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Reconciling Terms: The Shifting Lives of Qi and Energy

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Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey. The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. My favorite of Confucius’s meditations, “If names are not rectified,” he writes in the Analects , “speech will not...

God’s Pharmacy: On the Use of Entheogens in Jewish Mystical Traditions

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Building on Derrida’s essay Plato’s Pharmacy, the current article examines sacred versus profane illuminations within the spiritual realm of Judaism. As exemplified by the marking nut (balādhur), the author surveys exoteric-curative and esoteric-altered...

Manufacturing the Entheogenic Underground

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Ethnographic research suggests that people across the United States are increasingly gathering to commune with their creators, to interact with their ancestors, to enter the spirit world, to gain supernatural insights, and to engage in what they otherwise...

“Mysteries Abide”: A conversation on consciousness with author Michael Pollan

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The following post from Rachael Petersen, MDiv '24 is an ongoing series from affiliates of the Thinking with Plants and Fungi Initiative. This interview was edited for clarity and length. For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books...

Audio: Caputo's Ghosts, Vasubandhu's Illusions, and Comparative Hauntology

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The annual lecture for the Society of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School was delivered by Kristin Beise Kiblinger, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and director of the International Studies Minor at...