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    Reflections on an African Diasporic Spiritual Citizenship

    By Fadeke Castor

    My formulation of spiritual citizenship grew out of what I learned over two decades in Trinidad working with dynamic religious communities informed by ancestral and contemporary West African faith practices….

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    The Tao of Now with Diane Dreher (#147)

    By Jacob Kyle

    Gavin Flood on Hindu Monotheism & the 12 Kalis (#146: Radical Theology Series)

    By Jacob Kyle

    What is it Like to Be a Human?

    By Rebekah Nagy

    Yoga & Western Esotericism with Anya Foxen (#148)

    By Jacob Kyle

    In her research, Anya Foxen focuses on the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions and Western esotericism and metaphysical spiritualities.

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    #Interdisciplinary #Philosophy

    Uncovering Nature from Within

    We live the experience of divine ecology because we are nature. We are of the earth and know ourselves through…

    By Carryn Mills
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    Yoga Sutras, Abridged

    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a masterwork of spirituality, psychology and philosophy, are attributed to Patanjali. Compiled a few hundred years before the Common Era, these teachings arose out of a most prolific and sophisticated civilization – ancient India.

    By Lisa Dawn Angerame
    #Philosophy #Psychology #Research

    Positive Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Minduflness

    The function of the nervous system is to process information, and the brain is constantly changing – both functionally and structurally – due to the information coursing through it.

    By Rick Hanson
    #Philosophy #Yoga

    Yoga Apologia

    My forthcoming considerations may be seen as situated in a tradition of apologetics, if we understand something different by that word.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    What is Pramāṇa?

    Pramāṇa means right knowledge, a correct understanding of reality that can be acquired in one of three ways: sense perception, logic, and verbal testimony as the sources for the acquisition of valid knowledge.

    By Hari-kirtana das
    #Cultures #Philosophy

    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
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    Reincarnation & Karma: An Escape from Samsara or an Embrace of the World as Divine?

    Lucidly expressed in the Bhagavad-Gita and especially in Tantra, we see instructions on why we should not escape the endless woes of samsara, but rather embrace this dualistic world of ecstasy and heartbreak openheartedly and with deep spiritual intention.

    By Ramesh Bjonnes
    #Pedagogy #Philosophy

    Raj Balkaran on the Wisdom of Stories (#136)

    Dr. Raj Balkaran is the Founder of the School of Indian Wisdom where he teaches original online courses combining scholarship, storytelling and spirituality to apply ancient wisdom teachings to modern life.

    By Jacob Kyle
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    What is Death?

    Death always comes as a surprise even when we know it’s coming. It’s as much a part of life as birth.

    By Hari-kirtana das
    #Philosophy #Practice

    Reflections on Death

    Of all meditations, that on death is supreme.

    By Tias Little
    #Philosophy #Traditions

    The Journey to the Summit

    Across religious traditions, revealed scripture is viewed by the faithful as a direct link to that Being/Deity/Truth that reveals the wisdom contained within Its revelation as scripture.

    By Jeffrey S. Lidke
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