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 …
Compelling Vision Vs Shock Doctrine
Dreaming an Alternate Reality Into Existence Abstract This paper is an analysis and commentary on Naomi Klein’s No is Not Enough (2017), an inspirational and in-depth investigation of Donald …