Mystics once spent years meditating in caves in search of transcendence. Today, a growing number of people believe something similar can be reached in a single afternoon with the help of a psychedelic ...

This post is in response to Consciousness and the Quantum Mind By Thomas R. Verny M.D. In 1931, the father of quantum mechanics, Max Planck, said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard ...

WE own to a certain mistrust when we are asked to accept goods under a trade-mark of mysticism; just as we have a most Levitical desire to pass by on the other side when we encounter the latest ...

The set of ideas and approaches gathered under the heading “new materialism” is highly varied. Among the constants, however, is a firm rejection of anything that might seem “religious,” and still more ...

THIS series of fragmentary discussions extends over a vast area: Pythagoras and his philosophy, medicine and magic, bird superstitions, powder of sympathy, talismans, ceremonial magic, architectural ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

The contemplative confluence of two profound spiritual traditions — baul and dhrupad — unfolded as an immersive exploration ...