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Cultures

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#Cultures#Interdisciplinary#Occult#Practice#Research

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

By Mitch Horowitz

Yet materialism, which has dominated our intellectual culture since the Victorian age, covers fewer and fewer bases of life in the twenty-first century. The natural sciences are increasingly defined by quantum data, interdimensional formulas, and fields like neuroplasticity, which uses brain scans to demonstrate the capacity of thought to alter neural matter. Our ordinary reference points of life are in greater flux today than at any time since Darwinism upended what it meant to be human in the Victorian era.

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Black Lives Matter protests in 2020

#BlackLivesMatter and the Yogic Art of Negation

By Erin Luhks

The Spiritual Origins of the West: A Lack Perspective

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

By Samantha Black

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

By Chanda Williams

What is the story you tell yourself about who you are? Is it true? Is it time to change the story you carry within to align with your inner truth?

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#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
#Cultures #Traditions #Yoga

Killed by God: A Comparison of the Jaya-Vijaya Story with the Kabbalistic Concept of Gilgul

In this article, I will focus on the lengthy, convoluted, and symbolically weighty version of the Jaya, Vijaya, and Narasimha story that one can find in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, which I will henceforth refer to as the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.

By Patricia Tillman
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