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Cultures

Shambhavi Sarasvati
#Cultures#Ethics#Spirituality#Traditions

This Crack in Time with Shambhavi Sarasvati (#171)

By Jacob Kyle

Shambhavi Sarasvati is the spiritual director of Jaya Kula, a nonprofit community in Portland, Oregon. Her principle training is in the View and practices of Trika Shaivism—also called Kashmir Shaivism—and the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet. Shambhavi is known for her humor and for making complex teachings about the nature of the self and reality understandable, practical, and always relevant to our lived experience.

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a car in the mist - photo Pramod Tiwari

Is Occultism “the Metaphysic of Dunces?” An Occultist Confronts Modernity 

By Mitch Horowitz

Working the Land, Working the Self: Understanding Healing and Embodiment Through Diverse Traditions

By Chanda Williams
Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

#BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

By Erin Luhks
a cloud-covered forest

Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change

By Samantha Black

Creative healing methods, including ritual therapy, offer us ways to address all kinds of grief: subtle to catastrophic, known and unknown, recent and historical.

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The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective

The more we learn about other civilizations, the more anomalous the West seems. If we resist the presumption that Western culture is the growing tip of social evolution, to be contrasted with the stagnation of non-Western ones, what becomes highlighted is its dynamism, for better and worse. Rather than trying to account for the “undevelopment” of non-Western societies — why they did not evolve further along our path — it is the apparently self-generated and future-driven “progress” of the West that needs to be explained. What caused it?

By David Loy
cornmeal on a blue table
#Cultures #MindBody Studies

At a Planetary Crossroads: Contemplative Wisdom of Black Geographies

In more than one contemplative tradition, the crossroads signal literal and metaphorical death. They symbolize a crisis or a point where a shift must be made to claim an alternate future.

By Naya Jones
#Cultures #Yoga

Yoga, Social Justice, and Healing the Wounds of Violence in Colombia

Violence has become a structural part of the Colombian psyche perpetuating wounds even in the youngest members of the population. Healing these wounds is now a priority of peace agreements.

By Natalia Quiñones
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