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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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Yoga Museology: Spiritual Citizenship from Our Galleries to Our Streets

By Christopher Rzigalinski
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A Reflection on Elements of Emergent Education

By Amy Edelstein

How to Avoid Destroying Emotions when Tracking Body Sensations?

By Raja Selvam
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A Less Obvious Problem: Spirituality As Bypass

By Serenity Tedesco

Existence is bondage to bodily experiences of emotion, excrement, illness, pain, and death.

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Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma

Trauma impacts much more than just our thoughts and actions. Trauma is far-reaching and systemic—it cuts us to our bones.

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Psychotherapy for Your Body: The Role of Somatic Psychology Today

Somatic psychotherapy—also called body psychotherapy—focuses on the complex and profoundly powerful connections between body and mind and how those connections affect how we process and recover from trauma and other emotional distress.

By Christopher Walling
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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
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