Abstract “A Myth for Our Times” is the title of a series of lectures given by Becca Tarnas on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien, 2013). The lecture material is collected and condensed …
Trauma, Transformation, and Time
Healing the Story of Us Abstract This paper is born from my reflections during the Grammatica course held by Ubiquity University in 2020. The course is part of a yearly series of summer …
Neurological Embodiment
Abstract Inspired by my participation in the seminar Applied Neuroscience led by Jim Hickman for Ubiquity University, this paper is centered on exploring the intersection between the fields of …
A Tantric Quarrell
Abstract Reading Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism (Govinda, 2012), a text dedicated to Tantric Buddhism, brought me back to my seven years of intense practice and study of Tantra. I was delighted …
The Rank of Pain
Abstract The following pages are a commentary on Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche, 2003), considered by many, including Nietzsche himself, to be an expansion on the themes he treated in Thus Spoke …
Vision of Marys
Abstract This paper is an attempt to offer a contribution to the study of feminine archetypes through the figures of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. Although part of the Christian tradition, …
The Rose and The Sword
The miraculous paradox of love-in-action Abstract Like the powerful, stark images from the streets of Varanasi that enrich Turn me to gold: 108 poems of Kabir, Kabir comes at us with full force, …
Little Girls Growing
Abstract Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 2009) is undoubtedly a masterpiece, perhaps the greatest work of nonsense literature in the English language. But not every masterpiece is necessarily a …
A Manual for Life
Abstract Gibran’s “The Prophet” (2019) is one of those immortal classics that influence generations, not because they present revolutionary ideas and change the course of history, but because they …
A Distant Mirror
Looking at the Demagogue Within Abstract “A distant mirror” is an expression coined by historian Barbara Tuchman (1978) to describe the correspondence between the conditions of turmoil in Europe …