Often aligned with evil, death appears as the grim reaper, the nefarious gambler, in scary movies, and in ghost stories,…
Queer thinking, practice, art, and devotion has always been a part of the dharmic paths, even while queer individuals have often been marginalized. Today, queer spiritual …
What is spiritual citizenship? In the recent conference “Spiritual Citizenship,” hosted by Embodied Philosophy in the Summer of 2021, one…
Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness is a recent winner of the 2019 Montaigne Medal Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, a 2018 National Indie Excellence Award in the Spirituality category, a finalist for the 2018 Body/Mind/Spirit Book of the Year by Foreword Indies, and the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Bhakti is love or devotion to a supreme deity. It is a form of religious practice, a state of mind, and the goal of practice. Through visualization, narrative, chanting, and pūjā, bhakti taps into raw emotion and desire.
he idea that “the world is an illusion” and that reality might not actually be as it appears may seem counterintuitive, a topic more at home in fantasy literature and science fiction than in therapy and philosophy. Yet almost every religion addresses illusion, to some degree, and highlights the imagination as an effective tool to engage with it.
Many guests of the CHITHEADS Podcast have written books, from scholarly to devotional to more introductory and accessible works, on…