Jacob Kyle

Two short conversations on bhakti with kirtan artist Nina Rao and yoga philosopher Hari-kirtana das.

Stephen is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium within the Kinsey Institute.

Two short conversations with spiritual teachers Miles Neale and Isa Gucciardi.

Indian traditions can be categorized by the degree to which they proffer a world-denying (via negativa) or a world-affirming (via positiva) perspective. Both world-deniers and world-affirmers see everyday attitudes toward the world as, in important ways, illusory; it is thus their respective responses to the world’s illusions that distinguishes them.

Christine Caldwell’s book, Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment and Waking Up in This Life, pushes back against the current mindfulness craze in the name of “bodyfulness,” a contemplative principle that focuses on attunement to one’s lived experience of the body.

Neil is Associate Professor of South Asian Philosophy and Religious Thought at the University of Alberta.

Joakim is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen.

If one of the marks of an effective spiritual text is its ability to challenge our assumptions, then The Lost City meets this demand.