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The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew.

The Next Buddha May Be a Sangha - Inquiring Mind

Thich Nhat Hanh's closing remarks to those attending his Day of Mindfulness at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in October, 1993.

I went to the ‘existential hope’ gala and left hungry

Exploring the frontier of human flourishing with Curtis Yarvin's ex, the light of Apollo, and no booze whatsoever.

Dancing With The Gods

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Let me tell you about my journey through 35 years of Zen practice | Aeon Essays

Growing up in countercultural California, ‘enlightenment’ had real glamour. But decades of practice have changed my mind

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The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psy…

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At Beloved, we inspire, support, and nourish spiritual leaders who are creating new Jewish spaces of sacred belonging.

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Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.

Dharma Talk: Sangha – The Mindfulness Bell

We all need love. Without enough love, we may not be able to survive, as individuals and as a planet. It is said that the next Buddha will be named

When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir

From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her own meanings in them, refracted through feminist interpretations of the lives of Biblical women.“Alicia Jo Rabins writes as if she’s in conversation with the divine itself. . . .This isn’t merely a book to be read—it’s a scripture for the searching heart, a reminder that the border between the human and the holy is, and always has been, porous.” —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of NazarethAs a self-described ‘90s suburban high school weirdo, Alicia Jo Rabins spent her time practicing violin and smoking cigarettes behind the mall while secretly dreaming of setting out on a spiritual quest no one around her seemed to understand. She often found herself drawn to the more ritualistic and rigorous Judaism that her parents had abandoned to assimilate and “become American.” In college, a chance meeting led her on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to study rabbinical texts (and play bluegrass fiddle on the street for cash). But that two years of immersing herself in traditional observance was only the start of a journey full of twists and turns.When We’re Born We Forget Everything follows Alicia’s relentless, often embarrassing, sometimes enlightening search for the sacred in everyday life as she tours America playing with a klezmer-punk band, falls in and out of love, scrapes through the initiations of motherhood, and witnesses the beauty—and danger—of mysticism. Rabins braids this personal narrative with the hidden stories of biblical women, uncovering a path of queer identity, feminist awakening, and spiritual self-invention. This lyrical, searching memoir is a meditation on longing, lineage, and what it takes to find meaning in a fractured world.

The Imperfectionist: Navigating by aliveness

I’m amazed and very pleased to say that the UK paperback of Meditations for Mortals entered the Sunday Times bestsellers at number 9 this week, after being selected as a Waterst...

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AI cults are here - Robert Edward Grant, a self-proclaimed polymath talks to his ChatGPT instance he calls The Architect, during his Sacred Britain Expedition in May 2026.

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