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Deep Time

By Maria Popova

Oliver Sacks on Nature’s Beauty as a Gateway into Deep Time and a Lens on the Interconnectedness of the Universe

Drumming woodpeckers use similar brain regions as songbirds

By Darren Incorvaia

The complex behaviors may have a shared evolutionary origin

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By Dagmar Iris Holl

A red fox strides past the house of the man who waits for the fox

Singing to the Darkness

By Patricia June Vickers

“Through altered state of consciousness work, we’re able to retrieve the parts of ourselves that broke away from trauma.”

What if Competition Isn’t As “Natural” As We Think?

By John Favini

Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology

Five Poems

By Sophie Strand

In bed, lying straight as a candle flame that comes to attention between cupped hands, I watch through my windows the Pleiades sweep clean the sky with their urgent light...

Everyone Thinks (It's Me)

By Jeffrey Nirenberg

We are born into the world as one and we have no idea of ‘me’, the separate self, for some time until it is gradually instilled upon us by the environment and our developing mind.

Thoughts on Addiction and a Contemplative Life

By Richard Simonelli

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says that alcohol is “cunning, baffling and powerful” in its cause of the disease of alcoholism.

For a Healthier Society, Ditch the Myth of Normal

By Travis Lupick

Dr. Gabor Maté on how our toxic culture is making us ill in his brand new book 'The Myth of Normal'

Meditating the World through Compassion

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.

Why people across the world see constellations, not just stars

By Simon J Cropper, Duane W Hamacher, Daniel R Little, and Charles Kemp

While constellations and the stories attached to them have obvious artistic and spiritual significance, they also represent an elegant and effective solution to the problem of understanding complex physical environments.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

Stand as if you see God

By Ben Bushill

Stand as if you see creation before your eyes and know know that your belonging is undeniable and complete...

Kendrick Lamar: Artist as Cultural Shaman

By Rebel Wisdom, David Fuller, and James O' Connell

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

The Same Inside

By Anna Swir

Walking to your place for a love feast I saw at a street corner an old beggar woman...

One good way to understand religion is to break it apart

By Joseph Blankholm

A freer way of understanding is to grasp what we’ve been asked to know and hold it for a moment at a distance.

A Letter from Rudolf Nureyev

By Rudolf Nureyev

I'm here, but I dance with my mind, fly beyond my words and my pain

Waging Peace

By Sarah Klassan

Inverting the Energy Paradigm

By Charles Eisenstein

peak oil, carbon footprint, renewables, hydro, nuclear, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Changing The Story

“The only way to change the world is to change the story.” We know only too well the story that defines…

All that is Joy

By Rabindranath Tagore

Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song

How to rebuild California forests, with climate in mind

By Ula Chrobak

While scientists can anticipate how climate change will affect larger regions, predicting the fate of a given 100-acre forest plot can be trickier.

An Indigenous Approach To Healing Trauma

The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness Indigenous Water Desana Dancers By Jonathan Davis People…

Cleaning

By Mary Lou Kownacki

Instead of sitting with 'om'?

The Loss of Cultural Identity and Neurological Dysregulation

By Iya Affo

As Indigenous people, we have always had tools to manage our dysregulation.

brain-heart

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

Attachment

By Vasant Lad

Attachment is the food of the mind.

Like a raven in the wind

By Pema Chödrön

Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane

Take Off Your Spiritual Mask

I am in love with this blessed mess of our humanity, more than ever.

Metamorphosis

By May Sarton

Shadow on shadow, singing sweet and clear.

How James Webb Space Telescope data have already revealed surprises

By Lisa Grossman

“Definitely these galaxies are a big deal, but it remains to be seen how exciting they will look in the context of a few months’ progress with JWST,” Carnall says. The best is yet to come.

Listen to the Listening

By Eric Baret

It is very important not to focus on perception

One Song

By Rumi

All religions, all this singing, one song...

How Animals Perceive the World

By Ed Yong

Every creature lives within its own sensory bubble, but only humans have the capacity to appreciate the experiences of other species. What we’ve learned is astounding.

The Art of True Feminine Leadership

By Nina Lombardo

Our interconnectedness is undeniable. There is a singular pulse that weaves us all together. When we lose touch with that pulse, we suffer. ⁣

Mysteries, Yes

By Mary Oliver

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood.

Healing Waves

By Hanae Armitage

Scientific innovations harness noise and acoustics for healing

Portrait of the Human as a Young Hominin

By Thomas Halliday

How the world looked when we were Australopithecus.

The Sun Never Says

By Hafiz

A timeless treasure of unconditional love

Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing

By Maria Popova

Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world…

Ancient Green

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Taking a long view of life on Earth, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores how mosses—ancient beings who transformed the world—teach us strategies for persisting amid a changing climate.

water talk

By Yoko Ono

you are water; I'm water...

Vimalakirti Opens the Nondual Gate

By James Ford

From his sickbed, Vimalakirti attains insight so deep that even Manjusri, the manifestation of profound wisdom bows to listen

Listening is an Act of Love

By L. Harris

"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

The Bell and the Blackbird

By David Whyte

"Either way takes courage, either way wants you to be nothing but that self that is no self at all...”

Feeling & Knowing

By JP O'Malley

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the origin and evolution of consciousness

We Must Risk New Shapes

By Sophie Strand

I am a body plus. A body plus trauma, plus illness, plus pollen, plus spores, plus caretakers and friends and loved ones and wild kin.

Remembering Marion Woodman

By Susan Avery Stewart

Canadian Jungian analyst, a teacher, an author, and a remarkable human being

How to Be Healthy in a Dopamine-Seeking Culture

By Brad Stulberg

the challenge of choosing deep-focus work and connection over superficial distraction and stimulation

The Life

By Bert Hellinger

Life disappoints you so you stop living with illusions and see reality

Science and Nonduality are One

By J.Paul Jordaans

Separation or Unity, solving or dissolving

Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body

By Olivia Goldhill

Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.

Laurie Anderson’s Buddhism: Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure

By Laurie Anderson

From "A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment" Podcast

Strange Illusion Shows The Human Brain Alters Time to Maintain Our Expectations

By Peter Dockrill

I know nothing

By Diane Gagné

I was clinging desperately to knowledge... Dressing it up like a costume

A Moment of Pure Human Connection

By Lauren

a touching reflection from a Wisdom of Trauma viewer

Just How Far Can Psychedelics Push The Boundaries of How We Assign Consciousness?

By David Nield

Dream it to Do it: The Science & the Magic

By Dr. Howard Eisenberg

And excerpt from 'Decoding Reality 2.0'

The Holy Passage

By Tomaj Javidtash

It is that time again, to give the master a visit.

Our Brains Keep Us 15 Seconds 'in The Past'

By Mauro Manassi and David Whitney

So how does our brain create this illusion of stability?

Darkness Rising

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

In a time of growing ecological and humanitarian crises, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee bears witness to the darkness of the dying myth we are stranded in.

Spiritual Transformation & Trauma

By Matt Licata

Even if our primary interest is in spiritual transformation, we cannot separate out our unresolved relational trauma

The Omphalos: Navel-Gazing, Deep Time Meditation

By Sophie Strand

Welcome to the flesh-circled hollow of the Omphalos. A bodily valley. An earthly hub.280

All is Vibration

By Tam Hunter

A new theory of consciousness rooted in vibration

What Are You Looking For?

By J. Krishnamurti

To find answers about love and relationships that transcend time, culture, religion, read What Are You Looking For?

Butterflies and the Human Psyche

By Michael Meade

the dark stages of dissolution that precede the transformation of butterflies

Shedding Suits

By Janet Howard

Spring stayed in hiding this year...

War & Oneness

By Douglas Balmain

A Unified Perspective of the War in Ukraine

Love Letter to the Earth

By Thich Nhat Hanh

To celebrate Earth Day we would like to offer you the following mediation, which is a is a love letter to the Earth, written by Thay.

Cezanne, Shamans, and the Intelligence of Plants

By Betsey Crawford

"Vision is an art, and nature an old master painter teaching us how to see the underlying reality of things to be — before they actually are. "

The Beauty We Love

By John O'Donohue

From "To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings"

Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality?

By Paul Ratner

An exploration of a groundbreaking assertion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

How to Heal

By Jeff Foster

"Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced."

Black Holes

By Ben Turner

Famous Stephen Hawking Theory About Black Holes Confirmed

Trauma and Awakening for Highly Sensitive People

By Jules De Vitto

There are still several unanswered questions surrounding the relationship between trauma and Highly Sensitive People.

Nature vs. Nurture

By Stephen Johnson

Which determines traits like sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior: genes or environment?

The Moment

By Margaret Atwood

from 'Eating Fire'

I Have Spent a Lot of Time...

By Ben Bushill

...A lovely poem about home

MDMA Reopens Child-like “Critical Periods”

By Alexander Beadle

New research with MDMA could lead to deeper therapeutic uses of the drug

Contentment

By Go Gu

Contentment counters and overrides our constant tendency to grasp and chase after things

Is Reality a Game of Quantum Mirrors?

By Peter Evans

A new theory of Quantum Physics suggests it might be

The Causes of War

By J. Krishnamurti

Transcript of a talk by Krishnamurti from 1984

Panpsychism

By Matthew Rozsa

The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities

Living Spaciously in Times of Contraction

By Laura Johnson

Can we live softly and spaciously, with a loose grip and a joyful heart, even in times of great sorrow and loss?

Everything Falls Away

By Parker J. Palmer

Much of life changes but the overall thread doesn’t change

The War Within The War

By Michael Meade

Living Myth Podcast #270 with Michael Meade

Byung-Chul Han: How Objects Lost their Magic

By Gesine Borcherdt

For the philosopher, our postfactual stimulus culture is one that edges out time-consuming values such as loyalty, ritual and commitment

Spooky Action at a Distance

By Ben Brubaker

Theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations

Go Slowly, Breathe and Smile

By Rashani Reá and Thich Nhat Hanh

Dharma Art with the Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

Connected in Compassion

By Francis Weller

From 'The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief; The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation'

Imaginary numbers could be needed to describe reality

By Ben Turner

If standard quantum theory holds up, imaginary numbers are critical.

A Glimpse Into The Empty Awareness

By Jagjot Singh

A glimpse into the empty awareness reveals what one cannot learn over multiple lifetimes

Illuminations

By Frantisek Strouhal, Jakub Strouhal, and Chantal Robert

Art Embracing Awareness, Streams of Consciousness

Science Answers the Big Questions

By Science and Nonduality

Why are we here? Where did it all come from?

World vs Individuality

By Judith Butler

Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality

You, You Only, Exist

By Rainer Maria Rilke

We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that

Love is the Last Word

By Aldous Huxley

Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

Simple Life

By J. Krishnamurti

Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things

God is in a Mood

By Adyashanti

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave.

Is Free Will an Illusion?

By Oliver Burkeman

A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist.

Maxwell's Demon Made Real

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.

Now is the Time

By Hafiz

Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred.

Is the Universe Conscious?

By David Crookes

Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious?

Consciousness as Background Noise

By Thomas Nail

Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter.

Which Untruth to Love?

By Lao Tzu

Fantasy

By Matt Licata

There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.

A Meditation for Rooting Radically in Self and Place

By Laura Johnson

In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...

Rabia al Basri

She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century

In My Soul

By Rabia al Basri

In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.

Dark Ages

By Eric Baret

What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

Silicon

By Federico Faggin

Two excerpts of his new book

Quiet Friend Who Has Come So Far

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Let this darkness be a bell tower

The Goddess Parā

By Christian de Vietri

She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,

An Ode to Not Meditating

By James Parker

I know, I know: It’s good for you.

The Science of Spiritual Narcissism

By Scott Barry Kaufman

Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool some of us into thinking we’re evolving

The Joy of Sorrow

By Jeff Foster

It's simple. When you feel sad, just feel sad.

What Is Consciousness? Scientists Compete to Find Out

By Andreas Kluth

A new type of experiment could get us closer to grasping human consciousness.

Think Again

By Adam Grant

Book Review

Gentleness and Great Pain

By NPR

A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse

Dissolving the Ego with Psilocybin

By Ephrat Livni

Philosophers and mystics have long contemplated the disconcerting notion that the fixed self is an illusion.

Reclaiming Her Sacred Wisdom

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

She is the mystery of light being born into matter

How I Became a Madman

By Khalil Gibran

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus.

Spacetime Paths as a Whole

By Sky Nelson-Isaacs

This addresses a fundamental challenge within the standard theory of quantum mechanics

The Beauty we Love

By Howard Thurman

The true purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to clear away...

Yoga and Emotional Intelligence

By Jonathan Riley

How can Yoga help us to better understand our emotions?

Research

By Cecilia Payne

O Universe, O Lover, I gave myself to thee

Objective Quantum Reality May Not Exist

By Alessandro Fedrizzi & Massimiliano Proietti

Each of us may be able to experience totally different realities.

Silence

By Nathalie Delay

Silence is a practice—a discipline or a passion...

Lalla the Yogini

By Mariette Raina

Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit...

Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek

By Jennifer Chu

To understand ourselves and our place in the universe...

No Cause to Joy

By Jean Klein

At certain moments, when alone, we feel a great lack deep within ourselves.

Human Brain and Universe

By Università di Bologna

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?

The Healing Time

By Pesha Gertler

Finally on my way to yes, I bump into all the places where I said no

Love v. Friendship

By Eric Baret

Love, as it is usually understood, is an absence of friendship.

Initiation, Trauma and Ritual

By Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha

For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings worked through trauma communally through ritual practices.

Quintessence

By Davide Castelvecchi

Hints of twisted light offer clues to dark energy’s nature

Nothing But Images

By J. Krishnamurti

Total silence in which there is neither the observer nor the thing observed is the highest form of a religious mind.

Review: Doing Good Better
by William MacAskill

By David Shariatmadari

If you read this book, you'll change the charities you donate to

Four Ways Quantum Physics Will Challenge Your Reality

By Peter Evans

No matter where we start with quantum theory, we always end up at a conundrum

Tao Te Ching

By Stephen Mitchell (translator)

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.

The Hidden World of Fungi

By Merlin Sheldrake

Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants.

Relationship as a Path of Awakening

By Stephen & Ondrea Levine

Many people suffer from relationship senility. The mind has become utterly fatigued from trying.

I No Longer Pray

By Chelan Harkin

Now I drink dark chocolate and let the moon sing to me.

Destiny of the Unhealed Hero

By Thomas Hübl

What we think of as destiny is in fact the unintegrated past

The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

By Fred Bahnson

Among the contemplatives

Mindfulness

By Peter Taylor

Mindfulness may seem like a difficult practice

Gravity, Gizmos, and a Grand Theory of Interstellar Travel

By Daniel Oberhaus

Jim Woodward’s peers have long dismissed his ideas about gravity and inertia. Now he believes he has the data that will prove him right—and could make interstellar travel possible for humans.

Cognitive Bypassing

By Dr. Russell Kennedy

A doctor explains “Cognitive Bypassing” & how it’s keeping us trapped in our trauma.

Neoliberal Psychology

By Joel Millward-Hopkins

Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?

Figuring Forward in an Uncertain Universe

By Maria Popova

Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem.

Breaking Time-Reversal Symmetry

By Michelle Starr

Just three orbiting black holes can break time-reversal symmetry

The Physicist’s New Book of Life

By Michael Brooks

Jeremy England says spiritual ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life.

Trees

By Herman Hesse

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Falling Open in a World Falling Apart

By Amoda Maa

An excerpt from her latest book

Why Physics Can’t Tell Us What Life Is

By Jeremy England

The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.

A Mystical Experience

Goodall’s mystical experience occurred in the forest of Gombe

The Post-Materialist Economy

By Julia Mossbridge

Tech is driving a quiet but quickening scientific revolution

The Death of the Climate Activist

By Bayo Akomolafe

the Anthropocene calls upon a radically new ontology

Dance

By Gabrielle Roth

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth

The Big Bang Never Happened

By Jonathan Tennenbaum

An interview with renowned physicist and Big Bang theory critic Eric Lerner

Conscious Birds

By University of Tübingen

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

Searching for the Friend

By Lalla

I wearied myself searching for the friend with efforts beyond my strength

You Can't Do Meditation

By Eric Baret

Meditation is what you are when you stop pretending to be

Love, Beyond Death

By Jerry Diamanti

When I look at someone I don’t see him alone

Schrödinger’s Clock

By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity

The Quantum Internet

By Dan Hurley

The quantum internet will blow your mind. Here’s what it will look like.

Why is There a Fear of Death?

By J. Krishnamurti

When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death.

Elections

By Fred LaMotte

I voted.

It's Always the First Time

By Eric Baret

Life is too intense to anticipate

How Art Thou Not Real?

By Dan McKenzie

Let me count the ways...

Unbelief

By Andrew Colliver

Unbelief is good medicine.

A New Theory of Consciousness

By University of Surrey

Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness

The Universe before Ours

By Adam Smith

Another universe existed before ours – and energy from it is coming out of black holes, says Nobel prize winner

Thealagie

By Shekhinah Mountainwater

In the beginning is Goddess

Complaining is Polluting

By Eric Baret

All dictators are thinking people.

What Is Math?

By Dan Falk

A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a thoughtful scientific debate

Creation and Destruction

By Monica Timbal

An excerpt, and an exclusive gift to our community

Consciousness, Life and Separation

By James Cooke

The place of consciousness in the natural world is arguably the greatest mystery facing modern science

The End of Everything: Dr. Katie Mack

By James Gleick

Book Review

Cannot Be Tought

For silence is not God, nor speaking

Should We Be Planting Trees?

By Eric Baret

First priority is to stop being at war with yourself.

Livewired: David Eagleman

By Andrew Dansby

Book Review: The brain is the next frontier

When Death Comes

By Mary Oliver

Waking up — A Beginner's Guide

By William Waters

Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many

Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete?

By Cell Press

Maybe it's both, argue researchers

Senseless Perfection

By Maya Luna

What is Intensity?

By Eric Baret

Intensity is to be open to facts, without any comment

Have We Solved the Black Hole Information Paradox?

By Yasunori Nomura

We may soon have a new understanding of nature

God is a Mother

By Kaitlin Shetler

and with that sentence the world stops

Wigner's Friend, Revisited

By Zeeya Merali

A laboratory demonstration of the classic thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality

What is Consciousness?

By Grant Currin

The ancient Greeks dove into this question. But what do modern scientists think?

Here in these End-Beginning Times

By Laura Johnson

During my pregnancy, my midwives lent me a book that suggested parents-to-be engage with birth art...

For the Uses of Man

By John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable...

A Polyvagal Primer

By Deb Dana

A Three-Part Exercise to Create Safety and Trust

Yoga Does Not Lead to Shiva

By Eric Baret

Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.

The Waters of Renewal

By Michael Meade

All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender.

In the Realm of the Passing Away

By Stephen Livine

All that exists does not for long.

Humanual

By Betsy Polatin

A Manual for Being Human: An Epic Journey to Your Expanded Self

There Is No Room for Decision

By Eric Baret

You live with your body now and you attend to your body needs in a functional way

Subtle Sacraments

By Paul Swanson

Where do you see a window you can open for a subtle sacrament to slip into your day?

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

By Paul Sutter

The Big Bounce theory was once thought impossible. But two physicists have just resurrected it.

Emotions Have No Owner

By Eric Baret

Brain and body are two very sweet concepts

Masking the Mask

By Zvi Ish-Shalom

COVID-19 and the Narcissistic Plague of America

The Healing Ground

By Judith Blackstone

The Healing Ground is the psychological aspect of the Realization Process.

Let's Talk About Death

By Pir Aga Mir

This is the time for gnosis. There is no guru and no disciple.

Nothing is Sacred

By Eric Baret

If you feel something is sacred, it means that it's easy for you to relate to.

Is AI Already Conscious?

By Tristan Greene

The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness

Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction

By Jim Davies

Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of surrogate life.

The Age of Authenticity

By Maya Luna

We see the game. The jig is up.

Ten Myths About the Quantum Universe

By Ethan Siegel

Along with the counterintuitive picture of reality, many myths and misconceptions have arisen

Does Time Really Flow?

By Natalie Wolchover

New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.

The Inner Feeling of Beauty

By Eric Baret

It is your inner beauty which is revealed by the show.

COVID-19 and the Divine Feminine

By Zvi Ish-Shalom

In Kabbalah, the primary way that hidden truths are revealed is through disrobing

The Center for Spiritual Imagination

By Kris Vieira

A cathedral community envisions vibrant spirituality for the 21st century

Electrons May Very Well Be Conscious

By Tam Hunt

Panpsychists see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.

Waiting for Santa

By Scott Kiloby

Many on the spiritual path rightfully long for a sudden point in time when a shift happens

Arthur Schopenhauer: The West’s Nondual Sage

By Bernardo Kastrup

The emptiness of existence finds its expression in the flitting present as the only manner of real existence.

If Your Dog Asks You What You Feel

By Eric Baret

Separation and no separation are concepts in the mind

What is Quantum Cognition?

By Nicoletta Lanese

Physics theory could predict human behavior

Suffocating Racism

By Kelly Wendorf

What would you do if you suddenly realized you were a racist?

Resilience Amidst the Pandemic

By Greg Hammer

We are amidst the third month of the coronavirus pandemic, heading for month #4

Sweet Darkness

By David Whyte

When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also

My Prayer for a Beautiful World in Distress

By Joan Tollifson

May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment

Let the Fear Expand

By Eric Baret

Practicing in the middle of a very charged emotional situation

We Were Made for These Times

By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.

Axions Would Solve a Major Problem in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover

In a new paper, physicists argue that axions could explain why the universe isn’t empty

The Flower of Silence is Your Body

By Fred LaMotte

Dearest one, do not look for silence with the mind.

Birth-Death: What is it?

By Joan Tollifson

what happens after death is a flat earth question

The Conspiracy Myth

By Charles Eisenstein

A myth is not the same thing as a fantasy or a delusion.

Resources for Challenging Times

By Science and Nonduality

Where can you help? Where can you get help?

The Gifts of a Mythic Life

By Jean Houston

Life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path

Aggression is a Reaction

By Eric Baret

The world is not aggressive

Emergent Time

By Conor Purcell

In some versions of quantum gravity, time itself condenses into existence.

Do Dreams Really Reveal Our Deepest Secrets?

By Isobel Whitcomb

"There's really no research that supports that point of view,"

Pilgrim

By David Whyte

‘Pilgrim’ might be the word that most accurately describes us

Strange Dark Matter Findings

By Carly Minsky

Scientists believe that mysterious dark matter is key to forming galaxies in the cosmos. Now, a recent series of bizarre findings threatens to undermine everything we think we know.

Microglia: a new target in the brain for depression?

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa

More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with a string of autoimmune diseases

A New Opening in the Heart

By Eric Baret

To watch a show with the Hridaya, the open mind, the open heart, can bring us closer to truth than yoga

Dark Energy: Why Tinker with Gravity?

By Ethan Siegel

Of the 2 trillion galaxies contained within our observable Universe, 94% are already forever beyond our reach

Astronomers Spot 'Missing Link' Black Hole

By Reuters

Scientists have detected a mid-size black hole - considered the "missing link" in the understanding of these celestial brutes

Advice to Myself

By Louise Erdrich

Leave the Dishes

What If We Treated Death Like Birth?

By Jane Whitlock

We would play shower games like ‘I will remember you every time I …’ We would prepare a death ‘nursery.’ There’d be a great playlist.

Time Flow and Infinite Precision Numbers

By Natalie Wolchover

The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.

Emotion in Tantra

By Eric Baret

Emotions are at the core of tantric teachings

It's Time to Stop Avoiding Death

By David Cates

You can’t have the life you want without letting go of the life you have

Extinction and the Revolution of Love

By Charles Eisenstein

Contrary to its self-conception, Extinction Rebellion is not actually about climate change.

Everything is Ecstasy

By Jack Kerouac

We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.

Does Consciousness have a Function?

By Ryota Kanai

Contents of consciousness are the results of active reconstruction of the reality.

The Spiritual Teachings of COVID-19

By Stephan Bodian

Human life as we’ve known it has ground to a halt, and we’re faced with an unprecedented crisis—and an unprecedented opportunity.

Tantra and Yoga

By Eric Baret

What is Tantra? What is Yoga?

How Far is the Edge of the Universe?

By Ethan Siegel

If you were to go as far out into space as you can imagine, what would you encounter?

The Coronation

By Charles Eisenstein

Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together?

Marcelo Gleiser: The Mystery of Knowing

By Shawn Radcliffe

One of the great unsolved problems of modern physics is coming up with a theory of everything

A Math Limerick

By Science and Nonduality

Today we let go and be nerds...

Forging a New World: Life in the Times of COVID-19

By the Fetzer Memorial Trust

A message from our sponsor

The Return of the Black Madonna

By Matthew Fox

A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century

A Trail on the Ground

By Francis Weller

Uncertainty has come into our homes and found its way into each of our lives.

Coronavirus—During This Time,
Let us Act with Love

By Thomas Hübl

The first question is always “Who am I in relation to the current situation?”

Dark Matter and Antimatter

By Carly Minsky

A Link Between Dark Matter and Antimatter Could Be Why the Universe Exists

This is Not a Poem

By Fred LaMotte

Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.

Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math

By Kevin Hartnett

A new proof in computer science also has implications for researchers in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics

Tantra vs Vedanta

By Eric Baret

Could you explain the difference between Tantra, Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism?

RNA Modifies DNA

By Louise Lerner

A surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression

"Pandemic" a poem

By Lynn Ungar

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?

Breakthrough in Nuclear Electric Resonance

By University of New South Wales

Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough

The Meaning and Destiny of Western Culture

By Bernardo Kastrup

Nondualism and idealism aren’t purely Eastern insights, but the metaphysical and spiritual root of the West as well

Is Information the Fifth Form of Matter?

By Philip Perry

There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says

There is No Doer

By Eric Baret

What do you mean when you say there's nothing to be done?

There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe

By Rafi Letzter

No one really knows what happens inside an atom.

Tranquility

By J. Krishnamurti

It was a powerful motor and well tuned; it took the hills easily, without a stutter, and the pick-up was excellent.

The Scam of Nonduality: Why I Left Teaching and Why I’m Coming Back

By Scott Kiloby

I grew up with trauma followed by 20 years of addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Human Bias

By Ethan Siegel

Quantum Physics is Fine, Human Bias About Reality is the Real Problem

Quantum Gravity Could Reverse Cause and Effect

By Stephanie Pappas

Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.

The Poetry of the World

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”

Even Large Molecules Can Behave Like Waves

By Shawn Radcliffe

You wouldn’t find baseballs entangled in such a way that hitting one affects another miles away.

Perception and the Mystery of the Unknown

If you are seeking true Reality, since Reality is All, it must be here, now.

No Time To Lose

By Joanna Macy

We’re in collapse now, but it doesn’t have to be a total collapse.

Could the Universe be Curved, not Flat?

By Eleonora Di Valentino

In a curved universe, no matter which direction you travel in, you will end up at the starting point

Become the Possessor of Awareness

By Hafiz

You who are not yet aware, become the possessor of awareness.

DMT: "It's like dreaming with your eyes open"

By Aristos Georgiou

Scientists discover psychedelic DMT creates waking dream state in brain

What is Tantra?

By Imma Ramos - The British Museum

Exhibition curator Imma Ramos explains how this radical South Asian philosophy has been opening up new ways of seeing the world for 1,500 years.

Three Methods for Working with Chaos

By Pema Chödrön

Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful…

A New Type of Signal in the Human Brain

By Mike McRae

Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.

Medicine of the Real

By Chameli Ardagh

What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.

What is Tantra?

By Éric Baret

For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…

2000 atoms in two places at once

By University of Vienna

The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales

A Poem for my Daughter

By Teddy Macker

It seems we have made pain some kind of mistake, like having it is somehow wrong.

No Dark Energy?

By Yonsei University

New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error

Death: The End of Self-Improvement

By Joan Tollifson

This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening.

What If There Were No Future?

By Peter Russell

Some Overlooked Consequences of Accelerating Change

The Path of Unbecoming

By Maya Luna

It's okay not to have New Year's resolutions

A Fifth Force of Nature

By Mike McKrae

Physicists See Hints of X17, an Elusive Particle That Could Be a New Force of Nature

Why Materialism is a Dead-End

How misunderstanding matter has led us astray

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

The Real Scandal of the Birth of God

By Kaitlyn Hardy Shetler

Sometimes I wonder if Mary breastfed Jesus. if she cried out when he bit her

In Honor of Ram Dass
1931–2019

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.

Physics is Pointing Inexorably to Mind

So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications

Quantum physics study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

By Alessandro Fedrizzi and Massimiliano Proietti

Observers are powerful players in the quantum world.

Earth as Goddess

By Thanissara

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

Quarks: Basic Building Block or Quantum Illusion?

By Shawn Radcliffe

A new model suggests that these subatomic particles may not be so fundamental after all.

The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo

By Pema Khandro Rinpoche

It’s when we lose the illusion of control—when we’re most vulnerable and exposed—that we can discover the creative potential of our lives.

Rumi Was Once a Twelve-Year-Old Refugee

By Pouria Montazeri

Little do Rumi Western admirers know, he was once a twelve-year-old refugee when his family emigrated from Balkh (modern day Afghanistan).

Are the Past and Future Real? The Physics and Philosophy of Time

By Elizabeth Fernandez

What is happening right now? Is your “now” the same as my “now”?

We are in the Death Phase Now: Do Not Run Away

By Jessica Hesser

Fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling, much is being undone.

The World is our Field of Practice

By On Being

Krista Tippett and Rev. angel Kyodo williams touch upon some of the richest themes of the zeitgeist

The Cosmic Web

By Becky Ferreira

Galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models.

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

By Natalie Wolchover

Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

A Humbling Path

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

Hope is an Escape

By Eric Baret

Hunter of Phoenix, no one can be. So take back your trap, for here, wind is all you’ll ever catch.

The Kiss we have Always Wanted

The revelation of Being Here while residing in a human body is infinite.

Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World

By Philip Ball

Recent experiments have put relatively large objects into quantum states, illuminating the processes by which the ordinary world emerges out of the quantum one.

To Walk in Beauty

By Keith Salmon

Living in harmony with the rhythms and interrelationships of the Natural World is essential

An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature

By Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch

By Philip Ball

The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles.

The Goddess of Never Not Broken

By Julie JC Peters

You know that feeling when you have just gone through a breakup, or lost your job, and everything is terrible and terrifying and you don’t know what to do...

After SAND

Can we love when we grieve? Can we love when we are in pain? Can we love when our home is burning?

In the Presence of the One, We Are All Yellow-Faced

By Pouria Montazeri

Ever since the tender age, I’ve had this passionate love affair with the aspen trees

Politics, Activism and Awakening

By Joan Tollifson

Politics is usually a hot-button subject, one that can trigger bitter arguments, end marriages,

The Impossible Predicament of Being Alive

By Robyn Lynn

The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.

Quantum Trajectory Theory

By Philip Ball

A recent test has confirmed the predictions of quantum trajectory theory, which describes what happens during the long-mysterious “collapse” of a quantum system.

David Bohm, Implicate Order and Holomovement

David Bohm was one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, and a fearless challenger of scientific orthodoxy.

The Mother Mantra, the Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality

By Selene Calloni Williams

Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening

A Net of Gems

By Keith Salmon

We are born with a yearning to find our place

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

What are intermediate-mass black holes?

By Jake Parks

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

Embracing the Flame of Longing

By Mirabai Starr

The Tragedy of Science and a Way Out

By David Paul Gontar

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

By John Welwood

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

The Geography Of Sorrow

By Francis Weller

On Navigating Our Losses: Interview by Tim McKee

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part III

By Bayo Akomolafe

The way isn’t forward, it’s awkward

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

We Can Still Be Crazy

By Pema Chödrön

We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.

Alone to All One

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part II

By Bayo Akomolafe

How we see the problem is part of the problem

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

Consciousness in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

By Philip Ball

The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of quantum mechanics.

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

On the Mystery of Being

Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Can Neuroscience Understand Free Will?

By Brian Gallagher

“Of course we do. We have no choice.”

Bypassing Spiritual Bypass: Re-Association as a Spiritual Practice

By Brent Morton

The purpose of therapy is to help the client acknowledge, experience, and bear reality

White holes: Do black holes have mirror images?

By Bill Andrews

These black hole opposites would spew energy, be impossible to enter, and might even answer some of the universe’s fundamental questions.

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crisis - Part II

By Kavita Byrd

Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Cultivating Equanimity In Uncertain Times

By Miranda Macpherson

Once you begin to taste the freedom of your true nature and are no longer bound by your ego identifications, your way of being can become significantly more graceful.

He Invented a Surgery and Cured Himself

By Ryan Prior

This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years.

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crises - Part I

By Kavita Byrd

Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

By Shawn Radcliffe

Discrepancies in measures of expansion may point to new physics

A secular way

By Emer Gentway

Can one understand nonduality without naming it?

Grief is Healing in Motion

By Toko-pa Turner

Grief is the response to a broken bond of belonging

Pause for a Moment

Don’t try and be “spiritual.” Don’t seek any particular state or feeling.

What the World Really Needs

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

What seems to be your inner reality and what is apparently happening out there in the world is actually one thing.

Quantum Darwinism: Moving From the Quantum to the Classical World

By Shawn Radcliffe

The “fittest” quantum properties make the most copies of themselves.

On Spiritual Bypassing and Relationship

By John Welwood

Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself.

Sex, Zen, and Poetry:
The Life of Ikkyu Sojun

By Chris Kincaid

Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part I

By Bayo Akomolafe

In this (very, very) long essay, Bayo Akomolafe investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times

Adventures in Frequency

By Peta Morton

Multi-dimensional Cymatics with David Schiermeyer

The Gospel of the Beloved Companion

By David Lorimer

This book is the first translation into English of what purports to be the complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

By Shawn Radcliffe

Astronomer and Ex-Zen Monk Mark Westmoquette's Book Review

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

"I Am Lion": A New Film Explores Consciousness and Sentience

By Marc Bekoff

An interview with award-winning filmmakers about their fascinating documentary.

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

Gentleness is a state of consciousness.

Is Reality Real? How Evolution Blinds us to the Truth About the World

We assume our senses see reality as it is—but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

Trauma as a Pathway to Spiritual Surrender

By Shawn Radcliffe

Trauma and spirituality share a profound connection, according to psychologist Peter Levine.

When the Mind is Quiet, it Shall Know Love

By J. Krishnamurti

Life is relationship, living is relationship, yet very little attention is given to the question. What is your relationship with another?

Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics

By Mirabai Starr

For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.

What are primordial black holes?

By Alison Klesman

Birthed in the first second after the Big Bang, these as-yet-unseen objects could offer answers to astronomers’ outstanding questions.

Relationship is the Fundamental Truth

By Rabindranath Tagore

Light as the radiant energy of creation started the ring-dance of atoms

Mental Inner Game: Mind—Opening Frames for Peace and Creativity

By Alexandra Sheren

“You can not open your heart, it is already open. It is the mind that is closed, and which must open to the heart.”

Integrating the Shadow in Awakening

The striving for spiritual attainment while excluding the personal dimension of life, is often a big error on the path of spiritual inquiry.

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

By Walt Whitman

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams

Physicists count sound particles with quantum microphone

By Stanford University

Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound

Consciousness is Intrinsic in the Universe

By Paul Mulliner

It’s easy, during our everyday life in the world, to forget how extravagantly remarkable a human being actually is.

If music breathes new life into old blood...play on!

By John Stuart Reid

Testing a 2,500-year old hypothesis

Past and Future Have Different Probabilities

Arrow of time points forward in quantum systems

Why Scurry About Looking for the Truth?

By Lao-Tsu

It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part V

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

New human multisensory integration model for its exploration.

A Legacy for Dark Times: Becoming a Balm for All Wounds

By Vera de Chalambert

Some of the greatest nondual insights about the human condition were offered to our world in no ancient scroll

4,000 Exoplanets Mapped in NASA Stunning Video

In less than 30 years, humanity has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment

By Lori Ann Lothian

Entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in.

The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement!

By Fiona MacDonald

In an incredible first, scientists have captured the world's first actual photo of quantum entanglement

A Little Doodle from SAND19 Italy

By Riccardo Manzotti

Chris Field's presentation viewed by Riccardo Manzotti

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part IV

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Could crossmodal senses be one key to unlock the true nature of physics?

Mystical Experience: The True Language Of Religion And Of Feminism?

By Matthew Fox

In feminist theology therefore, the issue is not about exchanging pronouns but about another way of thinking of transcendence.

Star Stuff

By Shawn Radcliffe

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin on the Mystery of Stars

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part III

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Why adept meditators would be invaluable to studies

Things Don't Happen for a Reason

By Maya Luna

Life doesn’t need a reason For happening It simply blooms forth

The Ego and the Universe

By Maria Popova

Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part II

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

It would be useful to add adept perceivers to the studies.

Quantum Physics as a Spiritual Path

By Paul Levy

The universe is dreaming us up and we are all dreaming our lives into being.

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part I

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Some of physics' remaining secrets may actually relent through the human senses.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Available Online

By Shawn Radcliffe

The true extent of da Vinci’s Renaissance mind is captured in the surviving notebooks...

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

A Planetary Sense of Love

By Krista Tippett in On Being

Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sense of what “love” is and means.

When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...

The Poor Joke

By Wei Wu Wei

Bondage is being dependent, tied up, limited. On, to, by, what?

In Everything...

By Joan Tollifson

The leaves of the cottonwood tree across the street...

This Little-Known Quantum Rule Makes Our Existence Possible

By Ethan Siegel

It's not only a big deal; it's the biggest deal of all.

One Must Dance Naked

By Fred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

Scientists Map the Wood Wide Web

By Shawn Radcliffe

Underneath the ground exists a vast “social network” that connects trees and other plants to each other.

Every Act a Ceremony

By Charles Eisenstein

Every word a prayer. Every walk a pilgrimage. Every place a shrine.

Only One Question

By Eric Baret

All questions can be reduced to one question.

Solving the Vacuum Catastrophe

By Shawn Radcliffe

Quantum field theory has made some incredibly accurate predictions about the universe, but it has also made some of the worst.

The Path of Reality

By Nathalie Delay

The path of reality is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...

Quantum Biology: Photosynthesis - An Interview with Chris Fields

Q: How do quantum phenomena take part in photosynthesis and why is it important?

Can the Effects of Trauma Pass Down Generations?

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren

The Cosmic Dance

By Sunil Mehrotra

On dark summer nights, away from city lights, I love to stargaze and imagine that I am dancing with the stars.

Nondual Evolution

By Jose Diez Faixat

During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.

Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together

In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.

The Profound Activity of Questioning

By Eric Baret

Asking a question is being the most active you can be. It means being humble. Humility is the most active attitude.

We are not our brain: How to break the spell of the neurosciences

By Riccardo Manzotti

What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?

Trees have a Regular "Heartbeat"

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research now suggests that trees may have a “heartbeat” that pumps water from their roots.

Multiple Realities Can Happily Co-Exist, Suggests Study

By Shawn Radcliffe

Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.

Transe Learning: A New Transpersonal Methodology

By P. L. Lattuada

In order to understand Transe Learning, we start by thinking about the object of our research. The transpersonal methodology has the object of Self-realization, but what is the Self?

Waking from the Meme Dream

By Susan Blackmore

Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.

Brain Biases Prevent Action on Climate Change … But Can Help, Too

By Shawn Radcliffe

Climate change is one of the biggest and toughest problems facing human society. Unless the rise in average global temperates is stopped soon

Far Right or Far Left, It’s Exactly the Same

By Eric Baret

I have this concern about what is happening in the world. If we take nonduality really seriously, it seems like we are not concerned about the exterior.

Raising a New Generation of Super-Children

By Peta Morton

In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.

Let the Moon Be Free
Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

Healing Your Belly Could Also Heal Your Brain

By Shawn Radcliffe

There are many things that affect our mental health, from work-related stress to past traumas to whether or not we meditate each day.

We Need Courage, Not Hope, To Face Climate Change

By Kate Marvel

In the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the end.

‘Art of Life’ Award Winning Documentary

A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions in deep integrity with one's essence

I Have Tried In My Way To Be Free

By Philip Marvin

His first album came out in 1967 when I was a very impressionable young teenager in the midst of the so-called “summer of love” of that year.

In Spirit: Photography and Metaphysics, Reflection of the Self

By Mariette Raina

It was in the first half of the 19th century that photography was born, an invention that would revolutionize the world of image, and by extension, representation. Today, the camera has become current currency.

You Shouldn’t Try to Pigeonhole Quantum Physics

By Tom Siegfried

Just when you thought quantum physics couldn’t get any weirder, it violates the pigeonhole principle.

Realizing the Transpersonal Self

By Paul Mulliner

If we take a focus of attention inward regularly, we can realize intuitively that our conscious awareness, rather than being separate from the world as it seems to be, exists as a field of consciousness everywhere in all space.

One Strange Rock Documentary Offers Much Wonder and a Little Bit of Strange

By Shawn Radcliffe

When it comes to creating documentaries about the grandeur of the Earth, “strange” is a difficult bar to reach.

Effortless Being

By Peter Russell

Behind all our endeavors lies the desire to feel good—to be happy, feel content, relaxed, and at ease. No one wants to be in pain or to suffer unnecessarily.

The Energetic Field of Om Namah Shivaya

By Rodney Birney MD

The chant Om Namah Shivaya is a love song, to ourselves. A love song we sing to our own deepest inner nature. In this song we recognize that we are the source, like a hologram, a piece of god that also represents the whole.

The Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

There is one fundamental presumption upon which our world culture is founded. This basic presumption states that experience is divided into two essential elements – a subject and an object – joined together by an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving.

Events In a Far Galaxy Modify Your DNA

By Stephen Battersby

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;…

Spirituality and Heavy Metal? Oh Yes!

By Chris Grosso

Look deeper. Look deeper at your mala, your skateboard, your yoga mat. Look deeper at your records,…

This Sacred Game Has Been Rigged Against Us

By Scott Kiloby

The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.

Binaural Beats

By Alexandra Sheren

These days people have lost their connection with many powerful elements of energy and nature, sound being one of them—as a means of healing and brain entertainment.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

Black Holes and the Arrow of Time

By Shawn Radcliffe

In our everyday life, time flows in one direction—forward. When you put a frozen pizza in the hot oven, the pizza heats up. When you hit a baseball, it flies over the wall (if you’re having a good day at bat). When you knock a coffee mug off a table...

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

The Holographic Principle

By Donald D. Hoffman

The most famous case study in science, prior to Freud, was published in 1728 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by the English surgeon William Cheselden, who attended Newton in his final illness.

What Can We Learn from Our Own Technology

By Tom Bunzel

Our own deeply held beliefs and definitions of technology are impeding us from evolving consciously…

On Grace and Polemics

By Chris Castle

I am a seeker who feels he has arrived, in that, these days, I both intellectually and feeling-wise, experience a oneness that is a great joy and comfort

Is Your Shaman Sketchy? Sham Shamans

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Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.

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