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Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Thursdays, June 18 - July 23, 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 us feel an unnamed longing to release our 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, we 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 the Beloved (as symbol of divine or inner union), AI and the scripted human, repression and release, and the difference between an embodied flame and its aesthetic imitation.
Each session will include an illustrated lecture, open conversation, and time to reflect on how that week’s material might help you kindle more inner flame — safely, gently, and in everyday life. Students will be encourage to keep a multimedia scrapbook, using words, images, textures, scents, and sounds to bring these ideas into personal expression.
This course grows out of the instructor’s own metamorphosis — encounters with the luminous void, archetypal intelligences, and sacred geometries that forever changed how they perceive consciousness. What they share does not come from theory alone but from lived transformation that continues to unfold as embodied insight.
Readings will include Teresa de Avila, R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, 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), Tesla (2020, dir. Michael Almereyda), and more.
Dixa Ashariel Ramirez is a professor of literature and has published extensively in the world of research and scholarship. Now, she also weaves fiction and non-fiction writings from divine flame. Her debut novel, Mist, is one such weaving.
Images: Closed Eyes by Odilon Redon, ca. 1889.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Thursdays, June 18 - July 23, 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 us feel an unnamed longing to release our 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, we 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 the Beloved (as symbol of divine or inner union), AI and the scripted human, repression and release, and the difference between an embodied flame and its aesthetic imitation.
Each session will include an illustrated lecture, open conversation, and time to reflect on how that week’s material might help you kindle more inner flame — safely, gently, and in everyday life. Students will be encourage to keep a multimedia scrapbook, using words, images, textures, scents, and sounds to bring these ideas into personal expression.
This course grows out of the instructor’s own metamorphosis — encounters with the luminous void, archetypal intelligences, and sacred geometries that forever changed how they perceive consciousness. What they share does not come from theory alone but from lived transformation that continues to unfold as embodied insight.
Readings will include Teresa de Avila, R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, 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), Tesla (2020, dir. Michael Almereyda), and more.
Dixa Ashariel Ramirez is a professor of literature and has published extensively in the world of research and scholarship. Now, she also weaves fiction and non-fiction writings from divine flame. Her debut novel, Mist, is one such weaving.
Images: Closed Eyes by Odilon Redon, ca. 1889.