· Inspiring Growth, one artwork at a time ·
· Inspiring Growth, one artwork at a time ·
By Julia de Schultz, August 26, 2025
I wasn’t always into learning.
As a kid, I just wanted to play outside. School didn’t interest me. I couldn’t sit still, and reading felt like a chore. Of course, I didn’t realise it at the time, but I was learning, just in a different way. It wasn’t until I changed schools and wasn’t allowed to see my best friend that something shifted. With nothing better to do, I started revising for school. I discovered I was actually good at it, filtering out the noise, focusing only on what mattered to pass the tests. But it still didn’t feel like real learning, not in the way I understand it now.
That came much later, in my twenties, after I started learning about myself. About who I was outside of what I’d grown up in, and outside of what I had learned was normal. That’s when I began to understand how knowledge can empower your life, how it can reconnect you with possibility, choice, and self-direction, and that’s when things got interesting.
There is a difference between knowing and knowing. You can memorise the periodic table or recite the laws of thermodynamics, yet it’s another thing entirely to feel the interconnectedness of all things, to realise you’re made of the same elements that burn inside stars. That’s not just knowledge. That’s transformation.
When I created Ray of Light Prints, it was because I wanted to make that kind of knowing visible. Something you could see every day, on your wall, in your space, in your life. Not buried in a dusty textbook or lost in the haze of a podcast you forgot to finish.
I’d read dozens of books by then, on psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, history, biology, cosmology, and while each one left a mark, I kept asking: how do we keep this insight alive in our daily lives? How do we make wisdom tangible? That’s how these prints were born.
Each is a visual reminder of what matters. A bridge between complexity and clarity. They’re designed not just to tell you something, but to remind you of something you already know deep down.
Because here’s the thing: we’re not here to learn everything from scratch.
We’re here to remember.
This might sound strange, but the more I learn, the more I realise that the deepest truths are not things you acquire, they’re things you uncover.
As if knowledge is not something we collect like coins, but something we reawaken. A remembering of who we really are, beneath the noise. A return to essence.
You might call it intuition. Or soul memory. Or the collective unconscious. But there’s a knowing that lives in your bones. And when you hear the right idea, or see the right image, or read the right words, it’s like something inside you says, Ah yes, of course. As if you always knew. You’d just forgotten for a while.
And that’s what these prints aim to do. Not just inform, but remind.
To hold up a mirror to the soul and say: “This is also you.”
Let’s look closer.
Beyond the poetry and the soul-stirring beauty of knowledge, there’s a very practical truth: in a world that’s changing faster than ever, the most valuable skill isn’t knowing everything. It’s knowing how to learn anything.
Think about it. Jobs evolve. Tech shifts. Life throws you curveballs. The people who thrive aren’t those with the biggest brains or most certificates. They’re those who can adapt. Who can take a new challenge and say: “I don’t know this yet, but I can figure it out.”
Learning how to learn is the ultimate superpower. It’s meta-knowledge.
And it’s one of the most overlooked aspects of how knowledge can empower your life, because once you know how to learn, there’s nothing you can’t explore or adapt to.
It includes:
If you’re curious to dive deeper, the Learning How to Learn course by Dr Barbara Oakley is a brilliant place to start, it’s free and highly accessible.
When we built our prints, we designed them with these things in mind. They’re layered, visual, and engaging. They’re built to stick. To become part of the background hum of your home, studio, or workspace, until they start whispering things you didn’t know you needed to hear.
Because repetition is part of learning. So is beauty. So is context.
There are many ways to learn. And just as many types of knowing.
There’s intellectual knowing: the kind you find in books, lectures, and data sets.
There’s emotional knowing: the kind that comes through lived experience, heartbreak, joy, and intuition.
There’s somatic knowing: the body’s way of learning through sensation, habit, and movement.
And there’s spiritual knowing: that quiet certainty that bypasses logic entirely.
All of these ways matter. And they’re all connected.
One of the reasons I believe in visual learning so deeply is that it activates more than just the rational brain. A beautiful, thoughtful image can stir emotions, awaken memories, foster embodied understanding, and even spark something spiritual. It doesn’t just show you the information, it lets you feel it.
That’s why I say our prints are not just educational. They’re experiential. They bring learning into the body, into the heart, into the everyday.
Education is no longer a luxury in the modern world; it is a necessity. It is a survival skill.
But even more than that, it’s a path of happiness. Of freedom. Of becoming the person you were meant to be.
When you learn, you regain your agency. You don’t give up your authority to systems, gurus, or trends anymore. You get more curious, more capable, more you.
It is no longer about performance or productivity. It is about aliveness.
To keep on learning is to stay vigilant to the mystery of life.
And whether you’re learning astrophysics or inner child healing or how to grow tomatoes, it all counts. It all adds up. And it all makes you more yourself.
So why art?
Why wrap all this knowledge in design?
Because beauty gets past your defences. It reaches parts of you that logic can’t. It opens you.
We forget most of what we read. We skim articles. We scroll past ideas. But something beautiful? That stays with you. It pulls you back. It slows you down. It speaks a language your soul understands.
Ray of Light Prints exists to make that kind of learning possible.
We blend knowledge with beauty, complexity with clarity, science with soul, because we believe that when you see the right thing every day, it changes you.
It’s not loud. It’s not pushy. But it’s there.
A quiet whisper of wonder in your space.
The journey’s just beginning.
We have many more prints in the works, focusing on ancient wisdom, psychology, and inner healing. And every one of them will serve the same function: to bring meaningful knowledge into daily life. To awaken curiosity. To help you remember.
Because we don’t believe in passive walls.
We believe that your environment can educate you. Inspire you. Remind you of who you truly are.
And maybe, just maybe, that’s the real purpose of learning: not to become something more, but to return to who you always were underneath it all.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re behind… like you’re not smart enough… like it’s too late to start learning something new. I want you to know this:
You are not behind. You are building.
Every day is a chance to remember something you forgot you knew.
To reconnect with that bright, curious, awake part of you.
And if one of our prints can help light that spark? Then we’ve done our job. Explore our full collection here.
Let’s keep learning. Let’s keep remembering.
There’s so much more to discover, both out there and within.