In a public lecture that Abraham Maslow gave in 1961 he spoke about spiritual / mystical / peak experiences in exalted terms, saying that...

Perennialism is a perspective that views all spiritual/religious experiences, paths and traditions as different expressions of a single...

In one of his talks in The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Michel Foucault explores the question of truth from the perspective of...

We can easily dismiss the mystic's attraction to asceticism, abstinence and renunciation as originating from backward life- and...

Part of my morning practice (which includes physical excercises, chanting mantras I formulated for myself, prostrations and meditation)...

In the first chapter of my "spiritual journey", from when I was 16 to 29, I was moved, with growing determination and urgency, to break...

A very interesting online conference with the title The End of Seeking started today, with over thirty spiritual teachers and authors...

Since I started my PhD research on Living Transcendence a couple of years ago, I was contacted by several people who had undergone a...

I the interviews I conducted with spiritual exemplars as part of my PhD research, one of the questions I asked was: Did you have in your...

Recently I had conversations with a few dear dharma friends, who nowadays are putting much of their time, energy and comfort into trying...

Years ago I published in an Israeli newspaper an article about meditation, and in it I wrote that, when I sit in meditation, I connect...

Some years ago I created a short (5 minute) video clip, about my experience as a soldier in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon War, after which I...

One of the main paradoxes of enlightenment or awakening is that one awakens to what had always been the case and what they had always...

Years ago I visited, together with a friend, Father Marcel Dubois (an Israeli Dominican monk and philosopher), who was well-known, among...

In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...

A friend told me I should share my morning chant, so here it is. I chant the first part before meditating and the second as I come out of...

During my morning hike it started raining and I suddenly remembered a pretty crazy adventure I had some 30 years ago on Mt. Tamalpais in...

In "The Art of the Novel" Milan Kundera writes: "When Tolstoy sketched the first draft of Anna Karenina, Anna was a most unsympathetic...

I'm writing a research proposal to study the state of consciousness of spiritual masters or exemplars. In that context I'm reviewing...