Spirituality

The pineal gland occupies a unique cultural position: it is simultaneously a well-understood biological organ and the center of more pseudoscientific claims than almost...

Hurricanes and wildfires have come and gone, leaving hundreds dead. We’re left facing a dire reality: we live on a warming planet. Homes blown...

Concept of Samsara in Hindu religion is of great importance and is tailored around idea of mundane existence. The word samsara is derived from...

Reason, of course, is weak, when measured against its never-ending task. Weak, indeed, compared with the follies and passions of mankind, which, we must...

If there’s any topic that has impacted my life so deeply – and yet I’ve been putting off writing for over ten years – it’s religious...

Atia Sattar shares her account of the suffering of miscarriage and what it taught her about love, generosity, and impermanence. I am standing on the...

The cause of our global suffering is forgetting that we belong to one another and to the earth. Tara Brach recommends four practices to...

While we may not be able to see people’s auras, or our own for that matter, many people have an intuitive sense of when...

I don’t talk nearly enough about prayer here. I think some of us see prayer as what you do when everything else has failed....

In the tantric system, mantra plays an important role. It is true that in the Vedic system also mantra has an equally important role....