Digital Displays
Mystical Scriptures
Mystical Scriptures is an open-access digital humanities platform that explores the “cabinet of mystic and theosophic lore” announced in The Dial in April 1843. Presenting more than 200 titles associated with this remarkable library, the project invites scholars and the public to trace the mystical, theosophic, and comparative religious sources that helped shape New England Transcendentalism and later informed Thoreau’s “Ethnical Scriptures” series in The Dial.
Occult Mexican Art
Yoga Diagrams
The artistic record of South Asia is full of depictions of yoga and yogins. Most of these survive in drawings, paintings, carvings, and sculptures, and entire art gallery and museum exhibitions have been devoted to the history and style of these yogic depictions—although precious little attention to date has been given to their presence as numbered diagrams in early modern printed publications.
This site remedies this lack of attention by cataloging (and translating where applicable) dozens of visual diagrams of yoga that were published by the so-called “Madras Yogi” Sri Sabhapati Swami (ca. 1828-1923/4) and his students between 1880 and 1913.
Sacred Plants and Fungi of the Americas
Explore the sacred plant traditions of Indigenous Americas through archaeological evidence, historical artifacts, and cultural knowledge. This display honors Native peoples' spiritual practices while advancing understanding of consciousness, spirituality, and Indigenous ways of knowing through responsible scholarship.
Sacred Plants of the Muysca - In the Words and Photos of Community Members
This display explores the profound connection between the Muysca community of Suba in Bogotá, Colombia, their sacred territory, and their plant medicine knowledge systems. Through photographs taken by community members themselves, this photovoice exhibit reveals how sacred plants like tobacco, brugmansia, and coca serve as embodied political practices integral to territorial sovereignty and Indigenous revitalization in an urban setting.
