Portrait of the Author as a Young Mystic
Esotericism in One Piece: Navigating Magic, Symbolism and Spirituality
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The Hero with a thousand faces
The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psy…
The New Resonance Of Ram Dass
We took a pilgrimage to Hawaii to visit the 87-year-old spiritual teacher who transformed hippie America with ‘Be Here Now’—and whose message is now more potent than ever.
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Godly — Design Inspiration
Godly is a curated gallery of the best and most interesting web, app, ui, and visual design work published on the internet.
Realization experiences: a convergent account of insight and mystical experiences
We argue that the powerful transformative effects of mystical-type experiences can be understood using the same machinery that underlies insight problem solving, and that both mystical experiences ...
Extraordinary Passion: Couple Meditation
Extraordinary Passion: The Tantric Ritual: Setup and Meditation
Sex, science, and Tantra - how to have incredible orgasms and amazing sex, and a completely non-spiritual look at why Tantra has such amazing effects.
Extraordinary Passion: Transcendence and Body Maps
Sex, science, and Tantra - how to have incredible orgasms and amazing sex, and a completely non-spiritual look at why Tantra has such amazing effects.
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
Rumi is often called a mystic, a saint, an enlightened man. He is less frequently described as a Muslim.
Entangled Magic in the Medieval Latin West
This article focusses on the history of learned magic in late medieval Europe, breaking a period of about 500 years into chronological stages to explore how medieval supporters and critics of magic represented the art and responded to each other’s arguments, then reframed their own in a continuous dynamic entanglement. In this period learned magic texts from diverse religious and cosmological traditions (primarily Christian, Jewish, Arabic and Greco-Roman) circulated among people familiar with, and emotionally invested in, a great variety of institutional and informal rituals. Sources reveal a vibrant culture of exchanges of texts between members of religious orders, physicians and lay men, clerics and lay women – a culture of entanglement: discussion, borrowing, critique and adaptation alongside practitioner-client relationships and necessary secrecy and concealment.