Category: Essays

To Worship the Life Force, by Edward Bruce Bynum

Kafir witches's dance, Africa Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images [email protected] http://wellcomeimages.org Kafir witches's dance, Africa Half-tone Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The essence of African religion

Magic and the Third Force, by Steffan Soule

Steffan and Sofia in Mysterian, circa 2003

A professional magician ponders a universal law

City of Gods, by Rebe Huntman

A representation of the orisha Oxumaré, 2019. Photograph by Marina Criscuolo. Wikimedia Commons. Author: Marina Criscuolo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Possessed: A Santeria ceremony

A Vast and Mysterious Reality, by Tracy Cochran

Buddhanath Stupa, Kathmandu. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Tevaprapas. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Walking in the footsteps of the first Buddhist women

The Mystic Vision of Hildegard von Bingen, by Mary A. Osborne

Meister des Hildegardis-Codex. Wikimedia Commons. The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

The great saint follows her heart to the Divine

Believing in Nothing, by Peter Coyote

Photograph by Pinkasem Muisri. Unsplash.com. Photo by Pinkasem Muisri

Sage advice from a welcome voice

A Moment of Another Reality, by Lillian Firestone

Photograph by Dyu-Ha.

Encountering Henrietta Lannes

Enthralled by the Marvel, by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Panthera Leo, 2016. Photograph by Nikhil More. Wikimedia Commons.

The legendary director meets Carlos Castaneda

Ultimate Reality and a Nondual God, by Ellen Birx

Where Jesus walks with the Buddha

Rising Above, by Mary A. Osborne

Augustus Tolton. From William Simmons’s Men of Mark (G.M. Rewell, 1887)

From slavery to the priesthood