Transcendence and Transformation
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Re-Imagining Jung
Jung has long been read as a foundational psychologist, but he is better understood as a religious visionary who translated his trance experiences into a psychology that has enduring influences on spirituality and popular culture.
Psychedelic Intersections 2025 Call for Papers
Platonism as a Living Tradition: Reflections from the 2024 CSWR Conference
Magic Crossings, Magic Transformations
Sorcerers reveal unexpected aspects of religions in a wide, wild world.
Effective texts: an Anti-War Invocation and an Ancient Letter
Whether poems or nursery rhymes, laws or contracts, tattoos or t-shirts, tomes or SMS messages, dream-memoranda or movie quotes, texts are powerful agents that occupy our thoughts, guide us, and open new directions to act.
Magic and Time: Lessons from the Tarot
Tarot encourages the consideration, acknowledgement, and experience of non-linear historicity, the “expanded present.”
Esoteric Comix and their Unsettled and Unsettling Wisdom
Authors of comix deploy esotericism as unsettled knowledge that is anti-dogmatic and syncretic, revealing moral and religious doubts, blurring boundaries between reality and fiction.
News Story: Psychedelics and the Future of Religion: Book Talk: Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium with Erik Davis
Religion: An Underrecognized Tool in an Astronaut's Toolkit
Astronautical spirituality may be a countermeasure to address the psychological challenges of deep space travel and interplanetary habitation.