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...

In a conversation with my friend about "what is the basic experiential / conscious / existential element that changes when one awakens...

I'm ploughing ahead with the writing of a paper on "the experiential characteristics of the spiritual high plateau" and would like to...

As I'm starting to write the introduction to my second PhD paper on the phenomenological characteristics of the "spiritual high plateau",...

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...

Recently I had some Zoom calls with people who are "living transcendence" without making any song and dance about it - "hidden mystics" I...

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an old friend - I'll call her O - who is a very experienced meditator and yoga practitioner. I...

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...

In a paper called "Learning from Exemplars" by Pieter Vos (2018) I found a beautifully clarifying sentence about the effect of spiritual...

In October 2016, while travelling in Spain and Portugal, Ruti and I were generously hosted by Neo-Advaita teacher Mooji at his ashram in...

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...