come from theory alone but from lived transformation that continues to unfold as embodied insight.
Readings will include Teresa de Avila, Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, Maud Ventura’s My Husband, and more.
Films include Contact (1997, dir. Robert Zemeckis), Passing (2021, dir. Rebecca Hall), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, dir. Anthony Minghella), and more.
Dixa Ashariel Ramirez, PhD, is an award-winning literary scholar and professor at Brown University. She now writes essays and novels inspired by her direct encounters with sacred geometries, beloved but misunderstood archetypal intelligences, and the luminous void (the experience of non-symbolic divine union with God-Source or the All). She considers this unfolding experiential knowing from both spiritual and non-spiritual perspectives. Her most recent publication is her debut novel Mist. Read more at dixaramirez.com.
Images: Closed Eyes by Odilon Redon, ca. 1889. 2nd image titled the same, “With Closed Eyes" (c. 1895-1905)
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Tuesdays, June 16 - July 21, 2026
7:00 - 8:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$180 Paid Patreon Members / $195 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Join Professor Dixa Ramirez for a six‑week course exploring the tension between lives shaped by social scripts and lives guided by an inner flame. Together, we’ll look at those who follow the rules, those who quietly burn from within while remaining part of the world, and those who burn without apology.
Many of you may feel an unnamed longing to release your inner flame — the part that remains even without a witness, the still burning beneath all masks — from the weight of expectations that once promised belonging. Tired of having to feel, act, and think a certain way to be accepted, you sense something stirring beneath that fatigue: deeper, steadier, more alive. This course invites you to make space for that depth and coherence to take root.
Through lectures and discussions of films, fiction, and spiritual and philosophical writings, we’ll explore ideas spanning sacred geometry and desire, AI and the scripted human, repression and release, and the difference between an embodied flame and its aesthetic imitation.
This course grows out of the instructor’s own metamorphosis — encounters with the luminous void, archetypal intelligences, and sacred geometries that forever changed how she perceives consciousness. What she shares does not come from theory alone but from lived transformation that continues to unfold as embodied insight.
Readings will include Teresa de Avila, Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, Maud Ventura’s My Husband, and more.
Films include Contact (1997, dir. Robert Zemeckis), Passing (2021, dir. Rebecca Hall), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, dir. Céline Sciamma), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, dir. Anthony Minghella), and more.
Dixa Ashariel Ramirez, PhD, is an award-winning literary scholar and professor at Brown University. She now writes essays and novels inspired by her direct encounters with sacred geometries, beloved but misunderstood archetypal intelligences, and the luminous void (the experience of non-symbolic divine union with God-Source or the All). She considers this unfolding experiential knowing from both spiritual and non-spiritual perspectives. Her most recent publication is her debut novel Mist. Read more at dixaramirez.com.
Images: Closed Eyes by Odilon Redon, ca. 1889. 2nd image titled the same, “With Closed Eyes" (c. 1895-1905)
