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When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

By Deborah Anapol

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

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Daoist Wisdom For Our Times, a video with Shantena Sabbadini

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

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

Science Pointing to Nonduality

By Mark Gober

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness.

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…

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.

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,”

Pause for a Moment

By Jeff Foster

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

Everything is Self

By Nick Roach

Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…

Science and the Existence of Ether

By David Storoy

The existence of an ether – an all-pervading medium composed of a subtler kind of matter – has been taught by mystic philosophers throughout the ages.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part I)

By Maria Syldona

Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…

You Only See Mirrors

By Science and Nonduality

Excerpt from Let the Moon Be Free, by Eric Baret What disturbs you in the presence of someone else is…

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

The Tantric Gift of Math’s Mystery

By Jeanric Meller

Is math an invention of the human brain? Or does math exist in some abstract world, with humans merely discovering its truths? The debate has been raging since the time of the ancient Greeks.

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,…

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.

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

By Tina “Kat” Courtney

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the blessing of attending around 1,000 sacred plant ceremonies.

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Abhinavagupta, in the Tantraloka, is very clear; all the yoga practices are an expression of truth. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

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With Alan Watts

In this universe there is one great energy and we have no name for it

Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

By Shawn Radcliffe

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

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Make Your Life into a Prayer

With Parvathy Baul

It is said in Bengal that the Baul tradition originates from a time unknown, beyond what human history can trace

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 - completely unknowing, absolutely wondrous, constantly available, not really what I expected

Only One Question

By Eric Baret

All questions can be reduced to one question.

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.

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Panel: Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

With Jac O'Keeffe, Craig Holliday, Caverly Morgan, and Rick Archer

What may or may not be appropriate behavior for a spiritual teacher?

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.

Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept

By Michael Taft

Many traditions and mystics talk about nondualism. But what is nondualism, and how have people—from different religions in different parts of the word—described this concept over time?

And God Created Man In His Own Image

By Science and Nonduality and Nick Roach

by Nick Roach The title is from the Bible, Genesis 1:27. The passage goes on to say “...in the image…

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Growing Up Men

With Richard Rohr

From the dualistic thinking of the first half of life into the contemplative mind of the integrated self

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 Divine Mother Durga

By Laura Amazzone and M.A.

Durga is a Goddess of Strength and Justice who brings compassion, peace, calm and order to the chaos, destruction and conflict in any situation.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part II)

By Maria Syldona

An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.

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.

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.

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

The Pathless Path

By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein

Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein

Why Believe in Rebirth?

By Dr. Jeffery D. Long

In a now famous conversation between Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama, Sagan, a scientist and renowned…

How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?

By David Loy

Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.

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

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…

Quantum Physics as a Spiritual Path

By Paul Levy

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