# Past Events ## expand\_more [### Video: The Invisible Sun: Poetry, Translation, and the Mystical Imagination ](/news/2026/04/29/video-invisible-sun-poetry-translation-and-mystical-imagination) April 29, 2026 CSWR Poetry Series: With Sholeh Wolpé The Invisible Sun is the first comprehensive English collection of poetry by the twelfth-century Persian mystic Attar, revered by Rumi as his master. Translated by award-winning poet Sholeh Wolpé, this luminous... ![Title card for The Invisible Sun](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/YT%20Thumbnail.Poetry.Sholeh%20Wolpe%CC%81.png?itok=QHnu_TPZ) [### Video: Om-gnosis Episode 20: Comparing Magic, Yoga, and Occultism ](/news/2026/04/24/video-om-gnosis-episode-20-comparing-magic-yoga-and-occultism) April 24, 2026 In this episode of Om-gnosis, Keith Edward Cantú speaks with Gordan Djurdjevic, an independent scholar and author who writes about global esotericism, South Asian yoga and tantra, and comparative religion. As the author of the books India and the Occult... ![Title card for Episode 20](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/omgnosis%20Youtube%20thumbnail-39.png?itok=ZXKatpKL) [### Video: Global Ayahuasca: A Book Talk with Anthropologist Alex Gearin ](/news/2026/03/26/video-global-ayahuasca-book-talk-anthropologist-alex-gearin) March 26, 2026 Ayahuasca originated in the Amazon and has long been considered sacred by many Indigenous and mestizo communities across South America. Fueled by the “psychedelic renaissance” and growing interest in its visionary and healing potential, groups serving the... ![Title card for Book Talk with Alex Gearin](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Psychedelics.Book%20Talk%20Alex%20Gearin%20Global%20Ayahuasca%20%281%29.png?itok=6DxLc8rX) [### Video: Hackett Lecture: "The Light from the Other Shore”: The Rise of Public Christianity in Contemporary China, with Xi Lian ](/news/2026/03/24/video-hackett-lecture-light-other-shore-rise-public-christianity-contemporary-china) March 24, 2026 In this year’s Hackett Lecture, Xi Lian (Duke Divinity School) explored the rise of public Christianity in post-Mao China. Tracing developments since the 1980s, the lecture examined how a homegrown Christian movement emerged amid a broader crisis of... ![Title card for Hackett Lecture with Xi Lian](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Annual%20Lecture%20Xi%20Lian%20Hackett%20Lecture%203.24.26.png.png?itok=e59XvsLL) [### Video: List Lecture: “Forging the Monotheistic Triangle: Jews, Arabs, Christians and the Promises of European Modernity” ](/news/2026/03/09/video-list-lecture-forging-monotheistic-triangle-jews-arabs-christians-and-promises) March 09, 2026 In this year’s List Lecture, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) examined how Jews, Arabs, and Christians engaged the promises of European modernity in the nineteenth century. Focusing on parallel moments of optimism and eventual disillusionment, the... ![Title card for List Lecture with Susannah Heschel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Annual%20Lecture%20Listt%20Lecture%20Susannah%20Heschel%203.9.26.png?itok=4Do65TyA) [### Video: Hindu View of Life Lecture: Recasting the Hindu Goddess in an American Landscape ](/news/2026/03/03/video-hindu-view-life-lecture-recasting-hindu-goddess-american-landscape) March 03, 2026 In this year’s Hindu View of Life Lecture, Tracy Pintchman (Loyola University Chicago) explored how Hindu traditions have been reinterpreted in the United States, focusing on the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan. The lecture examined how the Hindu... ![Title card for Hindu View of Life Lecture with Tracy Pintchman](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Annual%20LectureTracey%20Pintchman%203.3.26.png?itok=c68Kw4ig) [### Video: Greeley Lecture: Reconciling the Loss of Indigenous Eden ](/news/2026/02/10/video-greeley-lecture-reconciling-loss-indigenous-eden) February 10, 2026 At this year’s Greeley Lecture, Blair Stonechild (First Nations University of Canada) reflected on the concept of an “Indigenous Eden,” its loss, and how processes of Truth and Reconciliation can help bridge perspectives and point toward more just futures... ![Title card for Greeley Lecture with Blair Stonechild](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Annual%20Lecture%20Blair%20Stonechild%20Greeley%202.10.26.png?itok=M1LVlJqq) [### Om-gnosis Episode 16: Kundalini, Subtle Energies, and Divine Machines with Marleen Thaler ](/news/2026/01/15/om-gnosis-episode-16-kundalini-subtle-energies-and-divine-machines-marleen-thaler) January 15, 2026 Join host Keith Edward Cantú for this episode of Om-gnosis: The Occult South Asia Podcast, featuring Marleen Thaler, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna’s Research Centre “Religion and Transformation in... ![Title card with Episode 16: Kundalini, Subtle Energies, and Divine Machines](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Om-gnosis%20Squaure%20Card%20Ep%2016.png?h=1b5b0334&itok=avIFpV1h) [### Video: Pop Apocalypse: Integrating Wisdom Christianity and “The Work” of G.I. Gurdjieff: A Talk with Cynthia Bourgeault ](/news/2026/01/07/video-pop-apocalypse-integrating-wisdom-christianity-and-work-gi-gurdjieff-talk) January 07, 2026 In Pop Apocalypse, Ep. 18, we welcome theologian, author, and Episcopal priest Cynthia Bourgeault, whose work combines the Christian contemplative and wisdom traditions, “The Work” of GI Gurdjieff, and the philosophy of Henry Corbin into a lived mystical... ![Episode Thumbnail with photo of Cynthia Bourgeault and Pop Apocalypse branding](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Youtube%20thumbnail.Pop%20Apocalyspe_finaltemplate%20%281%29.png?itok=xttX9WfU) [### Video: Arts & Crafts Divine: How Spiritual Expertise Is Made with Olivia Cejvan ](/news/2025/12/17/video-arts-crafts-divine-how-spiritual-expertise-made-olivia-cejvan) December 17, 2025 ![Title card for Gnoseologies Episode: Arts and Crafts Divine with Olivia Cejvan](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.%20Gnoseologies.Olivia%20Cejvan%2012.17.25.png%20%281%29.png?itok=fvjRQUUN) [### Video: Esoteric identities: Helena P. Blavatsky as a woman philosopher? With Tim Rudbøg ](/news/2025/12/10/video-esoteric-identities-helena-p-blavatsky-woman-philosopher-tim-rudbog) December 10, 2025 What counts as philosophy—and who gets to be recognized as a philosopher? In conversation with Gnoseologies host Giovanna Parmigiani, Tim Rudbøg explores Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s engagement with major philosophical questions of being, consciousness... ![Title card for Esoteric Identities: Helena P. Blavatsky as a woman philosopher?](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.%20Gnoseologies.Tim%20Rudb%C3%B8g%2012.10.25.png%20%281%29.png?itok=8Ai2k76V) [### VIDEO: Poetry Reading: Writing as Alchemy with Laynie Browne, Julie Carr, & Chloe Garcia Roberts ](/news/2025/12/05/video-poetry-reading-writing-alchemy-laynie-browne-julie-carr-chloe-garcia-roberts) December 05, 2025 On November 13, 2025 the CSWR and Sherah Bloor, Editor-in-Chief of Peripheries, hosted three poets—Laynie Browne, Julie Carr, and Chloe Garcia Roberts—who read from their new books, each engaging in its own way in an intertextual communion with the living... ![Title card for Writing as Alchemy](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Poetry.Writing%20as%20Alchemy.png?itok=ttiI6I7C) [### Video: Shangyang Fang Poetry Reading: Study of Sorrow ](/news/2025/12/05/video-shangyang-fang-poetry-reading-study-sorrow) December 05, 2025 On October 8, 2025, in the CSWR Common Room, the CSWR and Sherah Bloor, Editor-in-Chief of Peripheries, hosted a celebration of the publication of Study of Sorrow: Translations (Copper Canyon Press, October 2025). Shangyang Fang read his translations of... ![Title card for poetry reading with Shangyang Fang](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Poetry.Shangyang%20Fang.png?itok=5-jpFB2v) [### Om-gnosis Episode 14: Parsi Communities and Zoroastrian Esotericism in South Asia ](/news/2025/12/03/om-gnosis-episode-14-parsi-communities-and-zoroastrian-esotericism-south-asia) December 03, 2025 In Episode 14 of Om-gnosis, host Keith Edward Cantú is joined by Mariano Errichiello, PhD, the Shapoorji Pallonji Lecturer in Zoroastrianism at SOAS University of London, for an insightful discussion on some social and esoteric dimensions of... ![card with Om-gnosis logo, title of podcast episode and portrait of Dagmar Wujastyk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/YT%20Thumbnail.Om-gnosis%20Ep%2015.png?itok=yH4HLDhG) [### Raving, Recreation, & Religion with Michelle Lhooq and Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta ](/news/2025/11/05/raving-recreation-religion-michelle-lhooq-and-luis-manuel-garcia-mispireta) November 05, 2025 According to the 2024 Global Psychedelic Survey, while personal growth and well-being are common reasons for illicit drug use, recreation—music events, festivals, parties, raves—remains a leading but poorly defined motive. This panel featured Michelle... ![Title card for Raving, Recreation, & Religion](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Psychedelics.Raving%20Recreation%20Religion.%20Lhooq%20Garcia-M%2011.5.25%20%281%29.png?itok=5f2dBjdK) [### Om-gnosis Episode 12: Searching for Sabhapati Swami and Siddha Songs in South Asia ](/news/2025/10/21/om-gnosis-episode-12-searching-sabhapati-swami-and-siddha-songs-south-asia) October 21, 2025 In this episode of Om-gnosis: The Occult South Asia Podcast, host Keith Edward Cantú summarizes his summer tour through India and Bangladesh, exploring spiritual traditions, rare books on Sri Sabhapati Swami, and major cultural landmarks, including the... ![Title card for Om-gnosis Episode 12](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Om-gnosis%20Ep%2012%20%282%29.png?itok=kT209p32) [### Video: Pop Apocalypse: Mysticism and the Simulation Hypothesis – A Talk with Rizwan Virk ](/news/2025/10/17/video-pop-apocalypse-mysticism-and-simulation-hypothesis-talk-rizwan-virk) October 17, 2025 Do we live inside a Matrix-like simulation? For Episode 17 of Pop Apocalypse , we welcome one of the leading theorists behind the simulation hypothesis, Rizwan Virk, to discuss that question. Virk is an entrepreneur, videogame pioneer, and academic author... ![Title card for Pop Apocalypse Episode 17 with Rizwan Virk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Pop%20Apocalypse%20Ep%2017.png?itok=6gMeULBi) [### Video: Shamanism: The Timeless Religion – a Conversation Between Manvir Singh and Charles Stang ](/news/2025/10/15/video-shamanism-timeless-religion-conversation-between-manvir-singh-and-charles) October 15, 2025 Anthropologist Manvir Singh, PhD, joined Professor Charles Stang for a conversation about Singh’s new book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion (Knopf, 2025), which draws on immersive research with shamans in Indonesia and the Colombian Amazon. Singh... ![Title card for Book Talk: Shamanism with Manvir Singh](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Psychedelics.Shamanism%20Book%20Talk%20Singh%20%281%29.png?itok=g8dyAkGg) [### Video: Pop Apocalypse: AI, Hip-Hop, and the Digital Uncanny – A Talk with Paul Miller, aka "DJ Spooky" ](/news/2025/09/19/video-pop-apocalypse-ai-hip-hop-and-digital-uncanny-talk-paul-miller-aka-dj-spooky) September 19, 2025 For Episode 16 of Pop Apocalypse, we welcome composer, artist, and media theorist Paul Miller. Miller is best known for his music as DJ Spooky, the avant-garde turntableist who has collaborated with artists ranging from Chuck D to Yoko Ono. He has also re... ![Title card for Pop Apocalypse Episode 16 with Paul Miller](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Pop%20Apocalypse%20Ep%2016.png?itok=rte5fF_I) [### Om-gnosis Episode 11: Inside the Adyar Library & Research Centre: Treasures of Indian Philosophy with Radha Raghunathan, PhD ](/news/2025/08/28/om-gnosis-episode-11-inside-adyar-library-research-centre-treasures-indian) August 28, 2025 Episode 11 of Om-gnosis features Radha Raghunathan, PhD—author, editor, critic, and independent researcher in Advaita and Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta, and Honorable Director of the Adyar Library & Research Centre (ALRC) in Chennai. Recorded in the library’s... ![Title card for Om-gnosis Episode 11](/sites/g/files/omnuum4346/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/YT%20Thumbnail.Om-gnosis%20Ep%2011%20%281%29.png?itok=wZ32IvL5) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [4](?page=3 "Go to page 4") - [5](?page=4 "Go to page 5") - [6](?page=5 "Go to page 6") - [7](?page=6 "Go to page 7") - [8](?page=7 "Go to page 8") - [9](?page=8 "Go to page 9") - [ Last page 13 ](?page=12 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")