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Archive for 'Spirituality'

Robert Bly Reads St. John of the Cross

Pablo Beneito: Sufi Contemplation of Numbers, Letters, Geometry

Pablo Beneito: Sufi Contemplation of Numbers and Harmonic Squares

Paul Fenton: Lesser and Greater Jihad, Sufi and Jewish Similarities

Photo Essay: Buddhism in Practice

Photos by John Beebe, Text by Peggy Moss

We moved to Sri Lanka for a sabbatical year, taking along our young children, leaving behind our home and routine in New England. We chose the island partly for aesthetic reasons, spurred on by photographs of its incredible landscape and stories of its astonishing people, but also because it is the oldest continually Buddhist country in the world.

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Return of the Spirit by Thomas Lavin

The emergence from addiction is more a process of discovery than recovery. Within every addiction there lies a vocation awaiting recognition.

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The Teachings of Iamblichus: Between Eros and Anteros by Leonard George

Among the dying oracles of late antiquity, a brilliant pagan philosopher emerged offering a religious and philosophical synthesis, the beauty of which echoes down to the present day.
Leonard George, Phd, is a psychologist and writer. His published works include Crimes of Perception: An Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics and Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the [...]

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Anthroposophical and Transpersonal Worldviews by Robert McDermott

The study and practice of spirituality and consciousness have been markedly different on the East and West Coasts. Where and how does the world of Eurocentric Anthroposophy meet the more Asian and shamanistic culture of transpersonalism?
Robert McDermott, PhD, was president and is currently professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral [...]