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By Robert Thorson | Edited by Russell C. Powell The scholarly literature on transcendentalism is full of good descriptions, but not of good definitions. In The Transcendentalists and Their World, Robert Gross consciously left the movement undefined...

Buddhism provides many tools to aid the practitioner negotiating the relationship between self and world. The Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition of Tantra emphasizes the power of ritual to make such connections in the process of advancing toward enlightenment...

In December 2025, as the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) campus was emptying out for the winter holiday, two hundred people gathered in person in Swartz Hall, along with hundreds more online, to mark the centennial of the death of spiritual teacher Rudolf...

By Roman Palitsky, Caroline Peacock, Jeffrey A. Breau, Paul Gillis-Smith, Gosia Skłodowska As psychedelic care moves toward broader legalization in the United States, a rapidly expanding ecosystem of training programs has emerged to prepare facilitators...

Originally distributed as a free pamphlet, Be Here Now (1971) went on to sell over two million copies and become a countercultural spiritual classic.[ 1] Illustrated with mandalas, labyrinths, serpents, and bodhisattvas, the book describes the author’s...