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A Life of Dharma and Devotion: Buddhist World Mourns Robert A.F. Thurman, Pioneering Scholar and Friend of the Dalai Lama

A Life of Dharma and Devotion: Buddhist World Mourns Robert A.F. Thurman, Pioneering Scholar and Friend of the Dalai Lama

Robert A.F. Thurman, the first Westerner ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a towering figure in the transmission of Buddhist wisdom to the West, died on June 16, 2026, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 84. His passing has drawn

Health Regulator’s Antisemitism Definition Stirs Debate on Conscience and Free Speech in Medicine

Health Regulator’s Antisemitism Definition Stirs Debate on Conscience and Free Speech in Medicine

Australia’s health watchdog has adopted a contested definition of antisemitism to guide its regulatory work, sparking a deep ethical debate over the balance between combating hatred and preserving the freedom of healthcare workers to speak out on matters of conscience, including criticism of Israel’s human rights record. A

Bridging the Divide: Swami Sarvapriyananda on Consciousness, AI, and What Vedanta Can Teach Silicon Valley

Bridging the Divide: Swami Sarvapriyananda on Consciousness, AI, and What Vedanta Can Teach Silicon Valley

WHO: Swami Sarvapriyananda — a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order and head of the Vedanta Society of New York — and leaders across the technology and artificial intelligence sectors. WHAT: A dialogue exploring what classical Advaita Vedanta — the non-dual philosophical tradition at the heart of modern Hinduism — can contribute to the

The Hermetic Principles and Modern Science: How Ancient Wisdom Anticipated Quantum Physics and Relativity

Ancient Hermetic Principles show striking parallels to quantum physics and relativity.

COGITATE Study: Landmark Experiment Tests Competing Theories of Consciousness — Neither Passes Unscathed

COGITATE Study: Landmark Experiment Tests Competing Theories of Consciousness — Neither Passes Unscathed

In one of the most ambitious experiments ever mounted in consciousness science, the COGITATE collaboration — a multi-laboratory international project — set out to test two of the leading theories of consciousness against one another. The result, published across a series of papers in 2024 and 2025, did not deliver a clear

The Unconscious Brain That Thinks: Landmark Study Reveals Language Processing Without Awareness

The Unconscious Brain That Thinks: Landmark Study Reveals Language Processing Without Awareness

A landmark study from Baylor College of Medicine has revealed that the human brain continues to process complex language — distinguishing nouns from verbs and predicting upcoming words — even while patients are fully unconscious under general anesthesia, challenging a century of assumptions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness. WHO — Researchers

From Pen to Presence: How Journaling Is Being Recognized as a Legitimate Spiritual Practice

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From Pen to Presence: How Journaling Is Being Recognized as a Legitimate Spiritual Practice

Expressive journaling, once considered merely therapeutic, is now gaining recognition as a legitimate spiritual practice — with researchers documenting its capacity to foster mindfulness, self-transcendence, and a deeper sense of meaning across diverse faith traditions and secular contexts. A growing body of evidence published throughout 2025 and 2026 has placed journaling

Indian Knowledge Systems Meet Modern Neuroscience at Landmark IIT Mandi Consciousness Conference

Indian Knowledge Systems Meet Modern Neuroscience at Landmark IIT Mandi Consciousness Conference

The third Mind, Brain, and Consciousness Conference (MBCC) is convening this week at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, bringing together over 200 neuroscientists, philosophers, Sanskrit scholars, and contemplative practitioners to explore the nature of consciousness through an unprecedented fusion of Indian Knowledge Systems with modern cognitive science. Running from

What Happens When We Die? New Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences Sparks Scholarly Debate

What Happens When We Die? New Neuroscientific Model of Near-Death Experiences Sparks Scholarly Debate

What happens in the brain when we nearly die? A landmark neuroscientific model published in Nature Reviews Neurology has consolidated decades of research into the first comprehensive biological framework for near-death experiences — and sparked an equally vigorous academic debate about what these profound episodes may reveal about the nature of

How the Buddhist Teaching on Impermanence Is Being Validated by Modern Neuroscience

How the Buddhist Teaching on Impermanence Is Being Validated by Modern Neuroscience

Anicca — the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence — holds that all conditioned phenomena, from the subtlest thought to the most massive galaxy, are in a constant state of flux. Clinging to what is impermanent, the Buddha taught, is the root of suffering. Now, modern neuroscience is providing empirical validation for this ancient

Ancient Greek library and philosophical studies, representing the resurgence of contemplative philosophy in modern spiritual seeking

The Return of Meaning: Why Philosophy Is Becoming the Spiritual Language of 2026

Across the spiritual landscape of 2026, an unexpected trend is emerging: seekers disillusioned with both organized religion and shallow pop spirituality are turning to philosophy — Stoic, Platonic, existentialist, and Eastern — as a rigorous framework for meaning-making, personal transformation, and contemplative practice. The numbers point to a cultural inflection point. According