Archive of Mystical Experiences

Irina Tweedie (1907–1999) was a Russian-born British spiritual teacher whose life and writings played a vital role in the transmission of Sufism to the West, especially among women. Best known for her autobiographical work Daughter of Fire: A Diary of...

Edited by Aaron M. Ullrey Indian religious traditions assign a special role and title to individuals who pursue ascetic religious goals, referring to these figures collectively as sadhu s. The term sadhu is derived from the Sanskrit root sadh ( sādh )...

Monica Gagliano (b. 1974) is an Italian-Australian evolutionary ecologist whose pioneering research explores plant behavior, cognition, and communication. Trained in marine ecology, Gagliano is best known for experimental studies demonstrating that plants...

The Florentine Codex is the result of a collective effort led by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan friar educated at the University of Salamanca. Sahagún settled in Mexico in 1529 and taught from 1536 onwards at the Royal College of Santa Cruz in...

Transformation, in the context of Siona shamanism, takes the form of an apprenticeship journey deeply rooted in the cosmological fabric of the Amazon rainforest. This entry presents the account of Ricardo Yaiguaje, an apprentice from a prestigious...

Corpus Hermeticum (CH), or the Poimandres, narrates an account in which the god Poimandres reveals sacred knowledge to his pupil Hermes Trismegistus. The text includes episodes of visionary revelation and a dialogue that conveys a cosmogony, anthropogogy...

Paul Selig is a teacher, author, and psychic from New York City. He attended New York University to study creative writing and become a playwright. His plays have been performed from New York to Lisbon and back to Los Angeles in the U.S. and...